A News Report

 I found a report named "Stormy Seas Delay Recovery of Liner’s Fuel". This report follows the conventional rules because it answers the wh questions. What? The draining of the fuel from the half-sunken cruise ship had   been suspended. Where? In the coast of Giglio Island. When? This week. Why? Because of winds and rough seas. Who? The officials said the work of draining fuel had to be stop. It is important to drain the fuel to avoid devastating spill.

News report link: 

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/29/world/europe/stormy-seas-delay-fuel-recovery-from-costa-concordia-ship.html?ref=world

•  Pianigiani, Gaia. "Stormy Seas Delay Recovery of Liner’s Fuel. The New York Times. 01, 28, 2012. World. Web
• Images from:  

-http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/29/world/europe/stormy-seas-delay-fuel-recovery-from-costa-concordia-ship.html?ref=world
-http://editingwithpaige.files.wordpress.com/2010/04/newspaper.gif

Defining journalism and literature

What I think is journalism and literature:

Journalism is a way of narration, in wich a true story is told from the author's experience.

Literature is every writting or narration in wich something is told under an especific style, depending on how and what the author wants to write about.

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Truman Capote

1. What motivated Capote to write?
The kind of childhoud that he lived. He felt that he was different from the person he was surrounded


2. What kind of stories did he write?
He mainly wrote short stories, at the begining of his experience and in most of his works.


3. What are his influences?
He was influeced by many writers that most wrote short stories; Virginia Woolfe, Carson Mc. Cullers, Chekhov and Faulker.

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God's gift and whip

"When God hands you a gift, he also hands you a whip; and the whip is intended for self-flagellation solely." Truman Capote

I find this quote, from Truman Capote, interesting because it shows how a gift can become something bad. If you have a gift, this have some frustating elements that can even hurt you. In the case of Capote, for example, writting about him must remind him of sad memories, experiences and feelings. It´s interesting to see that a tool you have to good at something has also disadvcantages and challenges to face, where you have to sacrifice something. Thats why he talks about self-flagellation.

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My name is Bond... Wall-e Bond

Cut-Up technique with two videos, two movie trailers. James Bond, Tomorrow never dies (trailer). And Wall-e trailer. Both convined with this technique to create a new trailer.

Cut-Up technique, a Postmodern discourse

After watching the video The Cut Ups 1996, I can conclude that it is a postmodern discourse. 

It does not follow a chronological order, as a rhizome. As there are some scenes that are taken from different places and that are then connected, you can see that with disorder you can create something that has a meaning. The same technique followed by postmodern authors. The video shows something without order that turns into a sequence of images as sounds that joined together make something really interesting. This shows that we can construct something using different things, a very crazy but interesting idea that post modernity brings.

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Planing a memoir...

1. Links with guidelines on how to write a memoir:

• Zinsser, William. "How to write a memoir".  The American Scholar. 2006. Web. 15th of November 2011. http://theamericanscholar.org/how-to-write-a-memoir/
• Kita, Joe. "How to write your memoir". Reader’s digest. January 2009. Web. 15th of November 2011.http://www.rd.com/money/great-tips-on-how-to-write-your-memoir/

2. Topic and definitions

• Topic: Fatherhood
• Fatherhood, acording to The Free Online Dictionary, is the state or responsibility of being a father.
• Fatherhoos, acording to Bestdaddtips.com , is: "Fatherhood is defined as the “state of being a father” or “having the qualities of a father”. The father-child relationship is the defining factor in the role of fatherhood. Generally most fathers are naturally protective and supportive, responsible parents."

3. Schedule
November 21 week: research
November 28 week: Interviews
December 4: Finish book; The Invention of solitude and The Book of memory.
December 5: start outline
December 8 week and next week: Writting the memoir

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