Funny Cartoon Analysis

I chose these two cartoon because I thought both are funny and they both relate to work. The first cartoon is about a man who is talking to his boss about resigning. The guy imagines how he wished he resigned but he is too afraid of his boss, and the bottom picture is how he really resigned and his boss just yelling at the guy.
The second cartoon is about a chicken who is too chicken to tell the boss he/she quits. So, the chicken is showing what people should do in order for them to get fired.
I find them both funny because the guy and the chicken are afraid of their boss and what the boss is going to say. People should not be afraid of their bosses especially when they're going to quit. I mean what else can go wrong?

Book Review! :D

The name of the book that I read is called Call Me by Your Name, by Andre Aciman, which was published in 2007 by Farrar, Straus and Giroux in New York and this book has 248 pages.

Every summer a seventeen year-old named Elio and his family stay at their hill-side mansion on the Italian Riviera. Elio’s father is a University Scholar and each summer a scholar from different parts of the world come to stay with Elio and his family for three months. This summer, a scholar named Oliver a twenty-four year old from the United States stayed for the summer to finish his book he has been writing. As soon as Oliver or the “muvi star” arrives, he is loved by everyone in town including Elio. At first when Oliver arrived, they both completely ignored each other. Elio just thought that Oliver would just stay at his house, work around the house and leave just like the others before him. During the summer weeks, their obsession for each other grew as well as their desire and romance. Their romance would last them a lifetime and they feared that they would never find intimacy like that again. After they both reveal their love and passion to each other, they have to keep their love a secret as to no one should find out. Elio is a brilliant seventeen year-old who has managed to keep his emotions to himself because he does not know how to act, think or express himself, but he is fragile once he opens up to Oliver. Oliver on the other hand is confident in whatever he does; which makes Elio insecure.

The elements that I liked from the book would be how Aciman would describe everything in detail, there was only a few pages with dialogue and by doing this, Aciman makes the reader use their imagination while reading this intriguing book. The character that I liked the best would be Elio because he is just so bipolar, sometimes he would love Oliver with a passion and other days despise and ignore him for being charming and witty. The author unfolds the story in the beginning by telling us that Elio has a thing for Oliver and Aciman gives detail on how their romance progresses every day. Throughout summer, Elio’s parents would give Oliver different nicknames like “il cauboi” the cowboy because of the manners he showed while eating dinner with them. One day, Oliver had his hair slick back so Elio’s mother gave him the nick name “la star” short for “la muvi star”. Also, the word “Later” is mention a lot throughout the book and Elio hated this word because it did not have any closure as in goodbye or ciao. “Later”, to Elio meant coming back soon and staying longer and Elio hated this word, but soon he realized it is just Oliver’s Americanism.

I enjoyed reading this book and for me to say that is really, really tough because I thought that this book was going to be boring but I can’t judge a book by its cover. I am glad I took the time to read this book because it has mystery, drama, and love. I also liked how much detail and emotion there was in every page of this book. I have read other books that just focus on detail and a bit of dialogue and those books were really boring and lost my interest right away, but this book was absolutely different. I can relate with this book because at first it can be difficult to show emotions to someone I liked but spending more time with the person made this different and now our relationship is sailing smoothly.

I would definitely recommend this book to others to read. This book was by far good and I enjoyed reading it. I will certainly read more books that are close to Call Me by Your Name or more books from Andre Aciman. I would tell the reader to read the book carefully and really understand the detail in the book because it all connects in the end. I would talk about how the author did an amazing job with this book and I hope he writes many more like this. I would give this book a thumbs up. 

   

Americans Love to Work Longer?... Depends.

In class one day, we went over how Americans are happy if they work longer and in Europeans are happy when they hardly work and I thought to myself "I better move to Europe!" I think that it just depends on the person, I personally would not like to work longer hours if I am getting paid minimum wage. Working at minimum wage is so tough! This is why I am in college to get a great career that I love and get paid a lot. Now if I had my ideal career, I would not mind working long hours because I love doing my job and I would get paid more to accomplish the "American Dream", and of course when I get my vacation time, I will certainly enjoy spending time on an island just relaxing and having nothing to worry about.

Video Game Violence

There are some people who believe video game violence makes children violent but I think it only affects some kids whose mind is not mentally ready to separate reality from games. No children can run down to the store and buy a M rated video game but there are parents who do buy them those video games and if their child is violent it is the parents to blame for their poor parenting skills. When I was younger, my parents bought me video games that had some violence but that did not make me violent at all! The video games that I believe affected me the most were there race car driving ones because I sometimes drive like in the game. 

Image from The Daily Affair 

PBS Culture Shock

It was not hard to making these decisions about the video game violence with my partner. We both agreed that the image that was shown to us could be on the homepage of the website. I have been playing violent video games since I was younger and none of those games have made me a violent person. Maybe certain people do react differently but it just depends on the person thought of mind while playing the games. In the end of the survey, it said that ~92% of people said yes to the image but ~7% of people said no, it should not. I would like to know what that 7% of people thought about the image.

I do believe that video games are a form of art, they are like fantasy games whether it uses guns or super powers it is made up. While doing the survey I did find certain images offensive. The one image I found offensive was the Andrea Mantegna's St. Sebastian, c. 1455-60. I think that violence should not be represented with a religion because it is wrong, but this is people’s opinion. None of the quotes given to me during the survey change by decision on if the image should be on the homepage. I think that violence in movies or video games are just a form to entertain people not to persuade people on being violent. As I was saying to my partner, I think racing games and movies made an impact on me more than violence games or movies.