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Maid In Manhattan

2006-09-15T08:46:00.000-07:00

WOW!!! This is the best movie I ever got from this class :) but again!! there's a problem with DVD .... "why have to be in the end!!!!!!" so I couldn't finish it again :'(

I saw this movie this morning and my feeling after I finished it is OMG! I feel so happy and great!!! I love comedy/romantic movie :) and honestly Janifer Lopez is soooo gorgeous in this movie. Even though I think this movie is kind of ridiculous but I still love it. You might wonder why I said that its ridiculous .. well .. im goin to tell u now ;)

This movie is about a maid who falls in love with a rich/famous/handsome politician. She knew him by her son ... everything that happened between her and him just like in a dream! .. She pretend to be a guest in the hotel. I'm really enjoy the movie .. SUDDENLY!!! its gone -___-" I guess that I will never know the end of any movies! .......................

But I really like this movie for real ... =]

RaGTimE

2006-09-02T07:09:00.000-07:00

RAGTIME is a great movie!!!! but sadly that i couldn't finish it becoz there's a problem with DVD (always) -__-" .. so i dont know the endin of it =[

In the beginning I thought this movie will be a romantic one but after 5 minutes .. I have to change my mind! This is not a romantic movie at all .. but it's still a great movie anyway.
This movie is about one guy who had a true love with his wife (but technically not a wife becoz he haven't married with her yet). She got pregnant and had a kid .. everything seems to be so perfect .. he was getting ready to marry with her. Suddenly he just had a problem with a fire fighter (white guys) .. he tried to ask for a justice but the god wasn't on his side. So he decided to fight for a truth with his own ways. Like i said i couldn't finish it so i didn't know he got the right thing that he always asked for or not -__-"

but the most sadness part is HE LOST HIS WIFE!!! becoz she tried to help him by speaking to a prime minister or sumthin BUT SHE WAS HITTING BY F**$*%&$# WHITE GUYS TILL DEATH! =[ =[ =[

Ethel Waters

2006-07-12T08:28:00.000-07:00

Ethel Waters was one of the most popular African-American singers and actresses of the 1920s. She moved to New York in 1919 after touring in vaudeville shows as a singer and a dancer. She made her recording debut in 1921 on Cardinal records with "The New York Glide" and "At the New Jump Steady Ball", but switched over to African-American owned Black Swan label, and recorded "Down Home Blues" and "Oh Daddy" the first Blues numbers for that company. She frequently sang with Fletcher Henderson during the early 1920s, but by the mid-1920s Waters had became more of a pop singer. She performed in a number of musical revues throughout the rest of the decade and appeared a couple of films, including "Check and Double Check" with Amos 'n' Andy and Duke Ellington. By the end of the 1930s she was a big star on Broadway. In 1949, she was nominated for an Oscar for best supporting actress in the film "Pinky", and the next year she won the New York Drama Critics Award for best actress. Waters got religion in the late Fifties and performed and toured with evangelist Billy Graham until her death in 1977.

After I listen her songs, I feel like turn back to the past :P .... her songs are in kind of Blues music. Honestly, I'm not really like it .. I don't find it interesting but some parts of music sound nice ..

Liver Eating Johnson

2006-07-12T05:32:00.000-07:00

John "Liver-Eating" Johnson ( c.1824 – January 21, 1900 ) was a legendary mountain man of the American West.

He is said to have been born in New Jersey with the name John Garrison. Some accounts say that he joined the navy in 1846 during the Mexican American War but, after striking an officer, he deserted, changed his name to John Johnston, and traveled west to trap and hunt in Wyoming. He also became a "woodhawk," supplying cord wood to steamboats. He was described as a large man, standing around six feet tall and weighing over two hundred pounds.

In 1847, his Native American wife is said to have been killed by members of the Crow tribe, and Johnson set out to take revenge, his personal war on the Crows lasting more than 20 years. The legend says that he would cut out and eat the liver of each man killed, but it's quite possible that this only happened once and that he just pretended to eat the liver. In any case, he eventually became known as Liver-Eating Johnson (usually spelled without the t in Johnston). Since eating the liver of a victim is a symbolic way of completing a revenge slaying, some credence might be given to this activity.

One story is that Johnson was ambushed by a group of Blackfoot warriors in the dead of winter on a foray to visit his Flathead kin, a trip that would have been over five hundred miles. The Blackfoot plan was to sell him to the Crow, his mortal enemies, for a handsome price. He was stripped to the waist, tied with leather thongs and put in a teepee with an inexperienced guard outside. Johnson managed to chew through the straps, then knocked out his young guard with one crippling jab between the eyes, took his knife and scalped him, then quickly cut off one of his legs at the hip. Allegedly using the leg as a blunt weapon, he made his escape into the woods, and survived on the Blackfoot's leg until he reached the cabin of Del Gue, his trapping partner, more dead than alive, a journey of about two hundred miles.
Eventually, Johnson made peace with the Crow, who became "his brothers", and his personal vendetta against them finally ended after twenty-five years and scores of Crow warriors had fallen. The West however was still a very violent and territorial place, particularly during the Plains Indian Wars of the mid 1800's. Many more Indians of different tribes, especially but not limited to, the Sioux and Blackfoot, would know the wrath of "Dapiek Absaroka" Crow killer and his fellow mountain men.

He joined the Union Army in St. Louis in 1864 ( Co. H, 2nd Colorado Cavalry) as a sharpshooter, and was honorably discharged the following year. During the 1880s he was appointed deputy sheriff in Leadville, Colorado and a town marshal in Red Lodge, Montana.
In December 1899, he was admitted to a veteran's hospital in Los Angeles, died on January 21, 1900, at the age of about 76, and was buried in nearby Sawtell National Cemetery.
The above information is based upon the yarns and tales told over and over through the years. According to Johnson's biographer he was a big man, but standing 5'11 and 3/4" tall. This is verified by his Civil War record.

In 1972, the film Jeremiah Johnson was released. The film was based, at least partly, on Johnson's life, with Robert Redford playing Johnson. The film used some material from the 1969 book Crow Killer: the Saga of Liver Eating Johnson, by Raymond Thorp and Robert Bunker, but is basically drawn from Vardis Fisher's novel Mountain Man. In neither the novel nor the movie is there reference to liver consumption or removal.

On June 8, 1974, Liver-Eating Johnson's body was reburied in Old Trail Town in Cody, Wyoming with Robert Redford as one of the pallbearers

PS. this is the new thing for me .. in personally, I think eating a human liver is interesting but I never try I don't want it too though! :S

Anyway, I try to post the picture but there's some problems of this s**t server!! I don't know what's wrong with it but the picture isn't show up =[ *sadd*
I will try again as soon as it works ;) just wait and see! ... ~kisses~

Music Assignment I

2006-07-12T05:05:00.000-07:00

The music that I choose is "This Land Is Your Land" written by Woody Guthrie.

I heard this song in the first time from the STEP MOM movie. I remember this song very well because in the movie there were children playing the show at school about history of America. They look very cute and this song is sound so relax. So when I heard this song in the Civil War CD, I can recognize it very well =]

From my opinion, I'm not really interesting in Folk song I get into new style of music more than the old one. But when I listen this song I think they use the beautiful word .. I feel very relax when I listen to it :) So it changes my thought .. it's not that bad the only one thing I have to do is open my mind and accept new thing that I never try before ^^

Shenandoah

2006-07-12T03:50:00.000-07:00

Shenandoah is the story of a Virginia farmer who attempts to keep his family safe from the dangers of the War. A single father of seven sons and one daughter choose to stay away from the War because he didn't want his family getting any dangerous. But when the his youngest son went out to play with his friend. He wore a soldier hat so the Union army caught him but not his friend. {{ From this scene, it makes me wonder that what's wrong with people who wear soldier hat??? They judge people from this thing only??? so insane!! }}

In this movie there're a lot of scenes that I like, for example I like the scene that a guy came to the house for asking proposal to a daughter. I think this movie is shown a great American culture in the old way. There're many differences from the past and in the present, such as in the past the children will give more respect and obey their parents than now.

But the most impression scene in this movie is the scene that the family was in the church and their youngest member came back. So I learn from this movie that nothing is more important than family :)

Jeremiah Johnson

2006-06-14T21:10:00.000-07:00

This is my second movie, Jeremiah Johnson, is in the nation building period. He was a soldier who goes to the mountain because he wanted to be a mountain man.

In the beginning, he didn't know how to live and survive in the mountain. But it became sucessful with the help of Bear Claw, who shows him how to live in the mountains. Later that his life seems to be turning around he helped one girl from the fighting with an Indian tribe. She gave her son to him, at first he thought he will send a child to the city but later he got Indian wife so he lived with them as a family. Everything seems to go well until one day there were soldier from the big city who wanted his help to rescue some people from the another side of mountain. He did help them but after he went back to his home, his family were killed by another Indian tribe.

I think this movie is quite fun. After watching the movie I know how to hunt the animal (I don't think I will have the opportunity to do it though) but who knows!! maybe one day I might get lost in the forest and at least I know how to survive (I hope that day will never happen -__-")

Pocahontas II

2006-06-04T22:49:00.000-07:00

Pocahontas II is my first movie of Aspect American Culture class. I have seen the first volume long time ago hardly remember it though but for the second volume I like it. Personally I like cartoon so I enjoyed it lots!

This movie is about the indian girl who had to travel to The British because she wanted to see the King. But it was not easy way because there was a bad guy who wanted to make a war to conquer her land. So this bad guy told the king that there were many golds at her land and the king believed him in the beginning. Of course, there was a bad guy it must had good guys too and these good guys who helped Pocahontas and her friend from the tower. They did it! Pocahontas could escape from the tower. After that she met the king and told him that there was no gold in her land. Finally the king believed her and tried to stop that bad guy who were going to the indian's land. At the end they could stop soldiers and ships so there was no war! everything still was in peace and Pocahontas spended her life with her British lover.

From this movie I learn that there is nothing is more important than our home! We should proud in what we are and don't change yourself for the others.

hi

2006-06-01T04:14:00.000-07:00

this is my first time on this site .. and i have no idea what this thing really do!

but it's a good thing for me to learn .... so if u guys have any experiences wanna share with me just feel free to do it! .. ;)