Class Recap 11/19

  Today, we talked about Movir Taglines. What's a tagline?
  1. Te last line of a play, story, or speech, used to clasrify or dramatize a point.
  2. A phrase or catchword that becomes identified or associated with a person, group, or product through repetition.
  3. An amusing or memorable phrase designed to catch attention in an advertisement.
 
  For us, movie taglines makes us review that we learned in class, Also, it's good way to recommed movies to others. We worte taglines of our own. There have eight movies we had watched in this semester.
1. Jaws.
2. Silence of the Lambs
3. Ghost Busters
4. Happy Gilmore
5. L.A. Confidential
6. Dead Man Walking
7. The Notebook
8. Lost in Translation

  I  think we could review all of movies when we wrote taglines. It is good for us. I hope it will help us in final test. Good luck to me and you guys.

Capital Punishment in the U.S., Part 2

Thanks, everyone, for a great class discussion today - I hope you found it as interesting and thought-provoking as I did!

When I read over the handout with information about the death penalty, here are some of the facts and ideas that I found surprising:

- that the death penalty is so much more expensive than putting a convicted murder in jail for the rest of his/her life (according to the handout, California tax payers pay as much as $114 million per year MORE than the cost of life-long incarceration).

- that the death penalty appears to be applied in such a biased, discriminatory manner (according to the handout, in California convicted murderers are three to four times more likely to be sentenced to death if their victims are white than if their victims come from other ethnic groups or nationalities).

- that the death penalty appears NOT to be an effective deterrent for criminals (according to the handout, the Southern region of the United States has the highest murder rate AND the greatest percentage of executions out of any other region in the nation; the Northeastern region of the United States has the lowest murder rate AND the smallest percentage of executions out of any other region in the nation).


So now, the next question I am wondering about is as follows:

Did watching the movie Dead Man Walking cause you to change or reconsider your ideas about capital punishment (in the U.S. and/or in your home country)? Why or why not?


Using the 'Comment' function on this post, please write a short paragraph that describes and explains at least one thing or fact you learned from reading the handout. We will begin our class on Wednesday by transitioning towards talking about romantic movies and what makes a good love story, so please make sure to write your comment BEFORE then.