"I'm Flying"

The ever so famous "I'm Flying" scene from the classic movie Titanic, is one of the many incredible moments from the film. Taking place on the front of the grand and magnificent ship, the cinematography of the scene is beautifully captured with the wind and the sunset as main elements. This peaceful yet alive scene is perfectly and most beautifully captured. Music plays softly in the background, as a haunting yet captivating voice sings. As Jack covers Rose's eyes, helping her up onto the railing, the music reaches it's peak of powerfulness, as Rose is "flying". The elements of the scene take over you, overwhelming you as you can hear the waves, feel the wind, and the sunset looming in the background. The chemistry between actors Kate Winslet and Leonardo DiCaprio fit the scene perfectly, and they display their immense love for each other wonderfully. Their performances in this scene, and throughout the movie are excellent oscar worthy, for the actors displayed a wide variety of feelings with such strong emotion. In the scene, Winslet is displayed with beauty and innocence, excellently showing feelings of pure excitement and amazement. Her facial expressions show her wide range of acting. The scene is overall breathtaking, incredible, and perfect.

Research Resources

In part of the reading for homework, a table was given with a number of different sources that could be used while doing research, what it provides, usefulness, and where to find it. This table will be extremely helpful when doing research. The sources they included were scholarly books, scholarly journals, newspapers, magazines, encyclopedias, wikipedia, government or academic web sites, commercial web sites, blogs, and personal web sites. These sources were listed from most to less useful. Scholarly books are the most useful, while personal web sites are the least. This page in our text book will come in great use when researching, and I am sure I will look back at it several times.

Rhetorical Analysis

The article we had to read on Rhetorical Analysis from our book "How To Write Anything" taught me a lot I had not known before about rhetoric and rhetorical analysis. To be honest, I did not know what a rhetorical analysis was before I read this. I discovered that when you pick apart an advertisement or speech, and express what you think in words, that is a rhetorical analysis. I discovered that it is an argument that takes several strategies to express. You must take words seriously, make strong claims about texts, and mine texts for evidence. Knowing how to do this will help us a lot on our next project when we have to do an analysis or an advertisement.