Mentor Log

Saturday: April 13, 2013
My mentor assigned me some "homework" which was to gather two newspapers, The New York Times and The SF Chronicle. And was to highlight some important facts about the world and this helps me come closer to my goal of this project by introducing the work that a journalist does and how it is that they get stories out.

Logged Hours: 2 Hours

Sunday: April 14, 2013
Gathered up some newspapers and read some interesting things about what is going on around the world. Its really unpleasant to hear about a Country like North Korea to read what is going on with them but then again, news are news. My mentor made me examine the things I highlighted and told me to try and make something out of it. To try and relate it to other things. How does it connect to our society and why is it so important to our country, about what goes on in North Korea.

Logged Hours: 3 Hours
Total Hours: 7.5 Hours

Mentor Logs

Saturday; March 2, 2013
My goal was to discuss with my mentor about what particular things we are going to be doing.When i met up with my mentor he provided me information on how to contact him just in case he is unavailable. He also gave me my first "assignment", which is to search for some kind of local newspaper. The newspapers i was assigned to look for were the SF Chronicle and New York Times. This was so i understand what type of work i'm going to be facing. It guides me to my goal that i'm trying achieve throughout this project. As for the next meet, my goal is to understand more of the journalistic field of my project.

Logged Hours: 2.5 Hours
Total Hours: 2.5 hours

1984- Bad Times

From what I have read, I see Oceania to be a dark, depressing, torn-up city along with damaged buildings, after all they did just come back from a war. They have a few high-tech things to keep their society stimulated but although that may be what is going on. Part of the community fears the ruling of a new type of government that controls almost everything. Winston's main problem is trying to agree with the party, in other words, having a a difficult time following through with the criteria of Oceania. For example, Winston wrote in his diary, "DOWN WITH BIG BROTHER", showing off how rebellious he his. Another example would be when he's watching the Two Minute Hate video, he wasn't even participating in the "hate" along with everybody else. Not until he catches eye contact with a man named, O'brien. After he and O'brien meet eye to eye Winston begins to rise and yell and belch out foul movement towards the video of Goldstein. One of the people who rebelled and one of the more reason why people are so against the video.

Stranger than Fiction

The author of the story is somebody who's writing about a certain story, while a narrator on the other hand is someone who is to verbally talk about a story. So that would generally be the difference already. Unless you want a better understanding of what the difference is between the two then an example could be that, the author could create a story and the narrator could be formed into the story as a character, like a third person narrator. In the movie, The Karen Eiffel the author of the story, is also narrating the story, having both roles colliding into one whole thing which would be illustrating the life of Harold Crick.
As an author on my research paper i can say i did a pretty well job on it staying focused on what to talk about. Giving proper facts and information about my topic, which is Biased Journalism, rather than opinion. I left out my perspective about what it is about because i think people would want to know more about why biased opinions are important rather than from experience of somebody. So instead i gave a clear understanding of how biased opinions affect society. A great impact would be the facts about biased opinions and how it has affected society before and how it still does today, i think people would be interested in hearing the story about a biased society.