Conan O'Brien commencment speech and Mark Edmundson's "Glorious Failure"

In 2011 Conan O'Brien offers a commencement address to Dart Mouth University, and in his address he talks about his huge public disappointment as a late night TV host. In 2010 there was conflict Involving O'Brien and Jay Leno about becoming a fifth host because both of their contracts were being extended. The Tonight Show remained O'Brien's and Leno got his own show " The Jay Leno Show". In the end both shows failed to attract viewers and there rating dropped horribly. So the reason O'Brien talks about his disappointment in his speech because he was telling the graduates that failing is not bad, instead it takes failure to become successful, so Conan's speech is similar with Mark Edmundson's "Glorious Failure" because Edmundson uses famous writer's who all failed at something, nut in the end they became successful later in their lives. Also, Conan's address and Edmundson's "Glorious Failure" both gave us examples of what, why, and how him and other famous people became successful after failing in an event in their lives, and how failing is just another chapter in their lives to successful. So in conclusion I have told you how and why Mark Edmundson's "Glorious Failure"  and Conan O'Brien's commencement speech to Dart Mouth University are similar because they both state and explained by example why in order to become successful you must fail at something in life.

Banned Books Week and Dangerous Learning

        As I was looking at the website I read that banned books was hosted on Google because they got 307 request for books to be removed from America's libraries for restriction purposes. The plan they wanted to achieve and did was to get rid of inappropriate books from libraries and use the website to sell them. Their purpose falls in Bruni's hope for "dangerous learning" because it shows that these banned books were an unexpected sign on how we need to learn about certain books. One of the books that was surprisingly challenged was Captain Underpants by Dav Pilkey, it was challenged because of offensive language, unsuited for age group, and violence, but Captain Underpants was basically about two kids who hypnotized a teacher into becoming a super hero they made up in a comic book they created and the story jus continues with all the adventure they will be going through so I don't know why it was challenged. However; Fifty Shades of Grey by E.L James the other hand was challenged because of nudity, sexually explicit, unsuited for age group and religious viewpoints. These books titles were appealing to me because I heard that Fifty Shades of Grey was a good book also from the reports I got made me really want to read it but it just wasn't suited for my age at the time. Captain Underpants I grew up to it as a kid it was always my favorite book to read when I was bored. In conclusion I told You who Hosted Banned Books Week and how its purpose was similar to Bruni's "dangerous Learning" quote, I also gave you two books that were appealing to me and the reason they were challenged and why I liked them.

In Frank Bruni's article " The Wilds of Education" he uses a quote that states " But when it comes to learning shouldn't they be dangerous", from that quote  think he is saying should school be challenging and disrupted to teach the students " The Wilds of Education". One of the quotes that Bruni said that I enjoyed was " isn't education supposed to be provoke, disrupted, challenge the paradigms that young people have consciously embraced and attacked the prejudice that they absorbed". I enjoyed this quote because he gave some good reasons on why education should be challenging or "dangerous". One of the examples of dangerous learning was from a book called The Art of Racing In The Rain, it was an example because one it was banned for its sex scenes that made parents uncomfortable and the sex scenes like rape, abuse and abortion that should be exposed to high schools to teach the students the hardship and controversies of adulthood. In conclusion I gave you a reason why Bruni uses the terminology "dangerous learning " and I gave you a concrete example of it.

Its not about you

In David Brook's article on "It Not About You" he talks in the article about someone finding themselves and losing themselves, and I'm going to give you a difference between them because there is a difference between the two. From the text and my thought i think finding yourself means to find out who you are as a person by personality and other traits. Its like a mission of soul searching to dig deep into yourself and actually know who you are as a person and your purpose of being here. Now losing yourself to me means that yo already knew who you was but you are being someone you know you are not which is causing you to change and forget who you at first (losing yourself), For example you could be the kindest and sweetest person but you can hang with wrong crowd which cause you to change and forget that you was that sweet person every thought you was that is what losing yourself means to me. In conclusion I have told you the difference between losing yourself and finding yourself according to David Brook's New York Times on "Its Not About You"

 

 

Brett Ratcher Rush Hour 2 (2001) is an violent action pack comedy on two police officers who gone on these adventures to solve crimes and bring people to justice, and are funny doing it too. In the second version of Rush hour Det. James Carter (played by Chris Tucker) and Chief inspector Lee(played by Jackie Chan) travels to China for a vacation but end of having to solve a case on a serious murderer. The movie may be action pack and adventurous but its is really funny. I would advise Mr Still and my fellow peers to watch this movie because I like how they added Chris Tucker (a real comedian and Det. James carter) as one of the main character because some movies need some humor to make it more interesting. I also like how they do the special effects when they jump off buildings , dodge cars, and etc.

Richard Corliss of Time Magazine says that Rush Hour 2 " content to rely on the formula that could (small sigh) that could extend for a few more sequels, and  would agree with that cause Rush Hour
has time times when they go off topic and have to rely on the formula to get the movie back on track, but it is still an awesome.