Favorite Movie Scene

Last year, " The Dark Knight Rises" was an instant hit in movie theaters. During the first week about  $161 million dollars were produced in revenue from the action packed movie. Like many, I found myself waiting in line, paying $12(it was so worth it!), and watching the movie. Through out the movie, several scenes engaged the viewers packed in theaters across the country. To me, the ending scene of  this specific Batman movie was perfectly directed and completed the current Batman trilogy. 

Side Note: In order to understand the FULL magnitude of awesomeness of this concluding scene, you literally had to at least watched and payed attention to the entire movie (no bathroom or snack breaks and I mean it) if not watch the first 2 movies previously, in my opinion. 

Building up to this scene, Batman was always notorious among the people of Gotham. Although he was the hero that Gotham deserved, Batman was always looked down upon by several in the city, including the police force in which he helped a lot. While nobody put him up to it, Batman felt the need to save the city from its destruction. Bane, the villain, created a bomb of great capabilities, fictionally, that was going to destroy the entire City of Gotham and all its inhabitants. 

After endless fight scenes, Batman ( the Dark Knight) truly rises from his previous defeat in which Bane breaks Mr. Wayne's back. He leads police forces, civilians  and others to escape the terror of Bane's bomb. Batman decides to fly out the bomb from the city himself by using his flying Bat Helicopter. In the silent scene, foster kids along with a majority of the citizens of Gotham watch the humble act of the Dark Knight on his suicide mission. 

As the scene continues with the bomb exploding, viewers watch the silent scene with a sad and emotional feeling. This scene is truly unbelievable as it shows Batman's true personality of a man trying to  others, not a rich business man. 

"The Dark Knight Rises" is an amazing movie that includes my favorite movie scene, as of now. 

The Story of Joe

Joe was the last person on earth I expected to do that. I mean, Joe was always a quiet and reserved guy but not this time. I guess it’s because all the anger and emotions he held inside; he rarely socialized. When he did, though, he was always shutdown in some sort of manner. I still can’t believe he did that. The way he did too was with this very audacious style. He went straight up to his class mate and just started the fight after the peer insulted him. Joe was in a furious rampage. He immediately began to hurt the peer until the peer was begging for mercy.

What was also unexpected was the strength Joe possessed. As mentioned, he was shy and quiet but he was also of small stature. Nobody expected him to be capable of hurting a peer that seemed twice his height and ten times his strength. Joe left everybody in dismay as he repeatedly and uncontrollably punched the peer unit the peer was bleeding from his nose and lips.

After the fight (if you want to call it a fight because the peer didn’t even have a window to fight back), Joe was immediately escorted to the principal’s office by the school police man. Joe was still boiling with anger. His face was as red as a flame from hell. Everybody in the class had to go talk to the administrators of the school in order to be a witness to the event.

By the end of the day, Joe was just given a minor disciplinary act because he was indeed harassed by several other students. Joe walked away with relief yet everybody viewed him as even more of a freak after that. Joe, the quiet, shy, and reserved, student finally released all his emotions in the violence of the fight. Joe was the last person I expected to do that. 

"Ken Robinson says schools kill creativity"

After listening to Ken Robinson's very persuasive argument in 2006, the audience feels persuaded to his very well developed point. Ken believes that today's education system is reducing childrencs creativity. Ken believes that there is a kind of "educational inflation" occuring today that is leading to several students and children to limit their creativeness. With his humorous and personable tone, Robinson develops this point with the use of many ancedotes, a few statistics, and many logical conclusions that the audience can agree upon.

Beggining Ken's TED Talk, it can be noted that he is building his ethos through his peronsable character. Ken casually talks to his audience as if they are having a conversation at a coffee table. Allowing the audience to feel more comfortable, Ken also introduces a few jokes here and there; his jokes tend to make fun of his opposing view point. By declaring "And I used to be one (refferring to proffesors), so there", Ken shows that he used to be an average proffessor (showing us his ethos) that he mentions. Those average professors " live up in their heads."

Continuing thorugh the video, the audience is given several ancedotes that are comical and at the same time aid Ken to develop his point. One of his better ancedotes is rather near the ending (saving -the -best- for -last kind of persuasvive element). He discusses how a young girl basically couldn't stop fidgeting. Her parents were informed from the school ; the school was basically telling the parents that she has ADD. In concern, her parents took her to a specialist; the specailist realized that "the girl is not sick but rather she is a dancer." Listening to the doctors advice, the parents took her to a dance school. Today she is a famous multimilionare dance choreographer; she could have been a regular person if the girls creativity was supressed by medicine. This example hits the audience very hard as it perfectly supports and coincides with Robinsons argument.  His use of ancedotes help with his personable character ( building up his ethos) while also building up the audiences pathos as most of his stories have a humorous twist to them with his comical remarks.

Disperesed throughout his argument, logical facts from statistics and other research are found in Ken's argument. Ken find a statistic from UNESCO that says in the next 30 years there will be more graduates world wide than in the beginning of history. This point is used to back up his argument about educational inflation destroying creativity among students who now have to compete to get PHD's just to get a job ( unlike in the past where they only needed a regular degree). He also brings up other logos near the end by quoting Jonas Salk. His logos allows the audience to see that his point does have some truth.


Overall, Ken's argument in his 20 minute video is very persuasive. He mentions several arguments that seem to be true about todays education system and then ties it back into how the education system is destroying students' creativity. His use of logos, ethos and pathos all help him to be very effective in his argument.

Take a look at the video at :

http://www.ted.com/talks/ken_robinson_says_schools_kill_creativity.html?qtwh=true&utm_expid=166907-14&utm_referrer=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ted.com%2Ftalks%3Flang%3Den%26event%3D%26duration%3D%26sort%3Dpersuasive%26tag%3D