http://www.davidbordwell.net/essays/hook.php
-This article says that transitions are managed in the mainstream, mass-audience movies, and many more. The article also says that unity is needed in the hook. The unity of hook towards the audience is very needed.
1.) A sound can hook to another sound.
2.) A sound can hook to an image.
3.) An image can hook to an image.
4.) An image can hook to a sound.


http://authormarketingtools.wordpress.com/2008/02/13/writing-the-introduction-how-to-hook-your-audience-and-keep-them-reading/
- You have to make a hook that makes the reader content, and want them to stay reading.

1. Begin with a question or a challenge to your reader.
2. Follow this with a good thesis statement that identifies the objective of the work, makes a point with making, provides structure for the complete work and is easy to identify.
3. The remainder of the work should be filled with stories and solutions that the reader can connect to as they continue to read.
4. Make sure that all of the remaining sections of the work are compelling, well organized and easily read.

http://www.streetdirectory.com/travel_guide/print_article.php?articleId=10699
- This article says that the hook should be good, enough to catch the reader, audience's attention, because if the hook is not good, the author has many possibilities to lose the reader's attention. The hook also gives the reader a good idea of what the text will be like.


“The Tell-Tale Heart”
http://www.literature.org/authors/poe-edgar-allan/tell-tale-heart.html

- TRUE! nervous, very, very dreadfully nervous I had been and am; but why WILL you say that I am mad? The disease had sharpened my senses, not destroyed, not dulled them. Above all was the sense of hearing acute. I heard all things in the heaven and in the earth. I heard many things in hell. How then am I mad? Hearken! and observe how healthily, how calmly, I can tell you the whole story.

The hook is quite interesting enough for me. I would consider this hook as a good hook. It is good because it got my attention using suspense, questioning the audience, and with many interesting details. The hooks from a literary text and a movie text differ because the literary text has to catch the audience's attention by just using sentence, while the movie can not only use words, but sounds, and visual effects.



3 Examples of Hook:

Online News Article: http://www.koreaherald.co.kr/archives/result_contents.asp
Hook:Swine flu may infect half the U.S. population this year, hospitalize 1.8 million patients and lead to as many as 90,000 deaths, more than twice the number killed in a typical seasonal flu, White House advisers said.
-This hook gives you a shocking fact or a prediction that might become true.

Book: Where The Red Fern Grows
- This book's hook gives you a interesting detail of what the main character is like, communicating in a awkward way of speaking.

Movie: Wall-E http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UblUO0LjPUg
- This movie makes you think what happened to Earth, after showing the Earth covered in Trash. Also, the sound or the song is kind of the hook as well.

Vocabulary Short Story- Blogging Assignment #5

"Over the Swine Flu Break"

I, Raymond Kim, is a student who goes to TCIS in a country. He enjoys quite a lot going to this school. It is very interesting, and fun. One day, this disease H1N1 influenza, a.k.a. Swine flu attacked our community, and some of the students were infected and were to be sent home.The nurses in the school were ambivalent what their decisions should be. After the students found out that the disease was very deadly, people began disdaining the disease. Some who are caring enough, however I believe would have lamented for the people who got infected. I really revere these kinds of people because, even though their situations might be bad, but they still mourn and care for others.
The school eventually closed down! The H1N1 influenza had infected too many people in our school that we had to close it for a while. However, this wasn't our only conflict we had to face. Homework!!! This was our next conflict. There were too much homework that after I finished all my homework, my face was too angular that it was able to cut through metal. After I was done, I embellished my work for extra work, and I didn't become arrogant, because I was too shy and taciturn. My work was ostentatious, because I worked on it too much. During the break, the school was being sterillizing; the school was not serene.

Blogging Assignment #4

Swine Influenza Article from Korean Herald
http://www.koreaherald.co.kr/archives/result_contents.asp

Importance of Nouns:
Nouns are one of the most important things in writing. Nouns are person, place, thing, or an idea. It is basically almost all of the things around you. Most of the other grammar terms like verbs, adverbs, adjective, etc. are things you can't say much without nouns. The sentence is mostly based on the noun as well.

How do they affect our daily lives?:
Nouns also affect our lives very much. We use nouns everyday, and everytime. When we call someone, we call them by names. When we call people by names, you are using proper nouns. Also, without nouns, we would have a hard time calling people, saying sentences, and doing stuff with grammar. Basically, you wouldn't be able to create a normal sentence.

Would the language be limited without nouns?:
Yes, our languages will be limited. The sentences are mostly constructed up with nouns; the other terms, verbs, adjectives, adverbs, etc. will basically be no use. We will not be able to say a sentence or a word.

How do nouns affect other language?:
Nouns affect other languages in the same way. Other languages will basically limit out just like English because nouns are mostly everything around us; person, place, thing, or an idea.


Nouns in the article:

Common nouns:
world
choir
contest
participants
health
authorities
organizers
people
virus
health ministry
statements
event
foreigners
contestants
public
government

Proper nouns:
South Korea
Indonesian participants
swine flu
Sunday
Indonesian
South Korean
A(H1N1) influenza
Saturday
July
South Gyeoungsang Province
Kang Mal-rim

Analyzing Articles

"Pakistan Burn Victims Turn Beauticians"

- This article basically talked about 2 Pakistan women; Saira Liaqat and Urooj Akbar who were beauticians even though they were seriously injured from the acid or fire. The two women had similar incidents; their husbands, had basically poured acid or burned her. The two women however, even through serious injury, didn't gave up and became a beautician who now works in a beauty salon in Pakistan.

- This article is an article with good ideas and quite clear theme. The article is well supported with many quotes, such as, "Every person wishes that he or she is beautiful, But in my view, your face is not everything. Real beauty lies inside a person, not outside."(Liaqat, 21). The article somehow helps the reader get an idea of what the situation is in the article. Additionally, ideas are reasonably accurate with support, and the writer seems to be writing from knowledge or experience.



Article #1
http://abcnews.go.com/Primetime/story?id=8347902
"Man Claims Aliens Send Him Messages"
- I came to look at this article because it was very unusual. It somehow caught my attention, in the idea of aliens. This article would be considered a good article in how the writer wrote it, but if considering the idea and the theme, it would be considered as a bad article. The article has many thoughts and researched ideas with many support using quotes, details, and backups from the research, but the article doesn't really seem to show what the real conclusion is at the end. The article just leaves off with a suspense idea. The writer says that some people think the man who claims to met an alien, Stan Romanek, is crazy and others that its true. Furthermore, the article leaves the reader with more questions.



Article #2
http://edition.cnn.com/2009/TECH/space/08/18/new.generation.telescopes/index.html
"Telescopes to show universe soon after Big Bang"
- This article is very good in a way of describing many details about the telescope, which is the main idea. It also talks about space, which is also related. It mostly talks about how telescopes advanced far from the past, and that they would be able to see many things people couldn't see in the past about the universe. The idea is to tell us about the telescope. There are many supporting ideas to this article. It is mainly reasonably accurate, and is full of detail.

Tracks Of Life

Life Moment #1
- "One Last Breath" By Creed -When I came to America & In America
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RmtGpROtFjo&feature=fvst

I chose this song as my first moment song, because its one of those songs you listened to a lot. When I was in America, my brother used to turn on the radio, and this song would many times come out.


Life Moment #2 -When I first came to America & And when I was having a hard time speaking English
- "Far Away" By Nickelback
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=otbL8blg1vk



This song I chose it because it kind of reminded me of the past when I was in America. I also used to listen to this song a lot in America as well.




Life Moment #3 - After I came back to Korea & When I went in to Korea school again
- "A Thousand Miles" By Vanessa Carlton


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pnkvhi1XOR8&feature=fvst



"A Thousand Miles" was another song that I really had a big hit when it came out. That time, I was in America, and the song came out on the radio a whole bunch of times. This song I listened to a lot as well.



Life Moment #3
- "Bad Day" By Daniel Powter- During TCIS, when I was having a hard time catching up with friends and work & Right now...Swine Flu
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pnkvhi1XOR8&feature=fvst

This song had many influensive lyrics in the song. This song also was a big hit song. I really enjoyed it and this song made me think back to the days I had trouble in America speaking English.

About My Writing

*What characteristics describe “good” writing?

In my perspective, I think the characteristics of a good writing should contain minimized grammar, punctuation, and spelling mistakes. These are basic characteristics in my thoughts because otherwise, the writing piece would not make sense. Additionally, a good writing should have a clear defined purpose of what the writer is going to write. Without an specific purpose or an idea, the writing would flow to a unusal ending that would not make sense. I also think that a good writing piece should have a support of what they are writing. Without an support, they might not be able to prove what they are trying to say. Furthermore, it would be better if the word choices in the writing fits the situation and makes sense.

*What is the process of writing?

The process of writing can be divided into 5 main parts. Prewriting (Outline & Brainstorm), Writing, Revising, Editing, and lastly, Publishing. We use these process to make our writing piece more better; sound more clear. If we use the process of writing, we can create a clear purpose of writing, make less mistakes in grammar, punctuation, and spelling. Also, the writing piece will sound more better. In other words, it will be easier to create a good writing piece.