Sunday, May 15, 2016

What's the Challenge?

I'll tell you what's a challenge, comparing a non-fiction text with a fiction text. But I like challenges, at least I think I do, so why not try to compare text completely different texts. Am I right?

So the in Holes towards the end, it in a way talks about fate or good luck, maybe even a curse because of the pig stealing great-great-grandfather. It doesn't necessarily talk about the curse being true, but coincidently the "curse" broke off. "Stanley's mother insists that there never was a curse. She even doubts whether Stanley's great-great-grandfather really stole a pig. The reader might find it interesting, however, that Stanley's father invented his cure for foot odor the day after the great-great-grandson of Elya Yelnats carried the great-great-great-grandson of Madame Zeroni up the mountain." The book gives the message of curses aren't real but fate can think otherwise, the grandchildren of Madame Zeroni and Elya Yelants. Then again it could've all been a coincidence and the fact that Stanley had the will to bring himself together and devise a plan to help himself and Zero bringing him redemption could be the meaning. But let us stick with the curse and fate meaning shall we?

Chris Jericho from The Best in the World felt he had a curse too except his doesn't have an ending to it. On a return to wrestling he feels something always goes wrong, this time he didn't really see to it as a it being curse worthy. "Now those of you who have read my previous books might be think the match was Jericho Curse worthy. It wasn't a bad match, it was just kinda there." Usually he will say how his returns had something wrong happening, but he didn't see it too bad this time, just mediocre.

Both books though have a thing with curses, though I realize now why it is different. One is non-fiction and in reality, curses might not be much of a thing, just repeated coicidences. But in fiction things aren't a reality, the curse might've been real in the book letting it fade away once the promise was done when the grandson carried the other grandson. That's why their curse lasted so long because the promise was never done, but once it was completed everything went their way. So I think the difference was just the genre, unless curses are real.

Sunday, May 8, 2016

A Hole Of Zero

What is up y'all, Whole Blogging Show here and unfortunately I won't be writing on my Foley is Good because of my ability of losing things. But I have moved on to something for the moment, something for the entertainment, something for the blogs, something so I don't get yelled at by my teacher. Holes.

Now I have read Holes three times and it shouldn't be a problem for me to forget everything, I mean I barely remember the page number my evidence is on. But I chose this book because I love it. This is my favorite fiction book by far, even better than Project Cain, so I chose it to get a good flow on my blogs and kind of make it more easier to blog about something. (This is not cheating, I hope)

What I want to talk about today is the character analysis of Zero. Zero is a key player in this book, especially with his introduction. He is introduced as a kid with no knowledge or though of what he is doing or why he is at the camp. At least that's what the characters say. Zero is something more than that. This is how he introduced,  "'You know why his name's Zero?' asked Mr. Pendanski. 'Because there's nothing inside his head.' He smiled and playfully shook Zero's shoulder. Zero said nothing." He's introduced as a nothing and in the situation looks like a nothing. But he is more than what he shows.

Later he exposes himself a little by asking Stanley about the shoes which Stanley "stole" which has Stanley confused as to how he knows about them and that he talks. "'Did the shoes have red X's on the back?' Zero asked. It took Stanley a moment, but then he realized zero was asking about Clyde Livingston's shoes. 'Yes they did,' he said. He wondered how Zero knew that. Brand Z was a popular brand of sneakers. Maybe Clyde Livingston made a commercial for them. Zero started at him for the moment, with the same intensity with which he had been staring at the letter." Zero reveals more about him that he is hiding, he obviously isn't living up to his name. He is showing there's a lot more in his mind rather in the beginning when he wouldn't talk to anyone not even to Stanley. But Zero has to be hiding something that associates with Stanley's shoe situation.


Thursday, May 5, 2016

Make a Difference

By helping people who need help, it's casual but it makes a difference, especially when people see you do it. They we follow the example you make. For instance, helping an old lady, if she were to be in need of help and you'd help her she'd probably want to help someone because of that feeling people get. Helping one person makes the person you helped also want to help starting a chain reaction. It's like that video where this guy helped someone and the person he had helped went on to help more and more people. That's what I think would happen. You'd make a difference, they'd make a difference and it'd be a chain reaction. I honestly think everyone is capable of causing change, but sometimes you'd need a cause to make a cause.

Sunday, May 1, 2016

Controversy Creates Cash

Hello guys, what is up? Today I am going to write about Controversy Creates Cash. I have written about Bischoff's weak moments of WCW but after a while it rose and revolutionized wrestling. Due to poor running of the company and loss of control losing to the executives of AOL, WCW slowly died out. Eric does though reflect on his rise and downfall on WCW and being able to Coke close to sending WWE out of business. "When you make a list of the people who have had the most positive impact on the sports entertainment business as we know it today, it's a very short list. The list of people who have actually changed the business is even shorter. Clearly at the top of that list is Vince McMahon. Inarguably, he is the individual who took professional wrestling from a regional territory business and rolled it out nationally on cable and network television and subsequently changed the business forever. Below Vince McMahon, there's probably one one person when has had anywhere near the impact on the way the business is conducted today." This shows how Bischoff helped the business, Vince brought it to people around the world. Bischoff helped the WWE in becoming sports entertainment. Bischoff is proud of what he did to help professional wrestling become what it is today. 
"I take a lot of pride in that. The things I did to make WCW competitive  changed the business fundamentally, from a creative and strategic point of view. I believe that if it weren't for that competition, WWE would have continued along the oath it had been on, The wrestling business would have gotten flat-so flat that the WWE might not have had the opportunities it's had over the past several years, including becoming a public company." Without competition and having a stale product is bad. If there was only one gas station and it costed $10 for a gallon people would go to there be slowly the revenue would die out because of a new gas station that opened with $5 for a gallon. When competitions grow it becomes a bigger decision for the consumer to decide which company to choose because by then both companies are giving their all. It becomes a soon to be bigger thing because of competition. Bischoff started the completion by creating controversy, he needed to bad mouth the competition in order to get attention and he did which started a rivalry between two companies that revolutionized wrestling. But to start a revolution you need controversy to create cash.