Randy Mootooveran

Lit Media

September 14, 2016

Romeo and Juliet/ Prince of cats Analysis

             When looking at both stories, it’s clear that while both have their differences, they both deal with themes of conflict, lust, young love, and how things that are forbidden for us will always be sought after. I believe when Shakespeare wrote the play, it displayed all these themes to represent the same kind o conflict that erupts between two countries with little to no justifiable grounds for disagreement. Yet beneath all of that, it shows people at the core of the fighting still acting like normal people, like Tybalt wanting to protect Juliet from a crowd he despises, people like Mercutio, who damns both houses for taking away his promise of a future for their petty squabbles, and of course how two people look past the hate between their respective houses and search for something more. In every variation, from West Side Story, Prince of Cats, and the1996 version, they all depict two factions feuding over the same basic foil, just with an added backdrop of social order, status, immigration, and racism. All versions also have the star crossed lovers, who meet one night and declare true love. I believe that this is an element that also remains constant in every version because it shows the dangers of rushing headlong into a serious relationship, what the ramifications can be when pushed to the extreme, and how people will only really learn to cooperate and be understanding if something they cared for was lost by the fault of their own actions. At the end of all the stories, the two groups cease when they see what their petty squabbles resulted in, which proves Shakespeare knew harmony will not be born without tragedy.

Randy Mootooveran

Lit Media

August 31, 2916

Lit Media Assignment 1

            I believe the main reason that audio based media is still mainstream because of its convince, portability, and appeal to those who are mainly auditory learners. Technology is always advancing, so there should be no reason to continue to rely on the same forms of media when we can expand our horizons.

            It’s safe to say that textbooks are seeing a great loss in popularity. With the advent of kindles, IPads, and laptops along with significantly lower prices, online books are becoming the norm. With that and teaching channels on You Tube, people get a much deeper and meaningful experience than just reading the words on a page. Sites like Crash Course will always get viewers because they implement the same logic visual mediums like movies and games abide by: show-don’t-tell. Textbooks are like opening narration or audio logs in games: unless it’s meaningful and captures your attention, chances are you’ll either forget the information or disregard it.  The way information is distributed can have an enormous impact on anyone; Textbooks and news articles are mostly facts without context or any sort of meat that give what’s said any gravity. However, podcasts and You Tube channels have people just like the viewer articulating their opinions and feelings toward the subject, as well as delivering solid facts and usually saying something that connects the viewer to it in some way. For example, say you read an article about world pollution causing vegetable fields to die. You’d read it and most likely forget it an hour or so later. But if you saw someone like Neil deGrasse Tyson talk about the same subject and compare it to things like the world in Interstellar or Blade Runner. Immediately, you form a mental connection, and will likely use what you’ve seen in these films as a template for imaging the importance of that statement. All people are more likely to believe words they hear from someone they feel they can trust rather than written, depthless fact.