EOC: Week 11: Forced Choice

1. Cameron, Kylie
Kylie’s project blog posts was very good read, it had all of the requirements needed for this project.
 
2. Reininger, Zachary
Zach’s was very informative but he should of chose other color besides the color red for the quotes, because it was hard to read a thin red text on a dark gray background.
 

3. McGivern, Joy

Joy’s Project Blog post was so informative and easy to understand.

4. Stephens,Briana Lynne
I like how she chose a bigger text size, because it was easier for me to read, but she misspelled final on her label.
 
5. Khwaja, Amer

Amer’s project was okay, I think it could have been better, but he did have all of the requirements.

 

6. Sua, Christopher

I thought mine was okay, I thought it could have been better, but definitely not the worst and I should of read the direction more carefully, because I color my entire text instead of just quotes.

 

7. Munns, Lisa Jae

Lisa’s had something missing in her final project and should work on the title as well, because I was confused by the title, I thought she miss labeled her blog, but she didn’t.
 

8. Booth, Alicia

I like her project, but not sure it that’s 1500 words and I had the same problem where the lawyer didn’t know all of the answer, because they aren’t in that field.
 

9. Carrillo, Andrea Elizbeth

Andrea’s was missing 3 blog posts required for this project and obviously didn’t have 1500 words and definitely need more info.

EOC: Week 10: Lawyer Jokes

Q: Why did God invent lawyers?
A: So that real estate agents would have someone to look down on.
http://www.iciclesoftware.com/LawJokes/IcicleLawJokes.html

A man who had been caught embezzling millions from his employer went to a lawyer seeking defense. He didn’t want to go to jail. But his lawyer told him, "Don’t worry. You’ll never have to go to jail with all that money.” And the lawyer was right. When the man was sent to prison, he didn’t have a dime.
http://www.ahajokes.com/law003.html

How many personal injury attorneys does it take to change a light bulb?             

• How many can you afford?
• Three - one to turn the bulb, one to shake him off the ladder, and the third to sue the ladder company.

http://brainden.com/lawyer-jokes.htm

Q: What do you call a lawyer gone bad?
A: Senator.
http://www.swapmeetdave.com/Humor/Lawyer.htm

Q: How can you tell when a lawyer is lying?
A: His lips are moving.
http://www.jokesandhumor.com/jokes/225.html

EOC Week 8: Bratz Brawl

Mattel and MGA Entertainment went to court, because Mattel claimed that Bratz was part of their intellectual property. Because the guy who designed Bratz was working for Mattel at the time and therefore Mattel owns the sketches, at least that’s what Mattel has said. Mattel and MGA had been in court for years, but in April of 2011, Mattel has lost the case. Carter Bryant a guy who designed Bratz has said that he came up with the design in 1998, when he was living with his parents. Mattel did not own the original sketches for Bratz. In the article by The Wrap says, “Mattel had claimed lost wages between $314 million and $544 million in the current trial.” And MG was awarded $3.4 million for damages for trade-secret theft. It looks like Mattel were able to stop Hasbro from copying their idea with Hasbro’s G.I. Joe line, but looks like Mattel couldn’t stop MGA, which I think is very interesting. And it was all because of Mattel not owning Bratz designs. It’s cool to see that Mattel won’t be the only ones making dolls for girls. It seems like Bratz is more popular with girls more than the Barbie dolls. That’s probably the true reason why Mattel wanted to take MGA to court. Bratz had their own movie, TV series and songs and Barbie only had few movies. So I think that’s one of the reason why Bratz are more successful right now. Mattel should research more, but now since they’ve lost money it would be impossible right now.

EOC Week 7: Plans

I think this will the toughest school project I would ever do. Hearing that it is not easy to get a lawyer to talk to you. I’m already nervous about this. Hopefully my family would know a lawyer. If not I would have to ask my friends. If my friends don’t know any lawyers then I would have to search on the internet for a local lawyers that would talk to me. I might start with the lawyers that just got started since, they would need to build up their ego. Since every lawyers study every law in the book, they should know about intellectual property even if they aren’t focused on that field. But before I do all that I will have to come up with ten questions for the lawyer according the directions for this project. ten questions that are related to my interests. Since I am focusing on my Digital Filmmaking and Video Productions major. My question would have to be based around that. I will have about three weeks to do my project, so on week 1, I will come up with 10 questions related to my major. Week 2 I will have to contact a lawyers and get my questions answered, hopefully that won’t take too long to do. And my last week I will put everything together. Hopefully it will work out for me. This will tough, but I will have to give it my all, in order to complete this important project for this class.

EOC Week 6: Illicit

My hobby is to collect action figures. I never bought knock-offs because it breaks so easily and the company who makes the products will lose products. But now watching the documentary “Illicit: The Dark Trade” I will never ever buy knock-offs of any kind. People can get killed from these trades. People just don’t realize what they buying. If it’s cheap and looks real, people will buy them. Knock-off seems to be everywhere, so what people should do is to look up where they are buying from. Places like Ebay are harder to source, so those kinds of sites are risky. People who buys knock-offs and is aware that it is fake, Should watch this documentary. This documentary really opened my eyes to this dark trade. Even though I never buy knock-offs, I never realized of how bad, buying knock-offs were. It is scary and people should be aware of these things. If the price of the product are too good to be true, the chances are that it is fake and should avoid it. When are buying knock-offs, you’re not just hurt to company. You are hurting the people that are working in these unfortunate jobs. Just be careful of what and where you’re buying from.

EOC Week 5: Patent Trolls

I have just read an article on Patent Trolls. I think when this lawsuit happens, the trolls and the company both are at fault. The Patent trolls has no right suing something that they don't even own. And the company needs to check if they still has the rights for a patent or else something like this would happen. For those who don’t know who that patent trolls are. “Patent trolls is a disparaging term for someone who sues for patent infringement, but who does not make or sell any products using they patented technology. There is a friendlier term for them that I don’t use for 2 reasons. Patent trolls are easier to remember and Patent troll is a right word for them in my opinion. “A friendlier term for the practice is patent assertion company.” Like I said Patent trolls are easier to say. “Patent trolls typically rely on the fear of permanent injunctions to elicit licensing fees.” A way to avoid patent trolls are to check if you still have the rights to the patents. I don’t like patent trolls at all.

EOC Week 4: Jeopardy

My jeopardy experience in my class was great. I had lots of fun. Watching Jeopardy shows aren't fun at all, but actually playing jeopardy it's so fun. I learned a lot of terms in a process as well. Some of my classmate seems like they are taking the game too seriously, but other than that it was fun. I believe playing a great jeopardy people should just relax and have fun and it’s the same with all of the other games like basketball, football, soccer and etc. The students seem to get angry when they are losing the game. Which I think isn’t cool at all. It’s one of the reasons why I don’t play jeopardy that often, but thankfully  there weren’t any fights over it. There weren’t any cheating claims, but there were some “This isn’t fair!” moment. I was afraid because I’m playing jeopardy with people that I don’t have a lot of past interactions with. I do play jeopardy with my friends sometimes and when we do it is fun. But this jeopardy wasn’t bad at all. Jeopardy is a great way to study for tests.

Week 3 EOC: Stolen Valor Act

Stolen Valor Act says it's a federal crime to falsely claim that you have no military honors when you really have not, but apparently that's not the case by the Supreme Court. The Supreme Court says it's protected by the first amendment and that people can lie about anything. This can cause a lot of people because that means any company can falsely claim something and sell them to the public. For example, a company can falsely claim that it can cure cancer and somebody can stop them because it's protected by the 1st amendment and they can totally ignore the regulations. The first amendment needs to be regulated, if not the United States can be in a lot of trouble. If it’s not regulated then people will think that it is okay to yell “Fire!” at the movie theaters. A five year old kid will think it okay to say “bitch” to his/her mother. It will get bad for our country. Other countries already look down on us, this would make this worse than it already is. The people of the United States already has enough rights, it wouldn’t hurt to have more restrictions.

Week 2 EOC: Erin Brockovich

I have watched Erin Brockovich and researched the facts on the PG&E case. In the article from L.A. Times says that PG&E has agreed to pay $295 million settlement. PG&E have apologized to the Hinkley citizens. It is nice that they have apologized, but many have birth defects and many other diseases because of this pollution. It was an issue that PG&E have noticed, but didn't bother to do anything about it until it's too late. And knowing what the lawyer thought about the victims, this is brutal. I wish lawyers cared about their clients. I never liked lawyers even before learning about this case. Some of the lawyers are so greedy. It seems like lawyers only care about money and only care about their ego. I wish we had more people like Erin Brockovich, people who actually about their clients. The lawyers who are so greedy are unacceptable in my opinion. Many people don’t like lawyers and this is the reason why. Having people like Erin Brockovich are one of the rare moments they the lawyers care about the people. The people who are going into law, don’t be one of those greedy clients and be like Erin Brockovich.

Week 1 EOC: Voice

My name is Christopher and I currently a student at the Art Institute of Las Vegas majoring in Digital Filmmaking and Video Production. I was born in Tokyo, Japan. Even though I was born in Japan, I was raised here in Las Vegas for almost my entire life.I am a filmmaker.In my free time I film reviews mostly about toys, because one of my hobby is collection action figures and model kits. I post my reviews on Youtube. When my friends ask me, “What is your favorite movie of all time.” I say “none” because I love movies and can’t just make one. Other than watching movies, I love watching “making of” and Behind the Scenes that originally sparked my interest in filmmaking. What made made that interest set in stone was during high school. My friends and I got a Julius Ceaser project, so what my friends and I did was that we made a modernized version of Julius Ceaser and everyone in my audience loved it and so did my english teacher. But that movie has been lost, sadly. The other film that my friends and I did was a sniper film simply called “The Sniper” and it had no lines, it was just about 2 snipers shooting that each other. People who have watch this short little movie loved this one too. So I made a decision to become a filmmaker. My passion is to entertain my audience. I also want send message about life, what people should or should not do, so that the people would live a better life. I know that it won't work all the time, but that won't stop me from doing what I like to do. The genre that I focus on are action/adventure and drama. I want to touch people's heart with my films. My drama genre films will be about a true events. My action/adventure genre will be all fiction. I hope you will enjoy my films as I enjoyed making them. What I see lacking in current action films are that there are no stories and if there are it’s a really bad story. I want to change that when I become a filmmaker. I want to make a film with a really good story. I want the character to be lovable and even hated instead of just being there. We are at the age where the CGI are very cool and there for these movie studios focus on the EFX rather than the story itself. CGI are infact cool, but they have to have a story to them. Why are they there? How to characters feel about them? How does it effect the story? Those are the elements that the current films are missing. We always get a movie like Transformers and Battleship where they only focus on the CG and not those elements. We also get a drama that is not relatable and the audience don’t focus on that. So I want to change that.