Persuasive writing: Movies are better than books.

Topic: Books are better than movies.

Ideas:
Your imagination is needed.
Better learning.
Can go into more detail.


Books have been a part of our lives for centuries, teaching us valuable lessons about our own world whilst including us in another's. Books are better than movies because they need your imagination, increases your learning ability and can provide more detail about the plot and characters. These points and others alike show how books are superior to movies.

Books entice us because they need our mind for the story to work. The author can build worlds using beautiful language but we are the ones imagining how this would be. What entices us about book characters is how we can imagine them to be the most relate-able to us. This relate-ability  makes us emotionally invested in these characters and makes us feel what they feel. We are invested in the fate of these characters, making the story better and more intriguing. Using our imagination to relate to these characters is how authors can keep us invested in their stories, wanting to know what happens. Not only do books make characters more relate-able, they help increase our knowledge and learning.

We will never stop learning, letting our minds grow with more knowledge. Books are some of the best ways to increase learning. When reading a book, our minds learn knew ideas, language features and increase our reading comprehension. " A mind needs books like a sword needs whetstone" is a quote from George RR Martian in his book 'A storm of swords', explaining that literature is vital to keeping our brains healthy and sharp. Despite the ability to make a world more personal or our knowledge of our own more in-depth, often books can not stimulate the senses to the extent movies can.

Movies stimulate our senses and make us want to keep watching, hooking us in with action filled fighting scenes or using clever camera shots to convey symbolic messages. Many people love the way movies can make us laugh, fill us with fear or make us sympathise with a character. 'The Handmaids tale' shows how camera shots can be used to send messages or convey emotions. Keeping the handmaids on the edges of the shot shows how they are oppressed and overlooked, non important slaves to the new world. They seem to be pushed out of the shot, or low down to show how little is thought them. Many of the shots are also extremely close to the protagonist's face, making us feel as restrained and claustrophobic as she is. These are examples of how the shots convey the oppression and helplessness of the handmaids. Despite using visual tricks to push messages, movies can seldomly go into as much detail as books, making it harder to entice the audience with just the plot.

When a book is converted to a movie or show, many parts of the plot are left out or changes, to make the story faster and more simple. This is because movies and t.v shows have to keep your attention through the story, they no longer have the tool of the viewers imagination to keep them hooked. 'Game of thrones is an excellent example. When the ' A song of fire and ice' books by George RR Martian were converted to the HBO show 'Game of thrones' many plot points such as Tyrion's experience in Essos or the full extent of Danerys's experience in Quarth were discarded. This made the show quicker but missed out on some character development, as well as certain characters as a whole. Books can explore more plot points because they have the time to, compared with a movie with easily can lose an audience after the two hour mark. Once a reader is invested in a story,we are hooked in. The author can take as much time as needed to include more about it, making it more complex and interesting. This allows authors to have a more complex story, showing greater skill and encouraging a wider audience.

In conclusion, books are better than movies because they use the readers imagination and emotion to get them invested in the story, encourage more learning through language and symbolism and can go into more depth about their story.


Reflection:
I am planning to improve in sentence structure, spelling and punctuation.
Sentence structure: included a shorter paragraph where I felt I could.
Spelling: double checked a work which I wasn't sure was spelt right.
Punctuation: Checked through and corrected some incorrect puntuation

Persuasive writing: Team vs individual sports

Ideas

individual sports:
all improvement/failure is on you and only you
- your hard work will show
-if the outcome isn't what you want, you can personally improve yourself
self discipline
-you put all the hard work in and the results shown are yours alone
-you can't slack off
-you teach yourself what works for you
respect for competitors
-teaches gracious winning and losing.
-learning how to accept defeat and self improve.

Sport is a part of many people's lives and has shaped cultures and people alike. Sport gives you an opportunity to be better and succeed. Individual sport is the best way to grow as an athlete due to the outcome being yours alone, the self discipline needed and the respect for all those around you.

Everyone loves to succeed, feeling accomplished when your hard work pays off. With team sports, individual effort is overlooked and those who struggle can fail to grow as a sportsperson, due to the rest of the team. With individual sport, the success is a product of your hard work and commitment, the failure a lesson which will encourage you to improve. Failure in a team can result in negative feeling towards certain individuals and a potentially toxic environment to those who struggle. Not only does individual sport help you improve as an athlete, it can improve you as a person.

Discipline is a thing we all must posses, making ourselves the best we can be through respect of our self and others. In a team sport, people can perform poorly (or not at all), because they know somebody else can pick up the slack.  This can discourage people from trying to succeed and will have negative consequences on the rest of the team as a result. With individual sport, the outcome is a result of your hard work, you are the one putting in the effort and nobody else can do it for you. This encourages people to try their best, wanting to succeed after the hard work they put in. In order to succeed, one needs to practice and become better than they once were. This is a great attitude to have in all areas of ones life.

Part of life is working with others towards a common goal. In team sports, you are made to work together in order to succeed. This builds respect and trust among the participants, valuable qualities in every bodies lives. There is only one problem. Being in a team can automatically put people off if the environment created is uncomfortable. In most teams, there are those that always get all of the credit, making it difficult for others to be comfortable and ready to improve in the team. People only notice what they want to, eg. the silver ferns, I am sure most of you can name a few of them- the great players remembered by everyone- but can an average person name every silver fern in the last ten years? I doubt it- due to the media coverage we only pay attention to a few, leaving the others out of the spotlight. If somebody is scoring all the goals or taking all the credit, whats the point in even trying? This discourages self discipline and the want to improve in an individual. Not only do individual sports encourage more self discipline, they encourage more respect for others.

Respect is a vital foundation on which society sits, if it isn't present, everything will crumble into disaster and anarchy.  Individual sports teaches you to have respect for yourself, for those who have helped you and for any opponent. Understanding that people work hard to get where they are is a massive part in how people work together. This respect for other people's efforts is essential in any situation, not just sport. Respecting yourself is extremely important, because if you are lacking this respect, you will not have the drive to improve.

Hard work, discipline and respect are all essential in everyday life and for society as a whole. Individual sports encourages these qualities, they are all vital to any success. Individual sport is better than team sport because of the self discipline needed, the respect for others and the drive to improve to succeed.

Home ec practical: pasta

Last week in home ec we made tomato pasta. The practical was easy and our team worked well together. Our task was to cook the pasta and improve the pasta sauce by adding extra ingredients.

Skills in practice: pasta cooking, sauteed onions.



Pasta: Our team had one person who made the pasta. It needed to be cooked 'al dente' and in time for the sauce completion. This worked really well because we had enough time and people to focus on tasks individually.

Sauce: The base sauce was from a can, to which we added onions, tinned tomatos and tomato paste. The onions needed to be sauteed, not browned or burnt. The sauce outcome was good (there was no way it could go wrong) and we added some herbs for extra flavour.

Team work: our team worked well together, we divided the tasks and managed to complete them all well. Next time I think we could have determined what was happening with the dishes.

Out come: the final product was good. The sauce was tasty but the pasta, due to a delay in the onions cooking and leaving it in a warm pot, was slightly overcooked.

Nutrition:
The dish has one serve of vegetables (tomatoes), less than one serve of carbohydrate ( due to the small pasta amount) and one small serving of dairy (the cheese on top).
For a balanced meal, serve more pasta, perhaps add a side salad and incorporate chicken or other protein into the dish.