Little Prince and the Fox (Excerpt)

Robert Alexander

Based in the original text of Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
The stage is illuminated. At center stage is a large tree in the background are great mountains. Enter the Prince on stage in a gesture of seeking something. 

The Little Prince: Oh Gosh, I think I've lost again. My rose, the fairest of them all must be around here, I have to find it. But everything is so unfamiliar to me, if only I had one person to ask.
The tree in the middle of the stage begins to shake. 
Fox: I'm here. (Says the fox, although we can not see it) 
The Little Prince: Who said that? 
Fox: It's me. Looking hidden from the men. Do you see a hunter nearby? 
The Little Prince: No, I do not see anyone. Sal so I can see you. I'm bored and want to play with someone. 
Fox: I'm sorry, I cannot leave. Nor can we play, it would be dangerous for you. I am not tamed. 
The Little Prince: Dangerous? What do you mean? 
Fox: Yes, you could get hurt.
The Little Prince: I do not understand. Why I could get hurt? Go forth now and so I explain what it means to tame and we can play around. 
Fox: That is precisely the danger that we get to tame each other. 
The Fox comes under the tree. Run quickly across the stage. The Prince begins to haunt him and laughing. 
The Little Prince: You're so beautiful, you have red hair, you look like a little flame escaping from a fire. Can you make a fire? Sometimes when I try I have cold, but I have my hands so cold I can hardly hold the logs. Then I shelter in coat and begin to imagine in my mind that I am sitting in front of a bonfire. 
The Fox: The things men are indifferent to me. I know only hunt chickens. Do you see here? 
The Little Prince: Chickens? I do not see any. 
Fox: It's a shame. The hens are for me, so the fire is for you. 
The Little Prince: Something very special Oh? 
The Fox: It is. Something very special. 
The Little Prince: If so, then you should tell it more special for me is my flower. She is unique. 
The Fox: She has tamed you? 
The Little Prince: Taming? 
The Fox: Yes. Do not know what it is? 
The Little Prince: Not very well, but I heard you say right now that you mention it and now I understand. Taming ¿is when something you like? 
Fox: It's more than that. It's when something is unique to you. How many other roses you know? 
The Little Prince: Many, of different sizes and with more or less odor than mine. 
Fox: But you love that one flower. Is not it? 
The Little Prince: It is. Only her. 
Fox: So you have tamed. 

Blog Post for October 26

I chose the fable of the little prince and the fox told in the book "Le Petit Prince" by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

These are the three genres in which I will transform the text 

Genre #1: Play
Important Characteristics: A play usually consisting of scripted dialogue between two or more characters.
Purpose: Entertain the audience.
Audience: General Public
Stance (tone/voice): The theater can be written in verse or prose and the tone should be very entertaining and described at the time of referring to places or events.
Media/Design: The theater can be published in hard copy for reading. However, the most traditional form of disclosure is the performance of the theater.


Genre #2: Wiki Page
Important Characteristics: A wiki is a website that allows the creation and editing of an article with collaboration of one or more persons or editors
Purpose: Informative
Audience: General Public, Internet Users
Stance (tone/voice): Formal, academic o scientific.
Media/Design: Electronic.


Genre #3: Website
Important Characteristics: A website has the intention to inform or entertain through the Internet.
Purpose: To inform, display content, sell products, share ideas and entertain.
Audience: General Public, Internet Users
Stance (tone/voice): Informal, academic, formal,
Media/Design: Electronic.

Gucci and "School for Africa"

Today we have the option to publish an open post. I decide to talk about the Gucci advertisement with Jennifer Lopez.

The image presented by Gucci intended to promote children's clothing. The scene captured by the image, takes place on the beach and is feature by the artist Jennifer Lopez and her two children.

The Gucci company has shown a famous person playing with their children on the beach while wearing clothing company. The tone of the image intended to be familiar and supposedly normal environment in which a mother interacts with her children. This image is promoted to level printed (in magazines or newspapers) and in digital in gucci.com The hearing is intended is the upper middle class can buy this brand and also can identify with the lifestyle of the artist used in advertising.

The artist Jennifer Lopez is quite famous in the Latin and Anglo music world, and the company intends to use this image as the authority to promote generosity. The intent of this campaign is to give a percentage of profits to the project called "Schools for Africa"

1. Gucci´s campaign "Schools for Africa" unsuccessfully make its achieves its purpose of promoting generosity in favor of the children of Africa.
2. The image appears as a major figure Jennifer Lopez and not children.
1. The artist appears in the center and a leading figure and looking at camera.
2. Children look elsewhere and be seen without visual force in advertising.
3. Jennifer Lopez does not have a maternal connotation.
1. The connotation of the artist is sexual or erotic.
2. The look of the model attempts to appeal to erotic sense.
4. The mother does not interact with the children.
1. Children do not seem to play with the mother but only be present in the picture.
2. There is no physical contact between mother and children.

Gucci advertising that is intended to promote generosity, unsuccessfully achieved its mission to ensure that consumers can identify with and can contribute to the cause. The model seems to pose for a fashion magazine as if she were alone in the picture and there is no relation to children or a mother or relative gesture between them.

Rough Draft in Outline: Scott Adam's "Dilbert"

Robert Santana
Rough Draft 
Comic/Dilbert

The image is about a character named Dilbert who is talking with his mother in their house. The scene takes place in three frames. And the mother makes references to an email that she send this day to Bill Gates saying something positive about the Microsoft competitor.

Dilbert is a character related to the world of computing and this comic is used to criticize or satirize some aspects of this world. It is addressed to the public that understands technology and information and is intended to create humorous situations from ironic elements of this environment.

Ethos: The comic strip Dilbert is about and who almost always has a more balanced vision of the computer world. This comic is well known and published in hundreds of newspapers worldwide, as well as electronically through the portal.

Logos: The fact that an elderly woman has resorted to an advanced task to send a message to the most powerful man in the world computer does not have much logic. Nor the answer he makes to this message.
Pathos: There is some anger in the mother's message, and fear in response to this message Bill Gates.

1. Scott Adam's “Dilbert” to successful makes his argument that  the competition between Linux and Windows is disproportional.
2. Even a older person can use Linux.
1. In the first, Dilbert's mother tells him she has done something with the keyboard of the PC.
2. The mother seems to be a normal user. It represent that even a normal user can operate Linux operative system.
3. When the Dilbert´s mother said that she was using Linux, Dilbert made a normal expression.
3. The competition between Windows and Linux is similar to David and Goliath.
1. In the second frame mother tells him she has repeatedly send a message to Bill Gates saying "Linux Rules."
2. The mother is a normal person, not an advance user or a people of business and she decide to send a direct message to an big company like Microsoft.
3. Dilbert show an expression of surprise, because he knows that it can represent a bad reaction from Microsoft.
4. Microsoft reacts in a disproportional way to individual users.
1. At the third frame we see Bill Gates as if in an operations center saying: "Launch the Competition keeper Missiles."
2. In the third frame we see a Bill Gates in a center of operation, giving orders to employees.
3. We see a big organization reacting with missiles to a simple email message.
5. Scott Adams shows Microsoft as a evil organization
1. Bill Gates doesn’t answer the email with another email.
2. The image in Bill Gates in a control center is related to movies of science fiction like Star Wars.
3. Bill Gates show no flexible to comments in favor of the competition.
6. Linux users think that Windows is bad for Linux
1. The mother choose Microsoft instead of Apple or other companies.
2. The mother send thousands of emails to an specific person.
3. The message and the way of sending shows a certain adverse attitude.
7. 7. Conclusion: In the computer world of Linux distributions are related to an advanced knowledge of operating systems. This is what makes comic that Dilbert's mother said that she used the system to send a large amount of emails. Second factor that makes the picture hilarious is to see how the president of a huge company cares about this fact and respond from a control center that refers to science fiction. This is not a fair competition between the two operating systems. We see how Linux has charisma of certain independent groups. In another hand, Windows is the product of a big company, Microsoft.

Reading Quiz/Blog Post for October 12

Charles Schulz's "Dear Editor"

Q. - What main argument does Schulz make about writing, editors, and revision? What evidence from the text supports this interpretation?

A. - The main argument is about how some publishers and editors do not respond personally to the writers but only restore their work without giving further explanation.

In the text we see how innocently Peanuts question about what is happening with their stories and why the editor are returned. Then we see Peanuts shows that his desire is to become famous, but he says with a certain innocence. And finally we see that the character asks "What is it with you." reflecting that something bad should happen to the editor because his is returning the stories instead of beginning to make Peanut famous.


Gary B. Trudeau's "Doonesbury: Study-Friendly Courses" 

Q. - What visual and written evidence from the comic strip suggests that Trudeau is critiquing higher education and not the K-12 education system in general? What visual and written evidence suggest that he is critiquing the American higher education system and not another country's educational system?

A. - The evidence that the criticism is about higher education is first in the visual. We can see some buildings commons in higher education environments such as universities. Then we read the word Summer, and it is common that only higher education courses offered in summer. Then we can deduce that it is American higher education since they refer to "The Simpsons" apart from references to the English language.

Reading Quiz: Katrina Despair Amid The Ruins

1. What major argument is made in "Katrina: Growing Despair Amid the Ruins"? How does Willie J. Allen use ethos, pathos, and logos to persuade viewers of this argument? What additional strategies does Allen employ to persuade viewers?

Willie J. Allen
Katrina Growing Despair Amid The Ruins

In the face of the victims, appearing in the picture, you see the desperation and suffering caused by the tragedy. You can see women, youth and children and his face you can see the despair of the forgotten.

Of course, the credibility of the photograph (the ethos) are the same people. And you can distinguish the image of suffering and disorientation of every person (pathos) and as some carry their belongings but have no real sense of direction, but find themselves confused and content (logos) by military force that acts as repesalia the crowd.

Adbusters "The Blackspot Unswoosher"

1. What is the relationship between megacorporations and consumerism in "The Blackspot Unswoosher"? What evidence from the images and text support this interpretation?

They try to convey to consumers the truth about many of the products offered by mega-corporations. As the text of the article "The purpose of the magazine is to Encourage readers to do more Than Think About The Problems of the world"


What evidence from the images and text support this interpretation?

They do this by making them part of the solution of these problems. They have a product called "The Blackspot Unswoosher" and highlight the properties of footwear, such as pull Recycled sole, leather Vegetarian, 100% Organic Hemp Upper, and finally the Anti-Hand Drawn Logo. The latter as a clear reference to the major brands and the way in which we sell a product by name, rather than quality.