Thursday, April 11, 2013

Luis's Reviews Episode VI: Sanjay Dooster SkateBoard

WOWW!!!! That is truly cool!!It's only a matter of time before these things hit store shelves. It's almost like the electric scooter but without the stand. However, the device is remote control operated which would prove difficult to maneuver or hold balance. I feel like they could pool a back to the future and have the remote operation happen by foot access on the board. The Wheels look a bit phony too! All and all great device
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Friday, April 5, 2013

Luis's Reviews Epidsode V: Arthur Benjamin does "Mathemagic"

Wow His abilities are amazing! He's like a human calculator. His powers are almost superhuman, and I stress the word almost. He made two mathematical errors and i would know, I calculated his math during the presentations. However, his grand finale was AMAZING! He was able to square a ten digit number. I also found the birthday weekday trick really interesting because it shows his ability beyond a human calculator. He revealed his technique towards the end, i thought that his secrets might have been revealed but his "three steps" seamed more like thirty. I didn't know cookie a number!
His talk was definetley something special and entertaining

Thursday, April 4, 2013

Luis's Reviews Episode IV: Sophisticated by Sherwood Anderson

I can honestly say that this story is: sweet, cute, adorable  every mushy word in the dictionary. genuinely like this story. He likes her from the beginning and hopes to get the same reaction from her as well. I like the overall chemistry the two have front he beginning and how their able to sit on a hill at the end as good friends. I like how he feels intimidation against the boy shes at the fair with because he isn't as prestigious as her (being how she is the banker's daughter and all). I also feel impelled to say that I think he has a good taking with the girls family seeing he was on the porch with her  mother. I determinedly prefer Helen over Judy anyway  There is an honest relationship between her and George.
Quote: George's internal conversation and reassurance with himself, "I'm going to walk right into her house." 
Its his moment of growing up. He grows the nerve to talk to her.
Question: Are George and Helen together or just friends? 

Luis's Reviews Epidsode III: The Bear by William Faulkner

A story about a boy, maturity and Old Ben. However, i did notice that there was a third dynamic that played a catalyst in his maturity. From what i grasped from it, Sam feathers is his mentor and basically says that nothing can really kill the bear. Obviously that wasn't an option for Isaac being that the bear was on his inhabited property. This kind of paralleled the term "man of the house". I feel like he was faced with the cleshay therm "you are the man of the house" and in this case, his property is the house he's protecting. I feel a little sense of humor that his mentor, Sam, is in actual confusion when confronting this bear.
Quote: "He's smart"......"Too smart".... 
I have a question linked to this and that  is if this quote was the original source for the timeless line in movies, "Hes smart...Too Smart."
Question: Is this an excerpt, I'm really confused as to if he kill the bear for real or not? It seems continual.

Luis's Reviews Epidsode II: Still Figuring it out by Tavi Gevinson

Tavi is an interesting character, my first impression of her was that she was a shy timid girl that was attempting to say something important. However, she was able to, in a way, explain my impression of her by saying she doesn't know all the facts, shes just "still figuring it out. I really liked how she was able to connect to comic books and that people have this ideal that the female figure should be a sexual, Catwoman like being. She is finally someone who want's to give a realistic point of view on advice for teenage girls, and i feel she is the right person to do so because she is in one of the most confusing years in high school and shes battling social issues that take interest to her, a teenage girl.Shes Just figuring it out.

Wednesday, April 3, 2013

Luis Reviews Episode I: Winter Dreams by F. Scott Fitzgerald

When reading this book, you expect a common man like Dexter, as all love stories normally, to fall in love with the girl he cannot obtain; in this case, the girl is Judy. However, right from the beginning you feel like that stereotypical guy gets girl story is slowly fading away. He feels she is a little brat from the beginning however, he for some reason feels dead set on her. You then read that he becomes a successful laundry chain owner, it brings your mind back to "he's going to get the girl mentality" now that hes up to her social level. This time however, you see her personality even more as she cries beside him saying that she left a man because he was not really rich. The stupidity of it all is that he feels he has a shot with her. But guess again, she pretends to not even know him at the sight of a new "wealthier" man. To some degree, he gets his happily ever after by staying with Irene, while she ended up in a abusive relationship.
Quote: "Lots of women fade just like that"
I feel that quote best describes how he worked so hard for Judy and she turned out to be the wrong person for him. She faded just like that.
Question: Did the author bring her return right when Irene came in to bring a sense of competition?