Mafia

The list:

Mafia strategy, Police strategy, Citizen strategy.

Alternate roles.

The evolution of the game, rules, players, objective, how to win.

Mafia-Quiet, loud, obvious, lying/deception, turn on each other.

Police-Speak up, asses mafia, daring.

Citizen-Asses other players, help police.

Organizing, place you play it.

Getting people to play.

Explaining the rules.

How to host a well played mafia game, funny things hosts accidentally do.

Logic in bluffing.

Why play mafia.

Different countries playing.

Real time mafia.

Honesty within the game.

Extremes.

Concise sentences

What makes a sentence concise? You know it sounds good, concise sentences, to the point. Be wary though, for it is acceptable to be non-concise, just take a look at Ernest Hemingway.

I would like to be more concise when I want to be concise, so I studied that. I observed that sentences can be reconstructed to take out unnecessary words. Sentences that are in passive voice can be rearranged to destroy the was or is or have, giving power to a statement, making it concrete.

There are words intended to intensify writing but do the opposite, like very, really, and extremely.

There is also a giant list of common phrases that we place into our writing that can be eliminated that you should take a look at.

The Dark Knight

It may be a cliche to think that The Dark Knight is one of the best movies ever, but the movie itself is anything but a cliche.

I would give an Oscar to The Dark Knight if personification permitted. It plays with themes of being alone because of one's duty. Batman, Harvey Dent, and Commissioner Gordon are among people but are alone. Batman chooses to be alone, Harvey is forced to be alone, and Gordon is in the balance.

At the end of the movie Gordon gives a line about heroes being needed and heroes being deserved. The epic role of a hero and the cost one pays is portrayed in multiple characters. Sometimes a hero is needed and not deserved, while other times a hero is deserved and not needed. What a protagonist gains from their role is a question well observed throughout this film.

The Joker is the classic villain, except he is overplayed by his lack of motive, which works when contrasted with the shallow motives of the other villains. I'm still not sure whether Heath Ledger played the Joker or not.

One aspect that raises this film above others is that it pulls away from cliches. When faced with the choice of whom to save, Batman chooses the opposite of what everyone expects, creating a mini climax in the story; epic.

Who really is the Dark Knight?

Safe from subjects?

To be, or not to be, the subject that is. The subject is the part of a sentence that "verbs." I got confused on whether a verb can be placed before the subject or not, or whether that makes it the object of the subject. I have learned interesting things.
There can be a short simple subject or a long one. "I" could be the subject, or "what we learned in class today" could be the subject.
You will be pleased to hear this, there are only a handful of different sentences where we can place the verb before the simple subject, and they are almost exclusively in passive voice! So my solution, and I recommend it to everyone, is to not worry about it, but rather use more than one verb in a sentence, that will spice things up; or use an endless amount of commas. Or make your knowledge on subjects endless by clicking on me.

Ethno-concerns

I am concerned I might offend the elderly. Yes they are old, and funny, but that doesn't mean we must make fun of their oldness. I have positives and negatives in my essay; really I am concerned that I will not highlight the negatives enough, because of my fear that they would be offended. It is an internal struggle.

Diagramming sentences

Ahhh! Diagramming a sentence can give you a headache, but it's sure worth a try. Diagramming helps separate ideas in a sentence, subject, object, verb. Diagramming links verb and adverb, adjective and noun. They separate compound sentence parts and complex sentences. I'm not a master of it, but I saw someone do it once. It helps me understand how I can rearrange a sentence to get a different, desired effect. Try it.

Clause

I've always, since I heard about them, wanted to know more about clauses. Most of my knowledge about them was understanding that they were parts of a sentence. Independent clauses can stand on their own. Dependent clauses, however, need help. An independent clause can stand on it own because it carries a noun and a verb, and is not tied down by a subordinating conjunction. If you don't know what that means [then] you should should click here, no, here.

Ethnographic Essay

Elderly People
-Life lessons that elderly people have learned, the well of wisdom and experience that they have. Things they wish they did or were glad that they did. Things that are important to them, and how those things reach others.
-Nonsensical drama within their social networks. Ways they compete in games like bingo. How they feel about where they are. Things they think are funny.