My favorite novels

My favorite novels are all the Harry Potter series. Yes though its sounds a bit childish but I am a huge fan of Harry potter from the beginning. Harry Potter is a series of seven fantasy novels written by J.K.Rowling.

Harry Potter
Complete set of the seven books of the “Harry Potter” series.
Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
Author	J. K. Rowling
Country	United Kingdom
Language	English
Genre	Fantasy, Thriller, Young-adult fiction
Publisher	Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Arthur A. Levine Books (US) Raincoast Books (CAN)
Published	30 June 1997 – 21 July 2007
Media type	Print (hardcover and paperback) Audiobook

The Genre of these books are  : Fantasy novel

Reference: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_Potter

My favorite novels and films

Oh! I get so confused when anyone asks me about favorite movies or films; because I love to read and watch all kinds of books and movies in Hindi, English and Bangla. Actually it depends on my mood, time and situation .

Now I am going to write the name of three films I watched yesterday with the name of the specific “genre” of those films.

The Cutting Edge 3: Chasing the Dream

Its ok to fear but don't let your fear to stop you from what you want.

Directed by	Stuart Gillard
Produced by	Irene Litinsky Sara Berrisford Hudson Hickman Craig Roessler
Written by	Randall M. Badat Susan Estelle Jansen
Starring	Matt Lanter Francia Raisa Ben Hollingsworth Alycia Purrott Christy Carlson Romano
Release date(s)	March 16, 2008 April 1, 2008 (DVD)
Language	English

It’ s very wonderful film. I liked it so much. Below the picture I added a dialogue from this film.

The Genre of this movie is:   Romance.

 

A person is a person; no matter how small.

Horton Hears a Who! (film)

Directed by	Jimmy Hayward Steve Martino
Produced by	Bob Gordon Bruce Anderson
Written by	Screenplay Cinco Paul Ken Daurio Book Dr. Seuss
Narrated by	Charles Osgood
Starring	Jim Carrey Steve Carell Carol Burnett Seth Rogen Will Arnett Dan Fogler Isla Fisher Amy Poehler Jaime Pressly Selena Gomez
Music by	John Powell
Editing by	Tim Nordquist
Studio	Blue Sky Studios
Distributed by	Twentieth Century Fox 20th Century Fox Animation
Release date(s)	March 14, 2008
Running time	86 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English

It’ s very funny  film. I liked it so much. Below the picture I added a dialogue from this film.

The Genre of this movie is:   Comedy.

Transporter 3

Directed by	Olivier Megaton
Produced by	Luc Besson Steve Chasman
Written by	Luc Besson Robert Mark Kamen
Starring	Jason Statham François Berléand Robert Knepper Natalya Rudakova Eriq Ebouaney
Music by	Alexandre Azaria
Cinematography	Giovanni Fiore Coltellacci
Editing by	Camille Delamarre Carla Rizzo
Distributed by	United Kingdom: 20th Century Fox Non-United Kingdom: Lionsgate EuropaCorp
Release date(s)	November 26, 2008 (USA) December 5, 2008 (UK) February 5, 2009 (AUS)
Running time	104 min.
Country	France Russia Ukraine
Language	English

It’ s a action  film. I dont like action film but i enjoyed this one. 

The Genre of this movie is:   Action.

 

 

References :

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Cutting_Edge_3:_Chasing_the_Dream

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horton_Hears_a_Who!_(film)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transporter_3

Ideal Women & Men of Bangladesh

What are the stereotypes of ideal Bangladeshi Woman?

Answer:

The main stereotypes of Bangladeshi woman are given below:

• She will stay at home.
• She has to look after the children after her marriage.
• She is not able to make any major decision for her family.
• She will get less food them her brother.
• She is accepted happily when she was born.
• She is always thinking about getting married.
• She plays with dolls when she was a child.
• She is not able to talk about her physical problems to her parents because of her shyness.
• She does not bother about what is happening around the world.
• She likes ornaments like all other girls in the world.
• When she is old she becomes more religious.
• She has more intimacy with her grandchildren in older age.

What are the stereotypes of ideal Bangladeshi Man?

Answer:

The main stereotypes of Bangladeshi woman are given below:

v     He goes outside can stay outside for longtime.

v     He plays with ball and cars.

v     He does not think about cooking.

v     He does like to look after his children

v     He very angry.

v     He gets the power to take his own decisions.

v     He has a dominant mentality.

v     He thinks about his career.

v     He also gets more religious in his old age.

v     He does not bother about his clothing much.

There are so many points I can mention but I think all the stereotypes are same like other male and female living around the world. But I think the major points are almost written by me. The situations of girls are changing in Bangladesh. The urban Bangladeshi girls are wearing western dresses, gets education facilities etc. So I got a bit confused what the “Ideal” stereotypes should be!! But suddenly I remembered that the village women are still maintaining the original stereotypes of Bangladeshi woman.

Power = Knowledge Or Power = ???????????

According to “Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English” Power is the ability or right to control people or events. In this blog I have tried my best to express different kinds of power around me from my point of view.

• Power over others: “Power over others” means the power to rule others. Such as; Teacher has a power to rule his or her students; Parents have the power to punish their children when they are doing something wrong. I see these criteria around me always.

• Cooperative power: When powerful association or powerful people are cooperated together and create a more powerful identity is called “Cooperative power”. For example; The daily “Prothom Aloo” and “ABC Radio” are the attached together for news presentation under the “Transcom group” in Bdangladesh. Here these two types of  media(Electronic-Radio & Print-Newspaper)are working together to collect news around my country.

• The power to realize desires or needs: Every human being has the ability to realize his or her needs. They use their internal power when they want to get their needs. For example; I have a power inside me which make me able to understand what I want and why I want.

• Impersonal power relation: People usually have a dominant ideology inside them. Such as: Sometimes they start fighting when their ideology is misinformed. This type of power is called “Impersonal power relation”.

ULAB LOGO

Dennotative Meaning  of  the Logo :

There are three basic colors used in this logo.

They are:

¨      White

¨      Blue

¨      Yellow.

There are texts (University’s name in Bangla and English language) written in black color. It is “U” in shape and a white nib in the middle with yellow circle behind.There is blue star in the middle of  the names.

Connotative Meaning of the Logo:

There is rising sun behind the nib which indicates that education is the only way the start a new shining (successful) day. The nib symbolizes education. Blue background is the blue sky which represents the vat area of education The University is like a clear blue sky to search news thing and increase knowledge and make us prepared for the competitive world. It is “U” shape that indicates that this university is for “YOU” (the fresher) means us the knowledge seekers.The small blue star indicated as the milestone of our life.

Movie “WAG THE DOG”(Assignment Three)

Recently I saw a film named “Wag the Dog” which was released in 1997. I got the opportunity to see such a funny, interesting and an informative film by my “Reading media text” course. After watching the film the point of view of mine is changed about media and how media presents the reality in front of us. Here I saw the great power of media influencing our life and how we are depended on it. The dialogues were very funny most of the time but it gave us a clear view of video editing and news making with false or unrealistic information. It will help me to work with media after watching the movie. Though it showed a very dark part of media as a negative area of human life but still I am confused whether this types of things really happens in real life or not. Anyway I enjoyed the film though the ending was very normal and predictable. I was wondering that the producer would be killed and he was. The movie was interesting for me because I have never seen a movie based on this kind of topic. It was fun to see how a war-story was just been created by some celebrities. Reality is not always what we see or being told. So what is reality?……………………………….
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Reading Media Text Question Two

What do I want to get from this course?
Answer: There are many things I need to know and learn from this course.so many questions I have, such as :
 I want to know how media has a great impact in my country.
 What is my identity regarding Bangladeshi media?
 How general people get influenced by media?
 Am I able to handle the technical terms of media studies?
 Do I understand my subject or I am just memorizing?
 Can media influence me by advertisements?
 What is my psychology towards Media?
So many questions are flying in my head.I hope that I will find my answers soon in this course.

Reading Media Text Question One

What do I think about this course is about?
Answer: After attending some classes of this course I think this is a course about media texts which include both Print media and Electronic media. The name of this course is “Reading Media Text”. It is a very interesting topic for me as I am a “Media” student. It is a course about how media is related in our life and how the terms of media sometimes controlled by the society. Culture differs by one country to another country. So the point of view varies from person to person. This course will give us a general idea about critical analysis of culture and media. We will be introduced with different types of media instruments and new technologies. Day by day the world is getting on more depended on media. The mass media controlled the situation of life. For example: good news can make a crowd cheer. Sometimes false news can make a good situation worst.
So we will know these media terms and our perspectives towards the new media by this course. Overall this course is a course where we will know ourselves.

Assignment – 01

Definitions

Subjectivity: (Noun) Subjectivity means something existing in mind rather than in real life.{Bastob-dormi}

Objectivity:(Noun) Objectivity means something existing in real world with facts.{Bosto-nisto}

Status quo: (Noun) Status quo is a Latin word which indicates a situation as it is now.{Bortoman obostha}

Consensus: (Noun) An opinion among somebody about something that all members of a group agree with. {Procholito mott}

[Source: Oxford Dictionary]

My favourite blog site is  http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2009/10/google-flu-trends-expands-to-16.html