TOW #28 Good Ol' Freda

This documentary was about the secretary of The Beatles. Her name was Freda Kelly and she is still alive. This documentary tracks her life from the beginning of The Beatles to the current day. The main speaker in this documentary is Ms. Kelly. She speaks through the whole documentary explaining every what she was doing in respect to what The Beatles were doing. An example would be when The Beatles went to India, she said that she was there with them. The audience that the documentary is appealing to is The Beatles fan base. It is trying to educate them on someone they might have never known who was vitally important during Beatle-mania.

The documentary was trying to teach its audience about Freda Kelly. A person who has mostly been at the sidelines of The Beatles history, she was very important. The documentary uses pictures and interviews to achieve this idea. There are many pictures in which Freda Kelly is next to The Beatles or she is working with her group of girls on the many fan letters that The Beatles received during their years as a band. In the interviews it has important reporters and workers of Freda Kelly. In the interviews they talk about how Kelly liked to stay to the sidelines and help the band from afar.

Good Ol' Freda also explains how The Beatles rose and fell. In explaining the history and importance of Freda Kelly the documentary also explains the history of The Beatles. The documentary does this by comparing the history of Freda kelly to that of The Beatles. The documentary tells the two stories but has a balance between the two that is unnoticeable.

The final purpose that this movie was made was for Freda Kelly's grandson. At the end of the documentary Freda Kelly explains to the audience that she did not really talk about it a lot with her children when they were growing up and learning about The Beatles. Now Freda Kelly has changed her mind after her son died. Since she feels regret for not going into detail about her life with her son she wants her grandson to have what her son could not. The documentary captures this with the last few scenes as it shows Freda kelly with her grandson as they walk into the sunset,

TOW #27 TOW Reflction

This year has been one of growth and new experiences. I believe that from my original TOWs I have changed as a writer for the better.

I feel as though that I have steadily progressed as a writer. I have been able to write with more detail. I am able to get to the point and back up that point with few words. I have been able to keep my TOWs focused and organized. In the first few TOWs that I wrote I would begin very broad and then try to get specific. This however was not always the case as many times I ended up going off course. IN my later TOWs I started specific and moved to broader areas.

I think I have mastered putting the right amount of detail into my TOW. I feel as though I have not overflowed the TOW with quotes and I have also not made it full of just my thoughts in the TOW. I have made the TOWS a mixture of my analysis and quotes or aspects from the certain pieces that I analyzed.

I believe that I still need to improve on my introduction and conclusion. I began with weak introduction and conclusion paragraphs, and have slowly improved them. I still think, however, that they could be a lot better than they are now. They could be a little more broader and the conclusion paragraph could leave the reader with a better thought at the end of the TOW.

I think that my analysis essay greatly improved from this exercise. If it had not been for these TOWs I think that I would have weaker analysis essays.  These exercises allowed me time to think and work on the aspects of the analysis essay that I thought needed to be worked on.

TOW #26 IRB Post Banker to the Poor By: Muhammad Yunus

My plan for this TOW would be to establish a strong introduction and conclusion. I feel as though that my introductions need work. More specifically the introduction needs to be more general. I would also like my conclusions to be a little bit more specific. I would like the conclusions to have something that would allow the reader to have something to go away with.

Bangladesh has many people stuck in the spiral of poverty, and one man tries to find the way out for them. Muhammad Yunus, an economics teacher and Noble Peace Prize Laureate, wrote his stories in the biography Banker to the Poor. The first seven chapters follow his growth from a little boy in Chittagong to a student at Boulder, Colorado. It also shows how he was an activist for the Bangladesh independence movement, and how he has a desire to see his people out of poverty. The author uses real life examples to show how he has helped the people of Bangladesh.

After the independence of Bangladesh is declared and some of the dust has settled, Yunus moves in to lend some assistance. He goes to a college and applies to be the economics teacher. Through this position he is able to help many of the students get a better education so that they may better the country. Another way that Yunus proves to the reader that he is helping the community is by introducing the idea of microeconomics. The idea first begins with a stool maker he meets when doing a census with some of his students. He asks them how much the stool makers make as profit. When he finds out that they only make about two cents per stool and sell hundreds. They can only afford the raw materials for the next stools and not enough for food. Set on facing this problem head on Yunus gives money directly to the stool makers and not to the person with the raw materials. This introduction of money allowed the stool makers to become economically stable and have better lives for themselves. 

This break through idea has not been tested before and in the first seven chapters of the book shock the reader, and allow signs of hope for the people of Bangladesh. This was intended for the mass amount of people. Since many people do not know about the spiral of poverty in most parts of the world Muhammad Yunus introduces this to many people. He does it slowly but also being very detailed in his explanation of what is happening. I believe that this was a very goo way to start a biography on the many trials and tribulations that Muhammad Yunus had to take until he was recognized in his Nobel Peace Prize.