Responses to paper and Maradona movie

I am not sure what to really post at this point since not a whole lot has changed. So, far I have received numerous responses to my paper; not all of them have been helpful and this is mostly my fault because my paper to date is incomplete. All the same most of the inputs I have received have been helpful. I e-mailed some survey type questions to some people about my topic and I haven’t received any responses yet and that sucks. I was able to take read the examples of the annotated bibliographies and it makes more sense to me now. Anyway, something I wanted to know is…if you interview people or have them fill out a survey; how do you put that in your annotated bibliography. The other question I have is, are we supposed to have two annotated bibliographies? One from before the rhetorical analysis paper and another from the final research paper or were we supposed to compile all of our annotated bibliographies? The reason I ask is because my rhetorical analysis paper although it is about soccer, is slightly different from my research paper.
I was able to rent a movie that had been recommended to me by a Mexican friend. The movie was called “Maradona: The Hand of God” Some years back I had read the book. I think watching this movie was very helpful insight into the life of Maradona. Reading is often I find difficult because that would require making the time and being in one place to read through everything. So, the watching the movie was another alternative I found helpful. The movie was directed by Marco and Maradona was played by actor Marco Leonardi, whom I think did a very good job of portraying Maradona’s personality. They also had a striking semblance. The movie starts out with Maradona as a child running to look for his ball which he had just kicked over the fence on a rainy night and in the process fell into a hole in the ground with water. Maradona was struggling for his life and then the movies flashes forward to his life. I think it was symbolic to show how Maradona started chasing after a ball and then fell into the pit of drug addiction and was fighting for his life. If my paper interests you and you care for soccer you should definitely check out the movie. It is in Spanish but has English subtitles.

Research paper reflections

Ah! Alas I sit here in front of the screen typing away at 3:08am in the morning. A time when all good citizens should be in bed aye? Lol. It feels like judgment day (end of the semester) is creeping up on me. At this point I’m feeling swamped and yet inspired. I have been reading and responding to the research paper assignments that we have been given. I would like to say that so far, this has been a very helpful exercise. While it’s a volume of reading to do, it’s helped to provide useful feedbacks on what I need to correct in my paper. In addition to that I have entered some people’s worlds as writers; and this has helped me to reflect upon my own writing as well. From the structure, tone and contents I see others exhibiting it has caused me to rethink about how to bring across my points. It is also a privilege to perhaps be instrumental in influencing other people’s papers as well. As far as writing my paper goes, it is interesting to find out that some of my readers do seem to have a sincere interest in my paper that goes beyond the mandatory requirements. This is a good thing. For all who may be reading this I just want to say thanks to those who produced constructive criticism of my paper. It has truly been helpful.
When I met with Jen she said that if my audience didn’t care for soccer they wouldn’t really be interested in the person I am writing about (Diego Maradona). I have had time to reflect and while there may be some truth to what she said. I have come to disagree, the reason I say this is because of an experience I had. I really don’t care for baseball as I really find it mind boggling, lol; however during the Barry Bonds incident…the name kept coming up and I kind of got interested (although not in the sport itself). I wanted to know what all the Bond fuss was all about. So, one day I stumble across a sports illustrated with an article on Bonds and I read it. Well, Jen if you’re reading this, this is why I disagree with you in part. Anyway, I don’t know if when we make corrections to our paper, if people are required to give updated comments. Well, later my honorable peers my bed is calling.