Friday, April 17, 2009

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.

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