• Anime, a Japanese cartoon art form, has become so popular in America that it has grown to a $4.3 billion industry in America.
  • What are the thematic differences in Japanese anime when analyzing the subtitled versus the dubbed versions of the anime for an American audience?
  • Dragon Ball Z is arguably the most well known and influential anime show to ever air in the United States.
  • Spirited Away is considered to be one of the greatest animated movies ever made, Japanese or otherwise.
  • Cowboy Bebop, along with Dragon Ball Z, is credited with bringing anime into mainstream American culture.

Tuesday, August 29, 2017

Sunday, April 16, 2017

Trigger Warning

The moment I finished answering my final oral defense question, my mind just went numb. I was done. Full-on Senioritis kicked in immediately. I did not want to do anything. My IQ dropped by a 100 points. My sanity suddenly returned to me. Stress became a foreign concept to me—waiting to be rediscovered...

Sunday, April 9, 2017

So Close, Yet So Far...

Less than a week left!!!! Oh, I can’t wait for when I’m eating the delicious pizza (or whatever I paid  23 buck for) at Oregano’s. Man, we are soooooo close to being done. Anyways, the biggest hurdle that is left is that dreaded 15-20 minute presentation. I have given two practice presentations in front of Mrs. Haag and other teachers (who I can’t thank enough for spending their precious free...

Sunday, April 2, 2017

Practice, Presentation, Perfect...

I’m not gonna hide it. The presentation that I had when I met Mrs. Haag this week was terrible. No animations, nothing. Just a dump of haphazardly thrown together pictures. No transitions between slides. A deplorable color scheme. After editing for a week and thanks to the incredibly helpful comments that Daphne, Rema, Kimy, and Mrs. Haag provided, I think my slideshow is in much better shape. To...

Sunday, March 26, 2017

Signed, Sealed, Delivered

Remember those TED talks we used to watch in classes, and still sometimes do. Those were some of the most interesting and effective speeches and presentations that I have seen. I decided to watch some TED talks and try to make my presentation as interesting as theirs. Ken Robinson's TED talk...