Review on "The Ballad of Joe and Nina" Digital Story

 

"The Ballard of Joe and Nina" is a story told by the point of view of the father of Joe, Jim Roessler who is demonstrating the childhood relationship of his son with Nina. Joe once told his father that he had kissed a girl, and at the time Jim thought it was cute, but paid it no attention and soon forgot about it. But that girl was Nina. The slideshow pictures and videos shows that Joe and Nina continued to hang out together in the same school and participate in children activities. 

Even though the display of pictures continues on Joe and Nina as kids, Jim describes in his own voice how Joe and Nina have grown up as a couple who shared in interests and love at the age of 25. The background music is of a classical jazz love song that is played through the entire video. It most certainly gives the feeling of romance and happiness. We can quite understand why Jim and others would say they are soul mates who found each other at a young age. well.. let's hope they don't break up in the future. Amen to love.

Review on "Postcards for Kate" Digital Story

"Postcards for Kate" is a digital story made by Leigh, who tells the story from her own point of view. her story is about how she made 52 postcards for her daughter Kate who went away to Japan. Those 52 postcards were hand-made and created by the mother (Leigh) who started using different patterns and colors in those postcards. The postcards had mainly fabric materials inscribed with shapes and colors and figures and patterns. Leigh describes the development process of creating those 52 postcards and how intricate and precise they are. And you can see (in the video) that Leigh puts so much effort and care in it to make her daughter see and feel her handiwork. We can clearly see the love Leigh has for her daughter Kate. 


Kate, being the receiver of those cards in Japan, has kept all of those precious pretty postcards, and in her return, she brought them back with her from across Japan. As Leigh says: "52 postcards that have been on the other side of the world, that now, through my daughter, have finally come back home."

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Summary for Flatteners 4-7 of "The World Is Flat" by Thomas L. Friedman

Thomas Friendman explains the concept of resourcing spreading on a global level in 3 periods in which the world goes into the "Flattening" process.
In Flatteners 1,2, and 3 he discusses the how the Berlin wall comes down and Netscapes and wrokflow softwares.


In Flattener 4 "Uploading" that focuses on the forms of internet uploading software communities such as Wikipedia and blogging/podcasting.
Friedman considers the phenomenon "the most disruptive force of all."


In Flattener 5 "Outsourcing" Friedman says America and India had a relationship and started "dating" to create a huge flattener that demonstrates different businesses through the internet and cables and such to collaborate together.


In Flattener 6 "Offshoring" China's entrance in the WTO (World Trade Organization) allowed for greater competition in the playing field that "Runs with gazelles and eats with lions.".


In Flattener 7 "Supply-Chaining" Friedman compares the modern supply chain exchange to a river, and as consumers he admits that we love supply chains for the variety of goods they deliver to us.


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