Extra credit

I moved to the United States when I was in fifth grade. When we just moved here, I actually dreamed about being a president of the United States. I thought it would be cool to see a minority becoming the president of the world's strongest nation. I watched a movie where there was a black president of the United States. I thought that can happen only in the movie, but I am now seeing a black president of the United States.

Many Koreans expressed their surprises through online comments, but to my surprise most of them accepted the fact he is the president of the United States and congraturated him. Many Koreans claimed that this is a historical election where the United States stepped up to the next level. They praised the fact that the United States fully overcame racial segregation. Some even stated that the United States' bold changes are what makes better than their own country, Korea.

I personally do not care much about the government, and AP government was my least favorite subject in high school. However this election was interesting to me and to many of my Korean friends just for the fact that there was a black candidate running for the president. Many of us doubted that he will survive to the end, but I was wrong. I respect this nation for such quick changes through short period times with limited history.

Ruby Tuesday Review

I read a review of the restaurant "Ruby Tuesday". The reviewer gave the restaurant four star out of maximum five and for that it was good, but not perfect.

He provided many evidences to support his claim. He rated and described each dish that came out, starting from drink, salad to the main dish. The reviewer described each item very descriptively and told what was significant and what was lacking in earning full score. He provided a description of a menu to show an example of Ruby Tuesday's menu. The review has a picture of the salad bar with text "Ruby Tuesday's touts their salad bar only... not so good."

He holds the attention by reviewing each food and describing how tasty each food is or sometimes what's wrong. The reviewer surely holds attention of hungry readers. There is no special language used in the review and it is written from the author's personal experience.

I read a review of Eminem and his album "The Eminem Show." The review claims that Eminem is well-known talented rapper that does not need introduction and this album proves it once again. The author provides evidence from reviewing songs from the album and tells what each songs about and how Eminem came about to write each songs. He provides contextual evidence by rephrasing lyrics from the songs and telling how these lyrics are related to his life and how creative it was for him to express all that into rap songs. For example in one song "White America", author tells how the lyric "If I was black I would have sold half/ I dont have to go to high school to have to know that" offends older generation but attracts many youths.
The author holds the attention by briefly listing all the songs in the album and describing main songs very nicely. He talks about the controversial issues about sex and aids and tell how it is related to Eminem's songs. There is a small picture of the album's cover, but that is only nontextual element the author employs. The author puts standard highly for Eminem for his popularity and fame and somewhat denounces this album a little compared to his preview ones, but still claims it is worth listening. He does not use special language and wrote review straightforwardly.