Sunday, February 22, 2009

The 81st Oscar in 2009

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Hollywood's biggest formal party is the Academy Awards. The Academy Awards is the biggest party for celebrities. Some go home with an Oscar and some go home with the experience at the Oscars. Actors, Producers, Editors, Directors, and sound mixers are all sitting together to watch an Annual show. This formal event includes some of the world's most expensive dresses and suits. The actresses have more elegant dresses because the actors and directors just have black suit, tie, and white shirt and black pants. Every year the actress’s dresses are all original. These dresses are rated by TV audiences. Art is a universal language that brings the world closer together. Art means visual art, music, film making, drawing, photography, or painting goes into the big category of art. Art is what brings the world closer together as a universal language.

The 2009 Academy Awards began with an original song. I felt the song was creative because it includes this year's great movies. The movies are divided into several categories. These categories include Sound editing, Best Actor, Best supporting actor, Best Actress, Best Supporting actress, Best Animated film, Best Animated short, Best Short film, Best sound editing, Best film editing, best supporting role, costume design, and Art direction.

Some this year's great movies include Slum dog Millionaire, The Dark Knight, Curious Case of Benjamin Button, Wall-E, Kung Fu Panda, Bolt, and Iron Man. The movies nominated are the movies that have been recognized by the Academy, but it not all the recognized and nominated are awarded because there are exceptional movies in the world. It was said Art was the universal language in the world. The great movies with best sound editing and best supporting actor is The Dark Knight. The Dark Knight had that action in the film. Heath Ledger as the Joker just made this film even better. I may forget the Dark Knight, but I will never forget Heath Ledger as the Joker. The Dark Knight is an example of an exceptional film. There are those films that I do not know why they won. One of those movies is Wall-E. Wall-E was boring and not enough action like Kung Fu Panda or Bolt. Wall-E did show it was an original screenplay and original music.

Slum dog millionaire won 8 Oscars. Slum dog millionaire was about a boy who's from the slums of Mumbai and completes in the competition of who wants to be a millionaire. Then there was the Curious Case of Benjamin Button. It's about a boy who was born an Old man and ages backwards.

The 81st Oscar began well with an original Oscar song, but as it progressed the performance got boring. It was a great show, but it wasn't like last year with songs and scenes from the movie Enchanted. Last years performances were what made the Oscar great. This year the Oscars were just missing decent performances to keep the audience interested.

The Annual West Windsor Library Book Sale.

As I entered the West Windsor Library for the Book sale volunteer, I was surrounded by books. There were all kinds of Books from Foreign Language to Self Help.I could estimate that there were at least 5000 books at the very site.

The 2009 Book Sale at West Windsor is the first year for me to volunteer. I was confused with my job, but I soon as I entered, I was told to read several papers and sign in. My job was carrying the boxes of unorganized books to each category and sort them in to boxes by size. It seems easy , but there were thousands of books in a contained area. If the original organized box is not organized, then I have to organize it. All the spine titles have to face the same direction and the books must be laid down , not standing vertically.

The perks of being the volunteer is buying the books, after your assigned job is finished. The Friends of the West Windsor Library has a kitchen full of snacks and drinks for the volunteers.

I enjoy volunteering at the Book Sale because on Saturday, February 21 I was sorting the Foreign Language books and I learned how to tell apart Hindi , Bangladesh , and Tamil characters apart. I also learned how the Russian characters look, so volunteering is not dull or boring because it is an opportunity to experience an adventure.

Just by volunteering, I learned how to shelf library books, DVD, videos, tapes, and non fiction. I am no stranger to volunteering because I have 65 volunteer hours as of Sunday, February 22, 2009. I have also learned how to teach or take care of Small children. I have also learned CPR through volunteering. Volunteering is fun, exciting, and giving back to the community.

Being a volunteer also have perks that people who do not volunteer have.

Remember to check out the Book Sale on March 3rd, 4th, 5th , 6th, 7th, and 8th.