7th Period Web Design Reactions to "The Expert" 1/10/20

“The Expert” is about a business meeting talking about if the expert can draw something for them. And he says of course but their demands are outrageous and impossible. Asking if he can draw seven red lines with two green and two transparent lines. But they all have to be perpendicular to each other but that is also impossible. While at the end the lady’s last request is the only thing that the expert can do without breaking several scientific laws. But what I got from the video is that the clients request were impossible but they didn’t know that and only the expert knew what he was talking about. And that the clients were just ignorant including the experts higher-ups as well. And at the end the expert gave up on trying to explain why they were wrong but just agreed to all of their demands just because he was the expert.

I thought that this video was very funny because of how ridiculous these people were. The only normal guy in the room knew that these people where crazy which made it even funnier. To make matters worse, they asked the guy to draw seven perpendicular lines some with a green ink pen that produces red ink and some that produce transparent ink. When the guy looks at them like they are crazy, they stare at him seriously which makes the whole video even more hilarious. He tries to tell them that it is impossible to do that, but they are still determined about what they believe. I would think by now that the guy thinks that these people have the intelligence of a first grader.

This video was called “The Expert,” and I feel like the name was chosen very well in consideration of how the people as viewers would see this video. Whenever I watched this comedy sketch, I was getting more agitated by the minute. The main reason for this was because of the fact that the other people in the meeting were telling the expert what to do and then finishing off the sentence with “You are an expert.” This agitated me quite a bit because if he was an expert, his opinion on the matter should matter more than what the non-experts had to say. Another thing that was agitating was the fact that they were asking the expert to do all of these impossible tasks that made no sense. The tasks that the expert was receiving might as well have been from a child that had no idea of what was being talked about. At the end you see the expert just give in and say he will do anything that they ask. While this is a comedy sketch, it really made you agitated at the end, mainly for the sake of the expert.

When saying he’s an expert they still question him which doesn’t make since because he’s an expert? Talking about the colors of the ink and if he could make one color another color shows the sarcasm and idiocy. It was funny but at the same time it triggered me because they just kept questioning him even though he was an “expert”. The sarcasm came from every little thing and just brought up more & more questioning. Some people would say I don’t see the sarcasm at all just because they got angered by how they kept asking impossible solutions or tasks.

2019 7th period reaction to Anthony Griffith

In life as you grow old life starts to change, and as life starts to change it is known that you have to grow with it and grow through the obstacles that come up along the way. But, sometimes it feels like the obstacles can be too big to just go past and act like everything is ok and like nothing happened. What that man had to go through I hope no one has to go through. Being forced to put on a happy face just so he can go out and make people laugh and not be able to tell everyone what he is going through. This man had to go on stage while going through the grief of losing his 2 year old daughter. This story was so heartbreaking because when you watch the first video it seems the guys is living his best life, it looked like nothing could stand in his way. But in reality this man was really being forced to hide behind sadness and grief. My question is did the people who put him on stage care to know what he was going through or were they to worried about other things.

It is very hard to change your opinions of someone else, and normally, it’s not for the better. That is why Anthony didn’t feel like he had the ability or the right to open up about his struggles. He knew the risk of him not getting enough money or losing audience, and he didn’t feel like it was a risk he could afford to take. He had to sacrifice his pain and mourning for the public, which is very admirable, especially since that sacrifice didn’t pay off in the end. Overall, losses hurt. They can tear apart families, friends, and even relationships with yourself. I think that the video really helps show what can happen if those relationships aren’t properly taken care of. After so long, you get tired of holding up the mask and you drop it. That is what happened here. It’s a very unfortunate thing to happen, but, at the end of the day, it was out of everyone’s control. Realizing that is the hardest part of suffering through losses.

When working for something big you have to push through it strong. When Griffith was in the first tonight show things were going great. When he was talking you could see that things were just fine but he wanted to be better in what he did. When he got the call back for the 2^nd night show you see that he had the little things in has way. With what was in his way with his daughter you can see that he just wanted to keep pushing and make things better. With going onto the second show you could tell by what he was saying that he wanted to keep pushing. With getting the 3^rd call back for the night show. Griffith was in a rough place his daughter had just passed away. You can see that he was trying to man up throughout all the things that came up.  I really feel that these videos were showing to push through the rough times in life.

In the first video, there is a comedian named Anthony Griffith. He is on a TV show and he is a very funny man and he is making everyone laugh. He seems to be very happy. The humor was racist, but he was being racist against his own kind so it wasn’t too bad. That was what funny meant back then. I do not believe that would ever be allowed today and that would be looked down upon. He got a lot of applause breaks. He did very well. In the second video, Anthony was on a different TV show. The name of it was “The best of times, the worst of times.” This was a very appropriate title for his talk. This was not a comedy talk, like the first video. He talks about the time he spent on a very popular comedy TV show. He told his story of his daughter who had cancer. He had to go through pain through the day and then hide his pain at night when he was working on his comedy sets. He described it as “bucking up,” which means becoming tougher. He had to do this because people do not want to see his pain because that is not funny. His daughter had beat cancer once already, but it came back. She had been diagnosed with cancer again by the second time he was on the show.  She had died by the time he was on the third show. This is very sad because he had to hide his feelings and he had to tell lies and act happy. He really wanted to talk about his life. This is not fair because he had to do what the people wanted and ignore what he wanted. This story teaches that some things aren’t always as they seem. You never know what someone is going through.

I was surprised by the racism in the first video, but I think it shows how much society has changed and evolved even in two or three decades. I thought that he was very funny and he seemed like an upbeat, happy man. I liked his skit and I found his jokes interesting. I thought the second video was very sad and depressing. To know what he went through and was going through during the filming of the first video, it is impressive that he was even able to get on stage at all. I feel really sorry for Anthony and wish that he wouldn’t have lost his daughter at such a young age. I think it is a very different tone from the first video as the first video was man to entertain and bring happiness and the second video was more of Anthony sharing his story and telling about his hardships. I have heard before that sometimes the funniest people are hiding the most pain and I think this videos show how true that statement can be. Hiding the pain over the loss of his daughter it is amazing how he brought humor and joy to so many people. I was also surprised by his choice to continue his comedic career while his daughter was fighting cancer, but I understand that he needed the money to support his family. I think most people would get smaller easier jobs and lose focus on everything but their loved one. I also think his career helped him keep a positive attitude. At one point in the video he mentioned that life is good, they had beat cancer before and he was getting his first appearance on the tonight show. This shows that he had high hopes and was not letting his daughter’s cancer drag him down. I think that it was very hard for him to go onstage and share his story, but I think it shows how hard his situation was and it gives insight to what the lives of people with a sick family member go through and feel.

When you get older there are more and more obstacles you have to overcome and life’s not always easy. When you get older you have to realize things change and there won’t be a happy ending to everything because there are a lot of awful things that happened to people but it only makes the person stronger and prepared if there is a next time. I think Cancer is the scariest thing to be diagnosed with because you know if the cancer is serious you don’t have much time to live your life. If my daughter had cancer I would have been exactly like the man in the video and to perform as a comedian in front of hundreds of people would be impossible for me. I feel awful for the man because he had so much stuff going on in his life and he had to act like nothing was wrong with him when he was on stage. He had to act happy and like nothing was phasing him. It’s very sad seeing someone be in so much pain over something they can’t possibly do anything about and to lose someone that you’re looking forward to your whole life with is heartbreaking.

7th Period reaction to "The Expert"

I think the short film we just watched was unnecessarily dumb, I understand the small point behind it but I believe I lost a brain cell. The “expert”, who we’re going to call Tom, was thought to have known every answer to the demands the “customers” were requesting. Although, Tom is an expert, he doesn’t know every solution to their questions. The blonde and red headed girls, who we’re going to call Amber and Sally believed Tom could draw RED lines with BLUE ink, is that even rational? That’s impossible, but as he tried to explain it, Amber and Sally disagreed. The man in the grey tie who was seated next to Tom, who we’re going to name. Frank, would cut off Tom every time he tried to explain that their requests were irrational and he tried convincing Tom the customers were always right. Moral of the story, customers aren’t ALWAYS correct, experts don’t know EVERYTHING, and bosses can be REAL mean sometimes. I think that the women should have taken their time out and tried to understand what Tom was trying to explain and the boss should have seen the point where what they were asking was completely ridiculous and could not have worked out in any way. Who thinks you can actually draw RED lines with BLUE and GREEN ink?! Every demand that Sally and Amber was making was impossible, they asked to draw a line shaped like a kitten, but Tom told them it wouldn’t be a line then, it would be a kitten. They didn’t quite understand that. At the end Tom was asked to blow up a balloon .. but make it shaped like a kitten which is also impossible, but Tom went along with it and said he could because he was tired of dealing with the dumbness the females possessed.

If I were in his position I wouldn’t have been able to keep myself together the way Tom did, he was patient and even though the women were asking VERY dumb questions that he wasn’t able to do he stayed calm. I probably would have went off on them or just started laughing, or crying. Either way, I would have not been able to be as respectful as Tom was. Especially if my boss was making me shut up and listen to more requests that were not able to be done.

After watching the video, I realized that its purpose was to show us that experts don’t know everything, customers aren’t always right, and that bosses only do things that are easier for them, and them only.

The video started out with a meeting that included a total of five people: an expert, the expert’s assistant, two business women, and a main boss. The two business women ask the expert to create seven red lines, some that are green, and some that are transparent. At first they want the lines to be perpendicular. This frustrates the expert because he knows this is impossible. So the expert tries to show and help his peers visualize that this idea is impossible. After this sparks an idea in one of the business woman to have the lines in a shape of a cat. NO! A kitten! In the end however hard the expert tries, he still fails to make his peers realize that this is an impossible task. But the boss does not care if it is impossible or impossible, he only cares about the money deal.

 The persistence of the two women represents them as customers that are “always right”, while the boss represents an ideal boss that only do things that are easier for them, not their workers. But towards the very end the expert says, “I know how to do it. I know everything. Because I am an expert.” But it is obvious that he doesn’t know everything, because he doesn’t know how to convince “stupid”.

I think the creator of the video had very creative yet obvious ideas. The creator knows that a red line is used with red ink and cannot make a red line out of green or transparent ink. The creator did not use an example as difficult as using hard math.C.E.

            The people the “expert” was talking to were all very ignorant. They had no basic knowledge of geometry and, quite frankly, anything at all. They didn’t even know why the guy couldn’t make a red line with green ink. It’s because its humanly impossible. You clearly need red ink to make a red line. They thought that since this guy was an “expert” he was able to do anything. The “expert” was trying to teach them how the things they were suggesting were impossible but they just kept on ignoring him. They were even mocking him and making fun of him by saying, “This is kindergarten stuff,” and so on. They didn’t care about what the “expert” had to do or how he had to do it. They just wanted the job done so they could look good and get out of there. At the end of the skit, the read-headed lady came back in the room and asked if the balloon could look like a kitten. This is also clearly and physically impossible but the “expert” had already given up and said, “Sure I can. I can do anything.” This obviously isn’t true but he had given up and just said something that would make the lady happy. They thought that since he was an “expert” that that meant that he could do anything. That is again not right. I thought it was kind of funny just because the fact that they tried to act all professional the whole time but probably couldn’t even count to 100 by themselves.

I think that conversation must have been very hard on the “expert”. He couldn’t find any solutions because everything that was suggested was impossible. They wouldn’t even compromise on things that actually weren’t impossible. The video was very funny, but the poor “expert” was in such a pickle. I actually felt really bad for him because I would hate to be in that situation myself. I also loved the sarcasm at the end, and how people can be not the brightest at times. Watching the video made me so confused, a small headache has now started to grow, and my head still kind of hurts. Don’t just call people an expert. Ask if they are able to do the task. If not, due to impossibility, that should not be a problem. Instead focus on something you both and agree on and are capable to do. Better solutions will be made and more problems will be solved. I’m honestly surprised people with that low of intelligence and with the mindset of a two-year old were able to even work in a company like that. They should have known how impossible their suggestions were. They also should have listened and actually compromise instead of continuously blame the “expert” and try to make him draw the lines anyways. People really are not that smart if they think a line and a cat are the same thing. Maybe down the road in this project, they will realize they are wrong and some things are impossible even for those people call experts.

The video was very unique in the since that it got rid of common logic to get across a point to the audience. It was very relatable in several aspects and was very entertaining. The common misconception that experts know everything in their field was one of the main points displayed in the video. Just because someone is considered an “expert,” that does not mean they can break the laws of physics or suddenly do the impossible. This can be very hard to explain to people who may are less knowledgeable, as the video showed. Something else often experienced in a workplace is the expression “the customer is always right.” The simple fact is that that is sometimes just not true. Customers demanding the impossible is simply not okay and can often cast a bad lighting on the company, rather than the customer. The only problem with this is the company is being hurt more than the customer, but is the company willing to sacrifice potential profits for a potentially better reputation? That is the issue many businesses face and was very well addresses in the video. The video was overall enjoyable and well executed.

The sketch was very entertaining and showed a different perspective on experts. As most people think, the expert knows everything. However, this short video showed what it’s really like to be an expert. The expert was faced with a physically impossible challenge, making a red line with blue ink, and told the board of people he could not do it. The board thought this didn’t make sense, since he was an expert and should be able to do anything they request. The expert tries to explain his situation and how trying this challenge was not going to work, but then realized that it was not worth it because they wouldn’t believe him. He is then challenged with drawing seven line, all perpendicular to each other, which again is impossible. The expert solves this conflict by saying that he would draw two red perpendicular lines with red ink, and the other lines with green and transparent ink. The board is happy with this solution and proceed to ask him to blow up a red balloon. He is a math expert, so why they would ask him to do this is confusing to him. They insist he blow up the balloon because it is red. He said he would, and the board is happy and leave.

As this video shows, the expert can’t always do everything. They are the expert, and they would know if it is able to be done or not. Even the experts need help from time to time.

Overall, I enjoyed the sketch. As said before, it was entertaining. The sarcastic aspect of the video was probably my favorite. They took what should be a serious board meeting and turned it into what are supposed to be smart people asking for an obviously impossible task. Even though the video was short, I felt like each character had their own personality.

I thought that the sketch was an accurate representation of businesses and it is an exaggeration. I disagree with the stance that the customer is always correct because some tasks cannot be done. In the sketch the customer asks for red lines but wants them to be drawn in green ink. This is similar to a customer requesting a cheeseburger at a pizza restaurant or a shirt at a shoe store. It cannot be done. They assumed because the man was an expert he could fix every problem and make it work, even though it is impossible. They continued to persist and believe that they were right even when the expert tried to politely correct them. I think the bosses not seeing things from the experts view is also correct. Most times the bosses of businesses or companies don’t look at the facts or check and see what an expert is capable of, instead forcing him to attempt the impossible.

            In business the general rule of thumb is the customer is always correct. This is not a good way to work because as I have mentioned sometimes the customer is wrong. Sometimes the customer is positive that they are correct, even when someone with more experience in the field tries to show them. I think that the representation of management is also correct, because most times you are thrown into a situation where you have no clue what you are doing or where you are going and they expect you to do it correctly. Everyone including the customer, the expert, and the bosses have different views on the topics.

            I enjoyed watching the video and thought it was entertaining. I found it funny how they kept pushing him to use green and transparent ink to draw a red line. I like how the bosses kept telling him that he could do it and saying, “Well you’re the expert.” I liked how even when he showed the customers what they were asking for could not be done instead of stopping they asked for more ridiculous request, like a kitten or a bird.

Anthony Griffith 7th Period Reaction

The video mainly showed me how different people can be behind closed doors and how it’s very hard to know what they are truly going through. Anyone and everyone can have something that hurts them, but they are just unwilling to bring it up to anyone so many reasons. It also shows that the longer they keep this private and to themselves the worse it can get, as he even says he began blaming people for his daughter having cancer. They probably tell themselves that everything’s okay and they can just man up and get through it, but a lot of times it takes more than one person to tackle an issue of any kind. As far as we know, someone could sit in their room every night and cry themselves to sleep for any reason possible that’s why it’s our responsibility to talk to people and make them feel happy any chance you get so maybe they will be courageous enough to tell someone about what goes on inside their head, and find help.

This video is so true in so many ways. Our world today wants everyone to see the happy side of everything and to be happy all of the time, but for some people, that’s not always the case. This guy had everything going good for him. His daughter was in remission and way just steps away from being cancer free. Then he gets an offer to be on the tonight show. There’s not a whole lot better than that. But then he receives word that his daughter’s cancer had come back up and harder this time. He was so upset and was looking for someone to blame because he didn’t know why this was happening to his daughter. He then got another offer to be on the Tonight Show again. He loved every bit of it getting applause breaks but inside he was frustrated and upset. He wanted to tell everyone how upset he was and how he’s not actually this happy inside. Then he just kept telling himself to man up. I think that this video is a great lesson for everyone. Many people may have a lot of things and be famous and popular, but you don’t know what they actually have going on in their life. They could be going through unimaginable things that you can’t see just looking at them. This video is a lesson for all of us!

This was a very emotional speech. I’ve personally never dealt with anyone in my family having cancer but my nana got really sick and my mom had to pull the plug on her which made me cry a little bit. Nana had been to the hospital every year on the same month and it got worse every time she went. The last time was the worst time and she finally passed away. I hope this man is coping with his anger and getting better no one should have to live with something like that. This is what this video reminded me of

He said he would’ve given up all of his days being a comedian and all of his dreams that he had accomplished… for just one more day with his daughter.

I also think that the title that he gave his speech was wonderful, after all life is full of ups and downs and sometimes they come at the same time and you end up just focusing on one of them.

That man has suffered greatly and it is unbelievable that he was still able to perform after all that he had been through, let alone tell his story, relive his story, again.

Are students snowflakes?? 7th Period Web Design Responds!

I’m not a fan of people being called snowflakes, especially if it is intended in a negative way. It sounds like calling someone fragile or weak.
I think teenagers – girls, at least – definitely experience the fear of being left out. If you’ve never had all of your closest friends, or so you thought, sit around and plan an event together with their shoulders turned away from you, then you may not realize that it kind of hurts. Fear of being left out not only happens on social media, but in real life as well.

I firmly agree with this article. I have seen a transition from technology appeal to technology reliance in my childhood, throughout the entire world. The capability to contact anyone at any time has allowed parents and guardians to become extremely involved in the lives of children, causing them to see flaws or problems and making them want to fix or help them and then after seeing one, they want to see more. They have good intentions but it is hurting their children in the long run, because their children can’t live on their own. They don’t know how to do anything. They don’t know how to decide things for themselves or be themselves. Although anyone can say anything at any time with new technology, they are not face to face, and therefore have more courage to say things they don’t mean, that are hurtful, that are untrue. It is much easier to face a mistake or a wrongdoing when you don’t directly see how it affects someone or yourself. I also feel as though people need to start owning up to their mistakes and realizing what they can and can’t do, have and haven’t done, have or don’t have. People need to be realistic about themselves and start working on themselves instead of feeding off of the lives of everyone else through a screen. Everyone needs to stop getting offended by anything that is said. If someone is offended, they need to keep it to themselves, work out their own problems, or talk to the person or somebody else about it. There is no need to put their problems out on social media, taking the risk of making the other person look bad, because they could have misunderstood what they person meant. There is so much wrong with this generation. They hurt themselves instead of healing themselves, they complain instead of sucking it up. The reason  for these negative increases is because everyone is reporting it now because they can’t fix their own problems and take it to the government and blame everyone.

This article is very truthful. There are many kids that think that things should go their way, and think that if they don’t it isn’t their fault. It would be better if parents were honest, and sometimes brutally honest with their kids as my parents are with me. After basketball games that I do not perform in sometimes my parents won’t tell me that I am bad at sports, but will tell me that if I want to keep playing then I will have to give more effort and work harder. I feel that I myself have not been raised as a snowflake, but I know that there are kids all over that were, and that is not right. Parents need to focus more on the future of their kids in the real world than focus on if they are being mistreated as kids. Some kids do get mistreated by peers, and sometimes by their authority figures as well, but that is just life, and if you want to be successful in life you have to toughen up and work through all the things that are happening.

The Expert 7th Period 8/14/18

This video was very confusing and frustrating. These people represented a business meeting and they used similar terms to how they are perceived to be run in real life; but, the actual meaning behind many of the things they were saying made absolutely no sense. The “expert” in the video understood that mathematically and physically, the things the women were asking him to do were impossible. There is literally no way around the fact that these tasks could not be accomplished; however, the rest of the people participating in the meeting were persistent in the fact that everything that was suggested could be provided and executed easily without further questioning. Throughout the meeting, the two men who brought the “expert” from their company were so concerned with meeting the women’s expectations in order to make money and more business allies that they disregarded every time the “expert” denied the possibilities of these things ever actually happening. The women were not educated on the subject that was needed in order to request the things they asked for; therefore, they did not understand the restrictions on what they were asking. The men were also not educated but were not really focusing on the actual doing of the project, but the rewards of doing it for them. Eventually, realizing he would never be understood, the “expert” accepted the fact that he was going to have to meet their needs even if there was a lie or two involved and they would never know the difference.

I think that this video is saying that some people are so uneducated about certain topics that sometimes, you just have to go along with them. Because the longer you argue with them about it, that is more time wasted, because they will never understand what you are saying. I also think that it is saying that you should not expect so much out of someone just because of their job title. Doctors, for example, are someone that know a lot about what they do but they come across some cases where they are stumped because they do not have an answer to your problem. The expert in this video is in a situation where he is in a meeting with people about something so simple. To him, the solution is easy, but to the others, the solution is confusing

All of the people in the video were relying on the expert to do multiple impossible tasks even though he proved to them that drawing 7 perpendicular lines in impossible because lines are straight. I would get very angry and impatient with the people if they told me to do what they were telling the “expert” to do. The people in charge of the job had no idea what they were talking about, and what a line was for that matter even after the expert explained to them what the problem was multiple times they did not listen. Who was they guy that was at the head of the table because I feel like I’ve seen him before but I do not known where or what his name was and that bothered me throughout the course of the video. At one point in the video I almost stopped paying attention and just thought about who that guy was

WebDesign Responds to "The Expert"

The short film titled, “The Expert” is a very frustrating video for the main character. The video consists of five major people working on the advertisement aspect of a company. Two ladies representing one company requested seven red lines, two being red, two being green, and all seven being perpendicular. The other three workers designing the logo had an expert present to draw the lines. Anderson, the expert, was listening to the instructions but could not understand or even perform the task at hand. He stated multiple times that the task was impossible because a red line could not be green, while it is labeled as a red line. Anderson’s employers kept speaking for him saying, “He is an expert…he can draw the lines.” Anderson was frustrated and couldn’t understand the stupidity from the four high company executives. He tried convincing them that the task was impossible but they could not comprehend what Anderson was trying to explain. To really show the ignorance of the four executives, they also requested Anderson to blow a red balloon up. After trying to explain himself, Anderson finally just agreed to the task after a meaningless conversation.

While you were watching the skit, you were probably thinking “Oh this is just another humorous skit.” But really this skit brings up a problem. People do not know everything, but some people know a lot about a certain subject. These people are known as the experts of that subject. When people don’t know something about a subject, they go to the expert. But sometimes these people mistake the expert and think they know and or can do absolutely everything when this is clearly just not true. For example, a family might want to breed their dogs a certain way so they go to the expert. Everything seems easy for the expert until the family says they want the new breed to have exactly 9 black spots on his belly. That is just impossible for the expert and the family needs to realize that just because he is the expert, doesn’t mean he can do absolutely everything. And to the expert, try and seem happy and not want to hurt your unknowing customer.

 What do I think? Well I think that the saying “The customer is always right” is not always true. In the video the customers were asking for something that was clearly impossible and the producer was telling them it was impossible. The producer was saying that the task was impossible, but the customer kept saying it would work. The producer tried to show the customer the reason that it wouldn’t work, so then they say “Can you draw a line in the form of a cat”, which is also impossible. In the end the customer asks for the producer to blow up a balloon, the producer said “What does blowing up a balloon have to do with me?” Finally when the customer says “When you blow up the balloon can you make it in the form of a cat?” and the producer says “Well of course I am an expert.” Over all I don’t think that the customer is always right.