The Alburtis Tavern

I chose to look at the review published in The Morning Call, written on the Alburtis Tavern. I chose this review because my parents have recently gone there, it is close to home, and I love food so it is definitely something of interest. The review starts off stating their first observations when they arrived, noting the amount of people at the tavern. Then the review goes into some facts about the Alburtis tavern. These facts included when it opened, the previous establishment, the structure of the building, as well as many details about the character of the building.  Continued with more details about the location and building, they speak of the theme of the tavern and how it carries over to the menu items. The review includes many of the entrees, what they ordered, including very descriptive statements. I noticed that many positive adjectives were used including “delicious," "perfect partner," and "light and luscious." The review also notes many of the prices, I’m assuming for readers to get an idea of a price range.  The review then goes on stating the owners including facts about other restaurants they own and the success of them.  The reviewer says, “It’s looking like they share one important characteristic – success.” This statement being added in the review makes it quite obvious to readers they this is defintely a good place to go. The review ends with the address, hours, phone number, and other useful data about the new Alburtis Tavern.

            I believe that this review was very useful and over all contains many of the characteristics to a good review. To start the review was written right after it had opened which is good because reviews are to cover places people haven’t gotten to see or try yet. The writer does a very good job at balancing facts with reactions. She included many facts that readers will want to know as well as an overall opinion of the tavern.  The review also answered the question stated in the book. “Is this thing worth my time and money”, which is exactly what readers what to know. The only thing that I did question about this review was the use of the word “I” in the very beginning. The writer used “I” twice in the first two sentences. Knowing that reviews should be written in the third person I’m not sure if this could be considered an exception. Overall I think this review was written very well. It gave me exactly what I wanted to know in order to decide if this place is somewhere I would like to go.

Profile- Angelina Jolie

The profile I chose to read was on Angelina Jolie. The profile was published in the year of 2008 so it is a bit outdated. The profile focuses on her role as a mother and the way her family works.  The beginning of the profile starts out by talking about her pregnancy. It talks about how most women will hate pregnancy and it continues to talk about how positive pregnancy was for Angelina.  After, she speaks about her family life including her relationship with Brad Pitt and how they manage their family they have together. They discuss how they work their family and give examples about how they never have people stay the night. It is just a certain thing they believe in as a family and it is what works for them. The article also talks about how family oriented Angelina is. They discuss the controversy over Angelina and Brad not being married, Angelina states that its what works for them. The profile then discusses her parenting and how she handles having children that she adopted compared to the child she gave birth to. It talks about how she sees no difference. Angelina states that these children are a gift to her. The article then continues on about her children as well as details about her childhood life and her mother.

            I enjoyed reading this profile. The profile is extremely positive and lets readers view Angelina Jolie as a great mother and wife.  I was a little surprised by the length of the profile because it was 4 pages. I know that profiles tend to be longer than traditional news articles but was still a little shocked. The profile used many details that captured her beauty as a mother by using graceful adjectives.  The article covered all of the characteristics of a good profile. While reading I could really capture her mannerisms, feelings as well as her attitude towards motherhood and family life.  The profile also gave me a good feel of her personality, almost like I know her. The only thing I think could be improved would to be focus on just one topic. We learned that a profile should focus on one specific topic about a person. The profile jumped around a lot with her pregnancy, adoption process, relationship, accomplishments as well as information about her mother. Talking about all of these things made it interesting but I still think it would follow the criteria of a profile better if they would focus on solely one topic about Angelina Jolie’s life.