Scotts essay #4

To be honest i really did not understand this essay at all. I never have watched or read anything from Daniel Craig and honestly never want to. To me all of his movies and readings never get my attention. This was one of the hardest things for me to read. I mean of course there are lots of other readings that i do not want to read, but i suffer through it. But this reading was way to hard for me to even finish reading because it bored me wayyyy to much. I tried to finish it but like i said i got lost and confused since i never have read or watched any movies of his. Also this is not my type of reading what so ever, and he jumps from topic to topic so i guess that is where it really lost my attention and made me confused. Daniels genre and type of movies he is in just are not for me and like i said i am sorry that i can not praise this reading but it just was not for me at all. But i knew i had to write about it and honestly i do not know what to write about it, since i really didnt finish reading it.

SMASH paragraph one

There are some strong willed people throughout this show. They have their own ideas of how Bombshell should be, and who should play the part as Marilyn. Come hell or high water each person is determined to get their person up on that stage. For example Derek sees the vision of Karin as Marilyn, ans knew she was the one to pull it off. Where as Ilene believes Ivy is the one for the part of Marilyn , Derek disagrees with Ilene. There is a lot of drama throughout SMASH. Such as Ilenes assistant   putting peanuts in the drink of the first Marilyn. He confesses to Ilene what he thought would impress her, but instead she fires him over it. There is also unfaithfulness between Karin, Dev, and Ivy. Dev cheats on Karin with Ivy. She finds out from Ivy, because Ivy had her ring, but tries to compare it like a Marilyn Monroe relationship. Ilene and Derek only seem to argue, and d not seem capable to have a normal conversation. A younger audience would not be able to grasp the context of this show. It might help to be a high school age or older to understand what is going on. 

Juno response #3

I think after reading Juno, the writer is right about this movie. That it is somewhat believable, yet some parts are not so much. To me this is probably not a movie for children to watch, more for the mature audience. The parts that are not believable are when Juno, tells the lady that is going to adopt Juno's baby, she says if I could give it to you now trust me I would. Juno acts like it is not a big deal to just give up her baby, and to me I think that is not real at all. Why, because giving up your baby is very hard, think about it, it is a baby you just gave birth to and cared for 9 to 10 months. Another is when she gets smart with her dad, most teens that get smart with their dads get smacked or in huge trouble. In my experience I would never do that, I know better then to do that.Some parts that are real are in high school, most kids do make fun of teens that are pregnant during high school.I mean probably not so much now, since high school pregnancy is a high rate thing now. But back 5 to 10 years ago teens would make fun of them. Another is when the father of Juno's baby is embarrassed of Juno being pregnant, and wants nothing to do with her. That is most defiantly real, because that happens in the real world as well.

Bechdel Blog

In the Bechdel reading I felt like it was all over, and did not make much sense. It was very hard to follow and  I am not much of a comic book reader, so I think that was the main reason why I did not know what was going on. From what I did read though with how much detail she put in was really amazing. Like when she described the moss and running through the forest, to me that made me feel like I was there with her. Also with her living by the interstate I somewhat live by one as well, so I know where she is coming from by living by one. I thought it was kind of weird that her family stay distant from each other, considering that my family is the total opposite. We do not stay distant, we always try to do stuff together. When I saw that her parents criticized her work and coloring, was kind of strange. My parents always said that I should color what I thought certain things looked like. They never really told me to fix it and color it right, because that takes the fun out of it when you are young. But besides the fact that it was all over and very hard to understand by reading it the second time I finally understood some of the reading.

Nemat's Blog

This reading to me was very interesting to me about how life was like back in 1965-1991. Also to think that Marina Nemat was arrested at the age of sixteen years old for speaking out against Ayatollan. To me it is hard to think that you did not have freedom of speech back then and what life was like. I also felt bad for Marina because of how poor she was and the fact that she did not even have enough money to buy books. It was kind of neat seeing how she found stuff she could sell for money and use that money to buy books instead of food. That to me showed how much reading meant to her and how reading helped her stay out of her mothers way growing up. I think she used the dialogue because this story is based off secondhand bookstore. Also this secondhand bookstore helped this little girl at the time reach her dreams to be able to read more books. The secondhand bookstore sounds like it looks dumpy and extremely messy on the outside and the inside and that it is very dark outside. While her friends house looks very nice then Marina's house. By reading the books that she borrowed from the secondhand bookstore helped her see what the Ayatollan was really about. It helped her see how she should feel and what she should stand up for and what not to agree on. The secondhand bookstore seller was like her angel in helping her being able to read a lot more books. The books also helped her learn alot more about the Ayatollan.To me this reading showed me if you really want something in life keep going for it and do not give up on it. Sometimes you have to give up on somethings just to reach that certain goal as well.

Other classes

This is my first year going to Rhodes state college, and I am also a post secondary student for this year. So far this semester I am taking three classes in high school and college. The classes that I am taking in college are first year experience, computer class, and com1110. In my first year experience class, I am not sure what to think about it. It is so much different then what I am use to in high school. Last Wednesday was my first day in that class, and to be honest I really did not like it. The teacher is kind of weird, and the fact that we have to talk to everyone in that class is not my thing. I am not much of a person to talk first to someone especially on a first day of class. I am a very shy person and I am always afraid of getting judge by people. In my computer class it was not all that bad, so far we do not have any homework and always seem to get out an hour to almost an hour and 30 minutes early from class. So far I love that feeling of getting out early for once, since we really are not doing anything in that class for awhile. In com1110,  first I was not sure what to think about it or if I was even going to like it all since I was not going to know anyone. Then on the first day I found out one of my friends Halle was in it so that helped me out a lot, about being nervous. Knowing that there is someone you know in your class helps out a lot, especially when you go from knowing everyone in high school to barley no one in college. To me it takes  awhile to be open to people which  makes it hard for me to make new friends if I do not know anyone in a class that I am taking. I usually am a fun person and a very good listener, but most people do not know that because I am not much of a talker if  I do not know you very well. I have to get to know you before I can have a conversation and not get embarrassed or act shy around you. I really hope college gets better as the year goes on and after I start getting use to the college life. (:

Career Path

I always wanted to become a kindergarten teacher while growing up. When my mom use to babysit when I was in Elementary school, I use to play school with the babysitting kids. By doing that made me want to become a teacher even more.  By the time I started high school I got the chance to take SUCCESS which was a class, where you could go help out at a career center that you would wanna do after college. This class was nice because it helped you save money, because if you did not like that certain job then you would know ahead of time instead of spending money in college and finding out after you wasted your money in college that the career you paid for is not for you.  Once I was finally a senior in high school (which is the year they offered that specific class) they cancelled it. So I never got to see if I would ever really like being a kindergarten teacher.  When the school did that it made me really mad cause that is the class I always looked forward to when I would became a senior in high school. So since they took that class away, I still needed a high school credit, so that is when I decided to take anatomy. When I took anatomy I was only taking it so I could have enough classes to graduate, I never thought it would make me wanna change the career I wanted to go into after we started learning about how the body works and the bones. But it did, after taking anatomy I decided that I really loved studying bones and how the body works. So I talked to my anatomy teacher Mr. Klaus about it and he told me some different types of careers that dealt with bones and how the body works.  The one that really sounded interesting to me was Radiology, so that night I started looking up information about Radiology and decided I would give it a try. So now that I am in college I am really looking forward to take the anatomy class in college.  I am also looking forward to graduating college and starting my career as a Radiologist.