Where is Stevie???

To find out more about the Stevie mystery go to Annalisa's blog and see what happened.  



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New Views on Sports and Family

The article I read was about a movie titled McFarland, USA. This was a very interesting article and opened my eyes to a few things. The over did not get the greatest review from this critic but since I have not seen this movie yet I cannot give my opinion on it. Based on how he talked it through I can see that I think I would like this movie. It is about a middle aged white male that coaches kids of minority. It talks about at the beginning of the film the coach shows some signs of racism and only cares about winning. As the film progresses the critic says that the coach Jim White begins to care more about family and his view on different races changes. This was very interesting to me. In my own life I have realized as I have aged, I have a much better understanding of my family and how they are imported for me. They are there for the think and thin parts of my life. I appreciate them so much more now. I agree how the author of the article believes this is one of the good things from the movie. He believes that at the ended when the coach has gained more respect for his athletes and family that this a good point made by the film. I can relate to this first hand because I played basketball all four years of high school. The first two years my coaches did not treat all the players the same and treated different players differently. This was very up setting to me and because of it I did not like these other two coaches very much. My last two years of basketball I had a great coach that treated all his players with the same respect. He was my favorite high school coach and I had such a greater respect for him. I wish the author would have went into the ending a little more because I felt this was his strongest point of the article.        

Disconnected

This documentary really opened up my eyes and made me realize some things that I haven't before. The thing that I think stood out to me the most would be typing papers on typewriters. The reason this stood out to me the most is because of all the little mistakes you could make and then you would have to restart completely. This would be very hard for me and would give me a lot of trouble. The reason it would give me so much trouble is because I'm a bad speller and I would have a lot of typos and mistakes that would add a lot of time to finishing a paper. When I finally finished the paper I feel like it would not be as well done as if I would have typed it on a computer. Since this film was made in 2007 I believe student use of technology has changed a lot since then filmed this documentary. I believe these changes would make it harder to try the same experiment.  There are several reasons why I think this. First of the film is eight years old and in that time there has been many changes and improvement in technology. One of the biggest improvements is that there are smart phones now. Now in todays world you can access anything in the world and can contact anyone at any places with the swipe of a finger.  The other change is even back when this film was made there were still type writes accessible to students. Now a day there are no typewrites at universities. As a student today I think it would be very tough to give up any type of technology for school. The reason for this is because all of my professors use technology for communication, assignments, and test. This is why technology is pivotal in todays academics.