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.

Chelsea’s Dagger-The Fratellis

Here is a clip of the song with Pictures of the Blackhawks in action. I chose this song because it is the song that is played after every goal scored by the Blackhawks at the United Center. It has a special place in my heart because I am a die-hard Blackhawks fan ad my family has had season tickets for eight years now. It is a very up beat and happy song. I have many good memories listening to this song.

Flying Down a Back Road-Justin Moore

This is my Favorite song by my favorite country singer. It is a great song that was well written and is very sentimental.  It is about his hometown and doing things with his buddies when he goes back home to visit. This is a song that I love to drive around to with some buddies back home.

Clean-Taylor Swift

Taylor is the best female vocalist right now in my opinion. she is so talented and has received many awards and honors. I’m a softy when it comes to Taylor Swift. I’m an athletic person that likes mostly country, rap, and rock but I have always loved Taylor Swift’s music, both old and new. The song Clean by her is from her new album 1989 and is my favorite song from the album.

Blue Side Park-Mac Miller

My favorite type of music is country but I also like rap, and Mac Miller is one of my favorite rappers. Ever since he started rapping I have been a fan. His songs are all very fast and up beat and pump you up. When I was in high school I played Basketball, baseball, and golf and before every game or match I would always listen to Mac Miller to get me pumped up and ready to play. The Blue Side Park song is a very fast pace song about Mac Millers childhood in Boston.

Smile-Florida Georgia Line

Here is a music video of FGL's song Smile. I believe this is a great song and ever one should give it a listen. The song Smile is a very special song to me. The reason its special to me is because the first FGL concert I went to this was the first song they played. It was my favorite concert I have ever been to so it sticks out to me. I always think back to the good time I had at the concert when I hear the song play. The song is a about a guy just wanting to make a girl happy and show his care for her so me being a guy I can relate to the message of this song as well.   

Centuries-Fall Out Boy

This is another song that I loved to listen to before a sporting event to get me pumped up and ready to play. Fall Out Boy is my favorite rock band and I have listened to them since I was very young. They are from my hometown of Chicago so they hold a special place with me because I can easily relate to a lot of their songs. The song Centuries is from their newest album and is my favorite song from it. It talks about how you determine how others will remember you. It talks about how some will think badly about you when you are gone and others will remember you in a good way when you pass away. Overall it is a very strong message and it is a very powerful song to me.  

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