Revised blog post #2

“Not Everything We Have We Like”

For class we had to read three different essays’ and pick one we would like to write about. The essay I picked is called “My Life as a Dog’ by Jonathan Safran Foer. As I read this I realized that I didn’t like this essay one bit. The author starts talking about how dogs can be off a leash with a permit. In my opinion if your dog is trained well enough and you trust him/her they can be off the leash. After that the author states that how he thinks it’s inconvenient for dogs to be off their leashes in such a big city. That screams to me that if you have a busy life or live in a big city you shouldn’t get a dog. That got me thinking about homeless people having dogs. Is that an inconvenience too? For a homeless person to have a companion? As the essay goes on he ended up adopting a dog, which completely contradicts himself. Once he gets the dog he still complains about how awful this dog is. Why would you spend a bunch of money on a dog when you don’t even like them in the first place? Doesn’t makes sense to me. As this story comes to an end she says even though she if awful he loves her and that he thinks that dog should be allowed to be off a leash with a permit. With me being a huge dog person this just blows my mind. It’s very confusing as a reader that the author keeps changing his opinion constantly.

Revised Blog Post #5

“Anything Can Happen If You Believe”

The movie Miracle is about a man named Herb Brooks, who became the head coach of the USA hockey team. Coach Brooks held try outs and selected 26 undisciplined players and only kept 20 of them. In the beginning of the movie two players have issues with one another due to something that happened in the past. First day of practice as a team a dirty hit was taken and a fight broke out. After it was settled Herb made the team go to the line as a punishment to skate suicides. The team did them so much they started calling them “Herbies”. When the head of the board finds out that Brooks had picked out the team without his consult he had confront coach. Herb argued that he had watched all their films and picked out the teams before the try outs. Everyone underestimated him and his coaching abilities. The first game the team played together the team tied and then bench players were only worried about the hot females at the game. That’s when Herb Brooks got pissed and make them do an endless number of Herbies. As the season went on the team became way stronger. They started winning and became more confident with themselves and as a team. They had a rough couple of games coming up which included the Soviets, which has always destroyed their team in the past. Herb Brooks gave an inspirational speech right before the game motivating them that they’re going to win this game. Turns out they won and after many years defeated the Soviets. They continued on and won the gold medal for the USA. With everyone that underestimated them, all the guys as a team proved to the world that they had what it takes to win!

Revised Selma Blog Post #4

“A Walk to Remember”

Photo of Martin Luther King Junior during the time of Selma

The movie we were assigned to watch is about a very important figure in U.S. History. Martin Luther King Jr. is the person I am talking about. In this film, it shows his everyday life and his fights with the civil rights movement. I am usually not a bug fan when it comes to historical movies, but I found this one incredibly interesting. This movie had thought me many things also. I guess I didn’t understand how bad the African race was actually being treated. Selma put it in perspective and showed how awful it really was. I also learned about the walk to Selma. The first attempt to walk to Selma the police had told them to turn around and go home. The police were brutal to the race just because they wanted to stick up and support their rights. It made me think of how grateful and lucky I am that I didn’t have to grow up and experience all this. It just blows my mind that one person can stand out and stick up for something they believe in. Another thing I would like to point out is how calmly he had handled all the hate and threats. I think it really helped that he was a preacher. I feel like it made him a lot more level headed than other people upset with this issue, since they used and talked about God too. Since MLK Jr. did that he changed the world for his race, he should be considered a legend in the world.

Miracle

This movie is about a man named Herb Brooks that who became the hockey coach for team USA. He hand picked 26 undisciplined males and ended up keeping 20 of them. Throughout the movie coach Brooks is constantly battling with some players and pushes them to their limits. This extremely talented coach got all of them to play like they've never played before. After many brutal practices you could see how passionate these boys were about this game. Many long and tough games played and the team made it to the game for the gold giving the USA hope. During the intense game the USA actually won the gold and proved everyone who underestimated them wrong.

Selma

This movie is about a very important person in our history. Martin Luther King Jr. is that person. In this movie it shows his life and his fight with civil rights. I'm usually not a big fan with historical movies, but I really found this movie interesting. This movie taught me many thing also. I didn't understand how awfully the African race was being treated, but this movie really shows how they did. I also learned about the walk to Selma, where the first walk the police told them they had to turn around. The police were brutal to them just because they were sticking up for their rights. It made me think of how grateful I am that I didn't have to watch this around me. It just blows my mind how one person can change the world for their race. MLK Jr. should be considered more just a part of history, he should be considered a legend!

Scavenger Hunt

    On a typical Monday morning Austin and I were having an interesting conversation with Stevie Pointer when something out of the blue happened. These ginga ninjas came out of the sky and kidnapped Stevie! These ninjas took off into the library with him so Austin and I decided to go on an adventure and chase him.
    We saw the ginga hair color go to the 6th floor so that's were we started. Little did we know that these ninjas wanted to play a little game. They left a piece of paper giving us directions that we had to follow or we would never see Stevie again. Reading the first clue Austin realized that we would have to go into the U.S. government publications section and find a certain set of books. We came across some books with the letters "S' and "I" on them. I had realized that we were going to have letters on each floor that makes out a word. I wrote the letters down and looked at the next clue.

    Running to the 5th floor we found the next clue. We had to walk past the archives to find green book shelves. There we realized we needed to find the "Zoology" section according to the clue. Rushing through all the shelves I finally found the "Z" section where Austin had found a beaver with the letter "R" right next to this creature. After we had written that down we had heard a chuckle and saw this fat ninja run down the stairs. I was thinking "Wow we could actually catch this one." Little did I know he was a fast dude.

  Arriving to the 4th floor we had gotten another clue. For this one we had to find the section of the library labeled "PN 2287 C5". Wondering confused through the library I heard Austin yell saying he found the answer to the clue. When I arrived to where he was there was the letter "A" along with a picture of a cat. I thought that we had saw the cat due to the fact that dogs don't like cats. Looking over Austin's shoulder I saw a ginga ninja jump out the window of the building. My guess is he scaled the building and went to the 3rd floor.

  Basically jumping down the stairs we made it to the 3rd floor in 4 seconds to find the same ninja putting out next clue up. We didn't even have to look at it we just ran right to the letter "V". Little did this dumb ninja know we were on to his little games he was trying to play. Next clue we found after finding the letter was to go find the new paper named after Stevie.

    I thought to myself where would newspapers be? We went to the 2nd floor just for the hell of it and ended up finding the current issues which we also needed to find. Austin all of a sudden go worried that we weren't going to find Stevie in time, little did he know I felt the same way. After about 10 minutes we finally found the next letter. The letter was "C" for the word current. Running out of time we realized we only had to find two more letters. Austin had saw the same ninja we saw jump out the window slide down the railing of the library to get to the first floor.

    We managed to get down there, but the ninja was completely gone. I was upset and threw my hands in the air and my head back. Little did I know I just found the letter "H" on the sharks fin. At this point we're both very anxious and we just had to find one more letter. The last clue was kind of ironic if you really looked at it. We had to find the books called "Encyclopedia of the Dog". Austin just bolted towards the books and found it right away. Looking at the clue we had to looked for the dog called the "English Pointer" when we got to that page we found the letter "E". That was the final letter.

 
 








After looking at all the letter I unscrambled them and it said "Archives". Austin had pointed out that we ran past there earlier in the search, that we must've missed him. Being tired and all we took the elevator up to the 5th floor. Arriving there and opening the door to the archives room we had found Stevie Pointer! It felt amazing that Austin and I had found our dear friend after all the hard work. We were both relieved and happy we got our friend back.

Blog 2

For class we had to read three essay's and we get to choose one to write about. The essay I picked is called "My Life as a Dog" by Jonathan Safran Foer. I actually did not like this essay at all. He starts talking about how dogs can be off leash with a permit. I think that dogs should be able to be off leash if they are trained and behave well. The author then starts talking about how are an inconvenience they are in such a big city. To me that's saying wow if you have a busy life you shouldn't have a dog. So then that got me started thinking that many homeless people have dogs. Is that an inconvenience too? As the essay goes on the Author adopts a dog. Why would be get a dog when he talks about how bad they are? Doesn't make sense to me what so ever. After he gets the dog he continues to talk about how awful she is. This actually angers me because if he didn't like dogs in the first place he shouldn't have gotten one. Also after he talks about how bad and horrible she is he says that he loves her. Personally I love dogs no matter what. Yes they are naughty at times, but you can't trash them and be mean to them. They have feelings too. I just feel very confused with this essay due to the fact he actually wants dog to be unleashed in parks, but most of the essay he is bashing his dog. I think this would've been better is he didn't keep switching his opinion about dogs.

My Playlist, My Self

Hey there! My name is Hailey Brandsma and I am attending the University Of Wisconsin-Stevens Point. I am currently a freshman here. My major is communications and an emphasis on public relations. To help my classmates learn a little bit about me I've created a playlist of songs to show them what kind of style I have.

                                           This song is called I Won't Give Up by Jason Mraz

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