Sunday, April 17, 2016
First Home meet of the season
We had our first and only home meet on the second of April I through hammer and Discus there. I through a big pr in hammer of 35m and also through a pr in discus. I am looking forward to seeing how I do in hammer and discus after making some changes things should improve. So far things are looking good and the rest of the team did well. We should be looking good once we get to our conference meet.
Outdoor All Ohio
This past Saturday was the outdoor all Ohio track meet which took place at Ohio Wesleyan university near Columbus. For this meet I just through Javelin because my coach wanted me to improve my mark for conference. Went in and didn't perform as well as I wanted but it was good experience and we'll see where it leads. But the rest of the throws team did very well we had multiple people just miss making finals or make finals. I am looking forward to seeing what we do as a team over these next couple weeks and at our conference meet.
Top ten songs that represent my life
Music has always played a big role in my life from I grew up on country my mom was always listening to it but I also like rap and some heavier rock. I listen to most genres and like most of them. I think a song the plays a big role in my life would be all I want by A Day to Remember. The song says "Keep your hopes up high and your head down low" which I've always been able to relate to of working hard but also not starting shit and staying out of other peoples business. Boom by Simple Plan is a song that I don't exactly still like but it reminds me of time spent with a friends a great festival call Vans Warped Tour going around to different stages and listening to great music. Follow you by Bring Me The Horizon reminds me to never follow someone blindly whether a friend or authority to always think about what you are doing and to step back and look at the bigger picture. Hail to the King by Avenged Sevenfold just reminds me of high school track at the time it was one of my friends favorite songs and we'd have it playing loud in my high school weight room and just getting after it. Late Night in my car by Real Friends is a song I just relate back to taking a road trip with some friends in high school before we all got busy with college. I like most genres of music including country which I grew up on. I can relate to Tattoos on this town by Jason Aldean this song just reminds me of my hometown. It's a small farm town I grew up in a small school where everyone knew everyone. Staying the country genre another song I like is Those I've Loved Eric Church this reminds me of past relatives but also people who played a major role in my life and in making me who I am today. Sure eels right by Jake Owen whenever I here this song I don't exactly think of one time but it always reminds me of nights spent with friends whether high school or college and the nights I will always remember and talk about when I'm old. Them Boys by Brantley Gilbert is a song my and my friends kinda fit from high school I was definitely a bit more out and about with my friends in high school then my siblings and that could sometimes worry my mom.
Friday, April 8, 2016
five skills I wish to gain
I think five skills I would like to gain in college would be to get better at writing papers. I feel like being a better writer will not only help in college but in the future also. I also want to get better with time management. I feel like it would be easier if I planned ahead and was able to get things done earlier instead of waiting till the last minute. Also getting better at speeches. I feel like after college I will continue to use this and it is a good skill to have. I think better study skills will help. These will help through college and make things easier to get done. I think better communication skills would be helpful. Whether it's talking to friends, speaking in public or writing a paper I think that the better I can express my ideas and feelings the better off I will be.
Monday, April 4, 2016
Style in Hitchcock films
Hitchcock had many different factors that affected his movies and the filming of them. He had his own style and we see throughout the effects of ethics,psychology,technology and science, and the historical context of his films.
Hitchcock used a lot of psychology throughout his films. Throughout the party Alicia and Devlin are trying to get into the wine cellar to find see what is hiding down there. They finally get down there and break a wine bottle. Alexander has to go down and investigate after trying to figure out what they were doing down there and if they found out what was in the bottles.
In this film they are using Alicia to help the government capture the Nazis and find out what they are doing. When Alicia and Devlin are down there they find the bottles which have uranium in them the Nazi's would want this to be able to make nuclear weapons. For the time Hitchcock used technology at lot in his movie he his use of Uranium in the movie not only as a weapon but to poison Alicia. Also Hitchcock would use different camera angles in his movies to get the angles he wanted to be able to create the mood in the shot he wants.
Throughout these movies Hitchcock use of these four things are what he was able to do to make his movies great. The historical context use of psychology and the technology all were able to be used to make his movies great.
Hitchcock used a lot of psychology throughout his films. Throughout the party Alicia and Devlin are trying to get into the wine cellar to find see what is hiding down there. They finally get down there and break a wine bottle. Alexander has to go down and investigate after trying to figure out what they were doing down there and if they found out what was in the bottles.
In this film they are using Alicia to help the government capture the Nazis and find out what they are doing. When Alicia and Devlin are down there they find the bottles which have uranium in them the Nazi's would want this to be able to make nuclear weapons. For the time Hitchcock used technology at lot in his movie he his use of Uranium in the movie not only as a weapon but to poison Alicia. Also Hitchcock would use different camera angles in his movies to get the angles he wanted to be able to create the mood in the shot he wants.
Throughout these movies Hitchcock use of these four things are what he was able to do to make his movies great. The historical context use of psychology and the technology all were able to be used to make his movies great.
Sunday, March 20, 2016
Ethics in Notorious
During the 1940s, morals and ethics played a large role in motion pictures. Hitchcock portrayed ethics in some very interesting ways in his films. In many scenes, he also found ways around being completely ethical, but still staying within the guidelines. Some specific parts where this can be seen in Notorious are in some of the women’s clothing, the kissing, alcohol and drunk driving, women being a part of an undercover job, and women participating in adultery.
The clothing that women wore throughout the 1940s was meant to form a sort of silhouette. Woman wore dresses with broad, wide shoulders and tight waist bands to form an hourglass shape. In Notorious, you can see that Alicia wears long, tight waisted dresses with square shoulders. This gives her an hourglass shaping to her body and makes her look professional. You can even see when she wears the suit on the airplane that it still follows these ideal aspects.
Throughout Notorious Alicia (Ingrid Bergman) and Devlin (Cary Grant) begin to become closer as they work together undercover. Eventually, the two find themselves in love. Of course being in love requires some kissing scenes, though this was difficult in the 1940s. The Production Code of 1930 was created to set some moral guidelines for motion pictures in the United States. This occurred during the period of Silent Movies switching to Sound. Due to the code, “Excessive and lustful kissing, lustful embraces, suggestive postures and gestures, were not to be shown.” This meant that even though they were in love, Ingrid and Cary could not show their characters’ true emotions. Hitchcock’s way around this was to have the couple do multiple short kisses, rather than one long kiss. Though it may look odd if you were to watch Notorious today, it was a very clever way around the rule then to be able to still show passion in his movies.
One scene portrayed in Notorious showed Alicia driving a car with Devlin after a party. The scene clearly shows Alicia is under the influence of alcohol as she is swerving all over the road and she cannot see straight. After World War II, the car market was on a rise. Everyone was buying cars and most drivers were uneducated. Laws prohibiting drunk driving began in 1910 but intoxication was not clearly defined at this point. In the 1930s lawmakers stated that a driver with a BAC of 0.15 percent or higher is inebriated. By the 1970s DUI laws become more strict and the legal drinking age was raised to 21. Today, drunk driving is an incredibly unethical action and a driver with a BAC of 0.08 percent is considered inebriated. In 2014, 9,967 people died and 290,000 people were injured in accidents due to drunk driving. In the 1940s, drunk driving may not have been seen as unethical as it is today because the laws that were placed then were not as strict as today. Also, less accidents had been reported then versus today.
In Notorious, we see one of the main characters, Alicia Huberman played by Ingrid Bergman, get thrown into the world of covert intelligence and spy business. What many don't know is that if this was actually set in the late 1940’s, Alicia might not be there. Women were not a big part of federal intelligence agencies during that time period, as far as field agents. Now during WWII, there was a substantial increase in women police officers, but even they were put on leash for what they could do while in the law enforcement. Indeed there were women in agencies, but they were doing desk work. Field agents were seen as a “thing only for boys”. It wasn't until 1972, that women were allowed to join FBI training. This goes to show that Alfred Hitchcock wanted to make his film stand out, and probably got heads to turn when they saw what a woman was doing in the film.
During the movie Notorious, after Alicia and Alex get married, Alex keeps suspecting her of having an affair with Devlin. Back in this time period, there was a different belief about marriages. They encouraged women to think of marriages as a successful career. They believed that it was the women's job to make sure the marriage was happy, his career was successful and that it didn’t end in divorce. Even if the problem in the marriage was alcohol or an affair from the men, it was the wife's job to change something to bring him back home. There was a thought back then that the wife was supposed to make the marriage work and nothing was her fault even if the man was having an affair. If a woman had an affair in the time period, it was much more taboo and less common than a man. If the woman had an affair it looked bad on the husband and not her.
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First Outdoor meet
This last Saturday we had our first outdoor meet. It was the rose hulman early bird invitational. After indoor I've been working on throwing Discus and hammer. My first event of the day was hammer which my first throw was just over 30m after that I had my best throw of the day at 32.50m my last throw of the day was around 35m but I ended up fouling it. After shot put was done we moved onto discus. I didn't have the best discus meet and fouled my first three throws I saved my last throw but it wasn't good. This first meet was a good experience I now know what to expect at these meets and what I think I will do better at home meet this weekend.
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