Journal 3: Your vote counts!

2012 Election

 

 

 

As much as you may hate the repetitive political commercials like everybody does, this years Presidential election is just as important as any other. The United States of America needs a strong leader that will help us get out of this slump we call a recession. As many people get into the election and have strong opinions about which plan will benefit them the most, there are always people that are torn between the two, or people that just have no idea who they want to help aid with their vote. Personally, I didn't really get into the campaign and know much of anything either of the candidates wanted to do if they got to office, until I watched a couple of the debates. I found them quite interesting and helpful. Everybody has their own opinion about who they want and I'm fine with them sharing that. But what gets annoying is when they constantly express their opinion about it and even get into arguments over it. I think everybody is entitled to their own opinion and can share if they so choose to, but respect others opinions. Its not worth arguing over. If you know who you want in office then do your part and go vote and leave it at that. The election is just around the corner so if you don't know who you think deserves a chance then brush up on the material and I encourage everyone that is able to to vote. America deserves a great leader, you choose...  

EC: Healthy Boundaries in Relationships

This presentation was given to get out information about abusive relationships and what people can do to prevent or in case anything ever happens to them or anybody else.

The organization giving the presentation was SAAPC, which stands for Sexual Assault Awareness and Prevention Coalition. The talked about their program called SAVS, which stands for Sexual Assault Victim Services. This program provides free and confidential support, information, and accompaniment. They also have a number you can call any time of the day 24 hours a day, 365 days a year if you every need to or want to talk to somebody.

They talk about relationships and whats normal and healthy. They also talk about the different types of violence such as: visual, verbal, written, touching, power, threats, and even force.

In the state of Wisconsin, the Sexual Assault Law is: Any intrusion, however slight, into a persons genital or anal opening by an object or part of another body.

Ways in which you can tell or may be a Red Flag saying this person may be abusive is: history of violence, isolation from family and friends, constant put-downs, dramatic mood swings, explosive temper, possessiveness or controlling behavior.

Signs of a healthy relationship is: partner asks for your opinions and thoughts, partner is a good listener, partner has other interests besides you, partner gives you respect, and you and your partner work together to solve problems.

Journal 3- Inception Screening Report

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Created and directed by Christopher Nolan.

Ø  Loud noise, Cobb washes up on shore. Waves in slow motion, splashing up on the beach shore and slamming into rocks.

Ø  Sees kids playing in the sand. Just a memory.

Ø  Security guy with a gun finds Cobb and brings him to Saito. He asked by name.

Ø  Sees Saito and sees he is an old man.

Flash back.

Ø  Younger and sitting at the same table and with Saito talking about inception.

Ø  Go out on deck, Wife-Mal shows up.

Ø  Scenes are dark lit.

Ø  Ends up going back to room where Cobb was talking with Saito.

Ø  Try’s to steal from the safe.

Ø  Wife shows up with a gun and his friend Arthur as hostage, along with Saito.

Ø  Saito now realizes it’s a dream, and if you kill someone they will just wake up, but pain you really feel. So Mal shoots Arthur in the leg.

Ø  Cobb shoots his friend so he wakes up. Cobb continues to run from Santos men and shooting.

Ø  Cobb won’t wake up so his friend Nash pushes him in a tube full of water.

Ø  He falls slow motion into the water, submerging himself in it.

Ø  So in other dream, where he is running from Saitos men, the building floods with water, and he wakes up.

·         Now in another dream.

Ø  In one of Saitos safe houses.

Ø  Outside is a big riot going on that’s moving down the street closer to them.

Ø  Saito realizes by lying on the ground and on the carpet he can tell it’s not the same feeling as the actual one he has so notices he’s in another dream.

·         Another dream

Ø  They all wake up from that dream on a train and leave before Saito wakes up and doesn’t know what happened and really thinks not that he was just dreaming.

Ø  Cobb goes back to an apt and and spins his top.

Ø  Quiet

Ø  Then phone rings really loud and kind of spooks him.

Ø  It’s his kids, and they wonder if he will ever come home. And that grandma says we will never come home.

·         Arthur comes over and they go to get on a helicopter and Saito has Nash as a hostage.

Ø  He asks if Inception is possible.

Ø  Saito wants to get into Robert Fischer’s head so he can break up is fathers empire.

Ø  Offers Cobb to get him home and see his kids in return.

·         Cobb went by his father to get an Architect.

Ø  Get a girl named Ariadne and talks to her about the job.

Ø  The sound and bass is gets increasingly louder, heartbeat sound.

Ø  Has her draw a maze that takes a minute to draw and two minutes to solve.

·         Cobb now sitting with Ariadne outside at some restaurant and having coffee.

Ø  She’s actually in first lesson and in a dream.

Ø  The market places and buildings and everything start to explode and fly’s up in slow motion.

Ø  Dramatic effect

Ø  She gets hit by something and wakes up.

Ø  They then go back in for 5 mins. Actually equaling 1 hr. in dream world.

Ø  She wraps the buildings up and bends them over on top so looks like mirror image on the top of all the buildings.

Ø  Makes her way to a bridge, and place she often goes.

Ø  Cobb gets a flash back of his wife and him there.

Ø  Tells Ariadne to make new maps and not something you already know.

Ø  Cause then you don’t know if you’re in a dream or in reality.

Ø  You’ll get lost.

Ø  All the people surrounding them start to attack and Mal comes up and stabs Ariadne, she wakes up

Ø  She freaks out and walks out.

·         Different scene

Ø  Cobb meets Eames and talks about inception, while sitting around a group of people in a restaurant.

Ø  People come after Cobb and he jumps off balcony.

Ø  Runs the streets to get away while guys are chasing him.

Ø  Camera angle shows tops of roofs and buildings and going down the streets to show the city.

Ø  Saito picks him and Eames up in care.

·         Cobb and Saito go to Yusuf to make compounds for inception.

Ø  Heartbeat noise again, anticipation.

Ø  Saito wants to go into the dream with Cobb.

Ø  They are showed a group of 12 people that are all hooked up in the same dream.

Ø  All down in a basement.

Ø  Cobb enters dream and his wife’s there so he wakes up.

Ø  Pours water on his face.

Ø  All worked up.

·         Eames talks to Mr. Browning

Ø  Mr. Browning goes into room where Robert Fischer and his dad are.

Ø  Robert is standing by his father’s side while he is dying.

Ø  Browning talks to Robert about what he is going to about the business.

Ø  Robert doesn’t want to talk about it.

·         Ariadne comes back and talks to Cobb about mazes,

Ø  Cobb can’t make his own because his wife will enter and ruin the whole operation.

Ø  He can’t go home because they think he killed her.

·         After hours at the office.

Ø  Cobb is hooked up and dreaming alone.

Ø  Ariadne enters his dream.

Ø  She comes down an elevator and sees him and Mal talking really quietly.

Ø  Mal sees her and there is a loud noise.

Ø  Cobb runs over and takes her back up the elevator to the beach and he sees his kids again.

Ø  He only ever sees the back of their heads and never their faces when in a dream.

Ø  Then goes to another level and it’s his house.

Ø  Talking to her about it and she runs back quick and gets in elevator and goes to the bottom level (B).

Ø  It’s a trashed hotel room.

Ø  Wife is sitting on the couch and asks her what she is doing there.

Ø  She slowly comes walking around the corner and circles Ariadne.

Ø  Then Cobb shows up.

Ø  Mal grabs a broken wine glass and charges at them and they are able to get into the elevator in time.

Ø  Loud noise.

Ø  Shakes elevator and says “you promised we would grow old together.”

Ø  This is the room where she committed suicide.

·         They wake up from that dream and the other guys show up.

Ø  Said the Old man, Fischer’s father, died.

Ø  They all get on a plane, he steals Roberts passport.

Ø  He gives it back and talks to him for a little bit.

Ø  Cobb gets him some water and slips something in it.

Ø  Robert passes out.

Ø  Everybody on plane gets hooked up and enters a dream.

·         First dream.

Ø  Rainy, dark outside, stormy day.

Ø  They have a car and steal a taxi and get Robert to get in it. And kidnap him.

Ø  Cobb in the other car picks up girl and they get hit by a train going right down the middle of the road.

Ø  Guys get out of their cars and start shooting at them.

Ø  They hit Saito

Ø  Camera angles showing lots of different views while driving and shooting scenes.

Ø  The get to the office and Try to help Saito.

Ø  They can’t shoot and kill him because then he might enter limbo instead and may never wake up.

·         They talk to Robert about safe and a combination.

Ø  They can’t get anything from hi so send browning in to convince him to tell.

Ø  Actually it’s Eames impersonating Browning.

Ø  Cobb and Mal got stuck in limbo for 50 years and created their own world by memory. Mal locked up her top, which is how she could tell if she was dreaming or in reality.

Ø  They got out of limbo and she kept having an idea that they still weren’t in realty.

Ø  She wanted to wake up and kill herself but wanted to Cobb to do it too.

Ø  She was going to jump and kill herself and frame it on Cobb.

·         They all get in a van and enter another dream.

Ø  Cobb is in a building talking to Robert.

Ø  He says how he is to protect him from people trying to get into his mind and says he’s actually dreaming now.

Ø  Outside in other dream, car is shaking back and forth and everybody is whiplashing all around in slow motion.

Ø  Cobb drifts off thinking about wife...ex: a broken wine glass and a window open with the breeze blowing the drapes around.

Ø  The van rolls, everybody flips around in hotel while the whole hotel is revolving also.

Ø  Slow motion. Dramatic music.

·         In another dream on a snow capped mountain.

Ø  Van hits the bridge in one dream.

Ø  Arthur in the hotel goes flying and floats in the air in another dream.

Ø  An Avalanche in another dream.

Ø  All of these are kick to hurry up and finish.

Ø  Trying to get into the safe.

Ø  While in the mountain, wife shot Robert.

Ø  Saito dies and enters limbo.

·         Cobb and Ariadne enter into his and his wife’s limbo world.

Ø  They see wife in house sitting at the table.

Ø  She wants Cobb to choose to stay with her.

Ø  He said they already grew old together.

Ø  He tried inception on her first and planted the idea that her world wasn’t real.

Ø  Robert woke up.

Ø  The noise stopped and he walked to the safe.

Ø  In the safe his father is saying his last words again to him. And says that he was disappointed, disappointed that he tried to be like him. 

Ø  He wanted his son Robert to be himself.

Ø  He also opened the safe and in it was his old paper windmill from when he was a kid.

·         Car hits the water.

Ø  Slow motion.

Ø  Water submerging in the van.

Ø  Everybody wakes up except for Cobb, he is still in limbo

Ø  Flashback to the beginning of the movie where Cobb washes up on shore.

Ø  Goes up by Saito, he is an old man and has been in limbo for a long time.

Ø  Cobb was there to bring him back out of limbo and remind him of the real world.

·         Cobb wakes up on plane and everybody else as well.

Ø  Everybody looks at Cobb and smiling, knowing the operation was a success.

Ø  Saito makes the phone call.

Ø  Cobb is in the airport, and trying to get through security.

Ø  He does.

Ø  Walks slow motion through the airport and at some point walks past everybody he did the operation with.

Ø  His father picks him up. And brings him home.

Ø  The music increases and he spins the top.

Ø  He finally sees his kid’s faces.

Ø  The noise quiets down and focuses on the top that’s still spinning and in never stops.

Ø  It leaves you with wondering if he is still in a dream or reality.

Journal 2: Great movie -The Dark Knight

Although many people probably do, I don’t have a favorite movie. A movie I do like though is The Dark Knight. The Dark Knight is about Batman trying to take down his evil villain the Joker. What makes me like this movie is more so the formal elements in the film like the acting. The actor that plays the Joker is Heath Ledger and I think he did a very good job. To play the role he needed to have a dark personality that would match the part perfectly. Heath took on the challenge of being the Joker and in doing so might have made the wrong choice. Although he did a great job, it may have been too dark for him. It could have made him feel and think that way all the time while creating the movie. In my opinion it could have been what led him to overdose and kill himself. The bad thoughts and everything that the joker would do, could have taken over his own personality and way of thinking overall making Heath depressed.  As bad as it is for him to have passed away, possibly from his roles personality, Heath Ledger did a great job as the Joker in the movie.

Journal 1: Winning actually isn't the only thing.

 

"Winning actually isn't the only thing." -David Maraniss, http://www.heraldnet.com/article/20120926/SPORTS/709269933/1004

 

David Maraniss talked about the football game the Packers played against the Seahawks, and brought up a good argument. He talked about how angry he was about the poor call by the refs at the end of the game that gave the Seahawks the lead and to win the game. He mentioned how he had been so upset that he couldn’t sleep and couldn’t calm down for about 12 hours. It got him all worked up, but then he finally told himself it’s just a game. He asked himself if winning the game is everything. David then thought about Russell Wilson, the Seahawks quarterback, and also Pete Carroll, the Seahawks head coach, and how they reacted after the game and what they said during their interviews. How Pete Carroll was running around and jumping with joy after the call was made. As if the call was right that they scored and deserved those points. Then when being interviewed he said how it was a “tough call” when there was nothing tough about it. He eventually then tells how they shouldn’t act like they won and be happy and excited about it and that he would much rather have a bad call called on his team and deal with being angry and upset with the call then have it a be a terrible call in your favor. Going to sleep with that on your mind would be so much worse.

            I agree with everything that David talks about. How it was a terrible call and that the coaches and players on the Seahawks team shouldn’t be happy with this win knowing it was a terrible call. Also how he would rather have it this way then be the Seahawks team and have a bad feeling cause if was the wrong call. Plus, winning actually isn't the only thing. 

The Believeing Game Part 2-Abortion

I feel that abortion should not be allowed for multiple reasons. First, abortion is intentionally taking the life of another human which is wrong. If you didn’t want a kid, you could have prevented it through abstinence. Abortion can also lead to health risks later in life. Down the road you can be more capable of having miscarriages. Also, abortion frequently causes intense psychological pain and stress. A study showed that women that had an abortion were 154% more likely to commit suicide or suffer depression. Those are just a few reasons why abortion should not be allowed.   

The Believeing Game Part 1-Abortion

I feel that abortion should be allowed for multiple reasons. For one thing, women should be allowed to have an abortion because the women who usually want it are very young and have their whole life ahead of them and a child at that time will get in the way of their future goals. Young mothers won’t be able to financially support their baby. Because often times their still in school, they won’t be able to work a sufficient amount of hours to support their baby and juggle school and homework. Also, it is the woman’s right to choose abortion. They should be able to decide what happens with their body. Another thing is, Fetuses are incapable of feeling pain. Those are a few reasons why abortion should be allowed.

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