the reason behind my blog name...

There's a specific reason as to why the name of my blog was "The Tell Tale Blog," and that reason being it's a play off of one of my favorite short stories ever: The Tell Tale Heart by Edgar Allan Poe. Ever since my class read this story in the 7th grade, I'd fallen in love with Poe and his writings; I even did my eighth grade literature report on him (fun fact: him and I share the same birthday!). So, I felt it was just to name my blog after it!

whatever it takes - hollywood undead

Thought I'd show others a song from another one of my favorite bands! I'm also getting more into listening to Hollywood Undead on repeat because I am seeing them in concert again! The first time I saw them was St. Patrick's Day 2015 and it was amazing! Except a person way taller than me stood in front of me for most of it and a person with a huge backpack kept on hitting my side, but other than that I had a super fun time jamming and singing along!

DACA

The Campus Ministry stood outside on Thursday encouraging students to sign post cards to send to Illinois Senators (Richard Durbin and Tammy Duckworth, or if you know your Representative) on the issue of DACA. If you don't know what DACA is, here is a link to give you information on what it is and why it is important.

reflective writing compared to published review: the hunting ground

Link to the article I will be discussing is here.

This article was able to convey most of the film with to the point writing style, as well as giving compliments to the writer-director (Kirby Dick) and others involved in the documentary. They paid more attention towards the Title IX complaint with Andrea Pino and Annie Clark. Also, they had made some assumptions about what some things meant in the film, for example, when they were describing the scene about the gray haired man talking over the graduating music saying, "what happens in college stays in college." They made an assumption about what it truly meant with the gray haired man saying that. The article brought in other articles bringing in more statistics on sexual assaults.

In my writing for this documentary, I was definitely more opinion based on my description of the movie and talked more towards the scenes that riled up large reaction from me. I didn't focus on writing about the statistics that were shown, and I didn't dive too deep into the Title IX issue. My writing felt like I was more putting my thoughts out into words, while the article was aimed like it was talking to someone else. I didn't bring in other resources; I just wrote out what I was feeling after the film.

the hunting ground

Here lies my responses to the guided reading questions...

One scene that got to me the most was the absolute praise and honor the FSU football player, Jameis Winston, received from everyone. It just blew my mind how close minded everyone seemed to the real problem that was going on. It made me so angry that everyone was pushing away this disgusting charge that was not given as much light as his football career. I was so livid when the sports reporters were more worried about his position on receiving certain sports awards than this girl's feelings. This whole scene dealing with the FSU scandal made me the most angry. What really surprised me most about this documentary was how corrupted and so conceded the authorities and workers of the universities were. I couldn't believe how inconsiderate the school board was to try and protect their ASSets.

After watching this film, all I felt was complete rage towards college and how deeply corrupted school administrators are in order to make sure they're school's reputation is perfect. I didn't realize how money hungry school were; it almost seemed like they were desperate for alumni to hand over their money, even though college is what drives people into debt. Some problematic concepts from the film are the 'brush under the rug' idea schools use for sexual assault cases, what the two women are doing now since the documentary to help fight the Title IX complaints, the problems with fraternities, and the emotional turmoil the victims suffer through when trying to receive help with their cases.

neck deep - in bloom

This here is a song from one of my many favorite bands. The video is a big mess of pink and flowers, and it appears all soft and springy. But, the lyrics talk about how a relationship can't move forward if one person doesn't allow their significant other to better themselves. Their relationship can't "bloom" if they both aren't ready to step up. The song really shows that a relationship is two-sided and both parties have to work together in sync and equally - if one person isn't on the same level as the other, it doesn't work well and create problems.