Carrie-Week 4

In class on Friday we talked about the stories we were to have read for class and to determine and find information about the character. We then related that to the essays we had written. This activity was fun in my opinion because we had to guess all of this stuff about the person who wrote the story. I can imagine that quite a few people we very wrong about their guesses, I know I was. The person who read mine thought that I was a boy and couldn't really figure anything else out about me through my story. Which when I was writing it I thought people could find, but as I was reading it after this activity I noted that you couldn't really tell. Then we watched a scary movie called Carrie, and first off I HATE scary movies. When our teacher said what we were watching I was like oh great! The movie really wasn't bad until the very end, when I looked away! We watched the movie to see how effect bring out mood and tone, I think, and how it makes people feel when they are watching something like that. I'm not really sure why we watched that other than to answer the worksheet that we got honestly.

Ohio State's Defense Re-Boot

Ever since college football has started about a month ago that's all a lot of people can talk about. Let alone this year is a big year of upsets and teams making it and breaking it. To me I've noticed that a lot of the Big 10 teams are playing smaller MAC colleges and winning. Which they obviously should win, they're the top teams playing lower leveled colleges, although there have been a few MAC schools that has surprised everyone, like in week three when East Carolina beat 17 ranked Virginia Tech. Let alone all of the high ranked teams losing to schools that aren't even ranked, LSU and Missouri lost to non ranked teams. Typically I would expect both of those teams to drop heavily in the Big 10 rankings but that doesn't always seem to happen. I have no idea how they decide who moves up or who goes down, and I might be coming across as a picky fan but it just doesn't make sense. But the point of my rank here was to talk about the Ohio State defense that has been on discussions for some time. It is no surprise that the reason they lost both big games last year was due to the defense. The head coach, Urban Meyer, wants his defense to be strong and be comparable to the offense who did amazing last year. They hired a new defensive coach and he has a long way ahead of him. He has to keep rebuilding on the defense that already exists but he has to basically change how the players rethink how they play. Once you get to a certain point in practicing and doing drill after drill it becomes mental. I believe that is where the Ohio State defense hit a wall last year and this new coach is going to have to work very hard to overcome this mental wall.

Characters-Week 3

The first story we were supposed to read for my class was Cultural Baggage, and I personally thought that this piece was a bit confusing. I started reading it and I just felt like it didn't really have a direction, I felt like it was very all over the place. I started forming one idea of what I thought it was all about but then it would change because the way the story was going changed. Not until the end did I somewhat understand what the writer was getting at. I thought it was just an overall confusing story. Then the second book we had to read was Pet Milk, and I thought this was much easier to understand. It was easier to follow and at the end I understood what he meant from telling the story. I liked how this was more of a telling of how he goes through his days, it was easier to follow. I think I had trouble with the first story because it was someones ideas and thoughts.

Is the new iPhone a good fit?

I was recently reading an article about the new iPhone 6 and all its new little quarks and how it is the new best thing out there on the market. But what really caught my attention was how the new CEO of Apple, Tim Cook, is running the show. Everyone knows that Steve Jobs was a very focused and business driven person. He was known as being kind of mean and not very open minded and everything had to be his way. He was a touch but successful leader which made Apple popular and successful. Ever since his passing we haven't heard much about the new CEO and how he is handling the new title, that is until the new iPhone came out last week. Cook is a much more laid back and open minded kind of guy, says his coworkers. He tries to get multiple peoples ideas into creating new products and making existing products better. There are a lot of people at Apple who like this new more laid back and open view, but others are concerned that he is to nice and won't be as successful as Jobs. Jobs was successful because he was tough and narrow minded, but at the same time he could have closed the door on great opportunities and ideas for Apple as the new CEO would take that idea and let it grow and it could turn into something. There are obviously a good and bad side to both of these two men, but there has been a literal 180 in the leadership at Apple and how will the company handle it?

Looking Into the Character-Week 2

I found it very interesting, in class the other day, that we were reading more into the characters of stories and the person reading or telling the stories. I never really thought about looking into that person before, other than just following them along in a book or something. I realized it could really help me understand a book better, and it could help me understand the character and why they are saying something or doing something. People read books and other things to connect to them and what I learned in class is an even better way to connect to a story than to just read it. I never really knew that you could figure out so much about a character when you just analyze what they say and how they say things. Then again I never really took the time to think about it or try to analyze a character.

Intro.

My name is Danielle Rieck and I'm a freshmen at WMU. I graduated from Mattawan High School in April and I turned 19 over the summer and I can't wait to get this new chapter of my life started! I'm going into the business college for finance. I'm not very good at math but somehow I understand finance. I'm originally from Ohio but I moved here about 10 years ago and I've been here ever since. I really like college football, and I'm a big Ohio State fan, which has been fun living in Michigan. I also really like soccer and I played for about 9 years but I stopped because I was having to many issues and injuries with my ankles. I'm also addicted to Pinterest so I will probably get a lot of idea from there and I pretty much pin everything on there, like hair and beauty, fashion, make up and nails, places I want to visit, and basically anything that catches my eye!