The Perfect Lighting

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         Why is confidence confused with cockiness? For years, I was bullied for how awful school photos of me turned out,

 like I had any real say in that type of thing! My confidence was so bad that I changed my settings on Facebook so that 

when someone attempted to tag me in a photo, good or bad, I had to approve of the tag before it showed up on my 

timeline. And out of nowhere, literally, someone posted a photo from their living quarters saying “selfie” and a whole new 

world erupted in front of me. 

Long gone were the days of bullying once I got to taking and mastering the selfies. In fact, it became almost an 

aesthetic for me. My entire family would reference the Madonna song “Vogue” when ever they saw me prepping for a 

selfie. It drove my parents mad! If we were out and about and I had an opportunity to take a selfie with the help of perfect 

lighting, I wouldn’t hesitate. 

        The best part about selfies is that I’m in total control. You see me how I want you to see me. A photo is worth a 

thousand words and in a selfie I’m screaming “see me in this light!!” both literally and figuratively (we all know natural light 

makes for the best photo). I don’t take selfies because I’m the prettiest person on this planet, no. I take selfies because I 

can ALMOST be the prettiest person on this planet simply because I have all the control!

Summaries

What I’ve learned of summary writing this past week is that most of us are, well, doing it wrong. I realized I have to 

make more mention of the film’s habits rather than the characters. For instance, instead of saying “Jane Doe leaves to 

never return again” I should say the film portrays Jane Doe leaving and never returning again”.  I also realized I am awful 

at writing in the present tense. 

All things aside, I wasn’t terribly awful at writing the summary either. I didn’t include how I felt about situations, I simply 

wrote a very brief snippet of what the film was about. Rather than describing how I felt when the film portrayed a character 

doing something wrong I just stated what the character did wrong. I would also like to think that I kept my summary short 

enough for it to be considered an actual summary but in depth enough to explain the important details. 

I wasn't asleep.. I was closing my eyes to visualize a better movie...

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         From "Deadly Sins: Mother's Little Killers" all the way to "How to Get Away With Stealing", I have seen many documentaries in my short-lived life. I began watching documentaries when the Pretty Little Liars' episodes became repetitive. Not only because of that but also because in my Psychology class in high school we were required to watch one documentary at the end of every week and relate it back to one of our classroom discussions.

         My favorite documentary is "The Secret Life of The Brain". Ever since I was little I had always been interested and fascinated with the brain and its many hats. So interested that my entire family thought I would go on to be a brain surgeon or a neuropsychologist. Yet, here I am, undecided as a sophomore trying to figure out what degree to pursue that will allow me to work in the many fields I am interested in.

         In my opinion, using documentaries as subject matter can help me as writer because it gives enough structured flexibility. By that I mean I'm allowed to pick a documentary of my choice, one that interests me, or that I have totally seen before and will make writing about it that much easier, or one that I have researched and definitely know that I won't agree with can again make writing about it so much easier.

         For instance, earlier in the week we very briefly discussed Black Fish, some people had seen the documentary and genuinely seemed interested. On the other hand some had never heard of it and couldn't care less about it. The point I'm getting at is if you were to assign us all the same documentary, Black Fish, and tell us to write about it some responses would be fantastic and well thought out, while other responses may be brief and not as much effort would have been put fourth. By allowing us to choose a documentary of our own choice I think our personal papers will be very good because we're choosing something that interests us rather than something chosen for us.

         I watched "Project NIM", for those of you interested in psychology, sociology, or social work for that matter should definitely give this documentary a chance. I was fascinated from start to finish which made writing about the documentary a breeze. In my paper I touched briefly on the topic of "the forbidden experiment" if any of you are familiar with that term. I think that getting to pick the documentary really allowed me to include my interests and concerns in the paper. I felt like I was writing because I wanted to, not because I needed to reach a certain length requirement and that was a good feeling!

Perks of the Big Bird (Twitter)

“It is absurd that college graduates today are carrying debts of $50,000, $100,000 or more. We must deal with the issues of student debt.” -Bernie Saunders 

Earlier this week in CW2 we discussed a very popular social media site, Twitter. 

While Twitter can sometimes represent what a lot of people think it does, #uselessness, it can be a source of reliable information when it comes to topics you’re mildly interested in. For instance, as college students ranging in ages from eighteen to late twenties- we can virtually run the world when it comes to politics and voting.

While I’m into politics, I’m not all that educated. I catch snip-its on the morning news where I overhear Trump’s idiotic statements, followed by me changing the channel to something much more entertaining- let’s say MTV’s TrueLife. I realize I need to pay attention to the coverage on who is running and why, but I can’t seem to listen to a news channel’s biased reports and opinions. So, I took to Twitter and found myself hitting the follow button when it came to all the running candidates. Just a short week later I found myself unfollowing candidates and those they were involved with. 

What is astounding about Twitter, in my opinion was that while following Trump I was reading things that he directly tweeted, retweeting things he believed in, or rather- an assistant was. However, these statements all hold true. I was following what Trump believed in and stood for and realized “whoa, I don’t like this, that isn’t right.” So I unfollowed and decided that Trump was somebody I wasn’t going to vote for in the upcoming election. Among finding this out I discovered something, or someone, even greater. 

Bernie Saunders is also running for presidency. After following him on Twitter and finding that a lot of the changes I hope to see, he is standing for, I’ve realized he is someone I would be proud to call president. However, if it weren’t for Twitter, I would’ve been ignorant to his running and would’ve thought we would be doomed to be controlled by dun dun dun dun.. Trump!

As previously stated, Twitter is home to a lot of nonsense, but when used correctly can be a hub of great resources. If Twitter isn’t something you’re currently using, you may want to reconsider!