Wednesday, January 15, 2014

The movie Gravity is a thrilling must-see movie of the year. He talks about how everything perfect and is a little bias.

he doesn't critsize the performance. and uses vague adjectives like "Jaw-Dropping".

although he compares it to his personal life, he uses accurate facts. his facts that he uses are specific and detailed.

he combines facts and reactions. i dont like how he brags about the actress\actors and says the movie wouldn't be half good without them.

it took 4 years to make this movie and he said it was worth the wait. he says George Clooney is the perfect actor for this movie.

The Russians demolished and obsolete satelite which is sending fragments, shards flying through the air.




Tuesday, January 14, 2014

Bansky

The film we watched is based on Banksy and Thierry and their street art.

I believe this film can be shown as journalism.

This is journalism because he has interviews about his art and all of his films can be also recognized as journalism.

Banksy could also show that this is journalism because the documentary was based on him telling and asking his opinion about Thierry's work.

Journalism is the profession of writing something. this can be seen as writing because Thierry shows films of him doing street art and recording all of his spots and art work in progress.

I also think some of Thierry's art work wasn't all of his. some of the art work i saw looks like i've seen it before.

To me journalism means a professional piece of writing or something that is written that can be proved by accurate facts and notes. it must also have some quotes or and interview would count to.

Banksy is a journalist because he is telling a story about how Thierry was just a street artist and turn into to something more because Banksy gave him some advice.

The part of the documentary i liked the most was when he painted the elephant.






Tuesday, January 7, 2014

The Falling Man

The video clip we watched was horrifying. On September 11, 2001 The World Trade center was crashed by a plane on a normal day.

The first plane hit the northern side of the building. As soon as the plane hit it exploded and made a lot of smoke and people could not breathe and were scared for there life because the smoke was toxic and it was really hot in the building.

About 30 minutes later a second plane hit. the second plane kind of hit the lower north side of the building. When the second plane hit people really knew now that this was no accident.

There was so much smoke that people tried hanging off of the building so that they would have some oxygen to breathe in instead of disgusting smoke.

People were so desperate that they jumped out of the 110 story tall building but they obviously knew they werent going to survive that jump.

if i were in this situation i wouldnt have known what to do either. i would not have had the guts to jump of a 110 story building or even hang off of it to get oxygen because i am so afraid of heights.

i believe that the people who were in the building were really scared for their lives and i would be to. but the people jumping out of the buildings are really brave and bold people.


Thursday, December 26, 2013

Sports Story

On Monday December 16, 2013 @ 7 pm the Roosevelt Roughriders took on the Indianola Indians at Roosevelt highschool. who do you believe will win the game? " i dont know, well just have to see", says Roosevelt assistant coach Daley.

The Riders were winning by three points in the first quarter with 1 min and 50 secs left, the Indianola shooting gaurd # 34 hit a three to tie the game up.

how do you think the refs affected the game? "they were calling real weak fouls and late fouls", said Roosevelts Emmanuel Mabior.

Third quarter was a little intense because the players were playing a little dirty because they knew that the refs were a liite off with their whistle and knew that they would call the foul or hopefully not call it at all, the Indians were winning at the end of the 3rd quarter.

Then the 4th qaurter came around, this is when everyone gets excited and cheers really loud. 2 mins to go Roosevelt down 7, to behonest i thought the Riders were no longer in the game because Indianola was hot!

At any point did you believe that you guys were going to lose? "No, but i wouldve been pissed of if we would have lost to Indianola.

Wednesday, October 23, 2013

The most exciting thing ever.

The most exciting thing that ever happen to me was when i was selected as the mvp of the basketball camp i went to. I was 13 yrs old when i went to this camp and it was in Little Rock, Arkansas.

This was my first year ever playing organized basketball in other words on a team. I wanted to go to this camp because my coach recomended it and he told me that it will make you improve.

The drive from Iowa to Arkansas took about 10 hours and it was a pretty boring road trip. when we got to our hotel the first thing i did before unpacking was hop on the bed and go to sleep because i had a busy day ahead of me.

When i got to the Gym the next mourning, i saw a lot of younger and older kids. I was a little nervous at first because it was my first year really playing basketball and didnt understand it quite well.

We started by getting our jersey size and our shoe size. Then we did drills for the first 4 hours then had lunch.

The lunch we had was not very tasty. they served us pasta with really hard bread and a cup of cold coolaid, but it didnt even fill me up.

Camp was for 12 hours from 8am to 8 pm. after about the 5th hour i was exahusted and ready to go back home.

At the end of the camp everyone met at the center court and the owner of the camp announced the mvps for each grade level. i was selceted as the mvp for my age group and i was the most excitied ive ever been.




Thursday, August 29, 2013

Who Am I by Buay Chuol

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I am Buay Chuol. I am 15 years old and i'm in 10th grade. I was born July 31, 1998 in Minnesota.

I love to play basketball and I also like to run somewhat. I have 1 brother and 2 sisters and live with them and my mom. My dad lives in Marshalltown and I don't get to see him often.

My favorite food is Spaghetti. My favorite team in the NBA is the Miami Heat. Lebron james is my role model he is funny and takes basketball very serious.

I sometimes like to play video games. I like to play NBA 2k13. Or I play Black Ops 2.

I believe in God, But I don't go to church very much like I use to when I was younger. When I get bored I like to play basketball or when I have free time.

I love to listen to music. I listen to rap and I cant go a day without listening to music or I get kinda cranky.

I watch a lot of movies. I really like to watch movies, I like horror and comedy movies. I hate to read and I don't really read outside of school.

I use to live in Minnesota when I was younger and I think I kinda liked it better but we never really visited so I got use to boring Iowa. My favorite season is summer but I hate the bugs and im the only one in my family who has a birthday in the summer.