age

Growing up, I was always curious about where I would be when I grow up. What job I was going to have, who I was going to marry, where was I going to live, and I couldn't believe any paper that one of my classmates folded with premade answers. But its funny, when we are young, we want to be older. We just want to be 16 so we can drive, we want to be 18 so we can be officially an adult. We want to be 21 so we can drink. Sometimes we don't appreciate youth. But as people get older, they wish they were young again. Kids have it easy, their necessity's are paid for, no bills to pay, adults wish they didn't have to worry about stuff like that. To adults, youth means a fresh new start. a re-do at their life. If only a push of a button could make that possible.

Skills

 The top five skills I want to learn from college are:


1. teamwork


2. organization


3. defusing a situation


4. speaking/communication


5. stress handling


I believe that these five important skills will be necessary to learn, and master before I leave college to have a successful career and to be a awesome dad. With the teamwork skills, its important to be able to work together for a common goal, withier is at work at the police station, which is where I want to work, or at home with the family. With teamwork, comes being able to trust one another. With organization, you don't want to look like a slob when it comes to police uniform, or work desk, it will make 100% more efficient if I know where everything is. It could also be important at home, so you can have a less stressful morning when you are helping your kids get ready for school, or your getting yourself ready for work. When I say defusing a situation, I'm talking about making something that could get out of hand real fast, and just ease the situation, or get it to stop dead in the water. Police officers come to a lot of potential bad situations, and its their job to defuse the situation by talking it out or by arresting someone. when it comes to home life, you never want to be in a screaming match, because that will never get you anywhere, or its important to try to handle a argument between your children and make sure that both sides come away happy. Speaking, or communication is key at work and at home. communication with fellow co workers can make it easier when it comes to the task at hand, or an emergency that requires all hands on deck. when your at home, communicating with your spouse about anything from stuff that stress you out to something that bothered you can save a lot of arguing instead of just bottling it up inside until you get in a huge fight and let it all out. Stress handling can be beneficial as you get older, ad get into more stressful environments. you don't want to build up all this stress from your work or at home, because eventually your going to let it out, and you might regret who you blow up on or when you blow up.

group blog

During the 1940s, morals and ethics played a large role in motion pictures. Hitchcock portrayed ethics in some very interesting ways in his films. In many scenes, he also found ways around being completely ethical, but still staying within the guidelines. Some specific parts where this can be seen in Notorious are in some of the women’s clothing, the kissing, alcohol and drunk driving, women being a part of an undercover job, and women participating in adultery.

The clothing that women wore throughout the 1940s was meant to form a sort of silhouette. Woman wore dresses with broad, wide shoulders and tight waist bands to form an hourglass shape. In Notorious, you can see that Alicia wears long, tight waisted dresses with square shoulders. This gives her an hourglass shaping to her body and makes her look professional. You can even see when she wears the suit on the airplane that it still follows these ideal aspects.

Throughout Notorious Alicia (Ingrid Bergman) and Devlin (Cary Grant) begin to become closer as they work together undercover. Eventually, the two find themselves in love. Of course being in love requires some kissing scenes, though this was difficult in the 1940s. The Production Code of 1930 was created to set some moral guidelines for motion pictures in the United States. This occurred during the period of Silent Movies switching to Sound. Due to the code, “Excessive and lustful kissing, lustful embraces, suggestive postures and gestures, were not to be shown.” This meant that even though they were in love, Ingrid and Cary could not show their characters’ true emotions. Hitchcock’s way around this was to have the couple do multiple short kisses, rather than one long kiss. Though it may look odd if you were to watch Notorious today, it was a very clever way around the rule then to be able to still show passion in his movies.

One scene portrayed in Notorious showed Alicia driving a car with Devlin after a party. The scene clearly shows Alicia is under the influence of alcohol as she is swerving all over the road and she cannot see straight. After World War II, the car market was on a rise. Everyone was buying cars and most drivers were uneducated. Laws prohibiting drunk driving began in 1910 but intoxication was not clearly defined at this point. In the 1930s lawmakers stated that a driver with a BAC of 0.15 percent or higher is inebriated. By the 1970s DUI laws become more strict and the legal drinking age was raised to 21. Today, drunk driving is an incredibly unethical action and a driver with a BAC of 0.08 percent is considered inebriated. In 2014, 9,967 people died and 290,000 people were injured in accidents due to drunk driving. In the 1940s, drunk driving may not have been seen as unethical as it is today because the laws that were placed then were not as strict as today. Also, less accidents had been reported then versus today.

In Notorious, we see one of the main characters, Alicia Huberman played by Ingrid Bergman, get thrown into the world of covert intelligence and spy business. What many don't know is that if this was actually set in the late 1940’s, Alicia might not be there. Women were not a big part of federal intelligence agencies during that time period, as far as field agents. Now during WWII, there was a substantial increase in women police officers, but even they were put on leash for what they could do while in the law enforcement. Indeed there were women in agencies, but they were doing desk work. Field agents were seen as a “thing only for boys”. It wasn't until 1972, that women were allowed to join FBI training. This goes to show that Alfred Hitchcock wanted to make his film stand out, and probably got heads to turn when they saw what a woman was doing in the film.

During the movie Notorious, after Alicia and Alex get married, Alex keeps suspecting her of having an affair with Devlin. Back in this time period, there was a different belief about marriages. They encouraged women to think of marriages as a successful career. They believed that it was the women's job to make sure the marriage was happy, his career was successful and that it didn’t end in divorce. Even if the problem in the marriage was alcohol or an affair from the men, it was the wife's job to change something to bring him back home. There was a thought back then that the wife was supposed to make the marriage work and nothing was her fault even if the man was having an affair. If a woman had an affair in the time period, it was much more taboo and less common than a man. If the woman had an affair it looked bad on the husband and not her.

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wrestling

Its getting to be that time of year again, Michigan high school wrestling finals. I was very lucky enough to be on a team where we went to team states all four years I wrestled. The experiences there at Kellogg Arena in Batllecreek Michigan I will remember for the rest of my life. I was also very fortunate to be able to go to individual states my senior year. Although I didn't medal, It was a big accomplishment to me, and to my family. The sport of wrestling takes a lot out of you. But, it has such a great reward for people who give everything they have from the end of October to the beginning of March.  

biggest regret

My biggest regret is not being their for her, and being selfish. Just recently I lost the love of my life, and now I'm just sitting here, broken, thinking of all the things I did wrong, all the things I never said or should've said. It defiantly follows the not pattern. I regret how I treated her and how I acted. She is way too good for me. I believe there is a quote some where that says you don't know what you truly have until its gone, or something like that. This relates to lies and deception, by making myself blind to how I treated her and how I took her granted. I deceived myself that everything was ok, until she walked out, now I'm just sitting here, writing this post, wishing that this wasn't the example I have, and  that I still had her.

RA

So after a long, but short process, The Defiance College student life staff decided that I will get to be an RA next year. I'm very excited for this new role ill get to be a part of. I've always known I wanted to help people, (criminal justice major). I defiantly think this will help me get adjusted to being thrown into any situation, and just being ready to face it head on. I just hope I will be respected.

week five

When Meyer talks about lying is a cooperative act, she means that even if you are being the one lied too, you agree to being lied to. You don't question their lie, you believe its the truth. When she said that lying is a way for us to connect what we wish to be, I believe she means that if I want people to believe that I'm strong, ill tell my buddies that I squat 600 pounds. Id agree that we are against lying but covertly for it. We tell people that we hate when people lie, or we get mad when some lies to us, but, we are all hypocritical.  we will all lie to get ahead, protect, or avoid something or someone. Some of the techniques to spot liars are body behavior and how the person tells the story. I think we should learn the techniques is to spot liars and to kind of replay how we tell lies and see if we do those things too. I think honesty is worth preserving, but to some degree. If we are truthful 100% of the time, there would be so many murders, divorces, and other bad things. You cant have a child lose his/her innocence just because you have to tell her the truth about Santa Claus and the Easter bunny.