The enchanting journey of finding Stevie

On our hunt for Stevie in the library we started off in the Instructional Materials Center, on the third floor, since we know Stevie loves his music. There we found our first clue as to where he might be, on the Rolling Stone Album, Some Girls.

Then we went the fourth floor of the library in search of the kidnapper of Stevie Pointer. After scanning through the books we were able to realize that it was Charlie Chaplin.

Next we took the elevator to the Archives section on the fifth floor to find where our hostiage was being held. We found im in an old abandon study carrol. We were able to save the monkey.

 

We chased the kiddnapper up to the sixth floor where we saw him planning out his escape.

 

We hopped onto the elevator down to the second floor. Here we needed to find where the school newspaper was distributed. After saying the secret password we were given another clue as to where he was.

After walking down the steps we saw a shark hanging from the ceiling in the library. We needed to find a bird egg in the large collection of eggs in the libraries beautiful museum. Upon finding the small egg we yet again recieved another clue. 

Finally we walked over to the Reference Center were we were given the final clue.

Once we unscrammbled the letters we ran up to the fifth floor where we sucessfully saved Stevie Pointer. He was just chilling in a box and was happier than ever to see our faces.

 

 Thanks to this wonderful scavenger hunt we now all know how to successfully find all our resources in the library.


By: Monica Natzke, Heidi Weber, Jack Ivansek

Journal 6

Lets have an adventure with Adventure Time

            The article I read, ‘Adventure Time’: Finn actor Jeremy Shada is ‘constantly surprised’, by Noelene Clark was extremely interesting. This cartoon show is broadcasted over a children’s television network, but it is not your average cartoon program. This show has a huge following from kids, college students and beyond. The show follows Finn, a thirteen-year-old boy, and Jake, a shape-changing dog, around the land of Ooo while they go on all sorts of crazy adventures in the amazing graphically appealing world. When Noelene Clark asked Jeremy Shada, voice of Finn, why this show has such a popular adult following he says “It’s got tons of silly humor, and even the animation style is very colorful and bright, which the kids love. But it does have a lot of over-the-head humor as well, and a lot of things that parents and adults and college people will get that kids aren’t likely to get.”

This is a huge step forward for the creator Pendleton Ward to make in this animation series. To be able to have a show that is completely interesting to a broad range of audiences in a way that everyone has awesome time watching it for their own reasons is really cool. I know I personally enjoy this show along with my friends, and siblings. This show blends enough animation and childish humor along with excellent storylines to keep all audiences on their toes each and every episode. I would recommend this show to anyone who is looking for a new and different show to start watching.

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Article: http://herocomplex.latimes.com/2012/11/18/adventure-time-finn-actor-jeremy-shada-is-constantly-surprised/#/0

Journal 5

      The Final Cut

         In the last scene of the movie, Alexander is completely struggling to move within the cramped bus. He realizes the plant he ate was actually very toxic and was slowly killing him. This led him to the sudden realization of how he viewed his own life principal about happiness. Before in the movie he said happiness is found in nature living alone, but the last thing he wrote in his journal was “Happiness only real when shared.” After he wrote this entry he bundled himself into his bed and laid down for the last time and looked up to the sky with a giant smile on his face. This made Alex’s complete transformation at finding out the true meaning in life. If only he would have realized this when he wasn’t starving to death and about to die.  Although for the first time in a long time Alex was extremely happy, because he found the true meaning in life and he looked over his journey and found out how much fun he did indeed have figuring it out.

            This scene is essential to this movie, because it was Alexander Supertramp’s journey to finding salvation in this world. Without his past experiences with all the members he has met along the way, he would have never came to this realization.  After this journey, Christopher McCandless found liberation from his dark worldview he once held. This scene exemplifies that even Chris, when he was in his weakest state of mind and physical ability, was still happy.  This scene fades from his smiling face towards the beautiful Alaskan sky where he was looking ever so ready to see what was his next step was for him. 

Film Concepts

       Realism is the interest and concern for the actual or real, a tendency to view or represent things as they really are. This term pretty much means giving us a completely true example of how things actually are. This is showcased in Michael Cimino’s The Deer Hunter, which in my eyes best portrays realism in a film. The movie gives the perfect example of showing everything exactly how it is. Antirealism an interest in or concern for the abstract, speculative, or fantastic. This term is best characterized as an altered form of reality that does not necessarily have to be formed through the expectations of the real world as we belong.  An example of this could be Donnie Darko. I feel this is true for this film, because it starts out pretty normal with a regular suburban teenager, but then the completely skewed world of Donnie’s is formed. Verisimilitude is the concept of achieving a film that combines both the realistic and antirealistic together into an extremely convincing appearance of the truth. It involves a clear concept of realism that includes extremely convincing, yet very unreal aspects of antirealism. This to me is best portrayed in the Titanic. In this film, they have the real ship disaster mixed with fantasy and romance making this a great example of a very skewed reality.