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Good Old Fashioned Hand Turkey

Posted on November 15, 2012 | 2 comments

Frederick the Turkey

As a result of this coming week being Thanksgiving (and the request of some fellow classmates) I decided to make my craft this week Thanksgiving related. Now I know we all miss the holiday parties in elementary school, where you spent the week before break making all sorts of things in art class and in actual class. I figured why not attempt to head back to elementary school and try to make a good old fashioned hand turkey.

Before I could start my turkey I had to invest in some extra supplies. So I went to the bookstore and picked up a booklet of construction paper. Then I grabbed some scissors and tape from my room and went to work. I first drew the circles for the head and body and cut a small corner off of an orange sheet of paper. I then traced my hand on 3 pieces of paper (orange, red, and yellow). After cutting everything out, I was able to put my hand turkey together. Also, you can either use black paper for the eyes or just take a pen/Sharpie and draw little black circles. At first I thought to myself “This can’t be rocket science” and boy was I wrong. Apparently my patience in elementary school was better than it is now. When I realized how long it’d take me to cut everything out I began to cut corners. But I’m not going to lie; I’m pretty impressed with how my turkey came out. It was nice to be able to do something so simple though. This week has been mildly stressful, and I think seeing this turkey (whom I named Frederick) around my room will make me feel much better. And I might even be reminiscent of elementary school. Everyone should definitely do this, or something that is a cut out, it’s a lot easier than I remember (minus the painful cutting out of things). I hope everyone has a happy Thanksgiving! Now go make your own turkey that’s not for eating!

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Support your men’s basketball team!

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This past week the Men’s Basketball team had their season opener against St. Francis University. I had been hearing about the basketball team since I got here. I feel like their PR people are really trying to get the job done. They have been in the HUB for a very long time. I feel like all of their attempts to get people to attend games are a perfect example of rhetoric. They were selling seasons tickets religiously for about two months now. They even had Coach Chambers come in and try to sell tickets to students. They also were handing out free posters for a very long time. All of this was clearly an attempt to get kids to attend the games and support the team. And even last Friday some kid was sitting at their booth in the HUB yelling “Freshmen get in free!!!” This last attempt to get people to come to the games was what caught my attention.  Later that night my friend and I ran out of things to do and decided to check out the game. And to say the least it was mildly disappointing. The team had gone to all the efforts to spread the word about the games, and very few kids were actually there. I had gone in expecting an atmosphere similar to football games and it was nothing like that. I felt bad for the team because it made them look like the shunned step-child next to the football team. It was just unfortunate that their rhetorical efforts went unnoticed.  Personally I just wanted to go to see Coach Chambers in action, having him in the HUB was enough to get me interested. I’m not sure if people start showing up more religiously when they are playing Division teams, but everyone should definitely make an effort to attend a few games. It’s actually really fun because you can enjoy the pep band, be around some rowdy fans, and watch a good game. So I definitely encourage everyone to go see the men’s basketball team play before the season is over to support your Basketball Lions, because they deserve the support too!

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WIP Public Controversy

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So this week when my group met we brainstormed a lot of controversial topics. All of them ranging from the passage of laws allowing the recreational use of marijuana to child soldiers around the world. I feel like all of the topics we discussed were great and potential things for us to address. This assignment is definitely going to turn out to be very interesting. I think every group will approach a topic in their own way and this will make everything cool.  My only concern with this project is the incorporation of iMovie. I’ve never worked with it before, and I guess I’ll have to figure it out before I have to work with my group. Anyways, I think my group is really focused on the controversy of child soldiers. This is clearly a topic that many Americans are sensitive too. If anyone remembers the whole Kony thing that came out of nowhere, people started an uproar for a short time period, but then it kind of died out. Anyways, it is definitely something that people do not approve of here in the states, but I imagine we could also approach the view of those who use the child soldiers and see how they look at the situation. Not only is the situation controversial, but the views of those in charge is also controversial. I feel like we would definitely be able to make a video that meets the time requirements because there is so much information on this subject. I am really looking forward to what other controversies people pick and how they approach their videos. I personally liked the State Patty’s Day video a lot, and hopefully my group’s project will be just as great as that one!

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