High School is hell.

            This article hits every detail about the metaphors in Buffy that I could imagine. Honestly, who didn’t occasionally refer to their high school as a hell hole, even if you did like your high school. I can see how the show takes the drama and troubles of high school and blows them up, to show how big of a deal they can be in a high school student’s mind. Making the cheerleading squad, may appear like something near worth killing in the distorted mind of a high school student. This article describes that the show uses metaphors to show how everything in high school is blown way out of proportion. However, I think there is also a part of the show that appears to be very real, the fear of a school shooting and suicide. These two things have sadly become a reality. I think the show is depicting how crazy it is that students have to worry about issues such as school shootings now by putting it in the same contexts as monsters and poison lunch food. In that respect I think this show is actually putting things into proper perspective by using these metaphors.

Dollhouse Season 2 Episode 1

            I watched the first episode of the second season of Dollhouse. In this show people essentially rent out their bodies to an organization that turns them into whatever they want, by erasing their memory and giving them new identities. It took me a little while to really figure out what was happening in the show but once I did, I found one issue in the show interesting. The character Echo is used as a sort of secret agent, she is given an identity and becomes the wife of a criminal, in order to bring the criminal down. This brought up the question, do the ends justify the means? Is it right to fool around with a human mind in order to take down a criminal? The pain that is caused by the people having their memories erased makes me believe that it is not a justified measure.

            I did not really like this show when it boiled down to it. I think that the idea of erasing peoples mind and stripping them of their identity is hideous. I was bothered by the protagonists in the show taking part in the activity. I am not saying I support the man selling weapons, but I saw no right or justice in the show.

My Relationship with Writing: The Roller Coaster

            My relationship with writing has gone through many different stages in the past few years alone. Senior year of high school, I was writing a lot of in class essays with the occasional paper thrown in the mix. I moved on to University of Wisconsin and in the first semester I had to write very few papers, all of which were opinion or reaction based for a Chicano/Chicana studies course I took. My writing began to pick up quite a bit second semester with the speech course I took. However all of this writing was speech writing, yes we needed sources and what not, but it was not the type of writing I was experienced in. I grew to really enjoy writing speeches, I felt they had purpose, due to the fact that all my classmates would hear them rather then just the teacher reading them. After all these changes in my academic career, I might have become a little rusty in the matters of formal writing and the run of the mill five paragraph essay.

            I am a journalism major, but I do not want a career in writing. I am looking for a career in broadcast journalism. However, I believe that in my career path your thoughts and speech must be clear and to the point in a similar way that certain forms of writing are. I think that as I become a better writer, I will also become a better speaker. I enjoy magazines and newspaper articles because they can capture a story or an idea in few pages. I eventually want to tell stories in just a few minutes over the air.

Serenity-Episode 1

I like the scene in Serenity where the thieves are trying to sell their stolen goods to Badger. I was interested in how intuitive and clever the main character was.  He immediately knew something was in question when Badger told them they were late.

What I also found interesting was that the captain would not be the kind of man to steal. He is put in good light.

Introduction

Hey everybody,

My name is Trevor Stengel, I am a sophomore transfer from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.  I am majoring in journalism here at OSU.  I would eventually like to be a broadcast journalist, and do sports broadcasting.

I love football, and I am pretty big Tennessee Titans fan.  I am from Cincinnati, OH, but I grew up all over the place.  I lived in Europe for five years during my childhood, including the Czech Republic, Germany and Switzerland.