American Dream

Lebron Blog Reflection

I found a incredible blog about Lebrons 2012 playoff run and his other accomplishments written by Tom Ziller. The layout of the blog is genius. After he write about a certain game or moment in the game he includes a video or photo of the moment or highlights of the game. I also like how the writer added how Lebron James failed in the NBA finals the year before. That made the things he accomplished seem just as greater now. The writer also includes a little humor to the blog. He has video of Lebron dancing after he won the Gold medal and he also has a video of Lebron dancing before his game against the New York. Overall I love this blog because I'm a huge fan of Lebron and I admire the way he played during the playoffs and finals this year after playing not so well in the last finals against the Dallas Mavericks. I also play basketball and its just cool to see that other people share the same thoughts about how great Lebron James. If you want to take a look at the blog here is the link: http://www.sbnation.com/nba/2012/12/26/3804188/lebron-james-2012-retrospective-nba-mvp-olympics.

Blog Reflection

As I reflect on my previous blogs since August, I realized that i have became a much better writer than when I first started writing blog post. My favorite part about some blog post is posting a picture with my writing. The picture helps me express what I have to say easier. I think my best blog was the mash up of Othello lines and a Wiz Khalifa song. It was fun to use a song that I love while also learning about Othello. I think my weakest area in the beginning was the length of some of the blogs. I had the tendency  to only write only a couple of sentences. But over the months my blog post began to become a little more lengthy. I want to try to get more views on my blogs as well because the material is so well written I think it should be seen.

Holiday Times

The holidays are a great time because that is when my brother comes
 down from college. My family are big sports fans. So during the holidays I usually have basketball tournaments and there are a lot of great NBA games on television. My family come to my games to watch me play and then we go home and thats when the fun starts. My mom and sister comes home and cook A big dinner and we all just sit around and watch NBA games. Also we all get together and fix up the christmas tree. We sometimes go to one of my family members house to eat dinner on christmas eve. After we eat dinner we go home and watch movies till its time to open gifts.

Post Othello

I think one issue to address is how some people are fake friends.  In Othello Iago showed me how you should really watch your friends close because they may not be a true friend. When I think of Iago i think of the quote "Keep yours friends close but your enemies closer." Also threw out the whole play I realized that the way Iago acted is how high school students are now. In high school everyone is going to run into that one fake friend that wants you to not do well. To summarize, Iago taught me to choose my friends wisely.

Another thing I was thinking is the same way Othello believed Iago about Desdemona is the same way the same situation would happen now a days. Usually the person is informed on some kind of social media that there boyfriend or girlfriend is cheating on them. And the they don't think to talk to them about it, they just believe what they are told. If Othello would have talked to Cassio and Desdemona together about the situation then maybe Desdemona wouldn't have been killed. I think we all have times when someone tells us something and it sounds so believable that we don't try to figure out the truth.

B. H. Fairchild

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Poetry Out Loud : Old Men Playing Basketball

Old Men Playing BasketballBy B. H. Fairchild

The heavy bodies lunge, the broken language   

of fake and drive, glamorous jump shot   

slowed to a stutter. Their gestures, in love   

again with the pure geometry of curves,

rise toward the ball, falter, and fall away.   

On the boards their hands and fingertips   

tremble in tense little prayers of reach   

and balance. Then, the grind of bone

and socket, the caught breath, the sigh,   

the grunt of the body laboring to give   

birth to itself. In their toiling and grand   

sweeps, I wonder, do they still make love

to their wives, kissing the undersides

of their wrists, dancing the old soft-shoe   

of desire? And on the long walk home   

from the VFW, do they still sing

to the drunken moon? Stands full, clock   

moving, the one in army fatigues

and houseshoes says to himself, pick and roll,   

and the phrase sounds musical as ever,

radio crooning songs of love after the game,   

the girl leaning back in the Chevy’s front seat   

as her raven hair flames in the shuddering   

light of the outdoor movie, and now he drives,

gliding toward the net. A glass wand

of autumn light breaks over the backboard.   

Boys rise up in old men, wings begin to sprout

at their backs. The ball turns in the darkening air.

When I imagine my poem I see old men trying to play a pick up game at a local park . I find this poem very interesting because its about basketball and I also play basketball. In my opinion  the best line in the poem is when he says "The heavy bodies lunge, the broken language of fake and drive, glamorous jump shot slowed to a stutter." This line is the best line because it is very funny to Imagine a group of old men trying to play basketball but they are really tired and short winded. Also them trying to shoot but cant really shoot because they can't really move. This poem also talks about how the old man want to relive there youth but they really can't because they are too old. The poet expresses this in the line when he says "the girl leaning back in the Chevy’s front seat as her raven hair flames in the shuddering light of the outdoor movie." I also find it amusing that the poet questions weather or not the old men can please there wives when he says, I wonder, do they still make love to their wives, kissing the undersides of their wrists, dancing the old soft-shoe of desire?" This poem was amusing because I have seen guys just as the poem explain.