Almost Like Shakespeare

I have learned that tend to choose topics that deal with grief, trauma, or something sad.  Every time I chose an open topic for a paper, I ended up writing the paper about one of these ideas or themes.  I didn’t notice it until the semester came to a close.  I wondered why I kept picking these sad topics, and I realized that it could be for a number of reasons.  The top two reasons being that , I feel that there is more to talk about with these sad topics than with happy topics. You can analyze things much more and it causes you to think more because there are so many things that cause sadness.  There are also so many things that create happiness but these things could be very simple and just not as interesting in my opinion.  It is easy to get through life being happy, but it very hard to deal with sadness and overcome it.  By overcoming our sadness, we are able to eventually be happy.  The other reason i ended up writing about these things is most likely because of the bad things that have happened in my life.  I have had more contact with sadness than happiness so I feel like I can talk a lot more about sadness.  Also it feels very therapeutic to write about sad topics because I can get my ideas about a certain topic out of my head.
My favorite paper to write was the research paper because I got the chance to talk about movies and analyze them.  I really enjoy doing this but can never do it outside of my free time or do it with other people for fun.  I feel like my writing has gotten better grammatically as long as I proof read my papers. When I don’t proofread, it messes everything up.  I also feel like I have gotten better at analyzing passages and clips from films.  I still need work on not waiting till the last minute to write most of my papers.  I also need to proofread way more.  That is my main weakness.

Raising Victor Vargas

Raising Victor Vargas was a really good movie.  When I was watching it, I was thinking about how Victor reminded me a lot about of guys that I would see in the park and on the block in my old neighborhood.  They would always just try and go after any girl that they thought was attractive and really didn’t respect them.  They didn’t see beyond the physical appearance of the girls and it would just burn me up.  As the movie progressed, I started to see that my first impression of Victor was not completely accurate.  I mean he did only care about having a hot girlfriend, but he was actually faithful to her.  This was not something I would have expected because he was initially with her to cover up for the fact that he had been caught with fat Donna.  Then he found out that she was just using him to keep away other guys.  I think this was when Victor started to change from the typical teenage boy you would see in that type of environment.  The next dramatic event that caused Victor to start changing was when his grandmother attempted to throw him out.  He finally started to realize that he needed to get his act together because she was serious about not wanting him.  This reminded me a lot about incidents that have happened in my family.  The conflict between victor and his grandmother reminded me a lot of my mother and brother.  The thing with Victor is that he has the capacity to do good and be a good grandson.  He just needed his grandmother to be more understanding about how he is.  He may not be as determined and focused as his little brother, but he does love him.  He tried to just give him some advice on how to deal with girls, but their grandmother misunderstood this.  She instantly thought that victor was being a bad influence on his little brother.  This is a perfect example of when she needed to be more understanding.  By the end of the movie she starts to be more understanding and the family is seen as slowly getting closer together.  This is seen when victor unlocks the phone and then his sister starts to use it.  In the beginning of the movie, he did not get along with his sister at all.  By the end, he does her the favor of unlocking the phone.  Overall I feel like Raising Victor Vargas is a really good movie and has a lot to teach people about understanding each other.