Notre Dame Football

To much of the dislike of my family I have to admit that I am a huge Notre Dame football fan. I would have to say that most of all this stems from Grandmothers strong passion for Notre Dame football as well. On the other hand the rest of my family does not enjoy Notre Dame football near as much as I do. In fact most of the time my family will root against Notre Dame simply to annoy me. My real purpose for writing this post is that this year there is much excitement for Notre Dame football. Everett Golson has returned from a season of not playing for the Irish and has looked better than ever this season so far. The Fighting Irish are off to a 4-0 start and are currently ranked ninth in the AP top twenty poll. This week is there biggest game so far this season as the Irish look to take on Stanford in South Bend. Be sure to tune in to CBS at 3:30 for the game.

Carrie

After leaving class last Friday I couldn't help but think about the movie that we had just watched. In all honesty that was one of the weirdest movies that I have ever seen. Overall I thought that the plot was very interesting but some of the camera angles really forced me to have trouble watching the movie. I would also have to say that I think that the overall oldness of the movie also contributed to the movie being sub par to me. I know that they recently released a remake and I would be interested to see how the remake compares to the older version that we watched in class. Asides from the movie I did enjoy the activities that we did in class. I most of all enjoyed trying to guess information about people simply by reading their papers.

Derek Jeters Departure

The 2014 Major League Baseball season will go down in the record books as one of the most memorable seasons of our generation. This year marks the final season of the twenty year career of Derek Jeter. Regarded as one of the greatest shortstops to ever play the game and one of the most iconic athletes of his era Jeter will be greatly missed by fans worldwide. Jeter was born and raised in the Kalamazoo area and has played his entire career with the New York Yankees. The Yankee captain is a five time world series champion, has been selected to the all-star team fourteen times, recipient of  five gold glove awards, five silver slugger awards, and is a member of the three thousand hit club. Jeter will be a unanimous hall of fame inductee and will always be remembered as one of the greatest players to ever put on a uniform. In the words of Jeter "I thank the good lord everyday for making me a Yankee".

This past Friday for one of our stories we were supposed to read Cultural Baggage. Overall I felt that this story was very interesting and offered a very different viewpoint on cultural identity. The narrator feels that America today is very much so immersed in the idea of our roots. On one hand he describes the people who state that they know exactly what their ancestors were doing while he sits back and says that he does not have any roots. The narrator discusses how growing up his parents did not force him/her to follow any type of guidelines but instead let him make his own decisions when it came to religion and ethnic choices. The narrator suggests that parents are in a way forcing their children to follow their own beliefs instead allowing them to make decisions of their own hence the title Cultural Baggage. Personally I would have to agree with the narrators assumptions on the concept of cultural baggage. For last Friday's class we were also supposed to read a story entitled Pet Milk. Personally I enjoyed this story a lot more than Cultural Baggage. I felt that the descriptive nature of the story gave a much more realistic feel to the characters and what they were doing. While reading the story I could almost feel the characters and could to a certain extent envision what they were doing. For example while reading the part of them on the train I could picture in my head a couple kissing on the train as they raced through Chicago. This story in my opinion is a perfect example of what can happen when detail is added to the setting of the story.

Past Class

This past class I'm not going to lie I was extremely confused about this whole blogger idea and to be quite honest I still am confused. Regardless of my confusion I am still attempting to write this blog so here's hoping that it will go well. So far I have enjoyed our creative writing class, asides from the fact that it is three hours. I have most of all enjoyed reading the stories and am very intrigued by the fact that poems can contain multiple different meanings. It was also nice to be able to have an in depth discussion about each of the stories that we read in class. Usually at my high school class discussions consisted of awkward silence for twenty minutes. Looking forward to class again this Friday.

My name is Jake Bartels and I am freshman living in Valley 1 Shilling. I am from Chicago Illinois and I am a huge fan of sports. My blog is going to mainly contain sports related topics. I am also planning on majoring in business finance with a law minor.