San Francisco Giants

Not many teams in any professional sport can say that they are true dynasty's. That is the case when it  comes to the San Francisco Giants. With there recent win of the 2014 World Series it is their third World Series victory in the past five years. They are hands down the greatest franchise in sports and arguably have some of the most valuable players in the MLB. Madison Bumgarner set records in the World Series by winning three games for the Giants and posting the lowest ERA in World Series history. It will be very interesting to see if the Giants are able to keep up their streak of postseason performances as many critics feel that they are the favorites to win the World Series again next year.

Picking Themes

This past Friday in class was very beneficial to everyone that was present. One of the main activities of the class was to get in pairs and help narrow down themes for our analytical papers that we have been writing. Overall I felt that this exercise was very beneficial because it helped students pick an overall number one important theme to focus on for their papers. It also helped in choosing a theme that was specific and not necessarily to broad of a topic. After walking out of the class on Friday I feel that I will now be able to go back and make my papers even stronger because of this activity in class.

Chicago Bears

Being that I am from the Chicago land area I can not help but be disappointed in the start of the Chicago Bears season. Prior to the start of the season they were considered a favorite to win the division but now it is being questioned whether or not they will even finish .500. Much of the blame for the season thus far is falling upon starting quarterback Jay Cutler. Everyone knows that Cutler has always been somewhat of a hot head but this season he has been severely struggling. The Bears with one of the best receiving cores in the NFL are struggling to put up points week in and week out. Could it be that defensive coordinators have finally figured out the schemes of 2nd year head coach Marc Trestman. Whatever the case may be I really hope that the bears will be able to turn things around before it is to late.

Class Cancelled

For the second time this year we had our class get cancelled. This eek was actually very nice to not have class because I had a scrimmage this past friday. Asides from class getting cancelled I decided to write my paper on the theme present in the Yellow Wallpaper. I also c\hose to analyze the song Gravity by John Mayer. Overall I thought that these papers were interesting because we were allowed to examine a theme of our choice from a story. I also enjoyed analyzing the song lyrics of a song of our choice in an attempt to find out the meaning of the song.

Kansas City Royals

Many sports critics around the country are now making the argument that the Kansas City Royals have become America's favorite team. In my opinion I would have to agree. As Americans we always seem to embrace the under dogs and cheer for them. That is exactly what the Kansas City Royals are. Going into this season nobody would have guessed that they would be playing in the World Series and on top of that have not lost in the playoffs. To say that the Royals are not America's favorite team at this moment would be an entirely wrong statement. The Kansas City Royals are without a doubt the best team in baseball at this time and arguably the best team in the country.

Previous Class Lack of Doing Homework

In last week's class it seemed that we all forgot to read the story that was due for class. Because of that lack of being able to do homework we now have to write three papers for this Friday's class. In my mind that is a lot of paper writing and is going to be pretty tough on top of the already heavy load of homework that I have for other classes. Asides from forgetting to do our homework as a class we also analyzed some more popular songs in the media today. The most interesting part about these exercises is the way that each person has completely different interpretations of each song. Personally I feel that writing the analytical papers is much easier than writing narrative papers too.

Highschool Football

In high school along with playing baseball I also enjoyed playing football for four years. This year my brother is the starting quarterback taking over my position from last year. Nazareth Academy this year is ranked top ten in the state of Illinois and has a very high number of Division 1 recruits for a small catholic school located in a fairly small suburb. The hype around the team this year has been very exciting as they are predicted to win the state championship for class 6a. Going into week seven the team has started out 6-0 and has one of their toughest challenges of the season this week facing Joliet Catholic. The game this week will be featured as the Comcast Game of the Week and will be aired on TV in the Chicagoland area. I am hoping to make it home this weekend to watch my former high school take on our conference rival Joliet Catholic.

Previous Class: Reflecting on Music

By far the most interesting aspect of our class last week was the exercise in which we analyzed different songs. I really enjoyed trying to dig deeper into the meaning of some of the songs that we listened. For some of the songs it was actually quite difficult to decipher what some of them were trying to get at. I did also enjoy discussing some of the different themes of the movie Carrie and I feel that the discussion helped give me a better idea of what to write about for this weeks writing assignment. In fact I am actually looking forward to writing about one of my favorite movies and analyzing a theme from that movie.