Storyboard

Quickly and easily contact others

Something everyone can relate to

Keeps me updated with all of my friends

Keeps my life organized

Moments like these we will remember for a lifetime

The people that I will be friends with for the rest of my life

Capturing memories we will never forget

Making memories with the people I have become closest to

Keeping in touch with friends even though hundreds of miles apart

Making new friends along the way

Music for Essay

"Wanted" by Hunter Hayes- Instrumental Version
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=16u_STkjar0

"Sweet Serendipity" by Lee Dewyze- Instrumental Version
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3b9mDTMSsn8


I love the guitar and piano in both of these and I think will go well with my speech.

Music Video Snapshots

She is crying over the loss of her boyfriend.

They used to be inseparable, spending so much time with each other

She is sick to her stomach over his death, and her mom is also so upset at her daughters loss.

She is chasing after him, after he leaves.

They were very much in love with each other.

She is lost without him.

Seeing his empty seat in class is killing her.

They were young lovers.

She is very depressed over his death.

Music Video Analysis

I chose to analysis the song "What Hurts the Most" by Rascal Flatts. This song was released in 2006 in their "Me and My Gang," so I have been listening to this song for a while. I have always enjoyed Rascal Flatts music and when I was listening to this song I had never fully understood what it meant until I saw the music video. Normally when I listen to songs I don't stop and think about what they are saying and the meaning of the song. It’s helpful though to watch the music videos to help understand what some songs mean. I understood that it obviously was about someone being upset and hurt about losing someone, but I didn’t know what they had fully meant by losing someone. When I was just listening to the lyrics it made it a bit hard to decipher. However, now that I have seen the music video I understand more of the meaning behind why they wrote the song. At first it starts off with a girl crying then lashing out at her dad and screaming at him. It is clear that she is upset and blaming her dad for something. Then as the video goes on, I start to discover more about her boyfriend and how close they were and they spent a lot of time together. Throughout this there are little snip-it’s that she is very upset without him and I start to understand what is going on. They show her alone in class, sitting next to an empty seat and her in tears, at first I just thought that they had broken up and she was just very upset. I don’t start to fully understand the meaning of the entire song until the very end when you see her chasing after his truck and he gets in a car crash and she ends up next to a cross on the side of the road. Then once the video is completely over I started to put all the pieces together of what the song was fully about.

At the very beginning when the girl in the video is screaming at her dad, I later find out that he didn’t approve of her boyfriend and made them break up. The day that he came over and they broke up; after he left her house he got in a car crash and passed away. So she blames her dad for making her break up with him and she is just so upset that her life is in shambles. The video shows a scene of her in the bathroom puking because she is just so sick to her stomach from all of the depression. It shows both of her parents also feeling the pain with her; both of their hearts are broken with saddens for their daughter. Music videos seem to help a lot with understanding the full meaning of songs. With a visual along with audio helps me put the two together and make complete sense of the entire product.

TIB Rough Draft

While Facebook is great to have all your friends in one place, and you can quickly find what there up to, but it’s also a place where there are so many of your so called “friends.” While all of us have those friends on Facebook we know from school but we wouldn’t actually spend more time with them then we have to. There are actually a select few off of our total Facebook friend list that we spend a lot of time with. While scrolling through my timeline there are a few people that just clog up my news feed with silly pictures or status updates that we all know no one cares about. For me there are really just a few people that I care to see what they are up to. For all the rest of them I honestly don’t care what high score you got on some game or this random page you liked. Facebook randomly seems to pick and choose what it thinks it wants you to see, and it tends to show you some things from certain people and not other things from that same person.

The reason I love Facebook so much is that it is so convenient being that my best friend lives 8 hours away so by getting on Facebook I can easily see what she’s up to. I can see all of her new friends and it feels I can experience a small part her life. Even being hundreds of miles apart, I still can communicate, connect with her, and it is all easy to find in one place. Between messages, chatting, and commenting on pictures, we can keep up with each other and stay in touch. Without Facebook keeping in touch with her would be much more difficult.

“Creep” is a word that has definitely changed since Facebook has gone so global. Before Facebook “creep” was a word that tended to be a little sketchy and make some people feel a bit uneasy. Now everyone is guilty of creeping on Facebook. Half of the point of Facebook is for people to find others and look at all there pictures and everything on their profile, to “creep” nonetheless.

However it’s also crazy how Facebook has changed the definition of what a “friend” is.  Who would you consider your “friend”? Are all your Facebook friends your actual friends? When you look at all the friends you have on Facebook, how many of them would you call up to hang out with? Probably not many, I know most of my Facebook friends I’m really not that close to. And when you look at all these people who have a couple thousand friends, it makes you question how they a) know that many people and b) be close to that many people. Most likely they couldn’t be that close to all of them, I would be surprised if they were close to half of their Facebook friends.

This I believe (2)

I listened to “Returning to What’s Natural” by Amelia Baxter-Stoltzfus. She realizes that even though she may die her hair she knows that she can still go back to the color she was born with easily. She talks about how her mom always used to say that the color you were born with is the color you should have. However, she enjoyed mixing it up. She could easily be bold and chose red or not so bold and go with just some highlights. She enjoyed putting some spunk in her hair during the winter or not as adventurous for summer. She loves that she can always go back to what is natural.  Even though she may want to reinvent herself with her new hair color, she won’t know what color works best until she tries it. So for all she knows she may look awesome as a red head but if she never tried it she will never know.  She does like permanent change, though not for her hair die. That is the one thing she enjoys mixing up.  She wrote her “this I believe” speech when she was in high school, so her thoughts may have changed once she went into college, but throughout high school that is what she liked and how she wanted to mix things up was through her hair color.

                I can’t relate to her story as much as I could with my first “this I believe” speech. For one I have never died my hair, and two I’m not one for change. I seem to like what I’m used to and like to stay in my comfort zone. At times I wish I didn’t like the “norm” as much, but I can’t help it, I like a routine and for things to stay that way. I enjoy a few new things here and there but for the most part I enjoy keeping with the same thing.

This I Believe

I listened to “The Second-Hardest Job” by Tina Boscha.  Tina Boscha explains how difficult it is to be a step parent. Over time she has developed a wonderful relationship with both of her step-daughters. She has talked with them about whether they should call her mom or Tina. They decided that they will both be okay with either one, whichever comes out first. Luckily Tina has a great relationship with her step daughter’s mother and they are a team with parenting the kids.  She says that step-parenting is the hardest job behind parenting. With the difficulty of getting along with the step-kids or them liking you, I can understand how it can be the second hardest job. She helps the kids with homework, calls in sick to school when they youngest is not feeling well and even wipes runny noses. She loves their goofy dances and song, and then hates all the questions and screams.  She is forever moved by this and will always be a step parent. For the rest of Tina’s life she will always have these girls as her step-daughters and she will be forever changed.

 I have never personally had any step-parents but I can relate in the way that I have been as close with my best friend moms that I could call them my own. I would feel completely comfortable asking them for anything. I know I could call them at any time and they would drop what they were doing and help me with whatever I needed. I am so grateful to have them and appreciate everything they do for me. I love having them as people that I can talk with about anything and for hours on end. I love them dearly and don’t know what I would do without them.