Writing and Living

The published review I looked at for "The Hunting Ground" was The New York Times. Their writing seems to be more open about the film and appears to be more of a summary, whereas my reflective writing is more about the content. Manohla Dargis, who wrote this review, says that the visual aspect of the film is somewhat of a mess. She also reveals that the directors approach to his material is evident in the opener. Her writing seems to focus more on the style of the movie than the actual story, which is how mine was written. I focused on the specific questions I was being asked and looked more into the story line and gave my opinion on that instead of how the film was made. I gave personal opinions whereas it seems that Dargis just gave general ideas and basically just summarized the film.

1. There wasn’t really a specific scene or part that got to me but the whole documentary in general. With all of the rape victims telling their emotional story of how it happened made me more angry than sad. To even think that those people could do such a thing to those girls makes me outraged. They don’t understand that traumatic things like that can affect a person so bad. For example, the guy who committed suicide after he was sexually assaulted. For guys it’s even worse because being raped is a “crime against girls”, so guys tend to not talk about it or admit it. My heart hurt for each victim shown, and the fact that the schools try to cover it up make it even worse. 2. What surprised me was when one of the victims, Annie Clark, said that she told her administrator that she had been violently raped and instead of being concerned or trying to get help, she blamed it on her and asked her questions like "were you drunk", "what would you do differently", like i

So I haven't really talked about myself on here or really expressed who I am, so I'll do that now. To start off with, my name is Vanida and I am a freshman at Lewis University in Romeoville, Illinois. I am 18 years old and majoring in biology. I am an only child with a mother who plays both the mother and father role. I currently don't really know where life is taking me right now but I hope its something I will be satisfied with. I used to have dreams of traveling the world one day and working with animals. I still do. Animals and exploring new places are my passion. I hope to one day visit London, a place that I have always wanted to visit. I dream of living in California with the hot sun beating down on my face and living next to the beach. It all sounds like a dream to be honest. Something unrealistic. But I hope one day I will find peace with myself and finally feel settled down.

So, wow, its been a week of college so far and honestly I don't know how I got here. It seems like just yesterday was the day I graduated from high school. The day we were finally free of high school I never wanted to look back. College however, did make me a little nervous, but I wasn't going to think about that because I still had all summer long to enjoy. But before I knew it, it was move-in day. The time went by pretty fast and I was freaking out about how these next four years would turn out. During welcome week, I made many new friends and met so many people I thought I would never become friends with. So my first week of college was going so great. Then, classes started. I thought it wouldn't be too bad because it was only the first week and we would probably just go over the syllabus and introduce ourselves, but I was so wrong. We started going from the start, day one. I had 4 quizzes that week, one on Wednesday and three on Friday. It was pretty stressful trying to