"Selma" Response

https://lettherebemovies.com/2015/09/05/gene-review-selma/

The Film "Selma" tells the story of the fight for the right to register to vote for African Americans, in Selma, Alabama, led by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. The film depicts the historical events that surrounded the march from Selma to Montgomery during the civil rights movement in America. It accurately shows the many adversities that Martin Luther King Jr. and his followers faced including violence, racism, and repeated neglected aid from president Lyndon B. Johnson. The film then ends with the president passing the Voting Rights Act, which made it illegal to impose any sort of voting restriction on an election, thus showing victory for Martin Luther King Jr. I thought the film was a very good depiction of the fight for black voting rights during the civil rights movement. Based off what I’ve seen and read about the civil rights movement I found the movie to be very interesting and easy to follow. I thought it accurately depicted the violence and chaos of the first attempt of the march. The reactions of the people watching it on television in the film felt very real and similar to how I reacted watching it. I also liked how the film incorporated actual historical videos from the time that depicted the march and events that went along with it. I think that seeing these clips, and growing up learning about the civil rights movement and its importance helped me understand the movie more and make it more enjoyable to watch. I think that knowing how much this movement changed America before watching the film makes the movie much more powerful. With that being said I would definitely recommend this movie to anyone interested in the story of the march from Selma to Montgomery for the equal right to register to vote.

Mitchell and Grant Find Stevie

On October 17, 2016, we were informed that Stevie the Pointer was missing in the library on campus. The beginning of our investigation, started with getting a background on the missing mascot. We first went to the first floor to use the encyclopedias to get a description of who Stevie was. Once we located the Encyclopedia of the Dog we used the index of the book to easily figure out which page the English Pointer was on. After getting a good description of what Stevie looked like we were confident and ready to take our investigation further. We thought we would begin by looking at the most current copy of The Pointer, the newspaper that is named after Stevie, to see if we could find any clues on his whereabouts. After reaching the second floor and looking through the paper we received a tip that Stevie had been seen looking through the CD's on the third floor earlier that day. As we climbed the stairs and found the CD's we began looking around for more clues on Stevie's location. After searching the CD’s, we were notified that the kidnapper had been spotted, and we were given a call number range and instructed to search through the books in the range to find a picture of the kidnapper. The call number range was PN 2287 C5** and after we identified that these books were on the fourth floor we headed up the stairs again. knowing that the first two letters sort the book alphabetically and the following numbers sort them chronologically it wasn't hard to easily locate the books that were in the call number range. After locating the picture of the kidnapper, it was very clear that the culprit was none other than a cat. Immediately after this discovery we were informed that there was a hostage situation on the fifth floor. We were told that the hostage was being held in the Zoology section, and we headed there as fast as we could. After careful examination of the area we found the hostage on the bottom shelf. The hostage, a walrus, was a little shook up but okay otherwise. The walrus then told us that the kidnapper was headed to the sixth floor with Stevie to look for a way to escape. Before heading to the sixth floor we took a second to try and reflect and think of where the kidnapper could be hiding Stevie on the sixth floor. Finally, it hit us, the archives room! We rushed there immediately and burst through the door to find Stevie there safe and sound. Shortly after we saved Stevie the kidnapper was caught and taken to the police station. Stevie thanked us many times, but it was all our pleasure to help out Stevie.