Friday, April 11, 2014

Se7en

This week in Sweeney's English 102 Class we began viewing the screenplay called se7en. At first I thought that is was going to be boring and not interesting in the least. However I found the screenplay to be amazing and I thoroughly enjoyed it. The entire thing lasted over a span of seven days and tells a story about a murderer that is killing around the basis of the seven deadly sins. I find this to be extremely clever and intriguing. The first kill was for the sin of gluttony, the second was greed, and so on and so forth. I can say that this is definitely one of my favorite things we have done in English. I can not believe that we are basically done with this semester; it completely flew by. We only have to post two or three more blog posts. Still we have another paper and need to assemble our portfolios but that should not be that hard. Sweeney is definitely one of the best and most fun teachers Richard Bland has to offer and I am definitely glad I took his class. Good luck to everyone with their finals and final weeks of class.

Friday, April 4, 2014

Out of Class Activity Number Two

A day at the zoo! This was my second out of class activity for Sweeney's 102 Class. It was a beautiful warm day for it as well. I visited the Metro Richmond Zoo. I was not the only one who had decided to go on that particular day; it was so many people there that I had to park back in the woods and walk to the entrance. It has been many years since I last visited that particular zoo. However, they had a few new and exciting things there. The zoo has five new baby cheetahs that were so adorable, as well as a new zip line course. That day I was able to watch them feed the penguins too. I learned a few new facts that day and was definitely able to bring out my inner child again. It is always good to have a day where you can just be carefree and not have to deal with all the challenges you are facing as a struggling college student. I hope everyone else enjoyed there out of class activities they choose to participate in and I cannot wait to read about all of them.