Current Event: Tornadoes

The other day I got on Netflix and saw the movie Sharknado was available to watch, I had nothing better to do so I decided to watch it. I am he sort of person that in real life I am a total scardy cat but I get this thrill of watching scary movies. Anyways I watched the whole thing and realized  a tornado has never even come remotely close to me. At school sometimes we would have drills but nothing ever too serious. Just last year a tornado flew right across the front of USM’s campus, I wasn’t here then. Although I am just "blessed" with the impact hurricanes other people have the fear of tornadoes. 

This morning I read an article about the tornados in Illinois. And my heart really goes out to those affected. Ir breaks my heart knowing that so many people were devastated by this and lost almost everything. To learn more and how you can help go to this website: http://wgntv.com/2013/11/18/how-to-help-victims-of-illinois-tornados/

To read more about the devastation visit this website:

http://www.latimes.com/nation/nationnow/la-na-nn-brookport-illinois-midwest-tornadoes-20131118,0,44632.story#axzz2l3LkDfhs

Yours truly,

Sarah Day         

In Honor of Our Veterans and Actives: Current Event

Yesterday for Veteran’s Day, the Pride of Mississippi Marching Band and The Dixie Darlings walked down Hardy Street in the 3rd Annual Veterans Day Parade

        Having to get up early and get dressed and ready to walk about a mile didn’t seem like something I really wanted to do on a Monday morning. When I arrived at the start of the parade I saw so many veterans and immediately felt guilty. When the Pride starting playing all of the patriotic music I really started thinking. I guess I have never really known someone who has gone into combat. My Paw Paw had very flat feet so he wasn’t drafted into the Vietnam War. But I do have a cousin that is in the National Guard, however we don’t talk that much.  A girl I graduated High School with actually went the West Point and is now training for the Army. Which I never really realized, but is so amazing and inspiring. 

       Yesterday social media was blowing up with pictures of my friends' relatives who were veterans or actives and in some way I felt connected. 

      I am actually a major history buff; I have always done well in history classes. Even though I learned about all the American Wars in High School I started researching Wars. The ones I seemed to linger on were the Civil War and the Vietnam War. I know it’s kind of weird but one of my favorite movies is The Patriot, however it's not really for the gruesome fighting and the intense patriotism. It's mainly for the romance and the time period (the Plantations and Dresses).      

        As I was walking through the parade little kids were holding up signs saying “We love You” and “We support you.” and chanting "USA USA USA" it was adorable but insanely eye opening.  I used to of the same thing, but I honestly didn’t know who I was loving and what I was supporting. But what is so amazing is that we are taught at such a young age to have so much pride in our nation and to love those are servants to it. I have always had respect for our troops and seeing them around campus really makes me want to walk up to the them and hug them and say “Thank you for your service.” Our troops are a representation of our country and I could not be more trusting and proud of them    

 If this video doesn’t make you cry I don’t know what will:

 http://www.barstoolsports.com/m/barstoolu/super-page/veterans-day-video-espns-going-home-salute-to-the-soldiers/

Yours, 

Sarah Day 

I Absolutely Love This Weather: Free-be

Living in the South, we don’t generally have four seasons. There isn’t a distinct Winter, Spring, Summer or Fall. There’s basically three and a half seasons. Those would be a scorching hot summer   leading into an extremely humid fall which then leads into maybe two of three months of bipolar cold weather which eventually turns into sort of a rainy spring that’s more like a summer.

I mean  in the bipolar winter one day it’s freezing and you can pretty much gear up for snow and the next you might as well wear a bikini. However right now on this Tuesday morning of November 11^th.  the weather is absolutely perfect. And I mean perfect. My iPhone tells me it currently 54 degrees and the high of the day will be 64 degrees but the wind is blowing which is making it a tad bit chillier. One of my favorite parts of this weather is the clothes that come with it! I absolutely LOVE sweaters, boots, and scarves. And right now the weather is at that point where you can wear a sweater or a light jacket and be totally comfortable.

What Kind of weather are you?

http://www.quotev.com/quiz/2694604/What-Type-of-Weather-are-you/

Yours,
Sarah Day

Seasons I wish we had:

                                                                   

Winter 

Spring   

Summer 

Fall

Assignment Blog: Challenges Writing Today

One of the biggest challenged in writing for today’s world is ironically social media. Even though all of the advances in technology amaze me and being an 18 year old I am probably obsessed with it I think it has changed the way we have decided to talk to one another.  Sometimes when I'm typing a paper for English I will find myself typing in slang as if I were sending a text…I know scary.

Should there be a certain way to  write when writing on social media than there is in print news and broadcast news? It is almost as if social media has moved itself away form the idea of online web writing and transformed into a whole new genre. How can journalists branch out and cover all of the genres of news sources when there are so many?

Another issue Journalists struggle with is writing fairly. Which is this occupation is 

Here  is a link to an article saying that most Americans get their news from TV :  http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/07/08/americans-tv-news-gallup_n_3560831.html

However I beg to differ, I believe most people get their news sources from social media! With everyone using their smart phones and having social media literally at the tips of their fingers I believe social media trumps all for news sources. 

Yours, 

Sarah Day