Selma

Selma Reaction:

By: Bridget Robinson

In the film, "Selma", the audience is shown events that occurred during the Civil Rights Movement that took place in the 1950's. This movie goes into detail to depict the struggles of the movements leader, Martin Luther King Jr., as well as showing his accomplishments. I was surprised to learn how gruesome and violent some of the events that occurred were. Beyond the major themes throughout this movie, it reminds the audience that our freedom comes at a cost and to not take our rights and safety for granted. This film also creates a tribute to those who have given their lives to get America to the equal social standard it is at today and not have these heroes be forgotten. This film is about reminding the audience that all are created equally and the kind of effort so many individuals gave to support this movement. 

I do really like this film because of it's historical accuracy and how it tugs at the heart strings of the audience in an effort to prevent this kind of unfortunate event from happening again. Some parts of the movie seemed to drag on and there was more dialogue than I prefer at some parts but the scene at the Montgomery bridge was beautifully acted out and put together and having actual footage of the event also included recaptured my attention and made-up for the less exciting parts of the film. Another scene from the movie that really sparked my interest was in the very beginning when the children were bombed in the church. The was the first time the audience was shown a dramatic, horrific scene and gave them an idea of what this movie's theme would encompass. The threatening phone calls Mrs. King received gave a more realistic and personal appeal to the movie and added suspense to the overall feel of that moment. 

Having grown up with my best friend being African American, this film really hit home for me. It made me ponder the thought of how my life might have turned out differently had I grown up during this time period and if I ever would have met my best friend. My prior knowledge of the Civil Rights Movement before this film was quite extensive, being that I took in-depth history courses in high school, so the accuracy of this film was very easy for me to tell and did help me to shape my evaluation of this film. 

Where's Stevie?

Where’s Stevie?

By: Bridget Robinson, Gabriel Affeldt, Alex Page

The journey started on the first floor, as we made our way to the encyclopedias. As we veered around the corner we found our first clue with great excitement.

After roaming through the library, we stumbled across the Natural History Museum. With Al’s great detective skills found our next clue- a giant shark.

After snapping a picture, we headed upstairs, looking for the newspapers/periodicals to find the newest addition of “The Pointer”. Detective Gabe noticed out of the corner of his left eye this next clue which then allowed us to move on to the next clues location.

Next thing we knew we were headed up one more floor and found the next clue, which was located with the CD’s. At this point the newest detective joined the group - detective Bridget Robinson.

Then suddenly, the kidnapper was spotted as he was dashing away by detective Robinson. She described the kidnapper as a quick individual wearing dark clothing. As we proceeded to follow him, we found ourselves on the fourth floor where the next clue just happened to found.

The, suddenly, there was a potential hostage situation! We all bolted to the elevator to get to the fifth floor in hopes of finding the hostage which would lead us to our next clue, a letter. As we walked past the archives, the computer stations, and the lounge we knew we were getting close. A very bright green shelving became very apparent to us and became the key to our success.

We looked through these shelves to find the subject “zoology”. The hostage was being held close by!

Word on the street was the kidnapper was last seen on the sixth floor, so that was our final destination. This floor, containing important publications, also have posters hanging on the sides of library aisles.The poster that caught our attention contained a description of the SuDocs call numbers and the first two letters supplied us with our last

few clues.

Finally, as we put all our clues together we concluded that together they came together to spell the word “ARCHIVES”. To our amazement as we opened up the doors to the archives on the fifth floor we found Stevie! Hard work truly pays off!