The Raths and swimming

My dad's side of my family, the Raths, have an illustrious and long swimming career. It started with my dad who started in 71 at the age of 12. Shortly after, his 2 brothers and 3 sisters started swimming with him. That was the beginning of our career. Due to some of his siblings having an early parenthood and the age differences between his siblings, there were members of the first generation and the second swimming at the same time. Then as the first generation were retiring,  early members of the second generation were taking up the mantel. With the age difference in my dads family they were delivering a constant stream of children to swim. Some of my cousins swam at Napoleon most swam at Defiance but we had a member of the Rath family in a GNOAC (Greater Northwest Ohio Aquatic Club) championship meet for 45 years in a row. this record is still on going strong with the oldest member of Dad's families' grandchildren currently swimming, and my sister's daughter starting to prepare. This gives me or any of my cousins about 14 years to have children and get them into swimming. This is a new and unique kind of record that will be ongoing for a while and  that I can't see anyone breaking for a long time.

How I almost died #2

About four years ago my friends and I were really into riding four wheelers in my back yard. When this story happened, the woods were flooded, it was freezing out and it was in the middle of the night so it was pitch black and the only source of light we had was from the headlights. So the three of us were running the four wheelers through massive puddles in the woods going deeper uncharted territory. We got to a point where we didn't recognize where we where so we decided to head back. However I had to be cool and run through one last puddle before we do. So I hit the throttle, and start to take off towards the biggest puddle that you could imagine. However there was a small problem. In pitch blackness puddles and look strikingly similar to rivers. I hit the water and slowed to a stop. Im stuck in it the middle of a river on top of the four wheeler. I was staying dry but then it started to roll over. I did a cartoon like log roll run to stay on top put that made the situation worse causing me to fall into the water. Luckily it was shallow enough for me to stand but I was still soaked to my bones in freezing water and the four wheeler was almost sunken. My friends came over to make sure that I was ok and I was other than the fear of the fact that I just sank my dad's four wheeler. I had to get it out fast before it was  ruined so I got back into the water and stated to pull the it out. Once I got it close enough my friends started to help. we got it out but it wouldn't start. the water and freezing temperature was getting to me fast so I had to implement all of my survival knowledge that I had acquired (from watching tv). I got out of the wet clothes down to my underwear. I tried to stay warm from exercising but that wasn't doing much so we tied my four wheeler to another one and we tried to make our way back to the house. We knew the general direction but not where specifically to go but we took off. By the time we got home I was a shade blue and absolutely freezing. I had to warm up with a Hot shower but i could not touch the water because it burnt too much to touch. I eventually got warmed up but apparently I got as close as you can to getting hypothermia without getting it.

As a kid I never listen to much music. As I grew up I started to listen to more music but I did not have a genera that I could get into. I still am kind of the same now but i can listen to pretty much anything that isn's annoying boy band music. I mostly stick with songs that can pump me up now.1. Future world Music-Dream Chaser2. E.S. Posthumus UnstoppableThe first two songs are kind of the same they are a "modern symphonic" music.     There are no lyrics in both of these songs so all you can focus on is the music. Yet it isn't boring at all, it feels empowering. 3. Citizen Soldier- 3 Doors Down 4. The Offspring- You're Gonna Go Far, Kid5. Fall Out Boy - My Songs Know What You Did In The DarkI would mostly listen to these songs for an adrenaline rush. For number three I would listen to before a race and I broke two records because of listening to it. 6. Bastille Pompeii  7. Queen (anything) Bohemian Rhapsody6 and 7 and just good and fun songs to listen to. they focus on the lyrics and music more than just saying things to make them cool. 8. Spice Girls - Wannabethis holds a place more because of honorary reasons. During swim practice we would need to keep ourselves entertained and sane so we sang most of the time. For some reason this song came up the most in our lane.  9. In the Air Tonight Phil CollinsPhil Collins is probably one of my favorite musical artist and this is one of his more iconic songs. I always watched Tarzan as a kind and he was the artist who made the sound track which mademe like him more.10. Pokemon theme songthis song is just pure nostalgia and awesomeness. Pokemon was 90% of my childhood and howI made most of my friends that I have today. 

Some of the skills that I want when I leave Defiance are better communication skills, self management skills, critical thinking, decision making skills and leadership skills. All of these things are critical to becoming a functioning adult in the near future. 

For communication skill, both written and oral communication skills are needed,  Need to take time to enunciate and be articulate. I also need to be more vocal and say what I'm thinking, instead of remaining silent.

For self management skills, I need to see the big picture and break it down into small, manageable pieces. So I need to white down what I want to do and manage my time better.

For critical thinking I need to be able to better evaluate that information, sort the useful from the trivial, and judge its meaning.

For decision-making  I need to know what to do based on the information available. I can struggle at times making decisions  because I wont think everything through or I will over  think the situation.

Lastly leadership is something that I need to work on the most. this problem stems from all of these issues above. I never want to take the lead on anything because of doubting of my self because of these issues. I don't want to be blamed if I'm wrong so I don't take the chance

Hitchcock analisis

In my opinion one of the reasons that Hitchcock is regarded as one of the best directors is his ability to submerge his audience into his movies by making it entertaining and believable. When Hitchcock directed he used the camera in a magical way that immersed you into the story. He would use very little exposition.While it would explain the story, it would make it seem that you are being force fed information drawing you away from the story. Instead he used Natural human reactions, eyes, emotions to help tell the story. . In many of his movies Hitchcock would focus on the character’s eyes to create suspense. Hitchcock portrays many different character emotions by showing what they are looking at, or by actually showing an image of their eyes.

Next, when he directed the focus of the camera was also unique. Sometimes  the camera was in a first person point of view camera method too, to make it appear that you are a part of the movie. Furthermore, Hitchcock used the camera in Notorious helped let the audience and viewers know something was important. In the movie Hitchcock would focus in on objects as well as characters. He would start the scene high and wide, then ending it low and close In one of the scenes Hitchcock zoomed in on the cup of tea Alicia was drinking which had something in it which made her very ill.

Lastly and most important what he presented us as an audience was believable. Hitchcock used the sterile environment of indoors to control everything.  The drunk driving scene at the beginning, the scene of the plane flying into Brazil and the scene where they are watching the horse race, none of those scenes were actually shot outside. In fact, the only scene that was shot outside was the scene where Develin and Alicia ride the horses next to Sebastian. Hitchcock instead used rear projection process shots (prerecorded backgrounds) to achieve the appearance of being outdoors. Hitchcock preferred filming indoors because it gave him maximum control over filming throughout the day. In other words, he could film a day time “outside” scene late in the evening and it still appear to be early morning. Furthermore, when he presented information, it was factually accurate. The way that the characters interacted with the uranium is how people in real life react to it. Develin was safe from the alpha particles because the paper blocked most of them. Alicia, on the other hand, ingested the uranium and received the full effects of of radiation poisoning and displayed the correct symptoms too.