Friday, October 28, 2016

Martin Luther King Jr and the March to Success

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Selma_(film)
The movie Selma, takes us back to the time when colored people were fighting for their rights. And when I use the word “fighting” I meant things like boycotting, marches, sit ins, all acts of non-violence. The film mainly focuses on Dr. Martin Luther King Jr, but at the same time it showcases the people who helped Dr. King become the great person that we all know today.

From this movie, I learned that not only was Dr. King able to successful gather the colored community into joining forces, but he also got help from the white community too. After his speech, concerning the first non-successful march to the capital, many white viewers who saw what happened, voiced their opinion by participating in the next march that Dr. King led. To me, that was surprising, for Dr. King to have white supporters. During this time, everything was separated. From bathrooms, restaurants, schools everything. I was impressed that many stepped up to fight for equality.

Friday, October 21, 2016

Ooohhh Stevie

It was a beautiful sunny day, monarch fluttering in the wind, bees bouncing from flower to flower and birds singing a beautiful melody. But then we were stuck indoors, running up countless flights of stairs, we even had an elevator handy but that didn’t persuade us because we were so determined to find where Stevie was lurking. There was a rumor on the streets that at each crime scene there was a letter hidden somewhere that would lead us to where the hostage was being held.

My team mates and I are just junior detectives just starting out at the bottom hoping to make it to the big leagues one day, so we decided to take on the unsolved Stevie Gone Missing Case. To start the investigation off we started on the first of many floors of the great Albertson library because we needed to find our first clue. The first clue was within the dog encyclopedia in the pointer section. As we searched for the book using the call number and flipping through pages, we were lucky enough to find the letter E where we also found out more about what Stevie looked like.





We then encounter a shark hanging around on the same floor who won’t give use the second clue. We end up trading Jayden’s arm to receive the second clue.
The next clue which was a pointer paper led us to the news stand on the 2nd floor. As we continued to search, Jayden's arm violently started bleeding. But there was nothing we could do. He either had to give up on this mission or suck it up and carry on. Being the team player that he is, he could not stop here. We rested for a bit so that Jayden could re-energize and then we were off again. After sometime, we eventually found the clue.


We then followed Stevie’s paw prints to the 3rd floor where the cds are located. We looked around and noticed the clue stuck onto the cd stand. Just as we were going to leave, Jayden saw a Taylor Swift album and wanted to listen. After giving it some thought, we all decided to take a quick break to listen to the album. Something magical must have happened cause afterwards, Jayden's arm suddenly grew back.




We then heard of the kidnapper being spotted and we immediately ran to the scene. On 4th floor we looked for the call number PN2287 C5, where we found a picture of the kidnapper which was a… cat… We then wanted to do our research on feline characters so we went to the zoology section on the 5th floor. There we met our good friend Mr. Seal, where he told us that the SuDocs would led us to our final clue.


We rushed up and down the aisles searching for the last piece to the puzzle on the 6th floor. As time was almost up, there was no other way but to split up. We all went different ways, wondering where the last and final clue could be. "Here!" said Ka. "On the poster!" Rushing over to take a glance at the clue, we were happy to have found the missing piece.


After finding all the clues and unscrambling all the letters left behind it led us to where Stevie was. This brought us to the Archives. We then knocked on the door and asked if anybody was home but nobody answered. So then we gave it the boot and there was Stevie chained to the top of the book shelf. Maloree then climbed on top of the shelf and quickly used her ninja skills to tied Stevie.



In the end it felt great because we worked so hard to find our dear friend Stevie and were awarded for solving the hardest missing person case in the world.