Night at the Theater!

Bachelor Mother

Wrong place at the wrong time? That’s what happened to Ginger Rogers in the movie “Bachelor Mother.” Other stars in the movie are David Niven, Charles Coburn and Frank Albertson. The setting of the movie is in the city around the late 1930’s. I would say that this is a romantic comedy.

Ginger Rogers is a young women working at a toy store during the holidays. One day on her walk from work she saw a women place a baby in front of the adoption home. She took the baby inside and from there she had troubles. The home didn’t believe that the baby was not hers. They still didn’t believe her after she had left either. The agency thought she didn’t have a job so she couldn’t afford the baby anymore. So she goes back to work. Meanwhile the agency goes to her work and demands to talk to the owner, David Niven. They tell him the story about the baby. He decides to let her keep her job and gives her a raise. Then a knock at the door changes everything. It’s the baby. She can’t believe it. She is still denying the baby is hers because it really isn’t! At this point they leave and leave the baby with her. Another knock on the door and its her date for the dance tonight. She doesn’t know what to do so she takes the baby back to Mr. Nivens house.

She goes out and dances to try and win some extra money but when she comes home she finds something else. Mr. Niven was there with the baby. She still is denying the baby and he says “well do you want a job or not?” She says yes and he leaves her with the baby. The baby starts to grow on her and she takes full responsibly for it. She goes on with her life and Mr. Niven notices how tired she is and asks to take her out since she is always with the baby. She agrees and the two of them go to a fancy dinner party where she dances the night away. They have a really good time but then it is back to reality with her and the baby.

Mr. Niven really starts to like Ginger so he stops by frequently at her house or at the toy store. She asks him to meet her in the park so he can see the baby. Mr. Nivens dad decides to follow him to see where he is going because he has been gone a lot lately and he received a note saying that the baby was his son. He follows him to the park to find Ginger, the baby and his son. He starts crying when he sees the baby but doesn’t say why. He confronts his son and he tries to explain its not his but his dad doesn’t not believe him. He goes on and on about how he is going to get the baby back. And you will have to watch the movie to find out the ending!

In the movie “Bachelor Mother” I thought that the acting was done very well. I especially like Gingers acting the most. Since she is young she played her part very well. She was cute and quirky. She had lots of funny moments and her facial expressions went well with her moments. She made me laugh the whole entire time. She portrayed a young new mom very well. I think she really made the movie with her quirkiness and her humor.

The setting of the movie was very good. I loved that it was an older movie in black and white. I have only seen maybe 3 black and white movies in my lifetime and this is definitely my favorite. I liked how it was back in the day and everything was so antique to me. I loved the store she worked in. It was a toy factory and all the toys were wooden or wind up toys. Also the scene where they are dancing shows how times have changed. Now you don’t really hear about people going to dance parties like the ones in the olden days.

I really loved this movie. Going into it I was not too happy because it was black and white. But I would recommend this movie to anyone. I loved every part of it. I would recommend this movie mainly to women because it is about a young woman who has to take care of a baby. This film would be valuable to females ages 18 up and I thought the movie attracted this very well. I think there were maybe 5 guys tops in the movie theater itself. The larger picture of this movie would be except things for how they are because something good can always come from an odd/bad situation.

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Its finally almost over! Only about 2 more weeks to go and then we have Christmas break! Thank god! I cant wait to go home and see everyone for a month! It doesn’t even feel like we have been in class that long! I can say that throughout English I have learned so much and I can tell that I have advanced my writing skills. As well as, my thought process and my use of time. I can say that this was one of my favorite classes. I liked how we did fun projects yet each project had a purpose. It was the same old boring English class where all you did was grammar and write papers. This really helped me because I do not enjoy English that much. I really liked writing these blogs because it was almost like a little stress reliever and a good way to vent when we had choose our own blog!
My favorite part of English was the peer review. At first I thought it was going to be like in high school where no one really cared and just wrote that your paper was fine. When we did it in class it helped so much. It is nice to have other peoples opinion and they are also able to catch mistakes that you wouldn’t since you probably read it about a million times. Honestly this probably helped my papers so much. Overall I would say that my experience in English was a good one and definitely an experience that I will be able to take things from and apply them in other classes. This was my favorite English class I have had so far!
I hope everyone has a fantastic Christmas break! And maybe I will see you in some of my classes next semester!
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Audienceee!

The two people that I chose to write letters to for project four are my mom and my boyfriend Brad. I chose to write to my mom because we are really close to each other and she would want to here about why I chose to go to ISU and why it was the best choice for my major. She is very understanding and knows that I have wanted to go into the health field for the longest time. Plus she understands why I want to go into the field since we are so close. I am sure she would want to hear that I am putting the money spent for college to good use! I think that will let her know that I am pursing my dream of going into the health education field. I also think that me reassuring here about my choice will help her understand my choice as well.
I wrote to Brad because we talk every day since I am an hour away from him. He knows that I am a caring and passionate person and that I would succeed in a career that would involve helping people. I think since I have known him we have always talked about what job we wanted to pursue and I have always said something in the health field. He understands why I chose to go away from home to ISU because that is what I have always wanted to do and ISU has a great health education program. I think he would be reassured knowing that I was pursuing my dream of going into the health education field since that is what I have always wanted to do.I also chose to write to him because I wanted to write a more casual letter than I would have written to my mom.

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So I cannot explain how excited I am to be home for fall break. I cannot wait to see all of my family and friends and actually enjoy my time at home since it will be longer than 2 days! I feel like it is just a tease when I go home and I hate it! But anyways I am just excited for thanksgiving and all the yummy food that will probably give me a heart attack one day but I am totally okay with it! Plus I finally get to bake some yummy treats for the family. I hate not being able to bake here at school like I could at home! I just can’t wait to be around all my family and friends. And I am pumped to go black Friday shopping with my mom and usually my grandma! It is probably one of the best days of the year for us! We will be the ones up at 230 just to get in a line for one thing!

On another note can I talk about how freaking stressed out I am? I knew college was going to be hard and everything but I feel like I never get a break or a night just to relax and have nothing to do! I feel like I have either homework to do or studying to do every single night and I hate it so much! Without some relaxing time I get even more stressed on top of all my homework because it means I have no time to do anything to help me distress! I mean since break is coming soon why not give us a break on homework? That would be nice for everyone! And I am sure everyone would appreciate it as much as I would right now!

Majorssss!

As of right now my major at Illinois State is health education. I do not plan on being a health teacher but I do know that I want to go into the health field. Doing what I am not sure yet! I am in the major though because it still leaves me a lot of options that I can choose from. So far I have considered physical therapy, a dietitian, pharmacist and a psychologist. Clearly I need to figure something out! Any of these would be good for me I just want to find the best. There are so many options in the health field that I know I would like I just need to find the one that fits me best. I know that I want to be in the health field because I want to help others who need help getting their lives back on track and just helping people in general. I think I am more of a people person so I definitely need to be surrounded by people in order for me to love what I am doing. That is why I have really considered a psychologist or a dietitian because I would want to do this in a rehab facility for people with eating disorders of some sort. I just need something to do that will keep me on my toes and is not the same thing every day because I get bored very easily. So whatever I plan on doing must not be repetitive or boring!
One job that I always think about though is being a cop! I don’t think I would ever really become a cop but I mean we can all dream right? It would definitely be exciting and never the same thing but it has too much risk for me especially if I had a family!

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halloweeeeeen!

My favorite thing to do in the fall is to go to haunted houses and carve pumpkins! I just love Halloween in general! It is one of my favorite holidays. In my hometown we have a place called Spider Hill and there is a haunted house, a walking trail and a wagon ride through the woods. I have gone every year since I was probably like 10. Just this last weekend I went with my parents to the Bartonville Insane Asylum. To say the least it was pretty freaky and scary only because there were about 4000 people who had died there and obviously it was pretty haunted. I don’t like to think about ghosts and spirits but that place really creeped me out! We also got to go through the graveyard where all the people had been buried and that was just creepy and sad looking at all the graves. This was the first year that we went to this place but I don’t think it has been open for very long. I also love to carve pumpkins with the family during fall. That is pretty much the reason why I went home last weekend. We have been carving pumpkins for as long as I can remember. It is a tradition in our family. My brother, sister and I all go and pick out our pumpkins and we carve them that night. Then we eat dinner together as a family. After dinner we cook our pumpkin seeds, which are my favorite. Then we go out and light our pumpkins! I definitely think I will be doing this with my kids when I get older because it is something that sticks in my mind when I think about fall and Halloween. Plus I don’t think I will ever grow out of wanting to carve pumpkins!

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waahh

So this research paper might be the death of me! Just kidding but seriously it might be. One problem I ran into was citing the journals. I think that I did it write but I was rushing so I guess we will see! Another main problems I am running into is there is so much reading to do for each one and I get completely lost! There is so much information and facts and I just cannot remember all of it! Things that I need to work on for this though is I need to learn to focus on the important information and writing it down so I remember it better. It is just so much information to take in all at once. So I think by writing some facts and information down will help me remember the article better and it will help me find that information in the text later on and it will be a little bit easier. I also need to learn to plan ahead because I always wait until the last minute to do things. Like right before I wrote this I was finishing up my resources. Procrastination has gotten the best of me. This is also something completely new to me so that overwhelms me just to even think about a research paper on top of all my other homework. It helps having it broke down in chunks though. That is a big plus because if I got this all in one lump I probably would have had a heart attack. So I am very happy that we have certain days that things are due because that makes everything for this project seem a little less hard and overwhelming. This is all just stressful and I am ready for the weekend!

Ps. I lost my ipod ☹ its a sad day!