Calvin Michiels 

Revised 

Blog #3 

Changing a tire 

       First you must have the correct equipment for the up coming challenge. you will need the correct sized wrench for the lug nuts on your car, a car jack, and a spare tire which should all be located in the vehicle. usually in the trunk under a hidden compartment. Once you have all the correct items you can either take off the hub cab if you have one and begin to loosen the lug nuts. Make sure you do not take them completely off of the threaded portion. Now that you have all of the lugs loosened you can insert the car jack underneath the axle closest to the flat tire. Begin to jack up the vehicle until it has just risen off of the ground. Anything over 3 inches and you have gone too far and should decrease the height of the vehicle. After this has been done you can now begin to take the lug nuts completely off of the flat tire. When all of the lugs are removed you may remove the flat tire and place it into the back of the car. Carefully put the spare tire onto the car and make sure you look for the rotational arrow that is printed onto the side of the tire. You can then begin to rethread the lugs onto the spare tire, do not tighten them all the way down at this moment. Release the car jack so the vehicle slowly drops back down to the ground. Now you can start to fully tighten the lug nuts in a start pattern until you have gone around the lug nuts 3 complete times to ensure a completely even level of torque. At this time you are done, make sure you pick up all tools and get to your local automotive shop as fast as possible. Spare tires are not meant for long distances of travel. 

Calvin  Michiels 

Revised 

Blog # 2

Inception 

Inception by far is my favorite movie of all time. This is my favorite movie because it send my mind for a roller coaster ride and you actually have to pay attention to the movie to fully understand it. I like how the movie ends as well, it leaves you at a point of guess and it all depends on how well you either followed along with the movie or understood it.  A lot of people don't like movies like this because they say it challenges there brain to much.  For me it's just the opposite, when a movie starts challenging my brain it gets my full attention and i must watch the entire thing. 

I usually watch movies that have a lot of action in them. Guns and fast cars and explosions and fight scenes are usually what i watch just because thats the type of person i am. I feel like i respond to movies more in cultural examples, if the moral story of the movie is interesting i will more than likely watch the entire movie just because it got me interested by the story its presenting. For a prime example the movie Inception is about dreams and how you can go so deep into dreams that you can possibly control the future.  Now for me even reading that sentence i am extremely interested in more information about it. It also has a very fast pace to it so you must follow along well. There are great graphics to some portions of the movie and there are also a few gun fights and car chases.

Calvin Michiels
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Blog #1

Brief Screening Report

Hunger Games

The scene from the movie that I think is the most important is when Catnis and Peter both hear over the announcing system that if the last two people to survive are from the same district they will both be announced the winners of the 74^th annual Hunger Games. At this point they are both in pretty rough shape, Catnis has no food and has just lost her fellow teammate that she was working with and Peter has a sever sword wound on one of his legs that is beginning to get infected. Neither of them have the energy to fight off any more enemies, so for a while all the remaining people are just hiding out and hoping that the others will die off. Peter is rewarded with some medicine that will help his wounded leg heal overnight. Catnis and Peter decide to camp it out in a cave for the night and hope they can make it another day. The people running the Hunger Games realize no action is happening so they decide to send out a couple of vicious dogs to see if they can kill some of the remaining contestants. They are successful with this, but in the end it wasn’t a very good idea because now Peter and Catnis are trying to fight very hard to be the last two people left in the game. Towards the end they get another announcement saying they were just kidding about the whole thing, they say only one person can be ruled the winner of the 74^th annual Hunger Games. Peter and Catnis are way too close to each other and are not willing to kill one another so what they plan to do is eat some poison berries so that they both die so that there isn’t even a winner. The people in charge recognize what their plan is and decide at the last moment that they are just going to let them both be the winners. This all happens within the last ten minutes of the movie and I find it the most important because it’s where they realize that they really like each other. 

Brief Screening

Calvin Michiels

Brief Screening Report

Hunger Games

The scene from the movie that I think is the most important is when Catnis and Peter both hear over the announcing system that if the last two people to survive are from the same district they will both be announced the winners of the 74^th annual Hunger Games. At this point they are both in pretty rough shape, Catnis has no food and has just lost her fellow teammate that she was working with and Peter has a sever sword wound on one of his legs that is beginning to get infected. Neither of them have the energy to fight off any more enemies, so for a while all the remaining people are just hiding out and hoping that the others will die off. Peter is rewarded with some medicine that will help his wounded leg heal overnight. Catnis and Peter decide to camp it out in a cave for the night and hope they can make it another day. The people running the Hunger Games realize no action is happening so they decide to send out a couple of vicious dogs to see if they can kill some of the remaining contestants. They are successful with this, but in the end it wasn’t a very good idea because now Peter and Catnis are trying to fight very hard to be the last two people left in the game. Towards the end they get another announcement saying they were just kidding about the whole thing, they say only one person can be ruled the winner of the 74^th annual Hunger Games. Peter and Catnis are way too close to each other and are not willing to kill one another so what they plan to do is eat some poison berries so that they both die so that there isn’t even a winner. The people in charge recognize what their plan is and decide at the last moment that they are just going to let them both be the winners. This all happens within the last ten minutes of the movie and I find it the most important because it’s where they realize that they really like each other. 

The Setting of Horror Movies

Calvin Michiels 

Horror Movies

           Horror movies almost all have the same general setup and all follow basically the same theme or plot. There is always a group of kids or maybe just one person by themselves and its always dark and mysterious. The setting is almost always the same, they are either in a house in the middle of nowhere or at a family cabin also out in the middle of nowhere. Its always dark at the moment when the movie has reached its most scary time, because things usually aren't as frightening when its light out. The characters usually end up running away but in the end get caught by whatever it is they are running from. The general horror movie is almost impossible for me to watch because they are so predictable, the characters in the movie all seem to be dumbfounded by the noises they hear or stuff they see. There is a simple answer to all of there problems in the end, just leave wherever it is you are. 

Realism - Anti-Realism

My Understanding

           I feel that realism is anything that happens in our world that has been factually proven or in history. For example things like movies on WWI, or the bombing of Pearl Harbor. When movies are focused on realism they usually take thing from our world that are somewhat believable and people would have an easy time understanding and believing. Anti-realism on the other hand is anything that we believe is not real or fake in other words. A good example of this is any movie that has to do with the world being taken over, like Men In Black. Another example is when aliens come to the earth like in ET. these movies are all non-realistic and people understand that these things will more than likely never happen. Verisimilitude is the difference in theory on how close one movie compared to the other movie is to the truth. What actually makes a movie real in our eyes? It all depends on your beliefs and how you perceive the movie. 

Fav. Movie

Inception 

Inception by far is my favorite movie of all time. This is my favorite movie because it send my mind for a roller coaster ride and you actually have to pay attention to the movie to fully understand it. I like how the movie ends as well, it leaves you at a point of guess and it all depends on how well you either followed along with the movie or understood it.  A lot of people don't like movies like this because they say it challenges there brain to much.  For me it's just the opposite, when a movie starts challenging my brain it gets my full attention and i must watch the entire thing. 

I usually watch movies that have a lot of action in them. Guns and fast cars and explosions and fight scenes are usually what i watch just because thats the type of person i am. I feel like i respond to movies more in cultural examples, if the moral story of the movie is interesting i will more than likely watch the entire movie just because it got me interested by the story its presenting. For a prime example the movie Inception is about dreams and how you can go so deep into dreams that you can possibly control the future.  Now for me even reading that sentence i am extremely interested in more information about it. It also has a very fast pace to it so you must follow along well. There are great graphics to some portions of the movie and there are also a few gun fights and car chases.