John Boyega: ‘I’m the only cast member whose experience of Star Wars was based on their race’

What makes the lead attention grabbing is mentioning John Boyega being stranded in the sea near Nigeria. It is a fact I did not know about Boyega or his career and I was curious about how did that happened.

If the lead leaned on Boyega’s experience with being a part of Star Wars, it wouldn’t be as intriguing due to it being the same lead as many other articles. I think due to it taking a different beat than what is known makes readers curious. Plus, it tells a different tale about what has shaped Boyega besides his part in the Star Wars cast.

1. The boatman cut the engine and began demanding for cash from his passenger in order to make it to the final destination. John Boyega was caught in a moment, stranded in a boat in Nigeria, that would define his responses to challenges in life.
2. If John Boyega wanted to return to shore, he needed cash. Fast.
3. Life sometimes places you between a rock and a hard place. For John Boyega, it was a stalled boat in Nigeria and the demand to hand over money.

How Travis Scott Defied the Rules of Celebrity to Become King of the Youth

The entire feature, which is trying to paint a really large picture of the private and creative life of Travis Scott, is split into these different sections that make Scott. There is a kebob structure that flow the two day interview chunked with events that happened months or years ago. A reader could easily skip to section if they wanted a certain part of Scott’s life, like his decision to pursue music or how he got into fashion, if they wanted to focus on an aspect about him. In each part of the article, there is some type of complication that talks about how Scott overcame or the personal projects he’s working on that gives insight. The structure hops around with highlights about him and doesn’t start with his beginnings until halfway through.

Travis Scott is the main character of this narrative, but author becomes a character due to his presence made known with the interactions between them and sharing his thoughts. All of the details that Gerrick Kennedy, the writer, does gives you a picture about what it would be like to be alone in the room with Travis Scott. A reader can get a sense of the off the walls energy Scott has personally and with his projects, how the environment speaks about him as a person, and sharing the unfiltered quotes. Kennedy does a good job giving a sense about the character by describing how Travis Scott reacts to questions or the time between questions, like chuckling or lighting a blunt.

I think the main theme and the about of the feature is just showing the qualities of Travis Scott that people like about him and what sets him a part. Writing about the Travis Scott concert hosted through Fortnite and the experience with his concerts highlights what makes him different. But telling of his experiences going through life and his pursuit to improve his hometown gives you, especially if you had no clue who he is, a sense of what people like about him.

I do believe that the story is true just due to watching the documentary about Travis Scott that was released last year. I think if people just did any research on him would find that he talks, acts, and the events happened exactly like how the article the describes. There is no invention of fiction with this article, just reporting of what happened.

Facebook Removes 790 QAnon Groups to Fight Conspiracy Theory

1. People of QAnon
2. People falling under the beliefs of the QAnon group then leaving the group (kind of like the podcast Rabbit Hole)
3. Conspiracy theories
4. Social media recruiting tactics to radical groups
5. Internet algorithms

Stories are the telling of lives, challenges, and untold experiences of people. They also reveal sides of other stories and help answer questions posed by readers.

The reason why we need stories is because they reveal things about the world around us, like with the photos by Lewis Hine during the industrial revolution. Stories can help drive us to find change with social wrongs of the world or help answer questions about the world. Stories help connect or be the in-between of the main coverage of news stories and connect people to each other.

1. Why are the Disney sequel Star Wars movies not as enjoyable as the previous ones?
2. Why do people resort to using Papyrus or Comic Sans so much?
3. Why don’t marriages last long anymore?
4. What is the meaning of life?
5. How does a person get the flavor of bubblegum?

An explosion at Mega City Mall has caused several injuries and two deaths. Investigation has been started to look into the reason why the explosion happened.

An explosion at Mega City Mall near Gunland caused injuries and two deaths. There is no clear reason why the explosion happened, but the electrical problems are being looked into as a reason. Sergeant Fuglsang stated that there is no evidence of terrorism.

Grace Russman, an eyewitness to the explosion, commented that she saw nothing weird before the explosion. “The store front blew out.” stated Russman, “I was lucky to be far from the explosion.”

The electricity in Mega City Mall has been an issue for some time. “We’ve noticed the electrical problems here for some time,” stated food court custodian, Big Mac.

Aaron Montanez, a Mega City electrician, was called in that day to fix the mall’s problem. He commented that he was notified that the electrical sensors were going off that day more than. usual.

The security office located in the library is not typically a popular spot with students during the day time, but during the night time is a different story. Students visit the security office when they want to have a break from studying to have a good laugh, a pop, or just to let off steam. The number of students always vary but one thing is for certain is the hospitality and stories from the always smiling Morningside College security guard, Jerry Meisner.

The stories that Meisner tells to students have a purpose, no matter what kind of story it is. His stories create bonds with the students to give him the opportunity to get to know him personally and earning their trust. “I like having the trust of a lot of the students that they know they can come to me if they need something.” Said Meisner, “I really enjoy the interaction with our students.”

Meisner’s stories and jokes are always wild and told in such a detail, that some people don’t always believe him. “They tell me they don’t believe my stories. And I have to tell you, all the stories that I tell are true” said Meisner about the disbelief on his stories.

Believing or not believing Meisner’s stories is up to the listener, but the laughter from the students is guaranteed with each story and joke. “He just cracks me up,” commented Courtney Klocke, a sophomore graphic design and advertising major, “He just comes around with the weirdest jokes and it’s hard not to laugh just because he has such a good sense of humor and he always uses his puns, so it just cracks you up.”

Throughout his career, Meisner has gained experience about self defense and protection with the added bonus of living through numerous good and bad situations. All of his life experiences have become the source material that he uses as stories and jokes to tell students.

Meisner hasn’t been working security or telling stories at Morningside for long. Previously coming from Western Iowa Tech where he spent 13 years as their security guard. Even before working security at the local colleges, Meisner served as protection for civilians at a variety of places like Unity Point Hospital and for the Woodbury County sheriffs department.

“Ever since, I think middle school, I was interested in law enforcement and I volunteered for a number of years as an explorer and then also as a deputy sheriff,” stated Meisner “But once I was hired full time, I didn’t like it [police work]. It wasn’t what I thought it would be.” Meisner would then start his security guard career at Gateway as their security supervisor.

While Meisner’s job is to ensure the safety of the Morningside students, his goal is to connect with the students and the stories are a step to get there. “That’s my goal, is to be there for people. To be one of those people that hey if you have something wrong or need a friend to talk to, Jerry is available. That’s who I want to be.”

Students have felt the connection with the security guard through his stories and his overall joyful attitude. “He makes my day every single time I see him.” Stated Nathan Hoogland, a senior mass communications major, “It doesn’t matter where or when, he just manages to do it.”

Midland Zoo morns the lost of oldest polar bear. The polar bear was found unresponsive in his enclosure early in the morning.

The polar bear, Homer, was the oldest of the Midland Zoo’s three polar bears. Sara N. Getty, Midland zookeeper, found Homer had passed away shortly after feeding him. “Homer was a very curious and playful polar bear and we will miss him terribly” commented Getty.

The zoo exhibit prides itself in keeping its polar in a safe environment and having a happy life. The bears are ambassadors for their wild relatives by educating the public about these threatened creatures.

The world of Gilead and women in red dresses is coming back to book shelves with Margaret Atwood announcing a prequel novel called The Testaments. This novel will take place 15 years before the events of The Handmaid’s Tale and has three different viewpoints. Atwood commented how she wanted to explore the world of Gilead a little bit more and was inspired by the current political/world situation. Despite the Hulu series based off her first book currently running, this prequel novel will have no influence from the show. Fans have been split with Atwood’s prequel announcement, some wanting her to leave the world she created alone.

Margaret Atwood announcing a prequel novel is what I call a pretty decent size newsworthy story. With the news that has been generated from The Handmaid’s Tale, like costuming as handmaids at protests or the sales of the novel skyrocketing upward after the 2016 election, there will more news created from what Atwood writes next. The reason why her writings are newsworthy is that the themes and situations that she writes for audiences can be seen in the real world by many readers. This story is worth writing about now because there will most likely be conflicts over The Testaments when released that a journalist can follow up on, either by sales or shown in protests.

It has a particular audience depending on which part you are reading. The beginning of the article is more directed for the fans of The Handmaid’s Tale by telling the details of what is known about The Testaments. The next part is for the people that are behind on what The Handmaid’s Tale is and what an impact it is making in the world. This part is the bulk of the article with this large backstory and political movement bit. The final part is for the audience that is wants to hear other opinions. This end part is really brief but will most likely become a bigger story when The Testaments release.

There was a line in the article that puzzled me. In the second part of the article, the writer wrote “There’s clearly an enormous appetite for feminist dystopian tales at the moment.” This sentence is followed up with the sales of The Handmaid’s Tale after the election and it returning to the New York Times best-seller list. For me, the sale of one novel is not really a clear appetite for feminist dystopians. The line feels like an assumption to me or relying that the readers are going to click the link to a lengthy article.

What I Read

Jerry Meisner’s office attracts all sorts of creatures of the night. These creatures are the Morningside college students that congregate to the library, all with varying reasons to be there and different majors. Jerry’s office becomes the break space for the college creatures for his jokes, stories, or a pop. My night in his office was a small viewing of the creatures that walk in.

I sat in his office after my class, discussing the new exciting things in life and was told stories that he made me promised never to repeat due to how inappropriate they are. Our conversation didn’t take long before a creature, Grant Turner, walked in. Jerry gave Grant a warm welcome and was quick to offer him a beverage. The conversation switched from his inappropriate story to what we were doing for Thanksgiving. Grant and I kept it pretty tame with our stories as Jerry told us how to easily piss off our spouse by dissing their cooking.

After Grant walked in, an entire flock of college creatures rushed in. This flock was made up of Maddie Pierson, Jesseca Ormond, and Aaron Montenez and his girlfriend. This added group brought an entire new energy and new level of extrovert to Jerry. Jerry was quick to introduce everyone to each other, offering a pop, and telling us stories about him trying cognac because some European duke had one every morning and how guacamole looks like the stuff in between your toes.

Jerry found a topic that he felt passionate to tell us about: eggnog. Jerry asked us all if we had tried eggnog, with most of us college creatures replying no. He was quick to tell us that the eggnog in the carton is complete garbage and the one in the glass bottle is the “orgasm of eggnog.” I asked him if he would bring some to try with his response telling us he wasn’t sure about the refrigerators because, “You gotta keep eggnog cold or it will hatch and become hatchnog!”

Our group conversation was abruptly interrupted and ended by the radio call for Jerry to lock up HPER. Us college creatures had to herd us out of the office while we were putting on our winter jackets. Jerry proceeding to turn his mittens into Muppet sounding puppets, chasing Jesseca with them and talking to all of us with them. He made sure all of us were getting to our location safely and made sure to tell us all good night.

This was a taste of Jerry’s office. Walking into his office is always for sure to bring a smile to your face with a laugh guaranteed. Jerry’s office almost always has someone in there, some fun being had, and a story being told.