Author Archives: jduthie17

I typically prefer silence when I am trying to do work or study, however, sometimes that is not possible. If someone is cooking dinner, doing their lawn, or a kid is screaming outside I often find it difficult to focus. Freshman year, living in the dorms, I had to learn how to study and dealContinue reading “Study Mode”

Recently I was scrolling through Instagram when I saw one of the people I follow posted a SoundCloud song. I typically do not spend much time on SoundCloud, but since we worked with it in this class, I was curious to see what song they made. To my surprise, it was a song about quarantine,Continue reading “Songs About What??!?”

A show that I have recently been loving for the past couple of weeks is The Last Dance. This 10-part documentary series gives insight into the Chicago Bulls and Michael Jordan’s career, including his last seasons with them (1997-1998). I have always been a fan of basketball, but what I really like about this seriesContinue reading “My New Go-To Show”

I decided to look at the Top 50 most played tracks on SoundCloud this week. Once I began listening, I noticed some on them were from TikTok. After this, I was curious to know how many of them I recognized from TikTok. Although I am not on TikTok a crazy amount, I did the bestContinue reading “SoundCloud Top 50”

Sometimes I question what I liked as a kid because looking back at it while being 20 makes me wonder, “what was I thinking?” I had one of these moments today when I was watching the Disney Channel Original Movie Pixel Perfect (2004). I always remember this being a good movie and now that Disney+Continue reading “Pixel Perfect”

After being home for 40 days, I have finally reached the point where I’d rather be back at school. Actually, this happened a few weeks ago, but now I am experiencing difficulty. I never though I would say that I would prefer to be at school, but trying to do school from home is muchContinue reading “Day 40 of Quarantine”

This may be the most relatable song to us all at the moment. We are all constantly dealing with the fact that we are not able to go out or go to many places because they are closed. If there is anything we all have in common right now, it is this. This song essentiallyContinue reading “The Most Relatable Song”

The scene in A Star is Born (1937) that stuck out to me was the scene where Norman was “saying his goodbye” to Esther and later walked into the ocean. There are a few reasons why I found this scene to be an interesting and essential part to the film. Although this scene does notContinue reading “Scene Analysis”

A Star is Born (1937) is a romantic movie taking us through Esther Blodgett’s rise to stardom. Coming from North Dakota, Esther has dreams of being an actress and she decides to move to Hollywood, with the support of her grandmother. On arrival, she is made aware that the chances of “making it” are rare,Continue reading “Movie Review”