Cadet Leadership Camp

CLC (Cadet Leadership Course) or Advanced camp, is the last major qualification next to graduating from college that Army ROTC junior year cadets must complete, before they commission in the U.S. Army. CLC is held at Ft. Knox, Kentucky and lasts a entire month. The course tests your physically and mental abilities, your ability to lead others in and out of tactical environments. Some of the requirements to pass CLC are, a 6 mile road march, 14 days in the field or wooded environment, 4.5 mile run, and the OPAT (Occupational Physical Assessment Test.)

In the end myself and all of my cadets survived all the woods, ticks bites, heat rashes, missions, and briefings and graduated from CLC on August 1, 2016. My experience at CLC was a lot harder than expected, I learned so much from my peers and instructors, became a stronger person mentally and physically, and I think I am ready to become a 2nd Lieutenant in the U.S. Army.

Discussion Questions: Advanced Television Production

1.Q: What qualities separate the photographer from the photojournalists.
   A: A photographer will take pictures and sell them to a buyer, or takes pictures for a certain purpose. A photojournalists edit, present, write stories about the photo that was taken.

2.Q: In what sense are the camera and microphone "writing and reporting instruments?
   A: The camera and microphone are instruments in the sense that they are almost necessities when reporting, especially if you're working in the capacity of a television news station,

3. Q: Why can't the edit console fairly be called a "rewrite" machine?
    A: The edit console cannot fairly be called a rewrite machine, because you are only editing, and "tweaking" what you've already written. You are not rewriting everything.

4, Q: How does the nature of a television news report differ from a a newspaper story?
     A: A television will have more of a visual, pictures, video clips, and a male or female speaking and presenting the story. A newspaper story wont do the same as a newspaper report because it's just descriptive words opposed to actually seeing it on TV.

5. Q:What is the role of the written word in television news?
    A:The role of written word in television news, can be used in the sense of teleprompters that are used by anchors and reporters all the time.

I had the opportunity to sit down and interview the assistant professor of Military Science at the ROTC Bulldog Battalion at South Carolina State University for a feature story! Check it Out!

Prezi: Top Ten Favorite Superheroes

This is my very first Prezi Presentation! I decided to do it on a Top Ten presentation! My top ten was my Favorite comic book characters! They all ranged from D.C. to Marvel superheroes ! Enjoy and give me your feedback!

Pin it!

See something that interest you? Well, Pin it! Thus you have; Pinterest. Pinterest might just be the underdog of all the social media apps today. Of course there's Instgram, Facebook, and Twitter, but Pinterest seems to always be left out of the discussion when it comes to some of the best social media apps. Pinterest is an app that is "creativity galore."  It is an app that has almost anything from ideas, to recipes, to art, you name it...9/10 it's on Pinterest . Next month; March 2016 Pinterest  will celebrate it's 6th successful birthday, and has been significantly growing since it launched in March 2010. Pinterest works in a somewhat of a simple fashion. "Pin." To pin something on Pinterest, is when you post a new category or picture to a board. "A board" is a category on a user's profile. For example, if I was to scroll down the home page of Pinterest and I saw a interesting recipe that I'd like to use, I would pin that to my board "recipes." You also can "like" something, if you see something such as a artistic painting, and you don't have a board dedicated to art, one simple click of of the like button will save it to your cateogory of "likes." The 3 boards on my Pinterest are, "Projects to Try," "Recipes," and "Style." The only downside of Pinterest  is that sometimes it can seem cluttered with so many different ideas on the homepage. The very creative app of Pinterest is an app that should be more commonly used, it can be such a great help in a variety of ways!