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The Church Where I Don't Practice Religion

      In my childhood summers I had lots of time to myself and would only go outside to play sports, so I didn't have many actually obligations to do. My mother's friend told her that if she wanted there was a week long summer bible camp at the local church that she was organizing that me and my siblings should go to. My mom loved the idea(probably because we were annoying her at home), and I honestly didn't want to go but didn't care.  Although I have parents who come from an Eastern Orthodox background, personally I am not religious so I didn't have any real expectations on Scripture Safari being good or bad.     It has now become the thing that I associate with the summer. Most people think of summer as beach, travelling, and pools but I think of another week of my favorite bible camp. I was in 5th grade the first year so I was at the age when kids become volunteers and I didn't have to got through the boring lessons that they gave in the classes. I was put i

The Tillman Story

          The director does many things well that while the story is sad, is probably the best created documentary I have ever watched. One of my favorite aspects of the film is that there are clear decisions by the director in how it was made, I felt like I couldn't pinpoint a specific point where there was clear bias. Another point I like is the way Pat is shown as a  stereotypical American hero with the video of him accepting an award in high school being quiet, calm and giving praise to the people around him is him being the cool, savvy respected man in one sense. Mirrored by showing him on the football field knocking people's heads off and the original titling of the film being his catchphrase, "I'm Pat Fucking Tilman", showed him being the opposite: vain, profane, and a monster. While the term hero is thrown around a lot, the director undoubtedly show's the audience why of the small list of real American hero's, Pat Tillman is on that list. Lastly I