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November | 2014 | Shamy Jean
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Reading, writing, and redneckery. November 30, 2014. It is all about crime scenes, interviews, and interrogations, played out against a backdrop of flawed humanity. This is the second last sentence in the book, penned by Lieutenant Terry McLarney. Though these aren’t Simon’s words, they truly capture this book in one sentence. It was interesting to see this whole book to come together for the end. Then, Simon goes into detail about Pellegrini during interrogations. Pellegrini focuses on this textbook...
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December | 2013 | Shamy Jean
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Reading, writing, and redneckery. The End is Here. And so are the Tots. December 6, 2013. Today officially marks the last day of the first semester, and it is a bittersweet day (cue the Sara McLachlan ballad). While tests and assignments and classes are over (yay! It’s going to be a whole month of not seeing college friends, but moreover, IT’S GOING TO BE A WHOLE MONTH OF NO TATER TOTS. Now, you Winnipeggers are probably thinking, What? Are there no Tater Tots in Morden? But now I am sad because the Tate...
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TV versus reality | Shamy Jean
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Reading, writing, and redneckery. November 23, 2014. Every single chapter so far in David Simon’s. Has been jam-packed and long. Chapter nine is no exception at all. I’m almost curious as to how Simon decided to split up his chapters. To me, there seems to be no rhyme or reason. If he’d pulled the chapter markers out completely, the story would essentially be the same. I’m going to stick with one idea for my response, which has briefly come up in some other posts I’ve written: television. If anything’s b...
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The end. | Shamy Jean
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Reading, writing, and redneckery. November 30, 2014. It is all about crime scenes, interviews, and interrogations, played out against a backdrop of flawed humanity. This is the second last sentence in the book, penned by Lieutenant Terry McLarney. Though these aren’t Simon’s words, they truly capture this book in one sentence. It was interesting to see this whole book to come together for the end. Then, Simon goes into detail about Pellegrini during interrogations. Pellegrini focuses on this textbook...
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October | 2014 | Shamy Jean
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Reading, writing, and redneckery. Who are you working for? October 26, 2014. In my first blog post about David Simon’s. I made a comment about expecting to see religion intertwined symbolically with police work. I’ve found interesting snippets throughout this book, in which religion is mentioned, used as comparison, or been made a punchline, but it has not become a theme in the book. But a theme I found in this chapter was emotion or, I should say, a lack thereof. Hey, Donald,’ shouted Garvey, bounding a...
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McLarney could’ve been a murderer. | Shamy Jean
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Reading, writing, and redneckery. McLarney could’ve been a murderer. November 2, 2014. I’m not sure what I just read. This seemed to be a chapter of drinking and frustration. There has been a lot of drinking and frustration so far already, but when I think about chapter six, all of think of is a pickled McLarney. Apparently McLarney would. Biemiller would. Moutler would. And they did. McLarney, Biemiller, and Moulton all drove home drunk. They are police officers, men who are supposed to look out for...
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Oh, the humanity! | Shamy Jean
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Reading, writing, and redneckery. Oh, the humanity! November 16, 2014. It’s been the clear conflict throughout David Simon’s. It’s the struggle between solving cases and not being unnerved with the thought that each victim is a real person with real struggles and a real family. Chapter eight so clearly addressed this with the introduction of the morgue or Office of the Chief Medical Examiner. Perhaps the morgue is affirmation of just that: the body on the table is no longer Maureen or Lynn’s son, it’s an...
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What’s wrong with country music? This. | Shamy Jean
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Reading, writing, and redneckery. What’s wrong with country music? February 4, 2015. I was watching the video for Brett Eldredge’s Don’t Ya when I distinctly remember feeling disgust. I was watching some skinny, brown-haired, cut-off jean-wearing generic girl strut around in her cowboy boots while Eldredge tried to pick her up at a party. It’s not. Welcome to bro country. And drinking and hunting and being a redneck, but the reason people love it is because they live it. Out of the 25 spots, there is one...
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A Box of Memories | Shamy Jean
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Reading, writing, and redneckery. A Box of Memories. November 21, 2013. In my garage, on one of the shelves above the freezer, there’s a yellow Rubbermaid tub. When I was little, my mother kept our colouring books and craft supplies in that tub. Now that my sister and I are too old for crayons and plastic paint sets, we keep something else in that tub. We keep memories. My dad has told me lots of stories involving that book. My grandpa passed away when I was eight, so I didn’t know him very well....My fa...
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