I’m thankful for my best friend Andie Stith, she has been my friend since seventh grade, I started talking to her because she was talking about serial killers and we just kinda started talking from then. I am also thankful for my 26 year old Quarter horse mare Ginger, I got her for my 6th birthday, she was always a careful horse, when I was behind her she would look to see where I was, and when we ride she never bucks, and she always comes when I whistle, she has always been a good horse even though she has COPD (yeah horses can have it too) and instead of it getting better as she ages like in humans, it gets worse, but she still lives a relaxing life. I am thankful for all of the things I have, family, 16 animals, friends, artistic abilities, and shelter. And I’m thankful that people are there for me.

Stanley Nelson, or Mr. Nelson, a 52 year old filmmaker, made a film about The Emmett Till murder case. It took over a year to make and when it aired Mr. Nelson encouraged the audience to send postcards to a law official in Mississippi to  convince him to reopen the case from 1955. Over 10,000 postcards were sent and the case was reopened all thanks to Mr. Nelson and Mr. Beauchamp. Mr. Nelson described making the movie was emotionally hard to make and was an honor to make. He also said it was an incredible feeling to be apart of it. Mr. Nelson won a $500,000 MacArthur fellowship in 2002.

Mamie Mobely, Emmett’s mother, lived in Argo, Illinois near Chicago. Her son was about to leave to go to Mississippi to see his family because Mamie lived there when she was born but moved to Illinois shortly after. Before he left, Mamie gave him a ring that was once his fathers, and told him that the south was different from the North. He did’t really take it seriously, skip ahead to where it started to get bad, Emmett whistled at a white woman and she ran to her car and grabbed a pistol, Emmett and his family already zoomed out of there. Hours later men wake Till up and take him some where. A few days later people found his body and it was completely mutilated, no one could tell who it was. Except by his ring. They sent his body up back up to his mother, and she said that they only way she knew who he was was by the ring she gave him. After some speaking out about his death, she made the difficult decision to have an open casket funeral. Thousands of people crowded the streets to attend the funeral, and many had to be carried out because they had fainted. 

Keith Beauchamp, A 32 year-old Brooklyn filmmaker, first became fascinated by the Emmett till case when he read a magazine called Jet magazine that included the most popular picture of Till’s mutilated body. Beauchamp has traveled to many states to show  his documentary called “The untold story of Emmett Louis Till.” He mostly showed at colleges. And he has met with many law officials, begging them to open the case again. In 1995 he moved to New York, but he said he needed to raise $50,000 for his documentary. It was nine years in the making. When it was finished and aired, it received a lot of publicity. 

Stanley Nelson on the other hand, is a 52 year old filmmaker who has won a MacArthur “Genius Award” with a Harlem based production company. In 2003 His film “The murder of Emmett Till.” was shown on PBS and brought him a Peabody award the following week. He also encouraged his audience to send postcards to the attorney general of Mississippi to convince him to open the case again.

The most inspirational person in my life is probably my great grandmother Edith Ansteatt. She is 100 years old and has lived through the Great Depression. The reason she is my biggest inspiration is because of how much she’s been through and how great of a heart she still has at her age. She still salvages bananas every week because she believes she has to keep them to survive, her mindset is still stuck in the Depression, she doesn’t realize that everything is better now and she doesn’t have to horde food anymore, but she is still very opinionated that she has to, even though she is very old and fragile she still cracks jokes and loves to play cards, and I feel like that is going to be me when I’m old, cracking jokes and playing cards. I respect her so much as a person, her favorite colors are teal and purple. I remember going to her house in loveland and eating ice-cream with her and my mom, and of course playing cards. I was probably like 5 the last time I saw her in that house. Just a year ago we were in her house that my uncle was living in, looking through the debris of all the collectibles she had, We salvaged some of her old bells that she collected. I took one of her embroidery hoops that she used to use. she has been in the retirement home since she was 80, switching from one of them because she had suffered a bad fall in one of them and it didn’t have nurses checking on them 24/7. The fall required stitches in her head, I’m not sure how many because it’s been years since that happened. That is another reason she’s my biggest inspiration, she is strong enough to heal and live through everything life has put her through.

What scares me the most in life is rejection and judgement. I hate being admonished for things that I wish to do but other people don’t want me to do. It makes me feel embarrassed to do anything that sounds cool but I can’t push myself to do it because I’m scared of people looking at me weird, putting me in a deadlock for about an hour on if I want to do it or not. If I do it I’ll most likely try to efface myself. If I don’t do whatever it is I want to do because I’m too scared of judgement from others I have to eventually relinquish the urge to do it. It sucks to go in public because I’m always cumbersome when I know people are looking at me. I try not to worry about them because I know people are going to judge me everywhere I go but it’s hard to quiet my mind about it. I also try to be circumspect about what I do in public. Every day I just try to muddle through but it’s hard because I think way to much about everything. I’ve been in this dilemma for as long as I can remember. Probably since I started rationally thinking. But when I was younger I used to run around unbridled, not caring about anything. Being spasmodic on the dance floor at my moms friends weddings, I used to talk more believe it or not. But anyway, that’s what I’m most scared of in life.

I’ve already wrote this but I have no idea where it went so I guess I’ll write it again. This is a little about me. My full name is Juliana Nichole Hall. I have been a vegetarian for a year and two months. I am outgoing, I am the black sheep of society, I say that because I’m different, and I don’t try to act like everyone else. I do sports even though my friends don’t do them, I do them for me, not for anyone else. I run cross country, I didn’t do it this year because of Marching band but I plan to do it next year.

                          

                       

                           

                      

                               I’m the kid in the Batman onesie.

But my life isn’t all about band and running. I also take care of 17 animals, 3 fishes, 2 rabbits, 3 dogs, 2 cats, 1 donkey, 2 horses, and 4 chickens, but I plan on getting more in the spring. But the one animal that stands out the most is the horse I got in February of 2016, my dad’s friend gave her to us because she was being mistreated, she was extremely malnourished and weak on the night we got her at 2 in the morning. 

                                 

                                     

After 7 months of a special diet, exercise, medication, and even getting two of her back teeth removed because they were serving as a problem to her, we got her back to a healthy weight and she was able to be ridden again, but it didn’t come easy, she got lice, rain rot, and other skin issues while she was getting better, but now she looks like a completely different horse.

 

 

I’ve been on a lot of vacations, from Mansfield,Oh, Tennessee, Alabama, Mississippi, South Carolina, Washington D.C, Virginia, Florida, but the one that stands out the most, and was probably the best I will ever have was Hawaii, The reason I went was because my stepmom works for an insurance company that occasionally offers a free trip to Hawaii if you pass the three very challenging exams, and when I say occasionally I mean like 9 years, and this was probably the last year they will ever do it, so we got lucky, I went with her and my dad, my ticket was sadly not free, it cost around $1,000 for the plane tickets there and back, but it was definitely worth it. We went to a real luau, we saw a Hawaiian magic show, I got surfing lessons, we went to the site of Pearl harbor, swam with stingrays and fed lettuce to fish, we also went to the site where many movies are recorded, for example, Jurassic world, Journey 2, Mike and Dave, Godzilla, and so much more. We also went horseback riding and went to the Dole plantation.

                                       

                                  

                                 

                                 

(we did a lot the day I wore the issues shirt, don’t worry I didn’t wear the same shirt every day.)

This is Godzilla’s footprint.

The reason it looks different from the movie is because the edited out all the trees and vegetation from behind me. 

This is my dad on a horse.

and This concludes my About me, sorry for making it so long, oops.

 

If I had a mixtape of my life, it would probably have a very wide range of different music genres, from pop, pop rock, rock, death metal, alternative rock, etc, in it. Throughout my entire life so far, I’ve probably listened to a million songs from a lot of bands and artists, there’s some I can’t even remember the name of. Sadly in probably fourth or fifth grade I liked Justin Bieber and One direction, for about a year and then I suddenly went to Black Veil Brides, I don’t want to talk about this anymore and how long I listened to them. Anyway jump ahead to eighth grade, I started liking actual good bands like Set it Off, Issues, Bear tooth, and Motionless in White. I have actually met two of those mentioned bands, I met Set it Off twice in one day at warped Tour and got pictures with them

I met Issues only once and wasn’t allowed to take pictures but my cut off got signed by them so that was nice. 

This is probably weird but my first crush was probably Adam Lambert. I don’t even know why I liked him, I was probably in like 2nd grade when I figured out about him. It started off when my friend Kirsten showed me his music, I instantly liked him. After that it was seeing his music videos, and well, I thought he was attractive so. When I was in like probably third grade My friend Kirsten came over to my house and we went outside to play with my animals, more specifically my chickens. We were chasing them around and putting one of them into the chicken house at a time and figuring out names for them. And I couldn’t think of any so I named them all Adam Lambert. It’s a really weird memory that’s funny but also really makes me cringe at the thought of it.

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