Author: Azrael Montoya

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Ready for the future

Azrael Montoya

Azrael Montoya Radiology major Dana Portillo credits the Career Development Department at Del Mar College for helping her plan for life after graduation. “The student resources here at Del Mar have really helped me move along my future career,” Portillo said of the job listings, resume building and interview skills help she’s received. The Career Development Department on Oct. 31 held an Open House in the Career Kiosk in the Harvin Center to make even more students aware of those resources. The Open House aimed to offer students help with any resources pushing them forward to find a job. One…

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Wisner talks the rise of social media

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Azrael Montoya amontoya@foghornnews.com After attending a lecture on social media in the Student Success Center, education major Jade Mitchell realized she was going about it wrong. “I’m going to change the audience I focus on,” Mitchell said. Mitchell and several other students attended the Oct. 26 lecture on social media given by Liza Wisner, learning and organizational development manager for the city of Corpus Christi. A Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi graduate, Wisner believes her role in the social media journey is to “connect people and technology together.” She talked extensively about the journalist’s initial role in communication and how to…

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Oklahoma poet shares works at DMC

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Azrael Montoya amontoya@foghornnews.com Oklahoma native Dorothy Alexander came to share her life through her poetry as part of the Del Mar College Poetry Series. Alexander read her poem “Ode to Darkness,” where she talks about her family and the far expanses of the universe, during her Nov. 1 visit to Del Mar College. She talked at great length about her childhood and her love of the radio, and the hardships of World War II. “I don’t regret any part of my life,” Alexander said. For liberal arts major Victoria Landon she was hoping to like poetry more by attending the…

Entertainment, Movies

No joke, ‘Jigsaw’ film is pretty good

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Azrael Montoya The game is back on with force with the return of John “Jigsaw” Kramer in “Jigsaw.” The film opens up in true Saw series form with five people locked in an unknown room with buckets on their heads. As all true fans of the Saw series know, all five people are locked there for a reason, as Jigsaw’s game is never meant for those people with no sins in their life. Detective Halloran (Callum Keith Rennie) and Keith Hunt (Clé Bennet) of the FBI, along with forensic pathologists Logan Nelson (Matt Passmore) and Eleanor Bonneville (Hannah Emily Anderson),…

Entertainment, TV

Same show, same characters, new fight

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Azrael Montoya Season 8 of “The Walking Dead” is here as Rick and his group battle Negan and the Saviors in the all-out war. This season so far has seen a vast pickup in tempo from last season with all its useless talking, King Ezekiel speaking like Shakespeare and Daryl Dixon being put in a holding cell for who knows how long. The season premiere got right into the all-out war and it is pure unabashed action from the start. In this episode and the one to follow the Saviors will have to prove mightily that they indeed are Negan.…

Campus, Collegiate, Community

Get help for a good resumé

Azrael Montoya

AMontoya@foghornnews.com One of the key aspects in acquiring a job is building a coherent resumé, and Del Mar College can assist students in this area. The college holds a resumé-writing clinic twice every semester on the East Campus. The next resume writing clinics will be held at 1 p.m. Nov. 3 and at 11 a.m. Nov. 6 in the Career Kiosk in the Harvin Center. “A good resumé will get you an interview; it won’t get you the job,” said Vanessa Adkins, career coordinator for Del Mar College. To further assist students in building a resumé and seeking out a…

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Professor tells of area’s rich history, culture

Azrael Montoya

Amontoya@foghornnews.om The history of South Texas is rich and far reaching. Professor Renato Ramirez made this much and more apparent at a recent genealogy lecture. Genealogy is the study of a family pedigree or account of the origin of one’s own family. This display was made possible because of Ramirez’s hard work and effort and his own personal connection to the history. The major contributor to this historical research is based on the work of Dr. Cleotilde P. Garcia. She produced a work called “Padre Jose Nicolas Balli and Padre Island,” which details the founding of Padre Island and the…

Entertainment, TV

Relentless battle for the American dream

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Johnny Faust and his friends drop out of school and move to Hollywood to start a rock band and make it big in “American Satan.” After they encounter the devil, what comes next will change their lives forever. Their band, The Relentless, goes from being poor and living in their van to living at the top of rock ’n’ roll heaven with power and money. Faust is the picture of the perfect fallen rock star from grace. The Relentless are gods among men in the world of sex, violence, drugs and rock ’n’ roll. They experience the duality of rock…

Entertainment, Movies

The almost never-ending ‘Death Day’

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“Happy Death Day” is the horror version of the film “Groundhog Day.” If a person wants myriad chances to correct one’s own life, this is that particular film. The main character in the film, Theresa “Tree” Gelbman (Jessica Rothe), keeps waking up in the same day, her birthday in a twilight zone of sorts because she must find her killer. She is a student in college on the wrong path of life decisions. She has an estrangement from her father due to some family history. She’s just an immoral and selfish person living her life recklessly. Each time she dies…

Community

Poetry series aims to inspire new writers

Azrael Montoya

  Oklahoma poetry legend Dorothy Alexander will hold a poetry reading at Del Mar College on Nov. 1. Alexander, born in 1934 in the middle of the Great Depression to a family of farmers, has created six collections of her own poetry since 2002 including “The Dust Bowl Revisited” and “Rough Drafts.” Her poetry covers her childhood as an Okie dirt farmer’s daughter to a career as a lawyer and then judge. She has curated regular poetry readings at Beans & Leaves Coffee House, Individual Artists of Oklahoma, Full Circle Books and other venues. Alexander finds inspiration for her poetry…