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By ELVIA ORTIZ Student Reporter

One day in my media writing class we were asked to look through our bags to see if we could come up with a potential story that college students would be interested in. Luckily for me the night before class my BAGGU duck bag had just come in the mail and I was excited to show it off and to tell everyone how they should shop from BAGGU.

That morning my professor was the first person to notice my BAGGU bag and commented about how she thought the pattern was cool.

Back in 2019, I was on Instagram scrolling away and I noticed a company called BAGGU. Of course I was instantly drawn to it because their advertising not only captured their products well, but each of their posts either showed diverse models or people in different age ranges, which I had never really seen before, so I immediately went to their website and purchased my first reusable BAGGU.

I was mainly influenced to buy the duck bag because a girl on TikTok uses one for her student teaching. I am currently doing student observations, so I felt that it was a necessary purchase. I can carry my HP computer that is 13.5 inches long that is protected safely by a laptop sleeve from guess whereBAGGU. I can also fit a pencil bag, two notebooks and a oneinch binder in my duck bag.

The thing that makes this company so worth it is that everything is sustainable and made from products like recycled nylon or canvas.

When creating the reusable bags, BAGGU takes the leftovers and turns them into a little pouch to store your bag in. These bags are incredible, not only can they carry up to 50 pounds, but they can fold back up into a five-by-five pouch and if the bag gets dirty, you can just toss it into the washing machine.

anything you desire.

The two latest BAGGU items that left my bank account feeling overwhelmed were the medium nylon crescent bag in the color Bay Laurel and the duck bag in the Moss Trippy Checker print. Let me start with how shocked I was by the crescent bag.

I was no longer sad about the amount of money I had spent. This bag has two deep side pockets and overall has all the space I need without it being too big. It can carry a book, a 32oz water bottle, a wallet, a little make-up bag and any other extra day-to-day things I can not live without.

Let’s get the white elephant out of the room and mention that this review will reference cocaine many times as "Cocaine Bear" is an action thriller movie inspired by the true story of a bear that ingested cocaine that had been dropped from a plane in 1985. The movie starts off on the plane with the drugs being tossed out with the intention of getting them later but the pilot does not make it after his parachute fails to deploy, leaving the coke for the bear.

This mass-murdering black bear is obsessed with cocaine and will attack anyone who gets in his way. A cast of wacky characters, with lots of campy, tongue-in-cheek dialogue, makes for a fun ride along with a great soundtrack reminiscent of the seventies and eighties hits. These characters venture out into the woods to get the drugs for themselves,only to the bear who has eaten them.

some of the cringe worthy dialogue. It may have been intended to be cringe but it made some parts of the movie off-putting but did not ruin the overall experience. It is extremely violent and graphic, but also exciting, so if you are over the age of eighteen, I recommend that you see this movie but not if you are squeamish as this movie is not for the faint of heart.

The moral of the story, bears are good if you leave them alone, but drugs are bad, and they do not belong in the wild. For audiences who have not been to the theater since the pandemic, desperate for a good time, it was great to see, with the audience’s reaction. I thought it was a good balance of horror and humor, with a ton of splatter.

The BAGGU reusable bags come in three different sizes: baby, standard or big BAGGU. So, there’s a perfect BAGGU for every occasion. In fact, I now own three standard and two baby BAGGU bags. I like to use my standard strawberry bag as a sleepover bag because it holds all my personal items plus two pairs of shoes. I also use my really cute baby BAGGU that has elephants and flowers on it in my car to put trash in.

Reusable bags are not the only product that BAGGU offers. The company also sells purses, totes, cloud bags, socks, computer sleeves, slippers and pillow cases to name a few. The cloud bag uses both recycled nylon filament yarn and preconsumer waste. The cloud bag is essentially a lightweight bag that can carry a laptop, a set of clothing, vegetables or

BAGGU just came out with their spring collection and I have my eye on a few bags. I really want to buy another crescent bag in the colors, avocado and marine blue. The mini nylon shoulder bag in black and the nylon shoulder bag in taupe. The thing with BAGGU is that if you wait too long to buy a product it will sell out in that color wave and be months before it’s released again.

Needless to say, BAGGU is a company I will continue to buy from and recommend to anyone when I am asked where I got my bags from. The price is spot on for what you get and it's good for the environment- and if you can catch a sale, it’s even better because it allows you to purchase more items while still feeling like you have helped the environment when you no longer use plastic bags.

The movie uses its characters to tell an interesting and gruesome story about the bear who is facing addiction and withdrawal from the drugs it has ingested and portrays a serious issue in a way that is both hilarious and not at the same time. The humor in this movie is very dry.

The writer Jimmy Warden makes some fun character choices, even making cocaine one of the characters in the cast lineup. Alden Ehrenreich really adds a funny depressed comedic performance as Eddie, Margo Martindale adds more star power to the ensemble, and Kerri Russell plays a single mom frantically trying to save her daughter perfectly.

Even Mathew Ries makes a 30-second cameo to bring more recognizability to the lineup. They say truth is stranger than fiction and they hit the nail on the head with "Cocaine Bear" in that description because this is the strangest true story adapted to the big screen I’ve ever seen.

The cinematography was amazing and the only issue I had with the movie was

The real story is less bloody. It all began, as you might guess, in the 1980s. The Georgia Bureau of Investigation announced in December 1985 that a 175-pound black bear had “died of an overdose of cocaine after discovering a batch of the drug,” according to The New York Times.

Today, the very same bear is said to be on display in Lexington, Ky., at Kentucky for Kentucky Fun Mall. The mall said in an Aug. 2015 blog post that workers there wanted to know what happened to the bear and found out it had been stuffed. The blog post says the stuffed bear was at one point owned by the country singer Waylon Jennings, who kept it in his home in Las Vegas, before it was delivered to the store.

As strange and gratuitous as Cocaine Bear sounds it is a well-produced and directed film, with amazing special effects that sell the crazy farce, all-star cast to audiences, and is an unexpected win at the box office. And yes the ‘Just say no to drugs’ theme is portrayed in the movie. You just don't have time to think about it because you are witnessing a bear on cocaine. In the end, you love to feel bad for the bear and this messy entanglement she wound up in.