Freedom of Thought

Going with Inherit the Wind's free thought aspect, other books we've read this year that deal with thinking freely are The Night Thoreau Spent in Jail, The Crucible and Huck Finn. The three books share characters that all believe in the utilization of free though, aside from the actual free thought motif in each respective book, such as Thoreau refusing to give up what he believed in and went to jail as a show that his mind wouldn't be changed, John Proctor seeing what Abigail was doing the whole time was a sham even though everyone else thought she was innocent, and Huck, contrary to popular belief in the South, thinking that slavery wasn't good. However, the differences among these similarities was the cause that each character had free-thinking beliefs about, considering there are discernible discrepancies in slavery, witchcraft and Evolution/Creation.

Hawks' Female Characters

-Seductive

-Play hard to get

-The men they're involved with fall for them

-They get romantic with these men (kiss, hug)

-Way with words

Stagecoach

It follows Western themes by taking place in a small town, having a heroic character with a mission to save people, cowboys, trains, characters had accents and in the end, the hero won.

Westerns

I haven't seen any Western films or t.v. series, but I've heard of a lot like The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, 3:10 to Yuma and Walker, Texas Ranger. Western characteristics are the Western U.S., cowboys, Native Americans, Mexicans, gunfights, standoffs and a hero that comes to town and saves the day.

Envelope Reflection

The prediction I made when we turned the envelopes in was correct, the narrator did change as a result of Tyler and Marla. Surprises the book had for me is probably just how the events the narrator and Tyler experienced unfolded, we're not done so we won't know the climax of what's happening until then.

Teaching Reflection

From the project, I learned that teaching a class can sometimes be not the easiest thing to do, it can be a little intimidating, but it was good for the most part. A lot of students in class were attentive and showed enthusiasm (partly brought out due to the distribution of candy) in learning poetry and participating in the activities presented by the groups. I think the way everyone presented went really well, I didn't see any problems with the presentations. For improvement, I think next time I could work on maybe adding another segment to our presentation or maybe practice what I will be saying.

Hong Kong Action Cinema

1. In recent memory, Hong Kong films have had the most influence on Hollywood films.

2. Even in the silent era, Hong Kong films displayed kung-fu.

3. The person that sparked Western interest in Honk Kong cinema was Bruce Lee, known for his expertise in kung-fu and cha-cha dancing.

4. The Shaw Brothers basically wrote the manual for the plots typically used in martial arts films.

5. Once there was a rise on fan base for martial arts cinema, many independent exploitation films came out to capitalize on the popularity kung-fu movies had in America.

Citizen Kane & Rashamon

Both films used multiple perspectives very well, all toward revealing something that serves the plot, though each used this technique differently. Citizen Kane has different people telling different accounts of Charles' life, all leading toward the revealing of the Rosebud plot device, while Rashamon has four accounts on one event, the murder of a samurai, but not aiming to reveal a profound truth, rather not being restrained by one truth, but trying to show that there are different, not necessarily correct truths.

Hollywood & World Cinema

Hollywood cinema and foreign cinema have given each other mutual inspirations for film genres, themes, and devices, such as American editing techniques and plot lines, and foreign film genres such as Expressionism that influenced noir and devices like the Rashamon effect used in Hollywood films after its debut.