Welcome...and initial guidelines...

This blog will be used in the spring of 2008 by 80+ students at Drexel University to investigate the effects of Iraq on culture and the reverse. Our goal will be to better understand why the US is in Iraq, and to question whether literature can help us on this journey.

Weekly plans and other materials will always be posted in Vista, not this blog. So go to Bb Vista to get the discussion prompts and other instructions.

I intend this blog to manage our discussions and track our collective investigation.

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Sunday, April 13, 2008

A Walk To Remember & Disney

In A Walk To Remember, a typical love story with a sad ending is about a jock named Landon who falls in love with a what everyone sees as a geek, Jamie. In many stories it is always the jock going for the most popular girl in the movie or the geek with the geek. Rarly it is the popular kid seeking out the geek in the movie. Today it is still stereotypical that the not so popular girl can get the prince charming. Children are even led to believe this as a very young age with the many Disney films that are made. You always see the princess who is georgeous falling in love with the prince charming. Cinderella who was basically a maid even had to be changed into this wonderful princess like character to even be in contact with prince charming. This isnt even an image that girls are getting but what about the guys? By watching these movies as young children are guys growing up feeling that they have to be mr. prince charming just to even speak to a girl? 

With the scary movies, they even seem to pick the popular kids to go after. Normally the scary movies start out with the popular kids going on a trip and get lost .. In the Saw series however the killer picks normal average people who live there lives like half of other america today. I am actually a big fan of the Saw series and I really  hate scary movie. I dont go to watch it for the all the gore but for the real story behind it. That everyone deserves a second change. Though the Saw series throws a twists on it. The story of this old man who believes that everyone deserves a second chance to wake up and change there life even if that means you much go into a torture device first and might not make it out alive to even live out your second chance. 

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