Look, I found a pic of someone from Corellia (Han Solo, who wears the Corellian blood stripe on his pants) and Greedo together. Get it? It's a picture of Corellia and Greedo together! And both groups are going to present tomorrow in class!!!
Okay, enough of my excitement. Now for my apology. It's 2:12 pm on Wednesday, and I told you to post by 5 pm today. So, you have an extension, go ahead and post your questions as soon as you can, but it can be after 5. Just make it as early as possible, for the benefit of Corellia and Greedo.
Even though I know you already know this, the articles you need to be asking questions about are:
For Corellia: "Introducing Horror" (starts on p. 700) and "Virgins for Jesus" (starts on p.88).
For Greedo: "Stress Management Ideology" (starts on p. 670) and "Cardboard Patriarchy" (starts on p. 66).
Post your questions here!! (And thanks to all of you who just couldn't wait, and posted your questions in the Introduction thread.)
8 comments:
Introducing horror: In the essay they give an example of a horror movie they believed was based around some of the cold war paranoia. Do you guys think that in our society we use actual events such as the war in Iraq to guide the 'horror' films today?
Virgins for Jesus: In this essay they present a lot of 'scare' tactics to help prevent pre-marital sex. Do you think that in the end this negative outlook on sex will effect these teens future sexual encounters? Are they more likely to be sexually confused then the teens who grew up in a sexually open environment?
Stress Management Ideology:
Why do you think that contemporary culture only identifies distress, "bad" stress, and fails to educate about the benefits of eustress, "good" stress?
Greedo:
"Stress Management Ideology...": Kathleen Green talks about how women seem to be drawn by the ideas and assumptions of stress; causing these women to buy magazines that discuss ways to prevent 'stress'. Do you think the ideology of stress management is becoming so abundant as a means for more consumer consumption?
"Cardboard Patriarchy..."
This essay seems to focus a lot on the connection of collecting baseball cards to a slightly homosexual time a boy's development. Do you think that men have gone back to card collecting as a means to return to a simpler time without sexual partners?
Intorducing Horror: What is your opinion on Carroll's distinction between natural horror and art horror? What does distinct truth from fiction?
Virgins for jesus: It seems as though these teens are already confused at a young age according to their responses in their Brio letters, do you believe that some of their confessions in the letters completely contradict the point of the chasity cards?
Cardboard Patriarchy:
Why do you think that it is acceptable as a child and as an adult to collect cards, but during adolescence it becomes unacceptable?
Stress Management:
In the essay, Green says that stress management is naturally individualiizing,
Do you think that stress management is a way for women to gain power and individulism?
Cardboard Patriarchy:
John Bloom wants to raise questions about the desires that men express through their hobbies, I know a lot of guys that talk about sports as if it were an obsession, do you think that using sports teams, and in this case, card collecting, is a way for men to cut themselves off from the world and relive their childhood?
I guess I already had an abortive attempt to start a blog on this site, so this is Willie in the guise of 'doomridesout'
Stress Management Ideology:
How does the concept of stress, which is a natural outgrowth of struggle, get turned into a phenomenon apart from its causes which must be 'treated' rather than its origins examined?
Cardboard patriarchy:
What other examples of this tendency to try to find a justification for an adult culture in shared childhood experience are there? What about young adults today using children's movies as a basis for discourse?
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