Here's a pic of Luke training with Yoda on Dagobah, and one of a baby Ewok (the Ewoks' home "planet," as we all know, is the forest moon of Endor). I think everyone would agree that Luke's training time with Yoda is total b.s. I mean, the maximum time he spent on Dagobah was two weeks (and I'm pretty sure it's closer to 3-4 days), and then the next time he came back to complete his training, Yoda died. Yoda told him his training was complete, but come on, from Eps I-III we know that Jedi training lasted around 15 years, from the time a "youngling" is maybe 3 years old to the time s/he's 18 or 19. Is Luke so strong with the force that he managed to skip over 14 years, 11 months, and 3 weeks' worth of training? I guess it's similar to the way that Han and Lando somehow get to be Generals after spending most of their time being a smuggler and a mining colony administrator, respectively.
And don't even get me started on the Ewoks.
Anyway, please post your questions for the Dagobah and Endor presentations on Tuesday. Post them by 5 pm on Monday, 12 Nov to give both groups a chance to incorporate them into the discussion part of their presentations.
The readings for Tuesday, as listed on your HoP Reading Assignments handout, which is downloadable from OASIS, are:
For Dagobah:
1. "The Empress's New Clothing?" (starts on p. 122)
2. "Shopping Sense" (starts on p. 472)
For Endor:
1. "No Matter How Small" (starts on p. 187)
2. "Racial Cross-Dressing" (starts on p. 388)
6 comments:
Dagobah:
1. The Empress's New Clothing
Do you feel that Americans have now become desensitized to low-brow talk shows like The Jerry Springer Show? How do you think talk shows like this would do in other countries?
2. Shopping Sense
Crane talks about how some journalists believe that shopping is a distraction to women, preventing them from intellectual or professional pursuits. Do you agree with this? Or is shopping a way for women to be liberated from the household? How does this theory hold up in relation to online shopping, in which women and men a like can shop at home or the office 24 hours a day?
the empress's new clothing
What is your own experience with daytime talk shows and their influence on you or people you are close with?
Empress:
The essay talks about popular experts on American talk shows, do you think that the advice given in talk shows are simulated or are they true facts?
Shopping:
This essay talks about consumer culture and how we understand it, do you think that articles written by journalists influence the way women shop and what they think is fashionable?
The Empress's New Clothing
Is the populist conception of intellectuals on talk shows a co-opting and neutralizing of a real tradition of intellectuals in America?
Shopping Sense
Shopping is portrayed here as a place for womens discourse with consumer culture, but how productive is it really- it offers a place to make choices within that system but choosing to abstain from consumer culture is not acknowledged as an option, generally. Why?
The Democratic Imagination of Dr. Seuss
Is it possible to teach children to participate in the political life of a society without somehow indoctrinating them? What was Dr. Seuss's claim?
Racial Cross Dressing
How is black culture today co-opted by whites to neutralize its revolutionary content- for instance the radicalism of early hip-hop has been replaced by consumerist sentiment in hip-hop today.
-Willie
Empress's new clothing:
Do you think that someone looses their authority when they become "popular" within a typically lower class culture?
Shopping sense:
This essay seems to stress the idea that women shop as a means to escape their lack of economic power, do you agree with this?
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