Tag: essays

Compare the character of Lonesome Rhodes from A Face In The Crowd with the title character in Bob Roberts. What do these characters say about each filmmaker’s view of the common man in America?  What do these characters tell us about corruption in the American political system (and the...

There were three movies in this module- All the President’s Men, Good Night/Good Luck, and Shattered Glass. There were no question sets for Shattered Glass, which was good because I didn’t actually watch it. I sat through maybe the first half-hour and then had to walk away. Hayden Christensen...

In my head, Red October is still the best Clancy picture, by far. Harrison Ford was too Mr America, and Ben Affleck was too jock. There’s no way around it, Jack Ryan is a Baldwin. The movie was so good it inspired me to read the book, the book...

Middle Eastern politics are not my strength. I barely have an understanding of the Christianity that’s killing us; I know even less about the Jewish or Muslim fault lines crisscrossing the region. But Israel is a pink elephant in American politics, so the litmus test is about as relevant...

This wraps up the first week of writing for Politics and Film. I’m pretty sure he had a rough word limit on the essays, which was handy after the pages and pages of questions for the individual films. Each module was due on a Sunday night, so of course...

From the Race/Ethnicity final. Just the last half, the first wasn’t very good reading. This was the professor who assigned a ton a of writing. Between her three classes I got 1 A and 2 B’s. I’m really wondering if those B’s couldn’t have been fixed by some legitimate...

Good God, did I proofread this thing at all? So many typos. Think I got a B on this midterm, I’m not entirely surprised why. Usually I’ll do a quick read of each paragraph before moving on to the next one, but some of these exams were done at...

Ah, the good stuff. Race & ethnicity. And you thought perhaps I sounded condescending before, the guy commenting on rape culture? Ha. There are few things in this world more ridiculous than a white guy talking about racial issues. Tall people, perhaps- they’re pretty bonkers. But this was the...

This was the midterm. I’ve been looking around for the final, but that may have been the Smith thing. I know there’s a few things that were lost to mis-saves though, so who knows. In this case, the assignment was a flight of fancy. The lawyer representing Trump had...

301, the first of the “actual” classes. Political Theory. The assignment here was a one-pager, just a quick compare/contrast between several Declarations. A funny bit of trivia- this class didn’t take much in the way of writing, but the professor was married to the one who assigned tons of...