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This is my job

By ~LS~ On May 7, 2008 · 1 Comment · In I have to work? and tagged Tagged With: BRCC, Gratitudes, Movies, Teaching, Threes

The semester is winding down. I am looking forward to my week off prior to teaching the Maymester. I don’t know why they call it the Maymester since most of it is in June.

The student culture at BRCC is really frustrating. I have students who just stop showing up to class. They don’t withdraw. They just stop showing up. Of course, this means they will earn an F in class. I cannot imagine why someone would do this to their record. The only thing I can think of is to keep financial aid. But if your GPA drops below a certain grade, you lose your financial aid anyway. I think the students don’t think in terms of the long run. They think in terms of “the now.” It also coincides with high absenteeism in the class. I have tried to compensate for high absenteeism by taking points off final [...]

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Valentine’s Day

By ~LS~ On February 15, 2008 · Add Comment · In Pop Culture and tagged Tagged With: Holidays, Movies

Yesterday was a great Valentine’s day. I looked forward to it for two weeks and I wasn’t disappointed. First we woke up at 6:30 AM (gawd) and baked our usual v-day cookies. Then that evening we went out to eat steak at Ruth’s Chris steakhouse. Which was yummy. Last, we went to see another Bollywood movie, Jodhaa Akbar. I had been looking forward to this movie ever since they started showing the previews for it three months ago.

Essentially, Jodhaa Akbar is a love story between the Muslim Mughal Emperor and his Hindi wife in 16th century India. It stars Aishwarya Rai (Bachchan), who I think is terribly beautiful. The movie was widely anticipated, and we didn’t get good seats because the theater was so full. The film showed at Grand Cinema, which has taken over the Hindi movie niche from the closed Siegen movie theater. Steve and I have [...]

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In the Valley of Elah and Eastern Promises

By ~LS~ On September 27, 2007 · Add Comment · In Pop Culture and tagged Tagged With: Movies, Politics, Pop Culture

I’ve seen two really good movies this weekend. _In the Valley of Elah_ and _Eastern Promises_. _In the Valley of Elah_, directed by Paul Haggis, was very moving and disturbing to me. Much more so than the movie _Crash_, which I felt ended up reinforcing white privilege as much as challenging racism. One review called the movie “lacerating.” That’s a great word to describe it. I can’t really say much about the film because just describing it will give too many spoilers. Apparently it is based on a true story, however. One of the themes of the film is how the young soldiers in Iraq deal with their stress and the lack of mental health care they get as they transition from Iraq to home. It makes me think of all the young people I have in my classes who have been “over there.” What kind of transition issues [...]

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Bowling for Va. Tech

By ~LS~ On April 17, 2007 · 1 Comment · In Politics and tagged Tagged With: Michael Moore, Movies, Politics, Pop Culture

Like the rest of the country, I am spending the morning reflecting on and reading about the shootings at Virginia Tech. As one article on Michael Moore’s website puts it, all the usual suspects have lined up along predictable rhetorical lines. Anti-gun control folks say that letting citizens have handguns on the college campus would have enabled students to stop the gunman before he mowed down 32 people. The logic in that boggles me. Gun-control advocates trot out their legislation. Nonetheless, even in the face of all the evidence about gun violence in America, I remain ambivalent about gun control. This is primarily due to a comment my friend, Carolyn D. made after watching Bowling for Columbine. She said something to the effect of if you make all guns illegal, then only the government has guns, and what’s to stop a situation where the government [...]

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Oscars

By ~LS~ On February 27, 2007 · 1 Comment · In Pop Culture and tagged Tagged With: Movies, Pop Culture

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Letting the days go by

By ~LS~ On January 15, 2007 · Add Comment · In The Quotidian (yadda yadda) and tagged Tagged With: Bush, Movies, What I Did Today

* This story, Bush Set for Climate Change U-Turn, is headlining at Netscape tonite. My reaction? Well, duh.

* I have been collecting Bush thumbnails (that sounds really gross) from Netscape. I don’t think they really like him very much, because the pictures they always use of him are really funny. He looks alternately evil or stupid, or sometimes both at the same time. When I have enough to make a case, I will post them.

* I saw The Curse of the Golden Flower tonite, which I learned from Wikipedia was not based on fact. I feel utterly ignorant and parochial. I vaguely remember the Tang Dynasty from 7th grade social studies, but I couldn’t tell you anything about it. Hah. And I passed the Praxis II test for general knowledge. There’s a joke. Go figure. Anyway, the movie was sometimes visually overwhelming, but I [...]

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