Emotions

the wheel

Week off!

It appears we do not meet on the 24th!  Right? Right!

Assignments from Week 2 for Week 3

1. LOOKING BACK ON THIS WEEK:  You have been mailed a chart of "types" - use it for your "types" paper.  You can choose two people in your own life:  yourself and someone significant to you (parent, sibling, boss, friend, teacher) - or you can choose two "buddies" in a movie:  e.g., "Men in Black," "Shawshank Redemption," "Bonnie & Clyde", "Thelma & Louise", Beavis & Butthead" - among others.  Choose at least two "cells" from each column of each type:  see these likes and dislikes at work in the relationship.  Be specific.  Maximum 2.5 pages.
2. LOOKING FORWARD:  You have been mailed a paper on freedom.  You may get ahead and read it this week.  It will be part of the topic of next week's class.  
3. LOOKING FORWARD:  Next week, week 3, we will discuss the 8 stages of life, by Erik Erikson.  Choose a movie that you feel depicts
   a child
   a teen
   a young adult
   a mature adult
   an elder
   ANGEL GROUP ("A"):  in ONE page or less describe the challenges and goals of life as seen through that age.  E.g., a child role plays, a teen looks for identity, a young adult looks for love and work, a mature adult looks to "give back," an elder is content or in resentment.  Just give it a try.  Here is a link that may help you 8 Stages   here is anothere link
   Movie suggestions are:  "Barry Lyndon," "Mean Girls" "Breakfast Club"  "Boyz in the Hood"  "Clueless" "Rebel Without a Cause"  "American Graffiti" "Splendor in the Grass"  "Dazed and Confused"  "The 400 Blows"  "Ferris Bueller"  "Umberto D"  "Ginger and Fred."
   Now, any in group B or group C can also do this for "extra credit"

ONE assignment: for Monday 2/17

What ONE movie characterizes, for you, a non-Western or a non-patriarchal way to think.

On Magical vs. Scientific mental processes:    SEE THIS post. - there is an example of the assignment here!
On Competitive vs. Cooperative mental processes:  SEE THIS YouTube - made by a Hollywood director!

The example in the post and/or the YouTube recommended above will help you think about and get into alternate ways to think.

This paper is NO MORE THAN ONE page!

Readings for next week

ALL GROUPS:  Looking ahead to the next week, submit one page listing 2 films that seem to illuminate the topic.  This is typed, double spaced, no more than ONE page (less than 250 words)

for Monday 2/10
 Claude Levi-Strauss on The Savage Mind The distinction we are looking for is the distinction between what could be called "magical" and "scientific" thought processes.

Example of text for a paper.

"Walkabout" 1971 Directed by Nicholas Roeg.  The transformation of ways to think can be seen in the girl's eyes at the end of the movie:  after having been left as a young girl in the Outback by her father, she was found by an aborigine.  At the end of the movie she is back to civilization in a life that "makes sense" according to her native culture: indoors, behind glass, at work with all the gadgetry of a housewife.  It is civilization that belongs in a museum, behind glass--not the native who is adept at living on earth and with the earth.  The woman, now grown, has a successful husband and a house with all the amenities of modernization and the trappings of "love".  But in the Outback she had been lost--and it was then that she was found.  Nothing "made sense" in the Outback:  she could not even speak with the person who found her!  Not even a 'Hello.'  With the help of her little brother--also abandoned by their father--they created between them one word:  water.  It was all they needed.  Now that she is grown up and has all that her civilization recommends, we see in her eyes that she has inside her a world without language that provides food, shelter, companionship, and warmth.  She lost the basics when, again, she was found.