Image by WBUR via FlickrI think I've got a topic, but I have to come up with a research question, and I'm having trouble finding the words. I saw Dr. Toffee during her office hours on Thursday, and we talked about movies. It turns out that she is interested in disability in movies. After hearing her talk about it for a while, I got interested too, and she suggested a few that I might want to think about. This may sound strange, but I think I'm going to look at superhero movies, starting with The Fantastic Four and the X-Men films. They both deal with people who are physically different from "normal" people, and I can already see that they have some of the issues Dr. Toffee mentioned.
My research is not going to be about the films as much as it is going to be about what they call "disability studies," which is the academic field that covers this kind of thing. She gave me a couple of book titles to look for, so I've got a start for that.
Image via WikipediaI meant to post last week (first week of the semester), but there was some confusion with my registration, and it took up a lot of my time. So, here I am, trying to find a research topic for my English 102 class. I'm supposed to start by looking at who I am and what I'm interested in. Well, I'm 18, in my first year of college, from a middle-class family (second of three kids) in the Chicago suburbs, and I have no real idea yet of what career I want to have. Politically, I guess I'm an independent; I don't know if I'll ever follow one of the two major parties, since I don't agree enough with either of them so far to pick one. As for hobbies, I don't have any, at least none that I consider hobbies. I love movies (you could say that I collect DVDs, I guess; I've got a lot of them), even silent films, although I haven't seen too many. I like music, but I'm not obsessive about it, unlike some people I could name.
I think I'd like to research something about movies, but I don't know what. That's all I can think of right now, unfortunately.
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Today I'm taking the option of writing about something other than writing for my course journal. A friend of mine is having a "Witches' Tea Party" tomorrow for her 3- and 5-year old nieces, which should be a lot of fun. She has tea parties for the girls (and they have them on their own, too) from time to time, and they dress up in silly/fancy ways (they read the Fancy Nancy books), wearing hats with feathers, lots of jewelry, and so on. This is the kind of harmless, fun activity kids should be doing, right? The problem comes from stuff the girls have heard when their parents are watching the news. Every time they hear the words "tea party," they think it has something to do with their kind of tea party.
