If you're a bird I'm a bird

To be quite honest in Monday's class I was a bit out of it, so during our Writing Into the Day assignment I chose to just let my mind wonder instead of reading the article that Lacy gave us to read. My mind drifted to the book that I have chosen to read for the Inquiry Project, the novel that I chose to read is The Notebook by Nicholas Sparks. I am a huge Nicholas Sparks for many reasons, the major one is that all of his books take place in North Carolina and not somewhere extravagant, another reason is that his books are really easy to read and enjoy. Throughout the last couple of years I have seen the movie and read the book at least a million times, but I thought that it would be fun/interesting to dig deeper into the story line and find some inquiry within the plot or characters. Hopefully I won't find myself at a dead end because I feel like I could find some really really interesting answers to some questions that have arose for me in the past.

A Hero is.....

In class today we were asked to look into heroism through our list of movies, tv shows and music list that we made last week prior to class. I enjoyed looking through the list of things and picking out ones that could possibly have heroes in them. Once class was over and I was making my way back to my dorm I was listing the different types of heroes in the movies that I watch now or what I watched when I was a kid. Since this class is all about Inquiry i felt it was appropriate to research some of my favorite movies or shows that have one or more substantial hero figures. But as I was making my list I remembered the movie called Conviction which starred Hilary Swank who played the sister of a man who was convicted wrongfully of murder. Throughout the movie she is going to law school trying to get a degree that will save her brother, I won't ruin the movie but that made me realize that being a hero doesn't have to be extravagant it could just be helping someone cross the road. Popular culture nowadays tries very hard to make heroism extraordinary which in reality never truly happens.











My list consisted of:
The Mummy Returns
Scooby Doo 2 (you will realize that its true..)
The Following
Criminal Minds

Women in general.

Once we dove into the lesson for the day I was excited to further research the roles that women play in popular culture such as television, movies and music. My favorite television shows usually consist of very strong lead female characters because there are situations in real life where women do have to be in charge of a group. To further explain my favorite show as of the last couple of months is Rizzoli & Isles because it has two normal women taking on jobs that are very male dominant. Jane Rizzoli is a detective and Maura Isles is a medical examiner(the person who finds out how a person dies), in a normal setting those roles would probably not be filled by women and that is what drew me to those characters in particular. I am a crime drama 'junkie' so when women are able to take charge in those work fields it makes me excited because it shows how far women have and are coming to be noticed in those areas.

   With my group we went over to Fretwell to gain access to some wifi and look up some ideas that we could use to further explain our cause. I am not a feminist by any means but I do get upset when women especially in very high positions get the backlash from the male workers. My group and I were able to come up with a pretty decent list of movies, television and music in which women are either taking charge or simply confident in their sexuality which is hard to find.