June 4, 2010
From watching the interactions between the sports star and his cheerleader girlfriend, to the lonely outcasts and their dark crowd, television and movie viewers seem to go nuts for series and movies featuring high school. Though usually full of generalities and unrealistic portrayal of the adolescent experience, there are those who strike on a cord of truth. For the rest, they provide a looking glass into a world we all know, but perhaps experienced differently. The big screen or our HD TV becomes a looking glass backwards, to our youth, our adolescence, a time that if it was good, was probably so good, and if it was bad, it was probably so bad. Whatever way high school was for viewers, television and movie series focusing on it draw big crowds for reasons mixed between glad nostalgia and wishes to rewrite history.
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June 3, 2010
Legends are filled with strong daughters who model their fathers and reject their mothers. Is the message that women have to reject their feminine nature to become strong? Or can they have both?
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