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March 25, 2014 at 7:34 am #293Emma WangParticipant
I use Google Calendar to organize my daily schedule. Some of the options for events include color-coding, sharing them with other people or inviting them, adding a reminder for the event, and making it repeat weekly. There are much more options, but I use the more basic ones just to remind myself of what I have going on on a certain day or to plan future events.
March 9, 2014 at 8:31 pm #279Emma WangParticipantYour post makes me think of the Bechdel test, which evaluates films based on three rules:
1. if it has at least two women in it,
2. if they talk to each other,
3. and whether or not they talk about a man.
The rules were written by feminist Alison Bechdel, who points out just how significant our culture affects our media. I think we’ve grown up in a society where movies that don’t pass the test have become the norm and we’ve come to accept the distinct difference in male and female protagonists. Women who will go all out for the man they love are admired and the type of character typically used in movies where the woman is the protagonist. Silence of the Lambs, however, passes the Bechdel test because Clarice Starling, though she is literally surrounded by men, as you’ve mentioned, is able to focus on her job and find Buffalo Bill when the rest of the FBI couldn’t. The portrayal of her character as a woman who isn’t motivated by love put her on an even playing field for us as viewers to compare her to the male heroes of the past movies we’ve watched.
February 26, 2014 at 3:50 pm #257Emma WangParticipantArchivists: We created a new document in our Google Docs folder to help us figure out what we want to change/ add/ remove on the website. We’ll use the list to pick out which parts we want to prioritize. Our goal is to make the site more efficient and add more about Thoreau’s personal life. We need to know how to edit the site.
Corinne and Kevin will be emailing Prof. Schacht about their Omeka accounts. Their accounts were created for them last week but they still have to be made Active.
February 19, 2014 at 5:46 am #245Emma WangParticipantI think it has to do with the phrase, “the third time’s the charm.” If you think of other fairy tales, the number three is pretty significant. For example, Cinderella goes to the ball three times but the third night is the night she decides to stay late, which results in her leaving her shoe and him finding and marrying her. In The Three Little Pigs, it’s the third pig that figures out how to get rid of the wolf, and in Goldilocks and the Three Bears, it’s the baby bear’s things that she tries out third each time, and those are what she ends up finding just right.
In Big Fish, everything happens after the third year: Edward finishes growing and is able to leave his bed, he successfully learns Sandra’s name after his third year of working in the circus, and he gets sick after three years of not talking to his son, which prompts Will to return and try to reconcile with his father.
Maybe the use of threes in Big Fish is utilized to connect the movie to fairy tales, especially because each of Edward’s stories seem like fairy tales themselves and how significant the number three is in fairy tales. I looked up a list of fairy tales on Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_fairy_tales) and of those titles, 27 of them had the number three in the title. I’m still not sure of what the significance of three is exactly, but I think it’s used to further establish the connection between Big Fish and fairy tales.
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