this work wants to provide reader the tools to approach 5th element critically from a feminist perspective

science fiction futuristic visions invite the audience to envision the future as the filmmaker portrays it.

the ending of Metropolis felt much more uplifting however. It was a hopeful ending from what I remember

Metropolis has a plot line in which a near identical robot replaced a human woman.

calls you to define human. Are we human because we are have good memory, intelligence and are physically strong?

this was written in 1953? it feels pretty relevant to today.

so because of war and stuff we have less faith in the philosophy that we had the answers or will have them .

in the movie the owl was fake. why did they change that?

seems like Bryant isn't too invested in Deckard's success

funny this super advanced society with hovercars still use phone books.

so human specials are people with enough radiation poisoning to change their genes?

in the movie Rick is a lot more confident (?). he doesn't need the department but he department needs him because he is "that" good. here. In the novel we see that Rick needs money, he has financial and familial concerns. Movie Rick seems much more disaffected.

we've seen this oppressive silence before, with dreckars wife Iran

pretty heavy slavery reference there. I guess it's not racist if they are androids?

so the war is in living memory? that dust probably isn't going to clear up in their lifetime then.

overtones of eugenics here

military scientist often pop up in futuristic dystopias like this.

in the book his motivation for killing the replicants is much clearer than it is in the movie

this guy likes to brag. Also we now have a clearer idea of where they are and that there are other cities with people still alive

like "terminal"?

sounds like this takes place post nuclear holocaust?

does she have a job? It kinda sounds like she needs goals...or a hobby or something

honestly I'm so tired of this trope. I've heard it again and again. "You don't love me/I don't like your job" "yeah well you spend my money!". Is there another argument that can be explored?

THIS would be super useful

more than once I have had to go back and rethink my thesis because the essay I ended up writing did not really fit it anymore

good tip, I've done this before and it is helpful

looking back this is true of my experience

I've read elsewhere that this is why it is good to keep a "idea journal" for jotting down important information.

revising vs. editing. Revising seems to be about getting into the meat of the paper and involves large scale change or reshaping. Editing is more about cosmetic corrections for grammar, readability, or clarity.

Relatable

here caring came under the disguise of cruelty. In which Kathy is so entrenched in the system she has no way to articulate anger against it and instead relies in a roundabout way to help Tommy with his anger and unhappiness.

Tommy's anger is re-contextualized to not be about the bullying but a directionless anger at the system he exists in

here the author moves from examining a phrase to diving deeper and picking apart the sentences

here he forwards the work by analyzing it through the lens of upward mobility and then applying that to real life adn the implications that message has to it.

in Never Let Me Go Kathy is concerned with her day to day problems and her relationship with Ruth and Tommy. She doesn't contemplate the injustice of her position nor theirs. In this way she acts much like a normal person who can't spend all their energy contemplating their position in the "Big Picture".

so putting aside the medical implications of donors and carers the author is arguing that the class system perpetuated in Never Let Me Go is is a reflection of the society is exists in. In which the categories of donors and non-donors are replaced with economic class and race

wait who is Ryder? I'm confused.

they don't take his reasoning far enough. They settle for mentioning that it is there and doing Something

cant say what exactly the insight into those "bleak truths" is

interesting that one can also use the term naked to mean vulnerable or honest.One can say they are "naked" in reference to being emotionally vulnerable. Nude isn't used in this way

for the most part when examples of "countering" that I have seen have been this.

to me it seems that it would be easier to find the flaws in another argument rather than make an original one of your own.

This reminds me of that "Who's on first" Abbot and Costello sketch

sometimes feel like these identities are in conflict with each other. that the performance of one overshadows the performance of another

roman figure who was considered an model of civic duty and early roman hero. I had to look him up. Interesting juxtaposition

After being first lady for 8 years she has more authority to speak her mind.

I think this speech style marks both her and her husbands public speeches.

I recently saw an example of this in a political cartoon that compared Michelle Obama to Melanie Trump with the caption "Make the first lady great again". The author drew Michelle as overtly masculine and angry as compared to the smiling slim and white Melanie.

she isn't allowed to talk about slavery or segregation because if she does she's accused of playing the "race card". As if race is no longer relevant to people's lives and bringing it up is in poor taste.

here they rationalize why it would be better for the child to stay in the closet

the needs of the many far outweigh the needs of one

they have drugs but the people are entirely too content with their life to really want an escape

if it still seems that a happy good society is too banal or immature than you can go ahead and add sexuality to spice it up.

evil isn't more interesting or more unique. As part of the human experience it is banal

not happy just because they didn't know any better

the author already addresses the assumptions she assumes the reader to have.

this feels like a rather idealistic discussion on academic writing given the history and politics of some topics. I still think its a good ideal to have though

part of trying to entering the academic ring in emulating your peers and predecessors

his assessment of young people seems pretty accurate, but I have more faith in old people.

this brings to mind Pisan and her assertion that men willfully believe false things about women as a group

Perkins asserts that certain gendered characteristics thought to be innate to all women are in fact social conventions. learned behaviors

while Perkins celebrates motherhood and fertility with the holy births of Maaia she takes time here to acknowledge that motherhood is not for everyone. An interesting addition to the primordial mother goddess mythos

because of the generative property of language