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Star Wars...High School...

To begin I would like to comment on my take of Star Wars. I never really got into “Star Wars” but I have seen a couple of the movies but they are just a blur. I found it fascinating the comparison made in class between physics, political science and Star Wars. The reason I find it so interesting is because “Star Wars” has been used in my life to explain other phenomena as well. During my junior year of high school in my English class we studied McCarthyism. We had an assignment which consisted of watching an old movie and analyzing it an essay explaining the presence and effects of McCarthyism in it. I remember the movie I picked was “Roman Holiday” and I thought it was a good movie but I felt the analysis being made was a long shot. My English teacher had the class watch one of the “Star Wars” movies to illustrate how McCarthyism could be seen. After doing the assignment I felt as if any movie can have aspects that can be used as symbols to explain McCarthyism or anything of that matter. In my Confirmation classes at church to my surprise we also watched “Star Wars” this time to compare it to Catholicism. With all these instances in which “Star Wars” was used, I feel as if not every movie can be used to illustrate something but “Star Wars” definitely is.
Another comment made in class that reminds me of a story during high school has to do with one of the groups’ paper. When Professor Yoo explained how the university in Maryland had those fixed desktops in the classroom in which the professor could control what was being displayed on the students’ monitors and view what they were doing. In Lorain Middle School we had that technology. I was in the 8th grade when I was introduced to Microsoft Excel in my computer class. We all had books that contained the assignments but prior to doing them our teacher would show us how. He was able to do this from his own computer. He made it so that everything he did on his computer would show up on our screens. He was also capable of viewing everything we were working on whenever he pleased. I never made anything of this technology since I thought it was the norm in the U.S. To here students in the class so amazed at it came as a shock since my school was always being criticized and here we had technology that we were just taking for granted. What is ironic is how in high school the computer classes I took did not use this technology so I figure they must not have the capabilities but I had not realized earlier.
I have learned many random facts and trivia from “Linked”. The anecdotes inform me about events that I knew nothing of. I do not know of any close friends or relatives that have been afflicted with the love-bug virus and I assume it has to do with the fact that we do not use Microsoft Outlook to e-mail.