Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid/Presentations

I enjoyed the movie greatly and doing the project with my classmates. I also enjoyed watching everyone's presentations and admiring the hard work that my fellow classmates put into their work. It makes me happy to be apart of Professor Sian's english class. :)

Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid.

The movie was very good and was quite memorable. I'm not exactly sure what all our project will consist of, but it's going to be awesome.

English Project.

For my group's project we are going to watch Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid. I am really excited about watching the movie as I here it's a classic and right now Westerns are growing on me.

Paper #3

I'm not exactly sure what my topic for my third paper is going to be, but I would love to write about the film, Smoke Signals. Does anyone have any ideas of a decent topic that incorporates this movie?

Alexei

I think Alexei is a very interesting person and I agree on some of his views about his people. I think that someone should not write about another people's culture unless they have truly experienced that culture and can honestly write about them with as little basis as possible. I also think that his life really makes a great story and movie as we are experiencing now. I'm certainly excited about the rest of our readings involving him.

Smoke Signals.

The movie Smoke Signals is centered around Thomas and Victor. These two boys are linked because Victor's father saved Thomas when he was a baby during a fire that claimed his parents. The movie gives us flashbacks to the past and present and so far is pretty interesting and nicely told. My only pet peeve thus far is Thomas' character in the movie. He is very annoying. Personally I can relate to Victor a lot. We've both lived pretty hard lives, we're cool under pressure, and just take the world as it comes.

In response to Wendy Rose's poems.

In the poem Itch Like Crazy: Resistance, Wendy is describing what I think is white man's need for land. "When I see Columbus in the eyes of nearly everyone" is a really powerful line in the entire poem. It kind of sets up the poem up for being one that shows Wendy's distaste for non-Native and how they took from her what was hers.