I Thought of American Studies Today When ...

[Gary Anderson]

American Studies is about connections. When something outside of class reminds you of something from inside class, write about it here!

[Ena Kanda]

I thought of American Studies when I went to my friend's house over the weekend, and she showed me of a video of a recently aired Japanese TV show that was created based on the Salem Witch Trial. Even though the story line had nothing to do with Puritanism and witch craft, I thought how creative the producer was that he based the story on the witch trial.

[Nigel Rolfe]

ITOASTW I sat on the sofa in the living room doing absolutely nothing, and within a minute of my mom seeing me there, she told me to go do the dishes. I told her I did them (I did), so she started suggesting a bunch of other things that I'd already done and finally said "Well you can't just sit there doing nothing!"

The acronym has toast in it. That's pretty awesome.

[Louisa Dimopoulos]

I thought of American Studies when I was selling concessions at the homecoming game and some of the prices had increased from last year. On one hand, it was nice that popcorn was 1.00 instead of .75 cents so I didn't have to think too hard when adding up all the items someone bought. But then I thought of the concession stand as being Britain before and during the American Revolution- we were nice and warm, got free food and charged .25 cents more for popcorn than usual, while the colonies-everyone outside the concession stand- had to suffer cold weather, and had to pay the extra .25 cents for popcorn. They were Washington's troops during the winter at Valley Forge, paying high taxes, while we were the redcoats- all toasty warm, thanks to the Quatering Act, along with high taxes imposed on or colonies to pay off our war debt. That was quite interesting... : )

[Nigel Rolfe]

Wow... That was deep! I never would have thought of that! :)

[ivan horajsky]

I WENT HOME FINISHED MY HOMEWORK AND WENT TO TAKE A NAP. MY MOTHER CAME IN FROM WORK AND STARTED YELLING AT ME, "WHY ARE YOU NOT DOING ANYTHING YOU LAZY GOOD FOR NOTHING!!" I TOLD HER I FINISHED MY HOMEWORK AND ALSO DID MY CHORES, GAVE THE CAT FOOD AND MEDICINE. MR. MCUSKER TOLD US TO GO HOME AND DO NOTHING IN FRONT OF MY PARENTS SO I DID. MY MOMS REACTION WAS JUST LIKE THE ONE MR. MCUSKER WAS TELLING US ABOUT IN CLASS.

[Matt Benson]

I thought of American Studies when I was listening to the radio and they mentioned providence in the song.

[Louisa Dimopoulos]

I thought of American Studies today when I saw a mail truck with the steering wheel on the right side like all vehicles do in England...
I have a question for anyone who might know the answer- Did the American idea of changing the steering wheel to the left side of the car have anything to do with our pride in achieving independence from England? And if so, why did we seem to keep a connection with the "Mother country" by using the British system of measurement?

[Katy Christensen]

I thought of American Studies today when i was talking to my mom. She just got back from a trip to Cape Cod and she was talking about pilgrims and how she thought that it was cool that they still have historical things there from when America was first settled by Britain.

[Ena Kanda]

Here's another time when I thought of American Studies. I was tutoring this girl in my neighborhood (she's in elementary school) today and we were working on a worksheet about pilgrims.

[Mike Leahy]

When the ACLU came and they told the story about the girl who was searched at her school, because someone started a rumor about her have perscription drugs in school. It reminded me about the Salem Withch Trials and how they were started by rumors.

[Kayla Rae]

So, I was just watching Death of a Cheerleader, and the girl Angela was on trial for killing the cheerleader. The other girls that were in the courtroom were talking about how the Puritans would put the people in stocks [I think..? I can't remember what they said exactly.] after their trials and the people of the community would walk by and spit on them.

[melissa dipasquale]

i thought of american studies today when was watching Desperate Housewives and in the episode there was a teenager accused of killing a girl. It reminded me of the salem witch trials because as soon as one person started a rumor that he killed her the rest of the nieghborhood believed he did to and tried to get him sent to prison and kicked out of their neighborhood.