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!

[Elory Hranicka]

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I was reading this weird kindof annoying book that is about a boy and a girl and all the mushy teen love stuff, the kind of books my mother likes and refers to as "trash" ( i dont know what she likes them) and i had nothing else to read so she gave one to me. In the book they had a whole conversation about double standards. (5)

[Elory Hranicka]

So while i was making dinner my dad was watching a show called Gilmore Girls...(yes i know...but my dad likes it...) Anyway i over heard what they were saying at it was some guy having a crush on this girl for about 10 years. The woman said something about "gatsbey pining" and the other girl was jumping around smileing because she was somebody's "Daisy" (6)

[Elory Hranicka]

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Mccusker was talkin about Nazi Turettes on the bus and when i got home today my old Rabbi had posted the Louis Black skit on his facebook wall. haha funny little world. (7)

[Elory Hranicka]

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Mr.Mccucker was talkin about werner von braun in class and i remembered when i got home that Tom Lehrer wrote a song about him :) funny song (8)

[kolbe stenoien]

I thought of American studies when i was watching this one show on modern firearms where they showed what guns were used in World War One. They also showed the improvement of guns through out time.

[Evelyn Holy]

I was in Best Buy buying new headphones and I happened to look up at the ceiling, and the bare metal structure made me think of the architecture we went over about industrial being a design or something like that.

[Katy Christensen]

I thought of American studies when I was in gym a few days ago. I was in the middle of a conversation when I heard someone say, "Shut up John you're not a transendentalist!" And since we learned about transendentalism, it reminded me of the class.

[Katy Christensen]

I thought of American studies today because in Spanish we had a debate about illegal immigration and we started talking about how people used to immigrate to America.

[Lauren von Schaumburg]

I thought of American Studies when I was watching The Pacific. It's a miniseries about WWII and the lives of a few soldiers and it's really good. The last episode was about V-J Day and the soldiers returning home from war. I don't know how accurate the battle scenes are, but the characters on the show portray real people. Anyone interested in WWII should watch it.

[Evelyn Holy]

I thought of American Studies when the ladies at my work were talking about how their men went somewhere for Memorial Day Weekend without them, and if they had gone with, they would be 'left in the kitchen to cook for them anyway.' It made me think of how when the women of the world war took up jobs and when the men came back were expected to just go back to being a house wife.

[Nick Klein]

I thought of American Studies today when I saw a man picketing in front of a BP gas station. It reminded me of our right to protest.

[Lauren von Schaumburg]

I thought of American Studies today when I was eating these wierd pretzels my dad bought and on the front of the bag was a parody of 'American Gothic.' (It was Paul Newman and I think his wife). Also, I was watching a show and they were looking at Georgia Okeefe paintings.