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forbidden lesbian posted:haha how did your school get away with showing an r-rated movie to a bunch of 15 and 16 year olds substitute teacher decided to let us watch "full metal jacket" which one of the guys in our class insisted was part of our assignment that day so i assume a substitute teacher
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paranoid randroid posted:is the more horrifying option the one where enders game is assigned reading? because i went to a middle school where it was assigned reading. mostly because orson scott card was from the state, but still. Ender's Game is required reading in the military's officer curriculum http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ender%27s_Game#Critical_response quote:The U.S. Marine Corps Professional Reading List makes the novel recommended reading at several lower ranks, and again at Officer Candidate/Midshipman.[17] The book was placed on the reading list by Captain John F. Schmitt, author of FMFM-1 (Fleet Marine Fighting Manual, on maneuver doctrine) for "provid[ing] useful allegories to explain why militaries do what they do in a particularly effective shorthand way."[18] In introducing the novel for use in leadership training, Marine Corps University's Lejeune program opines that it offers "lessons in training methodology, leadership, and ethics as well [....] Ender's Game has been a stalwart item on the Marine Corps Reading List since its inception."[18]
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Sharkie posted:I liked the actor who played Cicero, but yeah that wasn't a flattering portrait. Yeah, David Bamber's really good, and when the script allows him to actually be Cicero, he's awesome. quote:Brian Blessed did a much different but more believable Octavian in I Claudius. WHERE ARE MY EAGLES?!?!?!?!?!!?!?!??!?!?!?!?!!??! quote:James Purefoy can do no wrong, though. Yeah, that's the best Marc Antony portrayal I've ever seen. The guy was the dictionary definition of a lout, but boy, he must have been fun to hang out with. icantfindaname posted:Ender's Game is required reading in the military's officer curriculum Upsetting.
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Jerry Manderbilt posted:from the way he worded it, the latter. "yeah we read that book for class, it was p fun" paranoid randroid posted:is the more horrifying option the one where enders game is assigned reading? because i went to a middle school where it was assigned reading. mostly because orson scott card was from the state, but still. That's depressing as hell. Though I guess acceptable at a middle school because that could be like sixth grade. Which is a time it is okay to be reading OSC.
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my favorite part of HoD was always the guy in the outer station who wore full european formal dress in the middle of the jungle
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i loved the part of apoacalypse now when Martin Sheen goes to the guys fighting on the bridge and asks who the CO is and gets bounced to like 15 different guys before realizing that none of them even remember whose in charge
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icantfindaname posted:Ender's Game is literally a nerd going "but I really am smarter and better than everyone else why won't they recognize it????????? "thanks to my self diagnosed aspergers!!!" - a good deal of the readers the last two bean books were pretty heavily laced with islamophobia which impressionable 13-year old me lapped up uncritically 
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Jerry Manderbilt posted:"thanks to my self diagnosed aspergers!!!" - a good deal of the readers Ehhh it was more of an early Clancy style grudging respect for those crafty Communist foreigners, at least in the first few. Maybe the last one changed that? I remember India and Russia and China and poo poo being major players in the military thriller world and being portrayed in a fairly positive light I read like 3 books in the weird Catholic space-theology on the Definitely-Not-Brazil planet though, and just ended up mad I'd wasted that time icantfindaname fucked around with this message at 03:54 on Feb 14, 2015 |
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icantfindaname posted:Ender's Game is literally a nerd going "but I really am smarter and better than everyone else why won't they recognize it????????? the original short story version (which is what we were assigned in high school) was wayyyyyy better because its only llke 25 pages long and doesn't build up all the weird poo poo.
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My Imaginary GF posted:https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=OEUkn6tQ3us Oh Patrick Stewart was able to do a good job doing something difficult? I'm not surprised at all. The question is how much effort do we need to force children to go through to understand a different syntax, a different system of putting emphasis on words, and a different idea of society reflecting the world of the year 1400. Sure many of the things Shakespeare spoke of historically are interesting in the context of trying to understand what contemporary people thought about their world which is different from ours. But there is just about zero effort put into explaining how the world of 1400 is different from ours when teaching these children. They are forced to learn what some other language is to recite it, with different syntax and it makes no sense. The reason why is because PRETENTIOUS teachers think it's so important because they spent so much time learning it themselves. This is not what a purely rational curriculum would focus on. WHERE is John Maynard Keynes in this curriculum? NOWHERE! Nintendo Kid posted:they're a lot better when they're actually performed almost all plays are boring poo poo when just fuckin read. Nintendo Kid correct as always, thank you Cool Bear fucked around with this message at 03:52 on Feb 14, 2015 |
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paranoid randroid posted:the magic of permission slips heh my teacher just told me to keep it on the dl
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My Imaginary GF posted:now watch patrick stewart I got to see him and Sir Ian in "No Man's Land" a couple years ago.  (Billy Crudup too, which was also cool, but come on. Sir Ian and Sir Patrick)
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We watched Apocalypse Now without permission slips, but that was because they just did a blanket one when you started highschool. Basically it said, poo poo gets real now. If you don't want that for your child opt out now or forever hold your peace. VVVV What class?
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we did star wars one year because it was the teacher's fave movie
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Majorian posted:Yeah, David Bamber's really good, and when the script allows him to actually be Cicero, he's awesome. Rome Octavian is this cold, calculating, control freak, and you can see where they got that interpretation of Augustus from. But Blessed is this earthy, well-rounded, magnanimous dude that you can totally see people following...and he's just as calculating and hungry, but you'll never see it unless he wants you to. Majorian posted:Yeah, that's the best Marc Antony portrayal I've ever seen. The guy was the dictionary definition of a lout, but boy, he must have been fun to hang out with. "Retreat? That's slave talk!!!"
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Exclamation Marx posted:we did star wars one year because it was the teacher's fave movie There was a college-level philosophy course that I took in HS, and we convinced the teacher to let us watch the first Matrix. In retrospect, it actually wasn't a bad movie for us to watch at the time, especially since nobody knew how bad the sequels would be.
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Heart of Darkness was so close to getting it right but then Conrad fell into the trap that english writers seem to fall into by going "ah, but when england does it with her empire.... then it's good" sayingquote:The conquest of the earth, which mostly means the taking it away from those who have a different complexion or slightly flatter noses than ourselves, is not a pretty thing when you look into it too much. What redeems it’s the idea only. An idea at the back of it; not a sentimental pretence but an idea; and an unselfish belief in the idea.
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In sophomore year we all had to read Candide, which was the poo poo
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we watched the goonies in ap lit first time i ever saw the goonies however in another class we also watched R rated movies like passion of the christ
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Jerry Manderbilt posted:i know this white guy from denton who told me he read ender's game sophomore year for class freshman year my english teacher read ender's game aloud
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On the last day in my 7th grade science class we watched Double Impact
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since everyone is talking about high school anyway what was your guys' favorite book you had to read for high school? mine was candide, holy poo poo that was funny
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Foppery posted:In sophomore year we all had to read Candide, which was the poo poo I read that one twice, weirdly enough - once in a history course, and again in an honors English course. I love it so much, and I love the Bernstein operetta too. Jagchosis posted:since everyone is talking about high school anyway what was your guys' favorite book you had to read for high school? I think The Brothers Karamozov. I didn't appreciate it at first, but dear God, is it a good book. It very much helped me on the path of studying Russia in college.
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Rodatose posted:Heart of Darkness was so close to getting it right but then Conrad fell into the trap that english writers seem to fall into by going "ah, but when england does it with her empire.... then it's good" saying Even then it's still better and more worthwhile than Apocalypse Now or that stupid shooter game clone of it people bandy around as Video Game Art
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Jagchosis posted:since everyone is talking about high school anyway what was your guys' favorite book you had to read for high school? mine was candide, holy poo poo that was funny lord of the flies
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paranoid randroid posted:my favorite part of HoD was always the guy in the outer station who wore full european formal dress in the middle of the jungle if he does not maintain dress, ORDER WILL BREAK DOWN AND ANARCHY REIGN cool bear, i am the moor of your soul. villian, i have undone thy mother https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=nd60tmSHK0k Jagchosis posted:since everyone is talking about high school anyway what was your guys' favorite book you had to read for high school? mine was candide, holy poo poo that was funny candide was pretty okay, i read it heart of darkness, i didnt appreciate it at the time, now there's a book which became my favorite after i was in uni tigers, everywhere, tigers all around waiting to eat me
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When we did the Edgar Allen Poe thing where theres a midget joker who at one point was grinding his teeth so angrily and loudly that everyone stopped talking amongst themselves because of the weird noise, my english teacher told me to do the teeth thing myself, as I stood in the middle of the circle of desks. He told us to take a break as he went up to me and told me to do that. Then he went back to his desk to pretend to do work. I ground my teeth as loud as I could and people slowly started saying 'what is that noise' just like in the story. It probably damaged my teeth but they seem ok now. This is a real true story. I always respected Poe more than Shakespeare because I believe that relevant world history and the understanding thereof begins with the industrial revolution, what do you think of THAT Professor Icantfindaname?
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Jagchosis posted:since everyone is talking about high school anyway what was your guys' favorite book you had to read for high school? mine was candide, holy poo poo that was funny I liked Catch-22
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Jagchosis posted:since everyone is talking about high school anyway what was your guys' favorite book you had to read for high school? mine was candide, holy poo poo that was funny probably wise blood or heart of darkness
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My Imaginary GF posted:if he does not maintain dress, ORDER WILL BREAK DOWN AND ANARCHY REIGN I swear it's like ralph cifaretto and gladiator in the sopranos
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Jagchosis posted:since everyone is talking about high school anyway what was your guys' favorite book you had to read for high school? mine was candide, holy poo poo that was funny I don't even know. Beowulf maybe? Macbeth? I didn't pay much attention in high school. I like spook stories about witches and monsters is what I'm saying.
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Jagchosis posted:since everyone is talking about high school anyway what was your guys' favorite book you had to read for high school? mine was candide, holy poo poo that was funny i couldn't tell you, having a teacher read ender's game to the class was actually the last time any of my teachers made us read a book except shakespeare i went to some terrible high schools
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Jagchosis posted:since everyone is talking about high school anyway what was your guys' favorite book you had to read for high school? mine was candide, holy poo poo that was funny Mine was probably Candide as well, but 1984 was pretty drat good and we still haven't gotten to the Stranger yet and I got a good feeling about that one, so who knows.
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icantfindaname posted:I liked Catch-22 yeah, that'd be my pick too. Majorian posted:I think The Brothers Karamozov. I didn't appreciate it at first, but dear God, is it a good book. It very much helped me on the path of studying Russia in college. can't believe you got assigned that in high school. lucky.
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Jagchosis posted:since everyone is talking about high school anyway what was your guys' favorite book you had to read for high school? mine was candide, holy poo poo that was funny The things I did best with were Things Fall Apart, Beloved, and some Walt Whitman. Maybe some other poo poo I'm forgetting but I doubt it. Also a classmate brought a section of Howl by Allan Ginsberg and I remember being pretty impressed. That's not to say I liked them all the way through but they held my interest well enough to pull a good essay together.
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icantfindaname posted:Even then it's still better and more worthwhile than Apocalypse Now Really? I think it's apples and oranges, actually. You do get the "Odyssey" allusions throughout it, and more importantly, at least from my perspective, you get a pretty good analysis from Kurtz on what it would have taken for the US to win that war (ie: being even more savage, destructive, and unabashedly crazy than we already were in Vietnam).
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This thread is moving too fast with people chiming in to say "yeah i also liked that but here's also what I like" because the disease of being pretentious
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