Societal issues

things that are just plain wrong

Get the damn troops out of Iraq
Fix up this healthcare situation
Build UP, not OUT
Let's not kill off all of the endangered species, shall we?
Economy is garbage and must be fixed
Foreign relations crisis- don't even know where to start there
Get the damn trash continent out of the pacific ocean
Stop making alcohol so easy to get to
Treat the ****ing animals right in the factories
Stop shredding lower class America
Bill O'Reilly must be the first man to venture into space without a suit.

Jfk

Mitchell
The Epic Hero's Journey
11/22/13

Jfk

During his presidency, John F. Kennedy was one of the most looked after, admirable, and well respected men to have ever worked in the White House. His often mentioned and very positive look on the country's future firmly asserted him as one of the population's favorites, and also his plans to fix what was broken. One of his primary concerns was that of adjusting the laws on people who had less rights than they should. Mentally and physically challenged people were treated horribly before JFK decided that it must be fixed. Before his presidency, they were locked up with nowhere to go and nobody looking after them. John found this to be an atrocity, and made certain they earned the respect and care that they deserved and needed from the rest of the world. The second of his major issues was that of the one that was wreaking havoc across the globe; the Vietnam War. Hundreds of lives were being lost every single day for a cause we weren't even sure we should be fighting for, and Kennedy wished no longer to sacrifice our troops. He planned to take the troops out sooner, but his plan could not come through because he was assassinated on 11/22/1963. the eventual reality was that more troops were sent into Vietnam, and even more troops were lost in the conflict.

Compare and Contrast of Ancient Heroes

One of the primary similarities of these ancient heroes is that, in all of the clips, they are both faced with an overarching issue that they must surpass, and they have a revalation. As an example of the problem, the warriors of the clips (Achillies, King Leonidas, Mulan, Arisen) are often faced with combat or a mighty foe that them must at some point vanquish, or in Hercules' case, himself. As for the revalation, they all discovered something within themselves that they could not have found if they had not been in grave danger or shame. 

A Look into the Hero's Journey

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x4Rqkvl0AtE

Title: Dragon's Dogma

Hero's Name/Title: The Arisen

Reason to fight: To retake their humanity from Grigori and save Gransys from his destructive wrath.

General context: We are about to approach the journey to the inmost cave; Grigiori is literally inviting the Arisen into it.

Analysis: For a scene of such terror and foreboding emotion of death and destruction, it is surprisingly well lit; one would suspect that it take a much darker turn and be in the bowels of midnight, but instead it takes place in the middle of the day. However, in response to this, we almost constantly find th eArisen looking small, or looking down upon by the villains of the scene, implying he is still weak and feeble before his final test. The dialogue is also a great emphasis of this, as both Elysium and Grigori both strongly degrade the Arisen, though Grigori has a few shreds more respect for him than Elysium does, but he pays for that.

A wonderful picture

The Perfect Villain(or at least mine anyway)

Mitchell

The Epic Hero's Journey

9/30/13

Imagine a tall man, about 6' 2", but weighing no more than 120 pounds at most. He is thin enough so that you can see almost every bone in his body, but can lift a Smart Car with a bit of effort. His eyes are sunken deep within his skull, sullen by sleepless purple bags as a result of heavy drug use and very little sleep, looking even deeper by clearly visible cheek bones. His teeth are broken and yellow, and as he smiles his brownish gums overwhelm his smile. One eye is the same color as his teeth, the other is purple. He sports a very worn denim jacket and raggedy tanktop, both covered in stains of hues ranging from black to brown to a mottled crimson. His denim pants are destroyed, showing scraped, stained knees. His shoes are battered and falling apart, but he cares naught. He saunters about, hands in his pockets, holding who knows what, but only he knows of his nastiest secret, for all others who find out last little longer before finding out.

As a result of an accidental heroin substitute/toxic waste injection, he has the ability to collapse his skeletal structure and remake it into a new shape, with rapidly healing and accomidating skin and flesh to match, meaning he can weaponize his bones by breaking them, forcing them through his skin, and taking a new form to accommodate for the new appendage.

In his pre-powered stage of life, he woukd pay prostitutes and strippers in whatever drugs he couls scrounge up, but they would tend not to "suit his needs" simply because he was so heinous. Unfortunately for them, they are no longer safe, and will be repaying what they should have long ago, whether they like it or not. This tension has led him to have virtually no sexual preferences, and tends to get brutally intimate with his prisoners, often leading to death. When he isn't raping them, he cripples them in hot pursuit, and takes great joy in viewing them limp to a false sense of safety before eating them alive.

The only person able to kill him is the guy who hooks him up with his fixes, working at a nuclear reactor, and all done so by chance. Eventually, our villian will be lead into charging in blind rage at the hero whilst transformed, who will deftly bludgeon the abomination in the eye with a lead pipe and kick him into a vat of waste, degrading him faster than he can regenerate and ultimately destroying him for good.

Society's-and my own-fears he represents are torture, serial killers, rape, serious drug abuse, and the uncanny valley complex. [On uncanny valley; he is *almost* human, but the transforming while still resembling a human just totally sets him off and freaks you the hell out.]

A sketch is in the works. 

No, I do not have any serious issues to speak of.

Joseph Campbell Response

Mitchell

The Epic Hero's Journey

9/25/13

              The Father of Philosophy

Today in class we watched "The Hero's Adventure" with Joseph Campbell and Bill Moyers. What an experience! Campbell is absolutely fantastic in every way, shape, and form. Not only does he know everything on the topic down to a tee, but he seems as if he has made all of these journeys himself. He speaks of them and about them like a being from the beyond, one who finds these great quests to find ourselves as petty as a stroll across the street, but at the same time, he holds the journeys in incredible respect, and doesn't once poke fun at them. He has deciphered every and all aspects of them flawlessly, and put it simple enough for anyone to understand. The way he speaks and his voice further accentuate how much he knows, and how little we do, but he hints at the beyond and our fate. He knows the truth of our kind, as humans- he knows what will save us and what will destroy us, and also knows that all we can do to help is reach his level of consciousness, which is, unfortunately, nigh impossible. In short, Joseph Campbell is a marvel, no less, and I am more than saddened that we lost him to time.