MSCR 2325 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Make America Great Again, It Happened One Night, Joyner Lucas
30 Jul 2019
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Exercise 2 group notes: seeing and hearing american-ness . Katrina: first sopranos episode to air after 9/11. Samantha: i"m not racist by joyner lucas music video. Is america depicted through any of the analytics we discussed (exceptionalism, isolationism, etc: josie - freedom, money can"t buy happiness, individualism. Freedom: the heroine"s longs for dominating her destiny and pursuing ideal life reflect the importance of freedom in america: money can"t buy happiness: wealth isn"t everything and money corrupts. Ellie - ellie"s wealth does corrupt because westley just covets her money and peter even has a prejudice against her class. Petter - the hero is from working class. He knows money"s power but despises the rich; he is unemployed but he never feels pessimistic about the economic plight. Ellie"s father - he supports ellie to be together with the working class guy because he believes wealth and poverty can"t decide happiness.
