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DUE: September 27 (At the start of class) Up to 10 points Length: 750-800 words (3-4 pages) Select EITHER MOVIE (but not BOTH): Blue Velvet Jacob's Ladder Blues Brothers 1) Summarize what the movie is about 2) If you were to write a lecture for sociology 170, what relevance would you say that it had for the course 3) List 5 points that you would want your students to take from the movie 4) Does the movie challenge the way we think about things? 5) Is there anything new or different that the movie made you thing about? These are just guidelines. Feel free to develop other themes or ideas. Your task is to show that you've thought about the relationship between the film and course material. ================ OR ==================== Watch BOTH movies and compare and contrast with some sociological insights. The paper must be about 8 pages (1,600 words). This would be worth UP TO 20 points.
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