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Cassandra Karas  //  If you want to know some thing about me just ask.

Oct 11 / 9:43pm

Bookworms go on adventures (MMR final draft)

 At a young age everyone gets asked, what they want to be when they grow up. My answers always surprised people. My earliest responses were architect, engineer, archeologist, artist, art teacher, and the curator of the Louvre. When my collage academic advisor asked me my career choice or my major, I looked back at what I told my parents when they first asked me. Now despite the strange looks and laughter I tell people “when I grow up I want to be Indiana Jones.” Indiana Jones was a teacher and an archeologist and believed strongly about the important of museums. Indiana Jones from the movie Raiders of the Lost Arch shares these and other characteristics with other leading men in movie that brings adventure to history.  Like Flynn Carsen in The Librarian: Quest for the Spear and Robert Langdon in The DaVinci Code.

These movies fantasize the lives of average men. The main characters who have an extremely exaggerated sex appeal such as Indiana Jones with his rugged, hansom, appearance as well as being daring and  incredibly smart. Flynn Carsen also has these extremely sexy traits but the rugged and daring attributes are masked by his intelligence he comes off as more a bookworm, a lot like Robert Langdon. Robert Langdon is the oldest of my three examples, but because of his age he appeals to a more sophisticated audience his charm is that he’s so smart he’s sexy. Although our main characters are fantasized in a way but no matter how hansom or suave  they try to be deep down there kind of nerds  . These everyday average men in the movies have dedicated their normal lives to the academics. Indiana Jones is a teacher, Robert Langdon was a writer, and Flynn Carsen was a professional student with a doctorate or degree in twenty two different subjects. Now these types of men teachers, writers, and students are normally pictured behind a desk or in a library. These bookworms are thrown in to an adventure as a hero. Only in the world of Hollywood can a stereotypical nerd be a hero. The hero that saves the day retrieves a priceless artifact and gets the girl        

In these movies being a historian what you would think to be a frightfully dull job of studying and reading, is twisted in to a thrilling advancer our bookworms slash adventurers gets the chance to travel the world looking for buried treasure, which is always hidden behind conspiracy and mystery that can almost always be solved with their whit, charm, and their vast historical knowledge. Now in the real world these jobs are boiled down to their simplest form. In reality retrieving a priceless artifact involves a combination of trial and error searching and study when historians finally find a valid site they travel to the middle of a hot desert. Digging for days on end with a tiny little shovel and a little broom to carefully and slowly revile pieces of broken pottery. In the movies all you see is a buff handsome man clutching a gold idle running from pissed of pigmies in a desert oasis.        

            The girl is another element of these movies the damsel in distress.  In every movie the hero is paired with an equally intelligent but somehow physically inferior female counterpart. In the movies the female starts of as a guide or an equal someone who can pull their own wait and help, but always manages to get in to trouble. This creates the false impression that only a strong man can save the day and the woman need saving. I am obviously pointing out that most historians are portrayed as male, and most action heroes are also male. In these three movies Indiana Jones, The Liberian, and The Da Vinci Code, the girl gets in trouble and the man swops in to save her at the last second. 

            In the movies a historian is stereotypically portrayed as strong, overly intelligent male in his mid to late thirties. who during the week sits behind a desk but on the weekends gets to travel the world in search of burrier treasure, solves elaborate puzzles, fights for what he believes is right, and in the end always gets the girl.  The only truth behind the movie is the fact that the historians are generally extremely intelligent males. Looking at the reality next to the fantasy I see that the job of a historian is very interesting from and academic perspective but taking a personal view I wish to bring the adventure to the mundane.   

 

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Sep 29 / 11:24pm

This is just me ranting about life

The last week I’ve barely seen my boyfriend and only called him once. I’ve worked every day because the one day I was support to have off which was today I got called in. So my time lately has been stretched between school and work stretched so thin I’ve even decided to go back on my ADD medication. Medication that I haven’t been on since I was a kid but my brain can’t handle running in so many direction and keep track of everything I’m suppose to do. Now I am not trying to complain for sympathy, because I don’t need sympathy I just need something to talk about for my Wednesday blog. But on the other hand it always helps to talk about what’s on your mind even if you’re not expecting a response. It’s like talking to a bartender never really helpful but somehow even if the other person just pretends to listen and everything you say is one ear and out the other just getting your random thoughts out in the open makes it so you understand your own problems better. So lifes not so bad as long as you answer your self when you talk to your self

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Sep 27 / 10:23pm

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Sep 20 / 9:20pm

M.M.R.

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Sep 15 / 7:47am

The Internet Monster

Life has become more demanding. work, school, family, and friends have always expected attention. This attention at one time was only time spent face to face or phone to phone, but times continue to change the internet has brought a hole new form of communication. It all started innocently enough with email and Instant Messaging but the internet has morphed and mutated in to a world consuming networking monster. 

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This monster is sneaky at first i didn't see the scales and fangs and only saw the shiny exterior at the time it was going by the name of Myspace. which was great at the time but like all fun new fads the shin faded and the monster changed its name to facebook, but as we all know history always repeats its self. facebook faded as well not gone but also not as fun. These few example were always restricted to a spare time activities something you did after school and after your homework was done to stay in touch with family and friends.The tables have turned and everything changes the monster went to collage.      
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When the monster fallowed me to school it changed its name to Blogging. With this new change the monster got mean at first it was just fallowing me around being annoying like a lost dog, harmless but still annoying. This most resent internet tool was introduced in to my life through Homework, and Class discussions. Who ever thought the best way to talk to your teacher about a assignment would be to comment on his Blog. learning a new learning method is hard to rap your head around.   

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Sep 9 / 3:02pm

Focus

my name is Cassandra Leigh Karas but only my dad calls me cassandra i never realy had a nick name I've always been Cassie

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I love the art i love to paint, I kinda play the clarinet, and i dance. my main focus is drawing and painting (the visual arts)

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My main focus in school is history when i first talked to my adviser i told her i wanted to be indiana jones in school i want to combined my love for art and history  (protecting, preserving, procuring ) 

When Im out of school my mind is out of school, my life revolves around my family

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