Movies+Part+II

I added the history part for War Games yesterday it was at the bottom of the screen i dont know why yall didnt add it to the powerpoint.

[|final ppt.ppt] updated 7:30 PM by Katie Southers. This seems to be the final ppt. I added a conclusion page and sources page like it said we had to do in the requirements. Unless someone edits it by around 9:30 tonight i'm going to go ahead and email it to the teachers.

Edit this one!!!! Alison updated today 5/28 5th period: [|may28thupdatebyallison.ppt] The computer wouldn't let me save the work under your file so edit this one.

This is another powerpoint I finshed the history for War Games.... Gerring, R (2002).Glossary. Retrieved May 22, 2008, from [|http://www.psychologymatters.org/glossary.html 

Hey, the power point to the left is the one that has all of the information we've gotten put together, so keep editing that file and saving it back so we don't have everyone doing different power points. Pretty much Katie and I have completed all of the history slides, except for no one gave me any information as to what War Games deals with historically. -Kate

Okay, I have completed all of the psychology slides but I don't know about the War Games history. I was already supposed to only do one movie and I ended up completing two and Ms. Stanford told me not to worry about it. As long as you guys have as much info done as you could then Stanford said that it shouldn't effect your grade. Other then that I don't know what to tell you.- Alison

Using any combination of the following movies:

Forrest Gump Red Dawn War Games [|may28thupdatebycj.ppt] updated this afternoon 5/28 7th period History Students: Watch/research movie and compare the true story with the Hollywood version. Explain the purpose of dramatizing historical events.

Psych Students: Analyze the plot, or relationships of characters in psychological terms discussed this year.

Kate Thomas Research:

__Forrest Gump:__ -Forrest Gump is based on the 1986 book written by Winston Groom -The film tells the story of a man with an IQ of 75 and his epic journey through life, meeting historical figures, influencing popular culture and experiencing first-hand historic events while being largely unaware of their significance, due to his lower than average intelligence. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forrest_Gump_(film)
 * Stanford-Binet IQ Test:** (mental age/chronological age)x100 ( Forrest has an IQ of 75 and because he was tested as a kid the Stanford-Binet IQ test was most likely used)
 * Mental Age:** The chronological age that most typically corresponds to a given level of performance (Forrest Gump has a mental age of young child even though he is actually a man)
 * Intelligence:** Mental quality consisting of the ability to learn from experience, solve problems, and use knowledge to adapt to new situations (Forrest has was most people would call low intelligence)
 * Mere Exposure Effect:** The phenomenon that repeated exposure to novel stimuli increases liking of them (Forrest's attraction to Jenny is due to the fact that he was around her for so much as a young child and as he gets older)
 * Companionate Love:** The deep affectionate attachement we feel for those with whom our lives are intertwined (Forrest's attraction to Jenny)
 * Altruism:** The unselfish regard for the welfare of others (Forrest is an altrustic person)

Alison Hassett Research: Forrest Gump is a touching movie that reflects the life of a man with lower then avrage intelligence. There are many scenes in this movie that are historically accurate and then there are many that are skewed to fit the viewpoint of the main character. Citation- Watergate.info. (2008). Watergate: The scandal that Brought Down Richard Nixon. Retrieved May 22, 2008 from http://www.watergate.info/ http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/watergate.jpg Alison Hassett research Elvis-**Forrest Gump's mother ran a boarding house that had a mixture of very interesting characters that passed through. One of the tenants was a young man with a guitar who sang with a cool and mellow voice. Without showing the man's face they show a scene of him playing the guitar and Forrest twisting his hips in a "vulgar" manner. The movie cuts to a knew scene where Forrest and his mom are walking along the street and they suddenly pause to look at the television and see Elvis in a breakthrough performance where he wows the audience with his hip swiveling moves. In reality it was a fictionalized scene in order to add the wow factor that all directors strive for. Citaion- Elvis Presly Enterprises. (1996). Elvis Presley. Retrieved May 22, 2008 from http://www.history-of-rock.com/elvis_presley.htm.
 * Watergate Scandal-** One event that is significant is the scene in the hotel in which Forrest spots many lights in the hotel across the street. He claims to the hotel clerk that the flashlights were bothering him and that someone should go help the gentlemen because it looked like they were trying to find something. In reality it was the Nixon administration breaking into the Democratic Party's National Committee Offices on June 17, 1972 to gain insight on their upcoming campaign. The directors then cut to a scene showing Nixon's resignation speech and make it seem to the audience that Forrest was the reason that the scandal came open to the public. Although this adds to the drama and interest of the movie it really was the secruity guard named Frank Willis that originally instigated an investigation to occur.
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http://www.gbposters.com/image/image/2788/LP1091-ELVIS-68-special.jpg pic-Alison Hassett CJ Sheppard Research: http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2005/10/13/obituaries/13cnd-jones.650.jpg CJ Sheppard research: Vietnam-**Forrest enlists in the army after college and soon is shipped to Vietnam after his basic training. Forrest writes to Jenny describing all the fighting in Vietnam. While Forrest is in Vietnam he gets in a battle and saves all of his platoon from Napalm and he gets shot in the buttock. In the actual war Napalm actual caused alot of casualities and some died from there own Napalm bombs.
 * Integration of the University of Alabama-** In the movie, Forrest attends the University of Alabama on a football scholarship. During the Integration of the University in 1963, Forrest picked up a book of one of the African American students after they were allowed into the University. In the actual event Alabama Governer George Wallace blocked the doorway of a buliding and did not let Vivian Malone and James Hood enter the building. President John F. Kennedy sent troops to the University and the students were admitted.
 * pic- Alison Hassett

pics - Katie Southers http://img509.imageshack.us/img509/416/forrest4uo2.jpg http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/5/5e/ForrestGump2.jpg http://www2.kenyon.edu/Depts/IPHS/Projects/carletonminihan/Pages/Kids.jpg

__Red Dawn:__ -It is the mid-1980s. From out of the sky, Soviet & Cuban troops begin landing on the football field of a Colorado high school. In seconds, the paratroops have attacked the school & sent a group of teenagers fleeing into the mountains. Armed only with hunting rifles, pistols & bows and arrows, the teens struggles to survive the bitter winter & Soviet KGB patrols hunting for them. Eventually trouble arises when they kill a group of Soviet soldiers on patrol in the highlands. Soon, they will wage their own guerrilla warfare against the invading Soviet troops....under the banner of 'Wolverines'! ([|http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0087985/plotsummary )]

Katie Southers-Red Dawn research (psychology terms) Kate Thomas...just an extra psychology term: http://www.psychologymatters.org/glossary.html APA: Gerrig, R (2002). Glossary. Retrieved May 22, 2008, from Psychology Matters Web site: http://www.psychologymatters.org/glossary.html Alison Hassett research Overall, when I watched the movie, there were not as many true events that occured in US History as there was in Forrest Gump, but it more related to the fears of the Cold War and the Red Scare. Citation- Trueman, C. (2008) History Leraning Site: Cold War. Retrieved May 24, 2008 from [|http://www.historylearningsite.co.uk?what%20was%20the%20cold%20war.htm] Alison Hassett Research Citation- Ranzer, M. 2008. Encyclomedia: McCarthyism. Retrieved May 24, 2008 from http://www.encyclomedia.com/mccarthyism.html. (Kate Thomas pictures:) http://farm1.static.flickr.com/159/425612486_df2da7c710.jpg?v=0 http://farm1.static.flickr.com/49/197350414_894c8e8372.jpg?v=0
 * Aggression ** Behaviors that cause psychological or physical harm to another individual. (The Wolverines are aggressive in order to protect themselves)
 * Conformity ** The tendency for people to adopt the behaviors, attitudes, and values of other members of a group (the high school students come together and form the Wolverines, a large homogenous group)
 * Fight-or-flight response ** A sequence of internal activities triggered when an organism is faced with a threat; prepares the body for combat and struggle or for running away to safety (In order to protect themselves the students have to fight)
 * Group polarization ** The tendency for groups to make decisions that are more extreme than the decisions that would be made by the members acting alone (each individual person most likely would not have fought the Soviets on their own but as a group they decided to do it)
 * In-group ** The group with which people identify themselves as members. (each member identifies himself as a Wolverine, this contributes to unity)
 * Instincts ** Preprogrammed tendencies that are essential to a species's survival. (The Wolverines struggled to survive in the mountains, had to use survival instincts)
 * Aggression** Behaviors that cause psychological or physical harm to another individual.
 * Cold War-** Was a term given to the tense relationship between the USSR and the United States after WWII. It was originally started after the US had used nuclear technology without realizing the consequences. They immediately wrote up a treaty stating that nuclear technology would not be used and asked the Soviet Union to sign it. The Soviet Union felt that there was a trust issue and refused to sign and thus started the Cold War. Several events followed through such as the split of Berlin and the Cuban Missile Crisis. All in all it was a race of technological powers and to show that one can outdo the other. This is depicted in the movie because of the fact that it was an alliance between the Soviet Union, Cuba, and Nicaragua that can also be related to the alliance between Cuba and the Soviet Union during the Cuban Missile Crisis. It is also a prominent theme throughout the movie because there are many images of new missile and weapon technology that depict the race to show that one country is more technologically savvy then the other.
 * Red Scare-** The Second Red Scare was mainly associated in the 1950s time period. It occured during the Cold War in response to McCarthyism which was the fear that a communist government would take over the United States which is the complete opposite of our capitilistic government. This event was particularly prominent in our history because of McCarthyism which was the movement by Senator Josepth McCarthy who was ruthless in his tactics for weeding out communists or sympathy communists and throwing them in jail. Often times this was accomplished by taking away people's given rights and small systems of torture to gain information. The Red Scare was depicted in the movie because that was what the movie was generally about. The Soviets and the Cubans invaded the US with the intention of turning the country into a communist nation. This scared many in the nation and was the main reason that the teenagers retreated into the forests in order to build thier own enforcement to start their guerilla warfare. There were many refrences in the movie to the word "commy" and the issue of trust due to the fact that one of their own wolverines turned them in, in betrayal which truly depicted the trust issues that were prominent in our society during that time.

pic - Katie Southers http://www.movieprop.com/tvandmovie/reviews/reddawn.htm APA: Crawley, M (1997). Red Dawn. Retrieved May 23, 2008, from Movie Review Pages Web site: http://www.movieprop.com/tvandmovie/reviews/reddawn.htm

__War Games:__ -A young computer whizz kid accidentally connects into a top secret super-computer which has complete control over the U.S. nuclear arsenal. It challenges him to a game between America and Russia, and he innocently starts the countdown to World War 3. Can he convince the computer he wanted to play a game and not the real thing? ([|http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0086567/plotsummary )       

Katie Southers-War Games research (psychology terms) ** Motivation ** The process of starting, directing, and maintaining physical and psychological activities; includes mechanisms involved in preferences for one activity over another and the vigor and persistence of responses. (David is motivated to break into the computer and play the video game) ** Self-actualization ** A concept in personality psychology referring to a person's constant striving to realize his or her potential and to develop inherent talents and capabilities (David is a computer whiz) ** Traits ** Enduring personal qualities or attributes that influence behavior across situations (David likes to play video games and is good with computers) **Paranoia** A disturbed thought process characterized by excessive [|anxiety] or [|fear], often to the point of [|irrationality] and [|delusion]. (The US forces were paranoid about a Soviet attack, irrationally assume that David Lightman is associated with the Soviets) http://www.psychologymatters.org/glossary.html - same APA citation as Red Dawn terms

pic - Katie Southers

http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/wargames/ pic- Kate Thomas http://www.monkeytownhq.com/images/wargames.jpg __CJ Sheppard Research for War Games__ In War Games, WOPR (War Operation Plan Response) is a form of artifical intelligence programmed to play war games for the purpose of how to defensively respond to any possible nuclear attacks. In history, Ronald Reagan devised the plan known as SDI (Strategic Defense Initiative) or "Star Wars". This was a defense strategy to protect the United States from nuclear attacks. Both War Games and SDI were made in 1983. Also in War Games, the main character David Lightman (Matthew Broderick) is captured and took to NORAD (North American Aerospace Defense Command) in hope of stopping the fake attack on the United States. NORAD is actual a real computer system used to predict warning and defense for North America. Sources: http://www.infoplease.com/ce6/history/A0846897.html

http://www.norad.mil/about/history.html

CJ pic. http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/ee/Sdilogo.png http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/e/e7/NORADheadquarters_2006_b.jpg CJ pic Hunter Ms S told me you are my history buddy. Do you want to spilt the movies or watch all of them and then discuss. I will watch Forrest Gump tonight and take notes on the events that are real/fiction. For example I know that there was Napalm in Vietnam and I recall the ..Allison

okay, its thursday but ill watch the movie also, that way we can colaborate on what we think. by the way, i dont have a computer so ill have to do this all at school. sorry........Hunter

Hey guys it's Alison. I am running out of time to finish at the moment in class but I will be finished tonight by 8. Hunter, Ms. Stanford said that we each needed to watch one movie and then the third movie we collaborate on. If you could watch Red Dawn I will watch War Games and fill you in on the info! Just a reminder Ms. Stanford wanted me to tell you to remember that everything has to be in APA format. Thanks! (Kate, you will have more info by tonight, Sorry!)

Hey my name is CJ, I am new to the group. I have seen War Games. So I will work on that movie for the historical relevance.

Can you guys make sure to post the APA format for your sources. Thanks- Alison

Kate, I will make the title page and 2 history slides for Forrest Gump if you can make one history slide for Red Dawn and one for War Games. That way we should have 4 history slides. -Katie Southers

hey guys this is Jack, and i am in the group. i think one of the other group members got reassigned or something...idk what to do!!! [|Presentation1.ppt]: updated powerpoint from Allison 5th period