Discussion questions for Get Low
Discuss your first impressions of Get Low. What does watching this film leave you thinking about? What do you think Felix means when he announces “It’s time for me to get low”? The original tagline for the film wasn’t the…
A Story That Needs to be Told
I love good stories. Sitting in a rocking chair on my grandmother’s front porch on a hot Alabama summer night, listening to my father and his brothers laugh about boyhood egg-stealing; cold November evenings in northern Minnesota while the Block…
The Meaning of a Good Conversation
Who do you think is happier? People who spend more time talking about the state of the world? Or people who prefer discussing the weather? Given the current state of the world, one might assume the weather would be a…
Fall Financial Class; by Ryan Motola
Have you ever played the prosperity game? It’s a mental exercise that asks how you would spend ever increasing amounts of money. Here’s how it works. Each day, for twenty days, you receive a sum of money and you must…
Reality Revisited: a review of Inception
“Pardon him, Theodotus: he is a barbarian, and thinks that the customs of his tribe and island are the laws of nature.” George Bernard Shaw in Caesar and Cleopatra Shaw has had lots of fans in recent years. “Constructivists”, as…
Discussion questions for Inception
What were you thinking about as this film ended? What images from the film linger most vividly in your mind? Why do you think you were struck by them so forcefully? In one of Inception’s central scenes 19th century opium…
Give away some of your stuff?
“Give away some of your stuff. See how it feels,” says Tammy Strobel in a widely read article from the New York Times, But Will It Make You Happy? The article explains how a growing number of Americans are attempting…