Brown Bag Seminar Paper

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Marie James 9/30/2013 UNIV 1000-G Professor Deborah Davis Academic Activity Reflection The event that I attended was a Brown Bag Seminar. This event took place on Friday, September 27, 2013 at one o'clock in the afternoon. It was held in the ballroom of the Jaguar Student Activities Center on the Summerville Campus. This particular seminar was a Center for Undergraduate Research and Scholarship event. CURS supports learning by doing. This program is open to students who write thesis papers or are doing a research project for a particular class. This particular event had two female student presenters. Both ladies were presenting English research material. The first presenter was Kayla Wirtz. She presented a thesis paper she did for Dr. Keith Johnson. The title for her research was "Orphan Tales in Popular Culture". She took three movies/books and examined the family dynamics in each. She also compared and contrasted each movie. The three movies/books she chose were The Wizard of Oz, Harry Potter, and Star Wars. One of the key components to her paper was orphan narratives. She then broke that down to look at three areas of these stories. These areas were the plot device, what each represented in modern culture, and what each was symbolic of. She then spoke about the different family dynamics of each film/novel. She also showed us a slide on her PowerPoint presentation that had a play on names from the Star Wars story. She broke down Anakin Skywalker and Darth Vader's names. She showed the following about their names that was true for the story plot. ANA=Without/Against KIN=Family DARTH=Dark VADER=Father That was one fascinating point she made from that movie. My favorite discovery she made has to do with the movie The Wizard of Oz. She took Auntie Em, the wicked witch, and the good witch. She stated the different versions of moms that each

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