The roles role(s) of women in the 1950's as portrayed in the movie show that the soul purpose for a women was to get married, have kids, have dinner on the table by five, and take care and raise the children. The weren't thinking about trying to get a big job somewhere and to go to college for a career. The only thing they knew and wanted to do was to be the best house wife they could be. Katherine Watson's view on how women should live is very much different than what society thought it out to be. She lived her life as her own person and had dreams for her future and actually wanted to get a good career and be supportive to herself and not be the typical house wife of the time. 

I think they labeled Katherine Watson as subversive because the college that she was teaching at was very strict and went by the book word by word. There was no outside the box it was only out of the book and what they where told to teach. They didn't give the students an opportunity to explore their minds and really think about things instead of just all the information being fed to them. Katherine Watson was very diverse and "subversive" from all of the other professors because she didn't follow the book, she opened doors to the students way of thinking and let them have their own opinions on the art they where learning about. She didn't teach out of the book and instead chose her own art and lessons to teach. Therefore they labeled her as subversive because she wasn't teaching like everyone else. 

The teaching philosophy that Katherine Watson lived by was to think out side of the box and to get the girls to think outside of the box and try to find new perspectives on how they view things. On the other hand, Charles Dickens' way of teacher was the total opposite. He said the only way to teach was to go by the syllabus and never teach anything other than facts and what is in the book. The differences between their ways of teaching are like yin and yang, total opposites. She teaches to look with a new perspective and questions everything, while he teaches where that whatever it says in the book is what he thinks is right and doesn't have an opinion of his own about the very information he taught. I think that the way Katherine Watson taught is much more efficient and really gets the people thinking and making an opinion of their own.  

I thought it was a good movie. It really showed you that you can do whatever you want and you shouldn't let other people shape you and go with what everyone else is doing. That one girl that kept getting with the older married men and the professor was really pretty too so I liked that. She was my favorite part of the movie haha.

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I think this movie is going to be about how a professor is going to change her students view on life and at the same time they'll change hers too. It will probably be a very moving movie and will motivate people to do something with their life. I think it will be a good movie. The trailer was pretty open so it could go either way.

My thoughts on the different exam levels is that it's gonna be pretty hard but you just have to prepare yourself enough and not slack off. I think the test that we take to get into college and all that is alright. It gives you an opportunity to show that you actually know stuff and that you know stuff. To study for exams and test in college you need to study weeks before so you're fully prepared and don't fail that test because they count a lot in college because there's not so many. Don't slack off and make sure and study using different ways not just one way.

For Christmas break I am going to hang out with a lot of my friends and do some cool stuff. I'll probably play some baseball and drive a lot. I know I'll be celebrating Christmas with my family at my house and on Christmas Eve we're going to my great grandmothers house that's like 3 hours away so it's a really long drive. I will probably get in trouble but why not, I'm a teenager in high school that wants to have fun. I'll play with my presents and toys of course and then go hang out with some friends. Hopefully I don't get grounded so then I cant do anything because that would really suck because I just want to have fun and live life. I think this break will be really fun. I really hope it snows too because I really want to play in the snow this year. Not like last years ice, but actual snow.

When I go to college I hope to get a degree in the field that I want to work in. I hope to make life long friends and experiences that I will never forget. I hope to learn responsibility and how to take care of myself. I am going to college for mostly myself because I don't want to be a adult and not have a stable job and not able to provide for my future family. Also i'm going for my parents too so they can know that they raised me right and feel good about themselves. I think the characteristics that matter the most is what they're known for. If you're just going to that school because it looks fun or sounds cool that is not a good idea. You need to look for a school that will benefit you in every way possible. If they don't have your studies then you should not choose that school. I think I will seek input from from my parents and Coach Thrush. They all seem to know what they're talking about so I think I can benefit from what they tell me. I think that college will help me achieve my goals in life because having a degree will give me a ton of more opportunities for jobs and careers. It makes the person look better if they went to college and finished school. I think college is a good thing, just takes a long time.