When I began to think about possible primary sources for my up and coming project, I figured I’d start with Firefly since it was a show that we had all seen. Referring back to the pilot episode, I short scene that caught my attention was the strawberry scene with Kaylee. Kaylee was alone in a room when she opened the Sheppard’s box and found an ordinary strawberry. She looked around and then proceeded to eat the strawberry. During her taste, she showed facial expressions that seemed unusual for an ordinary strawberry. She acted like the strawberry was the golden fruit from the tree of life. One could only guess that she hadn’t had eaten something like that in a long while. This suggests to me that the quality of food in space is not very good. This could be perhaps why the Sheppard had a small piece of fruit preserved in a box. I was thinking of taking this in the direction of hunger in third world countries and how a small donation can make a huge difference. Just as Kaylee found so much pleasure in a simple strawberry, people in other countries would be just as grateful for a small donation of food. Comment please and let me know what you think!
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That is a very good connection. I definately was not thinking about third world countries when I saw that scene, but after reading your parallelism between them, I follow you. Talkin about third world countries is a very broad topic so if you can narrow down what you will talk about in regards to third world hunger, I think that will make for a stronger paper. I think you have a great idea!
ReplyDeleteGreat job with the parallels between the strawberry scene and hunger in third world countries. There are definately a lot of ways you could go with this paper and, like Mack said, if you narrow it down more, you could definately make a very strong paper. I'd definately go with this idea if I were you. So many possiblities.
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