Monday, March 05, 2007

American Dreaming for Dummies

This blog is my completed conceptual map for Boston University's MET IS 360: Literature, Film & the American dream. Each entry covers a week in the course listed chronoligically from the bottom up. To go with my discussion of each week's concept is a video I picked out to accentuate the themes of the American dream we learned about in the class. There are also a couple fun links to the right as well as a link to a fellow student's blog under "blogroll."

In making my final entry into this blog right now, I felt I had to wrap it up with one more video. This video could have fit the first week of the course, when we read Who Wants to Be a Millionaire: Changing Conceptions of the American Dream because it covers the idea of winning the dream on a game show. The TV show's premise seems to cover risk, getting rich quick, innovation, wealth, and adventure. But mostly, this show focuses on the wealth aspect of the dream.

As you will see in my conceptual map below, there are many more ideas that go into the American dream than just money.