(typed out notes exactly how it’s written)

Ghost in the Shell

Observations: Beginning – the color RED, whole – slow motion action scenes LOL light/dark effects. She had really white skin. Never noticed the sun? She’s like a robot and they found it necessary/important to give her boobs (cringe) lots of white faces, really bright. THEMES (I guess) identity, family, body autonomy, holographics or whatever they’re called – in the city is like that inauthenticity of human – robot – constructions of what is real – how society progresses futuristically more THEMES (I guess) power control greed. There’s a masculine thing going on too.

Also this week we read Asian American History: A Very Short Introduction by Madeline Y. Hsu. Before classes started we ordered our books from Amazon and the fun was coming to the mailbox to see which books made it first. Funnily enough, the books we needed for the first week were the last ones to come (and Jackson’s book is lost somewhere). I ended up checking out this book through Summit and the book in the picture came on Friday, the day we all had to turn in our books with annotations, lol.

Anyway, I only have four days to read this book and I tried real hard in staying focused and annotating. This book was both intriguing and difficult because I never learned Asian American history comprehensively and condensed like this. There was so much information packed into that tiny book that I wanted to read more about certain events, people and laws. I wished that there existed a timeline of all the colonization, slavery and immigration that happened during the whole span of time. I never learned about Pilipinx history in school before and it was really cool to read about it in a textbook. I just wish that I could go in deeper into that history, learn all that I can about it.