{"id":856,"date":"2012-07-06T09:08:21","date_gmt":"2012-07-06T15:08:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/blockfeatures\/?p=856"},"modified":"2012-07-06T09:08:21","modified_gmt":"2012-07-06T15:08:21","slug":"gs-554-coming-of-age-in-america-contemporary-issues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/blockfeatures\/2012\/07\/06\/gs-554-coming-of-age-in-america-contemporary-issues\/","title":{"rendered":"GS 554 &#8212; Coming of Age in America: Contemporary Issues"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Our discussion today began with the following texts: <em><a href=\"http:\/\/books.google.com\/books\/about\/In_Country.html?id=1mdC39w66ksC\">In Country<\/a><\/em> by Bobbie Ann Mason, and <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0096969\/\">Born on the Fourth of July<\/a><\/em> (1989).<\/p>\n<p>Themes:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The lasting and growing impact of war on our youth and their experience.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Questions:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\u00a0How can we foster a meaningful and nuanced understanding of issues related to war without relying on cliches that oversimplify and limit meaning?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Recommendations for Further Reading\/Viewing:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt1566648\/\">Waiting for Superman<\/a><\/em> (2010)<\/li>\n<li><em><a href=\"http:\/\/books.google.com\/books\/about\/The_Warriors.html?id=hhn5ku4X2tcC\">The Warriors: Reflections on Men in Battle<\/a><\/em> by Jesse Glenn Gray<\/li>\n<li><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0317910\/\">The Fog of War: Eleven Lessons from the Life of Robert S. McNamara<\/a><\/em> (2003)<\/li>\n<li><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Spitting-Image-Memory-Legacy-Vietnam\/dp\/0814751466\">The Spitting Image: Myth, Memory, and the Legacy of Vietnam<\/a><\/em> by Jerry Lembcke<\/li>\n<li><em><a href=\"http:\/\/books.google.com\/books\/about\/Matterhorn.html?id=aWmi9nbSr04C\">Matterhorn: A Novel of the Vietnam War<\/a><\/em> by Karl Marlantes<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our discussion today began with the following texts: In Country by Bobbie Ann Mason, and Born on the Fourth of July (1989). Themes: The lasting and growing impact of war on our youth and their experience. Questions: \u00a0How can we foster a meaningful and nuanced understanding of issues related to war without relying on cliches &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/blockfeatures\/2012\/07\/06\/gs-554-coming-of-age-in-america-contemporary-issues\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;GS 554 &#8212; Coming of Age in America: Contemporary Issues&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":186,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[31,33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-856","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-block-a","category-gs554","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1RtXj-dO","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/blockfeatures\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/856","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/blockfeatures\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/blockfeatures\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/blockfeatures\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/186"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/blockfeatures\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=856"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/blockfeatures\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/856\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":868,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/blockfeatures\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/856\/revisions\/868"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/blockfeatures\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=856"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/blockfeatures\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=856"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/blockfeatures\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=856"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}