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I got a pro-death penalty campaign letter this morning, which I thought was fabulous as I'm quite anti-death penalty. So, now have a list of people who I should really question voting for. I'm just *headdesking* a little that the "Republican Majority in the State Senate" thought it made sense to send letters to everyone who voted last year, not

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lol I disliked the Disney version so much! They focused on making Dom Claude Frollo the villian but in the book, the true villian was the Cathedral,the roles of society, the indifference of people and their perception of beauty being about love. Also, they've maked Phoebus a much more dramatized prince charming than the indifferent knight in the book. And of course, the 'Disney happy ever after' ending that was totally opposite in the book. A better version than the disney's was the classic movie with Anthony Quinn as Quasimodo. What did you like about the Disney and the book? lol sorry about the ranting.

I would expect him to major in business, I went to the orientation and they're like it's the largest and one of the respected business schools in the country. That's amazing really but he's majoring in Political Science, right?

The Baruch College thing is a College NOW so they provide metro cards, lunch vouchers I think, and free textbooks, so it's okay. Also I'm going to learn web design yay! I wonder if it's only html or are we going to learn xml?

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Frollo was still the bad guy in the book, but he was much more sympathetic, understandable, and well human. Which by the way is what I love about the book, how the most fleshed out character is the villain. His horrible behavior is even more monstrous in some ways precisely because we know that he has the potential to be a good person. Jehan is my favorite character in the novel, because he's just so much fun, but he's also a big part of Frollo's characterization. Which is also both the flaw and the strength of the book, that the only 3D characters are Frollo and the cathedral.

I like the movie for taking the barest bones of a tragedy and taking it in a completely different direction. By giving Esmeralda and Phoebus brains (and Phoebus is my fave char in the movie), the movie sort of drove home the message that looks don't matter even more than the book did. The pretty people and the hunchback were equally capable of being good people and taking control of their fate, and all managed to break through their defined roles in society. The book had the same theme, it just went in the opposite direction and said roles are predetermined and trying to break through will result in very bad things happening. (Which makes sens for the time period it was written in.)

It was also standard Disney, which means it really did friendship, and did it well. That's actually Disney's standard theme, even more so than true love and happy endings, and I thought it was great that they ran with it with and I think they pulled it off.

He was a business major, then changed to poli sci. Have fun with the webdesign course. I wonder if it'll be any language and not a learning dreamweaver thing.

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Well I would have thought that if the Disney version really cared about the message that looks don't matter, Quasimodo and Esmeralda would have got together instead of Phoebus and her. But you are certainly right about 'taking control of their fate....break through their defined roles in society.' which is a solid point of argue found in the movie but the book's role due make sense during it's era, it seems almost plausible that it would happen during the time era although it could have been a 'Joan of Arc' sort of rebellion.

Oh I see. Well, how can you design pages without html coding though? They should at least teach us those basics haha.

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*shrugs* Quasi got Madeline in the end, and I sort of loved how Quasi was able to overlook his rejection and still go out there for Esmeralda, just 'cause she was his friend and it was the right thing to do. That's a really great message, that you shouldn't stop being nice to someone just 'cause they don't reciprocate your feelings. A 'Joan of Arc' rebellion would have sounded off in both media, but I think the movie took the leeway it was given and ran with it to create something that fit the atmosphere of the movie. They broke free, but in a very society defined way. Pheobus stays a member of the guard, Quasi stays in the bell tower, but now there's no Frollo to persecute them, so there's a measure of freedom.

Design programs like dreamweaver, where it's kind of a photoshop type operation, and you build the pages up using the tools that the software provides.

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Oh, was that from the second movie? that I haven't seen. But Madeline is like OC =.=' But they do reveal hopefulness and strength of love and friendship.

Oh I see, dreamweaver is interesting, is that a popular approach to web design? What about Macromedia Flash?

This is so random but what kind of clubs/ECs do they have at CCNY?

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Very popular, and it's made by Macromedia, and is one of the easiest ways to incorporate flash into webdesign.

Tons and tons, you name it, they have it. And they change all the time, so I wouldn't be able to give you a good list.

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Oh that's cool, are you in any of the clubs?

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Robotics, though we lost our official club status for next semester 'cause we didn't get the paperwork in. I'm also a member of IEEE even though I don't go to their meetings, and they're great to know if you're CompE or EE 'cause they have a lot of study material.