PERILOUS TIMES IN MODERN DAY HOLLYWOOD

So this weekend as I watched the movie 21 on my couch escaping the raining weather, the walls of the AS classroom enclosed on my TV and I found a parallel between the movie and the perilous times blog simulation in class. The movie is about a group of MIT math students that are persuaded by their Linear Equations teacher to make big bucks in Vegas by teaming up and creating a counting cards system. In the movie the perilous time comes when the main character Ben loses  2 hundred grand in a play of black jack.  In this linked scene the professor fursiouly denounces the students  in the hotel room and leaves them stranded in Las Vegas with no plane ride home to MIT. In this time of low spirits, defeat, and hopelessness the students join together as a community instead of pointing fingers for the big money loss.  Ben emerges from the group and voices a plan of action and the others despite their differences and worries choose to follow Ben. The group becomes closer in the hard time instead of trying to verbally blame each other. They hold on to each other because that's the only hope they have. 

Similarly in our perilous time simulation, the majority of the kids in our class subtly joined together in a community with a common purpose of trying to convince our teachers to keep the blog. Strong individuals in the group emerged became our leaders voicing their opinions in the shaky atmosphere and risking confrontation with authority. This double example of authority shifting and new voices leading will stand as a common human dynamic in our study of perilous times in history.