Heroes of Social Change

In thinking about the heroes of social change, some always come to mind. Martin Luther King Jr., Abraham Lincoln, Malcolm X, Gandhi, and Thomas Jefferson represent a lot of great positive change. But for me it is two modern heroes of social change that I am in awe of: Penn and Teller.

Project

I will be writing my paper on the anti-hero with emphasis on examples seen in film and television in the past ten years. My final project will be a feature length screenplay putting to use the ideas explored in the paper and in Campbell's book titled Into the Stars. Into the Stars will be a sci-fi/drama following a low level security worker who reluctantly falls into unraveling a mysterious conspiracy on a dying Earth as all the people are being evacuated slowly to orbiting space stations and Terra-formed worlds beyond.