Wow. It's like every sentence revealed just how little you know what you're talking about.

1) if you pull a half assed job and get A's you're obviously not at a challenging school for LA. And I know people from my major who switched to mathematics, physics, and chem, so again, you really don't know what you're talking about. And I just got an internship for an international marketing firm, so again, you really don't know what you're talking about. And you're right, liberal arts isn't a major - ITS A SET OF THEM! For someone who puts college on such a pedestal, you obviously know so little about it. The original subject matter of the university was philosophy, history, politics, language, argument, so again, you really don't know what you're talking about.
Times have changed. That's all Gen Eds now and considered by many of us science majors to be a waste of our time. Especially when there's no money in it. I wasn't going to bring up internships. I don't want to brag. I have been offered 2 for summer of 09. And I can't decide which to take as either will determine my end of grad school goal goal. Pharmacy or Optometry. (One starts lower starting but increases to higher than the other eventually.) A real decision for me. 110,000-124,000 or 107,000-136,000 are the articles my college has given me. I'm not in L.A. how dare you associate me with that place. I'm in Orange County. Totally different from L.A. By a up to 3 hours depending on the hour. Plus it's prettier. And it's all about Surf City U.S.A. Way better than L.A. Any university is going to be challenging. Everyone that says others are harder, I don't buy it. It's just some have more prestige than others. But you have to work just as hard at others. Myself I'm at UC Irvine. It's ok I guess on the prestige, it's no ivy or anything, but fairly well known. As for you defense of Liberal Arts being a set of majors. Ah no. It's just taking a few lower division classes from other majors and mixing them all together, with a few upper division also from other majors. That's not hard dude. Like the humanities and arts major is a joke. A few undergrad classes isn't nearly enough to classify yourself as being in a set of majors. The upper division are the classes that matter. Which you probably don't need much of. Nor are they very difficult. They sure don't need many upper division here for the humanities and arts major. It's not hard to BS essays dude. Doesn't work on tests in the sciences. You are right or wrong. Essays you can be wrong and still argue out of it. That's a hell of a lot easier than the other. So you have friends. I've bet they've been complaining since that they actually have to study now. A definite change from their previous major. Doesn't work with science. Major study now. Extra lab time. Rearranging equations. Solving experimental problems. Physical Chemistry will be tough all on its own and I fear that class. THAT'S AN UPPER DIVISION CLASS. Very Hard. But, at least I have to work for it. Face it dude you don't have to study for liberal arts classes. I know, because I didn't study jack for most of my gen ed and pulled a 3.5 for them. Which are similar classes. Just in liberal arts you have more of them.It's an expanse of General education, which in my opinion was a waste of time. And we should do away with most Gen Ed. Why learn crap I don't need that has nothing to do with my future as a researcher or doctor? But I admit there aren't too many Liberal Arts majors at my school. You don't go to a UC to major in Liberal Arts (humanities and arts here). That's a waste of money. Cal State would be a better option for them, as it's like 1/4 the cost. And people know that. UC's are more for the sciences law. Except Santa Barbara. Which is more better known as the University of Casual Sex and Beer. That's for a party.

2) A Soliloquy isn't a theme! Again, the fact that you've already twice revealed your ignorance on what a theme is, I suggest you look at this link. A character talking about suicide is great, but what is the idea the audience is supposed to get out of it? That's what the theme is. And in FFVI, it all boils down to "suicide is bad. life is good." Again, simple statements that is regarded as common knowledge and accepted a priori across all cultures (with few exceptions). And once again, you reveal how little you actually know about the job market today. The business world is looking more towards liberal arts, or social science majors as they typically have better writing, comprehensional, reading, interpreting, speaking, and presentational skills than your average business graduate. Like I said, I study one of the social sciences and I just landed an internship with an international marketing firm that deals with some of America's largest conglomerates. So please, stop being so opinionated on things you know so little about.
And again you fail to realize that anything can be a theme. You can twist anything into a theme with any subject. Scholars have been doing it for years. Why do you think they keep studying that POS Pride and Prejudiced? They are constantly finding new themes in that. The way I worded that stuff, may not have been a theme as it was too concise, but I could easily turn them into one from these subjects. You're nit picking. If I add 4-7 more words they could be themes. I'm being concise. The idea of suicide in Hamlet can be turned into many themes. That's why lit classes are so easy. It's all based on your BS skills in a thesis. Useless studies really. If I can't mathematically or scientifically prove it it's USELESS! and has no relevance. Why I hated English. I was good at it but hated it. There's no problems to solve, boring...

3. VII and VIII have magic and swords, so I don't know what you're getting at. Also, "you sound like a leftist with your Marxist stuff"... you wanted to talk literature, marxist themes (again, not your elementary misconception of what a literary theme is) have permeated much literature throughout the 20th century and some of the 19th. You said VII had "not as many" themes as older ones, I thought I'd point some of them out, while you can't even recognize what a theme is, much less point out the larger number which older games have.
But in VII they weren't tied to the story. 4 tied to the story, 6 tied the story... You didn't go any quest to attain a legendary sword to put behind your old life in 7. The weapons and magic were just there. Ok materia got a few crappy brief lines that made little sense that it formed from mako. And the huge materia lines were even worse. (Though it did form Cid's single storyline purpose of his space dream, so I'll give it credit there because I liked him). But that was it. But compare that wit 6's ideas of magic and relation to the story. I was mainly referring to the fact that many consider 7 and 8 sci-fi rather than fantasy. Take 8, a spaceship, what the hell was that? Related to fantasy or sci-fi? (Don't bring up FF4's ship, as that's more tied to fantasy as it was created with magic and used to transport a magical race. 8's ship was used for the same purposes that ships would be used for in the real world.) And when I say sword I'm talking a broad sword. The kind expected in fantasy literature. With some type of legend behind them. Like Sora's keyblade. Or the one I already mentioned that turned Cecil into a Paladin. Clouds weapons were way to modern looking to be in the fantasy realm. As I said I don't totally buy into all of that, but that's some issues people had with 7&8. Too modern for fantasy. And felt too Sci-Fi.
True but I don't care for Marxist themes. They are a waste of time, and I hate most lit that uses them. If I want to hear that kind of separation crap I'll just turn on that loud mouth Hillary as that's all she talks about is a communist agenda.

4. There are libraries full of sociological, scholarly findings that would disagree with everything you've said in your last paragraph. Also, Cloud himself said "nobody lives in the slums because they want to," so there you go, he disagrees with you, too . And I never said capitalism is bad, so please don't compromise your own integrity further by making me out into something I'm not, so you can continue to spout academically baseless garbage, all the while insisting that only academics could find such conclusions. It's embarrassing to academia as a whole.
All written by people with opinions. They aren't answers to anything. People may agree and call it "scholarly" but that all boils down to opinion and finding people to agree with you. Why else do we keep studying Lord of the Flies as kids? All kids hate in high school yet educators make them read it because they are of the opinion that it's a relative book. Useless. Give me hard evidence any day. Science laws or Math numbers. You come up with something someone can emulate your experiment to see if their results match. That's evidence. Opinion and stats are not evidence. And don't quote cloud. I hate cloud. Sissy emo punk tart. Did you see AC, I thought he was bad in 7...Berrett I like. People live in slums because they don't want to put the work involved to get out. I know I've been to many gov't projects for various work related reasons. Electric, water, that kind of stuff. All over the country too. The people in those places have a chance to get out, they don't take it. It's easier to remain there than work hard at school and land a good job to make something of yourself. Many get on drugs or get pregnant. They didn't have to, they chose too. So no, I don't buy into those types of arguments. I'm talking America of course. Other countries it's different. But we have the freedom to dictate our own future here. And further more if you grew up in a project, do you know how freakn easy it would be to get a scholarship and other grants? Why because it's rare. But it is possible. Too many think you have to be smart to go to college. Not at all. Just major in Liberal Arts.lol.