Due October 13, 2014:
The purpose of this assignment was to analyze a film of my choosing. I chose Crash (2004), and I analyzed the theme of the film which was Xenophobia. I also analyzed the characterization, conflict, camera focus, and scene transitions to show how effective the creator was with displaying the theme of the film. At first, I was unsure about this assignment because it seemed too vague, and I put way too much thought into it. Once I actually understood the concept, this assignment became easier. Also the movie I chose to analyze made this assignment very interesting. This was one of my favorite assignments.
Due September 9, 2014
The purpose of this assignment was to assess my writing in the beginning of the course in order to get a feel for my strengths and weaknesses. It also served as a status to know what I needed to work on to better my writing. Looking back on it now, I can see how much my writing has improved. I was used to doing impromptu writing assignments such as this from high school, but the prompt was sort of vague, so I thought I would fail miserably. But I used this as something to build off, and I feel like this assignment helped me to be able to think on my feet.
Due September 9, 2014
The purpose of this assignment was to critically analyze an article. I analyzed an article about women who are professional athletes, and have to battle their duel identities of being both a woman and an athlete. This article was very interesting! It taught me some things I was unaware of, which was odd being that I am a sports fanatic and I am a Division 1 women's basketball manager. This assignment proved to be a little difficult becuase I had to be precise in saying everything I wanted to while not going over one page. All in all I enjoyed this assignment because it was interesting and it did not require much.
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Critical Film Analysis
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