To my "audience," with love
As my dear father has reminded me, "You have an audience." So I'm back to faithfully serve that audience in blog form. New TV reviews are coming soon, probably next week after I've seen the Lost finale (2 hours! Game-changing! Rattlesnake in the mailbox!)
For now, here's an update. I finished my semester on the 7th, as planned. I survived the demands, and ultimately came out with the best semester GPA I've had in college so far (not counting that time I took one class in May session, got an A and technically had a semester GPA of 4.0). The last two weeks haven't been quite as relaxing as you might expect, however. I've done a lot of babysitting and a lot of driving around for various things.
This week I'm starting a May session class called "Documentary Film as Persuasion." I started today, and it will be every afternoon for the next three weeks except Memorial Day. I'm so glad I put off this communication studies prereq for the M.Ed. program, because documentaries are SO MUCH BETTER than "Small Group Communication." Today, for example we spent half the class watching "Roger & Me." Next week, "An Inconvenient Truth." I'm in heaven. Plus we get to pick whatever documentary we want to write our final paper about. Any suggestions?
posted by Emilia @ 5/21/2007 11:50:00 PM
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Spellbound! Word Wars! Comedian (Jerry Seinfeld)!
Since "persuasion" is the traditionally known as "rhetoric", howzabout what ever documentary you pick you analyze it in terms of Aristotle's writings on rhetoric:http://www.public.iastate.edu/~honeyl/Rhetoric/
Actually, they changed the name of the class from "The Rhetoric of Documentary Film." The reason? Apparently the word rhetoric is just too scary for May Session. Also, we talked about the artistic proofs yesterday. I imagine they'll be a part of the final paper.
And Dad, I'm thinking I want to watch something new...although watching Comedian again could not be a bad thing...
The documentary "Born into Brothels" was excellent!
Emily, if you need any info on brothels, I can help you out. One of my friends delivers mail to the two that are right outside of town. And Renee gave a speech about it in her Oral Communication class. Also, I was told that 'Lost' is done forever and the two hour finale was a series, not season finale. I don't believe it and think my brother is a big fat liar. Is he telling the truth?
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