This Week

This last week in English has been really interesting for me. I`ve never had an English class where we got to watch movies or movie trailers of really cool movies. Before this class I never would stop and really think about all the symbolism and rhetoric that goes into creating not just visual works of art but literary works as well. Although, I had never before seen some of the movies that we watched the trailers, I still feel I got a lot out of the discussion we had in class on them. I never before realized how a simple song, type of lighting, or simply a sequence of images from a movie could influence me so much. Especially the background music that we found in Lord of the Rings as well as the movie that depicted drug addiction in the most violent of fashions. Its weird how we associated certain sounds and images to particular events or actions.

Also this week, we received our topics for our next paper. I`m not really sure how to do it but I`m going to try and turn something decent in on Thursday. My week is packed, though, I`ve got exams this next week and finding time to right six pages is going to tough. I hope I have some spark of inspiration and it all comes together. Oh, well at least this is just the rough draft and maybe between now and the final due date I`ll have an "A" paper.