Okay, lovelies. It seems there was one part of my Charettes class I forgot about - a log! Not just of projects, no, but of the whole class! So that's what's going to happen here!
Alright, I've already done weeks one and two, because that was the lovely skull thing. Week Three! On week 3 of class, I do believe we watched Shirin Neshat's lovely, lovely film Women Without Men. Seriously, it's a good film. It's about four women trying to gain freedom and find themselves in Iran, which happens to be undergoing a political crisis, in 1953. It sound boring, but it isn't. I wrote a whole paper on it. And that brings me to the next bit, week four!
For week four, we had to write an essay about Women Without Men. Three people presented papers, Brandi, Sterling, and I. Their essays were just fabulous, even if Sterling read really really fast sometimes and I couldn't understand him. Brandi's essay delved into the relationships between 'self' and 'other' in the film, and Sterling's essay summed the story up nicely, while providing analysis. My essay was pretty darn good, if I do say so myself. I'll post it as a separate update, because it's rather long.
For the rest of class on Wednesday, Week Four, we brainstormed ideas for our final projects. Everyone had smashing ideas, and I can't wait to see them finished! My idea is to do something exploring my sense of rootlessness. I moved around a lot when I was a kid, so I don't really feel like I'm 'from' anywhere. I spent nine years in Virginia, where I was born. Then my family moved to Tennessee, where I lived for another nine years. Now I'm in Ohio for school, and I just don't know where I'm from. I never really fit in in Tennessee, because we moved to a teeny weeny little town where everyone knew everyone and was related to everyone. I mostly grew up in Tennessee, but I don't really feel like I belong there. So, that's what my project is going to be about! Stay tuned for updates and progress of it. Subscribe via e-mail to get the fastest updates!
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