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Summer School
I know I am not the only person taking classes this summer. I am picking up extra credits so I can do an internship in D.C. next spring, plus summer classes are very relaxed, and have a lot of fun topics.
Today I begin my senior level history class "Film as History: Oliver Stone, Hollywood, and the World". (Last summer I took the Vietnam War Through Film, and did a presentation on Hair). All I have to do is write three essays of 2-5 pages each. The first week we're covering "Film As History", the second "The Vietnam War", and the third week "Violence". Week Four is "Culture, Communication and Consumption". Somehow we are going to cover all these movies in four weeks, with 15 hours of instruction a week:
Midnight Express
Salvador
Platoon
Born on the Fourth of July
Heaven and Earth
JFK
Nixon
The Doors
Natural Born Killers
U-Turn
The People vs. Larry Flint
Talk Radio
Wall Street
Any Given Sunday
However in the afternoon I get to attend "The History of Sexuality", and later in the summer "History of Organized Crime in America". If I feel up to it, I can also take "The Pacific War in Movies", where we will NOT be watching Pearl Harbor!
I feel a 4.0 coming on!
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