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My last semester at CSUCI was the first semester of lockdown, and those months got pretty weird. My sense of time got all mushed- that spring break lasted a solid month, basically. Then I had to spend...
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I have this egotistic conception of myself as a writer, offering up my voice to the National Conversation. Which is nutty but whatever. I read these ‘think’ pieces from knowledgeable peopl...
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I had an elective requirement to fill during that last semester, and it was almost a crisis. I wasn’t able to register until several weeks after the window opened (the housing dept was insisting...
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I skipped over a question set from this module, the responses for Wag the Dog. The movie was only ok, and the writing didn’t really add anything to the experience so I gave it a pass. I’m ...
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Compare the character of Lonesome Rhodes from A Face In The Crowd with the title character in Bob Roberts. What do these characters say about each filmmaker’s view of the common man in America? Wh...
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There were three movies in this module- All the President’s Men, Good Night/Good Luck, and Shattered Glass. There were no question sets for Shattered Glass, which was good because I didn’t...
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In my head, Red October is still the best Clancy picture, by far. Harrison Ford was too Mr America, and Ben Affleck was too jock. There’s no way around it, Jack Ryan is a Baldwin. The movie was ...
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Middle Eastern politics are not my strength. I barely have an understanding of the Christianity that’s killing us; I know even less about the Jewish or Muslim fault lines crisscrossing the regio...
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This wraps up the first week of writing for Politics and Film. I’m pretty sure he had a rough word limit on the essays, which was handy after the pages and pages of questions for the individual ...
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From the Race/Ethnicity final. Just the last half, the first wasn’t very good reading. This was the professor who assigned a ton a of writing. Between her three classes I got 1 A and 2 B’s...
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