writing I interview

In talking to my roommate about her experiences with Writing I last semester, I began to realize that the way in which the class is structured is really there to make these seemingly daunting assignments possible while also giving the opportunity to actually succeed in understanding a cultural object in a new and maybe even more profound context. She wrote about "Amazing Grace" -- comparing and contrasting the original score and lyrics to recent ones. She tried to integrate historical and social changes that could have affected these changes within the song. While she is inherently much more musical than I, I think that it is so interesting that something as simple as a song can have so much meaning behind it, both in when it was originally created, but also when it was redone. After talking to her, I started brainstorming about what I would like to do. I love film, so I was thinking to possibly look at a movie... or even an object or idea that is represented in or embodied by a movie. I'm not really sure, but I'm very excited to see the development of this process.