Trial Post

From this course I am hoping to watch a variety of classic films and get a better idea of what qualifies a "great" film. The standards of a great film vary from age-group to age-group, culture to culture and person to person; I am interested to find if there is a common link between all of the differences. I am also looking forward to watching classic films, I haven’t seen many of the films on the course sheet and I think seeing these movies is important because it strengthens your ties with the American culture. Seeing these movies will act not only as a conversation piece in the future but will give you the ability to understand dozens of references you will encounter over time. I am not anticipating the lengthy assignments that go along with this course; I love writing but I have a difficult time when it comes to explaining movies. I see the point in making a book into a movie, giving faces to characters and being able to watch the mannerisms enhances the story line, however when you try to transform a movie into words you can never really capture the entirety of the characters, setting or the plot. Like in real life, when you try to describe a situation to another person, it is something that you have to be there for to be able to totally grasp its entirety. I have trouble with meeting word limits; there billions of words in the English language and very often there is one word that could be used to describe an entire sentence, which would make the paper with the higher level of vocabulary better written than the paper which has more words. After high school I am attending Colby-Sawyer College in New London, New Hampshire with a $32,000 scholarship. It is a small liberal arts school nestled between 3 huge mountains. I plan to major in bachelor in science of nursing with a specialty of neonatology and minor in journalism. My goal is to eventually leave nursing to become a neonatologist and look into journalism as an at home hobby.