During fall semester, I took a social work course on AIDS. In this class, we had to read the book Wisdom of Whores:Bureaucrats, Brothels, and the Business of AIDS. After reading the book, we then had to write a paper reflecting on the topics addressed in the book including raising awareness, barriers faced in research, and the complexities of human behavior.
In the fall semester, I took an English course on popular culture. In this class, we had to write five application papers where we related topics discussed in class to popular culture texts outside of class. For my final paper, I decided to write about a documentary we watched called Everything’s a Remix and relate it to the Disney movie Beauty and the Beast. In this paper, I discuss the ways Disney movies display the basic elements of remix culture.