CPMS225
Week #1 activity - Analyzing media use of protest video: 9/4/20
This assignment was due during a time of great division and anger in the US. George Floyd had recently been killed as well as other such as Breonna Taylor and Ahmaud Arbery by the police. It caused a lot of tension and emotions across the country. Coming from Baltimore city, I had become really close to a lot of black people and these events really hurt their community and angered them as well as making them scared for their lives. It was a very sad time and this assignment allowed me to express what I felt during these difficult times in which I had joined various protests in order to hold the police accountable for these senseless killings. This was not an enjoyable assignment but I appreciated having an assignment in which I could express some of the things I was feeling during this time.
Week #9 Activity: Create a Media Scholars ad using a "cultural
frame": 11/1/20
I am a COMM major so advertising is a very important part of my major. That is why I liked this assignment. It allowed me to explore the various methods of advertising which can come in handy within the PR track. This assignment was one the assignments that best correlated with my major and so I enjoyed doing it because it was good to gain this experience. It was certainly one of the more useful assignments for me in this program (all assignments are useful but this one was one of the ones that pertained most to what I want to do later on).