Essay about Developing My Critical Thinking Skills

Given the especially large number of students you see each semester, I dont expect any recollection of my presence in your COMM150 class-- I certainly wasnt an exemplary enough student to have left any lasting memories (which is both good and bad). But I wanted to share with you a small anecdote, because four years later Ive realized that your class served as an important catalyst in the development of my critical thinking abilities. As a freshmen at the Altoona campus, I took your class on a whim because I needed a Comm class. Of course I was confident (re: cocky) in my abilities, so I didnt study for exams and ended up in a bad place part-way through the semester. Thats when you offered an extra-credit assignment that required†¦show more content†¦I didnt get it then--but I certainly do now. Do the Right Thing is a 1989 film by Spike Lee. According to Entertainment Weekly, it is one of the 25 most controversial films ever. It was deemed culturally significant by the Library of Congress in 1999, and then placed in the National Film Registry. The story follows the lives of citizens of the Bedford-Stuyvesant District in New York City, on the hottest day of the summer, and what they do to cope with the heat. To summarize the entire plot—it ends in a riot. I’d like to analyze some of the situations found in the movie, and discuss how, if at all, it related to race relations in America. When watching the film, I wasn’t overly interested in the plot. Nothing interesting happened (until the end of the movie) and there was nothing that made me (as a viewer) intrigued to continue watching. What I found important, however, was the character portrayals in the movie, and this is what kept me watching. I’m not sure what Lee wanted from this movie, because t o me, it seemed as if he was being a) overtly racist towards non African-Americans, and b) stereotypical of his own race. 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