Babel vs. COM375

October 10, 2007 carmella7

What relationships are there between the movie, Babel and the subject matter of this course? : After revisiting the web blogs’ of my fellow students dealing with the movie Babel and its relationship to our COM 375 writing class I have come to a conclusive answer. Most of the comments labeled by the students are easily defined as semiotic analysis comments. Hippo 86 saying, “The shooting of the American woman is communicated on a global level as a terrorist attack despite the lack of evidence”. Communication on a global level was brought up many times by students as a relation to our class ethics. We as students are asked to not only look at our own written work but have it be relatable to others. Whether our readers speak or read English or not, it is important that our work makes an impression on others. This can easily be understood by looking at semiotic analysis, dealing with past and present material. These political ideas do reflect a personal or group interest as each character in the movie related to one another depending on there personal knowledge and understanding. AisforAstronaut says, “The context affects communication and what it means”. Not only is Babel’s story somewhat confusing, but it is the underlying tones that we are concerned with. As in our English class the context of our communications skills have an underlying motive that we use to produce our general idea from. It’s not the questions that we are trying to answer, but the underlying motive. How can we answer this question thoroughly? This is not only the idea we have when dealing with the movie Babel, but with our own artistic work.

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