I'm Ashlee Dorning and I'm in my final semester at Thomas More. I'm a double major in Business Administration (concentration in Finance) and Economics with a minor in Spanish. I've taken one other philosophy class, Human Behavior with Father Twaddell. I enjoyed it a lot and I find deep thinking about the central questions of life really intriguing.
So far I'm enjoying the Aesthetics class. At first I found it hard to get into Koyaanisqatsi but after about 15-20 minutes have found myself enjoying the film. I find the message about industrialization to be really powerful and the scenes that show big business (such as Hostess or Oscar Meyer) and destruction (such as the building being imploded/collapsing) to be somewhat depressing although they still leave me awe-struck (in the sense that humanity has certainly accomplished a lot.) I think all of the scenes are able to be appreciated in their own sense, whether it's aesthetic beauty or the simple appreciation of human accomplishment (with the acknowledgement of what it has cost to get us here, namely environmental destruction among other things.)
I'm excited for the rest of the semester and feel like I'm going to enjoy the class and learn a lot!
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