I never knew what a mashup was until this assignment. I thought that it would be hard to meet all the requirements as in finding quotes, in class reflections, the use of other media or art, and passages from other works in the humanities curriculum just to define one simple word.
As I was looking over my annotations in Letters to a Young Poet by Rainer Maria Rilke, I kept my mind open and remembered to take pauses to let the more complex ideas come to me naturally instead of forcing it.
Having the natural flow of complex ideas really helped in narrowing down my selection of words. I ended up doing my mashup on the word love. I choose the word love because I wanted challenge myself by exploring a word I don't take time in my everyday life to think about. One of my goals was to explore this simple word, that is often over used, and find deeper meanings for it.
While creating my mashup and searching for outside sources I realized that love ended up being not so challenging. One thing I really noticed was that love is everywhere in the world and that there is many different kinds of love. Ranging from: the unconditional love a mother has with her child, to the love two people share, to the things we love in our everyday life.
What I really liked about this assignment was how one word can be expressed through various types of media. I really enjoyed how this project differed from every other type of project, mashups are a good way of making a simple topic or subject into a bunch of complex ideas. I like how a mashup can be interpreted differently by every person, because it allows people to create their own explanations and ideas. Over all, I wouldn't change much about this project, I would have liked to do this over the course of the whole humanities curriculum.
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