Tuesday, July 22, 2008

The Exorcism of Lectures

I honestly can only remember delivering a lecture or some form of information to an audience during high school, when I was forced to present a psychology project before my classmates. My partner and I decided to do our project on schizophrenia, thus we split the project into 2 parts. I was to research on Anneliese Michel, whose true life exorcism was the basis for the 2005 film the Exorcism of Emily Rose. My partner, on the other hand, was to do research on the affects of schizophrenia. When the time came for us to present, the first half of the presentation was sloppy, our posterboard looked like hell, and my partner's presentation of schizophrenia was dull.

My attempt was no better. I had attempted to lecture my class with the information of schizophrenia all the while providing the back story of Anneliese Michel, whose demon possesion was supposedly linked to mental illness. I tried to make the story and lecture interesting with saying that there was a possible link between demonic activity and mental illness. Sadly, my classmates happened to brush this off as just a another psychology lecture/presentation.

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