Your goal with this paper is to show me how you think about the course material. To do this is a semi-standardized way, you will do a series of interviews and write about them, synthetically and analytically. Synthetic means connecting various themes or facts from the class. Use your writing ability to describe how different ideas or facts are related to each other, and how this class material is related to what you hear from your interview subjects. Analytic means that you will also explain how your interviews relate to (for example, is consistent with, or contrasts with) facts and themes from the class.