The picture I saw about the Chinese cultural revolution depicted a statue being torn down by serveral people showing the act of "Destroying the four olds". This act involved tearing down all the old things in china that was "holding people back" from the new world. Thus, replacing the old things and putting in newer things. This act was enticed by propaganda, encouragement, and by force. Destruction, chaos, catastrophy, all of these contributed to the Chinese cultural revolution. Sadly, I cannot post this picture and share it with everyone reading, if anyone is (besides you, Diana). Their world was in tatters and hell, but they pulled through. What also struck me about this picture was the willingness offered from the people to destroy the old world and bring in the new. There was violence, granted, but the Red Guards were victorious against any sort of counter-revolutions or reactionists.
The connection to Red Scarf Girl is that peeople were aslo willing to comply and get rid of their harvested four olds and went out destroying them. They were willing to give everything to the revolution just to make it better. Red Guards, people, children, they all supported smashing old things to smitherines as long as they knew they were part of this. So, my only question is, did they know where this revolution was going? I don't think so. There was so much propaganda they were just hyped up and encouraged to just do and not think. Where would that revolution have gone if everyone just stopped for one minute and thought about what was happening? Who know's for sure, but a revolution that was fuled by propaganda and pain, it clearly wasn't going to accel into the new world they had planned. All it brought was pain and a world of hurt for one decade.
Tuesday, April 26, 2011
Monday, April 11, 2011
GPA College blog 2
What did you discover about your grade point average? Were you surprised? Disappointed? Excited?
When I saw my GPA after I did all the calculations for it, I'm a little puzzled. My grade points (GP) from this semester and last semester are both 18. But what puzzles me is that I know I did a lot better last semester than I am this semester. So, am I doing better, or worst, or doing fine? I really don't understand how grades are graded, so I won't complain too much. But I think I'm getting too high a grade in this semester than last semester.
What did you learn about the schools you would like to attend?
Well, nothing all that new. I know already that it's gonna be a pain to find a school to take me. Most of these high-end schools are very, very hard to get into. Especially top schools in the country . To be honest, I'm already a little scared of college and what it will take and cost to get in. The only thing new I learned recently is that some of my choices are a little ludicrous and I should consider closer schools and ones that will be easier to get into.
What is the next step? Considering we are only in April what path are you going to take?
A more successful route. One I know will get me the quickest, most painless path to success. Study smarter, not harder, being to find other ways of remembering things other than looking at a sheet of notes. Taking advantage of study times and open work times, and not wasting time doing other things (ie: playing with my ring, which I just caught myself doing just now. How ironic) and using every minute of my time wisely and completing all my assignments on time and turning them in.
When I saw my GPA after I did all the calculations for it, I'm a little puzzled. My grade points (GP) from this semester and last semester are both 18. But what puzzles me is that I know I did a lot better last semester than I am this semester. So, am I doing better, or worst, or doing fine? I really don't understand how grades are graded, so I won't complain too much. But I think I'm getting too high a grade in this semester than last semester.
What did you learn about the schools you would like to attend?
Well, nothing all that new. I know already that it's gonna be a pain to find a school to take me. Most of these high-end schools are very, very hard to get into. Especially top schools in the country . To be honest, I'm already a little scared of college and what it will take and cost to get in. The only thing new I learned recently is that some of my choices are a little ludicrous and I should consider closer schools and ones that will be easier to get into.
What is the next step? Considering we are only in April what path are you going to take?
A more successful route. One I know will get me the quickest, most painless path to success. Study smarter, not harder, being to find other ways of remembering things other than looking at a sheet of notes. Taking advantage of study times and open work times, and not wasting time doing other things (ie: playing with my ring, which I just caught myself doing just now. How ironic) and using every minute of my time wisely and completing all my assignments on time and turning them in.
Wednesday, February 23, 2011
Internship Talks
From the talks that you heard today what were some things that struck you about the internships?
That there's a large variety of them and I don't need to know what to look for, I just need to look around and to maybe leave my comfort zone. Explore other opportunities that are given.
Given the talks, what are you looking for in an internship?
To look around and explore the different options or to look in the field I want to work in. For me, I would like to Intern possibly at the Apple store in fashion valley "For my expanded knowledge of Mac computers" Or NBC studios. Or maybe my 4th grade classroom.
Which talk did you feel painted a picture of a key moment in their internship, and why
The very first one about SweetCheeks bakery because I made me feel like I was actually there. She filled it with so much detail and and expressed her emotions so well and how she was feeling at that time. She also memorized the whole thing and really connected to the audience. She did a spectacular job on it.
That there's a large variety of them and I don't need to know what to look for, I just need to look around and to maybe leave my comfort zone. Explore other opportunities that are given.
Given the talks, what are you looking for in an internship?
To look around and explore the different options or to look in the field I want to work in. For me, I would like to Intern possibly at the Apple store in fashion valley "For my expanded knowledge of Mac computers" Or NBC studios. Or maybe my 4th grade classroom.
Which talk did you feel painted a picture of a key moment in their internship, and why
The very first one about SweetCheeks bakery because I made me feel like I was actually there. She filled it with so much detail and and expressed her emotions so well and how she was feeling at that time. She also memorized the whole thing and really connected to the audience. She did a spectacular job on it.
Wednesday, February 16, 2011
Suheir Hammad & Marjane Satrapi on War
Assignment: Listen to Suheir Hammad's Ted Talk again and write down key lines that struck you (these are quotes from her poetry) and why. Also, write about the connection between Suheir's ideas and Marjane's in Persepolis. Lastly write about what struck you about Persepolis and Suheir's poetry.
"Love will never find me"
"Woman being disregarded and mistreated"
"Leaving behind clusterbombs and dyfective landmines"
All these lines struck me because they all tie in to Marjane's life and how she lived daily. In Austria, in Vienna, and in Tehran. These are important facts because this was an average day in the life and this is what she dealt with. Loving someone, not loving someone, having someone that loves you, and someone and could care less about you. Being stopped by the Revolution Guardians, watching bombs drop on their home town. She had the same idea as Suheir. Yet she pushed on and lived through every day, with unfair rules.
What struck me about the poem and Persepolis is that they wanted equality. For example, in the beginning of the book, Marjane wanted to be a prophet and change everything so that life will be equal for everyone. In the poem, she talked about how everyone was being bombed and unequal and how this shouldn't be the way of life. All and all, they both shared the same thoughts and ideas and how things should be changed and what society is and how bad it really is from another person's point of view.
Part 2
How I think Suheir Hammad described revolution and revolutions and war is, well, hell. She describes discrimination as harsh and cruel, everyone looks at them like they're all terrorists and people don't take a second look, don't know them, that they're indifferent and they're all just normal people like you and me. In war, like I stated in part one, there are bombs in every street just waiting to go off. There are riots and innocent people are getting hurt everyday where they both come from.
Marjane Satrapi has the same concept. When she was once asked where she came from, she claimed she was from France, Paris, to avoid discrimination from where she was from. When a bomb hit the Babalevi's house in the book/movie, she was scared and scarred from this event and was afraid from then onward. The revolution that she went through was long and horrible. but in the beginning, no one was happy. In the end, no one was happy. she went through a long and horrible event but pushed on through anyways.
They both went through false criticisms and labeling, war and death. but in the end, they are still just like us. we have bad days, where our boy/girlfriend breaks up with us and you had to walk home in the rain, fashion disasters, and wondering what we're gonna wear tomorrow. But these type's of people wonder if they're gonna live to the next day and their bad days are bombs falling and killing their friends. Think about these people if you ever have a "bad day".
"Love will never find me"
"Woman being disregarded and mistreated"
"Leaving behind clusterbombs and dyfective landmines"
All these lines struck me because they all tie in to Marjane's life and how she lived daily. In Austria, in Vienna, and in Tehran. These are important facts because this was an average day in the life and this is what she dealt with. Loving someone, not loving someone, having someone that loves you, and someone and could care less about you. Being stopped by the Revolution Guardians, watching bombs drop on their home town. She had the same idea as Suheir. Yet she pushed on and lived through every day, with unfair rules.
What struck me about the poem and Persepolis is that they wanted equality. For example, in the beginning of the book, Marjane wanted to be a prophet and change everything so that life will be equal for everyone. In the poem, she talked about how everyone was being bombed and unequal and how this shouldn't be the way of life. All and all, they both shared the same thoughts and ideas and how things should be changed and what society is and how bad it really is from another person's point of view.
Part 2
How I think Suheir Hammad described revolution and revolutions and war is, well, hell. She describes discrimination as harsh and cruel, everyone looks at them like they're all terrorists and people don't take a second look, don't know them, that they're indifferent and they're all just normal people like you and me. In war, like I stated in part one, there are bombs in every street just waiting to go off. There are riots and innocent people are getting hurt everyday where they both come from.
Marjane Satrapi has the same concept. When she was once asked where she came from, she claimed she was from France, Paris, to avoid discrimination from where she was from. When a bomb hit the Babalevi's house in the book/movie, she was scared and scarred from this event and was afraid from then onward. The revolution that she went through was long and horrible. but in the beginning, no one was happy. In the end, no one was happy. she went through a long and horrible event but pushed on through anyways.
They both went through false criticisms and labeling, war and death. but in the end, they are still just like us. we have bad days, where our boy/girlfriend breaks up with us and you had to walk home in the rain, fashion disasters, and wondering what we're gonna wear tomorrow. But these type's of people wonder if they're gonna live to the next day and their bad days are bombs falling and killing their friends. Think about these people if you ever have a "bad day".
Thursday, February 10, 2011
Islam
Topic: The mans' role
The mans' role in society is to do all the more important things. Driving, Government, and taking care of himself. Based on their older culture, the mans' priorities were
1) His dog
2) His horse
3) His cow
4) His pig
5) Woman and children
As you can see, based on their past history, The woman were left to the child bearing. The reason woman were put at the bottom of their list is because they're replaceable. The men were left with all the heavy-duty work and the woman were left raising the children and all the "womanly" tasks. It's all because of what their society agrees on and considered "acceptable" in their society
Thursday, February 3, 2011
Asia current events
The Asian country I have is Qatar. I did some research on Qatar and found that it's about as big as Rhode Island and everyone drives big fancy cars and live in big fancy houses. As for news, I couldn't find a whole lot. They managed to host the 2022 Soccer world cup, and they have a very short history. It became an independent sovereign state in 1971, and served as one of the main launching sites of the United States invasion of Iraq in 2003. That's 40 years of fresh history for this small and quiet country of Asia.
Tuesday, February 1, 2011
Street art
1) What are qualities that you noticed in the documentary that you can transfer into your own work?
2) What amazed you about the artists work?
3) How did the artists use their craft to convey a message?
1) Well, I noticed they all went the extra mile and at least tried to improve their work and made it bigger and made it better each time. How I can transfer this to my work is to think outside the box and think of something else that hasn't been done yet and wow everyone with it. Say for example, if I were to use actual batteries in my art piece instead of just making a photoshop image. Their work is incredible, and hopefully mine will be the same.
2) The detail and their style of art. It's different and unique from other artists. Take Space Invader for example, he made tile art and glued them to walls. It's much different than Bansky's form of art, where he makes a stencil and spray-paints the design on the wall. Each of these are different and mean different things. It's incredible the work they do.
3) Each one conveys a message. Mr. Brainwash for example, his message is that society brainwashes everyone into believing what everyone else believes. Bansky painted an elephant the same pattern as a wall paper to convey the message that sometimes we have so much stuff (lies?) that there's an invisible elephant in the room. Sometimes it's simple messages that are easy to decipher and figure out what the artist is really trying to say.
2) What amazed you about the artists work?
3) How did the artists use their craft to convey a message?
1) Well, I noticed they all went the extra mile and at least tried to improve their work and made it bigger and made it better each time. How I can transfer this to my work is to think outside the box and think of something else that hasn't been done yet and wow everyone with it. Say for example, if I were to use actual batteries in my art piece instead of just making a photoshop image. Their work is incredible, and hopefully mine will be the same.
2) The detail and their style of art. It's different and unique from other artists. Take Space Invader for example, he made tile art and glued them to walls. It's much different than Bansky's form of art, where he makes a stencil and spray-paints the design on the wall. Each of these are different and mean different things. It's incredible the work they do.
3) Each one conveys a message. Mr. Brainwash for example, his message is that society brainwashes everyone into believing what everyone else believes. Bansky painted an elephant the same pattern as a wall paper to convey the message that sometimes we have so much stuff (lies?) that there's an invisible elephant in the room. Sometimes it's simple messages that are easy to decipher and figure out what the artist is really trying to say.
Thursday, January 13, 2011
Harrison Bergeron Political Cartoon
This relates to Harrison Bergeron because it depicts what Diana Moon Glamper may have been thinking at the time. That everyone would want one to be equal. So I made an advertisement for it that she may have made to get everyone interested in it and excited about it, when in reality, it's a burden. I bet half the people in 2081 hate having to wear all these pointless products to be fair with one-another.
Thursday, January 6, 2011
The Metamorphosis chapter 3
Please respond to the following questions, at least one paragraph each.
1) What do you think Kafka was trying to say by turning the protagonist, Gregor into an insect?
2) Why do you think that Kafka chose the beetle/roach as the insect as supposed to the classic fairy tale reptile, the frog?
He turned him into an insect minimize him. Make him be just another thing to be ignored, squashed on, a nobody. He tried to make an example out of a protagonist to tell us a message. His message is a hard one to analyze, but I'll take my best analysis his message. He wanted to say that some people may as well be bugs, because they don't want to do much with their lives. Gregor was a person who wakes up, goes to work, goes home. He isn't the kind of person to go and take care of himself, but he takes care of everyone else. He was a person that hides in the shadows and brings back to the hive.
Kafka chose an insect because no one would care about a bug. It's something that someone saw as disgusting and they wouldn't want him to be around anyone or anything. Which is also the reason why he was confined to just his room. He was treated like trash. He became insignificant to his family and no one wanted to deal with him. As far as his family treated him, he was already an insignificant bug to them. Some who just goes through the motions.
1) What do you think Kafka was trying to say by turning the protagonist, Gregor into an insect?
2) Why do you think that Kafka chose the beetle/roach as the insect as supposed to the classic fairy tale reptile, the frog?
He turned him into an insect minimize him. Make him be just another thing to be ignored, squashed on, a nobody. He tried to make an example out of a protagonist to tell us a message. His message is a hard one to analyze, but I'll take my best analysis his message. He wanted to say that some people may as well be bugs, because they don't want to do much with their lives. Gregor was a person who wakes up, goes to work, goes home. He isn't the kind of person to go and take care of himself, but he takes care of everyone else. He was a person that hides in the shadows and brings back to the hive.
Kafka chose an insect because no one would care about a bug. It's something that someone saw as disgusting and they wouldn't want him to be around anyone or anything. Which is also the reason why he was confined to just his room. He was treated like trash. He became insignificant to his family and no one wanted to deal with him. As far as his family treated him, he was already an insignificant bug to them. Some who just goes through the motions.
Wednesday, January 5, 2011
The Metamorphosis chapter 2
FAMILY DYNAMICS
As Franz Kafka knew from his own life and as portrayed in "The Metamorphosis," families possess the power to both improve and injure the psychological well-being of their members. Discuss the ways that the Samsa family benefit and harm each other, citing examples from the text. Then, use the family in the novella, along with examples from real life, to create a set of FIVE important rules for creating and maintaining a healthy family life. Finally, grade (A-F) the Samsa family on how well they follow your rules and provide your reasoning.
Ways that the Samsa family benefit each other is their understanding of things. Which seems strange, because this is also what can harm each other. One reason that that benefits this family is that their understanding of things can keep Gregor alive. His sister knows that something bad happened to him and she knows the basic things he needs to live, such as food and water.
Now, ways that the Samsa family can harm each other is their MISunderstanding. For example, Gregor's mom faints at the sight of hims. She just doesn't want to understand or understand at all. The father doesn't seem to want to care or listen to what anyone has to say. He ends up hurting his son due to his misunderstanding of what happened to him.
Rules
1. Communication
-Most basic of things. Listen to on another.
2. Trust
3. Understand the situation
4. Be honest
5. Stick together
Gregor's family would probably get a D+ because they didn't follow all of my rules. Communication and trust were broken when Grete tried to tell her to come in the living room and her mom didn't trust what she was saying and turned around anyways. Her father didn't understand the situation and tried to kill Gregor. It also seemed to me that the family started to split apart and had different stories and didn't sit down to talk about the situation at hand. Hencefourth, I give this family a D+.
As Franz Kafka knew from his own life and as portrayed in "The Metamorphosis," families possess the power to both improve and injure the psychological well-being of their members. Discuss the ways that the Samsa family benefit and harm each other, citing examples from the text. Then, use the family in the novella, along with examples from real life, to create a set of FIVE important rules for creating and maintaining a healthy family life. Finally, grade (A-F) the Samsa family on how well they follow your rules and provide your reasoning.
Ways that the Samsa family benefit each other is their understanding of things. Which seems strange, because this is also what can harm each other. One reason that that benefits this family is that their understanding of things can keep Gregor alive. His sister knows that something bad happened to him and she knows the basic things he needs to live, such as food and water.
Now, ways that the Samsa family can harm each other is their MISunderstanding. For example, Gregor's mom faints at the sight of hims. She just doesn't want to understand or understand at all. The father doesn't seem to want to care or listen to what anyone has to say. He ends up hurting his son due to his misunderstanding of what happened to him.
Rules
1. Communication
-Most basic of things. Listen to on another.
2. Trust
3. Understand the situation
4. Be honest
5. Stick together
Gregor's family would probably get a D+ because they didn't follow all of my rules. Communication and trust were broken when Grete tried to tell her to come in the living room and her mom didn't trust what she was saying and turned around anyways. Her father didn't understand the situation and tried to kill Gregor. It also seemed to me that the family started to split apart and had different stories and didn't sit down to talk about the situation at hand. Hencefourth, I give this family a D+.
Tuesday, January 4, 2011
The Metamorphosis chapter 1
Please write at least two paragraphs on one of the following questions. You DO NOT have to respond to BOTH, you PICK ONE.
From Gregor's point of view, what might be be some positive aspects of his metamorphosis into an insect?
What circumstances in Gregor's life might have caused him to feel dehumanized even before the metamorphosis took place?
Some circumstances in Gregor's life that makes him feel dehumanized is literally his life itself. He has a solid, no-going-back attitude with a firm schedule and never misses a day of work. He lives at home with his worrying family that always takes care of him and if he's just a little late from home or doesn't get up in time, his parents will start to worry about him. It seems like he's always focus on his goals and not himself from time-to-time.
A few more circumstances is the fact he's never late for anything. He's only doing what's necessary and he's a box. You can push him and he'll fall to one side. A circle you an push and it will keep going. But he only seems to care about his work life and not his personal life. He has no social life whatsoever. To prove my point, he's never taken a day off work for 5 years. 5 years! Not even a sick day. He's a robot in life, just doing what's required.
From Gregor's point of view, what might be be some positive aspects of his metamorphosis into an insect?
What circumstances in Gregor's life might have caused him to feel dehumanized even before the metamorphosis took place?
Some circumstances in Gregor's life that makes him feel dehumanized is literally his life itself. He has a solid, no-going-back attitude with a firm schedule and never misses a day of work. He lives at home with his worrying family that always takes care of him and if he's just a little late from home or doesn't get up in time, his parents will start to worry about him. It seems like he's always focus on his goals and not himself from time-to-time.
A few more circumstances is the fact he's never late for anything. He's only doing what's necessary and he's a box. You can push him and he'll fall to one side. A circle you an push and it will keep going. But he only seems to care about his work life and not his personal life. He has no social life whatsoever. To prove my point, he's never taken a day off work for 5 years. 5 years! Not even a sick day. He's a robot in life, just doing what's required.
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