EVERYONE HAVE A NICE SUMMER!!!!
('11!!!!!!!!!!!)
Friday, June 26, 2009
Monday, June 8, 2009
The Cat in the Hat Project!!!!!( Final project of the YEAR!!!!)
Well this is the final blog for English (sad face) Of course we will miss you Erin..YOU ARE THE COOLEST!!!!!!(i think that is a word..he...he...).....Back to business...My blog is going to be option two..Evaluative Essay..I am going to do this on the Fish!!! I believe the Fish is basically dominated by the superego (even though some people say he is a selfish fish because he is not letting the kids have fun...and wants things to be only his way...for now I am going to argue that he is dominated by the superego..). One example of indirect characterization is when the fish says in the beginning of the story, "No, no make that fish go away..". Which shows that 
the fish is already being protective of the kids. The fish in a ways seems to be acting as the mother and taking the role of the mother telling the kids to not listen to the fish. This is showing that the fish follows all the rules and does not like to break the rules, and is very careful to do things and making choices, and in a way he is acting like the "good" character that does everything he does is not bad, so the fish is a superego...( The fish in a way is doing everything a parent might want their child to do...)...furhtermore, then when the fish says to the Cat in the Hat (after a few pages in the story), "Put me down this is not fun..", the fish gets scared because the cat in the hat is holding the bowl where the fish is and the fish does not like it. It also seems the fish gets mad because he does not like that the cat in the hat is there in the house but he is also part of what the cat in the hat is destroying, as the Cat in the Hat is doing, and the fish cannot fully control the situation because he is in a bowl...he cannot protect himself from the Cat in the Hat. But even though the fish cannot stop the Cat in the Hat from doing what the Cat in the Hat is doing, he still has a superego saying...and wants the Cat in the Hat to go away and screams and yells at the cat....Another example would be in a way the fishes actions. Basically the fish is always looking at the Cat in the Hat in almost every single page, he is carefully looking at the Cat in the Hat and has an expression, of what is he going to do next, and I believe there is a part where he shows curiosity of what the Cat in the Hat is doing ( or maybe he just likes what the cat in the hat is doing...). Also the fish tries to stay away from the cat in the Hat and just sees what the cat is doing..this shows the fish is a superego because he stays away from the cat and is basically in the corner...just looking at what the cat will do next and telling the kids to not (or thinking ), get close to the cat and not to listen to the cat...Maybe this effects the children's choice of trying to stop the cat in the Hat from destroying the house. So what he is saying like for example, when he says,"No, no does things should not be here when your mom is not here..", after words the narrator got the net and put thing one ant thing two in the box...so the narrator and sally have gotten some of the superego the Fish has tired to get them to do it...and so after the fish says to the kids not to do anything wrong, at the end the kids do something "good", that is considered by the Fish, which shows he wants, not be perfect but follow all the rules..and does not like to get in to trouble (like the angle on your right side).....but at the same time the kids did not do anything, in a way they just watched what the cat did just like the fish did ( put not yelling all the time ..and saying to do all the right things...) The fish looks simple, unlike the cat who has a very big hat (who knows that might count as his devil tail..just thinking...), the fish does not wear anything and is just in a bowl that sometimes might protect him and sometimes not....The fish is basically a very simple superego fish...at the end after the Cat in the Hat cleans up his mess the fish has a big smile on his face and so now the fish in a way has accepted the id, the Cat in the Hat...and so maybe some of the superego has gone to the Cat in the Hat......
This is it..SEE YOU NEXT YEAR EVERYONE!!!!!!!"11"!!!!!!!(Have a safe and FUN summer!!!...Erin...good luck...you will be an AWESOME teacher and who ever gets to be your student will be very lucky...do good things and GOOD LUCK ERIN!!!!!!!)
the fish is already being protective of the kids. The fish in a ways seems to be acting as the mother and taking the role of the mother telling the kids to not listen to the fish. This is showing that the fish follows all the rules and does not like to break the rules, and is very careful to do things and making choices, and in a way he is acting like the "good" character that does everything he does is not bad, so the fish is a superego...( The fish in a way is doing everything a parent might want their child to do...)...furhtermore, then when the fish says to the Cat in the Hat (after a few pages in the story), "Put me down this is not fun..", the fish gets scared because the cat in the hat is holding the bowl where the fish is and the fish does not like it. It also seems the fish gets mad because he does not like that the cat in the hat is there in the house but he is also part of what the cat in the hat is destroying, as the Cat in the Hat is doing, and the fish cannot fully control the situation because he is in a bowl...he cannot protect himself from the Cat in the Hat. But even though the fish cannot stop the Cat in the Hat from doing what the Cat in the Hat is doing, he still has a superego saying...and wants the Cat in the Hat to go away and screams and yells at the cat....Another example would be in a way the fishes actions. Basically the fish is always looking at the Cat in the Hat in almost every single page, he is carefully looking at the Cat in the Hat and has an expression, of what is he going to do next, and I believe there is a part where he shows curiosity of what the Cat in the Hat is doing ( or maybe he just likes what the cat in the hat is doing...). Also the fish tries to stay away from the cat in the Hat and just sees what the cat is doing..this shows the fish is a superego because he stays away from the cat and is basically in the corner...just looking at what the cat will do next and telling the kids to not (or thinking ), get close to the cat and not to listen to the cat...Maybe this effects the children's choice of trying to stop the cat in the Hat from destroying the house. So what he is saying like for example, when he says,"No, no does things should not be here when your mom is not here..", after words the narrator got the net and put thing one ant thing two in the box...so the narrator and sally have gotten some of the superego the Fish has tired to get them to do it...and so after the fish says to the kids not to do anything wrong, at the end the kids do something "good", that is considered by the Fish, which shows he wants, not be perfect but follow all the rules..and does not like to get in to trouble (like the angle on your right side).....but at the same time the kids did not do anything, in a way they just watched what the cat did just like the fish did ( put not yelling all the time ..and saying to do all the right things...) The fish looks simple, unlike the cat who has a very big hat (who knows that might count as his devil tail..just thinking...), the fish does not wear anything and is just in a bowl that sometimes might protect him and sometimes not....The fish is basically a very simple superego fish...at the end after the Cat in the Hat cleans up his mess the fish has a big smile on his face and so now the fish in a way has accepted the id, the Cat in the Hat...and so maybe some of the superego has gone to the Cat in the Hat......This is it..SEE YOU NEXT YEAR EVERYONE!!!!!!!"11"!!!!!!!(Have a safe and FUN summer!!!...Erin...good luck...you will be an AWESOME teacher and who ever gets to be your student will be very lucky...do good things and GOOD LUCK ERIN!!!!!!!)
Tuesday, May 26, 2009
The Story of a Childhood...(Blog 2)
Q: Why do you think this genre is so popular? Why did Satrapi chose this format in which to tell her story? What does the visual...????
I think this genre is very popular because now a days more people especially teens are reading this kind of genres, such as manges. I think the sense of humor in this kind of genre is very important because it does not get boring to read it at all. I think teens find it more interesting for the fact that it is not only words but also pictures and because like I said it has some very funny pictures that sometimes writing cannot get to, only a picture can show, like people say pictures are worth a million words...I think Satrapi chose this format in which to tell her story because it is easier to show all or most of the feelings to the reader, both the picture and the words will help her tell a bigger story or a more I guess detailed story and both the picture and the story really depend on each other. A visual aspect adds many things that a cinventual memoir lacks, like a better picture of what is in a way really happening in the story. In many ways the pictures gives more things than the story itself, and the reader can really see what the author or the writer wants them to imagine. I think the pictures would also have a big impact on showing how for example the veils look like and how they have to wear it and so in a way I think this has a bigger impact on the reader because they see it not only imagine it...Sadly I have not read any of the books maintained but I have read some mange books and I can say in many ways they are different and in many ways they are the same, for example they both have humor but Persepolis is a memoir of course and manges for the most part of it is a fiction book. But still both have the five elements of a story...Basically Persepolis has like I said the five aliments of a story similar to a comic book and humor like some comic books have. I would not call this a comic book because it is most importantly is not a made up story, it is a memoir and so it should have its own category, like half comic book and half of an autobiography, of course a graphic novel..I would place this book in the autobiography section because it is an autobiography and it was meant be an autobiography not a comic book that you just read for fun..this is a "comic book" that has a point and a reason ( Message), like the author pointed out in the introduction...
Q: How did the revolution exert power and influence over so any people, including many educated middle class people like Satrapi's parents? Why did so may people leave after the revolution? Why do you think Marji's parents send her off to Austria while they stayed in Tehran? Why don't they leave/escape as well?
The revolution exerted power and influenced over so many people because the government was basically in charge and so what the government said people have to do it or else they will get killed, like many people in the novel that were killed by the government, for example the theater and the many massacres that were done. This included the educated and the middle class people like Satrapi's family because they basically lived under the government rules and they had to do what they were told to...and so they did what they had to do to survive those times. Also there were people that were brain washed and did what other people told them to do. This divided between the poor and the rich and in many ways it turned the tables around and the people that were less powerful before are more powerful, like in the book, when Marji's grandmother has to face her old worker that use to clean her windows and now he is working for the government. So many people left after the revolution because there was basically less freedom , especially for women. They could not let their hair show and had to wear their veils all the time. There were many massacres and the country was being attacked by Afghanistan..It was not a save place to live in, the rules were very streaked. I think Marji's parents sanded her off to Austria because they wanted the best for her. It was getting very difficult for Marji to get a good education in her country because of the many things that were happening. The parents basically wanted for Marji to have a better future. Like many families, today live their countries for a better life and a better future for their children. The parents don't leave because they want to believe their country will get better and things will get better. That is their home and where they grew up in and they do not want to give it up..it is the place they were born...
Q: What is Satrapi suggesting about the relationship between past and present, and between national and personal history? What role does her family history, and the stories of her relatives, say in shaping Marji?
I think Satrapi is suggesting that the past affects the present directly and the present is based of off the past. For example today Iran has not fully in many ways fixed its problems with Iraq and they still have problems and nobody really knows when it will stop or how..maybe the history between the two countries is too deep that the problem will never go away. So now because of the past issues that existed the present, today the relationship is not doing so well...and well there are many wars going on in this world right now...So of course there are the wars and that is what it seems people think is the way to solve a problem, while the rich people sleep in their gold beds there are soldiers that are risking there life's in war...and whose idea was it to go to war...(sorry I kind of went of topic..), so the past histories especially war history can really affect the present and the future relationships between countries. I think she is also suggesting that national history can sometimes get into personal history. For example if a person in a family has served the army or any other services they are part in many ways of the national history. Also like we see in the novel the Vail and how that started and the Islamic revolution. I guess for part of the national and personal history is sometimes religion as well, such as in the novel. Her family history basically is the roots of where she comes from and part of what shapes Marji, and the stories of her relatives shapes her in a way to be what she wants in her life and her purpose of living and fighting for what she believes is right and for her countries freedom...
I think this genre is very popular because now a days more people especially teens are reading this kind of genres, such as manges. I think the sense of humor in this kind of genre is very important because it does not get boring to read it at all. I think teens find it more interesting for the fact that it is not only words but also pictures and because like I said it has some very funny pictures that sometimes writing cannot get to, only a picture can show, like people say pictures are worth a million words...I think Satrapi chose this format in which to tell her story because it is easier to show all or most of the feelings to the reader, both the picture and the words will help her tell a bigger story or a more I guess detailed story and both the picture and the story really depend on each other. A visual aspect adds many things that a cinventual memoir lacks, like a better picture of what is in a way really happening in the story. In many ways the pictures gives more things than the story itself, and the reader can really see what the author or the writer wants them to imagine. I think the pictures would also have a big impact on showing how for example the veils look like and how they have to wear it and so in a way I think this has a bigger impact on the reader because they see it not only imagine it...Sadly I have not read any of the books maintained but I have read some mange books and I can say in many ways they are different and in many ways they are the same, for example they both have humor but Persepolis is a memoir of course and manges for the most part of it is a fiction book. But still both have the five elements of a story...Basically Persepolis has like I said the five aliments of a story similar to a comic book and humor like some comic books have. I would not call this a comic book because it is most importantly is not a made up story, it is a memoir and so it should have its own category, like half comic book and half of an autobiography, of course a graphic novel..I would place this book in the autobiography section because it is an autobiography and it was meant be an autobiography not a comic book that you just read for fun..this is a "comic book" that has a point and a reason ( Message), like the author pointed out in the introduction...
Q: How did the revolution exert power and influence over so any people, including many educated middle class people like Satrapi's parents? Why did so may people leave after the revolution? Why do you think Marji's parents send her off to Austria while they stayed in Tehran? Why don't they leave/escape as well?
The revolution exerted power and influenced over so many people because the government was basically in charge and so what the government said people have to do it or else they will get killed, like many people in the novel that were killed by the government, for example the theater and the many massacres that were done. This included the educated and the middle class people like Satrapi's family because they basically lived under the government rules and they had to do what they were told to...and so they did what they had to do to survive those times. Also there were people that were brain washed and did what other people told them to do. This divided between the poor and the rich and in many ways it turned the tables around and the people that were less powerful before are more powerful, like in the book, when Marji's grandmother has to face her old worker that use to clean her windows and now he is working for the government. So many people left after the revolution because there was basically less freedom , especially for women. They could not let their hair show and had to wear their veils all the time. There were many massacres and the country was being attacked by Afghanistan..It was not a save place to live in, the rules were very streaked. I think Marji's parents sanded her off to Austria because they wanted the best for her. It was getting very difficult for Marji to get a good education in her country because of the many things that were happening. The parents basically wanted for Marji to have a better future. Like many families, today live their countries for a better life and a better future for their children. The parents don't leave because they want to believe their country will get better and things will get better. That is their home and where they grew up in and they do not want to give it up..it is the place they were born...
Q: What is Satrapi suggesting about the relationship between past and present, and between national and personal history? What role does her family history, and the stories of her relatives, say in shaping Marji?
I think Satrapi is suggesting that the past affects the present directly and the present is based of off the past. For example today Iran has not fully in many ways fixed its problems with Iraq and they still have problems and nobody really knows when it will stop or how..maybe the history between the two countries is too deep that the problem will never go away. So now because of the past issues that existed the present, today the relationship is not doing so well...and well there are many wars going on in this world right now...So of course there are the wars and that is what it seems people think is the way to solve a problem, while the rich people sleep in their gold beds there are soldiers that are risking there life's in war...and whose idea was it to go to war...(sorry I kind of went of topic..), so the past histories especially war history can really affect the present and the future relationships between countries. I think she is also suggesting that national history can sometimes get into personal history. For example if a person in a family has served the army or any other services they are part in many ways of the national history. Also like we see in the novel the Vail and how that started and the Islamic revolution. I guess for part of the national and personal history is sometimes religion as well, such as in the novel. Her family history basically is the roots of where she comes from and part of what shapes Marji, and the stories of her relatives shapes her in a way to be what she wants in her life and her purpose of living and fighting for what she believes is right and for her countries freedom...
Thursday, May 21, 2009
Persepolis..(blog 1)
Q: How does Satrapi go about challenging this myth? How does Persepolis dispel or confirm your views on Iran? In what ways does reading this book deepen your understanding and knowledge of Iran, and the current situation in Iraq?
I think Satrapi goes about challenging this myth about how Iran is not only a country of "fundamentalism, fanaticism, and terrorism" in a way that she points out that they have also suffered and have have problems thoughout their own history. For example how the Iranian people were massacred (their own people) and many died, even inosent people. She also demonstrates in her book that the Iranian people had to suffer many more other problems such as other countries like Iraq being their enemies and attacking the Iranian people and they have to survive and face that to keep living. Even though they were being attacked in their own country and not being save at all Marji kept living or trying to live her "normal" life..but it was hard for her. It was hard for her because she was confused on what to believe in because first she thought that the king was chosen by God but then her teachers told her he was not ..so she was confused and tryed her best to understand how the world she lives in works and the good from the bad..in a way Satrapi tries to demonstrate her point through a child and how the society she grows up in closes some doors and opens other doors...Well Persepolis basically shows me that Iran is a country like many others...they have to face wars and pass through difficult times. This book deepens my understanding and knowledge of Iran in many ways, basically historycally, the Islamic Revelution and how that affected the society. How the country gets along with other countries and how this has shaped this country and how this had affected the country today. Know I just don't have to be listening to the news and how Iran is doing this and doing that I can also think back to this book and see that there is more to that country then the news itself...
Q: "Every situation has an opprtunity for laughs." (p. 97). Give some examples of how the ordinafry citizens enjoyed life despite the oppressive regime. What made you laugh?( Ha Ha Ha!!..) How does Satrapi add comic relief. How are these scenes revelant to the story as a whole?..
Well there is this part that the family of Marji get together and have a party( which is forbiden..they might get punished ..and even killed..), but they still have the party with alcohol and wine. They have to do their own wine and the wine ( as well as other alcohols are forbidden..) but they still have fun and enjoy for the night with a little caution. Even though they are very careful to try not to make the authorities that they are having a party they ( Marji's family) still get cought by the authorities...but all they want is money..They also go to vacations and try to have a normal life as possible. A part that made me laugh so hard was this part that Marji and her friends had an idea (Marji's idea..) to put nails between their fingers "like american brass knuckles" and to attack Ramin..it was halarious ..the picture ..the kid that is behind the trees..scared ..it is just funny while Marji and her friends are shouting "Ramin! Ramin! Come out of hiding! Don't be a wimp...", and then the mom comes ..it is just funny for me..yeah. Satrapi had comic reliefs in moments that are important and after something big happens in some parts of the book. For example the part that I just talked about, when Marji and her friends put nails on their knuckles..this was after the celebration they had ..or when the devil had let..the king..There is also this part when Marji's dad came home very late and Marji's mom was very worried about him..but when he comes home he tells everyone what he saw and talks about how the widow also joined in to demonstrate..and then out of nowhere Marji laughs..even though she does not understand what the adults are laughing about..( that happened to me too..very saa story..). This scenes are relevent to the story as a whole because they add humor right after something big happens..something light after something heavy..it basically in a way balances the story..and gives it a unique characteristic...
Q: Disscuss the role and importance of religion in Persepolis. Hpw does religion define certal characters in the book, and affect thawya they interact with each other? Is the auothr making a social comenatry on rreligion, and in particular on fundamentalism? What do you think Satrapi is saying about religion's effect on the individual and society?.... Religion is very important in Persepolis..the whole book is basically about the Islamic Revolution and how that affected an individual and the society itself...It also affects how the religion defines certain characters in the novel. For example how the people the soldiers are in a way brain washed to do things they will never do and kill people..in away kind of like the Nazis did to the jews..(but they were another religion..). The society as a whole , they are it seems half, half because there are many people that do want to have it but there are also many people that do not want to have it...there are characters in the book that are very religious and are followers such as the teachers but there are also people that do not like it at all such as Marji's parents and all this demonstrations. Another example would be the way Marji acts with her teachers because all the things that has happened has made her who she is and now she is trying to do something about it by not listening to her teachers. Yes basically the author is making a social commentary to religion such as fundamentalism because that is the way of life and that is how things have becomed difficult in the novel. I think she is saying that the religion it self has affected many people and it has leaded to wars and many many deaths that should of not happened especially young children and how that has lead a difficul childhood for many young kids including herself...
Sunday, May 17, 2009
Everything must go...Feed Final Project....
My feed contains many things as you can see in the collage (word and picture collage...). For part of my project I decided to do what would be in my feed and for the other part of the project I
decided to use words that connected to some topics such as saving the planet, individuality and
knowledge. My feed would have jewelry advertisements ( have to love jewelry) because jewelry
is one thing that I like and since the feed companies make you buy the things you want an are in a way your character/personality. I would also have food like nutritious food, maybe even fruits( yes it sound funny but I love fruits especially tangerines..go tangerines!!!) because the companies of the feed will sell anything as long as they sell it. I would also have technology advertised in my feed such as the digital cameras, phones and many other technology things (even though the feed can do things such as taking pictures an even film things, as well as capture feelings and make the viewer feel things, but my collage is in the feed of today..) Because those things I do not have (sad face..) and so the feed people would try to do anything to sell me those things and because I would want it. Of course make up, and perfumes. Especially make up because I do not really ware make up but maybe they would want me to to be like everyone one else and so try to sell me those things. As well as perfumes because I like wearing different kinds of perfume and so try to sell me different kinds of perfume...Other things that might get advertised in my feed would be purses and clothing because of course people need clothes but they would be advertising clothes that are in and so on..and so that would not be a need but a want. Which leads to the purse stuff..that is what we want not need..but still they ( the feed company) will try to sell it and brain wash you with many other advertisements. This basically says that sometimes (or maybe most of the time for some people ) advertisements influences peoples choice and tells them what to do and buy. Well basically this defines American culture as a consumerism culture and that we not only buy our needs but our wants ( mostly our wants ..and sometimes to the extreme..). Like I put a phrase on my collage that said soul and spirit which is in many ways very opposite from the themes on the novel, you basically do not own your own identity since the company feed owns your memories..This would be an example of how technology affects your own life. As well as social implications such as communication, how they communicate though their feeds and feel what other people feel when a memory is replayed and so on. This is in a way good but it has gone to the extreme to do this it is too much. It is good because technology has gone forward and maybe so technology to cure cancer but bad because the people that have the feed are stupid and do not even know they are stupid..I think it is okay to resist because that is how you can keep your own identity and set values and boundaries for yourself. I think the media affects everyone because when you turn on a T.V for most of the time you will be watching advertisements. I personally think the media affects me in many ways and I do not think I really realize how much the media consumerism and popular culture affects us and me. We just walk around and do not even realize it. I think it impacts me in many ways and sometimes impact our own believes and values and what we set to be and do. I think consumerism partly defined me as a person because I get head aches when I go to the store and see all this things that are in sale and mostly I get things I need and sometimes wants..basically consumerism and ads are part or can in many ways define your individuality. I think simply the moral of the story is that consumerism can lead to a world that is uglier than the world we know it now. One example I would say would be the leasures and how in the novel though the ads portray it as a cool thing to have. People in a way cannot be anything with out the feed because then they would not be able to get a job, like Violets dad, and would not be able to socialize and have to suffer like Violet did....Titus orders all those pants towards the end of the story because that is the way to comfort his grieve of Violet and a way to forget all about it. I think the feed interlude at the end of the book (everything must go ..") means that they are in the age of consumerism and it is no longer their needs but their wants that they buy..including their memories and who they are..and that is how they waste their identity..everything must go..who they are...
decided to use words that connected to some topics such as saving the planet, individuality and
knowledge. My feed would have jewelry advertisements ( have to love jewelry) because jewelry
is one thing that I like and since the feed companies make you buy the things you want an are in a way your character/personality. I would also have food like nutritious food, maybe even fruits( yes it sound funny but I love fruits especially tangerines..go tangerines!!!) because the companies of the feed will sell anything as long as they sell it. I would also have technology advertised in my feed such as the digital cameras, phones and many other technology things (even though the feed can do things such as taking pictures an even film things, as well as capture feelings and make the viewer feel things, but my collage is in the feed of today..) Because those things I do not have (sad face..) and so the feed people would try to do anything to sell me those things and because I would want it. Of course make up, and perfumes. Especially make up because I do not really ware make up but maybe they would want me to to be like everyone one else and so try to sell me those things. As well as perfumes because I like wearing different kinds of perfume and so try to sell me different kinds of perfume...Other things that might get advertised in my feed would be purses and clothing because of course people need clothes but they would be advertising clothes that are in and so on..and so that would not be a need but a want. Which leads to the purse stuff..that is what we want not need..but still they ( the feed company) will try to sell it and brain wash you with many other advertisements. This basically says that sometimes (or maybe most of the time for some people ) advertisements influences peoples choice and tells them what to do and buy. Well basically this defines American culture as a consumerism culture and that we not only buy our needs but our wants ( mostly our wants ..and sometimes to the extreme..). Like I put a phrase on my collage that said soul and spirit which is in many ways very opposite from the themes on the novel, you basically do not own your own identity since the company feed owns your memories..This would be an example of how technology affects your own life. As well as social implications such as communication, how they communicate though their feeds and feel what other people feel when a memory is replayed and so on. This is in a way good but it has gone to the extreme to do this it is too much. It is good because technology has gone forward and maybe so technology to cure cancer but bad because the people that have the feed are stupid and do not even know they are stupid..I think it is okay to resist because that is how you can keep your own identity and set values and boundaries for yourself. I think the media affects everyone because when you turn on a T.V for most of the time you will be watching advertisements. I personally think the media affects me in many ways and I do not think I really realize how much the media consumerism and popular culture affects us and me. We just walk around and do not even realize it. I think it impacts me in many ways and sometimes impact our own believes and values and what we set to be and do. I think consumerism partly defined me as a person because I get head aches when I go to the store and see all this things that are in sale and mostly I get things I need and sometimes wants..basically consumerism and ads are part or can in many ways define your individuality. I think simply the moral of the story is that consumerism can lead to a world that is uglier than the world we know it now. One example I would say would be the leasures and how in the novel though the ads portray it as a cool thing to have. People in a way cannot be anything with out the feed because then they would not be able to get a job, like Violets dad, and would not be able to socialize and have to suffer like Violet did....Titus orders all those pants towards the end of the story because that is the way to comfort his grieve of Violet and a way to forget all about it. I think the feed interlude at the end of the book (everything must go ..") means that they are in the age of consumerism and it is no longer their needs but their wants that they buy..including their memories and who they are..and that is how they waste their identity..everything must go..who they are...
Tuesday, May 5, 2009
Reflection..conformity vs. individuality
Well I would say the images represent conformity vs. individuality in many ways..also they tell a story. For example in my visual essay the pictures compare conformity and individuality. The first picture starts out with what a conformity is...conformity, acting according to certain accepted standard..so in my first picture I decided to put a weird painting because it kind of in away represents confusion..loneliness because since you are a follower (in which it was also represented by the picture of the world and people following a person...) when you become independent you may not know what to do and so feel lost..and lonely. Another picture I choose that helped demonstrate conformity is a picture of I think a person that is holding a sign that says, "who am I..what am I", that connects to the theme because since your well in away the product of society you will not have your own identify but the identity of what other people have told you to be and really not have a reputation...But individuality means achievement which is represented by a lady (or I think a man..) that is reaching for the sky..which makes an individual a true individual. As well as setting goals and having your own dreams (which is also represented by the little graduation hat thing..sorry I forgot what they are called..=) which makes a person an individual as well as their roots and knowing who they are and where they come from, that are all represented through several images, like the church in Cuenca, Ecuador (where I was born..)and the country it self that are there to represent roots..beginnings. Individuality can also be said are talents and skills that each one of us have..represented by soccer..for me..(just like playing it..) and individuality can especially be through family..that is where the individuality starts...that is my message..In my opinion this is what individuality is for me from the experiences I have had as well as what conformity means to me...most of the points of individuality are my personal values like education, family, goals, achieving...Well I would say living in another country (for about 8 years) has been pretty much most of my influence. For example better education and opportunity this country has...I feel that individuality is being true to yourself and from there you grow as a person....
Monday, May 4, 2009
conformity vs. individuality
Conformity means...
Confusion...lost...
Emptiness...loneliness
No identity...no reputation...
A follower...
Individuality means....
Achievements...
Set goals...dreams...
Knowing your roots....
Education...freedom...
Having interests....talents..and skills.....
Recognizing your beginning....(Cuenca..)
and.....
Family
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