Final Brave New World

1. Why does John kill himself?
2. Why does John stay in England instead of going to an island?
3. For the One State to control society they need to pick a feeling and emphasize/magnify it to control the people?

Brave New World

Why won't John have Lenina?
John is in love with Lenina. Lenina is in love with John. Lenina keeps giving him all the signs abut John keeps pushing her away. Why? "Dide he dare? Dare to profane with his unworthiest hand that ... No, he didn't... How beautiful she was! How beautiful!" (pg 153). John will not Lenina how he feels because he feels he is unworthy to blessed with an intimate relationship with a woman so beautiful. He pushes her away because he thinks it will be too dangerous for him to express his emotions towards her.

Why doesn't Mustapha Mond want the higher castes to believe in a "goal somewhere beyond"?
If the higher castes believe that the goal of the society is "somewhere beyond" then they will "lose faith in happiness as the Sovereign Good." (pg183). The World Controllers can control happiness and mkae everyone "feel" happy. But if the people start thinking byond happiness the World Controllers cannot control that and so the society starts to crumble. Which is why the director wanted to send Bernard to Iceland because he was an "outsider" and his unorthodoxy, unhappiness, could've started rubbing off on others causing a ripple effect, hence collapsing the society. "That the purpose of life was not the maintenance of well-being, but some intensification and refining of consciousness... Whuch was, the Controller reflected, quite possible true. But not, in the present circumstance, admissible" (pg 183).

Why do the people want to see John, The Savage, so much?
"It was John, then, that they were all after" (pg 162). All the people wanted to see John so much because he was an actual sexually reproduced organism of two people from their society. It amazes them to see this "Savage" because he shouldn't be alive since Linda took the precautions as for this exact thing to not happen. Since he had been living with the "savages" all his life this was the closet these people were going to one, unless they went out to the reservation. Jown was a wonder to the people and that is why they wanted to see him so much.

Final 1984

Yes Big Brother has won. Thanks to the Ministry of Love and Mr. O'Brien, Winston has fully accepted Big Brother, the State, and their policies. Like Winston said "the proles." The State has suck lack of faith in the proles and them not revolting that if the proles did rebel the Sate wouldn't know what to do. I think Winston either finally gets shot or they just let him live alone til he dies.

First Brave World Reading Entry

This place is a utopia. Everyone is happy,not by fear, but because there is no reason for them not to be happy. As an embryo they are fixed and taught to be happy. The only person who is not happy is Bernard Marx, who everyone thinks had some "alcohol put in his blood-surrogate." Bernard doesn't feel a part of this society, he feels like an outsider. Mainly because he's an Alpha with an Epsilon or Gamma body. This society has created conformity. Everyone is separated into Alphas, Betas, Gammas, and Epsilons. Gammas and Epsilons being the lowest of the caste and Alphas being at the top. Everyone is in acceptance of their caste because of "decanting" they are engineered exactly for that caste. There is no religion, "everyone belongs to everyone else" and "everyone works for everyone else."

"This Land is your Land"

Guthrie's message is both individualist and collectivist. He doesn't exclude anyone; he's saying this land is for "you and me," which means everyone. Bit it gets more individualist at the end, when he ignores the sign, "No Trespassing." He goes on by himself exploring the land.
I think this is anti-government, because he makes it seem like the government is trying to keep us from our land. "No Trespassing"and "Private Property."

"The Egg"

1. Internal conflict in the mother: her ambitions vs. the ambitions of her husband and son. "For herself she wanted nothing. For father and myself she was incurably ambitious" (Anderson pg 1).
2. Chickens are symbols for hardworking citizens and eggs symbolize their ambitions. "They are so much like people they mix one up in one's judgments of life" (Anderson pg 2). "Grotesques are born out of eggs as out of people" (Anderson pg 3).
3. He's saying since he's growing up on a chicken farm, he's not going to go far in life and is going to stay close to the farm, which is a nasty business. He says this about the philosophers because the chicken farm can be boring and very interesting; so there's a lot of things to think about.
4. I wanted to be a superhero, but I didn't have any superpowers. This is an external conflict: ambition to be a superhero vs lack of superpowers.

Aristotle quote

I think this is true. Someone with an educated mind should be able to take someone else opinion, analyze it, and have a discussion with that person and still not agree with that opinion.

"American Friendships"

Because Americans don't stay in one place for a very long time, so they don't have time to build permanent relationships. It's easier for children to build friendships than adults. Adults build friendships off their children friendships, which can make their friendship more awkward. Americans value independence and solitude.

Collectivism vs. Individualism

1. Individualist- responsible, smart, selfish, business relationship.
Collectivist- loyal, family-like relationship.
2. Yes. No. In collectivism the head is the smartest and all-important; so his opinions will not be questioned. In individualism, people might be too scared to challenge the opinion because it's frowned upon.
3. The teacher coming from a collectivist culture would want to do all-class work and group work. But the children would want to do individual work. The teacher should have the students both individual work and group work.
4. An acquaintance reminds me of business. Negative, it's like the person doesn't quite make the standards of being a friend.

1984 2nd Reading

Winston is having trouble buying into what Big Brother and the Party is selling because he is a samrt individual. He basis things off facts and logic. He doesn't just agree with whatever someone more intelligent than him says, he has have to support to go along with it. When Ocenia switched from being in war with Eurasia to Eastasia during Hate Week; the people just accepted this, but Winston knew better. To the Party these acts of defiance are protest, but to Winston they're ways for him to stay sane. His love relationship with Jane reassures him that he is human and that the Party doesn't control everything. America is a much more open-minded free society than Big Brother and the Party. So Winston's protests are taken as dangerous and defiance by the Party. Whereas the Anti-War protests in America are taken into account by the government.

Watching Journal: Western World

Internal: Western World vs. Muslims
One-way invasion of Western beliefs. Someone telling you the way you are is not acceptable.
Opened up a lot of role models or ideas on how to be a woman.
Muslims respected Western role models, but Westerners do not respect Muslims'. The Qu'ran is the reference for Muslims. For Westerners it's the Constitution.

My Utopia

A perfect place. Where everything you want is there. And everything you don't want is not there.
My ideal world is a world full of sports, fiestas, carnivals, and parties. No alcohol and illegal drugs. Because i love playing sports and partying. But alcohol and illegal drugs lead to destruction.
Bruno Mars, Michael Jackson, Funk Music, "Party Rock Anthem," and "Pursuit of Happyness."

"2+2=5" Radiohead

It seems like the lyrics are not in time with the music. So the music help pushes the message. It's like the person doesn't fit in with society.

Lyrically: nothing is as it seems anymore. "2+2=5," and "January has April's showers."
"To put the world to rights?" this iswhat Big Brother and the Party are trying to do.

First 1984 Reading Journal

Everything is controlled by the Party, whose leader is Big Brother. There is 4 sections to the Party: Ministry of Love, Ministry of Peace, Ministry of Truth, and Ministry of Plenty. Ministry of Love maintained law and order, Ministry of Peace concerned itself with war; Ministry of Truth concerned itself with news, entertainment, education, and the fine arts; and the Minsitry of Plenty was responsible for economic affairs. There are the Party people, the proles, and then Eurasians and Eastasians, who are always at war with Ocenia. The average person doesn't live past sixties. Marriages are not for sex or love, it's to benefit the Party whether that means producing a Party-worthy child or some other means; the two wanting to be married had to go before a committee. The Thought Police run things and they have telescreens everywhere which watch people, gives announcements, plays musics and movies, and does a lot of other stuff. The Party tries to create conformity by rationalizing everything. Always keep watch over people. Controlling the people. Telling them they are better off now then when they used to be before the Revolution so that the people will feel happy. This is a dystopia. Becuase they are taking the past and changing it to make the world they live in now seem way better.

Built to Spill "You Were Right"

The lyrics are metaphorical. Because ther person did not actually say these things, "All we are is dust in the wind."
The song is very rock-esque. It has quitar and drum solos. During parts of the song they would play soft and then all of a sudden really loud.
The song is effective. They vent their emotion through the music. The lyrics are forceful, especailly at the end, "You were right when you said/This is the end."

"Young Life" Bo Bartlett

The woman loves her husband- she is embracing him.
Hunting is essential- the deer is placed on top of the truck above everything else.
The son does not want to be a hunter- he is far away from his father (with the gun), and he's facing the opposite direction.

"Shame"

This song is about getting back together after a break up.
The tone is regretful/remorseful.
"undo" he's done something wrong and now he wants to go back and make things right.
"think" he's thought about what he did and how he wants her back.
"lift" the guilt and shame is a heavy burden that needs to be 'lifted'.

Reading Critically

The reading process as discussed in "Reading Critically": read all the way through first time, read with a pencil, once done reading summarize, then think crtically; analyze the reading, make ineferences from the reading, synthesize the reading, and then evaluate the reading. Once you read the reading all the way thorugh you go back with a pencil and annotate the reading. Once done annotating you need to summarize the reading in your own words. The author provides a two-step procedure for this: summarize each paragraph or related group of paragraphs, and then summarize those sentences into two or three sentences "capturing the heart" of the author's meaning. After summarizing you must "think critically." Analyze the reading; separating it into its parts, classifying it, comparing it with something else, or figuring out what caused it. After analyzing make inferences; drawing conclusions about a work based on your store of information and experience. With inference it is especially important in discovering a writer's assumptions. Once you make your inferences you must synthesize; linking elements into a whole, or linking tow or more wholes. With synthesizing you want to renconstitute the work so that it now contains not just the original elements but also your sense of their underpinnings and relationships. Once you synthesize you must evaluate. Not all critical thinking involves this step, but yuo're just judging the quality of the work.

American Tongues

1. Voice in literature is like the tone. The author's bias, or the characters he/she uses.
2. When i'm texting I'll say "ah tru" or "wow" a lot. I don't know they're just things i commonly say when I'm talking to ppl.
3. When my mom asks for a reason for something. I feel uncomfortable. And she never believes me, or accept the reason anyways.
4. So, that it won't be dry. Bias, opinion, and tone.
5. By adding our opinion/bias.

Soapstone- Dave Barry

The subject of this essay is a comparison of male to female. We see this with the first line of the essay which says, “The primary difference between men and women is that women can see extremely small quantities of dirt.” From this we know what are subject is, and during the middle of the essay he makes a comparison this time talking about “men and sports.”

The year that this essay was written in is, 1988. We know this from the little insert at the beginning of this essay talking about the essay. Besides the paragraph at the beginning of the essay you cannot find anywhere else in the essay where it would allow you to infer the time period.

The audience this essay was written for is, middle-aged men and women. This is illustrated by the anecdotes he uses to prove his points. One is the use of a young boy, and the other, watching a World Series game when you’re supposed to be having conversation with the wife and friends. Both of these things took place during his middle-age (30-50).

The purpose of this essay is to entertain. He doesn’t use any hard facts or brings any strong resources. He just keeps using anecdote after anecdote to try to prove his point. Or he brings stuff into the essay to strengthen his argument; which doesn’t fit but he tries to make it work with what he is saying like his comparison of “The Tell-Tale Heart” by Edgar Allen Poe and the television and radio waves coming from the World Series game. Since he is writing with a humorous tone on a not-so-serious topic we can infer that the purpose of this essay is to entertain.

The speaker of this piece is the author himself. He uses First Person view throughout the whole essay. He uses personal anecdotes from his personal life to support his argument. The speaker plays a role in such that since he’s a humorist this paper is going to have a humorous tone to it.

The tone of this essay is humorous. We see this from all over. The essay starts off with something “humorous,” “The primary difference between men and women is that women can see extremely small quantities of dirt.” From this very first sentence you can infer that this isn’t going to be a very serious essay on a very serious topic. His use of personal anecdotes that are funny to support his argument, just lends more to the humorous tone. The fact that he is a humorist, can give you the cautionary to look out for this essay to have a humorous tone. The humorous tone helped the essay in that it made it funnier, thus more entertaining which was the purpose.

PAIN vs. Beatles vs. Dubstep

I liked the Beatles one better because ity was the most simplistic it didnt have all that other unneeded stuff.
Which is why I think the Beatles version is the most pleasing to listen to, because it's simple. It doesnt make your ears bleed, and it doesnt have a whole bunch of unneeded and unnecessary beats added to it.

Art Journal- Kadinsky v. Pollack

I like Pollack better because to me, Kadinsky's has too much going on in his painting, which makes me not like it. Thus i like the Pollack better by default.
The one that is more pleasing to look at it the Kadinsky because it's polychromatic, whereas, the Pollack just uses brown, black and white.

Harry Nilson "Good Old Desk"

S a desk literally; symbolized God
O 1972
A young adults in the 70s
P to inform
S a young man
T comforting/appreciative
He's talking about God and religion
1. To keep my hopes alive
2. It's always there
3. It's the one thing I've got, a huge success, My Good Old Desk

Norman Rockwell "The Runaway"

The 1950s was a time of struggle and up-rising. During this time period we start to see a counter-culture form. Norman Rockwell, in painting "The Runaway," shows a boy running away, getting talked to by an officer at a diner. But this isn't what 1950s America actually looked like. This painting overlooks the fundamental rift that was rising in America throughout the 1950s- an emerging counter culture that was not concerned with how things were in America but rather how they are.

"Across the Universe" The Beatles

1. "Words are flying out like endless rain into a paper cup"
2. "Pools of sorrow, waves of joy"
3. "A million suns"
Pools of sorrow, waves of joy symbolizes are hardships which we have more of, but out of these hardships come happiness.
A "swoosh" is the symbol for Nike. Everyone knows that the "swoosh" represents Nike.

"Inspiration Information" Shuggie Otis

This song hqas a funky feel, it just makes you want to bob your head along with the music. The beat and the use of electric guitar, keyboard, and cymbals is what gave it that funky beat. He decided to have more beat and music than lyrics, this worked because people paid more attention to the beat and danced along, then focusing on the lyrics. The use of electric guitar and cymbals really complement the "funky" beat.

"Semadores" Diego Rivera

S Mexican Struggle
O time when mexicans were oppressed
A mexicans who struggled, and men who made these mexicans work
P (answered below)
S working class mexicans
Tone- sorrowful
To inform the men who made mexicans work, the hard labor they suffer and endure. We get this from the man digging, he seems to be kind of one with the shovel. And the guy standing behind him seems to be one with the ground.

Wilco

Their writing process: Construct the song, the "decreate" it to see if you can make it better.
My creative writing process: I observe things around me, find something I can make a good length story out of. Then, I try to find some funny twist to it.

American Graffitti- Continued

The second song reminded me of my birthday party at Chuck E Cheese. All my friends and family there. Chuck E singing, talking, laughing, and dancing. Eating cake and pizza, playing games, balloons, and me wearing my crown. The third song reminds me of riding my bike with my friends. Gliding down the hill, going no hands. Everytime I eat Mac&Cheese I think of my nanny's Mac&Cheese which reminds me of my family and cousins, and all the great times we've had.

American Graffitti

Nostalgia- is a sentimental feeling, it's the wanting of something you used to have. The first thing came to mind was taking a bath as a young child, full with bubbles and that one yellow rubber-duckey; splashing all around in the tub.

Art Journal

"The Pinch of Poverty" Thomas Kensington
Major Contributors to poverty: If you work, where you work; where you live; your family; and lifestyle.
Portrays poverty in a negative light.
The message is that children and adults suffer poverty together.
Two elements are color and perspective. He uses perspective to put the focal point of the baby wrapped in red clothing/fabric. Using color as a focal point for perspective.

Live Free and Starve The Singer Soluation to World Poverty

I agree with Peter Singer's moral arguement. I like the example he uses, the hypothetical one of Bob, rather than the real life one provided by Chitra. Both present wonderful arguements, but the one presented by Singer seems useful.

Listening Journal: Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti "Round & Round"

I liked the song because of the musical fact,that the song has a steady beat. I do not really listen to this type of music but since it had drums and a steady beat I was able to drum along with the song, and i liked that. Because of my bias I didn't really care for the lyrics, but like i mentioned in the sentence above the beat and rhythm enabled me to enjoy the song.