Sentence I missed: I know that I became interested in fishing when I saw a 50 or so inch salmon jump high out of the water and I saw that purple shimmer that comes off of its scales.
Problem: Compound sentences joined by a conjunction must also have a comma in front of the conjunction.
Explanation & Interpretations: There should be a comma in front of "and" because it is separating two independent things that I did which were seeing the scales and seeing it jump.
Correction: insert a comma before "and " to distinguish the compound sentence.
Tuesday, August 30, 2011
"Inspiration Information" Shuggie Otis (1974)
This song is upbeat but to me it feels corny. It reminds me of old 70's and 80's movies that I have watched with my parents which for some reason makes me feel very corny.
In most of the movies that I am talking about they use songs like this as background music and do not use the lyrics. Because of this the singing was a little off-putting to me even though there seemed to be nothing wrong with it.
The song was relatively fast which made it more exciting than a slower song. The lyrics were loud, fast, and clear. This opposes a sad song that has slow, dull, mumbled lyrics. Together, the tempo of the song and the qualities of the lyrics accomplished the task of creating an upbeat, happy song that is easy to listen to.
In most of the movies that I am talking about they use songs like this as background music and do not use the lyrics. Because of this the singing was a little off-putting to me even though there seemed to be nothing wrong with it.
The song was relatively fast which made it more exciting than a slower song. The lyrics were loud, fast, and clear. This opposes a sad song that has slow, dull, mumbled lyrics. Together, the tempo of the song and the qualities of the lyrics accomplished the task of creating an upbeat, happy song that is easy to listen to.
Sunday, August 28, 2011
SOAPSTone of Diego Rivera's "Semmeadores"
(soapstone is based on my original inferences)
Subject= Two men are working in a field collecting wheat.
Occasion= This must have been painted after Rivera had just finished a long period in which he had labored very hard.
Audience= The working class is the audience.
Purpose= The purpose of this painting is to display how hard these people are working.
Speaker= Rivera painted lots of murals, all with different themes. This may be another mural with the theme of working.
Tone= This painting gives off a calm and warm feeling because of its soft curves and goldish brown background.
Rivera wanted us to recognize the hard work of the working class in order for the upper class to have luxuries. The warm colors and curbes give the painting a soft, accepting feeling which makes me think that he doesn't like the toil of the working class people. Especially when it is just so the upper class can have more riches. Rivera's communist beliefs further emphasize this message. Other factors contributing to his message is that the workers faces cannot be seen and that the curve of their backs blends in with the curves of the field implying that they are invisible and unnoticeable. This is what he believes capitalism does to the lower class laborers, and he is therefore refuting capitalism with this painting.
Subject= Two men are working in a field collecting wheat.
Occasion= This must have been painted after Rivera had just finished a long period in which he had labored very hard.
Audience= The working class is the audience.
Purpose= The purpose of this painting is to display how hard these people are working.
Speaker= Rivera painted lots of murals, all with different themes. This may be another mural with the theme of working.
Tone= This painting gives off a calm and warm feeling because of its soft curves and goldish brown background.
Rivera wanted us to recognize the hard work of the working class in order for the upper class to have luxuries. The warm colors and curbes give the painting a soft, accepting feeling which makes me think that he doesn't like the toil of the working class people. Especially when it is just so the upper class can have more riches. Rivera's communist beliefs further emphasize this message. Other factors contributing to his message is that the workers faces cannot be seen and that the curve of their backs blends in with the curves of the field implying that they are invisible and unnoticeable. This is what he believes capitalism does to the lower class laborers, and he is therefore refuting capitalism with this painting.
Monday, August 22, 2011
Wilco's process and my process
Wilco takes inspiration from other songs and some of their previous songs and deconstructs them into lots of ideas for their new songs. From that they fit their ideas together to come up with a base for their new songs. After, they revise and edit several times so that they get it perfectly the way they want it. Even after they publish it they are always tweiking it so that it gets better and better.
I do not have much of a creative writing process. After determining what the teacher wants for the assignment I write pretty much whatever comes to mind as long as it fits inside the prompt and makes sense. If in the middle of my writing my train of thought stagnates I will take a break and do something completely unrelated to school for a while only to come back to it later. Then, I will revise it at least twice and depending on the importance of the paper I will edit it several times or edit it only once.
I do not have much of a creative writing process. After determining what the teacher wants for the assignment I write pretty much whatever comes to mind as long as it fits inside the prompt and makes sense. If in the middle of my writing my train of thought stagnates I will take a break and do something completely unrelated to school for a while only to come back to it later. Then, I will revise it at least twice and depending on the importance of the paper I will edit it several times or edit it only once.
Rock Around the Clock -- Bill Haley and the Comets
Nostalgia is the feeling you get when something makes your reminisce about a previous time in your life.
I remember being in my mom's old suburban and listening to this on a cd with my brother, sister, and me dancing in the backseat. I also remember the first time I heard "Rock Around the Clock." My family was in Syracuse, NY at a pizza parlor on our way to Saratoga. There was a legitimate jukebox and someone played "Rock Around the Clock," and all of us Phillips children fell in love with it.
I do not remember many specific sensations like smell, texture, or taste from my youth, but I can recall lots of moments when I learned life lessons. Whether I was finally understanding something my parents had told me or realizing something on my own or even when an interest that I maintain today was discovered. For example, I know that I became interested in fishing when I saw a 50 or so inch salmon jump high out of the water and I saw that purple shimmer that comes off of its scales. From that point on fishing has been my favorite outdoor activity.
I remember being in my mom's old suburban and listening to this on a cd with my brother, sister, and me dancing in the backseat. I also remember the first time I heard "Rock Around the Clock." My family was in Syracuse, NY at a pizza parlor on our way to Saratoga. There was a legitimate jukebox and someone played "Rock Around the Clock," and all of us Phillips children fell in love with it.
I do not remember many specific sensations like smell, texture, or taste from my youth, but I can recall lots of moments when I learned life lessons. Whether I was finally understanding something my parents had told me or realizing something on my own or even when an interest that I maintain today was discovered. For example, I know that I became interested in fishing when I saw a 50 or so inch salmon jump high out of the water and I saw that purple shimmer that comes off of its scales. From that point on fishing has been my favorite outdoor activity.
Wednesday, August 17, 2011
The Pinch of Poverty
I would say that the main contributing factor to poverty is a lack of intelligence which prohibits people from getting well paying jobs or jobs at all. Intelligence is especially difficult to get when one is born into poverty and does not have the money to obtain their education. This is why the poor tend to remain poor.
The artist uses pale, dark, shadowy colors to display poverty in a negative light.
Thomas Benjamin Kennington, the artist of "The Pinch of Poverty," is showing in this painting that poverty is rough, unforgiving, and stressful. Two ways he shows this is that the subjects are sitting in a rain shower, which we can tell from the reflection on the street, and the clothes that the subjects are wearing are dark and bland, they give the audience a sense that there is something left to be desired by the subjects.
In the painting the brightest things are the flowers the girl and boy are holding which symbolizes that the best part of their lives does not even come from themselves. Also, the faces and skin of the subjects are pale and emotionless compared to the average person; this exhibits their lack of happiness.
The artist uses pale, dark, shadowy colors to display poverty in a negative light.
Thomas Benjamin Kennington, the artist of "The Pinch of Poverty," is showing in this painting that poverty is rough, unforgiving, and stressful. Two ways he shows this is that the subjects are sitting in a rain shower, which we can tell from the reflection on the street, and the clothes that the subjects are wearing are dark and bland, they give the audience a sense that there is something left to be desired by the subjects.
In the painting the brightest things are the flowers the girl and boy are holding which symbolizes that the best part of their lives does not even come from themselves. Also, the faces and skin of the subjects are pale and emotionless compared to the average person; this exhibits their lack of happiness.
Tuesday, August 16, 2011
Poverty- the struggle for a solution
Chitra Divakaruni's 1997 essay about the hardships of child labor and about the U.S.'s then recent bill that doesn't allow American businesses to import from factories that have child labor. Knowing that not importing from these factories will get almost one million children laid off, she believes that they would rather work in the harsh conditions that have leisure time. With work comes money and with money the children can buy food, shelter, or clothing; however, if they had no work then their incomes would be lost and food would no longer find its way into their stomach. After analyzing this ideology, the question of whether the rest of the developed world and specifically the U.S. should support child labor by importing from factories that have it.
Opposing this essay is an article by Peter Singer written in 1999 that emphasizes his belief that each adult in the world can, together, completely defeat poverty. He elaborates on this idea by explaining that "[a]n American household with an income of $50,000 a year, spends around $30,000 annually." From that he says that instead of spending the extra $20,00 on luxuries that it should all be donated to organizations to help poverty stricken children around the world. However, this seems fairly extreme to me and I would like to know what Singer donates to these organizations every year because it seems to me that he is most likely exaggerating on the donations that he believes should be made. What he doesn't account for is that people do more with their money than just spend it. Almost everybody saves their money and many people turn it around into more money with investments as well. To say that people should donate all of their unspent income is absurd; while I don't disagree that donations are an excellent thing, $1,000 per year is plenty of a donation.
I think that one of the reasons why I reacted to Singer's article so strongly is because I am conservative and on top of the essay coming from a liberal viewpoint he also said something similar to, "my liberal friends responded well to my theory.' There is no need for this separation of liberals and conservatives. Why objectify conservatives as greedy snobs who won't donate anything. It is absolutely not true and unnecessary. Because of my conservative views I was offended by Singer's hasty remarks which implied the lack of cooperation from conservative people.
Opposing this essay is an article by Peter Singer written in 1999 that emphasizes his belief that each adult in the world can, together, completely defeat poverty. He elaborates on this idea by explaining that "[a]n American household with an income of $50,000 a year, spends around $30,000 annually." From that he says that instead of spending the extra $20,00 on luxuries that it should all be donated to organizations to help poverty stricken children around the world. However, this seems fairly extreme to me and I would like to know what Singer donates to these organizations every year because it seems to me that he is most likely exaggerating on the donations that he believes should be made. What he doesn't account for is that people do more with their money than just spend it. Almost everybody saves their money and many people turn it around into more money with investments as well. To say that people should donate all of their unspent income is absurd; while I don't disagree that donations are an excellent thing, $1,000 per year is plenty of a donation.
I think that one of the reasons why I reacted to Singer's article so strongly is because I am conservative and on top of the essay coming from a liberal viewpoint he also said something similar to, "my liberal friends responded well to my theory.' There is no need for this separation of liberals and conservatives. Why objectify conservatives as greedy snobs who won't donate anything. It is absolutely not true and unnecessary. Because of my conservative views I was offended by Singer's hasty remarks which implied the lack of cooperation from conservative people.
Ariel Pink's Haunted Grafitti, "Round and Round"
This song, to say in short, was not my type of song. While I can understand why a person could like it, I myself cared very little for it. The intensity and volume of the instruments raised and lowered many times, making it hard to follow. It also frustrated me that I could not understand the lead singer's muffled lyrics. To me they were a musical blur which detracted from the decent instrumental sounds in the song. These threw me for a loop, especially the first thing, thus developing my bias to this song in its early stages. The change that it created I did not like, yet I know that the change is not the only reason for my disliking of "Round and Round," I strongly believe that I just do not enjoy that genre of music. When the song ended, I was relieved to get away from it because of how annoying and inartistic I found it to be. Most likely, because of my experience with this song I will be subconsciously biased towards not just this particular song but also the genre that it is.
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