Love Language

1. That she is ignoring him and being rude. Also, I assumed she couldn't speak English.
2.Yes, the conflict comes between people who are deaf and people who aren't deaf. The conflict is difference in and speaking ability of language.
3.The external conflict is between the man and the woman. Their conflict is communication.
4. The internal conflict is that the woman is embarrassed about being deaf.
5.I was resolved by the mans willingness to go on with her because genuinely liked her.

"This Land is Your Land"

1. Guthrie's message is collectivist because he emphasizes "for you and me," which implies multiple persons or a group.
2. This song is pro-government because its message flows with that of collectivism.

1984 in-class blog

1. George Orwell, for one thing, is not a communist and whole heartedly disagrees with everything that communism stands for.
2. One thing that George Orwell probably fears, based on my reading, would be a society that has a supreme ruler and no other forms of authority besides military authority.

East vs. West

1. The West thinks that the East is made up of anonymous masses and that everyone in the East acts out of instinct and not rationalized decision.
2. It means that Westerners don't see them as being similar to themselves in the sense of cognitive function.
3. According to Westerners, the actions of people in the East are determined by emotion not by rationale. They also believe that the emotions which they act on are caused by instinct.
4. It unifies Westerners as being part of the ingroup. A common enemy benefits Westerners because it unifies them.
5.Yes, this view of the East still exists. For well educated people like you and I, the view is not as prominent, but many Americans consumed in their own culture do not understand how they can function in a different one.

Ethnography

1. The benefit of being on the outside looking in is that you are unbiased. The benefit, however, of examining your own culture is that you biases will balance out and you can understand what is wrong with your culture and try to fix it. Between the two the former perspective is best because you have no predispositions.

2.These rules exist because an ethnography couldn't exist without them. An ethnography without these rules would be like a utopian society; it cannot exist because the laws and rules that allow society, or in this case an ethnography, to function are have been broken and ignored.

1984 #3

I think that Big Brother has won. Until Winston willingly forced himself to believe that his memories of his mother and sister were false I didn't believe it. However, after reading that passage it became clear that Big Brother had defiantly won. After seeing how the Party demolished Winston's movement I don't think that there would be a way to bring down the One State. The reason being is that they One State has an ear and an eye on everything and everyone, so if someone, like Winston, even got the notion that the Party was bad then they could shut it down before that person could convince others. At the end of the novel I think that Winston realizes that he has been beaten and because of this realization he understands that nothing he does will matter, so now he has no reason to fight what is being given to him.

The Egg

1. Before he married he was kind and cheery. Afterwards he became incommunicable and dull. This change was caused by mothers ambition and his unwillingness toward leaving being a farmhand.

2. The narrator hates chickens and eggs because of the dysfunctional childhood they caused him.The grotesques symbolize unwanted change; while, the commonly occurring deaths symbolize lack of joy and generally hard times.

3. They are his most prized possessions and symbolize his changing, complex, and irregular personality. Joe Kane decided that father was "mildly insane but harmless," (8) because of his obsession with these birds.

4. This means the egg has beaten him. It has disruptively changed him for the worse because they so drastically ruined his childhood.