1. I usually dress preppy/comfortable. This includes things like uggs, toms, rainbows, jeans, dresses, sweaters, wallabees, tank tops, nice shirts, leggings, yoga pants, sweatshirts and tee shirts. I dress this way because I think these look best on me and I like to be comfortable.
2. I do think it is an important aspect of who I am because I care about the way I look and I like to look put together and I care enough to look presentable.
3. I dress a lot like my friends because we have similar taste.
Tuesday, December 13, 2011
"Rain on the Scarecrow" by: John Mellencamp
1. This song represents the internal and external conflicts a man is going through after he loses the farm.
2. Some conflicts this song addresses is the internal conflict that the man feels like a failure and let down to his family and the external conflicts of the family struggling to find a new source of income.
3. Mellencamp uses the scarecrow to represent the farm.
4. Mellencamp uses legacy to explain the whole song.
5. Mellencamp has sympathy towards the son who there is no legacy for and for the man who has disappointed his whole family and the family as a whole because they have to find a whole new source of livelihood.
2. Some conflicts this song addresses is the internal conflict that the man feels like a failure and let down to his family and the external conflicts of the family struggling to find a new source of income.
3. Mellencamp uses the scarecrow to represent the farm.
4. Mellencamp uses legacy to explain the whole song.
5. Mellencamp has sympathy towards the son who there is no legacy for and for the man who has disappointed his whole family and the family as a whole because they have to find a whole new source of livelihood.
"Communist Utopia" by: Thomas Hornung
1. In the painting, the eyes everywhere looking at the man walking indicate communism. In communism, the government controls every aspect of life and the eyes everywhere represent the idea that "they are always watching."
2. The artist has a negative view of communism. This is portrayed by the dark and dull colors in the painting and by the dying trees and cracks in the wall and street.
3. The title "Communist Utopia" is an oxymoron because in a utopia everyone is supposed to be happy and in communism no one is happy.
2. The artist has a negative view of communism. This is portrayed by the dark and dull colors in the painting and by the dying trees and cracks in the wall and street.
3. The title "Communist Utopia" is an oxymoron because in a utopia everyone is supposed to be happy and in communism no one is happy.
Wednesday, December 7, 2011
Bravce New World #3
1. How do you think that John's incredible lust for Lenina, love of Shakespeare, and him commiting suicide relate to one another? Or do they at all?
2. Why are the characters so unaware of how the government works?
3. Why would John not want to go into exile?
2. Why are the characters so unaware of how the government works?
3. Why would John not want to go into exile?
Brave New World #2
1.Why doesnt everyone want to go on the trip Banard was offered?
I think it would benefit the government if everyone went because they would see how much better their life was.
2. How can they make the world make the transition?
I dont think they can because currently, the government doesnt have enough power and people's self-will is strong enough to resist it
3. Why wouldn't they want everyone to be smarter?
I think it's becasue they dont want people to realize there is something better out there and over throw the government.
I think it would benefit the government if everyone went because they would see how much better their life was.
2. How can they make the world make the transition?
I dont think they can because currently, the government doesnt have enough power and people's self-will is strong enough to resist it
3. Why wouldn't they want everyone to be smarter?
I think it's becasue they dont want people to realize there is something better out there and over throw the government.
Brave New World #1
Completely different from the society of 1984, the society of Brave New World creates forced happiness in their society through pleasure. Through the usage of sex and soma pills everyone has an "out" for their unhappy feelings. Their world didn’t allow them to take things easily, didn’t allow them to be sane, virtuous, happy. What with mothers and lovers, what with the prohibitions they were not conditioned to obey, what with the temptations and the lonely remorses, what with all the diseases and the endless isolating pain, what with the uncertainties and the poverty—they were forced to feel strongly. This lack of stability caused the turmoil before the World State and the emotion caused the lack of stability. The World State is a utopia because even though the population may be unreal, the government has succeeded in it's job of ending conflict and making it's population happy.
1984 #3
Big Brother has won against Winston and Julia. Big Brother, being the representative of the power of The Party, he had the power to destroy people through places like Room 101. Julia shows how the Party can destroy passion for others and channel it to the Party. Winston and Julia have given in to the Party and Big Brother has destroyed who the reader knows as Winston and Julia. Winston feels the same way as Julia by wishing that she would suffer more than he meaning both characters are just the shells of what they once were together. Sadly, I am certain that Winston will love the Party for the rest of his life because of Big Brother's success. Oceania has ensured that any dissent will be crushed and there is no way to overthrow the state.
1984 #2
I think that Winston is having a difficult time buying in to what Big Brother and the state are saying because of his job he can't accept lies and he can remember the past. His small acts of defiance are a form of protest. He is just doing it in an orderly manner. He is rebelling because he cannot accept the lies. Comparing Winston's small rebellion to anti-war protests, there are both similarities and differences. In both, they are rebelling against something they truly believe in. The difference is that Winston does it in calmer way:a way that may not even be classified as a rebellion. We have become a very Orwellian society. George Orwell identified this as being destructive to the welfare of a free society. We have become very Orwellian because there is always conflict and two sides to a matter. Most of the time, there is a disagreement. Although this book was written a fairly long time ago, I think Orwell predicted our society very well.
1984 #1
The society in 1984, is a dystopia disguised as a utopia. The people are lied to by the Party. The Party is the ruling class. The Party edits history in order to make the people believe their life is better than the lives of people in the past. Equality does not actually exist, but conformity does. The live of people in 1984 are actually worse than the lives of people fifty years before.
Equality was not completely created in 1984, members of the Party were not supposed to shop at ordinary shops. If everyone was equal, everyone would be able to shop where ever they wanted. The neighborhoods where the paroles live are in worse condition then the area where Winston, and other Party members, live. Both of the places are in bad condition, but the Victory mansions are at least seven stories high. Also, Party members are better educated than the paroles.
The government reduces conflict by changing history. For example if the government no longer wanted a religion to exist the government simply had to remove it from history. People, such as Winston, job is to change history. They will be assigned a topic, such as a person who was eliminated, and change it so that that topic, person, never existed. The Party easily controls individual right to conflict. The Party could change history so it appears that the people have more rights than the people of the past. They have forced happiness by changing history, in the same way that they could prevent conflicts over individual rights. The Party could change history to make it say that the chocolate rations are higher now than they were three months ago.
Equality was not completely created in 1984, members of the Party were not supposed to shop at ordinary shops. If everyone was equal, everyone would be able to shop where ever they wanted. The neighborhoods where the paroles live are in worse condition then the area where Winston, and other Party members, live. Both of the places are in bad condition, but the Victory mansions are at least seven stories high. Also, Party members are better educated than the paroles.
The government reduces conflict by changing history. For example if the government no longer wanted a religion to exist the government simply had to remove it from history. People, such as Winston, job is to change history. They will be assigned a topic, such as a person who was eliminated, and change it so that that topic, person, never existed. The Party easily controls individual right to conflict. The Party could change history so it appears that the people have more rights than the people of the past. They have forced happiness by changing history, in the same way that they could prevent conflicts over individual rights. The Party could change history to make it say that the chocolate rations are higher now than they were three months ago.
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