Dustin Kensrue's lyrics create a literal connection to the Great Depression by juxtaposing a helpful outlook with a somber outlook of an event which I interpreted to be this historical period.
helpful:
great depression caused by stock market crash
stock market is based on money
money will be the entity addressed in my writing
The first and third lines of the three quatrains provides a list of things that money does to help.
It seems as if it were written in a way such that money is talking to another person.
somber:
The second and fourth lines of the three quatrains, for the most part, provide an aside of sorts that is stated in a more somber tone than the first and third lines. Although some lines do seem to be positive, the first and third lines of the three quatrians are moreso.
The final couplet provides us with a line that is quite evidently the most somber thought within the 14 lines. "And after all of this, I am amazed that I am cursed more than I am praised." This line while being somber, gives us headroom to fit it to interpretations such as mine. While the Great Depression was a horribly sad time, if you look at the line positively you can see that, if taken as a direct referrence to the Great Depression, it could mean that America was given an opportunity to build upon it's past failures and failed to recognize that aspect of the event.
Tuesday, January 13, 2009
Tuesday, January 6, 2009
Internship Blog
1. What do you hope to learn or discover about the "adult" world of work while you are at your internship?
I hope to gain a better understanding of what it's like to work in the "adult" world. In addition, I would like to understand what kind of work a business has to endure to reach a final product.
2. What do you hope to learn or discover about yourself and your identity while you are at your internship this semester?
I hope to understand my limits better. I don't know what exactly I'm capable of doing, as of yet, although I feel as if through this semester long "project" I will be able to further understand what I'm capable of doing, and also how I go about accomplishing tasks. I hope that this experience will open my eyes wider to see what I can do to improve my ethics at school, and further on into the workplace.
3. What goals do you have for yourself for your internship experience?
My goal for this internship experience - as cliche as it is - is to do my best because through that I will hope to learn what I stated above.
I hope to gain a better understanding of what it's like to work in the "adult" world. In addition, I would like to understand what kind of work a business has to endure to reach a final product.
2. What do you hope to learn or discover about yourself and your identity while you are at your internship this semester?
I hope to understand my limits better. I don't know what exactly I'm capable of doing, as of yet, although I feel as if through this semester long "project" I will be able to further understand what I'm capable of doing, and also how I go about accomplishing tasks. I hope that this experience will open my eyes wider to see what I can do to improve my ethics at school, and further on into the workplace.
3. What goals do you have for yourself for your internship experience?
My goal for this internship experience - as cliche as it is - is to do my best because through that I will hope to learn what I stated above.
Thursday, December 4, 2008
Neptune's Navy Response
"Who is 'right' in the controversy involving whaling and the Sea Shepherd?"
I believe that Watson is more at fault in this controversy. The whalers aren't in violation of any international environmental regulations because they are, "technically complying with the rules of the I.W.C., and that to stop it one must first upset the status quo that permits the fleet to hunt whales." Watson, however, is breaking regulations as stated by this quote from the text: "When I described Watson’s use of the charter to David Caron, the co-director of the Law of the Sea Institute, at the University of California at Berkeley, he said, 'Clearly wrong. There is no ambiguity.' " Although Watson feels he is working to fight against something he feels is wrong, he is actually digging himself into a deeper grave than he already is.
I believe that Watson is more at fault in this controversy. The whalers aren't in violation of any international environmental regulations because they are, "technically complying with the rules of the I.W.C., and that to stop it one must first upset the status quo that permits the fleet to hunt whales." Watson, however, is breaking regulations as stated by this quote from the text: "When I described Watson’s use of the charter to David Caron, the co-director of the Law of the Sea Institute, at the University of California at Berkeley, he said, 'Clearly wrong. There is no ambiguity.' " Although Watson feels he is working to fight against something he feels is wrong, he is actually digging himself into a deeper grave than he already is.
Tuesday, December 2, 2008
Response to the Washington Post
Racial identification is where a person of one racial demographic decides to associate with a different racial demographic, usually due to appearance. That idea is considered ambiguous to some people because for the people who don't know their entire heritage, the best they can do is to associate with people that look similar to themselves, even if they aren't ethnically made up of said demographic. However, the language of racial identity can play a large part in the thoughts and actions related to race in the present and future.
Racial identity is something that has created loopholes, of sorts, in society's unwritten codes of conduct. One loophole that has occurred due to racial identity is that it has allowed numerous people from a minority demographic to walk amongst a majority demographic. Most cases of "racial passing," as it's called, happen from any given minority group (or a mix of heritages) to a majority such as, white, middle to upper class. One example of this is the case of US civil rights leader Walter Francis White. He was the chief executive of the NAACP from 1929 to 1955 and, under his leadership, set up the Legal Defense Fund to bring segregation infractions to the Supreme Court, one of which was Brown v. Board of Education. Five of his great-great-great-grandparents were black and the other 27 were white. He was black, but passed off as a white man to obtain information about lynchings and hate crimes in the South more freely. Nobody thought about if, when calling this man white, he really was of the ethnicity of which his physical appearance is associated. Granted, he claimed the "white" ethnicity, he still had a small percentage of black heritages in him; a drop of black, if you will.
Another example of someone who claims one ethnicity, when made up of multiple others, is our President-elect, Barack Obama. He was born of an African American father, and a white Kansan mother, and raised by his mother and grandfather, who was also white, in Hawai'i. Even though he addresses himself as an African American, he is not; he is a bicultural, biracial man, who symbolizes more than the personification of African American achievement, as Marie Arana states in her Washington Post article. He symbolizes the change in America in moving from a close-minded culture, to an open and willing culture. When living in Chicago after graduating from Colombia University in New York, he was addressed as a black man, not as a mix of different races and cultures, but again, no one thought about that when addressing him as a black man.
These men are just two examples of how racial identity has affected our society, and how we, as a people, overlook these small facts that people are not necessarily made up of the heritage we convey through our physical appearance. Because of this, we are often confused as to of exactly what heritages we are made up. This can play a large part in the thoughts and actions related to race in the present and future. In the case of the present, we can only improve from how our society was not too long ago during the era of slavery. As for the future, because of our new President-elect, hopefully we'll become a more understanding and tolerant society where racial passing will no longer be needed, and it only takes one to start.
Racial identity is something that has created loopholes, of sorts, in society's unwritten codes of conduct. One loophole that has occurred due to racial identity is that it has allowed numerous people from a minority demographic to walk amongst a majority demographic. Most cases of "racial passing," as it's called, happen from any given minority group (or a mix of heritages) to a majority such as, white, middle to upper class. One example of this is the case of US civil rights leader Walter Francis White. He was the chief executive of the NAACP from 1929 to 1955 and, under his leadership, set up the Legal Defense Fund to bring segregation infractions to the Supreme Court, one of which was Brown v. Board of Education. Five of his great-great-great-grandparents were black and the other 27 were white. He was black, but passed off as a white man to obtain information about lynchings and hate crimes in the South more freely. Nobody thought about if, when calling this man white, he really was of the ethnicity of which his physical appearance is associated. Granted, he claimed the "white" ethnicity, he still had a small percentage of black heritages in him; a drop of black, if you will.
Another example of someone who claims one ethnicity, when made up of multiple others, is our President-elect, Barack Obama. He was born of an African American father, and a white Kansan mother, and raised by his mother and grandfather, who was also white, in Hawai'i. Even though he addresses himself as an African American, he is not; he is a bicultural, biracial man, who symbolizes more than the personification of African American achievement, as Marie Arana states in her Washington Post article. He symbolizes the change in America in moving from a close-minded culture, to an open and willing culture. When living in Chicago after graduating from Colombia University in New York, he was addressed as a black man, not as a mix of different races and cultures, but again, no one thought about that when addressing him as a black man.
These men are just two examples of how racial identity has affected our society, and how we, as a people, overlook these small facts that people are not necessarily made up of the heritage we convey through our physical appearance. Because of this, we are often confused as to of exactly what heritages we are made up. This can play a large part in the thoughts and actions related to race in the present and future. In the case of the present, we can only improve from how our society was not too long ago during the era of slavery. As for the future, because of our new President-elect, hopefully we'll become a more understanding and tolerant society where racial passing will no longer be needed, and it only takes one to start.
Monday, November 10, 2008
Two Possible Products
My first possible product is a photo essay from TIME magazine that deals with what foods families from around the world eat. One thing that I believe contributes to the overall success of this piece is that in each picture they show a lot, if not all the foods that the family eats in any given week. Also, the way that it is arranged in the picture is appealing. Another thing is the caption of each photo. Under each photo there is a description of the average amount each respective family spends on food weekly. This photo essay also gives you a view on how much people need to survive, and how gluttonous the world can be. I saw a family from a camp in Chad that spends $1.23 weekly on food for a healthy family of 6.
My second possible product is another photo essay from Mother Jones.com about the women in Afghanistan. This essay presents photos that show the lives of many different women from Afghanistan and tell bits and pieces of their stories. Most of the pictures, if left by themselves, would seem boring and look like pictures of random women in Afghanistan, but with the captions they are something more. The quality of the pictures, also, are very high which I like because you can see detail and clarity in them.
Both of my products are photo essays and/or websites where the content would be a photo essay much like the two listed above. I know that I will find these helpful with my work because I can see the kind of photos necessary for a piece that has to do with presenting information to the generally unknowing audience.
My second possible product is another photo essay from Mother Jones.com about the women in Afghanistan. This essay presents photos that show the lives of many different women from Afghanistan and tell bits and pieces of their stories. Most of the pictures, if left by themselves, would seem boring and look like pictures of random women in Afghanistan, but with the captions they are something more. The quality of the pictures, also, are very high which I like because you can see detail and clarity in them.
Both of my products are photo essays and/or websites where the content would be a photo essay much like the two listed above. I know that I will find these helpful with my work because I can see the kind of photos necessary for a piece that has to do with presenting information to the generally unknowing audience.
Thursday, November 6, 2008
Presidential Election 2008 Reflection
I feel happy about the results of the election. My hopes for this country are to get out of the war and to stabilize the economy. My concerns are that Barack Obama won't be able to stick to the words said and promises made. I feel that I have become well taught in politics. I used to be very ignorant in the subject, but I became interested and active lately, and have been adamant about learning what I don't fully understand about any given sub-category of politics. We have done blogs for the political race for presidency, and have been assigned to watch the debates and stay updated with the politics, which has helped me immensley. In my opinion, in class I don't think we could have done any more to further my knowledge of current politics. I feel that it was a well set up lesson plan. Furthermore, I feel that the youth of today tries to seem less ignorant than they are, but it makes them look stupid because they don't research politics and they don't understand how it works completely.
Saturday, November 1, 2008
Research Question Ideas
Question 1: Quality of Wildlife in Correlation to Beach Quality
I plan on writing about the quality of wildlife in correlation to beach quality. My idea for this is to explain through graphs of how the beaches have affected the quality of wildlife in San Diego beaches. Here is a Report Card for Beaches in SD for 2007. This will give me information on the beach qualities.
Question 2: Poster Revision
I'd be revising the posters at the Living Museum in Ocean Beach with Jade Tyler. Here is some background information on Ocean Beach.
Here is one poster that shows good organization
Here is another that shows use of pictures and placement of text
I plan on writing about the quality of wildlife in correlation to beach quality. My idea for this is to explain through graphs of how the beaches have affected the quality of wildlife in San Diego beaches. Here is a Report Card for Beaches in SD for 2007. This will give me information on the beach qualities.
Question 2: Poster Revision
I'd be revising the posters at the Living Museum in Ocean Beach with Jade Tyler. Here is some background information on Ocean Beach.
Here is one poster that shows good organization
Here is another that shows use of pictures and placement of text
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