Brave New World 3

BNW questions : 1. What was Huxley getting at by making John hang himself?
2. Are the fallouts Huxley describes worth the utopia?

BNW and 1984: If people were given the choice to live in 1984's society or Brave New World's society, what would the majority choose? Why?

Brave New World 2

Questions : 1. Will soma run out and if so what will happen to the people.
2. Why is Bernard bringing John the Savage into One State?
3. Why does the One State let people go to the reservation?

I think that soma will run out, and as a result it will cause chaos throughout the One State. Everyone in the One State has used soma their whole lives to deal with their problems, so if soma runs out they will not know what to do or how to handle the problem. For example after seeing what went on at the reservation Lenina "Lenina felt herself entitled...to a complete and absolute holiday. ...she swallowed six half-gramme tablets of soma, lay down on her bed, and within ten minutes had embarked for lunar eternity." In the One State people are dependent on soma just as they are dependent on food and water. If soma runs out the One State will collapse.


At first, I thought that Bernard's intentions for bringing John to One State was for the better of them both. Bernard wishes to help John and introduce him to the Director, who has a stong chance of being John's father. However, Bernard gets caught up in the fame of bringing the Savage to One State and does not want to lose it. One instance of this, is when Bernard plans to bring John to a party with him to increase his (Bernard) fame. When John refuses to come, Bernard talks to John about how he had turned people against him. I think that as time goes on Bernard does not want to help John, he wants to use John so he can move up in the world.


The reason that the One State lets people go to the reservation is to increase their love for their easy lives. It is a way of saying "look how easy it is in the One State, you are lucky to be here."Letting people go to the reservation benefits the One State. Since the Alphas and Alpha Pluses are the only ones allowed to go, all the lesser classes believe what they say, since the other classes have the mindset that Alphas know what they're talking about. The concept of living like the people on the reservation makes the people of the One State shiver. On the reservation they couldn't have soma, a thought that is to outlandish for them to consider.

Brave New World 1

There is an equality among the people. The class system, although we may think it unfair, is perfectly sensible and alright to the people in it. They have created equality by everyone being content in there own class and by no one wanting to switch classes, because they have been trained to think that way. An example of this is Beta children, they think "Alpha children wear grey. They work much harder than we do, because they're so frightfully clever. I'm really awfully glad I'm a Beta, because I don't want to work so hard. And then we are much better than the Gammas and Deltas. Gammas are stupid. They all wear green, and Delta children wear khaki. Oh no, I don't want to play with Delta children. And Epsilons are still worse. They're too stupid to be able to read or write. Because they wear black, which is such a beastly color. I'm so glad I'm a Beta."Even though that wouldn't be considered equality in our world, it creates a sense of equality in their world.


The strict schedule and the classes eradicate peoples' choice. Lower classes work to make life easier for the higher classes while the higher classes have fun all the time but without the ability to make life decisions. This eradicates conflict, and it erases the concept of religion because no one thinks of having a religion. 


Happiness is forced through the training/conditioning of children and the constant routine. Since birth people have been trained to think that they have a perfect life and they are always happy. If someone starts to feel unhappy, they just take a soma and feel happy again. 


It is currently a utopia because everything is working fine, and no one is trying to rebell. Also, everyone is happy (the people that are in the class system that is) and think that the world is perfect, Bernard being the lone exception. It could become a dsytopia very easily though because the government controls everything.

1984 Reading Journal Part 3

Big Brother has won. When Winston tried to rebel and join the Brotherhood with Julia, the thought police captured and tortured him. They tortured him so much that Winston actually believed and agreed with all of the Party's slogans and views. As sad as it is to say, I do not think the One State can be brought down. They have too much control to overpower. The One State controls what people do, what they eat, how they live, and heck, even how they think. Plus, everyone who has thought of rebelling has ben caught, tortured into agreeing with the one state, or they are vaporized. It is that simple, the One State controls all.
At the end of the book I think that Winston succumbs to the One State. He gave in to all the torturing and now is a devoted Party member. Winston was so scared of the rats that he would do anything to get out of that situatuion, even if it hurt Julia. "And perhaps you might pretend, afterwards, that it was only a trick and that you just said it to make them stop and didn’t really mean it. But that isn’t true. At the time when it happens you do mean it. You think there’s no other way of saving yourself and you’re quite ready to save yourself that way. You want it to happen to the other person. You don’t give a damn what they suffer. All you care about is yourself." 

Communist Utopia

1. The darkness and gloominess indicates communism. Also the dead tree and the cracked walls indicate it. Finally, everything is gray except for eyeballs and redbricks and the eyeballs are always watching.
2. He views it as a dreery, glum life. It seem like he had everything to be sad and kind of a gray, monotonous lifestyle.
3. The title "Communist Utopia" is the fullness or ultimate communism in a communist's eyes. It doesn't mean perfect life, it means a perfect communist society.

Don't You Want me Baby

1. The subject matter is about how the two people meet and now the girl wants to break up while the guy wants to stay together.
2. The difference in the sides of the story is the guy said he got her to where she now is but the girl says that she would have got there with or without him. "I picked you out, shook you up and turned you to something new" (The Human League. 1)
3. I side with the girl because the guy acts like he is the sole reason for her successfullness while she could have gotten there eventually. The guy seems conceited for saying that.

11-17-11

1. I dress many different way. I dress trendy, I dress sport and sometimes I'll dress up or I'll dress black. It really depends on who I'll be with. For instance if I go on a date I'll dress up or dress trendy but if I'm with the football team I'll dress sporty by wearing Henry Clay football apparell. If I'm with some of my black friends I'll wear Nike Air Forces and other clothes like that. When I go to school I dress trendy by wearing all the new clothes and brands.

2. It is an important aspect if who I am because it lets me express myself. I am not a one dimensional person so I dress different ways so I can show who I am.

3. Your culture comes through your clothes because it can show where you are from and who you are. Your personality is reflected by your clothes. For example if you dress flashy you are probably more of an outgoing person.

Ethnicity blog

1. The benefits for an insider perspective is you will see and participate in that culture firsthand. The benefits for an outsider perspective are you can see how it is compared to other cultures. It depends on what you are trying to do with the culture for one of the perspectives to be better than the other.
2. Those rules exist so ethnographers have the guidlines to abide by; so it helps them get the job sone quicker and not trying to get everything.

Mellencamp blog

1. This song is about his farm being taken and his land being foreclosed.
2. It might address the recession because Mellencamp said, "and the farmers bank foreclosed."

Love language

1. That the girl is listening to music and ignoring him.
2. Because it is between a deaf person and a person who can hear. The conflict is the guy doesn't know that the girl is deaf.

1984 Part 1

In 1984 the soceity tries to create a conformity by watching their actions so the people think that someone is always watching. They out pressure on society by using propoganda, and making them all hate a common cause. They've made everybody equal by monitoring everyone the same and giving everyone the same salary and housing. The society has taken away conflict by forcing everybody to hate a common cause, not letting individuals have individuality, by banning religion, and strictly restricting any borderline books. The society has attempted to force happiness by putting the name fantastic gin or happy adjectives on poor quality objects. The people living in this society do not remember of a time when they could be individual, and were not always being monitored

1984 Part 2

Winston is doubting what the State and Big Brother are selling because he knows what they are telling the public cannot be right. Winston knows that they are manipulating people and controlling their will, even though Winston was raised in that society he is beginning to think that it is not right. These small acts of defiance may be a form of protest in Oceania, but I do not think that they would be protests in real life. I think that because just questioning what someone is doing is not a form of protest. For example it's alot different to think of doing something, than to actually do it. His "protests" (if you can even call them that) are different than the protests going on in America today. His "protests were just thinking about doing something, while the protestors in America are marching, and organizing things to oppose. In a way Winston is talking the talk, while the Americans are walking the walk.

This land is your land

1. It is collectivist because it keeps on saying this land was made for you and me.
2. It is anti government because it keeps on questioning the government. It is pro american though.

10-27 blog

1. The narrator's father was a farmhand and a happy person before marriage. After marriage he was very ambitious.
2. The narrator feels badly about chickens because his parents tried to start a chicken farm but it didn't work out. He associates them with disappointment.
3. He claims to have trouble being happy because he had an unsatisfactory life as a child. He has caution against optimism because the chickens would get your hopes up then die.
4. The deformed chickens are the father's prized posessions.

10-25 blog

1. Because of the way we act. For instance talking about a friend behind their back and it says in the article that americans value independence. Which means they'd have to be dependent to ask a friend for help which they aren't.

10-24 blog

1. In a collectivist culture loyalty and togetherness are ideal. In individualism initiative, determination, and grittiness are ideal because it is whatever takes you to the top.
2. In individualsim because that is a very high position that an individual obtained; so if you are an individual in a lower position you would lose the battle.
3. If a teacher from an individual society taught in a collectivist culture she would have kids work seperately instead of in groups. It is both internal and external because it is the teachers values against the students.
4. An acquantince is someone you know and associate with but is not neccesarily a friend. It has a neutral connotation.

2+2=5

1. It's talking about a distopia where everything was supposed to be right but it went wrong. I also think that he is talking about starting a revolution.
2. The beat starts slow then halfway through it gets rally fast and loud like he's trying to start a movement.
3. Because they are north distopias in which an oppressive leader rules. Then both people are trying to overthrow the government.

Utopia

 1. A utopia is a perfect/ideal society.
 2. A world of peace so you do not have to worry about other people or countries hurting you.
 3. "Surfin USA" by the Beastie Boys because its a fun, upbeat song that always played at Chuckie Cheese, where I spent much of my childhood.

Chuck Baird

His voice is diverse. In the three paintings he had three different races of people and the people were colorful.
A colorful culture. It is a colorful culture because all the colors pop out at you and have a meaning.

9/30/11 Entry

1. The lyrical content of this song is sad and the artist feels depressed. He said "you were right when you said maniac depression's a frustrating mess." The rest of the song he talks about being significant and useless.
2. The only consistent beat was the drumline. It stayed the same throughout the whole song.
3. If the artist's goal was to make you feel sad it was very effective because it made me feel that way.

Young Life Painting

C. The man is a hunter. F. He is holding a gun with a deer strapped to the roof and he is wearing an orange hat.
C. The man has a family. F. He has a women holding him and a kid near him.
C. They aren't married. F. The man and/or the women aren't wearing a ring.

Shame Song

Subject-shame
Tone-remorseful
The words boatloads of shame push the tone because they show he is feeling shame, sorrow and guilt for what he has done.

American Tongues

1. The way the writer speaks, his/her opinion and other thoughts.
2. They state their opinion and what they think. Also it is the way that they write. It's both because you can mean to have a certain voice sometimes, and unintentionally do it other times.
3. So they can figure out what is going on with the other person and it's in their culture. The way the person speaks.
4. Because it makes the writing unique and one of a kind.

SOAPST Dave Barry

 The subject of Dave Barry's "Batting Clean Up and Striking out" is that men and women are sensitive about things that the other sex may not care about. Ignorance of the others 'obsession' with the given subject is illustrated when the lady invites people to her house to talk when the men want to watch the World Series game.

 "Batting Clean Up and Striking Out" was written during 1988. The essays time of creation is displayed underneath the title. The probable place of the essay's creation is somewhere in suburbs of the United States. You can tell that from the tone and voice of the author, and when he mentions the World Series. The time and place of the essay's creation influenced the essay by the sarcasm and humor he put in the essay.

 Dave Barry's specific audience for "Batting Clean Up and Striking Out" is men all across America. The author's target audience is revealed through his sarcasm of what the women think are important, and the urgency he shows when he wants to watch the World Series game. The author's general audience for the essay is men and women across the U.S. The author's general audience is shown by his comparison of what women care about and what men care about.

 Dave Barry's purpose in "Batting Clean Up and Striking Out" is to show that men care about sports a lot more than women do while women care about cleanliness a lot more than men do. Men and women's sensitivities to different things is revealed with the quote "...women that enables them to see dirt that men cannot see, whereas men don't usually notice dirt until it forms clumps large enough to support agriculture." The quote proves my claim by saying that women notice dirt when men cannot, so they are sensitive to things that men aren't.

 Dave Barry, the author, believes that women will not get the importance of sports. This value is illustrated by when he says that women are very callous about sports and that his friend, Maddy, invited him over during a World Series game to have a stimulating conversation. Then all the men went to watch the World Series and the women kept on talking.

 Dave Barry exhibits a humorous and happy attitude about the differences in sensitivities that men and women display. The attitudes are expressed with jokes such as "The men hadn't even noticed the ash until it had for most part covered their children." That shows that he is taking a light hearted and humorous stance on his opinion. The tone serves the essay's purpose because it makes you laugh and chuckle while agreeing with him.

PAIN vs Beatles

1. I liked the second song more because it is the original song that I am used to hearing and the singer is not screaming, he's singing.
2. The second song because its not as loud and the singer is singing not screaming.

Kandinsky vs. Pollack

1. I liked Pollack's painting more because it looks like camouflage, it feels soothing, relaxing and reminds me of a forest. Also it is all organic shapes.
2. Kandinsky's painting because it has bright colors that make it exciting and happy. It makes you feel happy when you look at it.

Short Film

1. The single effect you get from this short film is to be optimistic and hopeful.
2. 1.The guy was cheerful through it all.
    2. He says there are many opportunities out there.
    3. At the end he packs up with a smile on his face and he is optimistic about what is to come.
3. If  I could change one aspect of the film it would be to take away the music. That would make a change for the worst because the music was upbeat, cheery and made the busy street seem happy. If you take the music away it would make the film sad and dreary.

Good Old Desk

1. S-His desk, something thats allways there. O-1970s. A-People who may not believe in god or someone who needs something to lean on. P-To talk about someting thats always there for him. S-Harry Nilsson. T-Joyful, happy.
2. He is talking about someone or something that is always there for him and how much he loves, appreciates, and depends on it. It could be a family member, friend, pet or god.
3. 1. "It's always there"
    2. "My old desk never needs a rest"
    3. "to keep my hopes alive"
   

SOAPST George Orwell "Shooting an Elephant"

 The subject of George Orwell's "Shooting an Elephant" is that the tyrant is actually the one being controlled, not the subject. Subjects control the tyrants by pressuring them into doing things that the subjects expect, so the tyrants don't lose face. George Orwell did not want to shoot the elephant, but because all of the Burmans were watching him expecting him to, he did.
 "Shooting an Elephant" was written during the 1930s. The essay's time of creation is conveyed when Orwell said that the British still ruled Burma The latest the British ruled Burma was in the 1930s until they gave the Burmese their freedom. The probable place of the essay's creation is Burma because Orwell tells you this in the beginning of the essay.
 George Orwell's specific audience for "Shooting an Elephant" is the monarch of England when the essay was written. The author's target audience is revealed when he brings up tyrants being ruled by the population. The author's general audience for the essay is the people who lived in England when the essay was written. The general audience is shown when it seems that Orwell is trying to say that they should not rule the Burmese anymore.
 George Orwell's purpose in "Shooting an Elephant" is to show that even though you may be the ruler you will succumb to the expectations of the people you are ruling so you can impress them and seem like you are in control. The ruler try to impress the people is illustrated by "For it is the condition of his rule that he shall spend his life in trying to impress the ‘natives." The quote supports my claim because it tells what Orwell is feeling and what happens. The purpose is further revealed by "...so in every crisis he has got to do what the ‘natives’ expect of him." This quote validates my claim by saying the ruler does what the people expect of him.
 George Orwell, the main character in "Shooting an Elephant", believes that he only shot the elephant so that he would not look like a fool. This value is illustrated by the quote, "I often wondered whether any of the others grasped that I had done it solely to avoid looking a fool." Orwell is talking about he shot the elephant only to avoid looking like a fool. 
 George Orwell shows a regretful and strong tone about the tyrant as the one being controlled in "Shooting an Elephant." These attitudes are expressed with "In the end I could not stand it any longer and went away" he is regretful about shooting the elephant when he knows that he did not have to. The tone serves the purpose of the essay because it shows that he is regretting succumbing to the pressure and expectations of the people.

Intro Paragraph

Rockwell shows in the painting the picture-perfect, how things were, mindset of some people in the 1950s. He shows that by having the all American picture, a cop talking to a kid at a lunch counter. Instead of taking the kid home or trying to see what the problem was, the cop and waiter are just trying to make things better and tell him things are safe when the kid is with them. I think that Rockwell is making a picture of what everyone wanted to remeber the 1950s by.

Across The Universe

1. Three images that pop into my head during this song are images of broken light, waves of joy and shades of life.
2. In the song light is a symbol for happiness.
3. I know that light is a symbol and not just an image because light is a universal symbol for happiness.

Nostalgia

1. Nostalgia means something like longing for the past.
2. The images that come to mind are people dancing on a black and white tile floor. Also school house rock comes to mind for some reason. For the second song one of my birthdays from a couple of years ago come to mind and also my dad's birthday does.
3. Trees, my grandpa, being in the back of my grandpa's car, Community Montessori School, swim team, my neighbor's dog Winnie, and of course... The Mighty Morphing Power Rangers!

Poverty Painting

1. Unemployment, the way people are raised, in a way poverty is like a cycle that's very hard to break.
2. The artist portrays poverty in the light by making it a dark, gloomy, gray day.
3. The message is that poverty is a sad, glum life and that some people are just victims of the situation.
4. Color does because it makes the painting seem gloomy and sad. But there is also hope in the lightness of the baby's face

Wilco's song

1. They get an idea, they start with a stripped down version of the song, then go into the studio to add to it and make a beat and lyrics, then they mesh everything together and presto.

2. My process for writing is to write down my main ideas and other things on a piece of paper, then go to the computer to type for a little bit to get my brain going then i write the paper, print it out, read it, then give it to my mom so she can tell me where I messed up and then I type it again.

"Semeadores" By Diego Rivera

S- The subject are the workers
O- The artist siding with the workers
A- The working class
P- He is on the side of the working class
S- The speaker is Diego Rivera
T- The tone is positive because the colors are kind of bright and the shapes are organic

2. The big idea of the painting is the workers do not get recognized, to symbolize this the workers in the painting blend in with the background and they're faceless. The colors make them blend in with the background.

Inspiration Information

1. The feel of the song is upbeat, happy, groovy, and relaxed. It gives off the vibe that it was made in the 70's.
2. The upbeat rhythm/tempo and sound of the beat. Also the sound and loudness of the singer's voice give off the vibe.
3. The choices the musician had to make to get this feel is what instruments would play, what type of rhythm they would use and how he would sing. Those had to be the choices because if he had changed any of those decisions the song would have sounded completely different.

Poverty Painting

Trying it again.

Ariel Pink's Haunted Grafitti

The musical facts that I recorded affected my opinion by making me think that the song was sort of odd. The correlation between what i picked and my opinion is because the synthesized instruments make the song sound weird and they are so loud that you cannot hear the singer. I have a bias because I do not really like that kind of music that the song was.