" The Runaway" by Rockwell

In the Painting "The Runaway, Rockwell's painting shows a young boy, who is apparently running away, and seems to be having a very comfortable conversation with a police officer and counter waiter. This painting, which was done in the 1950's, seems to be a perfect little photogragh, showing America as a very nice and friendly country. Wheras in retrospect, the 1950's was a time of turmoil and counter culture. So this painting is showing all of the good things about America to make it seem perfect, but is purposely leaving out the bad. Therefore this painting is overlooking the fundamental rift that..........

"Across the Universe" by The Beatles

Three images that were in the song was rain in a paper cup, shards of broken light, and a million suns shinning.

I thought the paper cup filled with rain was a symbol for all of your sadness filling up inside os your body, and that a million suns shining was one's transformation to happiness or to a new begining.

A good symbol would be a white flag, representing surrnder or acceptance of defeat. This is because white stands for peace and purity, so when one raises a white flag, it shows peace or surrender, and because over times armies have done this action to show that they give up.

"Inspiration Information" by Shuggie Otis (1974)

I felt like this song was very upbeat and funkalishis.

I thought the variety and harmony of all the instruments gave the song a very unique beat and sound, giving it that funkt vibe. All of the sounds blended so well, kind of like a fruit smoothie, they are both perfectly blended.

I thught the musicians choice of blending insruments, using soft vocals, and the sound from the electric guitar and keyboard gave the song that soft, yet funky sound.

"Semeadores" by Diego Rivera

S-struggle over labor
O-1950's- 1960's
A-Those in Mexico in Favor of Capitalism, or those for communism
P-to persuade people against capitalism
S-Diego Rivera, a painter
T- Sympathetic

I thought that Diego Rivera was trying to say how strenuous and hard life can be, and how sometimes you have to "bend over backwards" to get stuff done and perservere. I thought he backed this up by using all black to represent the sky, to show the dark times they were in. The position of the worker leaning over on the shovel, showing how hard the work is. By using certain colors and positioning, it helped express his theme better.

Song Writing Journal

Wilco's main approach to creating a song is by forming the song as aw hole to hear how it sounds, he then deconstructs the song piece by piece and instrument by instrument. He then continues to perfect these little subparts by either adding or taking stuff out.

When I first begin a writing assignment I make a list of everything I have to incorporate into the writing, from there I make an outline with those topics. When I'm done with that, I start to put my paper into paragraph form. I then Edit my entire paper, and write my final draft from that point.

Listening Journal: 2

-I think nostalgia is where one has a longing or yearning for something in their past that made them happy.

-When I heard this song, I saw many things fly into my mind, but the first was a scene similiar Grease Lightning. I saw a bunch of highschoolers in a dinner, similiar to Steak and Shake, and they were all sipping on milkshakes, dancing, laughing and just having a great time.

-When I think of my childhhod many memories flood into my head, but the best are the following: My barney doll, pokemon cards, my dogs Bailey and Beamer, Teeball, playing house, family movie nights, pre-school, living in tornado alley, being rocked and sung to, macaroni. and riding a bike.

Art Journal Log

-Some of the determining factors for why people are in poverty are the following: Substance abuse, mental health, single parents, poor education, large families, as well as piled up debt from previous generations.
-I also believed that this artist portrayed poverty as a very negative effect by using dark and dreary colors, and giving the people dreary faces.
-I believe that his message was that when In poverty, everyday is a constant struggle to survive, from starvation to natural effects like temperture. And no matter who you are, poverty can easily affect you.
-Two art styles that the artist used to enhance his message were dreary colors, and the positioning of the people. By using all of these dark colors, it corresponded with the dark times that the family was facing, and by positioning the people next to iron bars, it resembeled jail bars and how poverty imprisons so many people.

Live Free and Starve vs. The Singer Solution to World Poverty

Chitra Divakuruni and Peter Singer have completely different views, when it comes to aiding third world countries. In Live Free and Starve, by Chitra, she was proposing the USA helps poor and starving families in these countries, by buying consumer goods from factories, where there are indentured kids. By giving that company more productivity, we are giving those kids an oppurtunity to make more money and prevent themselves from starvation. Whereas Singer in The Singer Solution to World Poverty, he says that instead of buying luxuries as in cruises and fancy clothing, we should donate all that money to save kids all around the world from starvation. I personally do not completely fancy both concepts. I do want to help all these starving kids, but by importing all of these goods, we are also hurting our economy and putting my own future kids in their same position. And singer said, "An American Household annually spends $30,000 dollars only on necessities, and the rest should be donated to poor families" I disagree with Singer's view here because if every family donated all of their annual money, except for the $30,000, then the poor people would become richer than everyone else. But I do agree, that everyone should pitch in and exleast try to donate the $200 to save one kids life a year. I think we could all wait a few more months for those new shoes, or that fancy car, and in turn spend that money to save a kid. I think I do have bias in these articles due to the culure I was raised up in. I didn't really agree with the first one because I'm always hearing people say how bad the economy is, and I don't really want to risk putting my future grandkids in the same position as those starving kids. And for Singer's proposition I like the idea of everyone chipping in money every year to save millions of kids, because I was always raised with the concept "It's better to give, than recieve." "If every citizen in affluentt nations contributed his or her share, I wouldn't have to make such a drastic sacrifice." This is exactly what I agree with, if everyone did his or her own share, millions of kids could be saved. Rather than one person sacrificing all of his or her own hard earned money for the sake of others.

Listening Journal: Round and Round

In this song we heard today, I said for my facts that their was a bass guitar, keyboard,drums and that the song had a slow steady beat. These facts barely, but did alter my opinion of the song, because I prefer a faster beat in a song. And this is where the bias part comes in, because I prefer listening to faster and more upbeat songs, I just labeled this song as boring and bland from the get-go, therefore I didn't really give the song my fullest attention.