Frankenstein 2

READ Frankenstein 2: Vol I, Chp VI (p.51)- end of Vol II (p.101). To prepare for the debate, write a short essay (500 words or less) arguing either for OR against the innocence of the creature in Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, in light of the crimes he has committed. Refer to at least 2 specific quotes as examples.Is the creature a cold-blooded murderer, despite his intellect and the knowledge he has acquired? Or is the creature a product of a cruel society and the neglect of his creator? How should Dr. Frankenstein have responded? What is Dr. Frankenstein's responsibility to his creation?

There is much innocence in the monster. The monster was never brought up he just became. He has no sense of morals or intellegence that people learn as they grow older. He is completely new to the world and Vince brought him here. Vince should be the one who is to blame. He didnt know what he was getting himself into and then he deserted the monster and didnt keep tabs on him. He let the monster leave and didnt say anything to the town. He didnt even step up in trial and let someone else take the blame. He should have watched over the monster because he did not know what the monster was capable of.
Dr. Frankenstein should have said something, or asked for help. He is completely responsible for the creation and whatever the monster does. Its like a mother having a child and the child goes off and swears in front of the teacher. It is that mothers responsibility to fix it and make sure that the child does not do it again.
The monster approches the doctor one day and tells him " “remember, that I am thy creature: I ought to be thy Adam; but I am rather the fallen angel.” He was never given hope or a choice to be some science experiment. He wasnt given the real form of life. Once he became human, the doctor diserted him and he had no one to turn to. He had no one to teach him anything. He had to survive himself and all alone.

Frankenstein first read questions

READ Frankenstein 1: Preface (vii) – Vol I, Chp VI (p.51)BLOG 14: Write a letter to someone you know focusing on one of the themes in Walton's letters (like companionship and/or education or another you have identified from the reading). Reflect on your observations about the reading and refer to at least one quote from the novel.

Dear Jebree,
I am reading this book called Frankenstein by Mary Shelley. The first letter that R. Walton wrote is about his adventure of his sail and his hopes and dreams of accomplishments. He talks about how he wants to sail a go wale fishing by renting a boat from a fisherman and getting a crew. He said he would rent by paying the insurance on the boat. He hopes that his dreams come true and if they do he said that it could be up to years before he sees his sister again. He has much determination and hopes in his life. He talks about all the education he had when he was younger. He mentions how he would stay up studding math and phlosophy.
He mentions that he wants to make discoveries that no one else has. He wants to know things that no one else knows. "I shall satiate my ardent curiosity with the sight of a part of the world never before visited, and may tread a land never before imprinted by the foot of man" (7). He wants to discover things and be the best he can. He has hopes to know things and be the first to do things. He has many dreams and seems very determind to accomplish them.

Frankenstein first read questions

READ Frankenstein 1: Preface (vii) – Vol I, Chp VI (p.51)BLOG 14: Write a letter to someone you know focusing on one of the themes in Walton's letters (like companionship and/or education or another you have identified from the reading). Reflect on your observations about the reading and refer to at least one quote from the novel.

Artist Statement Project 3

Person 1

i woke up dazed. i looked around me and saw that i was trapped in a tiny box, and then i looked around the room, and saw others just like me that were trapped in these tiny boxes all stacked up on top of each other. My heart began to thump and shock overwhelmed me. i started to panic and the next thing i knew was that i could not breathe anymore. i poked my nose out through the wire caging, and the cold material sent a shutter through my body. I tried to chew on the strange material, but i could not. It was too solid and cold that it hurt my teeth.

Person 2

The tests on the computer looked promising. I looked at tht data repeatedly as realization set in. The subject in cage one was having a positive effect from the drug dosage. According to the data, the caccine was eliminating the HIV that i injected in the subject's veins. The small dosage was attacking the HIV cells by the second.

Person 1

i spent the next three hours in complete fear. I could not remember how i had gotten into this cage, i did not know where i was, and confusion sent my mind in loops. I had been running around in the cage, bumping my head into the wires hoping that i could bust through. I ran into each possible corner and inch in my chamber.

Person 2

I was so excited. After three hours of injecting the subject with the vaccine, the HIV had completely vanished. KMy whole body was shaking with confidence. I had told my whole team about the sucess and now everyone was reeking with anticipation. There were many more tests to do to make sure that this really was the cure for HIV.

Person 1

The door opened and a human with a white lab coat walked into the room. The human approaced my cage. All my thoughts stood still as the human lifted the latch off the door and stuck its hand inside. I began to panic. I braced my whole body against the opposite end of the cage.

The thoughts in my head were screaming at me. I bent down and lunged for the human's hand. I sunk my teeth right into its finger. It did not even flinch. The human had rubber gloves on. He grabbed my neck as i kicked and squealed. I then felt a sharp pinch in my ass and my body went limp. I could not move: I thought I was paralyzed.

Person 2

As the subject was sprawled out across the table, I immediately noticed that the vaccine paralyzed the victime for a short period. I strapped some cords to its body to monitor its brain and heart activity I also stuck a small tube with a microscopic video camera attached to the end down the subject's throat to monitor the vaccine in progress.

Person 1

The next few hours wnt by in a daze. The human had injected my body twice and it felt like it was tearing my body apart. It burned and painfully ripped at every emotion i had. My body had started to throb and i got the shakes. The pain was so immense that I eventually ended up passing out. I awoke to the human grabbing my body and tossing me back in the cage as if I was a used paper napkin. Worthless. I ended up dieing in my cage that night, all alone and torn.

Person 2

The subject ended up dieing. I was unsure if the vaccine caused the subjec'ts death. I ended up injecting five more subjects to run more tests on. I really hope that the first subject was not just a miracle. I really hope that this was truly the cure for HIV. I needed to run as many tests as possible to find out all the reactions to the drug.

I decided to write a story from the point of view of a rabbit and the point of view of the lab tester. First person is the rabbit and second person is the scientist. The rabbit wakes up traped in a cage. It is scared and starts to panic. The human injects the rabbit with a vaccine that is supposed to cure HIV and the rabbit goes through pain and suffering. In the end of the story the rabbit dies.

The scientist thinks that he found the cure for HIV. He is soo excited that it worked on one of his subjects. He then tests it on another rabbit, the first person, and finds out that the rabbit dies. He doesnt know if it is from the vaccine. In the end he decides to try it on a bunch of rabbits. He needs to know if the tests are accurate.

I decided to write a story because I wanted people to see both point of views. The ethical perspective and the unethical perspective were played out in this story. I didnt really understand the assignment so it took me a lot of thinking to come up with this idea. I had to think of a way to present both ideas on animal testing and make sure it wasnt like an essay.

Out of the different types of mediums I could choose from, I thought that this would get my point across. At first I was just going to write a story in the rabbits voice. After thinking about it, i thought it would be more interesting to add the scientist's voice to the story. I chose to do stem sell research as a base point because I have always had neggitive views of it. There are other ways to test products insead of using animals. I think it is cruel and wrong. Thats why the bunny's voice is so strong.

I think it came out pretty well. I liked my story a lot. I like how I kept the creature a secret. When reading it, people dont know what the animal is. It never says that it is a rabbit. They could also think that it is another human. Its left up to the readers imagination.

If i had more time, I think i could have made the story a lot better. It could have been longer and more specific. I am still happy with it.

I want the audience to be aware that animal testing is cruel. These animals are being tortured and most die. Its wrong what they do. But there has been discoverys in doing it. If we could find the cure for HIV, then we need to do what we need to do in order to save peoples lives. I just wish there was another way that scientists would use instead of torture.

Shaun Slifer Questions

What draws you to this piece? What makes it compelling? What is your connection to this work? Be as specific as possible.
I was amazed at the "I've seen a lot of trees (but i've never seen a Redwood)" piece.
I was drawn to it because the tree is huge. It made me so interested that I even took time to go and look up a Redwood picture just to see the actual size. The circumference of the tree is remarkable. I have definitely never seen a tree trunk that large before. It kind of reminds me of a tree one would expect to see in the rain forest or some exquisite forest that I have never travled too. It also reminds me of those stories that you hear in the news about people hiking in these kinds of forests. They are soo large and intimidating that the hikers end up getting lost and sometimes die in the forest because they cant find their way back.
I dont really have a connection to this piece but I would love to go to these creepy forests. I am a Twilight series fan (if you know what that means) and i believe that the forest that the cullens live in is like the forest you would find these ginormous trees.

New Project 3 Idea

I have looked over your advice and now I have figured out what I am going to do.
I have decided to do a short story instead of a sculpture. The story is going to be about a rabit that gets tested on and experimented on. It will be in the point of view of the rabit. It will be about a scientist buying the rabit from the store then taking him back to the lab and doing all sorts of horrific things to the poor rabit. Everything will be in perspective of the rabbit so the audience will actually feel what the animal feels. The audience will hear the rabits thoughts, fears, and pains.

Project 3

I really have no idea what to do with this project. I'm actually confused on how I am supposed to relate this to ethics... I just have no idea.
I think the topic I am going to choose is stem cell research. I am going to choose this because I am actually in between on wheater it is ok or not. I am more nutural because I believe in its purpose but I also believe that the things that they are doing to the animals can be harmful. They may be in pain and I think that is wrong.
I think I will either do some sort of writing or a sculpture but I havent decided on how to do it so it gets a message across....

Equality for Animals

1- An ethical code is a set of guidelines and values about how to behave in the world. An ethical code helps us to make decisions about “What ought I to do?” or “How ought we to act?” in a certain situation. Many people can agree on a basic ethical code for humanity, but what about our interactions with the animal world? Describe your ethical code in dealing with non-human creatures (worms to mosquitos to pigs to chickens to rats, cats, and dogs). How did you come to form this ethical perspective?

In America, it is wrong for people to eat cats and dogs because they are considered pets. In other countries people eat cats and dogs and even ginnie pigs are aten in some cultures. There are also debates on how it is wrong the way people treat animals and cage them even though they are just going to be killed for us to eat. Chickens are caged in small little cages with like 20 chickens crammed in the same space so that they cant even more. Its torture yet people are still going to kill them anyways. I think its wrong that people treat animals like garbage because they can feel whatever is eflicted on them. if they are hurt, they can feel that pain just like a person could.
The question is not, Can they reason? nor Can they talk? but, Can they suffer? This was a segment in the essay discussed. Animals do suffer and can feel pain. They cannot talk our language but does that mean that they deserve to be treated lesser than the human race. If I can only speak english and come across someone who can only speak spanish, does that mean that they are lesser than I because they dont understand me? Does that mean that they are less intelligent? But i dont know their language either so maybe they think the same thing about me.
i believe that anything that has feelings and can feel pain should be treated with respect. Animals shouldnt be tortured because they can feel physical pain. Its not right, just like its not right for a human to be tortured.

2- How is your ethical code similar to or different from Singer's?

Its similar because i agree with a lot of things this author says. Like the question he asks even thought they cant speak they can still suffer. I agree with that a lot because it relates to different languages used in the human culture. He compared the language thing and also skin color and women rights. it all can relate to animals. Just because they are different from humans, does not mean that they should be treated with carelessnes and disrespect. They shouldnt be tortured or anything of that nature because they can feel. They do understand things.

3- Even if you disagree with him, which of Singer's arguments is most convincing, and WHY?
The suffering part of the essay. He says that a rock cannot suffer but an animal can. I think i explained this question above. Its very convincing because he is right.

1) Name two situations where Koro ignored signs of Pai’s ability and aptitude to lead.
There was a time when he was having trouble with a rope so she tried it and did it with little effort. He could have asked her for her help but figured she couldnt be able to do it if he couldnt. He also doesnt like her doing things that are related to gender, like attend a school and play games with the boys. He doesnt see it fit for her to do so because she is female.
2) Discuss the scene where Rawiri took up the taiaha again. How does this change carry on for Rawiri in the rest of the story?
Before he had not told everyone that he did taiaha. He then confesses and begins to do it agian. This changes him becasue he starts to teach Pai how to do it. It shows that he is confident and wants to teach others even though some disagree with it.
3) When the community walk away together, Paikea comes from behind them and walks alone back towards the bigwhale. What did that image make you think about Paikea?
just that she wanted to help the whale. She didnt want to give up on the creature.
4) When Pai is in the hospital how do they know Koro has changed his attitude towards her?
Because he tells her while she is laying in the hospital bed. He probably was thinking she was hurt and unconcious so he tells her he is sorry.
5) What is the significance of the waka? Describe the waka scene that struck you most, and explain why.
The boat waka has significance because it is something that Koro had been biulding. It represents spirituality because of the scene at night when they were calling to the whales. it was really deep and the whales responded back. it was like Pai was a part of them and could communicate with them. The large whale had also let her ride on its back. She had got the whale to move without any effort.

Artist statement for project 2

This project was very interesting. My group and I choose to do the South Chicago neighborhood because it would be easy since Naiomi works in that area. We all agreed and gave out tasks. Kate was supposed to collect as much information about the neighborhood and about its history as possible. Naiomi was the person that went to the neighborhood, took some local pictures, and did a few local interviews. I created the cook book. After each task was given, I told the membors of the group to have all the information, interviews, and pictures sent to me via email before the friday that came before the project was due. I got everything from kate on time. Naiomi had some difficulty getting things to me on time so I looked up additional pictures of the neighborhood on the internet. She also only gave me a few pictures, so the additional found pictures helped me a lot. I went to the store and bought construction paper and glue. My found items were scisors and the pictures I had found online. Kate also brought some screws in for the found items, which helped represent the steel history of the neighborhood. I also asked each member to send me at least two recipies for the book, these were made up recipies to help describe the neighborhood rather than food recipies. I looked up some added food recipies that I know are popular among the black and hispanic community. Black and hispanic population dominated this neighborhood. I then cut out pictures of the neighboorhoods and put colored constrution paper behind them to make the cook book more colorful, creative, and interesting instead of plain. I typed up the recipies and glued them onto the pages. I copy and pasted the things that the rest of my group sent me and added those to the cook book. The recipies that we wrote for the cook book were things on poverty, friendship, street cleaning, etc. We found that parts of the neighborhood were very dirty and many things were broken down with abandon biuldings. We also learned that there was a great deal of gang violence in the neighborhood which helped create a no violence recipe. The neighborhood was very diverse with black and hispanics, and through interviews, we learned that pretty much everyone knew eachother and most were friends. It was like a big family. This helped create our friendship recipe.

The message of our piece is just that of explaining the South Chicago neighborhood. Also it is to explain our guiding question which was * How are the images and imagination of a community generated? This question was answered mainly through our interviews and research. The images are generated because many people see this neighborhood as dirty, broken, and violent. The people there all respect each other and get along. Just because a place is suffering from poverty, does not mean that it is a bad area. Yes there is gang violence, but not everywhere is perfect. Infact there is no place in the world that is perfect. There will always be crime and violence no matter where one goes. The imigration was because of the history and the steel minors. Also, these people migrated to this neighborhood in chicago more than likely because of the costs and cheep rent. But because others see this place as dangerous, they tend to lean towards the people that live in the neighborhood as violent, which is majority black and hispanic. This is not always the case. Most people are good, from what I believe. Because there are people of that neighborhood gang banging does not mean the whole race and or people living in the neighborhood are bad.

This project related to a paper I did in my writing and rhetoric 2 class. That class is mostly about sub cultures and how people see other people. I believe this project related very much so because of the fact that this neighborhood has its own types of people. Because of where these people live, others outside the neighborhood might judge them because of their living location. This brings me back to the papers I have had to write in my other class. We had to see why ohters see people in different ways. Its because they are different from us, have some sort of different culture and therefore makes others judge them.

The strenghts of this project is definitely the cook book. I think I did a really good job on it and it took me forever anyways. Another thing is that I beleive our group did a good job demonstrating what the neighborhood was all about. I think we answered the guiding question very well and displayed it in our cookbook. I also think that the participation of our group was together and no one had a problem. We described the neighborhood to the best of our ablility.

The weeknesses of the project was the interviews. The questions answered werent given much thought. The answers were very straight forward and boring. I wish we could have had more time to make the interviews better or stress more questions. I also think that we could have made it better by having more interviews.

The object we brought in for the class was blow pop minis. I chose to bring these candies in because our project had recipies on diversity and how different races in the community were friends or considered themselves part of a larger family. As children, if not all, most liked blow pops and most still do. Thats why I chose the blow pops because it represented diversity.

We decided to do the recipe book becasue we all agreed that it would be fun, and that we could add our own recipies along with food recipes.

Group creative breif

Group--Erica Wincheski, Naomi Wray, Kate O'Leary
- What will the project be - MEDIUM?
We are making a recipe book about the neighborhood of South Chicago.
- How will you make it? - PROCESS?
Together, we're going to research different areas of the neighborhood. The introduction of the recipe book will focus on the history of South Chicago, and how it evolved into the neighborhood it is today. The food portion of our recipe book will be predominantly Hispanic, as we know South Chicago has a very large Hispanic population. For the bulk of the book, we came up with the idea of interviewing a few members of that community. By asking them questions about themselves, how they feel others interpret them or how they feel about their community personally, we're going to generate recipes based on their answers. We'll document answers with interviews and images, and compile them into the cookbook. Our finished result will be a part cultural, part edible recipe book
.- Which GUIDING QUESTIONS does your project address, and how?
Our main guideline is how the power of imagination affects the reality of the presence. It's important to this group to be respectful of the community we're learning about while also observing how they perceive themselves and how they feel they are perceived from outside their community
.- What is the MESSAGE? How do you want your audience to respond?
I think our priority is giving the audience a fair view of the community. How a community that might be under served is still a community, and they work together regardless of culture boundaries or poverty. What makes a community isn't the quality of the buildings or the condition of the neighborhood, it's the people that create a community. We want the audience to get a true sense of South Chicago with a creative product to learn from.
- What other artists or media have influenced your groups' project?
This unit has been community focused; we watched The Gleaners and I to get an understanding of how people are put through hard times and still manage to come out successful.

What are your goals & objectives for the project?
To find out more about this neighborhood. I have never really spent much time in this area of chicago. I don't really know anything about the South Chicago neighborhood accept that its dirty and full of poverty and the projects. But this particular neighborhood I am not quite sure of. I want to get to understand the area a little better. Maybe make some comparisons to it from the west side, since i am very farmilliar with that area.
Which guiding question do you want to focus on?
The guiding questions I would like to focus on are:
* What is the relationship between the realities and perceptions of a community, among what communities are, what they believe themselves to be, and what they wish they were?
* How are the images and imagination of a community generated?
* How does the power of imagination affect the reality of the present?
What is your suggestion for involving people from the neighborhood in your project?
Maybe we could interview someone. Ask them some questions on how they feel in their neighborhood, how they like it, how they think others interput them, Etc.
What do you want your audience to get from the project?
We are making a cookbook. Not only will their be recipies that belong to the general population in the neighborhood, but i would also like to involve meaningful recipies on culutre, poverty, what makes a neighborhood, its migration, and more. Havent really thought about it too much but i will on Monday.
What specific skills do you bring to this group?
I am quite farmilliar with chicago. That might help a little. Also i can think very creativley and hopefully our cook book will be a hit.

the gleaners and i

What was most surprising to you about this film?
I didnt know that the film was going to be in another language. I also found the artist to be rather strange. She made the video focusing on gleaners. What I found interesting is that she also added the trash pickers to it. I thought gleaners were people who picked up the leftovers of the farmers, not trash pickers. Maybe I miss understood the definition of a gleaner. What else i found suprising was that the artist would capture her hand on camera, and that she added the part where she is driving down the highway capturing trucks with her hand. It was just strange to me.
How does Varda, a well-respected experimental filmmaker, compare this film to gleaning?
Most of the film was about gleaning. She fallowed people around who would go to the farms and collect the things that the farmers left behind. It was also explained why these they would pick up the leftovers because it was perfectly good food, just couldnt be sold in a market. I think that the market restrictions needs to be altered, because of the waised food they leave behind.
How do the images of gleaning by Millet and Van Gogh differ from those Varda presents in her film?
Van Gogh was an artist who painted gleaners. Varda filmed them. I am not quite sure who Millet is.

neighborhood

i would choose garfield park.
i know its in the ghetto.
i know its on the southside of chicago.
i have already been to this park.
i would like to know more about the activities that go on in the park.
i woould like to know about the surrounding area of the park.
i dont have a group!!!

Whos in my group??????

Wasnt in class wednesday
woundering if anyone knows who is in my group

Stranger with a Camera

1. How did Hugh O'Connor's daughter find peace with her father's death? Wouldyou have felt the same?

She found peace with her fathers death because she learned more about his killer. She knew the man (i forgot his name) was from Kentucy and lived in a very poor part next to the mines. He felt that what her father and his crew were doing was wrong. he felt that they were making fun of him and his people and taking pictures to expoliate them. Realizing how this man felt when her father was on his land, she understood why he pulled the trigger. O'Connor's daughter learned more about the man and his background and i believe that is why she found peace with her fathers death.

2. Barret says that some filmmakers "wanted to show that contrast [between those who prospered from coal mining and those who didn't] to bring about socialchange. Others mined the images the way the companies had mined the coal."What does that say about the power of the visual image? What (if any)responsibility do filmmakers have toward their subjects?

The power of image can say a lot. A picture is worth a thousand words. people can take a picture of a scene and leave out certian parts to create a whole different meaning. One thing that the people didnt like was that the pictures made them look bad. They had taken pictures of kids bringing muddy water up to their face. it made the kids look like they were starving but really they were well feed. Film makers do have responsibility to what they capture on the camera, but they do not have responsibility of what people think about it. They have the choice to film what they want and how they want to. it is their responsibility to capture a certain image they are after, and make it look a certain way; althought they do not have any responsibility of how it is viewed by others.

3. Colin Low, director of the Canadian Film Board, said the camera is invasive,exploitive and like a gun because it's threatening (42:23). What does he mean bythat statement? What are some specific steps you can take as aphotographer/filmmaker when photographing a sensitive subject or social issueto make the camera less exploitive and invasive?

A camera is threatening because it captures things how they really are. it shows the public how things are. it can hurt someones reputation because it is a form of evidence. it is also threatening because it can capture moments that shouldnt be captured. For example capturing a celebrity at a bad moment or like the kids bringing the mud up to their face. its hard to control what people think about something. I guess just be careful what you shoot on film.

Artist Statement

This project is basically a series of sketches to help people understand what the teardrop tattoo really represents, and how people are miss interpriting it. What I did was made a sketch book. The first page is a series of teardrops explaining what the true meanings of the tattoos actually are. The second page shows two gang members with the tattoos. It then describes what the tattoo means to a gang, and how gangs can distinguish things about that person. The third page is the prison page. It explains the meaning of the tattoo in jail, and how jail birds get the tattoo to show other prisioners intimidation. The forth page shows a mallot and the American flag in the background. It then explains court cases that have gone wrong because the person being convicted had a teardrop tattoo. The court looked at the tattoo as evidence, in some cases, and judged that person because of it. Lastly, the fifth page has several drawings on it. on the top of the page shows a business man who got the tattoo because he thought it would look cool. A gang member came up to him and put a gun up to his face demanding what the man represented. The next picture shows a college mascot dressed up as a gangster with the tattoo. It then explains how the college had to publicly appologize for the mascot. The last picture is the album cover of Lil Wayne's cd. Its a picture of a baby tattooed with the teardrops. I explained how it is sending a negitive image to his fans and how they will see it as a cool thing instead of what it truely represents.

This was difficult for me at first, because my first idea was just to draw a person with a teardrop tattoo and explain it. I was told it wasn't enough. I had to think further. I was unsure of how to make it work until the teacher suggested writing along with the sketches. Thats when I decided that a series of drawings with writing next to them would be a better way to explain the negitivity of the tattoo, and how people are miss representing it. I decided to start the sketch book off with the meanings, starting off with the actual tattoo, then moving on to gangs, prisioners, and then wraping it up with how it has affected people in court, college, and how celeberties are representing it.

I chose teardrop tattoos because I myself was interested in it and wanted to learn a little more about it. I also knew that people were getting it for other reasons when it can hurt them in the long run. Gangs, prisoners, and the public all take offense to this tattoo. It can be very dangerous especially it someone is miss representing it.

I chose to draw sketches because I'm not that great of an artist and wanted some more practice. I guess I was in the mood to draw. I turned it into a sketch book because of the fact that I couldn't use just one picture to get my full message across. I think it worked out well for me in the end.

How do others see us? How do we see ourselves? How do we identify and think about ourselves? How do we compose our identity? How do others compose their identities?

These were the questions I decided to respond to. Others see us in many ways. Apperance is everything. People automatically make judgements about someone just by passing them in the street. What we wear and how our body language is makes a huge statement to the person that sees you. For this particular group, others see these people as dangerous and trouble. Because of the meanings of the tattoo, one will believe a series of things automatically such as they are members of a gang, they went to jail, and have murdered someone. That is not someone that one would just randomly approach.

We see ourselves as who we are. We know what we represent and what we believe in, but sometimes it's not clear to the population. We identify ourselves with tattoos, clothing, peircings, and the such. Individuals fit into subcultures and these subcultures have their own styles. For the teardrop tattoos these people know that they are representing something dangerous. They know what they have done and are purposly making it known. They want to come off as intimidating and dangerous. This is how people compose their identity. They wear things to represent or make a statement. The teardrop is a identity by itself becuase it is already assumed to be a gang member. But then there are also the people who have no clue as to what the tattoo stands for, and get it in spite of a loved one or a fashion statement.

The whole meaning of the piece is to just make others aware of the true meanings and to know how people miss represent it. It can be a very dangerous thing when approached by someone who actually represents it correctly. People have been murdered, court cases have lost due to the tattoo, and people have had the tattoos skinned from their bodies because they are claiming something their not.

This project doesnt relate to any of the ones that were shown in class by what the artist decided to do. Instead it relates to the topic of truely understanding a culture. Instead of fallowing someone, I sketched the culture.

I believe my strenghts are that I got the message out as good as I could with sketches. I believe people will understand what I am trying to explain. I also believe that people will be more aware of the decisions they decide to make, because this tattoo could be dangerous.

I believe my weaknesses are that explaining it verbally helps a little more, so when people don't hear my arguments they may not get the full picture. Also, some of my sketches are a little rough.

mon feb 16 homework

She challenged the myth by making the book to read like a story rather than a non fictional piece. The story wasn't all about the country but rather the girl's life and experiences. she explained how the things that were going on in her life were becuase of the country and its problems but she didnt linger on all the situations her country was going through. She showed that the people of the country are just like everyone else accept they are stuck in a bad era and have different day to day lifestyles because of it. There not all terrorists and most do have their own opinions and are trying to fight for their rights, but theres only so much that they can do. they have to somewhat deal with the fact that all these things are going on because they live there. I believe the people are good its the government that is evil. when the 911 thing occured, i figured they were all like that, terrorists and such that hated the united states, but now i realize that its their government and most want to escape and come to america. its not fair to judge a person from iran because of their governmental problems. i realize that the situation in iran is very tough and that it would be so hard to have to live like that. they must dress and listen tol what the government wants. its also a shame that it kinda reminds me of the era in which hitler ran because the governemnt is killing and punishng the innocent. i never really knew the problems iran had till i read this book.

Project Proposal

I plan to basically just draw a picture of a man whom has a teardrop tattoo under his eye. Its just a drawing and it represents the "Do you wear your heart on your sleve?" project. The teardrop indicates gang partnership and also represents the death of loved ones, and the murder of enemys.

The questions my project will adress are: What is the relationship between self and identity? How do others see us? How do we see ourselves? How do we identify and think about ourselves? How do we compose our identity? How do others compose their identities?

I want the audience to understand the symbol and what it means to the people who wear it. i want them to be able to understand why these people choose to get the tattoo under their eye, and what it represents. i want people to be able to identify how the things we do and wear and how we act can attribute to a culture. i want them to understand the culture of this tattoo and why its not a good idea to get one. i want people to see why these people feel the needs of getting this tattoo and basically just to understand the people who wear it and what it represents.

questions on persepolis

why did the author choose to write the book in the form of a comic?
why did she decide to not use any color?
why did she end the book so sudden?

homework for feb 2

what is your definition of identity?
how do you see yourself?
how do others see you?
I believe that identity is who someone truely is. Many factors come into play with a persons true identity. Gender, age, race, religion, etc. can all come into play when it contributes to someones true identity. Identity is how someone portrays themselves. It includes attitude and so much more. Identity is who someone is to society. It can be a fingerprint, an email adress, a residential adress, an id, a birth cirtificate, all of which can be traced back to a person. If someone comits a crime, they create a record which also plays a role in identity. When someone looks up ur record they are introuduced to all your information. Information on a person also plays a role in identity. where someone went to school, visited for vacation, what car they drove, what music they liked, it all plays a role in developing who that person really is. Identity is not just a document that proves who the person is, but its how they cary themselves in life.
i see myself as a smart young girl with a bright future. sometimes i do mess up in life, but i always get back on my feet. i see myself with great determination and a will power to learn, live, and love everything and everyone. i see myself in relationships as a person that is willing to do anything for the person i truely care about. money isnt an issue because somehow someway i always get my hands on more. even if its working three jobs busting my ass, i always find ways around things. i see myself as a great listener but sometimes i am stuck on how to make others feel better.
i believe others see me as a independent person. i dont fallow the crowd and i am who i am no matter who i am around. others see me as a very outgoing girl who loves to have fun and can party it up. they also see me as that girl who works her ass off all day then comes home and does homework all night. others see me as a responsible person with money... for the most part because when i dont have it, i wont go out. i have heard that i am very stubborn and always believe i am right, but hey, people do have their flaws.

questions about syllabus

What kind of projects will we be doing that helps us find our true identity?
Would you consider this course to be similar to psychology?

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