The song is talking about being trapped in a world where everything is wrong, but no one stands up for what is right, or a dystopia.
Some lines are repetitive symbolizing how he feels trapped by a dystopia.
It is a reference to 1984 because in the first few lines, the speaker describes how he would stay at home where two and two makes five as in the book.
Sunday, October 23, 2011
Tuesday, October 18, 2011
1984 Reading Journal
The utopia has created conformity by forcing all members of the party to wear blue overalls, regulating the diet, education, exercise, and most other aspects of daily life. They have resolved conflict by rewriting the past, putting themselves in the right light while placing the blame on an unvanquishable enemy in Eurasia and Goldstein. They also have ended religion, put away love in relationships, and limited individual rights. THey have forced conformity because the people feel nothing which stems from the fact that they have nothing to compare their lives to. This is due to the fact that the party rewrites history to show false improvement over time. The society is a dystopia because success and growth ins't promoted: it is discouraged. Newspeak is an example where the people will gradually speak less and less, eventually becoming non-human in nature.
Sunday, October 16, 2011
Utopia
A utopia is an idealistic world where everyone is content and there is no conflict.
My idea of a utopia would be Greek island where everyone would have some sort of job that they loved, and it would be a small community surrounded by other small communities.
Michael Buble/ Jack Johnson/ Phoenix/ Hip-Hop
My idea of a utopia would be Greek island where everyone would have some sort of job that they loved, and it would be a small community surrounded by other small communities.
Michael Buble/ Jack Johnson/ Phoenix/ Hip-Hop
Sunday, October 2, 2011
Reading critically response
I thought that this reading process made many valid points of how people don’t always read critically when they need to, and the author gave many viable options to become a better critical reader.
Summarize: After reading a piece, the author recommends righting a summary of the paragraphs in the piece, and then writing a summary of the essay itself, in order to obtain a better understanding of the author’s message.
Think Critically: The author of almost every essay written has had a clear message that they wished to express. The process then calls for one to think why the author wrote what he did; what did certain happenings in the piece mean, or what was the author trying to demonstrate.
Analysis: Here is where one looks for ways in which the author expressed his ideas through the essay. Whether by tone, plot, etc. there are always different ways in which one expresses his ideas.
Inference: Now, one makes an assumption of what the author’s message was. This can be accomplished through looking at their background, lifetime, beliefs, or anything about the author’s situation that caused him to express the ideas he has.
Synthesis: Then one must think about how the elements of the essay fit together to represent the author’s message. How did the relationships between the characters
Evaluation: Finally one must evaluate how the author presented his message by contemplating the tactics he used, and determining whether or not it was truly effective.
Summarize: After reading a piece, the author recommends righting a summary of the paragraphs in the piece, and then writing a summary of the essay itself, in order to obtain a better understanding of the author’s message.
Think Critically: The author of almost every essay written has had a clear message that they wished to express. The process then calls for one to think why the author wrote what he did; what did certain happenings in the piece mean, or what was the author trying to demonstrate.
Analysis: Here is where one looks for ways in which the author expressed his ideas through the essay. Whether by tone, plot, etc. there are always different ways in which one expresses his ideas.
Inference: Now, one makes an assumption of what the author’s message was. This can be accomplished through looking at their background, lifetime, beliefs, or anything about the author’s situation that caused him to express the ideas he has.
Synthesis: Then one must think about how the elements of the essay fit together to represent the author’s message. How did the relationships between the characters
Evaluation: Finally one must evaluate how the author presented his message by contemplating the tactics he used, and determining whether or not it was truly effective.
You Were Right
The speaker got out of a hard relationship and is venting to his former girlfriend. The repetition of the phrase "you were right" represents frustation of the speaker.
The repetition and depressing tone of the song symbolizes the author's blatant frustration.
THe combination of loud guitars and the use of other song lyrics.
The repetition and depressing tone of the song symbolizes the author's blatant frustration.
THe combination of loud guitars and the use of other song lyrics.
Young Life
Claims:
The child isn't loved enough.
The man and woman are either married or in a relationship.
The boy wants to be like the man in the picture.
Paragrah:
The painting "Young Life" depicts a scene in which a young couple, passionate though they are for each other, neglect their young child. Through the position of the two adults in the portrait, it can be inferred that they are in love. However, the boy is seperated from the lovers by an enormous gap of space, suggesting a distance in the boy's relationship with those people. Whether or not the two adults are the boy's actual parents, it doesn't particularly matter because the boy is mirroring the man's gun with his stick. Proving that although the boy aspires to be like his father, there is a significant detatchment from him and the adults in this scenario.
The child isn't loved enough.
The man and woman are either married or in a relationship.
The boy wants to be like the man in the picture.
Paragrah:
The painting "Young Life" depicts a scene in which a young couple, passionate though they are for each other, neglect their young child. Through the position of the two adults in the portrait, it can be inferred that they are in love. However, the boy is seperated from the lovers by an enormous gap of space, suggesting a distance in the boy's relationship with those people. Whether or not the two adults are the boy's actual parents, it doesn't particularly matter because the boy is mirroring the man's gun with his stick. Proving that although the boy aspires to be like his father, there is a significant detatchment from him and the adults in this scenario.
Shame
Subject: a man who only cared about himself hurt a woman, and he feels horrible shame for it.
Tone: sorrowful.
Untender: demonstrates how little he cared about the girl's true feelings.
Boatloads: describes how guilty he feels through a figure of speech, and also has a sort of southern feel to it.
Overwhelming: expresses how he feels so guilty he cannot live with it; it consumes him.
Tone: sorrowful.
Untender: demonstrates how little he cared about the girl's true feelings.
Boatloads: describes how guilty he feels through a figure of speech, and also has a sort of southern feel to it.
Overwhelming: expresses how he feels so guilty he cannot live with it; it consumes him.
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