...Propaganda Film Response 1. What are your feelings after watching this candid documentary? A: I had a mixture of feelings. First, as an American, I thought that the entire piece was trash and clearly had an agenda. Second, as a follow-up response, I thought that North Korean leaders must really be crazy if they truly believe in everything they say in the film. If the population believes in Propaganda, then it is no surprise that the Kim regime has such an iron grip over the people. I had an interesting feeling at the end of my initial defensive response. I thought that the entire “documentary” viewed America from the perspective of an outsider from an alien culture. It actually made sense that an outsider sees us as all-consuming, materialistic, and hedonistic creatures. We clearly have a lot of things wrong with society, and Propaganda is almost calling us out from a naïve perspective. 2. What kind of media techniques/effects did the filmmakers utilize to captivate/persuade the audience? A: They used more images and fewer words. Imagery and symbolism are very effective tools of propaganda because they invoke emotions and feelings that simple words cannot. For example, if we read that Hitler has killed 4 million Jews, we are reminded of the atrocities that he has committed. However, if we see the Nazi symbol, we immediately think of evil, World War II, even Japan and Pearl Harbor; the enemy / other that must be destroyed is what we think of. 3. How does North Korea view...
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...her and she needs to fill it in. So she seeks love from everyone around her. She needs approval, she needs company, she feels so dependant...so stupid. This insecurity is killing her. She wants to shred her body. She wants to stab herself. She wants to stand in the middle of the road and have a gigantic truck crush her 18 year old body into tiny fragments...so tiny that no one will ever be able to recognize her. No, she is not depressed. She is happy. Happy to be here. Happy to have friends she loves more than anything in this world. Happy to have a boyfriend who makes her feel safe and oh-so-secure. But there are times she breaks down into a big pile of nothingness. She looks into the mirror, stares long and hard and she sees it. The talentless ugly person that looks back at her makes her feel worthless. Makes her feel like a waste of space. Nothing under the sun will ever make her believe that she has looks. Nothing anyone will ever say will make her believe in herself. She is hollow inside. She is bland. She is just another girl and nothing more. Incompetence...that's what she is built of. She couldn't keep anything. Her mum left. Her parents keep leaving. Her best friend and companion left. The one person she thought would never let her down left. Her entire family left. Why does everything rest on her shoulders? Why do they all call her and keep rambling about everyone else? Why do they think...
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...”Every Good Boy” By David Nicholls What is there in life for someone born without talent for anything? When popular society informs us, even demands, that everyone has talent – everyone is a good boy – what is there to do when you have none? In David Nicholls’ short story “Every Good Boy”, a boy of nine is in this dilemma. Both his siblings have done well and had done better when they were at the same point as him in life, and the future seems bleak for the talentless kid. The boy’s father Michael does have a solution though: Keep trying. One day, the father and the uncle brings a piano into the small family’s house; it was free, and there was a plan with it – their youngest kid was going to be a good boy. A boy who was skilled at something. The story is narrated by the boy in question in style of a first person, character bound narrator, who narrates his story as a long flashback. He’s a stubborn, naïve and ambitious kid, (“I had a vision of my future self, taken from a Warner Brothers cartoon, as some sort of virtuoso, flamboyant and romantic, […] I studied the pianists on Top of the Pops, the way they hunched and swayed and stomped, […] as I clanged and thumped and spasmed […] on that monstrous piano, waiting for that breakthrough, the moment where everything would fall into place and talent would reveal itself”, line 62-73) who has a hard time giving up, and even goes to great lengths studying as to unlock his own talent. However, nobody really seems to appreciate his...
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...issues that were unheard of before birth control set foot into Korea. As women were described as “tools for reproduction,” they were commonly characterized as weak and unhealthy. Most women in the colonial period were used to having multiple children, leading them to have continuous deliveries with short recovery periods. Even with poor circumstances, children were still born into poverty, many families not being able to support their own children. As the information of birth control was adopted, Korean women started having the freedom to choose when they wished to give birth, helping them do other favorable things besides having children. Furthermore, birth control led to the limitation of unwanted children and “preventing the birth of talentless, inferior, or impoverished.” Birth control was considered to be one of the aspects in which the Korean people were following the footsteps of the Japanese, “accepting [birth control] as part of the pursuit of a ‘modern lifestyle’.” The rise of ‘New Women’ brought an unknown aspect to modernity, letting women to be educated and have the liberty to make decisions for themselves. This proved that women did not exist purely for reproduction, but were able to become figures with important responsibilities. As Sonja Kim states, “Women’s equality, economic independence, and suffrage were well-known components of their becoming useful membranes of civilization – civilization was to begin with one’s body.” Kim supports the idea of giving birth...
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...Throughout the story, Junior, a Spokane Indian, is faced with multiple obstacles in his life: Hydrocephalus, poverty, and the target of bullying. Despite the world being against him, Junior’s fortitude helps him greatly when it comes to the adversity that accompanies his journey to find, ‘individual identity, or community identity.’ During the beginning of the book, Junior struggles with his individual identity within the rez. He feels as though he does not belong on the rez. Within the story, Junior states, “Those rhythmless, talentless, tuneless Indians are most likely going to get drunk… beat the shit out of any available losers” (17). Despite being attacked by grown adults, Junior still went faced the rez. He never hid, nor did he avoid...
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...Isamu Noguchi was born in 1904. His father a Japanese poet and his mother, an American writer, met when his mother helped his father with his English. Soon after he was born, Noguchi moved to Japan with his mother to live with his father; however, at age 13 Noguchi’s father married a Japanese woman, which led to Noguchi distancing himself from his father. Similarly in the book, “A Tale for the Time Being”, the main character moved back to Japan due to her father being laid off from work. In the early life of Noguchi, he was criticized for being talentless by Rushmore sculptor, which led him to take a different course; however, after his mother’s encouragement to pursue art, he left his pre-med courses and joined Leonard da Vinci School to study sculpting. At early in his life, Noguchi was using his mother last name (Gilmour), but after he left Columbia in pursuit of his dream, he changed his last name to that of his father (Noguchi). Living in Japan influenced a lot of Noguchi’s artwork. After the Pearl Harbor attack, Noguchi furthered his political actions by forming Nisei Writings and Artists Mobilization for Democracy in 1942, which was a group dedicated to raising awareness of the patriotism of...
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...Junior actions could be perceived as courageous and thus making him a hero. Lastly, Junior is a hero in that Junior is able to deal with the obstacles he faces at Reardan and on The Reservation. At Reardan the primary obstacle that Junior confronts is racism. Junior conveys, “None of those guys punched me or got violent. After all, I was a reservation Indian, and no matter how geeky and weak I appeared to be, I was still a potential killer” (Alexie 63). Junior sees that many white people view him as barbaric or a killer showing he understands the racism he faces at Reardan, but despite this he continues to go to school. However, this discrimination is also evident on The Reservation. On The Reservation Junior says, “Those rhythmless, talentless, tuneless Indians are most likely going to get drunk and beat the shit out of any available losers. And I'm always the most available loser” (Alexie 17). Junior notices that he is a considered a loser on the Reservation, and many Indians would want to beat him up, showing the readers the bullying Junior faces. In both cases Junior has to endure many of the insults and abuse that are thrown at him, resulting in a tolerance to build up. This common characteristic between life on the reservation and at Reardan results in Junior to continue fighting, showing that he is a hero. It is a common argument to say that Junior is not a hero since he does not have self-esteem. The lack of self-esteem is evident in the text in that he refers...
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...collectivist subjugation continue to plague his mind and create conflict as he initially believes he created this great work to help others. On the other hand, he feels contentment solely in the act of invention (32). However, Equality’s continued use of the word “WE” to articulate his joy (32) implies that he remains ambivalent toward what is driving his happiness. Equality decides he must divulge his creation, and wants to show the Scholars “the greatest gift ever offered to men” (38). Not unexpectedly, the council is vengeful toward Equality. They accuse him of breaking the law and call for the destruction of his invention (42-43). Equality escapes and runs into the Unchartered Forest, leaving society. The process of facing lifeless and talentless bureaucrats, however, becomes the major event that breaks Equality from faux altruism. This dramatic experience leads to an epiphany when Equality exclaims, “we have not built this box for the good of our brothers. We built it for its own sake” (44). His refutation of collectivist ideology is near complete. In a stream in the forest, he sees his reflection for the first time, and realizes how different he looks from his brothers (47). He laughs at being damned by society as he continues to realize his intellectual, and even physical, superiority (47). Equality notes that in society, there was no joy for men “other than the joyed shared with all their brothers,” but he finally proclaims that his joy comes solely from creating his invention...
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...One of the obstacle Junior faces at Rearden is racism. Junior states, “None of those guys punched me or got violent. After all, I was a reservation Indian, and no matter how geeky and weak I appeared to be, I was still a potential killer” (Alexie 63). Junior sees that many white people view him as barbaric or a killer showing he understands the racism he faces at Rearden, but despite this he continues to go to school. However, this discrimination is also evident on The Reservation. On The Reservation Junior says, “Those rhythmless, talentless, tuneless Indians are most likely going to get drunk and beat the shit out of any available losers. And I'm always the most available loser” (Alexie 26-29 ). Junior notices that he is a considered a loser on the Reservation, and many Indians would want to beat him up, showing the readers of the bullying that Junior faces. In both cases Junior has to endure many of the insults and abuse that are thrown at him, resulting in a tolerance to build up. This common characteristic between life on the reservation and at Rearden results in Junior to continue fighting, showing that he is a...
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...This sudden valuing of social skills in the world of work. Social skills these days are considered more important than anything, IT PISSES ME OFF!!! I hate how in every waking moment in our public lives we're expected to have something in our heads that's worth saying to someone in case they come into contact with us, and how 'quietness' is now regarded as something to be seriously concerned about. I was bullied at school, so I'm naturally wary of people and therefore I prefer not to communicate, more often than not. Teachers now acknowledge quietness in pupils for their report cards, as though it's a personality trait that needs correcting. It's not my fault I'm in a class full of rowdy imbeciles... I hate loud-mouth extroverted people who, for some reason, seem to think that shy people who don't talk to them are being rude, when in fact we're just intimidated and shunned by people who have mouths bigger than their minds. We live in a world that favours extroverts so much, IT PISSES ME OFF!!! Social awkwardness. Social awkwardness has ruined my life too many times, and I blame modern life for allowing it to exist. I hate the fact that you can't go out and have a meal or a drink in public by yourself without receiving pitying looks. People who can't tell the difference between being alone and feeling lonely. Mainstream comedy. British sitcoms these days are tedious and appalling. Televised comedy is not even remotely funny anymore and 90% of people you meet have...
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...Andy Warhol was one of the most imaginative, thought-provoking, and influential artists of the twentieth century. He was a key figure in the development of Pop Art, an artistic movement originating in the 1960s. Pop Art was an alternative to the art style Abstract Expressionism. Abstract Expressionism was serious, philosophical, and most people found it hard to understand. Jackson Pollock and Mark Rothko where stars of this style. In Pop Art, common objects are the subject of the artwork. Artists like Warhol and Roy Lichtenstein took inspiration from comic strips, commercial goods, and advertising. Warhol's art was a commentary on our consumerist society and would inspire both outrage and delight alike. He was also fascinated by fame and the famous, creating silk-screen images of celebrities. Warhol challenged accepted ideas of what art should be and was responsible for breaking down the barrier between art and commercial design. When Andy Warhol was alive he was very mysterious about his origins. He would often make up a different story every time he was asked. After his death the truth's about where he came from was released. Andy Warhol was born Andrew Warhola on August 6, 1928 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He was the son of Slovakian immigrants Ondrej and Julia Warhola. He had two older brothers John and Paul. In 1929 Andy's father had his gallbladder removed. The surgery didn't immediately kill him but it did lead to his death years later. It was an ironic sense of foreshadowing...
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...EL RINCON DEL MUNDO The small town of Guadalupe has Spanish history, as does most of the southwest region of the USA. Most of Guadalupe’s jobs center around agriculture. “El Rincon del mundo” which is what the region was thought of, literally mean the edge of the world in English. The name of Guadalupe is derived from either “La virgen de Guadalupe” or “Rancho de Guadalupe”. THE SKINNY BEAR Oso Flaco or (skinny bear) is a salt water lake near Guadalupe, gets it’s name from a story of a Spanish adventurer who kills a bear then eats its meat not knowing that the bear had been poisoned by the local Native Americans. The teens of Guadalupe organize a youth group called “Thee Group B”. “The Group B” has it’s own house band called “Soul Explosion” which eventually changes it’s name to “Congress”. Soul Explosion and Thee Group B have bonfires and party at the outskirts of town. THE DUNE THAT NEVER MOVES In 1923 The Ten Commandments a silent movie by Cecil B. DeMille is shot at the southern end of Guadalupe. A gigantic set is created for the film, complete with 20-ton pharaoh statues and a “City of Pharaohs”. After completion of the film the set is bulldozed with sand giving it term “The Dune that never moves”. To big city folk like those whom make movies there, Guadalupe and her surrounding area looks very different from what they are used to, from it’s farmland, to the fact that in the whole town there is not a single traffic light, to it’s cities building’s...
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...Running head: Vietnamese and English idioms related to the word “Dog”: Vietnamese and English idioms related to the word “Dog”: A contrastive Analysis Student: Nguyen Le Hoang Yen Class: 4A08 Ho Chi Minh City University of Pedagogy Contrastive Analysis Instructor: Mr. Nguyen Ngoc Vu December 31, 2011 Abstract One problem which makes a lot of people have difficulty in communicating with one another is to use idiomatic expressions. As far as you know, idiomatic expressions make English become colorful and full of vitality, so they are often used very much in the native speakers’ speech and in the writing such as news, songs, movies, etc. on the television. However, these idioms are sometimes are not easy to understand and study their meanings, so I decide to study them by studying Vietnamese and English idioms containing the word ‘dog’ and one another reason for this topic to study is that I really like lovely dogs. In my studying this topic, there are two parts such as theoretical background and Vietnamese and English idioms related to the word ‘dog’ which is the main part of my topic. Theoretical background Idioms versus proverbs Idioms and proverbs are frequently used in the daily speech, so we can not find the differences between them clearly. However, we can distinguish idioms and proverbs by basing on some criteria. Idioms * It is a fixed group of words. e.g. the idiom ‘chó chui gầm chạn’ has the same meaning of the word ‘hèn hạ’ (disgraced)....
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...Evan Mandery Professor, John Jay College of Criminal Justice • Why I'm Skipping My Harvard Reunion (A Call to Action) Posted: 05/06/2014 8:51 am EDT Updated: 07/06/2014 5:12 am EDT In a few weeks, the Harvard class of 1989 will be reuniting in Cambridge. There'll be mini-TED talks, a "Taste of New England Dinner," and a chance to sing with the Boston Pops, but I'll be spending the weekend coaching my son's Little League team and hanging out with my family. Reunions seem unnatural to me. I refuse to participate in the charade of pretending to be surprised to see a classmate, and when I'm asked, "What have you been doing?" as one inevitably is, I never know where to draw the line between "stuff" and the full, self-reflective version one might share with a close friend. I think too much detail implies an exaggerated sense of self-worth and is hence a greater faux pas than too little detail, so I've always hewed closer to the "stuff" version, but this runs its own risk of suggesting you don't think the other person is important enough to merit the full telling of your own story. It's a minefield and, in the social media era, one that's entirely avoidable. I've never been unable to locate an old friend or classmate online. It's particularly easy for graduates of Harvard, which maintains a great alumni website--it's where Facebook started, after all. Anyone interested in me can find my professional record on LinkedIn, family photos on Facebook, and many hilarious tweets. If one wanted...
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...PAULO COELHO THE DEVIL AND MISS PRYM Translated by Amanda Hopkinson and Nick Caistor Harper Collins Ptty/stars 77-85 Fulham Palace Road Hammersmith London W6 8JB The HarperCollins website address is: www.fireandwater.com Paulo Coelho's website address is: www.paulocoelho.com.br First published in English by HarperCollinsPwfe/js/ws 2001 This edition published 2002 13579 10 8642 © Paulo Coelho 2000 English translation © Amanda Hopkinson and Nick Caistor Paulo Coelho asserts the moral right to be identified as the author of this work A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library ISBN 0 00 711605 5 Printed and bound in Great Britain by Omnia Books Limited, Glasgow All the characters in this book are fictitious, and any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, is purely coincidental. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, Hail Mary, conceived without sin, pray for us who turn to Thee for help. Amen. ALSO BY PAULO COELHO The Alchemist The Pilgrimage The Valkyries By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept The Fifth Mountain Veronika Decides to Die And a certain ruler asked him, saying, 'Good Master, what shall I do to inherit eternal life?' And Jesus said unto him, 'Why callest thou me good? None is good, save one, that is God.' Luke 18: 18-19 Author's note The first story about division comes from ancient Persia: the god of time, having created the universe, sees...
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