During my senior I have learned so many new and beneficial ways to evaluate, analyze, and compose literature. I have grown as a student and became prepared and confident about going into college in a few short months. English IV has taught me who I am as a writer, and as an audience to literature. I believe that this year has helped my find my voice when it comes to expressing my ideas through essays.
For me, the most important aspect was the research paper. The process of writing a ten page paper was completely new to me, and going through it allowed me to practice time management, but more importantly I learned how to insert my own voice in a paper that was consumed by research. Through this paper I also learned an abundant amount of information on drug consumption and depression, which are topics that are relevant and will continue to become more relevant as I go into the next chapter of my life. Previously, I was unaware of details in this topic.
Having experienced this assignment, I now realize that an English paper can be beneficial not just as a grade, but more so as knowledge that can be carried with me throughout the rest of my life. This growth as a student and a person has prepared me to head to college and live independently.
Friday, April 29, 2016
Thursday, April 21, 2016
Blog #26: Art & the Artist Prewriting
CURIOSITA
As a child I was always drawing portraits of fictional characters and cartoons. I grew up watching cartoons and reading comics every day with my dad. I started to make up my own fictional characters and sometimes trace the ones that I saw in the comic section of the newspaper. That has shaped into my fascination with the way that animated movies, films, and cartoon look today. Some look so real and some fictional characters are so unique and creative, but every character follows the same theme. I have always been interested in the way that artists make fictional characters and animated scenes.
This has shaped my view of art because it made me realize that artists not only have to have the artistic ability to create appealing drawings, but they sometimes start from scratch and need to make fictional ideas come to life, going off nothing but their own creativity.
As a child I had a fascination with different handwriting. I used to sit and watch my mom write just because the way she moved the pen in such an elegant way fascinated me. I always wondered how she got her letters to be so uniform and look so professional. I used to watch my grandma write in “old time” cursive and try decipher her handwriting before I could even read cursive. And my dad just wrote in all uppercase letters, which was not as interesting, but definitely easy to read. It interested me how every individual has different handwriting. This effects what I’m curious about now because I still notice handwriting, fonts, calligraphy, or even grafiti and think about the person that wrote the letters in the way they did.
This has shaped my artistic view because it made me realize that there is a different hand behind every handwriting. People have their own handwriting and a lot of times it is that way for a reason. Handwriting like calligraphy is hard to master and takes hard work. I realized that not just words can be art, but the letters can be too.
THE VALUE OF ART: 3 quotes
1."The activity of art is based on the fact that a man receiving through his sense of hearing or sight another man's expression of feeling, is capable of experiencing the emotion which moved the man who expressed it" (Guest 1).2. "There are. . . notorius problems with thinking art is just about evoking feelings" (Guest 1).
3. "Art's value. . . is to be found in the value of its own existence, independent of its doing anything for us" (Guest 2).
TED TALK
What is art? Art is something that changes the way we think about culture and ourselves. Art is a powerful image that can confront an individual on controversial ideals.
What is the artist’s role in society? Artist’s can open up a world of possibility for people by being different. Thelma is inspired by some of the first black artists, and they showed her what she was about to enter into. They look at things in different points of view to engage their audience and change views.
How can we effectively utilize art in our lives? We can use art to ask ourselves questions and really think about the answers. We can also strive to understand how images work and work through these images. We can also utilize art to take a look at the past, present, and future.
ICEBERG
Surface- crafts, literature, language
Shallow- concept of time, nonverbal communication, concept of beauty
Deep-concept of “self”, concept of past and future, definition of obscenity
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