Cuckoo's Nest #2

I think McMurphy is winning in his rivalry against Big Nurse at the end of Part One because it is obvious that Nurse Ratchet is becoming annoyed and frustrated with McMurphy.  Although she hasn't lost her "cool" yet, the reader can tell that she is becoming very annoyed. At this point of the story, I think Chief is starting to "let loose" at little more. McMurphy has made him want to interact with others too and we can see this on page 136 when Chief raises his hand in the vote, which surprises everybody, including Nurse Ratchet.

Cuckoo's Nest #1

I think that in One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Nurse Ratchet is going to be the villain because it seems like she is cruel towards the patients. For example, the author says, "You saw what she can do to us...If you don't answer she just smiles and makes a note in her little notebook and then she-oh, hell!" (69). I think that the hero in the story is going to be Chief Brodmen because he like to listen to people and he is very quite. I think that this is going to work for his benefit because in the end I bet he will use all of this information that he hears to others' benefits. For the antihero, I think that is going to be McMurphy. He comes into the mental hospital acting strange and different than the other patients, but he also wants to challenge or "break" Nurse Ratchet, so that's why I think his intentions will end up good, and he will be the antihero.

Black Bottom Stomp by Jelly Roll Morton

This music is very upbeat and cheerful. I could defiantly see this music at one of Gatsby's parties because I envision a lively and social scene which is how the parties are described as in the book. This song would create a  happy mood and it would defiantly work for the parties because the parties are full of excitement and fun-just like the song. 

Final Gatsby Post

1. Do you think there was a hero in the book? Why or why not?
I do not think there was a hero in this book because there was never any acts of heroism in this book. People might say Gatsby was a hero, but if you look at what he was doing, trying to break up a marriage, it seems like something an antihero, or even a villain would do. Other people might say that Nick was the hero, but Nick never played a significant role in plot- he was just there for the narration. Most of the characters have hero-characteristics but they have also have characteristics that would oppose their good characteristics.

2. Why do you think we supported the Gatsby-Daisy relationship when it was an affair?
I think we supported the relationship because Daisy was being cheated on from the beginning, so it was almost like payback for Tom. We wanted Daisy to receive some justice from the horrible way Tom treated her.

3. What do you think the significance of the green light is?
The green light represents Gatsby's dream of winning back Daisy and he's yearning for the past to repeat itself.  Gatsby's yearning caused many problems in the book, which tells us that Fitzgerald might have been hinting to us that the past cannot be repeated, and we must let it go.

4. Why do you think Fitzgerald used Nick as the narrator?
I think Fitzgerald used Nick to narrate the story because Nick somehow related to all the characters. For example, Nick was neighbors with Gatsby, cousins with Daisy, went to college with Tom, and was somewhat in love with Jordan Baker. Nick was a good way to get information to the reader because of his connections with the other main characters.

Gatsby Blog post #2

1) The purpose of Meyer Wolfsheim as a character is to give us a little background of Gatsby. His character gives us more information on Gatsby with things like Gatsby's occupation and how he got so wealthy. He makes us see Gatsby as more of a shady character then we thought we would.

2) The background of Gatsby and Daisy's past lets the reader know the reason behind everything that Gatsby does. Things like the lavish parties, big house, and moving close to Daisy were all part of Gatsby winning Daisy back.

3) The more and more background we get of Gatsby makes him more and more of a shady character to the reader.

4) My impression of Gatsby changed in the sense that I didn't like him any more or less, I just found him more of a suspicious character now because of all his shady background.

Gatsby Blog post #1

In the first three chapters of The Great Gatsby, Nick is the hero, Gatsby is the antihero, and Tom is the villain. Nick is the hero because he is the narrator of the story and the narrator is almost always the hero. Nick also shares similar values with the audience, which makes him the hero. For example, when Nick was describing his emotions to the reader during dinner in the first chapter, he says "I was conscious of wanting to look squarely at everyone, and yet to avoid all eyes" (15). This feeling happens to me all the time, so with that I think Nick is the hero. I think Gatsby is the antihero because we don't know much about him. We know he stays out of the party scene, and for that we give him respect, and we also know the book is called The Great Gatsby, so he has to somehow play a big role in the book. An antihero is someone the reader usually doesn't know much about at the beginning, and that is Jay Gatsby. Tom is the villain in my eyes because everything he does is against my values. He cheats on his wife and flaunts it around, and he is abusive to his mistress. For example, when Nick and Tom were in the city partying, "Making a short deft movement, Tom Buchanan broke [Mrs. Wilson's] nose with his open hand" (37). This is blatant abuse and it is not tolerated in this society, so Tom Buchanan immediately becomes the villain.

Bua paintings

Bua paints with organic shapes. Everything kind of flows together. His style is very unique, not quite abstract, but not generic. Bua uses vibrant colors, and I would also describe his work as modern.

Sixteen Military Wives- the Decemberists

What is this song about? (subject matter)
I think this song is about the war in Iraq and how it seems like no one cares about, all people care about is celebrities.

What is the theme of this song?
They want us to think about how shallow our country is, and how all of our news doesn't have any importance. We are oblivious to important things going on in the world because we could care less about them.

Race for the Prize- the Flaming Lips

What is the these of this song?
The theme of this song is about  finding the cure to cancer and how stressful it is. The title "Race for the Prize" is just like "Race for the Cure" which is a renown race for raising money for cancer research. The song's demeaning tone towards the scientists show that they are becoming obsessed with finding a cure, and they just want the fame and fortune that comes with the discovery.

Fallacy in Patrick Henry's Speech

"We have been trying.... We have held....Shall we resort... What terms shall we find.."

All of these combined quotes from Patrick Henry's Speech are examples of the fallacy argument from omniscience. This means that he uses words like "we" "our" "us" ect. to make it seem like everyone as a whole is going along with him. This is incorrect because most of the people he was speaking too did not want to follow him, so this is a fallacy.

This speech is effective because of the fallacy. Henry makes it seem like everyone is following him, and going along with what he is saying which is not the case at all. Because it seems like everyone is following, everyone really does start to listen to him and follow him.

Cartoon #2

Overt Message?
The overt message was telling people to duck and cover their head and neck if there was an atomic bombing.

Covert Message?
The government knows what's best for you.

I think that this cartoon is neither propaganda or persuasion. I think that it is more informative-telling the kids to duck and cover to preserve their lives.

Cartoon #1

Overt Message?
The overt message was that oil and competition makes the world go 'round.

Covert Message?
The covert message was saying how great America is and how smoothly the country ran because of capitalism and the big companies competing for lots of things.

This is propaganda because the cartoon is trying to persuade people into buying more oil. The producer's of this cartoon use bandwagon propaganda because they are saying that everyone in America uses oil, and that everyone in America is competing for the best oil, so you should too.

4 Quotes

 Quotes:  466, 476, 482, 483, 

466: The broad messes of a population are more amenable to the appeal of rhetoric than to any other force. ADOLPH HITLER (1889-1945), Mein Kampf, 1933.

This quote spoken by Hitler is actually quite wise. He is saying that the way the information is delivered has more importance than the actual information. This is proven through Hilter's movement and how he gained millions of follows because of his powerful speaking skills. The things he was saying were horrible, and many people might not have agreed with him, but they still followed him because of his message delivery.  This shows that is rhetoric is used correctly, it can seriously sway people's decisions.

Propaganda

-The overt message is to cook more and not eat bread.

-The covert message is that they want consumers to eat less bread so that they can feed the soldiers at war. When the soldiers are fed, they will fight better, which can mean victory. That is why it says "The kitchen is the key to victory."

-These two display in propaganda because its a uniting thing, and they advocate for change.

"Clampdown" by the Clash

-This song is about propaganda and the Germans because it says, "we will train out blue eyed man to be young believers."

-The music is kind of rebellious because after it says "I am not working for clampdown" there is a small sort of rebellious guitar solo that is very short and it doesn't match the rest of the song, so it is like a rebellion.

-It relates to propaganda because there a multiple messages in the song, and they are trying to make everyone believe or support what they are saying.