Month: March 2018

REFLECTION ON PEER’S PRESENTATION:

I personally enjoyed Taylor’s presentation about tattoos being art. I can really appreciate that because my family loves tattoos, and a connection to my presentation, she talked about how tattoos can carry a powerful meaning. My Dad and my brother both have tattoos dedicated to my sister, who we lost, so I know exactly where Taylor is coming from.  It made me think more about tattoos and all of the different meanings that they could have. I could judge someone’s tattoo and it could have a whole different meaning. It’s that person expressing themselves in a unique way, it truly is art. It almost inspires me to follow behind my brother and my Dad to go get one. Taylor explained very well how tattoos are art through her essay and her photos she made it very clear and easy to connect and understand her ideas. I also really enjoyed Nicki and Carla’s presentation about the piano being art. I could totally understand what they were trying to say. Straight connection to me, music! I enjoyed the self connections that they made with the piano and how it brought them closer together as friends having it in common being one of their favorite songs. Through their essay they clearly explained the connection it had with art and they made it all the more easier to enjoy with the audio that they sampled. Music is indeed art, it is beautiful.

SCREENSHOTS OF EXERCISE 2- Screenshots of my Prompt 2

QUESTIONS

*Do you see patterns?- I found that I do see patterns, I tend to repeat myself a lot, But I can see where automatically I try not to use the same exact wording that I used before when I was talking about the same ideas.

*Do you rely on certain devices more than others?-I feel like the most two common devices that I use in my writing, especially in this piece is, again the repetitive one, and the use of “however”. I always want to use some from of “but” when I am trying to either combine my sentences together or when I am transitioning.

*Are there passages that are hard to follow?- Right off the bat I would say no because I am over confident in my writing…that is until I read it out loud to myself. I find myself going back and trying to read things but they don’t make any sense. Or, like this time, when I was reading out loud to myself I noticed, “wow I feel like I just said that”. This helped me, I made notes of when that would happen and now I can go back and re-word those sentences better so that they don’t so they don’t sound so redundant. That “repetitive but not repetitive” tool I feel will really help me iron out the wrinkles in my paragraphs that I feel overlap each other and sound the same. With rearranging the sentences, I can keep the concept of the same ideas but still read them as different.

PART 1: I feel that  Jonah Lehrer’s main argument is that art can be used to demonstrate and or help solve things in a scientific world.

-I feel like this guy is right. This is not only because I strongly feel that art can be brought in to any and every situation to help in most any way, but also because Lehrer makes some great point. I love especially when he talks about Bohr’s ideas and that the form of science was always going to be different, it depends on how you look at it. Just like a cube! A cube is part of geometry’s greatest hits, its used all the time in all kinds of art! I feel like he also backs it up when saying that in science, we think we know something, but there always turns out to be something more to look at, a different way to see something, to discover more. Bringing it back to the cube idea, it’s gonna look different at different angles, you’re going to find something new about it, it’s angles, or the way the light hits in in certain positions when you look at it in various ways.

PART 2:

• Heisenberg’s uncertainty principle – It is the principle that, the position and the velocity of an object cannot both be measured exactly, at the same time, even in theory.
• “The bridging principle” –  the difference between a mixture’s components and its classifications. It is used to classify untested mixtures.
• Reductionism- The practice of analyzing and describing a “bigger picture” complex phenomenon with smaller phenomena that are held to represent a simpler or more fundamental level
• Synapse- A connection between two nerve cells, that has about a minute wide gap across which impulses pass by diffusion of a neurotransmitter.
• Epiphenomenon- A second reaction that arises from but does not causally influence a process, in particular.
• Holistic perspective- A perspective where many different variables are taken into define and create a picture of the culture as a whole.
• Metaphor- It is a figure of speech, like a sentence explaining another sentence in a way that the reader can relate to better to help them understand the idea of the original sentence.  

PART 3: 

I chose  Alexander Calder as my artist. The role he/his art plays in this essay is proof that at different angles, art doesn’t look the same, there is more to see. From different view points his piece, the Black Peacock, separate pieces on the mobile look like static spots of various sizes, but when you view of from different directions you see that actually each one “stimulates only the category of the cell that is selectively responsive to the direction in which the spot is moving.” It helps in supporting the essays idea that, art and science is different at different views, you never know everything and there is always more to see and know.

I chose Niels Bohr as my scientist. The role he/his ideas plays in this essay are very strong. In my opinion it’s like the back bone idea! Bohr, as mentioned previously, had the idea about electrons saying that the form that they to take depended on how one was to look at them. This is very easily comparable to the cube idea in saying that when you take different angles in looking at it, you’re going to get different results. And the fact that he and long been fascinated by cubist paintings anyway further helps in proving Lehrer’s point even more! They were talking about extremely similar if not the same ideas, connecting the cubist paintings idea to the idea that science can be viewed at different angles and can bee seen as different things.

1. The Immediate Context: “Necessary Edges: Arts, Empathy, and Education” was first published on the online news and blog website, World-Post, which was launched during the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland in January of the year 2014. The Author, Yo-Yo Ma, is a very talented artist in the musical department. He has won many awards, proving that he really knows what he is doing. When you really know what you’re doing, you’re usually passionate about it, you understand it, Yo-Yo Ma knows art. No wonder he wrote this essay. He has valid points through experience he can throw in there to prove his ideas.
2. The Imposed Context: I believe that the imposed context is due to art. In my personal reading experience I noticed myself making many connections what my last essay that I wrote about art. Ii could make many of the same arguments. I believe that the purpose for reading this text was to further expand my beliefs on art and what role does it have to play in the world and in education, not just in a suffering world. I noticed when I was annotating I almost wanted to go back and look at my copy of  Southan’s essay to make some connections. I am getting this over all idea in my head, this voice saying, “Art matters damn it!”.
3. The Internal Context: I believe that the rhetorical situation, again, is art. That art truly is more than what the eye can see, like I made valid points to in my recent written essay, art is powerful.  The scope, or subject matter of the essay, to me, is like the last sentence question at the end of Ma’s bio page, “Does art have a role to play in the world? In education?” Like, “yeah, Ma, you can play music? So what?” But Ma’s got all these awards up his sleeve, his knowledge, he knows what music can do for people, what it can do to them, what you can learn. Ma knows art and about the important role that it plays. Making connections to art with empathy, which also plays an important role in the world, using this argument to support how important art is!
4. Three Unfamiliar Words of References to the Gloss: Bolster: “Noun. Anything resembling this in form or in use as support.”- Dictionary.com I think it is used in the text to connect supporting similar ideas together.  Bandwidth: “Noun. Mental capacity; intelligence.”- Dictionary.com In the text i think it is meaning that we as humans only have a small idea and or knowledge about the idea of conditions, because it is used in the sentence, “within a very narrow bandwidth of conditions”. Lemmings: “Noun. A small, short tailed, thickset rodent related to voles, found in Arctic tundra. A person who unthinkingly joins a mass movement, especially a headlong rush to destruction.” – Google Dictionary. In the text I think it’s making a connection to the animal meaning and the myth that they have to run off he edge off cliffs because in the text it is used in the sentence, “the middle will go over the edge like lemmings”.
5. Reflection: I always enjoy annotating and glossing the text because they both help me understand better what I am reading about. With annotating, I can look back at the margin notes I have written and recall ideas that I had about the reading, helping me understand it better and remember what I had read about. Glossing helps me understand better what I read my understanding new words that I didn’t know before when I was reading, helping me better understand the context of he sentences. Overall I am not great at remember what I have read afterwards, so I can really appreciate having these skills to help me become a stronger reader.