The Art World..
The forces of globalization and new technology have affected just about every facet of American Life. New artists from around the world are dragging the art world away from its traditional origins. “High Art” descended from the eras from kings and aristocrats dealing with wealth. Recently, the upbringing of the internet and the rise of digital culture are removing any distinction is left in the art world. Due to the more wide-spread world of art, museum directors are now trying to satisfy a more broader variety of customers and different forms of entertainment which may not be in the same category as your traditional art background.
I find this to be quite interesting. One reason being, i had just done a research paper on the Technology in Art Education, which is also known as Graphic Design. This relates to this article in which i found out many ways the digital end of art and impacted the original “pencils and paints” way of art. I, myself love drawing in the old traditional way with paints and pencils.. I am always open to try different ways of learning to express art. The digital end varys with many different styles to be taught, which i think is great. I am majoring in Art Education, and was told by a teacher to expand my horizon more because in more and more schools they are deleting traditional “studio art” classes and adding more digital and computer graphic classes.
Hunger as Ideology
In Hunger as Ideology, Susan Bordo talks about women and their obssesions with being an “ideal weight”. Todays society makes me sick. The media and press potray the “perfect woman” to be very thin. Woman then become obssesed with this image and try to imitate it in such a way that is extremely unhealthy and dangerous to your body. Susan discovers the roots of eating disorders and distorted body images. While women gain this eating disorder, they feel that it is working and they are becoming more beautiful. Meanwhile they are breaking down their body and becoming ill. No matter how tall, short, thin or heavy you are your body was given to you, you should love it. You do not need to be thin to be perfect. Our society needs to learn to except everybody for who they are and not judge by looks.
What were they thinking?
In Los Lunas, New Mexico two police officers sued Burger King Corporations. It was said that they were served burgers that had been laced with marijuana. Both police officers, Mark Landavazo and Henry Gabldon were dressed in uniform and were riding around in a marked poilce car when they said they were served these burgers. The lawsuit says that these two cops were about halfway done with their meals before they realized that there was marijuana on the meat. A field test kit was used to confirm that the substance was pot and then was brought into the hospital for further evaluation. They arrested three of the Burger King employees and chared them with possesion or an illegal drug and aggravated battery on an officer.
When i read this i was in complete shock. Why would you do something like that. Especially when you see that there are now police officers there buying your food. This defintely was the most ubsurd article that i have read in a long time. If these people gave burgers that were laced with marijuana to cops, imagine how many other people were given these burgers. And if this were the case, that all these other people were served this, why wasnt something reported. I found this article to be most interesting because i’ve never heard of anything like this happening anywhere around here.
Will Hilary run?
My uncle, John Penney, is the editor for the Poughkeepsie Journal. He has won many awards and has gotten to work with and write about many famous people or world wide events. This past few weeks he has worked with Eliot Spitzer, and Hilary Clinton. He wrote an article on Hilary Clinton and did a live video article with her as well. Both were about her choice to run for president. She reported that the interview done with my Uncle John was the best she had in years. The questions he had asked her were very different from everyone elses and it was very informative.
This is the article… my uncle sent it to me ahead of time
ENDORSEMENT: Clinton has served N.Y. well November 3, 2006
Hillary Rodham Clinton has been a strong fighter for New York and should be given the opportunity to serve again as a U.S. senator.Clinton has been on the right side of many critical environmental causes, believing the cleanup of the Hudson River must go forward and fighting against the Bush administration’s attempts to roll back Clean Water and Clean Air regulations. Certainly, she has worked hard on behalf of New York, especially to obtain much-needed funding to help rebuild lower Manhattan after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.
Nevertheless, she still has a lot to accomplish if she is going to make good on important promises. Clinton put creating jobs for upstate New York as one of her major goals during her first term in office. For a number of reasons, that endeavor has failed. While the mid-Hudson Valley has enjoyed a fair amount of economic success, parts of the upstate region continue to lose jobs — and people. Clinton says the Bush administration’s tax-and-spend priorities are partly to blame for the sluggish upstate economy. She also notes she has been stymied in her attempts to get her “New Jobs for New York” bills through the Republican-controlled Congress. Those measures call for heavy government investment to help lure high-tech jobs to upstate through broadband Internet access, job training centers and tax credits for small businesses.
Clinton told the Poughkeepsie Journal editorial board she believes these initiatives “were on the right track,” and she would continue to push for them. Clinton is being challenged by former Yonkers Mayor John Spencer, who had some successes as leader of that city. He addressed many quality-of-life issues, such as removing graffiti and litter from the streets, and worked with private developers to improve the city’s waterfront. But his tenure also was marked by huge fights with the state over school funding for the Yonkers school district, which has struggled financially.
Ironically, liberal Democrats can probably find more reasons to oppose Clinton than, say, moderate Republicans. She voted to give President Bush the power to wage war in Iraq and has said that, after Sept. 11, 2001, she viewed Saddam Hussein differently, believing he posed a grave threat. She serves on the Senate Armed Services Committee, has taken a pro-defense view on many issues and has stopped short of suggesting the United States should set a deadline for bringing the troops home from Iraq. But she also has blamed the Bush administration for a series of strategic mistakes in Iraq. She says there should be a gradual downsizing of U.S. troops to bring more pressure on Iraqi leaders to assume more responsibility over their country. And she believes the Bush administration should have worked more closely with the international community to secure Iraq’s border after Saddam Hussein was toppled.
Clinton is widely viewed as the front-runner for the Democratic presidential nomination in 2008, but she has not revealed her plans beyond her current campaign for the Senate. While the political spotlight is always on the former first lady, Clinton settled in nicely as a powerful representative for New York’s interests and has earned another chance to continue her fight for the Empire State.
this is also the video interview. (my uncle is the voice in the background)
Julie Lindquist
While reading this excerpt, i found it to be quite interesting what Julie did. While working in a bar she recorded and wrote down several conversations between the bar goers. She took note of the difference of class identity and how people act around other people. Julie felt that when she was recording conversations, people were discussions that were more the just “mere-talk”. People go to this bar and their discussions are more about the connection between them and their share on values and the way they think.
I was raised to never change myself for anybody. So i dont agree with people when they feel the need to change themselves just to “fit-in.” You should be okay with yourself and what you’ve been given. You were given your life for a reason and i think you should be grateful for what you have. If you are from a lower or middle class you shouldnt have to change the way you present yourself of the way you talk, just to fit in. The higher class, i feel, arent better then anyone else in any way. Maybe they do have more money, but money doesnt them better then you.
Richard Rodriguez
I found Richard Rodriguez’s story to be very interesting. I liked how he showed the differences between his home and school lives. I found it to be interesting how when sharing his thoughts about his school interests at home his parents felt threatened and humiliated when listening. I disagree with him on the bilingual point of view although. He says that, “..classes conducting Spanish will only reinforce Spanish-speaking students’ separteness from mainstream American life.” I feel being bilingual is extremely important in todays world. Our country keeps getting flooded with imigrants who speak spanish. I feel it should be mandatory in all schools to teach kids other languages. If it wasnt for my High School i wouldnt have got through my job. Ive worked at the Watermill Catering Bussiness for almost 2 years now and everybody that works in the kitchen is Mexican so you must know atleast alittle spanish to get by in that place.
Rodriguez insists that he isnt only writing about his own experience, but about more universal and general experiences as well. He says that we are all changed and re-formed by education. That we all move away from our past to some extent as we gain in our future. I completely agree with Rodriguez. You are brought up by your parents in the house so most of the time your influenced by their beliefs, values and opinions at a young age. When you move your way through school you start to learn the facts about things and begin to gain your own opinion. For instance with the presidents, as a kid i kinda just agreed with what my parents said and didnt have a care in the world to who our president was. But as i grew older and learned the facts and truth about such things as our presidents i began to disagree with my parents. I grew my own beliefs, my own morals and values and started to shy away from what my parents thought.
R.I.P. Tom #86
At 1:01 am, October 23rd 2006, Tom Herzberg was pronounced dead. One of Sachem High Schools alumni from the Class of 2006 was shot in a car chase due to a drug – related problem. My graduating class was 1500 students, in my sophmore year we had 1 taken from us, in my junior year 2 were taken from us, in or senior year 2 more was taken from us, and now we are all off to college, one more was take from us. As well as 3 teachers throughout my years through High School. Tom Herzberg (besides hanging out with a bad group of kids), dressed well, was very sports oriented, and had very good grades. In our senior year he was involved with the typical stereotype of “dirtbags”.
This past Monday Tom Herzberg and a passanger were driving down Patchouge-Holbrook road in Holbrook, Long Island. It was around 10:30 when 911 was called and the passanger reported that they were beeing chased down and being shot at. The police say that Tom was shot in the head and while being shot, lost control of the car and crashed into a patch of trees. He was rushed to the hospital was announced dead at 1:01 in the morning. It is to be said that it was due to a drug deal. RIP Thomas Herzberg you will be forever missed.
Love Letters
As taken back as i am with parts of this excerpt i also can relate to her in a sense. I found it to be unbelievable that she went from being a heoirn-addicted prostitute to being a teacher. Thats incredible. I feel that writing for her was her gateway to happiness. It had made her realize many things, even though she may not have sent any letters, it did help her. Many would think that its so crazy to write and write that may letters and never send them. I, myself do/have done something similar to this. I’ve sent things known as “Unsent Letters” to my friends, family, boyfriend, etc. It helps me to vent. Say i had an issue with such a person or wanted to tell them something but never actually “reveal” it, i’d write. It helped me to express my feelings in a sense that, thats what i’d like to say but never really could. It really helped alot. Overall, i liked the excerpt Love Letters. This, just like What I Want My Words To Do To You, shows that even though you my mess up in life, you can learn from your own mistakes.
More Darfur Info
I know i had a article about Darfur in here a few weeks ago but im really interested in it and very involved so i like to be updated.
This article touches on the subject of how ill-equipped and undermanned troops are while trying to protect Darfur. They dont stand a chance in fighting any other group of troops.
Mix-Up
Posted on Ocotber 4th 2006, it was said that a baby-sitter, her first day on the job, messed up roayly. Not knowing she had picked up the wrong boy from school. Check it out
When i found this link i was shoked! Thinking to myself, 1) How does a child just willingly walk away with a complete stranger? and 2) How does a resposible adult baby-sitter mess up that bad? When i was a child i know i was told never to go off with strangers even let alone TALK to strangers. As one grows you would think they get more intellegent. Your going to tell me that the baby-sitter didnt even think to ask the little boy his name? I mean come on, how careless cn you be? I know it may have been a “careless mistake” on her part but that is defintely the most terrible mess up i’ve ever heard off. I wouldnt be able to trust this baby-sitter ever again.
