Tuesday, November 29, 2011

Brave New World #2

Ther are have been several questions that have come to my mind while reading Brave New World. One of these questions is imilar to what many people are probably asking, and that has to do with running out of soma.

Question # 1.) How would  someones feelings toward another change if they ran out of soma?

I hypothesized that if someone were to run out of soma there usually feelingles feelings with little emotin towards other wuld become like that of a normal person in todays societies and perhaps a little stronger because of the lack of it for so long. All that emotion has to be building up inside them, all those real emotions and expressions. Ifound support for this hypothesis on pg. 126 where  it says about Lenina toward the white man at the peblo; "Lenina was smiling at him ; such a nice-looking boy, she was thinking, and a really beautiful body." I believe if Lenina was  on her Soma she would not think and feel this way about the man.

Question #2.) Could someone from the Onestate survive in the outside world and if so in what conditions would they be living?

One would think that someone from the oestate being so reliant on soma and brainwashed to believe and behave in strict ways and thinking that th Onestate is the way the world was supposed to be that living outside of the Onestate would drive them crazy, they would not know how to survive , or they would become ill from withdraw of all their meicines and behaviors in the onestate. I hypothesized that someone from the onestate that moved out would kind of go crazy and go in a downward piral and not survive or conform an outside society to be like the Onestate. Ifound a possibility of what might happen to a person once from the onestate who moved out in pages 127-131. In these pages about the young man that Lenina and Bernard meet at the pueblo they go int his mother's house and are immediately disgusted at the condition of the house and the women and her hygiene. This is a direct example of what could happen to someone who moved out of the onestate.

Question #3.)This is a question to whch I so far couldn't really find any bit of an answer unless I missed it it, but; Why do the people in the onestate live very healthy lives with almost no impairments  and then suddenly die? This came up on page 120 wher Lenina and Bernard see the very old man climbing the ladder at the pueblo, and Bernard says, "youth almost unimpaired till sixty, and then crack! the end." I hypothesize that it was maybe because of so much medication and brainwash but I am still unsure.

Sunday, November 27, 2011

Brave new world entry #1

In Brave Ne World they have created conformity by genetically regulating all human embryods before they are born so that they will conform to fit into a cetrtainsocial class that consists of virtually exactly alike people physically and mentally.

They have reduced conflict in regards to religion relationships and individual rights simply by eliminatingthose three things. In "Brave New World" there are no religions, norelationships, and no individual rights therefore there can be no conflict over swomething that doesn't exist.

In "Brave New World" they have forced happiness and conformity through using the drug soma to make the people happy andforget any troubles they are having, also through their hypotizing recordings that they listen to while they sleep is how they force them to be happy and conformed.

I believe that this "Brave New World" society is technically a utopia because all people are happy because they take soma that maks them  forget anything that is unhappy. Also there is no conflict because theres nothing to have conflict over and theres plenty of leisure time to make them feel free. So overall I would say A Brave New World" is a utopia but it's alsmost like it's a forced utopia.

Ethnography

The benefits of an emic perspective is that the reader or listener can see what reallt goes on inside the culture and their leaders and what everythimg really means.

An etic perspective can show how something seems to look and be, and shows what everybody else thinks about it.

I believe an emic perspecctive is better because it gives the best perspective by going inside the heads and inside what actually goes on in the culture.

Othering

The west would create the idea of the east as the "other" in order to make the west seem normal and the best. Othering unifies the country by saying we are right and normal while the east is weird and wrong. Othering is a big part of our world today and happens not only between countries but cultures and sports and groups and clubs. We other so that we may feel right and better about ourselves and we can't see everyone as equals.

2+2=5 by Radiohead

This song is lyrically talking about how when you don't pay attention the world has changed and is changing to completely different ways than what it was. It's about an opposite world that doesn't mak sense.

The music helps push the message by being very different from what usual music sounds like.

It's an allusion to 1984 because 2+2=5 isn't right but if people don't know what really is right they will think 5 is the correct answer just how in 1984 nothing is factually correct but since nobody knows the correct facts they are forced to believe the false ones.

Love Language

1. Some of my assumptions were that the girl was very shy and she had some sort of impairments.

2. This is a cultural conflict because the deaf culture and the speaking culture : the conflict is that the guy wants to talk to her but he cant because she is deaf.

3. The external conflict is the man having trouble commmunicating with the girl.

4. An internal conflict is the man verse his conscious and shyness to talk to the girl.

5. The conflict was resolved by the notes that lead to hm gettting to listen to her song and realize that she was deaf.

Sunday, November 20, 2011

Rain on the scarecrow

This song is about a family man who grew up on this farm and gave everything he had, blood, sweat, and tears only to lose it to some bad person.

This song might adress poverty or lack of freedom , and maybe sickness

Mellencamp's use of iagery/symbolism is somewhat realistic and symbolic.

Mellencamp uses a generally negative connotation in all his words to make the song sound sad.

Sunday, November 6, 2011

"The Egg"

1- The type of man that the narrator's father was before he married was a very nice, cheerful kind man who was very passionate and loving. The changes that he went through after marriage were changes of his mind and emotions. He wasn't as cheerful and happy, and kind and was unsatisfied.

2.-The narrator doesn't really like chickens, after growing up with them , he kind of hates them  because of bad memories with them and that they are useless and a waste.

3.-He claims to have had trouble, even as a child because he grew up on a gloomy farm witnessing the cycles of life and death.

4.-The "grotesques" in the story play a role of that showing how his father tried to entertain by exploiting things to gain money. Metaphor for use of the lower class.

Friendship in America

Some reasons that Americans are perceived this way is because Americans are friendly at first , very friendly, because they care about their ego and what people think  about them , so once they think you like them  they don't need to grow the friendship. Also Amercans like to be independent, and just because they are independent  doesn't mean they aren't friends it just means thet don't spend as much time  with friends  for every little thing. Also Americans move and change a lot so their so their friendships change, and they never have time to grow their friendships, so it seems they don't value friendship.

This land is your land by Woodie Guthrie

1.- Guthrie's message in this song is a collectivist message because in the song he talks about how the land "this land was made for you and me" meaning it was made for everybody to share together.

2.-I find this song to be anti-government because  the government has so many restrictions on the people and the land that we can't  access it, and be free and share it . When the song looks at the land wanting ot to be free and for everybody.