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.

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.

"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.