Great Gatsby Reading blog #1

So far in chapters 1-3 I believe that out of the characters identified that Jay gatsby is the hero, Nick Harrawy is the antihero, and  Tom Buchanan is the villain. I have come to this conclusion  after reading the first part of the assigned reading and learning about all of them.
Aside from Nick's  overview in the beginning of the book from what I have read Gatsby seems flawless and definitely the hero. Someone who is talked about so much and is throwing these wnderful crazy parties that everyone loves must be a hero. I believe this is supported in a good way esecially for nick  on page 47 talking how Gatsby was so genuine and just by the way he smiled.
Tom Buchanan can definitely be labeled as the villain. Just in these first three chapters there are several instances where he is immoral mean and just the villain. On page 37 where he breaks myrtle's nose, on page13 he is racist which I guess was common at that time but to me at this time is and know one else seems to be, and on pages 24-26 where it talks about myrtle and his affair.
Jordan Baker I believe is the antihero. because she seems to be playing around wit heverybody and dishonest as it talks about her cheating in her golf tournament and we seem to just not agree with her throughout the chapters
I be lieve Nick is definitely a hero. he doesn't seem bad in anyway and right off on page 1  we learn about his good morals and standards he right away comes off as a hero especially as the narrator.
Daisy and Myrtle so far don't seem to fit any of these titles.

An Artists Style

Justin bua's painting style as a n art style is abstract wit hrealistic features. He paints real seens and people but just distorts them a little bit and uses many different angles to show the scene. Also artistically  his stle isn't extremely bright an vibrant but it does use a lot of bold solid colors to portray the scenes in hiis artwork. Now in the style of his content Bua paints the Black culture primarily. In all of these paintings the people are black. His style of painting people also seems to exaggerate expressions and movements which goes along with his abstract style. Finally his style focuses on the arts of music and dance. portraying instruments and people dancing in his paintings. Overall to sum it up he has an abstract painting style that focuses primarily on the black culture , specifically music and dance  sing bold colors and exaggerated movements and expressions.

death penalty essays contrast paragraph

Kroll and Mencken wirte about the same topic with similar views but in completely different ways. Mencken is all about logos persuasion sharing the facts about the death penalty and why the process should be changed. He isn't totally against the death penalty but against ho long it takes to happen. He supports his claim with many facts and logic behind why the process is wrong, on the other hand Krolls essay is a story  that is all pathos and a first hand account. He shares his emotions and others emotions from every view in thr process of the death penalty. He isn't totally against the death penalty just against the cruel process. He is really able to get his point across in his opinion and is much more effective than menckin in persuadinf the audience.

"sixteen military wives" by the decemberists

This song is about America and the social structure and pyramid of it.

The theme of this song is that in America the greed y government is on top and the poor true heroes and their families are at the bottom.

The audience is supposed to think about how this really happens and how the government is on top not really supporting the people and even celebrities are below them.

"Race for the Prize" by Te Flaming Lips.

I believe the theme of this song is war and how soldiers are fighting for their country and the fate of their people  and their futures. This can be supported by the lyrics where it says " They;re just humans with wives and children" Just how soldiers are everyday people with families and it says- "theirs is ti win if it kills them" and then, "it will kill them". This talks about how soldiers fight to win even if they die and they eventually will die for their cause in some way or another., and finally "forging for the future but to sacrifice their lives" supports how soldiers fightingin a war and winning or losing decides the future for their country.

John F. Kennedy speech- fallacies

Quote- Let both sides unite to heed n all corners of the earth the command of is Isaiah--to "undo the heavvy burdens.. and let the opressed go free.

The type of fallacy that this quote commits is appeal to faith.
It commits this fallacy because it refers to Isaiah a prophet in the bibl appealing to the christian faith.

A speech that commits this many fallacies is able to get away with it because in this case or coutry at this time was very Christian based and pretty much everyone was christian and agreed with the words of the bible, so it made it easy for JFDK to refer to it without any conflict.

visual journal- "Duck and cover"

Overt message- Duck and cover when in danger of an atomic bomb

Covert message- Always do what the civil say, they're there to protect you.

I believe there is no propoganda in this video. It is informative video on how to be protected and safe when the atomic bomb comes. There wasn't much of a covert message, just information on how and where to duck and cover.