Still Fighting AIDS
AIDS is a serious epidemic that still affects million and millions of people. Recently, AIDS has lost the spotlight and funds. The author uses details and language to support his message of not forgetting the AIDS fight.
The author uses details about AIDS to help prove that stopping funds will only increase the epidemic. With funds, and the medicine bought with the money, AIDS is now at a 96% non transmitting rate. (Hope that makes sense?) The author also warned about how many more people could become infected if the funds are allowed to fall any lower then they already have. According to the article we are at a 5 year low in AIDS funding.
The author uses language, specifically juxtaposition, to support his message. By putting the benefits of the life saving funds and how they have poured in for the last 10 years to the tragedies that could occur if the funds cease. His use of language here really creates a feeling of need to send money to help the AIDS epidemics.
Monday, November 28, 2011
November Response to Course Material
I think we finished Death of a Salesman up? Is that where we left off? (Rhetorical Question) Its where I'm starting. My final impressions of the novel aren't as defined as from The American Dream. My ideas and general feeling of understanding is pretty crappy to be honest. I get it, but I still feel like its just out of reach. Its kind of like fog, you see it and you think you understand what you're talking about but as soon as you try to grasp it or get a closer look it just isn't there. Frustrating really. I hope we get to revisit this text and discuss it more.
Ceremony. I would describe this novel as cerebral diarrhea... It was all over the place! I understand that its a different kind of story telling, but it confused me at first. So today as Mrs H was informing us of connections and what-not I thought it seemed logical. I will always wonder how much of it is conscious decisions, subconscious decisions or just plain coincidence. It seems to me that so far Silko is creating som kind of commentary on Native Americans (duh) and how they view themselves as a stagnant culture and that they should be more flexible? I don't know. We shall see!
Ceremony. I would describe this novel as cerebral diarrhea... It was all over the place! I understand that its a different kind of story telling, but it confused me at first. So today as Mrs H was informing us of connections and what-not I thought it seemed logical. I will always wonder how much of it is conscious decisions, subconscious decisions or just plain coincidence. It seems to me that so far Silko is creating som kind of commentary on Native Americans (duh) and how they view themselves as a stagnant culture and that they should be more flexible? I don't know. We shall see!
Sunday, November 13, 2011
November 14th Open Prompt
1990. Choose a novel or play that depicts a conflict between a parent (or a parental figure) and a son or daughter. Write an essay in which you analyze the sources of the conflict and explain how the conflict contributes to the meaning of the work. Avoid plot summary.
Fathers and sons don’t always get along. In Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman, Willy and Biff don’t get along at all. Miller uses their now strained relationship to further his analysis of the American dream.
Willy has a typical American Dream for his family. He wants them to have financial success. Willy’s view of the American Dream is that a person can be successful just by being liked. He tries to push this on his family by stressing popular sports like football and not caring about school and an education. Willy also uses this idea as a basis for his affairs. Bribing secretaries with stockings, Willy gets sex and quick access to the buyers. His success at being a salesman comes from the secretaries liking him. This new American Dream ideal highly favors money over values and enjoyment of ones work. On the other hand, Willy’s son Biff has a very different view of the American Dream. He finds satisfaction in going out west and working on the farms. Biff claims that he likes being out there and using his hands. Biff represents the old American Dream where making money wasn’t as important as your values and happiness.
Willy, the father, and Biff, the son, used to be a loving pair. However after Biff discovers his father’s affair, they become estranged. Their symbolism as the new and old American Dreams brings them to a head on collision of dislike for each other. Biff is unforgiving of his father’s affair because of its unethical ways in pursuit of more money. Willy on the other hand is upset with Biff ruining his potential by going out west. He thinks that Biff is wasting his time making no money and can’t see that it is what Biff wants to do.
Willy and Biff’s relationship with each other creates a deeper meaning in the commentary that Miller creates about the old and new American Dreams.
Fathers and sons don’t always get along. In Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman, Willy and Biff don’t get along at all. Miller uses their now strained relationship to further his analysis of the American dream.
Willy has a typical American Dream for his family. He wants them to have financial success. Willy’s view of the American Dream is that a person can be successful just by being liked. He tries to push this on his family by stressing popular sports like football and not caring about school and an education. Willy also uses this idea as a basis for his affairs. Bribing secretaries with stockings, Willy gets sex and quick access to the buyers. His success at being a salesman comes from the secretaries liking him. This new American Dream ideal highly favors money over values and enjoyment of ones work. On the other hand, Willy’s son Biff has a very different view of the American Dream. He finds satisfaction in going out west and working on the farms. Biff claims that he likes being out there and using his hands. Biff represents the old American Dream where making money wasn’t as important as your values and happiness.
Willy, the father, and Biff, the son, used to be a loving pair. However after Biff discovers his father’s affair, they become estranged. Their symbolism as the new and old American Dreams brings them to a head on collision of dislike for each other. Biff is unforgiving of his father’s affair because of its unethical ways in pursuit of more money. Willy on the other hand is upset with Biff ruining his potential by going out west. He thinks that Biff is wasting his time making no money and can’t see that it is what Biff wants to do.
Willy and Biff’s relationship with each other creates a deeper meaning in the commentary that Miller creates about the old and new American Dreams.
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