Blog #21 Quotes about Music

Ned Rorem: The Contentious Union of Music and Literature"A song is a bastard," Ned Rorem said in 1998. "It is uniting two art forms that did not ask to be forced together."
Bob Kaufman: The Enigmatic Beat Poet"Remembrances, essays, and tributes by and about the man credited with coining the term 'beatnik' are scattershot through Beat histories and memoirs."
Sekou Sundiata: Defying Labels"It's damn near impossible to understand what contemporary black poets are doing without understanding what's going on with black music."
Bob Dylan: "I'm a poet, and I know it""Anything I can sing, I call a song. Anything I can't sing, I call a poem."
Yusef Komunyakaa: An Argument Against Simplicity"Song lyrics brought me to the power of words," Komunyakaa said, "the songs taught me to listen."

Blog #20 David Olere Art Gallery

Which piece of art do you view as the most powerful? Explain your answer.
The most powerful one for me was selection for gas chamber. To me watching a child scream for their mother to not be killed, or having a mother watching their child be killed is something you should be sent straight to hell for.

Do you think art depicting the Holocaust makes people more aware of this terrible tragedy? Why or why not?
I think it does, because art is something that people can take in different ways, youre able to see more hurt and more pain

What effect does the art have on a person viewing it for the first time?
Anger, hurt, sympathy

Compare and contrast two pieces of Olere's paintings. Note the similarities and differences.
All of his paintings are to show a horrible event, but in some the people are skinner and bigger.

Blog #19 Holocaust Pictures

When I see pictures of the Holocaust I feel anger, hurt, and sympathy for the people who went through that horrible event. It makes me feel sick to think that people were killed because they were jewish, and didn't look the way that a certain group of people thought they should. The pictures of concentration camps, gas chambers, and death marches are sad enough to make me want to cry; espicially when they are of children.

Blog #18 3 female indian poets

Their lives are reflected heavely in their writings. Arundhati Roy saw something she didn't like in her governement and wrote about it. They all write about their countries and the things that are going on in them. They also write about enpowering women who have been pushed back into the shadows.

Blog #17 Adichie

How did growing up in Nigeria influence Adichie's writings?
Their politics and her life influeinced how she wrote. I also beleive that she writes because writing chose her.

What themes does Adichie address in her writings?
family, religion, politics

Blog #16 Mothers and Daughters

In the selection Girl, the mother is really hard on her daughter to be more than she is. My mom always want me to do my best and be all that I can be, but my mom doesn't talk to me the way her mother did. The mother in the writing kept telling her daughter she would be a slut if she didn't do the things her mother said and i think that was just too demanding, it seemed like she wanted her daughter to be perfect. I know that parents want us to be amazing, but I feel that if a parent is too strict with their child they could end up rebillioning and become a really bad adult. A parent has to be both strict and understanding.

Blog #14 Politacal Cartoons

The very first cartoon that I saw was the first one i wrote on my list and that was the earthquake in haiti. In the cartoon it shows obama is giving money to help rebuild their cities.
Another one of my issues was the health care, and it was also in there with Obama sitting on the floor with all these presents around him except the one he wanted, a health care package.

The carttons are just a funny way of saying things we need to do and don't need to do. it's just a way for people to get a laugh and understnad the problems in america.
my favorite cartoon was Obama and the health care, because even he can't get everything he wants.