In Clas Schedule For Writing Project 3

Sunday	Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday	Saturday
3/17	3/18	3/19	3/20	3/21	3/22	3/23
3/24	3/25 Try to make it to workshop	3/26 Meet and Discuss paper 4:00 Charlies	3/27 Find Interview And Set them up	3/28 Meet and Discuss paper 4:00 Charlies	3/29	3/30
3/31	4/1	4/2 4:00 Charlies To Discuss paper	4/3 Schedule Interview Before Today Have actual Draft From Interview Complete Or at least  start	4/4 Meet and Discuss paper 4:00 Charlies	4/5 FINISH 1ST INTERVIEW	4/6 Finish Draft By Today
4/7	4/8	4/9 Meet and Discuss paper 4:00 Charlies	4/10	4/11 Meet and Discuss paper 4:00 Charlies	4/12 FINISH 2ND INTERVIEW	4/13
4/14	4/15	4/16 Meet and Discuss paper 4:00 Charlies	4/17	4/18 Meet and Discuss paper 4:00 Charlies	4/19	4/20
4/21	4/22	4/23 Meet 4:00	4/24	4/25 Meet 4:00	4/26	4/27
4/28	4/29	4/30	4/31	5/1	5/2	5/3 FINAL PROJECT DUE

Response March 19

I am responding to the disciplines of art history and drama that I read over on the links. Art history is a much more complicated to analyze that many that are not familiar with the study may think. With every work of art their is content, and intent. Analysis is concerned with the design and actual form rather than just how pretty it looks or how talented the artist seems. Critique of art or analyzation of art is concerned with the content of the art, what the intention is, and how the artist creatively reaches the content they are discussing with the viewer. For example one type of study that could be common for an art history student would be looking for iconography and its importance in the work. In some works iconography can be certain poses that figures take, or ways that they dress, or signals that indicate that they are an important historical figure. Like the picture of the Sister Mary and Christ is usually a picture of a young oman dressed in blue and red robes holding a small child. Viewing students are to analyze icons in order to understand how the artist integrates important figures or uses icons as a device to communicate their particular message or intent. Purely viewers are expected to realize that art is not without intention as an artist in not just carelessly tossing paints all over a canvas.
Drama is in itself an art but a completely different discipline that needs its own particular attention. First and foremost any student analyzing any drama need to understand the difference between a play, a production, and a performance. Play being the actual written work being performed, the production being the particular group that happens to be acting out the play and how they put it together, and the performance being the actual performances of the actors or those involved with the play. There are many other things along with this that anyone analyzing a play must be aware of as well. Viewers must understand the context of a particular play such as what time period the play is involved with, the actual playwrights history, the plot, prominent themes; basically all the aspects that make the play what it is supposed to be. Also when analyzing different plays the viewer must be concerned with different characters involved, their purpose or role in the play, and language used and how it helps to indentify that particular character. All these several aspects work together to create a play and someone that hopes to appropriately analyze drama must be familiar with how they work together to create the intention.

Extra Credit Blog Mumford and Sons the Cave

To truly understand the brilliance behind the lyrics of the Cave by the folk band Mumford and Son’s, the listener must be familiar with Plato’s Allegory of the Cave. In Plato’s allegory there are a group of prisoners bound by their legs and are forced to be chained to the ground as they face a wall. As the prisoners face the wall they see shadows projected by a flame burning behind them. These shadows (being the only thing the prisoners have seen) becomes their reality. They are forced day and night for their entire lives to stare at these shadows and they become their only glimpse of the world. They are essentially unaware; naïve to the world that truly surrounds them. One day one of the prisoners are released and allowed to stand up and leave the cave. The prisoner emerges from the cave and sees the sun and the surrounding world. Out of excitement he returns to the other prisoners and tells them about the world outside the cave. Yet, when he tells them about the world outside the other prisoners do not believe him and ignore his discovery as they are stubborn, naïve, and unwilling to accept anything beyond what they already know.

         Mumford is well-known for incorporating their knowledge of literature into their music to help convey their themes they present. In the Cave the story being told is describing the difficulties and faults of two lovers trapped in their relationship due to one partner’s unwillingness to abandon her pride for the sake of their relationship. The opener describes one lover that continually avoids the sun as it rises behind her. The sun is a representation of knowledge in both the son and Plato’s writing and the lover is avoiding this knowledge. The speaking lover states later on in the song that he finds strength in pain and that he will not let his lover choke on a noose that she is hanging from. This provides a metaphor for the relationship between the two of them. The speaker’s lover is prideful and unwilling to accept the mistakes that she has made in the relationship with him. Yet, the speaker has seen beyond the problems and the “reality” that the two of them have had in their relationship and wants to make progress. He wants to leave behind their old ways and attempt to fix their issues. Yet, unless she is willing to put her pride aside and admit her mistakes, nothing can be done to fix their relationship. The song is about searching for truth and putting aside pride in order to truly understand love.

It's empty in the valley of your heart

The sun, it rises slowly as you walk

Away from all the fears

And all the faults you've left behind

The harvest left no food for you to eat

You cannibal, you meat-eater, you see

But I have seen the same

I know the shame in your defeat

But I will hold on hope

And I won't let you choke

On the noose around your neck

And I'll find strength in pain

And I will change my ways

I'll know my name as it's called again

Cause I have other things to fill my time

You take what is yours and I'll take mine

Now let me at the truth

Which will refresh my broken mind

So tie me to a post and block my ears

I can see widows and orphans through my tears

I know my call despite my faults

And despite my growing fears

But I will hold on hope

And I won't let you choke

On the noose around your neck

And I'll find strength in pain

And I will change my ways

I'll know my name as it's called again

So come out of your cave walking on your hands

And see the world hanging upside down

You can understand dependence

When you know the maker's land

So make your siren's call

And sing all you want

I will not hear what you have to say

Cause I need freedom now

And I need to know how

To live my life as it's meant to be

And I will hold on hope

And I won't let you choke

On the noose around your neck

And I'll find strength in pain

And I will change my ways

I'll know my name as it's called again

Blog 13

(sound of lighter being lit)

Arizona State has recently announced to students, it's plans to become a smoking free campus. Arizona has decided to join several campuses around the United States in becoming a smoking free environment and promoting a healthier lifestyle and becoming more academically focused. Staff and Health Services have their own views concerning the issue and truly feel that banning smoking on campus will help to better engage students on campus. Students are both supportive of and against the decision. Some students believe that the school has some sort of agenda that they are trying to satisfy by not allowing students to smoke on campus. 

"The school is trying to take away our rights, as adults we should be respected enough that they can allow us the responsibility to decide whether or not to smoke and considering that we live on campus we should be allowed to do what we like in our homes, argues one student.

Other students see this as an opportunity for the school and students alike. 

"I don't like walking around campus and having people puffing smoke into my face, it's gross, rude, and students can find other hobbies to avoid stress and be engaged on campus", says Tory Howell

First year student Jan Chen had similar input-

"With smoking banned on campus students can find better things to do with their time. I hate when I go on my runs on campus and someone randomly blows smoke into my face. It throws me off and it's just gross. Included, we have a daycare center on campus and that's so unhealthy and impressionable if kids are running around and students are just smoking in front of them and stuff."

Many students agree that smoking on campus is only detrimental to the college experience as it promotes an unhealthy environment for students as they go about their everyday activities. "While smoking is a privilege its one that we can definitely live without on campus", adds Chen.

A concern for students against the act is that they need  chance to smoke during the day in order to handle stress that comes from being a regular college student. In response to that concern ASU is providing students with a Tobacco Cessation program in order to help students drop their habit. The program offers students visits with tobacco cessation specialists, over the counter prescriptions, and online resources. The campus is giving students a lot of opportunities to help choose a healthier lifestyle.

Overall the decision to make ASU a tobacco free environment is a smart one that will help every student's experience and overall wellness at ASU.

Blog 12

Recently rumors have emerged that ASU plans on banning smoking campus. Some students are disconcerted, but a large portion of students are outraged. For some students smoking is an escape from the everyday stresses that the highly demanding college provides, for some it's just a habitual practice, and for others it is a way to assert their individuality as an adult making their way into the adult world (basically a trend or way to make themselves look cool). Despite anybody's preference, the school is planning on banning smoking on campus. While to some this may seem to some as just another way for ASU to strip students of their free will it isn't all just a negative change. Smoking in and of itself is not a healthy practice and banning it on campus could be a good way to help promote a healthier and all around more productive lifestyle. Without the legal ability to smoke on campus students can be encouraged to drop an otherwise unhealthy addiction and find much more productive ways to spend their free time and get more involved in practices that will improve their life quality. It seems like a stupid rule to enforce on campus but other schools already have no smoking laws and their quality of life has not been diminished in any way. ASU is trying to keep itself as a quality institution and truly help improve the quality of experience for its students. My argument may not be popular but it sounds like a good idea to me.

Sources

• Ask students around campus about their opinion
• Schools that have no smoking on campus check their statistics about students' quality of life
• Talk to the school Administrators 
• Ask professors their opinions on the change
• Statistics on how smoking affects students' health
• Ask around about how cigarettes affect littering on campus
• Read about why ASU is banning smoking on campus

Blog 11

I feel that the second writing project was a much more engaging and explorative. I liked the project because we were given the flexibility to do virtually whatever we wanted within the confines of the criteria. My Topic was really fun to do mainly because I got to really have fun with it and sort of be creative with the food places that I chose and that my friends helped me to choose. Personally I am much better with creative and reflective writing since I get to have more of a voice rather than just observing something. It was still a challenging project although I found it to be much more possible than writing project 1. I didn’t find any criteria for the project too hard to understand, or too difficult to formulate.

Personally what I didn’t like about the project was formulating the blogging elements. It was just a very tedious process. Also I think it bothered me because I was trying to be lazy. When I pulled it altogether I found that really organizing and forming the blog made the project really nice and crisp. Plus, the formatting made it a lot more engaging and attractive. I also have been considering starting my own personal blog aside from this class so having this project show me different ways to format and organize information in my blog proved very helpful.

Overall I liked the second project. Especially in comparison to the first project which I was not very fond of at all. Formatting blogs is an especially good skill to have and the subject was very engaging and easy  as long as you put sufficient effort into it.

Blog # 10

In any kind of research based paper quotation, paraphrasing, and summary can be very important tools to use. Not only do they make your observations and opinion more valid they also add content to your subject. As stated in the reading, "visual sources can lend support to an assertion"(574). Sometimes simply being able to state an opinion isn't enough to convince people of your argument. If anybody could just make an assertion without any proof, or if people were simply naive enough to accept any argument somebody tossed into their paper, then we would not very knowledgable or reliable people. Readers are much more inclined to read and truly delve into the content from a writer that shows they are knowledgable and has done their research. Using summary to give the reader a basic knowledge and understanding of what you are discussing, paraphrasing to help establish a thought or idea, and quotations to bring attention to important details, opinions, or theories all help to make your writing much more credible and appropriate. Everybody has bias but it is important to have evidence to make your assertions much more credible otherwise you are just ranting. Ranting doesn't necessarily make you un-knowlegable but it does take away from your content. Having a physical quote and source to back up your argument shows you know what you are talking about. In my paper it is is especially important to have sources so that when I say a place is good for going on a first date, they can see other sources agree with me and I am not just randomly saying it.
Mood and tone are also very important tools in writing. A boring essay can throw a reader off and make them averted to really accepting your opinion. When discussing an argument the reader needs to be interested and have their curiosity sparked. They must genuinely be drawn to the discuss and it's up to the writer to establish a mood and incorporate visuals and quotations to help. This is important for my paper since I'm discussing good eating places to go to on a first date. Somebody that is considering visiting one of these place may want a clear visual of the place they are visiting for that special date and may want some trustworthy sources to gather information about the restaurant they are going to be visiting. Readers don't just want to hear about a place they are visiting. Readers want to be able to identify with the writer and understand why the restaurant is worth visiting which makes visuals an important part.