Chinese Cultural Revolution Photos

The photo I chose was in spread the word and it had a big painting or picture of Mao and a lot of Chinese posters with a lot of Chinese symbols. Below that is a huge crowd that seem to be getting rallied up to support Mao and this probably how they would brain-wash young children. The picture is the fourth picture from the spread the word line. the guard on the podium are holding the picture or painting of Mao and they are watching the people get rallied by another guard. this is one of the ways that the guards would get the support of the people, some of the other ways would be handing out the little red book and the use of propaganda are other ways. then to get the youth of the nation they would go around in the schools and get the children to be exited to be a red guard but the best way to get red guards was that if you became a red guard you were able to travel any were if it was related to being a red guard actions.

GPA 2

I found out that my over all grade point average has gone down from a 3.88 to a 3.63 but that still is a really good grade point average because I have not gone to below a B in my grades. i was surprised that it went down but that just makes me want to work harder and get the grades up that went down because i want to bring it back up because i would like a better grade point average. i have been working hard this semester but not hard enough because my grade point average has dropped and i would like to bring it back up. i will try to get it up by doing any extra credit and by doing my best on every project, homework assignment, and class work.

I have not found out anything more about the schools I want to join or get accepted into.

Since we are in April I will work extra hard on every thing to get my grades up or for them to stay were they are.

intern presentations

the intern presentations were interesting yet boring. what struck me was that they all had to read their vignettes off of their paper!!! if you do a presentation you should have at least have it memorized as if this is a POL or TPOL were you have note cards with notes and not a paper with a script. the only one that i liked was the first one because she went into detail but not enough to overdo it.
i learned that i will want a hands on job because it is really likely that is i do not i will probably do bad and become bored and fail which would suck a lot. i will probably want to do like a animal one because animals are awesome and you can not get tired of all the animals in like three weeks.
the first one and the one about the little girl because they were the ones that actually made sense and kept me interested because all the other ones were too detailed and had no emotion.

Suheir Hammad & Marjane Satrapi on War

The quote " I will not dance to the bombs because every one is dancing" is confusing because is it meaning she will not run from bombs, she is not happy, or just does not care. I also think that she was trying to be different. "i will create my own drum, our chanting will be dancing, our humming will be drumming." i think that that means that she will go to war since that the drums before were war drums and that their war will not through violence but through music. "this heart beat is louder then death" struck me because it reminded me of the person that was burned to death and made a revolution for a random reason because his death was louder than a heart beat.
"Rhythm is half silence" is in rap and war they have rhythm."language can not math me" is a struck me because i agreed to it and also you can not say this with out something popping in to your head. "do not fear what has blown up" is talking about war and violence like marjane had to grow up with war and her neighbors house blew up. "smoke where once was flesh." was talking about the violence of revolution and war because the burning man and also when the people are bombed in war there is smoke after explosion

part two

they both have defined revolutions as an act of war. "sky where once was steel." it is talking about the world trade center and in Persepolis marjanes neighbors house was hit by a missile and was destroyed. "smoke where once was flesh." that was also talking about the buildings being destroyed in war and burning rubble of buildings. "or that evil is as simple as a flag and words on a page." is representing the revolutionaries revolting because they are being treated unfair. "women will have to bury children." is talking about war because the old do not go to war but the younger generations do and are killed or have post trauma after seeing their friends die in front of their eyes.

Islam

Famous Islamic people
Benazir Bhutto was the first female Muslim head of head of state. but was kicked out of office by two presidents and when she was running for a third she was assassinated by a suicide bomber. Muhammed the prophet was the first and Islamic prophet and he had convinced everyone that the angle Gabriel had spoken to him and told him to be the preacher of Alla. Ayatollah khomeini was the first muslem supreme leader and the father of the revolution. Ayatollah Khameini is the second supream leader in Iran.

Malaasia

Malaysia is located above Indonesia and below Thailand. it is a group of island that are close to each other their are two different parts of Malaysia one is below Thialand and above Indonesia. the second one is located to the east and is above another part of Indonesia.

Some thing that is going on in Malaysia is that it is deforesting the forest faster than the rest of asia combined. every year they deforest 2 percent of their forest every year. the rest of asia only deforests 2.8 percent in five years! this is realy bad for the envirement because they are letting more carbon in the atmosphere. but the sad thing is that the land that they deforest gets turned into palm oil plantaintions.

Street art

What I noticed in the documentary "exit through the gift shop" is that the street artists in the movie spent a lot of money printing printouts that they print out. what i am going to try to incorporate in my art piece is the cutout style that banksy used because it looked really cool and interesting to try. If that does not work then i am going to have an image pixelated so that is can still look like the image but giving it an interesting effect. all the artist in the documentary had a theme and a passion relating to the theme and i want to include the passion into my artwork. I also want to include the colors that make each other standout.
what amazed me about the work the artists did was that they did it fast and they did their own thing and made it work. The art that they did was good and inspirational in their own way like banksy does things to bring memories up and he brings up the basics to live like freedom. while the invader makes things from the space invader game and puts them up. the thing that amazed me the most was that banksy was able to get a live elephant and paint it and not get in trouble.
the artist used used their craft to spread a message and to get more popular by doing like what Shepard Fairey did with the Andre the Giant has a posse. then invader did the space invader theme to show that every one likes it and has played it. every street artist does the art for it has a symbolic and inner relationship to them. for this reason every street artist does street art.