Blogger entry 5

Blogger Entry #5: Activism in Art & Music

Video: "Homeless people read mean tweets"

Homeless by Alexis Rodriguez

              

                       This Article is about homeless people reading things of what the public thinks about them on twitter. Let me tell you right now, those tweets aren’t nice at all. The tweets basically say things like why do they smell so much, when they see a homeless person they get disgusted and so on. At the end of the video the homeless people start crying. It’s like if people treat them as others, as if they’re not human and don’t have feelings. Homeless people shouldn’t be treated as individuals; they are just like everybody else. They too have a beating heart, with feelings and emotions.

                By looking at their faces as they read the tweets, I see how much pain they are in after reading them. They are in shock as too why people would say mean things about them, really makes the viewers open their eyes and realize the things they go through every single day. Some of the people in the video have been homeless for quite some time.

                I feel so bad for them because some go through it alone and the ones who are a couple, are rejected by the public because they are homeless. Also because in the video it is freezing cold and some of them that are wearing jackets to keep them warm, is probably all they got. Its things like these that make me want to help them. To change this community for the better.

blogger #6

One of my pieces is Green Pool:

The artist that created the drawing is Chris. it was funny how I got Chris to draw this piece of art for me. I told my sister that if she can draw me a piece that represents some type of drug addiction. She told me I cant but I can tell my friend Chris. I was okay , thank you. Chris said yes. I told him , in the drawing can you included a container of marijuana and a guy falling from the container. he said okay its cool , but am going to add more things to it. I was okay its fine and thank you. I told him has much is it going to be. he told me buy me a sausage egg muffin form McDonalds. I was okay I bought him a comb. it came with two. The image has a container that takes up most of the space on the paper. In the container it is full of marijuana. the marijuana is green and has different shades of green and some browns and some yellows. On one of the sides of the container it has a jumping board. it also has a man that jumped off the jumping board. There is  also a hole where the guy decided to jump into.

The drawing is about drug addiction. My social issue is drug addiction. In the drawing you can see that the marijuana is way bigger then the man. That means that the drug addiction has taken over the person. Its bigger than his own power of will. Drug addiction is like a swimming pool. The first time you go into a swimming pool you are scared and just trying to do it right and not get hurt. You slowly and slowly, at a regular speed (first timer). After, that they get the hang of it, they start consuming and wanting more and even more. They want more that they don't realize that its addiction . There speed doubles. Just like the amount they need to get high doubles or sometimes it is more double the amount they have consumed before. If the people with drug addiction don't get help on time some end up jumping the jumping board and end up dying of overdose.

Second of my pieces is

The artist that created this piece was myself, Wendy Cisneros. For this piece it has a women lay on a jail floor. her dress is blue with a line at the bottom of the first layer of the dress ,it has two layers . the dress is on the floor next to her jail cell. Her hair is messy and her hands are dirty. her eyes her extremely red and her make-up is messy and messed up . she is wearing only one high-heel on. Its pink and its dirty also. On her foot that doesn't have a shoe on it , you can tell she was walking and was stepping on dirt . Her foot from the bottom had a little cut. the women is also placed in between the jail bars.

I decide to create this picture because I wanted the audition to actually be able to see what happens to a person that's addicted to drugs. How some people end up look or how they end up becoming. the women in the design she was not in jail. It means that she is locked up in her own body addicted to drugs. That the drugs have because a part of her and her body. The drugs have incarnated into to her. its sad to see and person this way , addicted to the point that they don't know what reality. her dress is not on her because a affect of the drugs doesn't like her think and make her realize that she is not doing the things need to protect herself and her body: because when you consume drugs you are hurting slowly and slowly your body and you get to a time that its not fixable. 


Am working on the other two pieces.

blogger entry #6

Kendel Mixon  

Amanda Reyes  

English A  

11/25/2015  

Domestic Violence  

Domestic Violence is violent abuse that takes place in a home between two spouses however children fall victim to this violence. According to research children between the ages of 3-17 are exposed to domestic violence abuse and about 95% of the cases involve women and male partners. The effects that the children go through is witnessing, hearing, observing and being aware of the tension that takes place in the home.  

In this painting domestic violence is taking place while a little girl is the room with her parents. The adolescent child looks to be worried and distressed however she is focusing her attention into knitting her scarf. This painting demonstrates how domestic violence affects children in the home. The painting is very detailed as it shows the father being the dominant spouse towards the mother as he holds her hands in a way where she is forced to listen to his voice. As the painting focus on  the child she is placed in the front of the image where she is the direct focus of it all. Although her parents are arguing which seems to be in the bathroom area the little girl is placed in the bedroom with a black cover on her bed as she sits in a chair with her face hanging down trying to overshadow what she is witnessing and hearing. As she is looking down as if she's almost in tears the little girl could also be imagining her life and how domestic violence may play a role in her relationships. This image is expressing how domestic violence doesn't only affect the spouse however it sheds darkness over the children who witness it.  

Blogger Entry #3

Rodriguez, Alexis

English A

1. Homeless

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homelessness

1. Homelessness is the condition of people without a regular dwelling. People who are homeless are most often unable to acquire and maintain regular, safe, secure and adequate housing, or lack "fixed, regular, and adequate night-time residence. The legal definition of homeless varies from country to country, or among different jurisdictions in the same country or region. The term homeless may also include people whose primary night-time residence is in a homeless shelter, a warming center, a domestic violence shelter, a vehicle (including recreational vehicles and campers), squatting, cardboard boxes, a tent, tarpaulins, or other ad hoc housing situations. A home is not just a physical space: it provides roots, identity, security, and a sense of belonging and a place of emotional wellbeing.
   
   
2. Genre: Web page
   
   
3. Topics
   
   
   -Types of Ways We can help
   -Percentage of the increase of homeless
   -Video of the homeless people
   -Story about a homeless person

Blogger Entry #6

Due Wednesday, Nov. 25th

Rough Draft Exhibition 

Directions:

• rough draft of 4 of your exhibition pieces 
• include: summary & analysis 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eAfyFTzZDMM    


Beautiful
By: Christina Aguilera
Art piece: Being Who You Are


                                                                            LGBT
                                                                        Coming Out

Beautiful is a song by Christina Aguilera and R&B singer that is active in the LGBT community. The song was written by openly lesbian singer song writer Linda Perry. Perry wrote this song just not for gay's but for anybody that can relate to the song. The lyrics and vocal in this song expresses the raw emotion of getting through hardship and criticism that can bring you down to your lowest point. The lyrics in this song speaks out the feeling of pain and low self esteem within the words. When the song opens it states "Don't Look At Me", it starts out letting you feel the insecurity with that person.
As the song goes on it gives the intense emotion of harder it is to be who they really is. In the chorus of the song represent the positive side which gives out hope, security, and  high self-esteem. The lyrics in the song gives you confidence to live and be free within yourself despite what people might say toward you. Perry wrote the lyrics but the feelings of the message was brought out more through the vocals of Christina speaking out never give up on yourself to love you when no one else will.

Perry wrote this song as a tribute to the teenagers that committed suicide due to anti-gay bullying. This song is  LGBT community anthem for people to have confidence in being who they are. The lyric in the song give empowerment to face the world of its negativity of a person being gay. Perry seen a reason in written this song because off all the teens and adults being attack and even killed behind being gay. It is so many people that is scared of being who they are and she points out that "You are Beautiful no Matter What People Words don't Bring me down" gives you inner peace of being you. She felt that a song like this can make a lot people stand up for themselves not to let people and there negative thoughts, action, and words bring you down. Perry enlighten the LGBT community with this song to be free, to be you, and most of all love you.

         blogger 4 activism in M&A

I chose the song "Don't Laugh At Me" by Mark Wills and the genre of this song is Contemporary Country Music. This song is about kids, teenager moms, and homeless people that have suffer from some type of bullying to them. people from different ages that aren't happy with the way other's treat them, and how they ask for a better treatment from their oppressors.

What the lyrics say about the social issue of bullying is that there are kids who never smile because of braces and because they're chosen last on the playground. The lyrics also talk about teenage moms that for some reason  have to overcome their present reality now, with the responsibility of taking care of a child. The song says "don't have to be my friend, just don't laugh at me". The lyrics of this song also talk about a homeless who is ignored by others on the street.

Mark will is a well-known American Country music singer that started his professional singing career in the year 1996 with his debut album called " Eponymous". In the year 1998 he released the single "Don't Laugh At Me". Mark Wills as a singer has become a public figure that people look out to and that people listen to through his music. Mark has been recognized by the Recording Industry Association of America.
markwills.musiccitynetworks.com/index.htm?id=19082&sid=2446

This song was written by writer's Steve Seskin and Allen Shamblin and recorded by Mark Wills. According to the background information of this song, Allen Shamblin was inspired to writing this song due to the fact that one day his daughter came home from school and telling him that she was being picked on by other kids at school. The girl told her dad that she was being bullied because of her freckles. This song became a No.2 song on the country charts and leading to the Billboards Hot 100 songs. This song has also become an anti-bullying theme for other videos. The song itself has its own video to it that totally backs up the issue that the lyrics talk about which is bullying.

The art piece I chose for my social Issue bullying is called "The Eyes" by Amr Elshamy from (cairo Egypt). This art piece has no words but it shows a little kid walking across the school parking lot by himself, and in front of him there are three gigantic monsters with horns that seem to be looking at him like if they were waiting for him to get to where they are. The image also shows a foggy ambience a sort of cold and lonely moment. This piece of art clearly tells the viewers how kids who are molested and pick on see their aggressors and in this case the bully. That is what the bullied compare the bully with. They see bullies as gigantic monsters waiting to hunt them and hurt them. The artist did this piece of art based on his personal  experience on being bullied. He says that he was bullied all his life but he found an escape door through art. Amr Elshamy talks about how he was affected by bullies when he was in school and how he had to skip school days do to the aggression towards him. Elshamy's piece of "The Eyes" was created as part of the Bully Project Mural, The Mosaic Art For A Movement by Lee Hirsch, the filmmaker behind the 2012 bully documentary.

blogs.adobe.com/creativecloud/the-bully-project-mosaic-art-for-a-movement.