Blogger Entry #5: Activism in Art & Music

Due: Monday, Nov. 2nd

Part One: Looking at the Product

Find a song and piece of art related to your issue.  Include the links to these songs and art pieces in your entry.  For your song and piece of art, write a response paragraph that includes the following:


Response Requirements

• title of song/art piece, musician/artist, genre of music/art 
• summary of song/art piece *what is it about based- do not include your opinion (3-7 sentences)
• what are the lyrics or instrumentals saying about the social issue? (3-7 sentences) 

Part 2: Looking at the Composer 

Look into the musician of your song and the artist of your piece.  You are going to do some research to find out two things  1) their credibility-  ETHOS and 2) their PROCESS.

Response Requirements (2)

3-5 sentences per question:

• Why is this person discussing your social issue?  
• Consider: the musician/artist background to see if they have some type of personal relationship to the issue. Why are they speaking about it? What is there connection to the social issue?
• Is the musician/artist a credible source to discuss the topic and make comments about it?
• Consider: why should we listen to this person or take what they are expressing seriously?  what makes that person someone you or others would listen to? 
•  How was the song/art piece was made? 
• For the song consider: did the musician write the song? are there other people who are involved in making a song? is there a music video that goes with the song and does that add to the meaning? is the song well known? what does it take to make that song EFFECTIVE?
• For the art piece:  what types of materials were used? how long did it take? is the piece well known? what does it take to make this piece EFFECTIVE? 

blogger #3

1.social problem/issue: Child Abuse
2. I choose an article from the LA times, "Boy's alleged abuse described in graphic grand jury testimony" by Soumya Karlamangla, Abby Sewell and Laura J. Nelson


               My social issue is child abuse, the reason why I choose to write about it is because children  should feel love not neglect, especially by their own family. If a child is giving signs, or you see signs that they might be getting abuse, speak up. In the article, it had mentioned that they saw some warning sighs of him being abuse, they had reported it, but there were no results, the child kept living with the mother. If higher authorities don't do much about this issue, you'll be finding more cases like this one, little boy dies from abuse, and no one did nothing  about it. I highly agree that children should be of high importance, more laws protecting their rights, no child should be going through  this.

GENRE:
-social
-article
-information
-concern


TOPIC:
neglect
abuse
type of parents
witness
brothers
scared
threaten
ignorance
death
jury
social workers
suicide
blood



RHETORICAL STRATEGIES
-facts
-qotes from brothers
-dates, ages
-details on the abuse

Blogger #3

1. Bullying
2."stand up" a short film on bullying
3. The reason why I chose this film to talk about bullying is because it talks about how people bully others everyday without even noticing. For example , there's a part in the film where all the classmates are in the class talking while the teacher is talking. They don't even know or realize that what they are doing is wrong. On the other hand, the teacher feels very disrespected. Its Important to notice things like this in order to change them.

Blogger #3

Tanesha Hollinquest

English A

10 October 2015

Professor Amanda Reyes



1. Depression    


2. http://www.webmd.com/depression/

3. A lot of people suffer from depression whether they take medicine for it or whether they even know. There are also a few symptoms of depression, and they are as listed:Feelings of guilt, worthlessness, helplessness, or hopelessness,Loss of interest or pleasure in usual activities, including sex,Difficulty concentrating and complaints of poor memory,Insomnia or oversleeping,Appetite changes, which may include weight gain or loss,Fatigue, lack of energy,Thoughts of suicide or death,Slow speech; slow movements. If you have these symptoms it does not always mean you have depression like many mental sicknesses they share some similar symptoms.

4. Genre: WebMD

    Topic/Ideas/Points Discussed:

• Getting help for depression
• Living with depression
• Understanding depression

Rhetorical Strategies:

• Stories
• Depression Community
• Second Opinion

The issue that im written about is LGBT civil rights as Americans. There need to be facilities put aroundto help young LGBT to have counseling and different kind support system.

Shirley Grande

Professor Reyes

English A

30   September 2015

1.            Social issue:Environmentally-induced Illness, Environmental Pollution 

2.            85 minute documentary called Cowspiracy released June 26, 2014 for more information go on http://www.cowspiracy.com/facts/

3.            Write a paragraph response about your text.  This can be any kind of response

                                The production of meat industries has taken me by surprise once again. We the humans have the ability to stop this from manifesting. This idea that we have to act with our actions is in all over our head. My body is capable to acknowledge that aching disgust for meat. But I get it, it’s hard to let go of a suitable life style and like every Hispanics household meat is at the top of our food supply, it’s in every main course on our plates a dead piece of cow. At times when I’m starving I put down my so called pride and began to devour an animal that has been physically abused/manufactured.

4.               What genre is it?

·         Documentary

·         Drama

·         Tragedy

·         Realistic

·         Science

·         Mystery

What topics/ideas/points are discussed in the text?  

·         Over population

·         Meat consumption

·         Lifecycle gone bad

·         Green houses (GHGs) bad for air

·         Livestock

·         Production of 32.6 billion carbon dioxide 51% per year!!

·         Unnatural

      

What rhetorical strategies does the author use?

·         Data base information

·         Interviews Q&A

·         He’s like an investigator

Bullying

        Bullying is known to be the most common problem amongst schools. This issue has existed for many years and the worst part of it all is that just like any other type of violence issue that exists nowadays, this bullying behavior causes great amount of damage to others. Bullying can happen amongst adults too like at work, parties, reunions etc. But in schools amongst kids and teenagers it seems like the center of attention for this type of behavior. Kids can suffer from bullying while in parks, playgrounds, at the bus stop. I wanted to research on a subject that should be of great interest and concern to us as students so I picked Bullying. While surfing the web for some info on the subject I found this very awesome webpage called "StopBullying.gov. I chose it because it does not only talk about bullying but because it also gives ideas on how to stop and prevent this issue.

         Now I realize that bullying isn't just a playground's bad moment for some kids but that it can become a long lasting life threatening situation. This is a social matter. This article talks about Bulling and its different types, who's at risk, how to prevent this issue etc.
       
         some rhetorical strategies used in this article are:
                 
                   bullying            imbalance       verbally
                   behavior           power
                   threat                rumors
                   children            attacking
                   childhood         physically