Thursday, April 30, 2009
Blog # 9
I dont believe that this picture was racist and has been blown way out of porportion. To me this picture was clearly intended to be a joke and is how i interpretated it. Also the coulcle man does have a very strong case of not being a racsist. He was in a funk band in the sixties/Seventies and he even voulentered to help huricane katrina victims in new orelean. To called this man a racist simple over a hallowen custome is plain ridiculess. The people who are calling him a racsist are just being stuborn and wont listen to reason.
Thursday, April 23, 2009
Blog # 9
I dont see the cotati councelmen as being a racist in his picture.The man was in a funk band and he even voulenteered to help out new orleans after huracane katrina. I think people are blowing this picture of him way out of porportion and that people have gone to far in the name of racism.
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Thursday, April 9, 2009
The N Word
1. What is your response to the use of the N-Word in this book? Some argue that it’s necessary to maintain historical realism, while others argue that it’s demeaning and unnecessary. What is your response? Also, how should our class deal with this word, since it’s used throughout the book and we have to talk about the book?
For this essay i am going to try to make the point that Mark Twain used the N word to maintain historical accuracy. I will talk about how the n word was used in his time and them i will talk about how it was used in the time period he was writing about. Then i will state that it is my opinion that Mark twain did not use this word to insult but to inform. I will also write that the way our class should deal with this word is to not use it in the context that it means today in our society but how it was refered to in the society that Mark Twain is trying to tell us about through his writeing
For this essay i am going to try to make the point that Mark Twain used the N word to maintain historical accuracy. I will talk about how the n word was used in his time and them i will talk about how it was used in the time period he was writing about. Then i will state that it is my opinion that Mark twain did not use this word to insult but to inform. I will also write that the way our class should deal with this word is to not use it in the context that it means today in our society but how it was refered to in the society that Mark Twain is trying to tell us about through his writeing
Thursday, April 2, 2009
Blog #7
To me a satire is making fun of something serious but not trying to hide the fact that it is serious. To me a good example of current day satire would be either the daily show with jon stewert or the colbert report. What makes these realy good example of satire is that the topic it is talking about is not neccisarly funny but it is being adressed as if it is funny. Here is a video from the daily show and in it he is adressin how the media with holds important information from us just to get ratings
http://www.thedailyshow.com/video/index.jhtml?videoId=222761&title=inappropriate-news-teasers
He used humor to talk to us about a topic that he felt was wrong yet by using humor to tell us he made his point more obvious to us. To me this is a perfect exaple of current day satire
http://www.thedailyshow.com/video/index.jhtml?videoId=222761&title=inappropriate-news-teasers
He used humor to talk to us about a topic that he felt was wrong yet by using humor to tell us he made his point more obvious to us. To me this is a perfect exaple of current day satire
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