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Subject: I think that the subject of this song is being and individual who is not blind to what is going on around them.
Tone:Rebelious/Defiant
The speaker uses phrases like "you can scream and you can shout" or "Don't question my authority" to show that he is himself, strong and aware of what is going on around him. He knows that he has power and that no one is going to make him conform to society.
Theme:Do not conform to society.

Loss of Innocence

Innocence is purity, ignorance and unknowing.

Innocence can be lost. Innocence is ignorance, so when a person experiences and learns they begin to lose that innocence. Their purity becomes tainted and their innocence is lost.

-The woman who is naked symbolizes her innocence. She is innocent and doesn’t know that being unclothed is wrong. The others in the picture are trying to cover up the woman to remove her purity.

-Around the women it is bright, but outside of that it is dark. The darkness in the picture is somewhat creeping into the light. This shows that the darkness is losing innocence trying to steal away the woman’s innocence.

-The man has black wings. Wings are often something thought of as innocent and angelic, but the darkness of the wings show that he no longer has his innocence.

Young Life

1. The little boy doesn’t feel like he belongs in the group. He has a stick because he has nothing else to accompany him, so he has to play with his imagination. He is standing off away from the couple and doesn’t really seem to be part of them.
2. The deer is placed above the family to show that the man is proud that he can provide for his family. He went out and worked hard to get the deer so that he can provide for his family.
3.The painter wants to show that people should rely on themselves by going out and working hard to get what they need. The man went out and got the deer instead of relying on someone else to do it for him.

Don't You Want Me

In the song "Don't You Want Me", there is a conflict between a girl and a guy. The two had dated in the past, but are now broken up. The guy doesn’t think the break up was completely fair to him. He feels as though the girl only used him ( to become famous). He thinks she just broke up with him after learning everything he could teach her. However, the girl completely disagrees. She thinks she made herself who she is and it certainly wasn’t with the help of the guy. She thinks that she made the right choice by moving on. They both want to be right, which is why they are conflicted. The girl feels better about the situation if she believes she is right, and the guy feels the same way.

I have had similar conflicts with my brother about who gets to be on the computer. Once, he thought that he deserved the computer because I had been on it “all” afternoon. I felt that I should have the computer because I had been working on a project on the computer all afternoon, so I just then had time to have free time on the computer. We argued because we both felt that we had rights to the computer.

Blackbird

This song by the Beatles was written during the 1960s, which was a time of civil rights movements. I think that the song is about the civil rights movement because it has symbols throughout it which contribute to my belief.

Symbolic words:
-"waiting for this moment to be free" This phrase is symbolic of the freedoms the African Americans in the 1960s where fighting for. All this time they had just been waiting until the moment arose for it to finally come true.
- "the light of the dark black night."The light in the dark of night symbolizes hope when hope is no where to found. Light allows you to see in the dark to find your way. The African Americans where treated horribly for so long that it seemed dark with no way out. The light finally came giving them hope to be able to come out of the darkness they had been facing.
- "Take these broken wings and learn to fly" Broken wings are symbolic of the troubles that have brought you down in the past. The African Americans of the 1960s had gone through so much and had little hope of things ever changing but they still took what they had and tried to change it(learning to fly)

Shame

The song "Shame" by The Avett Brothers has a guilty tone. This is evident through various lines in the song. One line says, "Blame, please lift it off", this shows how the narrator is feeling guilty for all he has done in the relationship because a person usually doesn't feel guilt until someone is blaming them for all they have done. Another line says, "I'd like to see those things undo". By saying this the narrator shows how he feels guilty for doing thing that he will never be able to undo but he wishes that he could. The final line says,"I couldn't help them now I can" which shows that even though he is feeling guilty he feels like he can do something to fix it. Guilt is usually consciously solved by a person making up for what they have done, which is what the narrator is attempting to do.

Sign Language

Single Effect- The single effect of this film is to not allow others to make you miss opportunities you are given.

Contributing to the single effect:
-In the beginning, he talks about how much he wishes he could just talk to the girl. However, he says he can't because she isn't a part of the union. He is allowing the union to make him miss his opportunity with her.
-When he talks about how much he is going to miss his job he says he feels regret for leaving his fellow sign holders. He is allowing his feelings for his friends to hold him back on the opportunity of the new job he is moving up to.
- At the end his friends tell him to go talk to the girl. This contributes to the single effect because it shows his realization that no one should hold you back and allow for his opportunity with her to pass.

Love Language

Purpose-The purpose of producing this film was to raise awareness and funds for the deaf community, and to show that deaf people are the same as everyone else.

The film is effective in achieving its purpose by the directors choices in music and communication. As the story unfolds, we see two people having a seemingly normal and romantic conversation with the aid of post-it notes. This shows how even a hearing and deaf person can have converse and share with each other like anyone else. When the girl reveals she is deaf, the music stops and the audience finally realizes that she is deaf. The stopping of the music allows for proper dramatization and adds emotion to the story.

At the end I am left with a feeling of hope. I am given hope that everyone has an opportunity to live a seemingly normal life if they choose. I am also left with the hope that if the two people from the story can find love then so can I. I think that by leaving the audience with this feeling it allows for the purpose to be achieved. The audience is left with a sense of hope not only for themselves but for everyone they may have previously seen as hopeless.

Semeadores

S-Migrant workers
N-Diego Rivero portraying that farm work is a good thing.
A-American public, or the middle-class Americans would may purchase this work
P-To show how migrant workers work behind the scene have no face or gain no credit on their jobs.

-The workers have very curved figures. This allows for them to simply blend into the background, showing how they have no face in the credit for the hard work they do. The fields bhind the men also seem to never end which shows how their work is never ending.

My Good Old Desk

S-An old, dependable desk
N-Harry Nilsson
A-People who have a desk or something dependable in their lives. He is also trying to reach people who listen to this type of music
P-Things that remain constent in our loves are comforting

Good Old Desk or GOD
-"Keeps my hopes alive"
-"Its always there"
-"I've never once heard it cry"
These points all illistrate how that Nilsson is describing God through a desk or something that is always there and dependable.

The Pinch of Poverty

S-Poverty stricken families
N-The author may be biased because he may have been poor or impoverished as a child. Maybe he also has a charitable side, in other words he may suggest that people should give to the impoverished.
A-The upper class who may not see the poor
P-To convey the conditions of impoverished families stuck on the streets and the struggle they face.

• The bars behind the family show how they and other families are stuck behind their economic status. It traps them to be stuck on the streets and suffering.
• The author chooses to place the daughter in front and away from her mother and siblings. Her siblings are all leaning and dependent on her mother, where as she is seen stepping forward to take responsibility for her family.

Culture

I define culture as the traditions, beliefs, art, history, preferences and apparel of a group of people. When you are born, you grow up learning the culture your parents and the people around you have. The clothing you wear, the food you eat, the music you listen to and what you believe become your culture. However, moving to another area, meeting others and growing older can all change your culture. If you were born on a farm in a small town in Kentucky, you probably have a strong religious background, a certain style of dressing and the food you eat probably isn't that fancy. If you later move to a bigger city to go to college, you probably take on a new culture; one where you dress, eat, and believe differently.

The Runaway

The Runaway, a painting by Norman Rockwell.

Facts:

• The man on the stool is a policeman.
• The waiter is smoking.
• The painting is set in a restaurant.

Claims:

• The little boy is  the runaway.
• The two men are concerned about the boy.
• The dinner is a lonely, uninviting place.

A sudden bold and unexpected question doth many times surprise a man and lay him open- Francis Bacon

When Kino goes pearl diving he finds one large oyster. After opening the oyster, he knows he has found something quite special. The villagers begin to  call the pearl, "the pearl of the world", and soon a lot of people know of the great discovery. All of the fame makes Kino become a little greedy. When he is asked "the unexpected question" of what he will do with his new found wealth he promises a bunch of things. He tells that he will have a proper wedding in the church and send his son to school. At the moment when he is asked he doesn't even know if his son is going to survive the sting.

The pearl starts to go to Kino's head and he begins to get paranoid. He also gets rather greedy. When he tries to sell the pearl in his village he argues that he isn't getting what the pearl is actually worth. He also goes to the extreme killing people over a pearl, but no money is equal to the value of a life. The pearl is turning him into an animal as the book describes him. I was happy when he finally decided to get rid of it like his wife had asked. (He should have been a good husband and listened to the guidance of his wife.) I think that once little Coytito died, Kino had realized what was really important. He first found the pearl after the doctor would not care for Coytito, and now it had lead to the death of his son.

Taking it Slow

So our story begins with a young man named Kino in a small, beach side village. Steinbeck chose to include such detail that I felt as though the book was instead a movie I was watching. The beautiful sunrise outside of the little house Kino and his wife, Juana, shared with their infant son, Coyotito. We then see the details of Kino's morning and everything seems to equal the happy life for Kino. 

When Kino returns inside of his house, he spots a scorpion on the bed that Coyotito is sleeping in. Soon Coyotito spots the scorpion. While Kino is waiting for a good moment to capture the beast, Coytito acts like any young child would. This causes the poor infant to be stung. Why hadn't Kino acted faster? He could have either moved the baby or tried to remove the scorpion. If he tried to move it, maybe he would have been stung rather than the baby.

After they go to the doctor, who says he cannot help, they go to the shore to go diving for pearls. Before Kino and Juana go into the water, they leave baby Coytito on the shore. I don't know if it is a cultural thing or not, but I don't think I would ever leave a baby alone on the shore while I went into the water.

Once a Girl and Now a Lady

Since we left the remarkable cast Alfred Doolittle, Eliza's father, has shown up. He claims that Higgins owes him something for allowing him to have Eliza. This scene is one I've seen too many times. One person opens a package of gum to enjoy and suddenly everyone has claim to it, whether they even care about the person at all.

After deciding to pay him with a five-pound note, Eliza appears in the doorway dressed in Japanese apparel.   Doolittle doesn't even recognize his own daughter. Then in what sense does he even deserve to have Higgins pay him for her.

The once whining, intolerable flower girl has been transformed into a proper lady. She now doesn't make awful sounds like Ah-ah-ah-ow-ow-ow-oo, but instead keeps to small talk such as the weather. She is much  more tolerable, but she still isn't happy. She shows her unhappiness by chucking a slipper at Higgins' face and throwing the jewelry he bought her, then running away to Higgins' mother.

The next day at Higgins' mother's home, Doolittle pops up once again. He now is talking more proper like his daughter. After a while Eliza appears, she is furious with Higgins for calling her an experiment and treating her no better than one. Although she is rather happy with Pickering because he has treated her as a lady the whole time.

After the rest of the cast exit, Higgins and Eliza are alone in the room. They argue for a while until Higgins offers to allow Eliza back into his home and she may marry him or Pickering. She replies that she would never marry him if he offered and instead she will marry Freddy!

By now I definitely understand the title. After further research I found the story from Greek mythology. In the story, a king creates a perfect statue that is turned into a woman, whom he falls in love with. I think this is exactly happened with Higgins. He created Eliza to be a perfect lady and then fell in love with her.

My dear, Eliza...

Eliza, the flower girl with bad grammar, really bothers me. Reading the parts where she is talking really make my head spin. At times I find myself reading the text aloud multiple times, to the point where my dog leaves his spot next to me on the couch. Her personality is another strike against her. She is a whiny nuisance. Colonel Pickering gives the poor girl money instead of buying her sad excuse for flowers. The other drenched citizens taking shelter from the pouring rain, insist that she leaves the money because they are all being watched by a nosy man in the back. After this, she begins to repeatedly cry phrases such as, "I am a good girl" or "I aint done nothing wrong".  If I had been her I would have taken the money as profit (Hey, I'd have more flowers to sell anyways) and not care what some man taking notes thought of me. She instead whines once again.

After the whole ordeal with the man, she shows up at his house. He, who we now know is Mr.Higgins, is meeting with Mr.Pickering to discuss Higgins study of linguistics. Eliza wants Higgins to teach her to speak better than she does now, which would be a miracle in the making if you ask me, so that she will be able to attain a job at the flower shop. Now if I were her, I would have never gone to Higgins after the whole scene it caused the previous day. She was so worried about what everyone thought of her going up to a gentleman, and in turn she shows up at his house- what a great way to avoid the problem !

This far into the book, and I'm still uncertain what Pygmalion means. So I decided to do what my first grade teacher taught us to do when we come across a word we don't understand-look it up. I searched in the dictionary and found the following definition: "a king of Cyprus who makes a female figure of ivory that is brought to life for him by Aphrodite"(Credit: Merriam-Webster). I haven't read any further so my only guess to the relativity of the tittle is the following: Higgins makes Eliza into a "perfect female figure". Of all of my pondering, this is the only logical reason I am able to imagine, but when I write the next post I will hopefully know the real answer.