Toni morrison's novels include "The Bluest Eyes," "Song of Solomon" and "Beloved." She’s received virtually every major literary prize, including the Pulitzer and the National Book Critics Circle Award. Her body of work was awarded the Nobel Prize for literature in 1993. Her new novel is called "Love" that love, in all it's assorted varieties - familial, romantic, self, perverted, platonic and tough. Morrison delivers is a vivid and stirring account of the turmoil that ensues when young women are deprived of the parental but mostly paternal love and guidance that is their birthright. With Love, Ms. Morrison targets her usual mostly female and black audience, depicting African-American characters and splashing flashbacks of the Civil Rights Movement sprucely throughout. However, the messages she conveys the importance of communication, self-esteem, education, soul-searching, relationships and human nature are universal and timeless, transcending gender and race.
she transforms her stories into masterpieces. It follows on the heels of PARADISE, her masterful story of free slaves, driven across the country until they were able to settle and build their own town. All was as it should be in their "paradise" until over time it became a painful form of hell. Like an alchemist she takes words, ideas, events and characters through an ingenious array of juxtapositions and transmogrifications, which transcend their mundane use by others. All of her work is rich in myth, metaphor, mirth, wisdom, humanity and biblical references.
LOVE is an exploration into the deepest regions of these most complicated of human emotions. Culture and society are rich in examples of how mere mortals have always attempted to understand the animal attraction between two people and, in doing so, to rationalize the essences of passion and romance. Ancient myths, poems, plays, novels, songs, folklore, fairy tales, film, advertising and popular culture in general all reflect peoples' preoccupation with love and its dizzying impact on the human psyche; both lover and beloved are equally bewildered by its bewitching spell.
Questions
1.What do you think about meaning of Love?
2.Why has Toni Morrison chosen Love as the title for her novel? What kinds of Love affect and afflict its characters?
3.How are the individuals in the novel affected by these larger forces?
Saturday, April 18, 2009
Friday, April 17, 2009
The rhetorical appeals
Movie- Love actually.
This movie is about love story, but I could find some globalization effects, opportunities of other countries, and different cultural problems.
The houskeeper came to U.S for finding job, and the guy who want to find love in U.S also left to England, because he tought U.S has more opportunies. When he arrived to America, his accent is special. Even England and America are both English area, but they have a little bit differences of language and cluture.Globalization gives opportunity to each nation to access each others markets as well as to capital flow, technology, imports, exports, politics, and culture. Overall, globalization has proven itself extremely beneficial and with its progression it allows for technological advancement, cultural integration, and shared markets.
Song
"The Internet Symphony" Global Mash Up
They called for professionals and amateur musicians of all ages, locations and instruments to audition for the YouTube Symphony Orchestra by submitting a video performance of a new piece written for the occasion by the renowned Chinese composer Tan Dun.
Finalists were selected by a judging panel comprised of the world’s most renowned orchestras
Worldwide musical madness! This is YouTube's incredible effort to unite musicians from all corners of the globe for a symphonic hoedown. It works! Fun to watch, easy to listen to and how they pulled it off so smoothly is a feat unto itself.
Book
An extremely controversial issue, globalization has been the center if much debate and has raised many questions. Some have viewed its process as beneficial, while many others argue that it produces unfavorable results and consequences. However, before the issues and concerns of globalization, it is necessary to determine or rather define globalization and all which is involved.
Although a fairly new term, dating to 1980s, globalization has been a historical process evident for over the last 100 years. Globalization specifically encompasses several aspects such as trade, capital movement, spread of knowledge, movement of people. Through use of trade and financial flow, globalization can be easily summed up as the integration of economies worldwide; furthermore, it includes international movement of technological knowledge and labor. As a result or rather in collaboration, there is a greater sense and existence of culture and politics.
In the broader scope, globalization promotes effectiveness by utilizing each market and nation's specialization; nonetheless, allowing people and economies to focus on what they do best. However, it has also proven to not be a fairly or evenly distributed progression among all countries and people. Low income countries have definitely felt the blows of globalization; nonetheless, it is clear that globalization needs to provide the proper support and advantages for the poorest countries. Furthermore, as globalization progresses it needs to take into consideration these countries that are not advancing quickly and develop new policies to integrated all people and countries into the global process.
This movie is about love story, but I could find some globalization effects, opportunities of other countries, and different cultural problems.
The houskeeper came to U.S for finding job, and the guy who want to find love in U.S also left to England, because he tought U.S has more opportunies. When he arrived to America, his accent is special. Even England and America are both English area, but they have a little bit differences of language and cluture.Globalization gives opportunity to each nation to access each others markets as well as to capital flow, technology, imports, exports, politics, and culture. Overall, globalization has proven itself extremely beneficial and with its progression it allows for technological advancement, cultural integration, and shared markets.
Song
"The Internet Symphony" Global Mash Up
They called for professionals and amateur musicians of all ages, locations and instruments to audition for the YouTube Symphony Orchestra by submitting a video performance of a new piece written for the occasion by the renowned Chinese composer Tan Dun.
Finalists were selected by a judging panel comprised of the world’s most renowned orchestras
Worldwide musical madness! This is YouTube's incredible effort to unite musicians from all corners of the globe for a symphonic hoedown. It works! Fun to watch, easy to listen to and how they pulled it off so smoothly is a feat unto itself.
Book
An extremely controversial issue, globalization has been the center if much debate and has raised many questions. Some have viewed its process as beneficial, while many others argue that it produces unfavorable results and consequences. However, before the issues and concerns of globalization, it is necessary to determine or rather define globalization and all which is involved.
Although a fairly new term, dating to 1980s, globalization has been a historical process evident for over the last 100 years. Globalization specifically encompasses several aspects such as trade, capital movement, spread of knowledge, movement of people. Through use of trade and financial flow, globalization can be easily summed up as the integration of economies worldwide; furthermore, it includes international movement of technological knowledge and labor. As a result or rather in collaboration, there is a greater sense and existence of culture and politics.
In the broader scope, globalization promotes effectiveness by utilizing each market and nation's specialization; nonetheless, allowing people and economies to focus on what they do best. However, it has also proven to not be a fairly or evenly distributed progression among all countries and people. Low income countries have definitely felt the blows of globalization; nonetheless, it is clear that globalization needs to provide the proper support and advantages for the poorest countries. Furthermore, as globalization progresses it needs to take into consideration these countries that are not advancing quickly and develop new policies to integrated all people and countries into the global process.
Thursday, April 16, 2009
Project 3
Movie -Love actually
The movie is a love story, but we can find the elements of globalization.
UK has a conference with U.S for having better relationship, and the conference should have had to get win- win situation. Also some male and female went to the other countries for getting opportunities.
Music
"The Internet Symphony" Global Mash Up
It is hard to find popular songs that relates to my topic. So, I found the symphony by youtube.
The YouTube Symphony Orchestra project represented a neat idea: use the Internet to have musicians from all over the world perform a single piece of music. It breaks language barriers, and it connects all people across the globe
Book- Globlozation,George Mavrilcos
This book was published on the symposium on globalization, economic crisis and their effects workers rights.
ImageGlobalization – the growing integration of economies and societies around the world – has been one of the most hotly-debated topics in international economics over the past few years. Rapid growth and poverty reduction in China, India, and other countries.
My topic is not difficult, so I think the information might share all audiences.
Friday, April 10, 2009
The simpsons
When The Simpsons had premiered on Fox, in 1989, prime-time television was somewhat lacking in comedy.The Simpsons TV Show is a full-length animated Christmas special in 1989, The Simpsons went on to become one of the most daring network television series of the 1990s, skewering pop culture, politics, and society in general at every opportunity. Anchored by the tales of its five-member, four-fingered, dysfunctional nuclear family, the series grew to provide more and more story lines for its wealth of rich supporting characters. The Simpsons' incredibly pious neighbor. These characters and others, and the world they inhabit, have taken on a dense, rich sense of familiarity. Audiences now recognize relationships and specific character traits that can predict developments and complications in any new plot.
The unique nature of The Simpsons reveals much about the nature of the television industry. Specifically, the existence of the show illustrates the relationship of television's industrial context to its degree of content innovation. It was a program that came along at the right place, the right time, and appealed to the right demographic groups. Not surprisingly, given its success, The Simpsons has spawned many imitators and opened doors for new avenues of animated comedy.
The Simpsons has permeated our vernacular, the way we tell jokes, and how our storytellers practice their craft. If you look around, you can see the evidence, but as with any truly powerful cultural force, you can never see it all—it's buried too deep."I think The Simpsons created an audience for prime-time animation that had not been there for many, many years.
Questions
1.Compare to Family Guy that is also popular cartoon in the U.S.
2.Do you remember any TV show that affected to your life?
3.Wchich character do you like in the simpsom family?
Wednesday, April 8, 2009
The ball jar
Rebirth through pain
http://www.newyorkartists.net/Hunter/rebirth.jpg
Mental healthy
https://groups.ontariomd.ca/groups/files/images/Mental%20Health.jpg
Gender of Women
http://www.mylifetime.com/files/imagecache/photo_gallery_featured/files/images/menopause.jpg
http://www.newyorkartists.net/Hunter/rebirth.jpg
Mental healthy
https://groups.ontariomd.ca/groups/files/images/Mental%20Health.jpg
Gender of Women
http://www.mylifetime.com/files/imagecache/photo_gallery_featured/files/images/menopause.jpg
Friday, April 3, 2009
The second sex
De Beauvoir states that while it is natural for humans to understand themselves in opposition to others, this process is flawed when applied to the genders. In defining woman exclusively as Other, man is effectively denying her humanity. The disciplines reveal indisputable “essential” differences between men and women but provide no justification for woman's inferiority. They all take woman's inferior “destiny” for granted.
De Beauvoir's primary thesis is that men fundamentally oppress women by characterizing them, on every level, as the other, defined exclusively in opposition to men. Man occupies the role of the self, or subject; woman is the object, the other. He is essential, absolute, and transcendent. She is inessential, incomplete, and mutilated. He extends out into the world to impose his will on it, whereas woman is doomed to immanence, or inwardness. He creates, acts, invents; she waits for him to save her.
I think she insists on the impossibility of comparing the “character” of men and women without considering the immense differences in their situation. Also, Her goal is to prove that women are not born “feminine” but shaped by a thousand external processes. She shows how, at each stage of her upbringing, a girl is conditioned into accepting passivity, dependence, repetition, and inwardness. Every force in society conspires to deprive her of subjectivity and flatten her into an object. Denied the possibility of independent work or creative fulfillment, the woman must accept a dissatisfying life of housework, childbearing, and sexual slavishness.
Question.
1. Do you agree with De Beauvoir? especially male
2.What do you think about some of the ways that women reinforce their own dependency?
3.If her functioning as a female is not enough to define woman, what do you think what is women?
De Beauvoir's primary thesis is that men fundamentally oppress women by characterizing them, on every level, as the other, defined exclusively in opposition to men. Man occupies the role of the self, or subject; woman is the object, the other. He is essential, absolute, and transcendent. She is inessential, incomplete, and mutilated. He extends out into the world to impose his will on it, whereas woman is doomed to immanence, or inwardness. He creates, acts, invents; she waits for him to save her.
I think she insists on the impossibility of comparing the “character” of men and women without considering the immense differences in their situation. Also, Her goal is to prove that women are not born “feminine” but shaped by a thousand external processes. She shows how, at each stage of her upbringing, a girl is conditioned into accepting passivity, dependence, repetition, and inwardness. Every force in society conspires to deprive her of subjectivity and flatten her into an object. Denied the possibility of independent work or creative fulfillment, the woman must accept a dissatisfying life of housework, childbearing, and sexual slavishness.
Question.
1. Do you agree with De Beauvoir? especially male
2.What do you think about some of the ways that women reinforce their own dependency?
3.If her functioning as a female is not enough to define woman, what do you think what is women?
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