I'm so very proud of all our amazing filmmakers for their achievements!
http://www.humanesociety.org/issues/abuse_neglect/
I am choosing animal abuse because there are a lot of people around the world abusing animals. There are too many people using animals to take advantage of them just because they may make one small mistake.
In “The Taming of the Shrew”, honesty and deception play big roles in the relationships between the characters, especially Petruchio and Katherine, as well as Katherine and her father, Baptista. In the 2012 movie “ Silver Linings Playbook,” honesty and deception are even more important — almost every important thing that happens is rooted in honesty or a lack thereof.
Pat Solatano, Jr. is a diagnosed bipolar who has just been released from prison following his beating of his wife’s lover. Tiffany Maxwell is a recovering sex addict whose husband has recently died. While the relationship between Pat Solatano, Jr. and Tiffany Maxwell can be compared to Petruchio and Katherine’s, the genders should be reversed. In “Shrew,” Petruchio uses very manipulative tactics to eventually end up with Katherine’s love. Likewise, in “Silver Linings Playbook,” Tiffany manipulates Pat, making him think that her end goal is something completely different from what it is. In contrast, Pat Solatano is not aware of Tiffany’s goals until almost the end of the movie, while Katherine most likely knows Petruchio’s plans from the beginning. Both of these stories show that, while manipulation is not always moral, the results can be good for both the manipulator and the manipulated.
Petruchio: Come, come, you wasp, i’faith you are too angry.
Katherine: If I be waspish, best beware my sting.
Petruchio: My remedy is then to pluck it out.
Katherine: Ay, if the fool could find where it lies.
Petruchio: Who knows not where a wasp does wear his sting? In his tail.
Katherine: In his tongue.
Petruchio: Whose tongue?
Katherine: Yours, if you talk of tales, and so farewell.
Petruchio: What, with my tongue in your tail?
(Act II, Scene I, 207-214)
In this scene, Petruchio and Katherine are first meeting. While on the surface they are insulting and trying to intimidate each other, they are also hinting at the physical or sexual attraction between them using innuendos. This represents deception and manipulation, because they are hiding their true meaning behind clever words.
Pat, Jr. and Tiffany also have a strange first conversation:
In this scene, Pat and Tiffany are meeting for the first time at Pat’s friend Ronnie’s house. Pat remarks that Tiffany looks nice, and soon after asks about her dead husband, which spurs an awkward and somewhat hostile conversation between the two. However, during the conversation, they are both giving each other somewhat heated looks. When Tiffany leaves the room, she gives Pat a sultry look, implying her unspoken intentions, just like Katherine and Petruchio.
Thus in plain terms: your father hath consented
That you shall be my wife, your dowry ‘greed on,
And will you, nill you, I will marry you…
Here comes your father. Never make denial.
I must and will have Katherine to my wife.
(Act 2, Scene 1, 261-272)
In this scene, Petruchio has recently spoken to Baptista, Katherine’s father, and gotten his consent to marry her. This was a very deceptive act, because Katherine thought that her father would at least talk to her before doing such a thing. This is incredibly dishonest, of both Petruchio and Baptista.
However, in the long run, this might have been good for Katherine; she ends up seemingly happy and “tamed” at the end of the story.
In this scene, Tiffany shows Pat the envelope that supposedly has a response from Nikki in it, but says that he cannot read it until he nails the dance they are working on. In the end of the movie, it comes out that Tiffany actually wrote the letter. This was an incredibly dishonest and pretty manipulative thing to do, but in the end, seemingly caused Pat to fall in love with her.
Tell us a bit about your digital story, what did you set out to do?
I set out to make people think about what they overlook.
How did you accomplish this goal?
I want to accomplish my goal by making this video and pointing out the things I noticed about myself.
What do you hope your audience gains for viewing/listening your piece?
I hope everyone takes a second to think about what they overlook.
Hello I am Asher Swartz, creator of the fictional "The Confederate Life" newspaper. This is a fictional newspaper set in the Reconstruction period following the American Civil War. A brief overview of the contents of this fictional newspaper (brief disclaimer: I do not inherently agree with the viewpoints expressed in these articles and this newspaper. They are merely fictional ideas I wished to express.): It is called The Confederate Life (as I'm sure you understand by now) and it features two main, one age long each articles. One is titled “Dirty Carpetbagger” (carpetbaggers were northerners who moved to the South after the American Civil War to benefit financially) and the other one is titled “Honorable Gentleman”. These are articles written by someone very mad about the American Civil War and Reconstruction in general and is venting their anger by writing newspaper articles promoting Southerners and bashing Northerner carpetbaggers. They each contain quotes from a main person. The Northerner is Marshall Harvey Twitchell, a Civil War veteran who lived in the South, a self proclaimed carpetbagger. The Southerner in question is Edwin H. McCaleb, a supporter of the Confederacy. The quotes are from an autobiography for Twitchell and a letter to a friend for McCaleb. The articles use these quotes, and the author rants on about this that and the other thing. End of summary. Now, there may be some points that cause some form of confusion for some readers, and I would like to clear these up. First, there are only two main articles. Everything else is for context. Secondly, once again, this is purely fictional. Everything besides the quotes themselves is completely made up. To finish up, I will tell you why this is important. Even though this is fictional, it is a representation of something that might have existed. Its just an example of how people might have thought.
How did you accomplish this goal?
I told my story...my unique story. Hopefully one or two of my viewer's could relate.
What do you hope your audience gains for viewing/listening your piece?
I don't want anyone to gain this new hatred for valentine's day but I do want people to think about how interesting it is for certain relationships to die off or have things die off on you in a short matter of time.
The message that I attempted to get across was the idea that there will always be two opposing sides in EVERY situation. That being said, I also tried the emphasise the fact there can never be in any form a way of successful equality. In fact the closest thing that we have to being equal is fact that we are all mammals. Another lense that I attempted to look through was this idea on an “equalizer”. By this I mean leveling the central rights between both sides during the reconstruction era. And It may sound like a little much, but connect this topic to a more relatable instance in our modern society where something that is greater is being changed by an equalizer. The problem isn't whether or not it is unfair for the thing that is greater. The real issue is that fact that it's problematic on both sides because they are being equalized. So then what do we consider it? Is this really a reconstruction for the better? After doing this project I realized the radical perspectives in literally everything. In a sense it was almost troublesome looking at different situations and noticing the shift between good and bad (As cheesy as it sounds).
On top of that I’ve noticed that something that may appear to be confusing is the history behind my idea. The whole point of my magazine was to not only highlight the opposing side, but it was more of a thinking activity, and less of a learning experience if that makes sense?Artist Statement:
This is a newspaper that was published on the day after Lincoln’s funeral. To be clear, Booth escaped and was tracked down on a farm in Virginia, and that the police who were suppose to protect Lincoln was in a nearby saloon with Lincoln’s coachman. This is suppose to be a newspaper that would teach people about what happened. This newspaper includes how Lincoln was killed, what are the elements of this tragedy, how people mourned the death of our great president Lincoln, and many more. It also talk about the problems Andrew Johnson faced as the president at the time of period. Lincoln was a great man, he had done a lot for Black peoples, he signed the Emancipation Proclamation, which freed the slaves, and he end the war of slaves too. He also start the reconstruction right after the war, giving every African American forty acres of land and a mule / 100 bucks to build a house. He affected the African American, and his death affected them even more. His death stopped reconstruction basically. Andrew Johnson was the president after Lincoln, he didn’t care about reconstruction as much as Lincoln did, and he have lots of stuff to deal with. Like the southerners protesting about the African Americans, African Americans in the congress and etc. Anything He done could have affect the African Americans’ position in society, not only in the late 1800s, but also in the 1900s, and now a day. If the issue was take care of even more properly, may be here won’t be as much case of white cop shooting or killing black peoples for basically no reason, like how it is now.The Reconstruction Era was the period of time after the Civil War it was a time of recovery and transformation in America. During the Reconstruction former slaves gained several rights and were on their way to becoming equal with the dominant white race. With the rise of black empowerment came the rise of many hate groups. Groups like the Klu Klux Klan and the White League. Groups that spread used violence and intimidation to get what they wanted. These Hate groups terrorized cities with ravaging fires. Harming people of color and any of their supporters. Reconstruction ended with the assassination of Lincoln, and the people of colors lost most of the rights that they had only just been granted and were forced to regain them through years and years of civil rights movements, but many of the hate groups still survive today and even saying the names of them has become a kind of taboo. My map is meaningful to the study of the Reconstruction era because there were so many attacks on innocent people and my map is an easy way to see just how many reports of violence there were in the years of reconstruction. One thing that may not be very clear at first glance is that each of the flags on the map is a reported attack or the formation of a new group. Another thing about my map is that not every point on the map is super accurate, espescially since they cover a larger amount of space, so that is one thing you might want to keep in mind.
Source Analysis: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1RrhQE_ggaqX4rSLJBmBQSYipCLhzopO4mELU_rWckOI/edit
For my visual for my project, I decided to create a campaign poster for President Grant during his re-election run in 1872. A big influence was the appearance, at an initial site I wanted the poster to look relatively antique, and include the word re-elect very large, so the viewer knew immediately what I was showing to them. I also decided to use the Special Elite font to mimic the typewriter letters that were used in that time.
I wanted to include a picture of the President himself, which is why I included his portrait from the whitehouse.gov website. However I really wanted the main focus to be the things that he did during his first term to show the states why he should continue to lead. A really big note of the first time was the ratification of the 15th Amendment. President Grant really pushed for this Amendment to pass, and was indeed successful. Granting the newly freed slaves their right to vote gained him much attention, good and bad, and definitely was one of the biggest highlights of his presidency.
A vital key to my poster is the stress on Grant protecting both blacks and whites. During his presidency the fate of a stable country lied in his hands. During reconstruction the states where bonded with very weak glue, and the president had to make sure everyone was pleased. Being that typically whites viewed themselves as more than blacks, he needed to find a common ground where the two races could not necessarily agree, but co-exist. A few examples which are summarized in the phrase “Protecting and preserving the welfare of the people of this great nation, no matter their color.” Include Grant sending troops to protect the newly freed slaves from hate groups.
Ultimately expressing President Grants accomplishments and milestones his first few years in office was my goal, and to do so in a small, yet eye catching and unique campaign styled poster. This is my Artist statement for my interpretation for Presidents Grants’ Re-Election Campaign.
https://docs.google.com/a/scienceleadership.org/document/d/1x6WTywuJwnKU8_uyAFMCkHEZfalPvVvYyHY0Q3lV-yY/edit?usp=sharing link to Source Analysis document.
Plan one meal a day | Which meal: desayuno, almuerzo, cena | Comida | Bebida |
lunes | desayuno | el gofre | el jugo de naranja |
martes | almuerzo | la hamburguesa | el agua |
miércoles | cena | chuletas de cerdo | el té |
jueves | desayuno | huevos y tocino | el batido de frutas |
viernes | almuerzo | ensalada | el té |
sábado | cena | pollo el curry y arroz | el jugo de manzana |
domingo | postre | tartas | leche |
Plan one meal a day | Which meal: desayuno, almuerzo, cena | Comida | Bebida |
lunes | desayuno | el gofre | el jugo de naranja |
martes | almuerzo | la hamburguesa | el agua |
miércoles | cena | chuletas de cerdo | el té |
jueves | desayuno | huevos y tocino | el batido de frutas |
viernes | almuerzo | ensalada | el té |
sábado | cena | pollo el curry y arroz | el jugo de manzana |
domingo | postre | tartas | leche |
Arielle: ¡Estoy emocionada por el prom!
Kay: Yo tambien.
Aissatou: Yo tambien!
Arielle: ¿Con quien vas?
Kay: Nadie me invito.
Aissatou: A mi tampoco.
Arielle: Tal vez pronto
*The next day*
Taytiana (Tim): *To Kay* ¿Te gustaría ir al prom conmigo?
Kay: ¡Claro que sí!
*later that day*
Taytiana: ¿Te gustaría ir al prom conmigo?
Arielle: ¡Claro que sí!
Taytiana: ¿Bonita, te gustaría ir al prom conmigo?
Aissatou: ¡Sí!
**later that day**
Kay: ¿Todavia vas al prom?
Arielle: Sí, con Tim
Aissatou: ¿Tim?
Kay: No, él va conmigo.
Arielle: ¡Él me invitò!
Aissatou: ¡Pero él mi invitò a mi!
*yells at each other*
Taytiana: Ay díos mio... calmanse niñas.. **shakes head**
Kay: Estúpido
Aissatou: payaso
Arielle: ¡pendejo!
Tim: Nenás nosotros ir prom comigo
Aissatou: Tu eres feo. Estupido
Tim: Nosotros deberíamos ir al prom juntos *points to all the girls*
Arielle: No, nosotros deberíamos ir al prom juntos *points to Aissatou and Kay*
We exit, then Tim does.
domingo | lunes | martes | miercoles | jueves | viernes | sabado | |
desayuno | panqueques | sándwich de desayuno | cereal con fruto | huevos fritos con tocino | pan tostado con mantequilla | pan tostado de frances | gofres con mantequilla |
almuerzo | hamburguesa y papas fritas | pollo y papas fritas | sándwich | pan y mantequilla | pan ye pollo | en salasda | arroz y sopa de huevo con tomate |
cena | arroz y sopa de huevo con tomate | pan y lechuga | fideos | hot dog | tomate y lechuga y pan | hamburguesa y papas fritas | sándwich |
bocadillo | el té | el helado | la piña | la manzana | la naranja | la fresa | el pastel |
bebidas | La leche El jugo de naranja el té el café el refresco | La leche El jugo de naranja el té el café el refresco | La leche El jugo de naranja el té el café el refresco | La leche El jugo de naranja el té el café el refresco | La leche El jugo de naranja el té el café el refresco | La leche El jugo de naranja el té el café el refresco | La leche El jugo de naranja el té el café el refresco |
My newspaper project comes right out of Oct. 15, 1883, the exact date when the Civil Rights Act of 1875 was voted unconstitutional by Congress. I wanted to talk about this specific moment because it shows that black people in Congress did try to affect things for the better. It also helped me create articles that corresponded with each other. For example, I talk about the Representative from South Carolina Richard H. Cain a lot in this article. That's because he was a big part in the debate of the Civil Rights Act of 1875 and was an important figure around this time period. That way I could make another figure of that time period more widely known and create articles that would be actually “real” in this part of time. I also talked about the K.K.K. a little bit to show the negative effects colored people with authority had on the country. However, the K.K.K. article also shows how black people are responding to that negativity. The article tells how the K.K.K. is in a court case, seeing if their actions are unconstitutional. While the K.K.K. won the case, the fact that they were even in trial was a sign that the authority of black people was beginning to be respected, even by some white people. So I don't think there is anything else that is necessary to tell you about the project. Thanks for taking a look at my newspaper!
