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Advanced Essay #3-Bystander Effect in Today's World
Violence is what makes the world go around, said no one, but it seems eerily true. You could look anywhere in the world and find terrible things happening. Isis just claimed responsibility for what happened in Sri Lanka, China has started to militarize Pakistan. Myanmar is jailing reporters who opposed the dictatorship in place, it seems as though the Russians just hacked into the US elections system. The US in general is just a political mess, people in Venezuela are trying to escape a ruthless dictator, and the stories just go on and on. Sadly this has almost always been the case in human history, people doing horrible things to each other for personal gain. The violence seems to have no end in site. But there is some light in all of this darkness, documentation. The progress of the digital world has helped us see things that we never would have had a window to before. It has not always stopped the violence from occurring, but it has made people who do these things way more cautious. And maybe one day, will stop all of these events in general.
Our new found use of technology has helped us in many ways. Things that we never could have seen before are now accessible to almost everyone. These crazy events that happen on the other side of the world can still be seen. But sadly this has left us with a new problem, accountability. Since now everyone is seeing everything, it is assumed that the problem is being taken care of. And as long as everyone is assuming that it is someone else's problem, nothing is going to get done. This is called the bystander effect, which according to psychology today is “the presence of others discourages an individual from intervening in an emergency situation”. This was first just seen as an issue with people who are seeing the same even with their own eyes. But now with the internet spreading everything, this effect has spread with it. Leaving society with a problem that very much so needs to be addressed.
A clear example of this effect would be facebook live and things that have been broadcasted on it. An example of this was reported on by Times Magazine, when a 15 year old girl was sexually assaulted on a facebook live video that was viewed according to a source by 40 people. Despite this no one called the police. An example outside of the internet would be when Ilan Halimi was kidnapped in paris by Moroccan “Barbarians” to try and get money from his family because of the fact that he was jewish reported the New York Times. While in captivity several of the neighbors to the place that he was being held in heard the commotion and in some instances actually saw what was happening. Yet again, no one called the authorities or tryed to put an end to what was happening in any way. This is a really big physiological problem that we as humans have yet to be able to fully understand. The list of examples is so long that there is an example of this effect in the bible, when Jesus is telling a lawyer about how everyone is everyone's neighbor. And he gives an example of this happening, were several people pass by a man on the side of a road who has been beaten. And in the only person who stopped to help him was a samaritan. What this story is trying to say is very important, regardless if you are religious or not, it exposes human nature and people who aim to change it and people who just go along with the same old same old.
As I have said many many times this is a problem, but I haven’t really gone in to how to fix it. And that really is the problem, because to fix this we need to do something that humans by nature do not do. And that is accountability, and we can see this in multiple aspects of life. Everything from climate change, to who is responsible for finishing the benchmark. It all comes down to people owning up to their mistakes, and not only doing that but fixing them. Which is something that we don’t typically do, it is part a of our subconscious. This is why we need to start actively thinking about this consciously. Even if people just took a little more initiation when seeing something, the world would be a much better place. Not even what happens on social media, but if you see someone getting called call the police. Or if it is your job to do something actually do it, and don’t just depend on others to get it done. And even if it isn’t your job, and you just see someone in need, do something about it instead of just leaving it for someone else. I am not at all exempt from this, and I really do think that by fixing the little things it could affect things that I didn’t even expect. If every single person just took on a little more responsibility, we could actually solve some of the worlds problems instead of ignoring them.
Citations-
“Bystander Effect.” Psychology Today, Sussex Publishers, www.psychologytoday.com/us/basics/bystander-effect.
“Chicago Teen Sexually Assaulted on Facebook Live Fears Home.” Time, Time, 22 Mar. 2017, time.com/4710231/chicago-teen-sexual-assault-facebook-live/.
Smith, Craig S. “Torture and Death of Jew Deepen Fears in France.” The New York Times, The New York Times, 5 Mar. 2006, www.nytimes.com/2006/03/05/world/europe/torture-and-death-of-jew-deepen-fears-in-france.html.
“Who Is Your Neighbor? Well, Who Are You?” Desiring God, 3 May 2019, www.desiringgod.org/articles/who-is-your-neighbor-well-who-are-you.
Advanced Essay #2- The Importance Of Identity-Jack Eagen
Still Nothing- Jack Eagen
I sit in my chair, spinning, and spinning thinking that something will change. I have been sitting here for hours and still nothing has come to me, nothing has changed. I still stare at the same blue wall, trying to come up with something to write. I am a person with not very much concentration, anything besides work always seems like a better option to me. I look around my room and see the most random thing, maybe it’s a shoe, or a picture, but whatever it is, it interests me more than my work. The smell of all this is something that I could never put into words, not in a bad way, it’s just indescribable. But as I sit their, I recognize it like an old friend. I touch the wood on my desk and feel how flat it is. Still trying to concentrate on my writing but thinking about how all of this is surrounding me as I try and fill a blank page. The essay is due tomorrow, and my ideas still aren’t clear. My mom walks in and asks “Are you working?” I say “Of course”, knowing full and well it isn’t true.
It’s not that I haven’t wanted to work, it’s just my brain. Plain and simple my brain finds any possible way to excuse getting out of work. This is a quality I very much dislike about myself, but it is apart of me nonetheless. I have tried to fix it by getting as far away from distractions as possible, but then my brain just latches on to random things. It might not even be in the room, but I will start to think about it. For example if I am working on something, going jet skiing might randomly pop into my head. I have never even been on a jet ski but it will occupy my boredom for at least ten minutes. And by the time I am able to refocus, I have already lost my train of thought.
Obviously as humans we will need to do work at some point, so this mentality is not really helpful. In all honesty, I think most people who do this have absolutely no idea how to fix this. Yet again the problem might be that we haven’t tried hard enough. That is what I am hoping the answer is because if it’s not there might be an even worse problem. I don’t believe that it is though, I think that it is just an unwillingness to work.
A lot of people close to me have said that when it is something I am passionate about, something that I want to do, I will put one hundred and ten percent of my effort into it. But sadly a lot of life doesn’t work like that. I’ll just have to suck things up and get through it. That’s just a fact of life that everyone at some point in their lives has to deal with. I think that at sixteen years old, it is ok to not have dealt with that reality yet. To be able to, for at least a bit longer, live in my little bubble. But a lot of people are starting to try and wake me up to that reality. At SLA we clearly have people who already have that drive, already are ready and willing to do what needs to be done. For almost my entire life I have wanted to be one of those people. The one that stays up until four in the morning to finish a project. Not because they want to, but because they have to if they want to succeed. And I desperately want to succeed in life, I am a very materialistic person and I openly admit that. If you do not succeed in life, you do not have the option of material things. That is why I know that for me to succeed, I will need to get out of this way of thinking.
For me to be able to do something with my life, I need to do what is necessary. It won’t, for the most part, be what I want to do. But it will be what I need to do. It is definitely important that I acknowledge that now. Because as long as I live in my little bubble, I will never be what I want to be.
Day 1 & 2 Print/Matt Jack Eagen
My element was Cobalt, it´s abbreviation was Co and atomic number was 27. My element was discovered in 1735. It has been and still is used to turn vases blue. To make this print first we had to create three different designs that we wanted to use for our prints. I choose the one that I thought was the best and made the final design. Then I put my design on a plate backwards so it would print out correctly. Finally I rolled ink on it and then printed it on paper. Then for one of my prints I created a paper background. If I was to do this a second time I think all I would do different was be more consistent with the paint. Other than that I think I did a good job. But that was still the best part of the project. I had a lot of fun painting everything and then pasting it on paper. It was fun because it was very relaxing and very cool to see the final product.
Final Stamp Design
In my art project I thought it would be best to use the three main parts. I started out with a list of 10 things that I thought described me the best. I was not sure which ones I wanted to keep and get rid of, so I asked some of my friends to help me out. In the end I finished with three main components of my life. My Irish heritage, running/athletics, and of course, gaming. My first design looked nothing of what I had intended it to be. I had to redo my project I believe three times before I finally got what I was looking for. The reason for so many redos was that my positive and negative spaces where not clear. I started out with a basketball hoop instead of a gaming controller, but the positive space would not have shown. But on my final design everything was clear and good looking. You can clearly see the difference in the picture above, in my original draft that was not the case. This was very important because without the difference in spaces the picture doesn't look as good as it could. So I feel that my project is really the best project I could put together.
Just for all you people out there like me who can't tell the difference between positive and negative space, this paragraph is for you. When you think about what negative space, in my mind I at least I think of outer space. It is the same concept with negative space. When the area around objects is a different color than the base, then that is negative space. Positive space is when the objects are a different color than the background. So positive space is the showing of the objects. So if you're confused like me, hopefully this helped you.
NEGATIVE SPACE CUT OUT
A. What is negative space (explain this concept to a fourth grader that has never heard of it)
Negative space is an art form that uses the space in and around an object. This means either the space inside an object will either be light or dark. If it is light, then the area around it will be dark. If the object is dark, the area around it will be light. Creating two different versions of the same image that join together.
B. Explain how you found negative space in your cut out?
You can see negative space in my cut out because of the contrast of the two sides. The left side’s border is green while the inside is red. On the right side the inside is green while the outside is red. This makes them opposites from one another, meaning my image has found negative space.
C. Why does it help an artist to see in negative space?
It can create very cool contrast from one side of an image to another. Thus creating a unique and professional piece. Especially since it is geometric and aesthetically pleasing. With enough work you can create something amazing, and maybe even museum worthy. Or you can create nice refrigerator art.
D. Does seeing in negative space enhance drawings, why or why not?
Yes because it makes either the inside of outside of an image pop out from the rest of the picture. It shows two different worlds of the same drawing in the same frame . Creating a one of a kind art piece that looks amazing. Both sides make the other stand out. As I hope you see in the image I created.MP1 Art blog and Art Statements
Printmaking is important because it allows artist to create artwork in a unique and distinct way. It creates a one of a kind masterpiece with very little materials. Infact, that is what sets Printmaking apart from a lot of other artforms. You do not need much to create it. Printmaking has been around for centuries because it did not need all of the new technology we have today to make a museum worthy piece. You can even use different sets of material to create it. So no matter if you live in a place with lots of wood, or lots of stone, you can create a printmaking masterpiece with those few materials.
Printmaking was invented some time in between 500 BC - 100 AD. The Ancient Egyptians were the first to use printmaking. They would use wood instead of paper to print the artwork. But around the same time the Chinese were doing the exact same thing, but they used stone instead. Not to far behind, the Indians would cut from plank and printed pictures, as well as text until 1300. During the 15th century word finally reached Europe and they also began printmaking. Inspired by the glass windows in churches. As I stated before printmaking survived even until today. We know this because graffiti and stencil are a forms of printmaking.
Printmaking was so revolutionary because of the fact that we can find it being used by humans all over the globe. I explained this in the last paragraph that India, China, and Ancient Egypt were all starting to use printmaking around the same time. They all use different materials, but they all get the same amazing result. This is still eminent today because artist all over the word still use the technique. And the fact that it survived that long is impressive on it’s own. Even people who just draw for fun can create amazing printmaking masterpieces. In addition printmaking has helped create many other forms of art work.
To predict the image above I want to start by looking at the little details in the drawing. The ink brings out every little detail that the maker had intended it to have in the original drawing. We can see all of the people engraved into the hills and the agricultural aspect that we see everywhere we look. But what I think makes this drawing really interesting is the fact that the creator decided to add cows. In my opinion it makes it look very cool along with the singular house. The contrast between the light parts really are what make everything else pop out. Which is the point of printmaking. The texture that they made, especially on the trees, made the artwork even more amazing that it already was. The creator did not leave a lot of open space, which leaves a lot more room for more detail. I interpreted this as a country side place where agriculture is a big component in everyday life. And the animals I noticed show that the farm is not just about crops, but also harvest animals. All in all I really liked this drawing. The special details that the author used really put the final touch on an already amazing piece. But I am still wondering exactly where this drawing is supposed to be, I’m not sure where exactly Sulu Land is.
Reflection on Media Fluency
In my new slide I kept almost everything. I have all the same pictures as before, and I still used the rule of thirds. But what I did change was I switched the position of the Penn State picture and Phillies pictures. I did this because the Gas Monkey white and the Phillies clashed with each other. I also tried to make the border look more "clean cut". The border is now more on all sides. I think their is not much else that should be changed.
Media Fluency
In my slide I choose to try and use the rule of thirds to present it. Since to describe me I couldn’t find just one image, I used four to briefly do it. The pictures I used where the of the Cowboys, Gas Monkey Garage, Penn State, and the Phillies. To follow the rule of thirds I put all the images at a central point of tendency. If you look at it, the Cowboys picture takes up the top left point, the Gas Monkey Garage one take the top right, the Phillies the bottom left, and finally the bottom left is Penn State. I’m pretty sure that you are only supposed to use one central point of tendencies, but I figured why not experiment? So I hope you liked my slide!
My home Network- Jack Eagen
Jack Eagen 10/14/16
Go home and look for the wire that brings the internet into your home.
a. What does that wire look like? The wire is black and thick.
b. What room does this wire come into? The wire comes into the Modem
Do you have a modem and a router or a combination modem and router?What is connected to this router/modem? Name all the devices that use wiFi in your home- I have a modem and a router. The Router the Wi-Fi, and the house phones. The Wi-fi connects to 5 phones, 2 computers, 3 ipads, a printer, a tv, and my xbox.
Who is your ISP( Internet Service Provider) Comcast
- how much is does the internet cost per month? *multiply the monthly cost by 12. What is that dollar amount? $180 dollars per month, $2,160 per year
