In my individual oral, I chose my global issue after the Persepolis discussion I had with my classmate. In this discussion, we explored more about Satrapi’s identity in terms of representing herself through her country and the complexity of nationalism and patriotism. Out of the many global issues we discussed, I chose to analyze the global issue of identity change and more specifically how it can be influenced by societal pressure and cultural differences. I thought that I could relate to this global issue more on a personal level because it is a very common topic among young teenagers and adults proving the issue to be timeless and limitless. An example I made specifically is young adults being particularly affected by societal pressure through the use of social media which causes them to have an identity struggle. These texts personally showed me that identity change isn’t always a bad thing as people can develop personal growth from these experiences and learn new values in the process, essentially showing that identity change is a part of the development in life. I prepared for my IO by first writing my outline and listing out all the things I want to include, then organizing them in a concise matter to later practice with my 10 bullet points. Timing my IO was important for me to know about how long I should be talking. Practicing it out loud was also helpful in putting me in the most realistic situation. My main challenge was the timing as I was afraid to go over time and was nervous about keeping a balance in the IO.
During this unit, we viewed 2 non-literary works. Icarus is a documentary about Russia’s practice of doping in the sports industry. It was named after the Greek mythology where Icarus had is wings melted off because he flew too close to the sun despite his father’s warning. Nike is another non-literary work we viewed, where we looked at Colin Kaepernick’s protest against police brutality and racial discrimination. Both works share a common theme of sacrifice and protest in sports.
While choosing which 2 works I wanted to analyze for my IO recording, we were partnered up to create a poster connecting all the literary and non-literary works we have viewed. I think this helped me get a good sense of what I wanted to analyze becauhttps://share.kas.tw/evecha21/wp-admin/edit.php?post_type=pagese, of the visual representation of the connections, I could see the more clearly which works had more in common, which ones had a bigger difference or how the differences can impact the connection between each work. Working in pairs was also helpful because I was able to get a second opinion on things and widen my perspective on each of the works.
my mini IO recording
I think that the mini IO helped me understand what I needed to include for my analysis of the non-literary work. It was a helpful practice to learn how to pace my time and also I was more prepared and knew what to expect for the IO summative. Since the practice IO was only 5 minutes, it was
My thoughts about the Nike advertisement:
Explain whether you are in support of it or not. Make connections to yourself as a viewer, to the ad, to Colin Kaepernick, and to the context.
I support Kaepernick’s protest since his intentions were for the right reasons and his sacrifice of his career is bold enough to make a statement. I think that as a viewer, Kaepernick started a non-violent protest that didn’t physically harm anyone and his protest was based on a reasonable belief proving that he isn’t guilty of anything. In the ad, Nike used the word “sacrifice” which offended many soldiers/ law enforcement, but although Kaepernick’s sacrifice wasn’t the same as the soldiers, his sacrifice was bold enough to make a statement to the public and he didn’t stop his protest for money as other athletes did. Kaepernick’s intentions weren’t to offend all law enforcement but only police brutality. He couldn’t specifically address the officers that are involved in police brutality so he could only address them as a whole.
Readers, Writers, Text
We have now looked closely at the Nike Ad featuring Colin Kaepernick and we have debated about its content, context, and purpose. We have looked at it through the lens of readers, writers, and texts.
Explain to what extent the context of production should be considered when analyzing advertisements.
When analyzing advertisements, the readers should know that the ad is also promoting their brand or product which could interfere with the message the writers are trying to convey. I think that the ads can be useful in raising awareness by using the fame of their brand but the company needs to strongly believe in the cause too because by promoting these messages they are investing money in it too.
Readers, Writers, Text
Why do we study language? Consider how the structure or style of a text affects meaning.
By studying language, it’s a form of communication between people to share what they have in common and what they disagree on. The structure and style can communicate different meanings of the message. In the ads, the structure of where everything is placed can show the readers what the main points of the ad are. The fonts, color, and style can set the mood for the readers and affect what they think about the ad.
Readers, Writers, Text
In what ways is meaning constructed, negotiated, expressed and interpreted? Consider your POD-ahaa annotations, the persuasive techniques, and the articles that you read.
The meaning of the ads can change the way people look at them as people with different options can negotiate with the different sides of the story. Both sides of the ad can be constructed with more biased information to alter and persuade the way people see the story
In this unit, we studied the play Antigone in comparison to previous plays that we have read before like A Doll’s house. The two plays shared a common theme of rebelling against societal norms for personal reasons. Antigone is a play located in Greece during the 14th century BC. We had group discussions, analyzed text from the plays and connected the context from the play to modern-day rebels.
In our discussions, we mentioned real-world rebellions that were similar to the rebellions from Antigone and A Doll’s house. Specifically, we discussed topic 4 which is cultural similarities and differences about the nature of rebellion. We included how rebellions start and last, history examples of rebellions and comparisons of modern-day rebellions and historical ones.
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In the morality and marginalization project, each group needed to research a rebel that demonstrated rebellious behaviors through the actions of sacrifices. My job in our group was to research background information and the first negative constructive for our rebel from a negative point of view. I found my job particularly challenging in ways that I needed to think of reasons why my rebel was guilty. I think this part was the hardest because of the difference in culture and time. Society differs from time and through time people can change what is considered “normal” or expected.
Unit question: How might an individual understand his/her own values and morality through the ways in which he/she is willing to question the status quo and face marginalization?
A person can test the importance of their beliefs by making sacrifices and by their willingness to question societal expectations knowing their punishment. Both plays displayed an act of rebellion to social norms as Nora and Antigone challenged society’s common way of thinking with personal beliefs, aware of their consequences.
In my untimed paper 2 writing, I wrote about prompt 3: How has suffering been described in two works you have studied, and how could this be said to give meaning to life? With the subject of suffering and life, I needed to analyze the actions in both plays to understand how each character suffered and what their meaning of life is. I learned that in A Doll’s house, Ibsen displayed Nora’s suffering with Torvald’s patronizing treatments and the meaning of life was her opportunity to find her own identity. Antigone suffered with the dishonor of her brother’s burial and her meaning of life was the satisfaction of honoring her family.
In this assignment, we needed to analyze the humor and stylistic techniques used in political cartoons. Specifically looking at the purpose of the text and drawing choices. With a given prompt to discuss how the language features aim to persuade viewers of the political cartoon to think and behave.
In this unit, I chose to analyze a cartoon about gender roles and gender inequality. After analyzing the cartoons, I needed to write the purpose of the cartoon in a TIEA formate. Specifically, the purpose behind the cartoons and the intentions of the cartoonist. I learned more about the purpose and humor behind the political cartoons and also how small stylistic details can bring out the details of the purpose. Since the cartoon I chose had a lot of text and not a lot of characters drawn I was mainly focused on finding the humor techniques and how the cartoonist utilizes it in the cartoon. Because I didn’t practice much on analyzing the stylistic techniques when I needed to analyze a cartoon with a lot of stylistic techniques I was unsure of what to find and what the cartoonist intentions are. By looking at the details we can see that Liza Donnelly used her personal experience in her cartoons but other cartoonists that I analyzed during the timed writing could have other intentions and want to express another purpose. I think because of my lack of practice, I was unable to find the details I needed to support my thesis.
In this unit, we analyzed social issues of racial discrimination and medical advancements during the 1900s. We analyzed text by writing TIEAs and spoke in a video mentioning the themes that were used in the text and connected the text to a global issue that we chose.
ILOHL TIEA
ILOHL verbal analysis
In this unit, we learned about what was important to us personally and wrote an essay about it. After writing the essay, we made a video reading our video and visually showing the essay. I think that this assignment helped me understand what I really believe in.
This I believe video
Communication isn’t always clear, often times people make assumptions due to their miscommunication. These assumptions can lead to people believing in having wrong intentions. Since people communicate in a variety of ways on a day to day basis, miscommunication is a natural thing to occur. Common ways of misunderstanding can vary from eye contact, actions, tone, language to the dialect but in my case, it was lack of information. After a day in school, I told my mom to pick me up at 5 but what I didn’t tell her was where to pick me up. So my mom assumed that I meant picking me up at school but I had class somewhere else and at 5 neither of us could find each other because we were in different locations. Leaving out crucial information was my miscommunication which leads to my mom’s misunderstanding.
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In the book “The immortal life of Henrietta Lacks”, Hsu is Victor McKusick’s assistant and because he comes from China, english isn’t his native language. Day tries to communicate with her but because of the language barrier, Day couldn’t understand her. The lacks family couldn’t understand Hsu’s intentions until the blood draws.
“When Hsu got home from the conference, she called Day to ask if she could draw blood from his family. ‘They said they got my wife and she part alive,’ he told me years later. ‘They said they been doing experiments on her and they wanted to come test my children see if they got that cancer killed their mother.'” (Skloot,182)
The Lacks family got confused with how Henrietta’s cells are immortal and Henrietta isn’t. When Bobbette ran home yelling at Lawrence “Part of your mother, it’s alive!” Day misunderstood that Bobbette was referring to Henrietta’s cells and not Henrietta.
“Bobbette excused herself and ran home, bursting through the screen door into the kitchen, yelling for Lawrence, ‘Part of your mother, it’s alive!’ Lawrence called his father to tell him what Bobbette had heard, and Day didn’t know what to think. “Henrietta’s alive?!” he thought. It didn’t make any sense.” (Skloot,181)
The Lacks family suffered poverty and lack of education, so this became a disadvantage to their communication. The Lacks has grown to believe in religion instead of science. After Gary explained to Sklott their religious belief and how to make sense of Henrietta’s immortal cells.
“ At that moment, reading those passages, I understood completely how some of the Lackses could believe, without doubt, that Henrietta had been chosen by the Lord to become an immortal being. If you believe the Bible is the literal truth, the immortality of Henrietta’s cells makes perfect sense.” (Skloot,296)
In the Movie “Sierra Burgess Is A Loser“, Jamey asks Veronica for her number, but Veronica gives him Sierra’s number instead and because of this miscommunication, Sierra is misunderstood with her true identity. During this time Jamey is talking to Sierra, he thinks he is talking to Veronica since Veronica gave Jamey Sierra’s number instead of hers.
Work Cited
Skloot, Rebecca. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks. Broadway Books, 2010.
In “The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks”, there were several times where the medical community ignored Henrietta’s privacy for the benefit of scientific research. Henrietta and the Lacks family is constantly taken advantage of and one of the main reason for this type of treatment is racism and how they are looked down upon in society. With this racism disadvantage, Henrietta’s cells are often used without consent.
“Everyone always saying Henrietta Lacks donated those cells. She didn’t donate nothing. They took them and didn’t ask.” (Skloot,169)
As Henrietta’s doctors phrased it, they made look like Henrietta voluntarily donated her cells so that they would look bad in public. The cells were taken without Henrietta or her families’ consent which shows an invasion of privacy for the benefit of a medical breakthrough.
“The only thing Day could figure was that maybe Howard Jones had asked Henrietta for a picture, then stuck it in her medical record. But as far as Day knew, no one had ever asked permission to publish it.” (Skloot,189)
In the book “Medical Genetics”, McKusick used Henrietta’s medical records and photographs that he didn’t have permission for. This was another time where Henrietta’s privacy has been ignored and used against her own free will.
“Research on inmates would come under scrutiny and start being heavily regulated about fifteen years later, because they’d be considered a vulnerable population unable to give informed consent. But at the time, prisoners nationwide were being used for research of all kinds—from testing chemical warfare agents to determining how X-raying testicles affected sperm count.”(Skloot, 129)
During the HeLa cell research, Henrietta was treated more like an experiment than a patient and other people that were being tested on during this research were prisoners or patients that already have cancer. This is showing a lot about how the doctors don’t respect Henrietta’s privacy and only focused on experimenting with it.
This reminded me of a TV series called “Greys Anatomy”. In the show, the surgeons often had tumor cases that were so severe it was inoperable but the doctors always come up with a plan that no other doctor as tried before and the doctors expect the patients to let them operate a risky surgery. Some patients don’t want to operate because they don’t want to be the “lab rat” that is experimented on, this is similar to Henrietta because she was experimented on like a “lab rat”.
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