Henry- I would have never have thought/ caught how she says how no body even knows her but like her regardless just because she has nice clothes. I had not caught the line where she says no one knows anything about her but they still like her. When you listen to the song you just pass over that and only hear how her lip gloss is cool. Though the message was obvious how possessions make you have a good life.
Andy- I didn't notice how in the video during all of the attention she was getting, she was also in control and how everyone followed her. I agree that most people feel like material goods will get them far. Even Lil Mama's mom goes on to say how it was her all along and not the lip gloss but Lil Mama doesn't listen cause she likes all the attention she's getting. Music videos are also another way to advertise things its not all about the music and words like with L'Oreal paying to put their product in the video, so when people watch it they would want the product.
Jace- I agree with you that the video is saying how people need to have good looks to have a good life. I also believe that its not only good looks but the things that help you to achieve it. SIne she only got "good looking" and popular after the lip gloss. Also its all about your outside looks, not the things that are deeper than that. Thats why she says in the song "you don't know about me" Though i disagree with the ugly part because there was the nerd that wasn't good looking until she blew her lip gloss stuff on him.
Tuesday, October 21, 2008
Saturday, October 18, 2008
Popular Culture
The video i choose was Good Life by Kanye West feat. T-Pain. The song is basically talking about how to live a good life. Kanye goes on and on about realism instead of just the dreams. He goes on to talk about how having money, fame and girls is achieving a good life. He talks about material objects instead of other values/ aspects of what makes up a good life. He says in his song "Havin' money's the everythin' that havin' it is". He also goes to talk about freedom as an aspect of the good life. "The good life, let's go on a livin' spree- Shit, they say the best things in life are free". The images in the music video are very creative. The people are in black and white while the other images are in color. Some of the images in the video that further explain what's needed to have a good life are cars, money, woman who are wearing very skimpy clothes and where the picture is focused on their butts. Even though money is something he mentions there is a part in the song where he says "Whether you broke or rich you gotta get biz". There are also like the whole parts where he's going throw your hands up kinda thing like if you agree go ahead and there are images of a bunch of hands being thrown up.
Friday, October 10, 2008
Figuring out what other people have to say on how meaningful their lives are.
Taking history a step farther from the classroom and the usual suspects, we decided to go outside and interview random strangers on wisdom and the different aspects of meaningful and meaningless. Most people let us interview them when we asked. They seemed interested in our project and they stopped and thought deeply about the questions we asked. One such question was what they thought wisdom is. One man said, “It’s the ability to confront the unknown based on knowledge”. This is similar to the majority’s response of experience. Four out of seven people said wisdom comes with experience and is also about instinct. The other three people said that wisdom along with experience is knowing that you are going to be wrong sometimes. When I asked Yu-Xi she said, “wisdom is knowing that to an extent you wont know everything”. When asked if they thought they were wise, half said yes and half said no. One seventh grader could not define what wisdom was but when asked if he was wise, he said yes, though he couldn’t explain why.
Jace said, “ We make our own lives meaningful”. But other people, when asked what makes their lives meaningful responded with a quick and strong answer, family and friends. One man said, “ Family is most meaningful because of everything we do together and support each other.” Seven out of eleven people gave almost the same response where family was the most meaningful to them. The same guy also said, “ That something is meaningful if it keeps you going from day to day.” Four out of eleven people agreed that the things that are meaningful in your life are the things that are important and make you happy and you care about. Two of the people also said that love was meaningful.
Family and friends are meaningful and so we then asked them what were the meaningless things in their lives. One lady said “ Catty people” when asked what’s meaningless in life. Catty people are people that like to judge others. Most of the answers were negative aspects on how our culture is represented. One man said, “ Shallow people have meaningless lives” while another man, said, “ Material objects like money are meaningless”. Someone else said human dramas. All these things add up to how must people live their lives cause its human nature to obsess over material objects and to judge other people. These people that have been described as having meaningless lives are usually people who think/ care about their own lives more then they do others.
When asked to rank themselves between 1-10 on how meaningful their lives there was a couple of people that gave themselves 10’s. One man said “I hope I’m a 10, I haven’t done enough in life, want to get through everything before my life is meaningless”. We interviewed the school nurse and she said “ I would give myself a 10 because I am helping people in my line of work and I feel like I am making a difference”. One woman said, “I would give myself an 8, a 10 if I won the lottery”. The people that gave themselves a 10 seem to think that their lives are just bursting with importance and meaning. There are so many ways to define what’s meaningful and meaningless. It all depends on the person you ask. People’s answers differ but once you look at them as a whole you can see the small similarities. To show us we are not as much different from each other as we think.
Taking history a step farther from the classroom and the usual suspects, we decided to go outside and interview random strangers on wisdom and the different aspects of meaningful and meaningless. Most people let us interview them when we asked. They seemed interested in our project and they stopped and thought deeply about the questions we asked. One such question was what they thought wisdom is. One man said, “It’s the ability to confront the unknown based on knowledge”. This is similar to the majority’s response of experience. Four out of seven people said wisdom comes with experience and is also about instinct. The other three people said that wisdom along with experience is knowing that you are going to be wrong sometimes. When I asked Yu-Xi she said, “wisdom is knowing that to an extent you wont know everything”. When asked if they thought they were wise, half said yes and half said no. One seventh grader could not define what wisdom was but when asked if he was wise, he said yes, though he couldn’t explain why.
Jace said, “ We make our own lives meaningful”. But other people, when asked what makes their lives meaningful responded with a quick and strong answer, family and friends. One man said, “ Family is most meaningful because of everything we do together and support each other.” Seven out of eleven people gave almost the same response where family was the most meaningful to them. The same guy also said, “ That something is meaningful if it keeps you going from day to day.” Four out of eleven people agreed that the things that are meaningful in your life are the things that are important and make you happy and you care about. Two of the people also said that love was meaningful.
Family and friends are meaningful and so we then asked them what were the meaningless things in their lives. One lady said “ Catty people” when asked what’s meaningless in life. Catty people are people that like to judge others. Most of the answers were negative aspects on how our culture is represented. One man said, “ Shallow people have meaningless lives” while another man, said, “ Material objects like money are meaningless”. Someone else said human dramas. All these things add up to how must people live their lives cause its human nature to obsess over material objects and to judge other people. These people that have been described as having meaningless lives are usually people who think/ care about their own lives more then they do others.
When asked to rank themselves between 1-10 on how meaningful their lives there was a couple of people that gave themselves 10’s. One man said “I hope I’m a 10, I haven’t done enough in life, want to get through everything before my life is meaningless”. We interviewed the school nurse and she said “ I would give myself a 10 because I am helping people in my line of work and I feel like I am making a difference”. One woman said, “I would give myself an 8, a 10 if I won the lottery”. The people that gave themselves a 10 seem to think that their lives are just bursting with importance and meaning. There are so many ways to define what’s meaningful and meaningless. It all depends on the person you ask. People’s answers differ but once you look at them as a whole you can see the small similarities. To show us we are not as much different from each other as we think.
Tuesday, October 7, 2008
Rough draft
Taking history a step farther from the classroom and the usual suspects, we decided to go outside and interview random strangers on wisdom and the different aspects of meaningful and meaningless. Most people let us interview them when we asked. They seemed interested in our project and they stopped and thought deeply about the questions we asked. One such question was what they thought wisdom is. One man said, “It’s the ability to confront the unknown based on knowledge”. This is similar to the majority’s response of experience. 4 out of seven people said wisdom comes with experience and is also about instinct. The other three people said that wisdom along with experience is knowing that you are going to be wrong sometimes. When asked Yu-Xi said, “knowing that to an extent you wont know everything”. When asked if they thought they were wise, half said yes and half said no. One seventh grader could not define what wisdom was but when asked if he was wise he said yes though he couldn’t explain why.
Jace said “ We make our own lives meaningful”. But other people when asked what makes their lives meaningful responded with a quick and strong answer, family and friends. One man said, “ Family is most meaningful because of everything we do together and support each other.” 7 out of11 people gave almost the same response where family was the most meaningful to them. The same guy also said, “ that something is meaningful if it keeps you going from day to day.” 4/11 people agreed that the things that are meaningful in your life are the things that are important and make you happy and you care about. Two of the people also said that love was meaningful.
Family and friends are meaningful and so we then asked them what were the meaningless things in their lives. One lady said “ Catty people” when asked what’s meaningless in life. Catty people are people that like to judge others. Most of the answers were negative aspects on how our culture is represented. One man said, “ Shallow people have meaningless lives” while another man, said, “ Material objects like money are meaningless”. Someone else said human dramas. All these things add up to how must people live their lives cause its human nature to obsess over material objects and to judge other people.
When asked to rank themselves between 1-10 on how meaningful their lives were many people were lower than 8. Though there was a couple that said they were 10’s. One man said “I hope I’m a 10, I haven’t done enough in life, want to get through everything before my life is meaningless”. We interviewed the school nurse and she said “ I would give myself a 10 because I am helping people in my line of work and I feel like I am making a difference”. One woman said, “I would give myself an 8, a 10 if I won the lottery”. The people that gave themselves a 10 seem to think that their lives are just bursting with importance and meaning. There are so many ways to define what’s meaningful and meaningless. It all depends on the person you ask. People’s answers differ but once you look at them as a whole you can see the small similarities. To show us we are not as much different from each other as we think.
Taking history a step farther from the classroom and the usual suspects, we decided to go outside and interview random strangers on wisdom and the different aspects of meaningful and meaningless. Most people let us interview them when we asked. They seemed interested in our project and they stopped and thought deeply about the questions we asked. One such question was what they thought wisdom is. One man said, “It’s the ability to confront the unknown based on knowledge”. This is similar to the majority’s response of experience. 4 out of seven people said wisdom comes with experience and is also about instinct. The other three people said that wisdom along with experience is knowing that you are going to be wrong sometimes. When asked Yu-Xi said, “knowing that to an extent you wont know everything”. When asked if they thought they were wise, half said yes and half said no. One seventh grader could not define what wisdom was but when asked if he was wise he said yes though he couldn’t explain why.
Jace said “ We make our own lives meaningful”. But other people when asked what makes their lives meaningful responded with a quick and strong answer, family and friends. One man said, “ Family is most meaningful because of everything we do together and support each other.” 7 out of11 people gave almost the same response where family was the most meaningful to them. The same guy also said, “ that something is meaningful if it keeps you going from day to day.” 4/11 people agreed that the things that are meaningful in your life are the things that are important and make you happy and you care about. Two of the people also said that love was meaningful.
Family and friends are meaningful and so we then asked them what were the meaningless things in their lives. One lady said “ Catty people” when asked what’s meaningless in life. Catty people are people that like to judge others. Most of the answers were negative aspects on how our culture is represented. One man said, “ Shallow people have meaningless lives” while another man, said, “ Material objects like money are meaningless”. Someone else said human dramas. All these things add up to how must people live their lives cause its human nature to obsess over material objects and to judge other people.
When asked to rank themselves between 1-10 on how meaningful their lives were many people were lower than 8. Though there was a couple that said they were 10’s. One man said “I hope I’m a 10, I haven’t done enough in life, want to get through everything before my life is meaningless”. We interviewed the school nurse and she said “ I would give myself a 10 because I am helping people in my line of work and I feel like I am making a difference”. One woman said, “I would give myself an 8, a 10 if I won the lottery”. The people that gave themselves a 10 seem to think that their lives are just bursting with importance and meaning. There are so many ways to define what’s meaningful and meaningless. It all depends on the person you ask. People’s answers differ but once you look at them as a whole you can see the small similarities. To show us we are not as much different from each other as we think.
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