band blog assignment 2

How did you feel when the end of the story was not given to you?

When the end was not given to me, i was desperate to find out what was going to be at the end. The story that we read made me predict and wanted to find out the end. I also felt in tension as the mystery of the black spot had made me become very curious.

How did you feel about the black box and the black spot/blank paper? Explain.

The black spot and the box made me feel in tension as i thought it was going to be something very serious. Also as in the story they slowed down when they picked it. The family who picked the spotted paper was in anger and despair. When the other people picked a blank paper, they felt relieved. The following reasons are why i felt in tension.

why did the author leave these voids in the story?

I think the author left a void in the story to make sure he hooks in the reader. As reaching the climax, he put a momentum that built up to a climax. The momentum was the description when he came up to pick the paper.

Band blog post

The International School of Kuala Lumpur provides an exceptional education that challenges each student to develop the attitudes, skills, knowledge and understanding to become a highly (silence) successful, spirited, socially responsible global citizen.

I put the silence before giving what the students will be like as it builds up most momentum, as it is close to the ending and it is my personally best place to fit the void in it and it captures audience. Also adding the silence in the place just before main idea so that the audience wants to know what important things they want you to have.

One way a composer can put a void in the place where the momentum builds up and just before the melody starts, make some tension and a void after it to capture more audience into the piece and for them to think “I want to see what happens next.” Another way how a composer can build up a tension and release between the audiences is putting a sudden craziness of sound to confuse the audience. The release would be starting to play the right song from the musicians one by one.

The Lost Boys

My character that i chose to write about is Santino. He experiences some difficulties as a Sudanese migrant. Also as he is used to the culture there, there is some conflict that is going on due to getting use to America. Also Santino faces some difficulties in to get use to how they work, how he will get his own life there, and other. Also culture and people there are very different as well as the work that he has to do. Before when he was in the camp, he just had to take care of his own, play basketball or soccer, and just live there having fun. But America, which he thought of as heaven, did not seem to be what he thought. He had hard works to do, couldn't get a lot of friends there, and it seemed like he was having some difficulties with his people back in the camp. He had some pressure to send them back money. Also he was driving car before earning the license which caused a bit of problem. Santino also wanted to be as free as peter to go to school and get educated. Some culture difference that i saw was when Santino was usually playing basketball. Also the dancing and celebrating of them were very different from the people in America.

Julius Caesar acting

My partner is William who is Cassius

content:

A storm has just began in the Capitol. All the people out there are scared by the storms heavy rain, thunders and lightnings. Casca is very afraid of the storm and says that all the crazy things are happening right now. There is a lion in the Capitol, Burning mans and owls flying. Casca believes that the storm is some kind of omens to show the wrath of the gods. But Cassius connects it with wrath due to Caesar. In this part, Casca joins the conspirators.

Significance:

The significance of the passage is that, this passage characterizes some Casca and Cassius as well as it sets the mood before they drive into the climax. Also this passage builds up the momentum and starts the engine for assassination of Caesar. Casca is represented as a type of character that is very scared and confused of what to do when the storm came. On the other hand, Cassius was rather dull. Also Casca is described as inert person. Cassius tells that Casca's interpret of the storm is not right. He also give a motive for Caesar's reason that he should be dead telling how he would not be a wolf and he would be a tyrant. Cassius can be drawn out as a person who is smart and tactical. He is gaining power for the conspirators. one of his way how he convinced him was that this is not a punishment; he stepped out side and let the thunder hit him but no thunder hit him. Also some literary techniques are used such as foreshadowing of Caesar's death and a vivid imagery of the storm.

The lines:

Casca
"A common slave, wou know him well by sight,
Held up his left hand, which did flame and burn
Like twenty torches join'd; and yet his hand,
Not sensible of fire, remained unscorch'd.
Besides (I ha' not since put up my sword)
Against the Capitol I met a lion,
Who glazed upon me, and surly by,
Without annoying me. And there were drawn
Upon a heap a hundred ghastly women,
Transformed with their fear, who swore they saw
Men, all in fire, walk up and down the streets.
And yesterday the bird of night did sit,
Even at noonday upon the market place,
Hooting and shrieking. With these prodigies
Do so conjointly meet, let not men say,
'These are their reasons, they are natural';
For I believe, they are portentous things
Unto the climate that the point upon."
(Lines 15-32)

Cassius
You are dull, Casca, and those sparks of life
That should be in a Roman you so want,
Or else you use not. You look plae, and gaze,
And put in fear, and cast yoursel in wonder,
To see the strange impatience of the heavens;
But if you would consider the true cause
Why all these fires, why all these gliding ghosts,
Why birds and beasts from quality and kind
Why old men, fools, and children calculate,
Why all thesse things change from thir ordinanc,
Their natures and pre-formed faculties,
To monstrous state. Now could I, Casca name to thee a man
Most like this dreadful night,
That thunders, lightens, opens graves, and roars
As doth the lion in the Capitol;
A man not mightier than thyself, or me,
In personal action, yet prodigious grown,
And fearful, as these strage eruptions are.
(Lines 56-78)

Casca
'Tis Caesar that you mean, is it not Cassius?(Line 79)
Indeed, they say the senators tomorrow
Mean to establish Caesar as a king;
And he shall wear his crown by sea and land,
In every place, slave here in Italy.
(Lines 85-88)

Cassius
And why should Caesar be a tyrant then?
Poor man! I know he would not be a wolf,
But that he sees the Romans are but sheep:
Here no lion were not Romans hinds. (Lines 103- 106)
But, O grief,
Where hadst thou led me? I, perhaps, speak this
Before a willing bondman; then I know
My answer must made. But I am arm'd,
And dangers are to me indifferent.
(Lines 111-115)

Casca
You speak to Casca, and to such a man
That is no fleering tell-tale. Hold, my hand;
Be factious for redress of all these griefs,
And I will set this foor of mine as far
As who goes the furthest.
(Lines 116-120)


Cassius
Now know you, Casca, I have mov'd already
Some of the noblest-minded Romans
To undergo me an enterprise.
(Lines 121-123)

School of Athens - Raphael

The claim that art is the mirror of the society is true. But how can it be? You can figure out that the art is a mirror of the society just by looking at the color used, what techniques used and what it is depicting of or what is drawn in the painting. For example, you can figure out when the school of Athens was drawn by looking what is drawn. You can see people with clothes that are not very modern, as well as some famous nobles. The art can draw about any time but, what is painted can tell when it was drawn. This picture use some techniques that were not used during the middle ages, telling it could be a renaissance drawing. This reflect the society by showing how they were, what materials they used and so on.

If I could be one of the person in the drawing of school of Athens, I would defiantly be the person in the middle bottom of the drawing. This lazy person lying on the desk would describe me because to be frank, I am a lazy type of person and sleep a lot. This also describes me in a way that I am suppose to be one task but instead I am wondering around.

Who is he?

Leonardo, a genius of the times of Renaissance, left over much of the works that were leaping through time. Leonardo can be characterized that he is a true renaissance man because, although genius, he feared and thought deep about his works. Though smart, he went on with the period. Another example is, despite of a genius, he announced much more drawings to the world then science he studied. summarizing what i said, he work of art, makes him a true renaissance man.

visiting to the exhibition, change my thought or more like an stereotype. Before we stepped in the exhibition, i thought no one had idea of mechanical items and inventions of turning wheel that can do much more job done easier. As we went in the exhibition, we saw one genius who jumped through times, Leonardo. After seeing what he had left, my thinks have changed.

I say to you today, my friends, that in spite of the difficulties and frustrations of the moment, I still have a dream. It is a dream deeply rooted in the American dream.

I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: "We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal."

I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave owners will be able to sit down together at a table of brotherhood.

I have a dream that one day even the state of Mississippi, a desert state, sweltering with the heat of injustice and oppression, will be transformed into an oasis of freedom and justice.

I have a dream that my four children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.
I have a dream today.

This famous speech 'I have a dream' shows that the black people want to be free from racism. This special part of the speech is the part of 'I have a dream' which shows that the goal of this speech is to stop racism and be treated equally. At this time of america, racism was heating up. More people were fighting for racism and to racism. There were a lot of black people participating the act to stop racism, but lack of white people participated to stop racism. Despite of being refused by white people, it was declared to stop racism in 1960s.