American Tongues and Voice

1. Voice is how someone sounds in a piece of writing or audily.
2. Something that I say would be "oookay" when I think that something somebody has said was weird.
3. Whenever I am talking or writing something that might lead to someone getting mad, I beat around the bush to make the "impact" lighter.
4. Voice is important in nonfiction because it helps us to identify with the author. Every writer has their own specific voice which is unique to them. It helps us understand what the writer is trying to say.
5. The more we write, the more our voice develops. It also adapts to the tone of the essay; for example, a darker toned paper would have a different voice from a lighter toned paper.

Pain v. Beatles v. Dubstep- "Eleanor Rigby"

1. I liked the dubstep version better because the remix sounds nice to me with the voices mixed in. Also, it slows down the song whe it comes to the chorus, making it sound cooler. (However, the Beatles version was a close second!)
2. The Beatles version is more pleasing to listen to because the melody is sweeter and more mellow sounding when compared to the Pain version. It is more classic sounding when compared to the Dubstep version as well.

Kandinsky v. Pollock

1. I liked Kandinsky's better because of the colors and the shapes. They are bright and busy. I also like the fact that it is not uniform in any way.
2. The Pollock is more pleasing because the colors are more neutralm and there is more uniformity. While I personally like the Kandinsky better, it is very busy, and upon looking at it for awhile, one can get a headache.

Sign Language Short Film

1. Single Effect: Enjoy all the little things in life, and go for what you want.
2a. The music: It is smooth and simple, and keeps the mood light.
  b. Background: The busy street allows him to explain to explain the "little beautiful things"
  c. Dialogue: It is funny, and also keeps the mood light and optimistic
3. I would change the facial expressions, because the men sign holders around him look like they're not friends with him, They make him look like he was pretending that they were friends, until the very end. The faces would change to at least being more friendly-looking, with them perhaps waving to the main character as well.

"Shooting an Elephant" SOAPSTone

The subject of George Orwell’s “Shooting an Elephant” is the journey of a man’s killing of an elephant for him to somewhat “fit in” with the rest of the Burma natives. This journey is illustrated by when he is contemplating whether or not to kill the elephant. He says that they watched him excitedly as they expected him to shoot the elephant, and that moment would be the only one he would get to prove himself and not be a standout.

             “Shooting an Elephant” was written during the 1930’s. The essay’s time of creation is displayed when he talks about the importance of the elephant, comparing its shooting to “destroying a huge and costly piece of machinery”. The probable place of the essay’s creation is Moulmein, in Lower Burma. I know this because Orwell says this right at the beginning of the essay.

            George Orwell’s specific audience for “Shooting an Elephant” is those who feel left out or discriminated against within a group that they interact with daily. The author’s target audience is exhibited by how he is jeered at and made fun of in Burma, and then, by shooting the elephant, attempted to be accepted better.

            Orwell’s purpose in “Shooting an Elephant” is to narrate his story of the killing of this important elephant. This narration is revealed by how he is telling his feelings during the ordeal, and how it is in a story-like format.

            George Orwell, who sailed to Burma in 1922 as a young man, is the speaker of this essay. He is speaking about how fitting in with the natives is very important to him.

            Orwell shows a pitiful and aggressive attitude about fitting in in “Shooting an Elephant”. These attitudes are expressed by how the author claims that nobody in Burma likes him, backed by his examples of the jeering at him, and how he graphically “kills” the elephant. This represents his pitiful tone because it causes the audience to feel sorry for him in his situations. The second example represents the aggressive tone because it shows how he desperately wanted the elephant to die (to put out of its misery). These tones serve the purpose in the essay of adding feeling to the essay for the audience to stay engaged.

Harry Nilsson "Good Old Desk"

1. S-a reliable source, his desk (literally), God (figuratively)
    O-in the 70's
    A-to anyone without something reliable or dependable
    P-to explain the perfect parter
    S-Nilsson, one who has had unreliable partners in the past
    T-happy, comforting, affectionate, friendly
2. He is talking about how amongst all the un-trustworthy people in his life, he has a rock to comfort him, the being a desk, his writing, or God.
3. Three Lines in the song with reference to God
       -My old desk doesn't need a rest
       -To keep my hopes alive
       -We never say a word, but its perfectly alright with me
   

"The Runaway" by Norman Rockwell

Norman Rockwell was a painter who existed during the 1950's. One of his major paintings, "The Runaway", was created in 1958, and depicts a young boy-presumably the runaway-consulting with a policeman in a diner. There are many different interpretations of the painting's meaning, but there is one that can be mainly interpreted. The 1950's was a time of a rising rift in America that was important to many. This can be taken back to the painting, but not how one would think. Rockwell's "The Runaway" overlooks the fundamental rift that was rising in America throughout the 1950's-an emerging counter culture that was not concerned with how things were in America but rather how they are.