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English 11 – Propaganda poster

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When creating my propaganda poster, I wanted there to be a feeling of unsafety with the image. While keeping a human aspect to the machine but seems like it lost its humanity, I believe that the camara like eye, no ear, and bolts running all over the face I really captured the dehumanized look I was going for. When making the poster I used AI to create the base image buying into the “have a machine do it” mentality as a part of my creative thinking. When thinking of righting techniques pathos stuck out to me as one I should explore, in the book Machine Stops there is never a direct statement of what the machine is or looks like so, I thought that with a creepy image and an message to make someone think there I could play with their perception on the machine as not a god but a creepy machine that watches and controls you. Along with much thinking going into the imagery I put just as much if not more into the text, with the message being short as to not lose the reader and being on both top and bottom forcing your eyes to track over the image of the machine, the text font is messy to show if he wanted to make a lot of these he would have to do it fast and without fancy machinery that would do it for him. To sum up everything that has already been stated, this propaganda poster is in support of Kono and his efforts to take down the machine using pathos to play with people’s perception of the machine.  

 

 

The book Machine Stops written by E.M Forister is still a truly relevant piece of literature because although it was written over 100 years ago the dystopian society being depicted is still a very real threat, with people being stuck on their screens 24/7 and in their own bubble of information. This is best shown by Pete Docter’s movie Wall-E in which the people are depicted as fat lazy and not being able to do anything without the help of a robot, likewise The Allegory of the Cave is another source that shows the impact of people and not wanting to know of anything that is outside of their own information. In both there are people who no longer work for themselves and rely only on machines and their buttons to get them through their day-to-day life. However, there is one person or thing that does not want to conform to societal norms. In both these stories the two are similar but also completely different in a way, one of them is just doing their job as a robot and the other is going against what the entirety of the world does. 

Throughout Machin stops we see Kono grow as a person and functional human being, not relying on buttons and a machine to help him throughout his day, on the other hand there is Vashti who worships the machine and thinks it can do no wrong. Vashty is a perfect example of a conformist not only does she worship the machine as a god as shown on the airship when “she murmured and caressed her book and was comforted.” its manual is a bible to her and anyone that speaks ill of the machine is wrong or plain stupid. When comparing Machine Stops and Wall-E the main comparison would be between the main characters, Wall-E and Kono are both independent and are facing off against something that controls everything including people except for them. Both are independent thinkers, possibly the only ones in their respective stories, but why would they be the only ones could it be because everyone else is in their own bubble of information and entertainment. Could they fear popping their bubbles because they would be shown things that go against everything that they have known in their bubbles. Vashty and the rest of the people in Machine Stops are the same as the passengers in Wall-E, not realizing there are other things going on around them, only worrying about what they want to see.  

When comparing Machin stops and The Allegory in the Cave written by Plato is the best comparison is between Vashty and the two people that are chained up, with Vashty having the thoughts given to her by the machine and only believes in them and having her own little bubble of information. On the other hand, the men have their own beliefs with the wall and the shadows on it. In both situations there are people that do not want to know about anything that could cause them to re-think what they already know. A good example of this is not with Kono telling Vashty anything but Vashty being so ignorant to the fact that she could learn something from other things than the machine, ““No ideas here” murmured Vashti, and hid the Caucasus behind a metal blind” both Kono and the man who got out of the cave had no evidence to prove what they were trying to tell, and without evidence there is no reason for anyone the believe the person telling them the information. But even if there was evidence or proof of their claims, some would still not believe them due to them not wanting to see the truth or have the truth puzzle them. With there being so many similarities not only between machine stops, Wall-E and The Allegory of the Cave but also modern-day society and the path we are on, and the future we may end up in everyone should either be terrified or act. 

YouTube. (2015, March 17). Plato’s allegory of the cave – Alex Gendler. YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1RWOpQXTltA&ab_channel=TED-Ed

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New Media 11 – Spoken Word – Oliver McLoughlin

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Dear Oliver,  

To my past self I right to you this   

The future will be great as if you’re running through a Medow of flows without a care in the world  

But not without challenges and hardship  

You’ll trip fall and hurt yourself a few times  

Buy you need to get back up; life won’t wait for you to catch up  

There will be friend foe and those that are just acquaintances 

Some of these friends will be lost  

But hey you’ll meet a girl  

She’ll send you on a roller-coaster of feelings  

Some you didn’t know you could feal  

She’ll make you question your lifes decisions and why you would make them  

But in the end, you will be ok  

If this gets to you before you date her DON’T DO IT!  

She isn’t worth all that  

There will be times that you feal as if you were stuck to the bottom of the ocean with no escape  

But it will be ok  

Just relax you’ll find that the bottom of the ocean is amazing, there so much to see and of corse It is just a fealing after all  

One you surface go home take some time to yourself  

 

Just ignore the texts she sends to you on a daily bases  

You’ll be ok  

One the dust settles cough out what got in your lungs and move on  

You’ll get a drive to have a job your dad will say be like a fat kid on a smarty   

But remember That smarty is worth money, and you need it  

Now save it that smarty may be tasty but a bag of them is delicious 

You don’t need that dirt bike, but your brother and dad have one so go into debt trying to get one  

But make shore the lone comes from the bank of dad where there’s no interest or period to pay in  

Is it summer for you  

Does your skin feal like it’s going to boil off from the sun  

Are you sitting in your room with your eyes stuck to your screen like glue  

This is your youth you only live once there will be plenty of time to play games when you get home from that text you were going to ignore 

But you’re reading this so you must have ignored it because I wouldn’t be telling you not to if of you didn’t 

Your moms probly on you for not going outside enough right because shes my mom to  

Shes just looking out for you  

But you wont listen because when you do say your going out its always not with them your not and never I trust you  

Because why would she you’ve made bad decisions your whole life  

But what makes you mad is that she tells you to go out with more people, but you were too shy to ask anyone to hang out because they all have better things to then hang out with you   

But how would u know he talkes to you every day and seels to like it  

But you don’t know that for all you know he might just be doing it to make you feal better  

So you stay at home but at least you draw, now that I will say is something to keep doing  

You will be praised for your talent and feal great about it  

  But if you were to take only one thing out of this DON’T DATE THAT GIRL! 

How to get kids back into schools

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What drew me into the article The Key to get Students Back in Classrooms was that it was righten on something that I had experienced, the corona virus and how students were skipping weeks of classes because of having to quarantine. The article was also written by a student and was published in the NY Times in the “teenagers in the times: Fall 2022” which was a collection of news, option pieces and feature stories written by gen Z for gen Z. in this article they talked about how the number of students absent in school was on the rise during the corona virus in some places such  Detroit there was 77 percent  absent at times. The author went over how they were trying to get these kids back into classrooms, such as calling homes and using covid relief money to send social workers to homes to better understand why they were not coming. When reading this Article I was not struggling to understand any of the vocabulary, and I was able to read the article quit fluently for example “They are using federal Covid-19 relief money to reach out to families in texts and letters, to recruit mentors to connect with chronically absent students and to invest in the data systems needed to track who is missing and how much school they’ve missed.” in this the writer did not use any complex words as some highschoolers do to make themselves sound more intellectual. There was a very formal tone to this article, and it helped the article flow more.