In May‚ my best friends and I took on a challenge to create a twenty minute documentary about car culture (more specifically‚ car culture in Minnesota)‚ however‚ after taking “13 Ways of Looking at Sports”‚ I formed connections and realizations that car culture is a branch of motorsport and the passion/community evolving around motorsport parallels the roots of sport we have discussed in class. Our essential questions we wanted to answer through the documentary were: How can we bring awareness to
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25th 2014 AP Language and Composition - Period 4 Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird Stanza I 3. a. Ominous - "only moving thing" is an eye. b. Detail - contrast of silent‚ white snow‚ and moving black eye. c. Eye is all seeing. Stanza II 3. a. Torn: targets the "three" choices like with the different "three minds" and "three blackbirds" b. Detail - Compares and contrasts "three minds" and "three blackbirds" then in a way ties it to one thing‚ "a tree." c. Even though humans think
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Analysis of "13 Ways of Looking at a Blackbird" "Thirteen ways of looking at a blackbird" by Wallace Stevens is a poem about what it means to really know something. In this poem‚ Stevens shows this connection by writing a first person poem about a poet’s observation and contemplation’s when viewing a blackbird. He does this by making each stanza an explanation of a new way he has perceived this blackbird. First‚ he writes about his physical perception of the blackbird as an observer. Then‚ he
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Response Paper Introduction Thomas McEvilley’s article “Here Comes Everybody” is an informative piece that tries to expound on how the history of the world is closely associated with the history of art. It also tries to link culture with the artwork production by saying they both influence one another. Most of the text focuses on the weight of Modernism in today’s society and the effects our past has on shaping this movement. McEvilley begins by lamenting that people view art pieces as uncontrolled
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Response for “Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Black Bird” I think the most difficult yet most appealing concept in the reading is the concept that the content arises from the temporal duration of the artwork. I like how McEvilley thinks artwork is timeless and eternal. The author also described in the article that “The divine spark inside the artwork is its immortal Soul‚ which enables it‚ like the magical ritual‚ to penetrate through to higher metaphysical realms and to act as a channel to
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13 ways of looking at a blackbird This poem consists of thirteen parts. Each section could exist by itself as a poem but is used only as part of a whole. The poem is Oriental in nature and approach. The title suggests a series of Eastern prints in which the blackbird is the subject. The bird and natural imagery in this poem are also used often in Oriental poetry. The terseness of speech‚ in which lines are pared down to the essential words‚ the ideas captured in short concise stanzas‚ suggest
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For Thursday‚ February 2 Wallace Stevens’ Sunday Morning and Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird The two poems‚ Sunday Morning and Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird‚ communicate part of the life story of the author and share reminiscent events in his life or the life of people he has known. The poems involve various themes as well… themes of love and women‚ for instance. One is in the first person‚ the other in third. Sunday Morning is a poem that includes many biblical references and
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Five Ways of Looking at The Penelopiad CORAL ANN HOWELLS As the lights go down in the great church of St James‚ Piccadilly‚ a voice speaks eerily out of the darkness somewhere off to the side: ‘Now that I’m dead I know everything.’1 And then a single spotlight reveals centre stage a small grey-haired female figure robed in black sitting on a throne; she begins to speak. This is Margaret Atwood‚ doubly imaged here in performance as Penelope‚ for I am describing a staged reading of part of The Penelopiad
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“At the end of Look Both Ways‚ the film-maker convinces viewers that the characters are capable of looking at their lives in different ways.” Do you agree? In the film Look Both Ways‚ director Sarah Watt explores the theme that perspective can determine experience in life. The film demonstrates that life is an unscripted event where no one knows the final outcome and we can often become overwhelmed by how seemingly little control we exert over the navigation of our lives By using main characters
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DiffDifferent Ways of Looking at Food The Omnivore’s Dilemma‚ by Michael Pollan‚ attempts to figure out how such a simple question as‚ “What should we have for dinner?” (Pollan 1)‚ turned out to be so complicated such that we need investigative journalists to tell us what is in our food. To do so‚ he went on a journey to follow all three food chains that sustain us today: the industrial‚ the organic‚ and the hunter-gatherer back to their origins. Although these journeys may have led to very different
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