Juicy Fruit and Orbit

Juicy Fruit and Orbit are two different gum companies that have different ways of approaching an audience through their television advertisement. While looking into the different ads aired by these brands, it is apparent that their intended audience is different since the effect they advertise is different. While Juicy Fruit uses young, stylish, and famous people, Orbit tends to portray everyday type of people. What this difference says is that one gum makes you be active and feel young, while the other will lighten up a common persons day. More specifically, I compared the ad of Julianne Hough where she dances and sings along with the advertising song of "makes you move," in comparison to an Orbit ad or a couple fighting due to infidelity. The kind of effect Juicy fruit provides is the feeling of satisfaction, of wanting to become active, it basically cheers up an audience with the song, person, and colors used. On the other hand, Orbit plays in a dramatic situation where a persons life is so bad and dramatic that one of the only highlights that can result is the satisfaction of feeling clean ( with your teeth). In the end, cheerful kind of people should use Juicy Fruit and feel "great" while sad people with issues should rely on Orbit to make them feel a bit better about themselves.

German Shepherds Vs. Pugs

Although pug species have grown more popular in European countries, they still lack the work obedient characteristics of the German Shepherds. The playful little devil or monkey personality of pugs, make them an appealing choice for families. However, they still lack the protective dispositions to efficiently guard families from burglars or other foreign threats. And this is one of the qualities of German Shepherds that appeal to families. Because German Shepherds are eminently known for their unique strength, intelligence, and obedience, these dogs are used in all kinds of occupations. Whether herding sheep on farmlands, or working in police S.W.A.T. teams, these dogs are chosen for their diligence and loyalty to their masters. Thus, the common appearance of these dogs working on the fields and streets, give these dogs credibility as charming and astute guardians. And this is not to say that pugs are not protectors in any sense. Just like any shrewd and vigilant dog, pugs can use their barks to defend homes. However, if a home was broken into, the physical shape and size of pugs do not intimidate assailants. Instead, their short and stubby form may only startle a foreigner in the dark, not frighten them away. Also, because of their size, the pugs themselves are in harm’s way. In contrast, German Shepherds are naturally built with aggressiveness and wolf-like characteristic when facing unwanted guests. Therefore, though some people choose to select dogs for only their cute and charming personalities, other individuals choose to breed and raise dogs for not only companionship, but security as well. Hence, German Shepherds fulfill both demands, while not losing their ability to stay attractive or amiable.

Writing Analytically: Chapter 6, Assignment 4

Two versions of the same song by different artists: Stormy Weather, Ethel Waters and Etta James

Ethel Waters and Etta James versions’ of Stormy Weather use of volume and beat varies. Waters’ cabaret-like rendition stays away from climactic points of vibrato and sonority and instead utilizes a steady beat and low, muffled volume. Although this emphasizes the misery and sorrow she feels since she and her man “ain’t together,” the heavy consistency suggests a restrained rage. This rage is fully present in James’ performance, where she freely highlights her intense feelings of fury and distress through a variation in volume and moments of strong vibrato. However, although the vocals highlight and seem to reflect this fury as Etta’s sole emotion, the wailing, weary sounds of the background instrumentals (violin and cymbals) call attention to her equal degree of heartache and mourning. Emotional pain is therefore present in both versions, echoed through the steady background beat of the piano. This common thread suggests that, although James’ adaptation is complicated by sporadic waves of emotion, sorrow is as dominant as it is in Waters' rendition.

Homework 6.4

G) Compare two breeds of dog

Doberman Pinschers and Chihuahuas are both breeds of dog portrayed in the media and because of the way in which they are portrayed, it is apparent that Chihuahuas would be the better dog for one to own. Doberman Pinschers are often represented in movies as the attack dogs. They are shown as vicious dogs that will show aggression towards humans in any situation. In commercials the Taco Bell dog is a Chihuahua, which signifies that they are a common and friendly breed of dog. They are made out to be the dogs owned by the people of the higher class, including celebrities. Chihuahuas are known to be cute dogs with personality which, most would agree, is better than a dog seen as brutal. Although both breeds of dogs are portrayed in the media, due to the differences in which they are portrayed, Chihuahuas would be the better type of dog for one to own.

Group Number Six?

Hi guys (preferably those in my group)
Sorry I couldn't make it to class on Wednesday (I kinda sorta had an ordeal with getting locked out of my room...for 10 hours...) but I was wondering if anyone wanted to meet up so I could hand out my peer reviews today? If not that's cool too, I can perhaps email you the gist of my thoughts? Or perhaps someone could do that for me as well? Let me know, ashiovitz@hotmail.com. We'll work something out
Have a great weekend,
I'll see you...tomorrow

Andrew Shiovitz

Film screening in 242 Dwinelle

Hey all,

I'll remind you in class today, but the film screening on Sunday night (April 5), will be in 242 Dwinelle, from 6 to approximately 8 pm. This will be treated as a regular class for attendance purposes, so if you can't make it let us know sooner rather than later!

See everyone there.

Ben

Music and info for next class

Hi everyone,

As promised, here's the music for our next class (Monday, March 30), and some background information about it. We'll be talking about these pieces as aesthetic responses to historical events, and as usual we'll be wanting to think about the vision of America implied, condemned or parodied by each of the songs.

There are two pieces here: Nina Simone's song "Mississippi Goddamn" and John Coltrane's tune "Alabama." Feel free to do some research on either performer if you'd like.

Both songs were written in response to the 1963 Baptist Church bombing in Birmingham, Alabama, in which four young girls were killed. You can find some background information on the bombing here and here. Nina Simone's song also references Medgar Evers' murder in 1963 in Mississippi. Info on Evers here, courtesy of our old friend wikipedia.

Here are the pieces:

Nina Simone - Mississippi Goddamn (4:51) (lyrics here)


John Coltrane - Alabama (5:14)


If you'd rather just download both files to your computer, you can click here.


If you'd like to write your paper about one or both of these pieces (or either of them in relation to either Cane or Dutchman), go for it! Just let me know sooner rather than later.

All best,
Ben

Reminders

Hey everybody,

Just so there's no confusion: Paper drafts are due at the beginning of class on Monday, March 30. Drafts should be the same length as the final paper (5-6 pages). You should bring 4 copies of your draft to class. Papers can be on the topic of your choice, as long as that topic is about either Cane, Dutchman, or some relationship between the two.

If you have questions or want to run potential theses by us, the best thing is probably to e-mail me until next Wednesday, at which point you'd probably be better off e-mailing Hui-Hui (you can always try to e-mail whichever of us you're most comfortable with, but you're more likely to get a quicker response if you e-mail us during the periods when we're most free).

Good luck - have a great spring break!

Please bring Writing Analytically to class tomorrow

Hey all,

If you read this, please bring Writing Analytically to class tomorrow (Wednesday). No need to prepare anything from it; you just need to have it in hand.

Pass it on.

-Ben

Alice Walker on Cane

For those of you who are interested, here's a short reading by Alice Walker (The Color Purple) on the women in Cane. It's from Walker's famous essay "In Search of our Mother's Gardens" (here). If anyone is further interested in this issue (maybe for a final paper?), come talk to me and I can point you in some similar directions:

I described her own nature and temperament. Told how they needed a larger life for their expression. . . . I pointed out that in lieu of proper channels, her emotions had overflowed into paths that dissipated them. I talked, beautifully I thought, about an art that would be born, an art that would open the way for women the likes of her. I asked her to hope, and build up an inner life against the coming of that day. . . . I sang, with a strange quiver in my voice, a promise song.

"Avey," Jean Toomer, Cane

The poet speaking to a prostitute who falls asleep while he's talking-

When the poet Jean Toomer walked through the South in the early twenties, he discovered a curious thing: Black women whose spirituality was so intense, so deep, so unconscious, that they were themselves unaware of the richness they held. They stumbled blindly through their lives: creatures so abused and mutilated in body, so dimmed and confused by pain, that they considered themselves unworthy even of hope. In the selfless abstractions their bodies became to the men who used them, they became more than "sexual objects," more even than mere women: they became Saints. Instead of being perceived as whole persons, their bodies became shrines: what was thought to be their minds became temples suitable for worship. These crazy "Saints" stared out at the world, wildly, like lunatics-or quietly, like suicides; and the "God" that was in their gaze was as mute as a great stone.

Who were these "Saints"? These crazy, loony, pitiful women?

Some of them, without a doubt, were our mothers and grandmothers.

In the still heat of the Post-Reconstruction South, this is how they seemed to Jean Toomer: exquisite butterflies trapped in an evil honey, toiling away their lives in an era, a century, that did not acknowledge them, except as "the mule of the world." They dreamed dreams that no one knew-not even themselves, in any coherent fashion-and saw visions no one could understand. They wandered or sat about the countryside crooning lullabies to ghosts, and drawing the mother of Christ in charcoal on courthouse walls.

They forced their minds to desert their bodies and their striving spirits sought to rise, like frail whirlwinds from the hard red clay. And when those frail whirlwinds fell, in scattered particles, upon the ground, no one mourned. Instead, men lit candies to celebrate the emptiness that remained, as people do who enter a beautiful but vacant space to resurrect a God.

Our mothers and grandmothers, some of them: moving to music not yet written. And they waited.

They waited for a day when the unknown thing that was in them would be made known; but guessed, somehow in their darkness, that on the day of their revelation they would be long dead. Therefore to Toomer they walked, and even ran, in slow motion. For they were going nowhere immediate, and the future was not yet within their grasp. And men took our mothers and grandmothers, "but got no pleasure from it." So complex was their passion and their calm.

To Toomer, they lay vacant and fallow as autumn fields with harvest time never in sight: and he saw them enter loveless marriages, without joy; and become prostitutes, without resistance; and become mothers of children, without fulfillment.

For these grandmothers and mothers of ours were not "Saints," but Artists; driven to a numb and bleeding madness by the springs of creativity in them for which there was no release. They were Creators, who lived lives of spiritual waste, because they were so rich in spirituality-which is the basis of Art-that the strain of enduring their unused and unwanted talent drove them insane. Throwing away this spirituality was their pathetic attempt to lighten the soul to a weight their work-worn, sexually abused bodies could bear.

5.1, 5.2

5.1
2) Our report will highlight the advantages of Acbo over its competitors, Acbo’s profitability components, and particularly, growth in Asian markets. The analysis will be supported by revenue returns along several dimensions: product type, end-use, distribution channels, etc. The growth prospects of Acbo’s newest product lines will depend on the development of distribution channels in China. The introduction of new product lines will require the support of a range of innovative strategies.

5.2
1) Vegetation covers the earth, except for those areas continuously covered with ice or utterly scorched by continual heat. Plans grow most richly on richly fertilized plains and river valleys, but grow also at the edge of perpetual snow in high mountains. Dense vegetation area exists in the body and edges of oceans, lakes, and swamps. Plants also exist in seemingly barren cliffs as well as city sidewalks. Vegetation will cover the earth even long after evolutionary history swallows us up.

2) Animals do not naturally create and communicate new messages. Their genetic code limits their communication. For example, bees can only communicate information about distance, direction, source and richness of pollen in flowers. In all significant aspects, animals of the same species share a limited repertoire of messages delivered in the same way.

3) Jones (1985) stresses, in his paper on children's thinking, the importance of language skills in their problem-solving ability. Children who improved in language skills also reported an improvement in nonverbal problem solving. The habits and knowledge gained in language-learning also improve problem articulation. Verbal formulation of non-linguistic problem may enhance problem-solving.

5.1, 5.2

5.1

2.To demonstrate the advantages of Acbo over its competitor, Acbo’s profitability components, particularly growth in Asian markets, will be highlighted in our report. The analysis will be based off revenue returns along several dimensions: product type, end-use, and distribution channels, to name a few. According to our projections, the development of distribution channels in China will determine the growth prospects of Abco’s newest product lines. The introduction of new products will require the support of a range of innovative strategies.

5.2

1. Vegetation covers most of the earth, except for those areas continuously covered with ice or utterly scorched by continual heat. Plants grow most richly in fertilized plains and river valleys, as well as at the edge of perpetual snow in high mountains. Dense vegetation is also found in the body and edges of oceans, lakes, and swamps. Plants also exist in the cracks of busy city street sidewalks as well as seemingly barren cliffs. Just as vegetation covered the earth before human, it will continue long after evolutionary history swallows us up.

2. The creation and communication of new messages to define a novel experience is not a competence animals naturally have. The messages that animals can communicate are limited by their genetic code. For instance, the information communicated by bees is limited to the distance, direction, source, and richness of pollen in flowers. A limited repertoire of messages delivered is characteristic of animals of the same species.

3. The importance of language skills in children’s problem-solving ability was postulated in Jones’ paper on children’s thinking. Improvement in language skills resulted in improvements in non-verbal problem solving. Knowledge from language habits