The Great Gatsby: Beginning

The narrator is Nick Carraway. Insecure of himself juste un peu, see this because he has to ensure us that he can be trustworthy, showing that he can see reasons why we shouldn't have trust of him. He is seeming very negative, he decribers the others as unpleasant things, such as aggressive.

Fitzgerald choses him because he will show things from perspective of someone who is a bit on either side but really on neither at all. Also will bring emotion to story, seeming because he gets involved emotionally in events and people more than the most.

Media Saves The Beach: Critique A Professional Example

This is the Three Prisoners. It is successful because it is making of a feeling of something, and is made well, with metal. Professional and all, because the prisoners have very emotive faces. And look like insects. The cages are hanging from a scale. The message is of prisoners, and the importance/weight of idea.
I would think that the intended audience is people who are struggling with something, or feel trapped by something. It makes me feel odd, and in a way motivated but I'm not sure what I feel motivated about. Odd...
Specific elements come together to show a larger picture of being caught in something and it is pulling and there are others, and it is important. It is also just nice to look at.
The technique of using creatures that make you feel something for them, with their faces that look so human and their hunched over frames, they make you relate to them. That is what the artist did. And their hands, yes, their hands, are so frail. Frail hands makes me want to help.
I chose it because of how it makes me feel. And because it is very conveying and beautiful. And it is made nicely. Also, it uses old things to make a new thing, I like that.

Media Saves the Beach: Newspaper and Media Saves the Beach

I will address various things.

In the Newspaper I have learned about how important critique is and because I made mistakes that could have been easy caught by a critique by another person by my group. Such as my title which was not correct and I needed a verb. Reflect...

Also to work with group, but not for Media Beach, so, need to work with self? Research with group perhaps, depending on question, so work with group!

Information taken with would be about government and can apply to how government influences beach. Because did learn about government. And will use it. Applied.

What's the deal with Reconstruction?

Reconstruction was a time following the Civil War, it was the policies that were discussed and then later implemented after the Emancipation Proclamation. The policies include how states that seceded would regain a seat in Congress, and the civil rights of freedmen. What worked well was that secessionist states were let back in, and what worked poorly was that it was all quite violent, and the civil rights didn't work completely. After the reconstruction the South was dominated by Democrats.

The Reconstruction is relevant today because there are still struggles for civil rights, and the rivalries from the civil war are still alive. One example is that the fourteenth amendment came out of the Reconstruction, and it is being questioned today. The fourteenth amendment gives people born here citizenship, and people are saying that the children of illegal immigrants today should not be citizens. Here is an article on it : http://migration.ucdavis.edu/mn/more.php?id=1283_0_2_0

Media Saves the Beach: Relevant Article

Alert Issued In Ocean Beach After Sewage Spill

SAN DIEGO -- A sewage spill in Mission Valley led Wednesday to a coastal pollution alert in Ocean Beach, about five miles to the west.

Wastewater began overflowing from a blocked sanitation line near the intersection of Camino de la Reina and Mission Center Road shortly before 11:30 a.m., according to the county Department of Environmental Health.

http://www.10news.com/news/21092995/detail.html

The issue is that there was a sewage spill in Mission Valley that impacted Ocean Beach. About 1,370 gallons of sewage spilled! It caused there to be warning signs at Dog Beach until the water is tested. You can get more information by going to various websites with San Diego news such as SignOnSanDiego, or by talking to a lifeguard at Dog Beach. This story relates to our class and project because we are studying the ocean and how people affect it, and how water testing is important. This article relates to that because the water needs to be tested before people can go in it.

Media Saves the Beach: Ideas

For the Media Saves the Beach project, I am most interested in what the effect of pollution is on the wildlife, and what steps we can take to reduce that (other than the obvious). I am curious what exactly happens to the animals. Do they get diseases? Or get physically hurt by the trash? Or do the plants they eat die? What happens exactly that harms them...? How does that affect us? What current controversies are there about it?

A project that I might create, well, it would most likely involve photography or art in some way. And not have too much to do with computers, because I can never seem to make nice things on a computer. Perhaps a photo essay, like a picture of rubbish in the ocean? No, that isn't a good idea, it needs something special about it still.... Or some sort of painting? That would be fun...

I don't have any solid ideas for projects, but I'm sure once we start learning more about the projects I will have some...

Optional Assignment 14/9/09

1. The phrase "life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness" is not creditable to only Thomas Jefferson, but to John Locke as well. John Locke wrote the original phrase, "life, liberty, and property", and Jefferson replaced the third term. The meaning before it arrived in the colonies was that the government had certain responsibilities to the people.

2. The Federalist Papers were a collection of articles published to convince people to ratify the constitution. They were written by Hamilton, Madison, and Jay. The Federalist Papers said a variety things, including that the present Confederation could not preserve the Union, the Union will bring political prosperity, and that the constitution conforms to republican ideas.

3. John Locke, obviously because of his idea of inalienable rights. Also Montesquieu's idea of the separation of powers. And for a third, Rosseau's idea that the authority lies with the people.