Month: November 2018

For my final paper I plan on making sure that all of my grammar and spelling are perfect. I don’t want to have any little mistakes that cost me points off of my paper. my quotes need to me shorter and I need to add more of my own opinion into this paper. the overall goal of my paper is to be interesting and grasp the readers attention.  I feel as though I need a stringer thesis as well as stronger claim sentences that will make my paper more interesting and grasping. my plan is to ask my RA, peers, and roommates to read my paper over to make sure that I have all of the important information needed to have good structure in my essay.  my biggest challenge will be to make my paper shorter and more straight and to the point( my paper in broad at the moment), I will use office hours as well as technology like grammarly to make sure my paper is structured very well. I will send professor Emerson parts or paragraphs of my essay that I think need expansion and revision.

multi modal paper:

I’m going to take a picture of the one coast and places in after my paragraph that discusses the Maine coast.

ill use this link as a picture for an image of the Dominican Republic. https://ntripping.com/dominican-republic-travel-tips/

I’m going to record audio of the ocean and place that in my paper as an audio clip.

I’m changing the font of my title to something more intriguing and fun.

I plan on some how incorporating some form of yin and yang to show the relationship that sense ad form drive have with each other.

my main goal is to provide visual and audio pieces that are symbolic and meaning full to my audience and my self. this will make my multi modal paper far more interesting and make it more impactful for my audience.

Outline:

Thesis: Beauty as a whole has countless meanings, whether to not your beauty Is the same as others doesn’t matter, throughout the University of New England beauty has countless meanings.

Claim1: in order to understand what beauty is you have to take a look into Armstrongs description of the sense and from drives relationship with beauty

Quote 1: “there is sense drive which lives in the moment and seeks immediate seeks immediate gratification .it craves contact and possession.” (Armstrong 1)”The form dive:the inner demand for coherence over time, for abstract understanding and rational order”(Armstrong 1 )

Claim 2:I agree with Armstrong that it takes a balance contact and understanding to realize the true beauty in things.

Quote 2: “in this case-a case of beauty-both drives are at full power. bu they do not work against one another. instead, they co-operate, and Schiller’s point is that to experience a statue is that in this  dual way is to find it beautiful.”(Armstrong 2)

Claim 3: In “Beauty is simpler, and  less special, then we realize” from New York university explains how over time scientists, psychologists, and philosophers have come to a conclusion that over time beauty has become simpler than many think.

Quote 3:“researchers anticipate that a clearer understanding of beauty could change the way we understand decision making” (Beauty is simpler, and less special then we realize)

Claim 4: students and others alike find beauty in places that you may never think you could find beauty.

Quote 4:” when I was younger I used to live in the Dominican republic and its a tropical island so that alone is already beautiful. however one moment that sticks with me to this day was when I was in a small village where there wasn’t a lot of people with substantial income. but I just noticed all the ways the people in the village got together, collected food, had great comradery, and everything was just joyful.” (sheahan podcast)

Claim 3: not only at the university but in surrounding areas people view beauty in the world naturally.

Quote 3:” after I took a trip to the Maine coast , since coming back from Florida, I don’t like palm trees and manicured beaches, I’m not looking for that I’m looking for a rustic, wild,  untouched beach, and thats what Maine has. it represents how harsh New England is.”(Casey podcast)

In “Beauty is simpler, and  less special, then we realize” from New York university explains how over time scientists, psychologists, and philosophers have come to a conclusion that over time beauty has become simpler than many think. I will use this article as a naysayer in my paper because it shows the other side of what beauty means to people. for example it provides a new view other than mine that beauty is less important and less special than so many people think.  in one instance the article explains that  “researchers anticipate that a clearer understanding of beauty could change the way we understand decision making”, this is a complex concept that shows how beauty changes our perspective on people and how we do every day tasks.

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/08/180820113032.htm

New York University. “Beauty is simpler, and less special, than we realize: New analysis of long-studied feeling.” ScienceDaily. ScienceDaily, 20 August 2018. <www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/08/180820113032.htm>.

Podcasts:

Ryan Sheahan

Tehya Casey

In my podcast I interviewed someone with a totally different background which game me insight to places other than the United States specifically the Dominican Republic. My interviewee told me about his child hood and working together as a community which brought him happiness and gave him a sense of purpose. He described the way the village worked together, as beauty.  my learned experience from Jose gave me a sense of  inspiration to live everyday as my best life because a lot of people don’t have the technology that I have. It showed me to appreciate life more.

in Tehya’s podcast I learned about a family members experience with beaches in Maine and Florida, and how the commercialized beaches were nothing like the rough, rocky, and unkempt  beaches of Maine. the beaches in Florida she explained were nothing like the beaches in Maine. the trash, tourists, commercialization, and advertisement of the beaches made her hate Florida and the beaches. her views of the Maine coast made her forget everything and leave her stress behind. she related beauty to the rustic coast which made me realize that everyone has a totally different view of art.  it inspired me to be more grateful for where I am and where I go to school.

The concepts and values of beauty vary from person to person. overall beauty can represent anything from art, to food, and sunsets. the biggest concern is that people don’t value beauty properly. One specific instance, in “La bella vita”, author John Armstrong discusses views on art from,  poet Friedrich Schiller’s point of view. he explains that you have to have two main ideas sense drive and form drive that need to work in tandem to see the true beauty in things. beauty in the world from my stand point is a representation of emotions and how beauty specifically can make you feel and remember aspects of life. in my community specifically at the University of New England, beauty to most people is a representation and love and happiness as well as good feelings.  John Armstrong explains that “Schiller was convinced that to regard beauty as a luxury adornment or a social signifier was to miss the true potential of the experience, because for him the point of beauty was to elevate the soul”,  beauty as a whole is meant to bring emotion to you and show you the true parts of life. Armstrong specifically explains this throughout his work and proves how different mechanisms need to be at balance for beauty to be shown through and through.