Cultural Criticism

Race, gender, and culture are important to discuss because we deal with real life issues everyday.  No matter who you are of what privileges you have there is going to be a minority group.  I feel that our society is developed around "patriarchy."  We live in a world of one group is better than the another.  Our society is developed by roots of certain beliefs and is going to be hard to change the minds of the people who created them.  

It is important to learn about other cultures, races, and genders.  The writer wants you to understand what they went through to feel their emotions.  We can actually feel what the character is going through and understand their struggles only by learning about what they went through.  We will a better understanding of our world.  No single person can change the beliefs of patriarchy.  We have to keep encouraging change. 

Being critical about these different issues opens many large and long discussions.  We can talk about each others interpretations of the literature and everyone will hopefully get something positive about it.  Even if you a strong minded and unwilling to change your beliefs about certain racism of sexism.   

14. I can arrange to protect my children most of the time from people who might not like them.

- You can protect your children from everything.  Of course you should protect them if their life is in danger.  But no matter who you are, you are going to be picked on once in your life.  Being different makes us who we are.  I need to create a back bone.  It will help you understand that there are people who are not going to like you for who you are.  You need realize that its ok.  Although harassment is know very well in school around the country.  If your children is distressed from their peers protection is in order.  These not only include physically but also emotional well being.

24. I can be pretty sure that if I ask to talk to the "person in charge", I will be facing a person of my race

- I do not agree with this comment.  It does not matter what color or gender you are.  How good are you at your job?  If you work hard and are good at what you do, you will come out on top.  

What are multimodality, multisemiotics and multiliteracies?

Multimodality, multisemiotics, and multiliteracies are all ways we understand material when learning information. These three terms are all apart of learning. They serve all types of communication in which we are able to understand. They are an important purposes when learning material. Each interprets material in a better sense of understanding.

Multimodal consists of our five senses.  Which is pretty easy to understand because we encounter these senses- smell, see, hear, touch, taste, everyday.  Multisemiotics describes multiple meanings that are offered by these modes, and multiple possible understandings that we might be able to make from these modes.  While multiliteracies is when people are able to understand and use these modes to communicate to everyday life.  To break it down, they are modes in which we use for communication.

McCloud is able to use many of these multimodal literacy's in his graphic novel.  First off, he uses audio literacy, which makes many sounds with vivid words such as "DING-DING."  He is able to make all of these sound effects.  The reader is able to hear the sounds of what McCloud is trying to describe.

McCloud's use of linguistic literacy is in many words to describe his novel.  Gestural literacy is used in McCloud's graphic novel with different uses of behavior.  While he uses spatial literacy to help the reader connect to his novel.  By using his comics the reader is easily able to understand where he is going with his graphic novel.  I believe the reader is able to understand all his multimodal literacy.  

By using these three modes, communication and understanding of all will be better.  In the classroom, by seeing the text, a visual on the board, and communication through the teacher there will be a better understanding of the information.  I find that these modes of communication would be useful to me, especially because just reading the text would not be enough information to understand the material given. 

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Poem For Monday

Annabel Lee by: Edgar Allen Poe

It was many and many a year ago, In a kingdom by the sea, That a maiden there lived whom you may know By the name of Annabel Lee; And this maiden she lived with no other thought Than to love and be loved by me. I was a child and she was a child, In this kingdom by the sea; But we loved with a love that was more than love- I and my Annabel Lee; With a love that the winged seraphs of heaven Coveted her and me. And this was the reason that, long ago, In this kingdom by the sea, A wind blew out of a cloud, chilling My beautiful Annabel Lee; So that her highborn kinsman came And bore her away from me, To shut her up in a sepulchre In this kingdom by the sea. The angels, not half so happy in heaven, Went envying her and me- Yes!- that was the reason (as all men know, In this kingdom by the sea) That the wind came out of the cloud by night, Chilling and killing my Annabel Lee. But our love it was stronger by far than the love Of those who were older than we- Of many far wiser than we- And neither the angels in Heaven above, Nor the demons down under the sea, Can ever dissever my soul from the soul Of the beautiful Annabel Lee. For the moon never beams without bringing me dreams Of the beautiful Annabel Lee; And the stars never rise but I feel the bright eyes Of the beautiful Annabel Lee; And so, all the night-tide, I lie down by the side Of my darling- my darling- my life and my bride, In the sepulchre there by the sea, In her tomb by the side of the sea.