Styles Upon Styles: Informative Articles

As I read the articles I found out that there are different styles in the same kind of informative articles. When I read "Heeeere's...Conan!!! I found out how the author used the title to make emphasis on how known this phrase is thanks to the huge amount of programs Conan has made. The style of this article does the emphasis on how Conan has lived his tv career. I also see the inverted pyramid technique used in this article since first the author gives the big picture of what the article is going to be about and then he starts giving out some details about Conan and his present. The article first talks about the show, and how Conan presents his show. The article ends up showing how Conan and all his crew will move to record the show in a different location than they currently are. The article not only says this but is most concentrated in showing how Conan is so popular, his road to becoming this popular, and his live in the television media. The next article, I found they used also the inverted pyramid technique. They describe the town of Mcallen, Texas, a sunday morning and then they give out the most important piece that will be the topic of the article. How they have the "lowest household income in the country" also has  " one of the most expensive health-care markets in the country." The article shows the big gap that there is in this town. It is not easy to think of the extremes that this town faces. They are a very poor town, one of the most poor in the country but their health care is the most expensive in the country. I found this article similar to one of the documentaries of Michael Moore Fahrenheit 911. In his documentary Moore shows some of the unbelievable things that happened in Bush's presidency. He uses satire and sarcasm to show his feelings towards Bush making him seem as if he had not done anything. In this article they also use satire as to show the big contrast that there is in the town. Were people cant pay for health care and it is the most expensive in the country. The last article is about a graffiti artist, JA, who lives in New York. I found the style of this article similar to the kind of narrations of Pirry , a colombian journalist that narrates urban problems in Colombia and other problems in the world. We first see the history of Graffiti and its influences in the streets of New York. Then we meet JA, the character in the article which we learn about. We see how he thinks about Graffiti and we get some of his ideas of what live is. It is kind of an urban story that shows the graffiti society in the streets through the eyes of JA. After reading these three articles I learned that there are many ways of writing and article and using different styles in order to make your ideas stronger is the best way to write. Although the three articles are informative they all use different styles. These styles depend on how the author wants to pass his ideas to the public.

Away from Liberty

 

Gulliver is imprisoned by the Lilliputians and is used to entertain the nobility. This two chapters of Gulliver's Travels show how the Lilliputians which are very small compared to Gulliver take away his freedom and use him as a source of entertainment. I don't know why they can control him if he is 12 times their size.

"Some time after, 

asking a friend at court how they came to fix on that determinate number, 

he told me that his majesty’s mathematicians, having taken the height of 

my body by the help of a quadrant, and finding it to exceed theirs in the 

proportion of twelve to one" (30)

I don't understand if they are so small compared to Gulliver why doesn't he goes away. He is then given his liberty back after his pleadings pass through the Council and the majesty of Lilliput. But he has to follow 9 articles to prevent him from escaping or destroying any thing in Lilliput. It is kind of silly to think that Gulliver Being so big compared to them is treated like an animal in zoo. 

There is something that I connect to this chapters in Gulliver and it is called the Elephants Metaphor. This is something that happens when Baby elephants that are born captive are chained to strong pillars so that they cant escape. Since they are small and their muscles haven't developed fully yet they obviously cant break the chains. They grow up with the idea that the chains are unbreakable and they loose all their hope of being free. When they are at their maximum size they can break these chains with no effort but since they have the memory of the chains being very strong they don't even try to break them.

Although this is not exactly what is happening to Gulliver it is very much alike. He is stronger than his capturers and can easily escape. The articles that they give them after they give him a partial liberty are nothing that he can't break but there is something that doesn't leave him escape. As the Elephant Metaphor, Gulliver is much bigger than his captors and can escape if he wanted. His metaphorical chains are really nothing compared to what he can do. 

Macbeth adaptations

This activity we produced in class for the last couple of weeks was very insightful. The final day, the presentation of our scenes was very fun. I really enjoyed seeing my classmates act out their scenes and how they adapted them to a time period in the history in Colombia. Although it was kind of hard to see easily what time period it was because we could not create a big scenery the costumes and some small props gave us hints to what time in history it was.It was very funny to see the costumes of my classmates and how they acted their scenes. This activity also was good to understand the real art of plays. Since Macbeth doesn't have scene directions we had to create them as we thought it would be better. We created our scene directions in order to show emphasis, and power. It summed up all that we had learned about composition, in the essay of Macbeth and in the art analysis classes we had. It also was a good end to Macbeth since we could see the most important parts of the play acted out. It was good to act these scenes because we could show how our ideas about the play and its themes were. Over all this activity was very fun and I learned many things about it.