Sohil's Story

In Show and Tell by Scott McCloud, words and pictures are shown to have a greater effect than either of them alone. McCloud uses a trip to the grocery store to demonstrate this. When pictures or words are used alone, the audience is only able to get a sense of what's going on. However, when both are used together, the author is able to describe the seen in words and be free in what he or she chooses to draw. This allows the author to place more focus on the scenes that he or she wants the audience to concentrate on. Even though though McCloud says that "words and pictures together" are "at worst a product of crass commercialism", advertisements are a great example of how powerful words and  pictures are when used together (McCloud 808). In most cases a picture will draw you in to read the words. Many people are able to recognize a company's logo by seeing a picture of it. If all ads were just words than no one would look at them. If all ads were just picture

This week in class we read the speech Civil Disobedience  by Henry David Thoreau. In the speech Thoreau says "I know this well, that if one thousand, if one hundred, if ten men whom I could name,-if ten honest men only,-ay, if one honest man, in this State of Massachusetts, ceasing to hold slaves,  were actually to withdraw from this copartnership, and be locked up in the county jail therfor, it would be the abolition of slavery in America. In this quote, Thoreau says that if one man stood up for what is right, in this case the abolition of slavery, then change will happen. One man can make a difference not by supporting someone who has a similar idea, but putting their entire effort into making the change. This made me really think about how I can make a difference in the world. One problem that me and Marz identified was the College Board making a profit off of education. The College Board owns the SAT and AP tests and make money through students taking their tests. These test

In class this week we discussed This Is Water  by David Wallace. The speech is about changing your perception of the world so you are not at the center of it. My favorite part of the speech is about how a situation can be changed just by thinking about it differently. He is talking about a trip to the supermarket after a challenging day at work. On page 235 he says "I've worked really hard all day and I'm starved and tired and I can't even get home to eat and unwind because of all these stupid g-d- people ." In this quote he is looking at the store with his perspective. He isn't thinking about other people, just himself. On the next page he thinks a new way. He considers that maybe the people in the line have harder lives than him and are more tired than him. By thinking this way it allows us to not be so unhappy at our situation. After reading the speech I tried to apply this way of thinking to my own life. I used to think that waking up in the morning was an

In our memorial sharing group, we thought of the idea of a school shootings memorial to honor victims of school shootings. We thought it could be a classroom with empty desks and empty shoes on the ground. We thought the memorial should be in a museum, or some other place that's quiet, so that people treat the memorial with respect and it doesn't just become another object. In Postcards from the Trenches Whittick, a historian, says of memorials placed in busy locations "Such sites, busy with frequent traffic, are hardly conducive to quiet contemplation, and after a short time the memorial becomes another familiar object of the busy town centre, and is rarely looked at". In this quote Whittick is describing what happened to war memorials that were placed in busy areas. If the memorial is placed inside a museum it will be treated with the consideration it deserves, even though it will be seen by fewer people. We also thought it would be powerful if the memorial contain