Jelly Role Morton "Black Bottom Soup"

How Do You Envision this Music Playing a Part of Gatsby's Parties?
This music gives the illusion of a grand get together such as those during the time of the Great Gatsby. It adds a vintage mindset to the party that complements the overall theme of the Great Gatsby.

What is the Mood? How/Why?
The mood seems to be a nostalgic, joyous mood. The Lo-Fi sound of the song creates an older style of music thus adding the the Nostalgic Mood. Furthermore, the range of instruments and variety of pitches add to the joyous mood.

What Activities go Along with this Music?
Activites that go hand in hand with this type of music seem to be dancing, drinking, in depth conversations, and overall livelihood.

Justin Bua

Describe Bua's Style of Painting

Bua uses a Harlem Style of painting through the use of dark, warm colors. He compliments this through the use of longiated feature of inanimate objects as well as people. Overall Bua's artistic technique adds a sense of mystery and culture to his paintings, adding the final jigsaw to complete this Harlem Style Piece. 

Great Gatsby Blog Post # 1

Looking at first three chapters of The Great Gatsby, make some predictions about these characters and (unlike Nick) classify them into one of the three categories - hero, antihero, and villain. Give ample reasons for your classification, with support for the text .

As we progress through the Great Gatsby it is important to sort each of the characters into their appropriate categories as it is of great importance that we, the readers, be able to distinguish between who we can trust and who we cant as we read further in the novel. 

At our current place in the book, we may recognize three distinguishable characters: Nick Carraway, Jay Gatsby, and Daisy Buchanan.

Nick Carraway is a, " seemingly plain, well educated, straightforward, and honest" (pg 12) young man from Minnesota who, after fighting in World War 1, goes to New York City to learn business. Nick appears as the narrator in the book as he asserts himself as the author and the book is written from his point of view mostly. As a result, we have no other choice but to characterize him as a hero, because if we cant trust the author of the book, we cannot trust anyone.   

Jay Gatsby is another focal character of this book - as proven by the title. Gatsby is a young man of extraordinary wealth who is famous for his great get-togethers he throws every week. In the book, it is said that he, "understood you just as far as you wanted to be understood, believed in you as you would like to believe in yourself, and assured you that it had precisely the impression of you that, at your best, you hoped to convey." (Pg 31)We are not yet far enough in the book to make any significant claims about Gatsby, however; in our current position there are many subtle acknowledgments to his character that may support the conclusion that he is a Hero. 

Finally there is Daisy Buchanan, Nick's Cousin and Gatsby's Love. In chapter 1, Daisy is talking about her hopes for her child and says, "I hope she’ll be a fool—that’s the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool." (pg 7) This displays Daisy's Character as it shows her need for conformity. Daisy wants her child to conform to the stereotypes set for women at that time and does not value knowledge, intellect, hard work, or any values that a person truly needs. Daisy acts simply to perpetuate stereotypes and to maintain the social norm. Despite this, it is hard to draw any distinct conclusion as to what Daisy is as it seems still that the audience tries to move in favor Daisy throughout the Book. Thusly, it is logical to characterize Daisy as a antihero. 

3 Commercial Analysis

Commercial # 1
Uses appeal to the common, average, American to grab a hold of it's audience. It creates a sense of warmth within the commercial to make people believe that they can trust in that product.
Commercial #2
Uses the same appeals in the sense that it makes the viewer believe that if he/she wants safety for himself, others, and his/her children, this car is the right choice. As well, it sympathizes with the common American in the fact that  they are insecure about putting their children on the road.
Commercial #3
Uses appeals to patriotism through showing the hard work and labor that the country had to go through to get to where it is now and uses the appeals of progress to show that they product they are trying to sell is symbolic of all of those appeals.

Marie Winn TV Addiction

Questions on Meaning

What distinction does Winn make between the “harmless pursuit of pleasure” and addiction?

Marie Draws a fine distinction between the two, but she concludes in adding on the aspect that the two are not so dissimilar in the fact that something that may be considered harmless pursuit of pleasure like TV watching is an addiction.   

In paragraph 2, Winn poses the question that leads to her thesis. What is the answer to this question? Do you find it explicitly stated anywhere?

Her question that leads to her thesis is, "People often refer to being “hooked on TV.” Does this, too, fall into the lighthearted category of cookie eating and other pleasure that people pursue with unusual intensity, or is there a kind television viewing that falls into the more serious category of destructive addiction?" She explicitly states the anwer to this question in saying, "Not unlike drugs or alcohol, the television experiences allow the participant to blot out the real world and enter into a pleasurable and passive mental state. The worries and anxieties of reality are as effectively differed by becoming absorbed in a television program as by going on a “trip” induced by drugs or alcohol. And just as alcoholics are only inchoately aware of there addiction, feeling that they can control their drinking more than they really do. (“ I can cut it out anytime I want—I just like to have three or four drinks before dinner”), people similarly overestimate their control over television watching."


What does Winn think are the main problems caused by excessive TV viewing? Does Winn think there could be anything good about watching television? How do you know?
Winn says the main problems caused by excessive television viewing tend to be their sheer laziness and anti social personality as they have chosen to watch television rather than maintain a conversation, plant a garden, read a book, crotchet, etc.

Questions on Writing Strategy

Why does Winn take such care to define addiction ? What does this stipulative definition do for this essay?
Winn takes such great care to define 'addiction' as it is what she basis her thesis and the rest of her essay off of.


Winn does not answer her thesis question immediately after she asks it . Why, do you think? What is the effect of this delay?
The effect of this decision is to allow the reader to ponder over his own reason, and then for her to convince the reader otherwise, thus getting her point across efficiently and effectively. 

Throughout her essay, Winn puts a number of words and phrases in quotation marks--- for example, “Hooked on TV” (para. 2), “high” (3), “trip” (7), “ought” (9). What does this punctuation contribute to Winn’s essay?
This allows television to be viewed more as a drug, just as other drugs have alternative names to them like scooby snacks, mary joe, etc. So does television watching.


Other methods. Study Winn’s Comparison between drug and alcohol addiction and TV addiction. How are the similar? Are they different in any ways?
Winn answers this in her essay in saying that not unlike drugs or alcohol, the television experiences allow the participant to blot out the real world and enter into a pleasurable and passive mental state. The worries and anxieties of reality are as effectively differed by becoming absorbed in a television program as by going on a “trip” induced by drugs or alcohol. And just as alcoholics are only inchoately aware of there addiction, feeling that they can control their drinking more than they really do. (“ I can cut it out anytime I want—I just like to have three or four drinks before dinner”), people similarly overestimate their control over television watching.  They are only different in the type of addiction they are - one to TV and one to Drugs.