♫♪Myles♪♫

A project to make a book from scratch, add a few pictures, add some hand written poems, your short biography and what do you get? A masterpiece? A reflection of how your character is through paper? But whatever it is or was have passed and now the analyzation of the unit of in my case the book has to be made.

Firstly, being an Effective Communicator and Self-Directed Learner played a big part in this project. If your poem wasn’t understandable then people would lose interest in your poem. No one likes reading things they don’t understand. The interesting point of poetry was making it understandable but adding that twist or mysterious vibe which made it unknown and hanging around the moment. I demonstrated the skills of effective collaboration and how did I go that if this was a solo assignment? Well I collaborated with the words and pictures which stood by each other to give meaning and symbolism. Any one could write poems but I think a good poet is one that is friends with the words. The words are allies with the pictures and eventually your collaboration together will makes a great army.

The ESLR’s I feel I used was Self-Directed Learner and Effective Communicator. The Self-Directed Learner point I used was ”I Accept responsibility for my own learning.” This to me means that it is up to me to produce the quality or what I want for the project. The teacher thought us how to write poems, the basics, structure, order, types of poems, and word choice but the content of the poem depends on ourselves. No matter what a poem would always tell a story and that would be your murderous story. It’s was up to me to decide what the content of the poem would be the quality of the information and the message which it portrayed. It’s like music, you can get the best lyricist but if your vocalist and band mates aren’t connected to the song mostly likely the song is going to suck. The Effective Communicator point I used was ”Incorporate/Utilize technology as a tool for communication.” This to means that I used a method of technology to communicate to the reader.

Effective Communicator, I connected the poems and pictures together some by using a literal translation and some using my idea of what the poem actually means and translating it to an image. In my opinion I think I “effectively utilize technology as a tool for communication.” I love technology, how it works and what causing the devices to generate that mind gasping experience. Plus, I’m not talented with art and my creativity is not in art at all. I spend the whole night searching for pictures which I thought would have matched my poem criteria. I read poems over and over while looking at the picture trying to see if the picture would have symbolized what I wanted. After finding the picture I would modify it trying to make it look different. Self-Directed Leaner, when I was writing the poems I had some trouble on words and what my next line would be so I used a dictionary and tried to researcher for something that would give me inspiration related to my topic like a picture, object, or symbol. I think I ”Identify their needs and apply appropriate learning strategies”.

. I was a Self-Directed Learner by identifying what I needed and applying appropriate strategies to complete my tasks. I wanted to make the book different. I didn’t want to print, cut, draw, and glue. I wanted it to be my own. So I had an idea that I wanted some of the poems to be seen through the pictures and on some of the poems I wanted the picture to be on a different colour than the background. After completing the book I thought about the cover and I felt the book was a book wrote by the dead or made for it. During the final stages of the book I had realized I have no life or that the life I have now isn’t mine. It’s ruled by someone else and I’m just living as their slave. I found a picture coincidently that blew my mind for the theme and cover. I think if I didn’t identify my needs and apply appropriate learning strategies than I would have probably given up on the book or the book would have just been another cliché project.

Self-Directed Learner, what if I tried taking creative risks in developing untried ideas on my book? Instead of printing the pictures on plastic paper and poems on normal white paper. I would try something different and print the poems on plastic paper and pictures on normal white paper. That would have had a different effect on the book. The poems may not be able to be read because of the colours from the pictures and people would read the poems and look at the image keeping the poem in mind so that they can understand the image. I prefer my way where as people look at the image and ponder of what the poet is trying to convey through the image. Also the curious people will look at the image and then read the poem after that flip back to glance at the image again. Even after putting the book down they would remember the image that was connected to the poem trying to understand its purpose. Even though the poem was the last thing they saw they still will remember the image.

In summary I feel that they project was really good because the images play a big part to me in poetry. It’s another way of twisting around the world to convey a message. I think next year there should be more connection from poetry and images. The two ESLR’s Self-Directed Learner and Effective Communicator were my two goals to be presented in this project and I think that they shined through pretty well. Furthermore, I think one of the reasons why I like poetry is because of music. Music, lyrics, poetry are all connected through different forms and adding modern technology adds imagery to the whole package.

What’s “Hot and Sexy”?

So for the assignment we where supposed to look at objects, life and anything through different views which are my view, gender, race, and class. So I was thinking about what was discussed in class about the sub-text of media and the example that always came up was a hot, skinny, perfect shaped body girl and everyone would always say that it puts girls down because the girl in the advertisement makes them think that they would have too look like that to attract guys.

In my point of view guys are attracted to girls being “sexy” and “hot” but this also started when girls started marketing guys that they have to have “hot body” and “killer abs”. Advertisements like swimsuits don’t you think that advertising your product with a “hot girl and a guy with killer abs” sell your product more? Probably yes, because girls and guys are naturally attracted to each other and adding extra zest to that attraction would increase the hunger too attract the opposite sex. It is easier to market a product with something people want but don’t get me wrong guys and girls do look at the heart and other characters but I think it is harder to advertise those qualities or make an equal appeal to the viewers.

Race plays a big part this advertising of who has the best model, body and etc. Different cultures and countries have different opinion on what they think is “hot or sexy”. I mean an Indian model could appeal to and Indian person but not to a Japanese person. Also in Asia bleached white skin could be the “sexy thing” but in America nicely golden brown tanned skin is the “sexy thing”.

Class also plays a role in judgment of beauty and attractiveness. A higher class person will obviously make their selves beautiful and “hot” to attract other or keep up with their position in society but to a low-low class beggar the person may look ugly like using too much make up, too skinny, or is just plain ugly. Also, someone in the upper may think this middle class person is ugly but she may the most beautiful person other classes have seen. In most countries it’s the upper class that normally sets the standard what a “hot” guy and girl should look like or have.

Then again a “hot and sexy” girl could mean she is sweet, loving, caring, cute, funny, adventurous, out going and her heart most of all. It’s generally your opinion of who is “sexy and hot” to you but just don’t let other people or things influence your decision.