Sandbox Activity #7 - "The reality that I believe the movie "Miss Congeniality" to be!!

 "Women or Object?!"
 

What they said in that scene, the other women asked “Do all the women in the bureau have to wear those really masculine shoes?” and Sandra Bullock said “Oh! No!  I get these made special by the same guy who put the tattoo on my ass!”  I think that the other women was being a feminist when she asked that question because of the fact that she thought that Sandra Bullock looked ugly in those shoes or she thought that she looked ugly altogether.  That is one of the many forms of feminism at its finest moment in the world.  I also believe that the other women just thought that Sandra Bullock was just an object in the FBI, like she doesn’t go on any undercover cases.  And she just sits at a desk and does paperwork which at the beginning of that movie “Miss Congeniality”, her boss ordered her to do desk work cause she screwed up an undercover op, so it was basically like she was an object because of the fact that her boss was a feminist.  Her boss felt like women shouldn’t be out in the field in the first place but it was the FBI so he had to treat everyone as equals whether he was a feminist or not.

 "Miss Congeniality Script - Dialogue Transcript". (2000). Drews Script O-Rama. September 30,
           2014. www.script-o-rama.com/movie_scripts.

" Feminist to see if women have talent or the success of increasing womens’ self-esteem?!”

             This picture is basically about the fact that the movie “Miss Congeniality” was based out of San Antonio and Austin, Texas.  But this picture is also dealing with the fact that a lot of people do not think that the talent portion of pageants to be degrading towards women, which most feminists thought that.  But the talent portion of the pageant, I believe that it can raise women’s self-esteem higher because they believe in their self that they have something that is special to them, which is apart of who you are a person, as a whole.

 Zeilinger, J. "Opinion: Pageants duhamanize women". (2012). HLN. September 30, 2014.
            www.hlntv.com.

   “Do some or all feminists believe in material items?!”

Most feminists do not believe in material items like make up for example.  In this picture Sandra Bullock was very grouchy because she hadn’t slept in 2 days and people were poking and prodding her for those 2 days, which she hated.  She also was a feminist because she hated to wear make up but then once she was forced to, she understood the reason behind the fact that a lot of women want to wear make up and yes there are a lot of those reasons as to why we do.

"Miss Congeniality Script - Dialogue Transcript". (2000). Drews Script O-Rama. September

          30, 2014. www.script-o-rama.com.movie_scripts.

Forum #6

There are many ways that the article that I chose for my last post is relevant to my digital multimedia project.  That article is completely relevant to the development that I want to take for the direction of my project.  The reason being as to why it does is because of the fact that it deals with the feminist side of pageants and the females that do pageants.  But what people don't realize is that they aren't just beauty pageants cause they help women to want to get a higher education in their life.  Feminism is a big problem in the world back in the day, compared to today's world.

Sandbox Activity #6 - "Miss America Protest"

"Feminists at the Miss America Pageant" and "Feminists turn the Miss America Pageant"

Back in the days of 1968, people believed that pageants were creating feminism.  But what they don’t know is that pageants were meant to help better women in a positive way.  Also, the pageants were meant to influence women to get a higher education because in their way of thinking is that men shouldn’t have the upper hand and women should.  So, feminists protested at the Miss America Pageant in 1968.

 

Naplkoski, Linda. “Miss America Protest: Feminists at the Miss America Pageant”.

About Education. 2014. About.com. September 26,2014.

 

 

Forum #5

Human nature is apart of life itself.  But what is also apart of our lives are very many stories.  Stories are apart of every human beings life, even when the stories aren’t really meaning to be there.  They can be the shortest story in the world like where someone is just randomly knocking on your door, asking me if he can take my picture for one of his classes, and then there are extremely short stories like telling people where you left something or describing an autobiography about someone important.  Stories are always being created every single day, whether or not we are realizing that it’s happening or not.  There are ways that we learn and or reference to the past, which would be by telling stories.  Multimedia projects are actually is a different type of telling a story, except for the fact that you are telling the story by pictures instead of words.  All of this can be referred to the book called “Digital Storytelling”.

 

“Memories of Old E.T.”. By: Silver Leos Writers Guild.

“Music, Music, Music” by Patricia West Root - Page 262

            Patricia West Root was a music education major at East Texas State University in 1972.  At first, her major consumed her life to the point that she didn’t have time to join a sorority, like the Greek system but she did join the music sorority called Mu Phi Epsilon.  This was the time period when Vietnam War was going on and she got married to an Air Forceman named Randy Root and they were married for forty years.  This was also the time period when integration was just starting to begin to take place at the university.  Patricia lived at Smith Hall while her husband was at war and the dorms had curfews, then she moved to married housing on campus.  And eventually, her and her husband moved to Mesquite, so she had to commute to school.  Patricia West Root ended up graduating in the Class of 1972.  She taught music education for twenty- five years, then took a couple of years off because she had a son, and then taught for another six years.  But after the last six years, she ended up retiring from teaching.  I think it’s just interesting how Binnion Hall didn’t use to be a dorm hall and how Smith Hall had a curfew back then which I can totally understand for that time period because of the fact that I use to stay in that dorm hall just last school year.  I also like how Patricia was so devoted to her schooling but also just equally devoted to her husband, which is very noble.

“Walking on the Edge” by Dewayne Bethea - Page 220

            Dewayne Bethea went to East Texas State Teachers College in 1971.  He met

Earlene Pepper in October of 1957 and they married in 1960.  They were together for fifty years and shared two children.  In the middle of all of that, Dewayne was part of a group called the Tejas Brothers.  They liked to start the party per say because of the fact that they started the panty raid of 1956, where the scene was chaotic, but the coeds were very willing participants as the panties came raining down.  But the whole affair was to basically tease girls and to prank with the establishment of the dorm and the university, itself as a whole.  The Tejas Brothers were definitely the rebels on campus.  Dewayne eventually realized that walking on the edge was not always a good thing, when it came to living a certain lifestyle.  So, he gradually improved his GPA, started focusing on his schooling so he could be done but he didn’t think that he had a path to a career that he wanted to do.  Later on, Dewayne’s life consisted of the Education Public School system because he graduated with a bachelor from East Texas State Teachers College in 1961 and then got his masters in education degree in 1970 from Texas A&M University Commerce.  He was a teacher, football coach, athletic director, high school counselor, vocational counselor/director, assistant superintendent, and superintendent.  Dewayne thanks all of his professors for showing him the way.  I think that was the smartest decision that Dewayne could have ever made in his life.  I feel like in some way, that I see where Dewayne is coming from when it comes from not knowing his career path in life.

Sandbox Activity #5

Unknown., East Texas State College.  University Photography Collection, c. 1960., James G. Gee 

        Library Special Collections, Texas A&M University - Commerce, 2014.

        Lyndon B. Johnson was giving a lecture that was put together by the Forum Arts Program at Texas A&M University - Commerce.  It looks like the lecture was given in the Hall of Language building, in one of the auditoriums on the second floor because it looks like in the picture that the whole back wall is a huge chalkboard and that the lecture hall has a speakers podium.  It looks like the students are really happy to have attended the lecture.  One of the questions that is on my mind is "What was the lecture about that he was given?", and "Why was the lecture set up by the Forum Arts Program?"

Forum #4

The book called Cedar Crossing is quite an interesting book.  The book is about this boy who is a college student, who is trying to find the hidden secrets of this town.  The secret is so deeply hidden to the point that when he asks any of his family members about the history of this town, they all have a different story to tell him because none of the stories end up lining up.  But what I think is funny about the boy is that when he dreams, he dreams of famous people getting shot but the odd part is that he knows the exact caliber of the bullets that were shot out of the guns which is quite interesting to me.  All in all, this book is quite the interesting read if you want to get to know the town history of Commerce, Texas a bit more and in an interesting new way to go about it.

(Sandbox Activity #4)

"My father was dead; I was no longer a round kid in a hamburger joint but a college student living at a time when racial issues were much at the center of American life."

Busby, Mark. Cedar Crossing. Fort Worth: Texas Christian UP, 2013. Print. 61.

      This book is basically about a college kid who is trying to find out more about his towns checkered past.  The bad part about that is that his family members all have different sides of the story because the reason why everyone has a different story is cause it was a terrible memory that no one wants to remember in the first place.  The quote that I chose was very influential to back then and now. In this day and age we still live in some what racial times, where those type of issues still come about.  Plus, I'm a college student who is trying to live my own life where my parents aren't around.

"Kalir Club". East Texas State Teachers College.  University Photography Collection, Circa 1940s,
       1947., James G. Gee Library Special Collections, Texas A&M University - Commerce, 2014.

       The Kalir Club was a very popular woman's social club.  This club was not allowed to join the Greek system of the University until 1959 because of the fact that there wasn't any Greek system allowed at Texas A&M University.  The reason why this picture goes with the quote that I chose is because it deals with a time where there were issues that our university, as college students, that we were facing. 

(Sandbox Activity #3)

        "I wish I could say it was out of an inner outrage at the horror, but mainly it was just reactive and self-protective.  The long view comes late, if it comes at all."

Busby, Mark. Cedar Crossing. Forth Worth: Texas Christian UP, 2013. Print. 1.

     Cedar Crossing is where this college boy asks all of his relatives about the history of the Trans-Cedar lynching. The Trans-Cedar lynching was apparently something of Texas history that no one cared to remember because it was very terrible. The reason why I selected that quote is because of the time period of the book was built behind a horrible outrage that happened in history. This type of history was very protected but went on for a very long time. I also selected this quote because many people have a long view but different views of this point in history in the book called Cedar Crossing.

"Frank Rubarth". East Texas Normal College. University Photography Collection, 1917., James G.
          Gee Library Special Collections, Texas A&M University - Commerce, 2014.

         Rubarth was the star player on the football team at East Texas Normal College in 1917.  I chose Frank Rubarth to complement the quote that I picked is because star players usually have a very tough road ahead of them.  Star players also usually have an expanded long view of what other people think that their future should be, instead of what they think that their future should turn out to be but on their own terms instead of someone elses.  The quote that I picked says all of that in many ways and more...

Forum #3

What I can gather from Cedar Crossing is that it definitely has it’s moments of being very illustrative, when it comes to the places that it wants to be taken place at.  It takes place in Dallas.  It’s basically about this college boy, who keeps on visiting his grandparents.  He specifically comes to visit his grandpa every couple of weeks just so his grandpa can keep on telling his story about the old times and how racism was the worst in those days.  But the book called “On Doing Local History” was basically based on the United States.  It originally was also all about the racism at first but then came to be some stuff that was really great.  This book is the on-going about the every little historical thing that happened to us in the United States.  In a sense, it felt like I was back in a history class like three years ago, which I really don’t like to be in cause I can never really ever remember important dates or facts when it comes to the history of our great states.

Sandbox Activity #2

The sandbox activity that we all presented in class was very enlightening.  The way that we translated the different types of quotes was quite inspiring because of the fact that translating things into a different language can expand our views on the different cultures and outlooks of where that language originated.  Knowing those kind of things can definitely help use expand our writing into a more broad and enlightening view on what we are originally going to say.  Then, the map presentation was a creative way to explore where the story of “Cedar Crossing” is taken place.  Which I believe can also help you when it comes to making your writing seem to be more descriptive and to give your writing more illustration.  So all of that to say that is my reflection on sandbox activity #1.

Sandbox Activity #1

To be honest,  This activity with the clay was very confusing.  My group had to translate a meaningful quote that we picked out of the book called "Cedar Crossing".  We had to translate the quote into a different language and we had to somehow write that same quote in the clay with a wooden stix.  I'm still confused on how this activity helps us to write better but I know that my professor has a method to her madness.  But what I do understand is that finding a meaningful quote and understanding the quote on a deeper level, especially to expand our writing on a deeper and more profound level.

Colby Hajec

Forum #2

Part 1:

“In the 21^st century, writing can be expressive, it can be dramatic, about romanticism.” – This quote basically says that you can do anything when it comes to writing but it goes along with the quote “People tend to confuse the ability to speak with the ability to communicate.”  Because when it comes to writing anything, you can definitely confuse speaking instead of communicating.

“Writing in the 21^st century means that there is an unlimited amount of things that you can or could say and several of different ways to express what you want to say in a narrative or literary sense.” – This quote basically means that you can include realistic and or fantasy worlds when you are writing, which includes the quote “When one looks at photos, a stream of fiction and fantasy occupy this slice of reality.”  Because there are an unlimited amount of things in the world that anybody and or everybody can write about.  Especially, when it comes to writing things in today’s world.

Part 2:

In-Class Essay

There are many different ways to say what it means to write in the 21^st century.  The way that I believe that writing in the 21^st century is expanding the horizon to just about anything and any way that is possible.  In the 21^st century, writing can be expressive, it can be dramatic, about romanticism.  Writing in the 21^st century means that there is an unlimited amount of things that you can or could say and several of different ways to express what you want to say in a narrative or literary sense.  Writing is one of the main things that do matter in the world.  If we didn’t know how to write, then how could we send letters and or expand and elaborate our vocabulary on an every day basis.  The reason why I love to write is because I love to express myself on paper because sometimes I can’t exactly express myself out loud on a regular basis.  But the way that I express myself is through poems and songs.  The other reason why I love to write is because when I use to be deaf, since I couldn’t speak, I could write and I would never stop.  My mom use to say to me that when I was younger, she couldn’t ever get me to stop writing because it was and is still till this day, is how I express my feeling, especially if I do not want those feelings to be known at that point of time.  Writing is also a way to remember things.  Like how I write notes in class, so that I remember and or review that same material for a later reason.  But what I would like to learn from this course is how I can expand my teaching style when it comes to writing because of the fact that I will be teaching an English- special education high school class in the near future.  The reason why I want to teach that kind of class is because I use to be in that class and so I know how to teach it in many ways but I want to know how to expand my teaching styles when it comes to writing in general.

Forum #1

I agree upon this statement, “People tend to confuse the ability to speak with the ability to communicate.” The reason why agree upon that quote is because a lot of do speak at you but that they aren’t communicating with you.  I also feel like people are usually speaking at you when it comes to people’s writings, when they should really be trying to communicate with you like how a true conversation should really be.

I also agree upon this statement, “When one looks at photos, a stream of fiction and fantasy occupy this slice of reality.”  To me this quote is a part of me because photos can help you expand and create a broader imagination that can create a fantasy reality, which can also expand your writing when it comes to writing in today’s world.