The media I plan on incorporating into my paper is some pictures, links to other podcasts, and links to the article that I will be talking about as well. For pictures, I am thinking of using a picture of a house plant because in my draft, I am going to talk about how interacting with … [Read more…]
Beauty is an ambiguous and often incomprehensible concept. Everyone perceives beauty differently and when asked how you view beauty, your answer will most likely be different than the person next to you. If beauty is in the eye of the beholder, then how can we use it to better our society? By getting more than … [Read more…]
The article I plan on incorporating in my paper is, “What Is Beauty? And the Importance of Beauty in Our Lives,” by Mark Goddard. This article talked a lot about the different forms beauty takes in our lives and why we should appreciate it more. For example, some of the topics included the importance of … [Read more…]
Armstrong’s comment about beauty, “To regard beauty as a luxury adornment or a social signifier was to miss the true potential of the experience,” is very similar to my own views on beauty. If something is truly beautiful, I think it should be looked at as an experience. I think beauty in our culture/community is regarded … [Read more…]
The chapter I chose from They Say/I Say was “They Art of Summarizing”. I chose this chapter because I find that I don’t always summarize my paragraphs very well and when I attempt to, I often will add more to the thought that I hadn’t discussed previously. One of the beneficial strategies discussed in the … [Read more…]
Mark Boslough and Yo-Yo Ma both agree that science is something that is important in our society today. Boslough however, argues that government should give the sciences more funding than they do currently. He expresses that, “science is under attack by a budget-cutting Congress to whom dollars have measurable value but scientific knowledge does not.” … [Read more…]
In “Necessary Edges: Arts, Empathy, and Education”, Yo Yo Ma makes the argument that art should be incorporated into the STEM education program. However, Education is supposed to prepare children for the real world and if we face the facts, the arts can be impractical field to go into. To teach art in our schools … [Read more…]
Yo Yo Ma’s essay “Necessary Edges: Arts, Empathy, and Education”, brought up many interesting points about art being a part of education. As far as surrounding context goes, his essay was published by World-Post in January 2014 and was written by Yo Yo Ma himself. I noticed in Ma’s bio that his list of awards … [Read more…]
I found “the Art of Quoting” in “They Say I Say”, extremely beneficial. Specifically, I know for a fact that I will use the templates for introducing quotes and explaining quotes because after seeing them, I have a feeling my quotes look a little out of place as well as not explained well. I don’t … [Read more…]
