Post modernism junk

The movie i am choosing is V for Vendetta. V for Vendetta is a movie about like the future. Or maybe it is set in an alternate reality of like an alternate present time I really am not sure. Anyway it is in Britain and there is a really oppressive government with liike curfews and crazy laws and they own every type of publishing. Stuff like thatyou know, the typical oppressive governement that everyone hates.But the only problem is not everyone in the movie realizes that the government is oppresive and stuff. The main character, V, is a revolutionary who knows the governemnt is awrong and he decides to blow a bunch of stuff, because that always fixes problems when you have an issue with soemthing because soemthing cant oppress you when it is blowed up. So the guy gets an accomplice and then manages to afford sending every man woman and child in Britain and outfit an a mask. So when he goes to blow everything up everyone inc ountry is there and are wearing the outfit so the government gets that they mean business. This movie shows a couple post modernism haracteristics, like distrusting the government and how everyone is lying and stuff. Basically the best characteristics it has is being really cool and the fact ths there is lots of fights scenes and lots of stuff blwoning up. Which everyone knnows is the most important part of the movie i dont kow if it is a characteristics but he nevers wears anything other than his mask so that interesting.

Modernism

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JAzz song

The Jazz song we listened to was pretty cool and I particularly like it. I thought the instrumental was really cool and the saxophone was obviously amazing. All in all the song was really good. One of the things the song made me think of was sort of like a story. As it went on kind of saw a guy walking down the street in a long overcooat and a cool looking hat going down the street to a beat and walking slowly. At one point in the song I sort of felt like the guy had started dancing with a woman now. It really helped the zander was narrating the song as it went I really could visualize it as he was desrbiing it.

Modernism and Realism

Modernism and realism were both literary time periods. Realism came first and was much earlier than Modernism. Realism was obviously, just from sounding out the name, was about being real. The authors did their very best to accurately portray the world and feelings of people. At the time it was pretty radical because before then the hero had always been a perfect person but now writers were talking about how the hero had doubts, fears, and flaws as well. People were pretty creeped out by it at first because the people they looked up to were just like them, flawed.Modernism came much later and was pretty similar. Modernism was similar to realism in a few ways. One of them was how radical the idea was at the time. Modernism took ahrsh views on the institution and how it was bad or wrong. Something that was pretty unheard of at the time. It challenged the idea a that government was above reproach from literature. As far as ideals go realism and modernism do not have a lot of the same characteristics but there are a few traits that a re pretty similar, like how both type of literary writing were so radical because they showed things as they were. They did not gloss over things, the did not exaggerate things. Realist accurately portrayed the human hero and modernists accurately portrayed the government and it's shortcomings. Other than that I do not see a lot of similarities between the two genres. One was all about the individual person and their flaws while the other was all about the government or groups flaws. Modernists also had a very sadistic view on the group, or humanity as a whole. People like Hemingway who wrote about what they a saw as humanities issues. Modernism was pretty cool int hat it changed poetry so that it no longer was required to rhyme you jut needed to pick the right words at the right time in the poem for it flow smoothly and that was really all people were looking for. As opposed to realism where if it was called poetry it had better rhyme. I personally prefer rhythm poetry as I think poetry is for cadence and rhythm while story telling and books are more of what modernism is. I really do not think some of the poems that were written are even poems so much as they were observations. But that is just me being technical. I overall do not think they had any massive similarities just a couple tiny incidents and stuff like that. If I had to choose I would say i like realism better because of the rhyming obviously and modernists poems are so depressing and are written by people who feel the need to criticism everything. But yeah I guess some modernism is ok but not to much, because like the saying always goes " to much modernism is a headache and a bulging vein waiting to happen" That is how i have always been told though i suppsoe some people do not get the same quotes form heir mothers

Job Shadowing

My job shadowing was pretty cool. I shadowed my cousin, a loan officer. A loan officer is someone who sells people loans. So when you want to buy a house you have to get your loan approved by a loan officer.I think my experience might have been a little unique because I knew what and who exactly was going on. Andy, my cousin, has been a loan officer for almost 10 years so I knew what he did by now pretty well and obviously I knew him because he was my cousin. I went in and first watched what he mostly does, the boring stuff as he calls it. He had to enter in peoples information in to the computer and figure out whether or not they had a shot at getting the loan approved. That part was pretty boring, I mean how interesting can it be to watch someone type into the computer. Some of the other stuff he did was a few sales calls, which were cool, but again it wasn't amazing hearing only one side of the conversation. One part that was kind cool was when he had to deny someones loan. It was interesting to see how he handled the person and ended up giving them hope they could eventually get the loan done. We went out to lunch at Brickhouse and that was delicious of course. After lunch Andy really had to do some work so I sat around and talked with him for a while before I eventually just left. Job shadowing was pretty cool and informative though I still don't know if I want to do Finance or Engineering.

Poetry

If I were alive during the same time period as Emily dickinson and walt whitman I would probably listen or read Whitmans poems more than Emily Dickinson's poems. I would probably readd both of them if I read poetry at all though I do not think I would read poetry as I truly despise poetry and even if i lived in their time I do not think that I would like poetry still. I think it is boring and there is to many ways to interept a poem i prefer to know things not the try and interperet things. Though if I had to choose i would probably listen to whitman more because his poems in my opinion have a different feel to them as emily dickinson's poems do. He has I think better literature and better feel for poetry. Plus I really dislke Emily Dickinson, I think she should not write about life when all she did was observe other people lving it. Who is she to write about love and God when she has not experienced either becasue all she did was sit inside her hous and stare outside. Though to be honest I really doubrt that I would listen or read poetry anyway. I really do hate poetry because i think it is pointless and to touchy feely for me. Whitman is I suppsoe the lesser of two evils when it comes to poetry though and that is why I would probaly listen to or read his poems more than I would emily dickinsons but I wouldnt listen or read wither of them unless forced to, by my teachers...

Emily Dickinson Criticism

Emily Dickinson was an eccentric lady who for the majority of her life was a recluse. She never went outside or talked to people but rather she stayed bottled up. Most of the poetry Dickinson wrote was about her observations on human life. She could not right about what she did or felt because she stayed in side so much, so rather than a poem about talking to a man she writes about watching a man and woman talk. This fact gives her poems a very distinct personality to them, they are pretty unique in how they are written. The poem He ate and drank the precious words is poem written by Emily Dickinson. The poem HE ate and drank the precious words is a poem about a man who presume listen to a speaker, maybe a patriot or maybe a clergymen. The man is overcome by the words of the speaker. He forgets his troubles, he is poor and frail, "He danced along the dingy days,"(Dickinson) as the story says. "And this bequest of wings
Was but a book. What liberty
A loosened spirit brings!"(Dickinson) This last sentence makes me think that the man is more taken by a reverend or a pastor than by like a patriotic person. Dickinson says " Was but a book..."(Dickinson) Whenever I think of something having a life changing event and there is a book involved I assume the Bible. Especially at the time that Dickinson wrote this the country was greatly religious. Everyone went to church and prayed. There was no Bloom's Criticism on this poem so I do not have much to compare my criticism too. Dickinson used really good imagery, when she wrote "He danced along the dingy days," (Dickinson) I can imagine the person who is always happy and go-lucky even when the day for you or I is supper crummy. That person who can always see the silver lining to any cloud. I suppose you could also think that the poem is a man getting drunk. Since Dickinson mentions spirits so many times as well as how he ate and drank them. The man could be forgetting his troubles just as easy with liquor in his hand as he could by becoming motivated and captivated by a cause form a speaker. Though in my opinion this poem was meant to be taken more literal and really does not have a hidden meaning like some other poets poems always seemed to *cough* Whitman *cough* Dickinson was a very straight foreword poet who just liked to write about her little observations that she made from his window. Dickinson had some pretty cool poems and pretty interesting observations about people and human nature from how she saw the people react with each other.

Dickinson, Emily. The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson. Boston: Little, Brown, 1924; Bartleby.com, 2000. www.bartleby.com/113/. [March 23, 2011].