What Nick Really Thinks

              In chapter 5 several key events occur that make Nick change his opinion of Gatsby, Daisy, and Jordan. To start off with in the previous chapters Nick has thought of Gatsby as credible to a certain extent. Nick trusts him, but not fully. For example in chapter 4 when Gatsby confesses he is from the West Nick questions " where from in the West"? This implies Nick is uncertain of the truth to what Gatsby says. Again we see Nick's doubt surface while they are going to Gatsby's house, Nick questions Gatsby about what kind of business he does. Gatsby replies in an ambiguous way by saying ' I was in the drug business, and then I was in the Oil business". As the chapter commences and Gatsby has his meeting with Daisy, Nick sees Gatsby act strangely. He is reclusive, acts awkwardly, and is unconfident. He even nearly breaks Nick's clock, something that the Gatsby Nick remembers would never do. Nick sees the true Gatsby that has hidden under a confident mask this whole time and he reacts by Judging Gatsby's true colors. For example he conveys Gatsby's actions as bosy when Gatsby orders Klipspringer to play the piano.

              Also in chapter 5 Nick's opinion of Daisy changes as well. At first Nick views Gatsby as shallow and bitter. Her willingness to gossip with Nick about the butler shows that she is shallow and the mean snarky comments towards Tom show her bitterness over the affair and brutal treatment she receives. In this chapter though we see Daisy as hopeful. This is a Daisy from the past which we can tell by Gatsby's initial excitement but towards the end of the chapter we learn that she is still changed from Gatsby's expectations.

              Finally we learn quite a bit about Jordan up to this point. She starts off being superficial, and kind of ditzy in the beginning but towards this point we realize that she is quite manipulative and a lier. For example Nick notes her tendency to choose people she feels she can control. Nick also tells about Jordan's acts of lying which seem a little to numerous to be counted as coincidence. With all of this newly found information we can see the true characters of the Great Gatsby

This land is my land blog 2/7/13

In the song This Land is my Land Woody Guthrie is describing a land which he says "belongs to you and me". In the last fiew lines he sees a sign that says no tresspassing but he indirectly says that he doesn't agree with the sign by saying  "But on the other side it didn't say nothing, That side was made for you and me". This quote along with his change in tone of the last three stanzas show that his main purpose is found here. Upon futher reiveiw we can see that he is against the materialistic and possesive nature people are adopting. His view is that if people claim the land as their property it leaves others "Hungry" and wondering if "

this land made for you and me". Generaly I agree with his view although I believe that a

BP make things right

Video #1 Emeril Lagasse

Propaganda technique- Testimonial, hes not a scientist and hes doesn't know if BP has been cleaning up the gulf to the full extent that they need to.

LF- Argumentum ad ignorantiam- because we don't know what BP is doing to clean up the gulf Emeril Lagasse could be telling us anything.

Because the person trying to convince us has no knowledge of BP's actions in the gulf so he can't accurately describe the situation.

Video #2 Olympic athletes

Propaganda technique- Transfer because BP is show as being behind american athletes so they must be behind america. Also the BP logo is displayed right next to the american logo in both ads which supports the idea that they are with america.

LF- non sequitur- just because olympic athletes work hard to overcome challenges doesn't mean that BP is a morally good company for supporting US olympic athletes.

Video #3 America

Propaganda technique- Plain Folk- they shows average day americans that work for BP so that we know that BP supports america.

LF- Half truths- they don't tell you about all the bad things that came from the largest natural disaster in american history.

Video #4- Tony Heyward

Propaganda technique- Card Stacking- By leaving out all the negative facts and focusing on what BP is doing to help the Gulf area BP gives a greater sense of effort which is aimed at making america like them again.

LF- Argumentum ad ignorantiam- because we don't know the facts they are able to stack the deck and make it seem like they are doing more help than harm


Video #5-Gulf tourism

Propaganda- Glittering Generalities- By using words like best, good, and great BP is able to say that the gulf is better than before without specifying what they did to help clean up.

LF- Half truths- Because they just tell us the good things we don't really know what bad happened

Chain Gang by Sam Cooke

             


              The song "Chain Gang" is about american uniformity and how our ideals of the american lifestyle, the daily grind and other common perceptions are bad

2+2=5

The theme of this song is that we dont see the world around us because society pressures us into a single view. If we are told something is a certain way long enough then we will end up At the end of the song, one should not conform to society's  (Or that even the most resolute people can be influenced.) the speaker uses words like "maybe not" to show that he is now very confused.
The theme of the song is that

Black Bird

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This song is about african americans during the civil rights era. The black birds gaining freedom by learning how to fly showing that the oppresion of civil ostrication has been lifted. He learns to sing and gains his freedom by speaking out. The single effect of the song is that we should fight for what we believe and this will give us freedom.

sign laguage

               This story is about how the Union is holding the guy back. In the end he asks the girl out on a date and she agrees. He moves up in his life and he is happy because even though he left a job that he likes he has a job now that he likes even more. In the end he is happy because he leaves the Union and gets a girlfriend