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2003 6 October :: 6.44am
:: Mood: sick
Art
Well, I had my art exam today. It went okay. I think I'll get a good score on it. For some reason I think the prof likes me. Maybe he sees potential, I don't know.
So I've got like 3 hours before the CPR starts so I figured I should do some homework. I've already got the chapters read for my history class. I don't have my books with me to revise that paper. It requires an actual computer instead of these stupid email stations to do any work for my computer class. I need a TV to watch Recess for diversity. And last but not least I need a small child to experiment on for my Psych class. I don't have any of those things, so what is left? Art.
We have to do these formal analysis thingys. Such as analyze color, shape, line, space, time and motion in different works around campus. Since I don't feel like leaving Kirkhof, and one of the allowable pieces is right here, I guess I should do that one. So all of you bear with me, this is my creative process.
Self (look, I learned how to use html, yeah me) by Maryann Schmidt
Self seems to be an abstract of the artist. It is a painting on a flat piece of canvas. It features the subject of the painting (which I assume to be the painter) sitting in a chair on the left side of the painting. She appears to be sitting on a balcony outdoors. It is a sunny day in the painting with a blue sky. It is hard to determine however because much of where there is should be sky, there is a black curtain of some kind. The painting features many formal elements including color, texture, balance and motion.
The painter uses contrasting colors effectively in this painting. The main component of this is the placement of the black curtain behind the subject. Contrasting the black curtain, the woman's coat is a light sea green. Both of these colors contrast, but they also help lend definition to the third color element in this area, the red chair. THe chair that the subject is sitting is a bright red and clearly contrasts bothe the black curtain and the sea green, fur lined coat of the subject.
The painter has chosen to give texture to the black curtain. Through the use of light reflections on the curtain one can clearly see the waves indicating motion in the curtain.
The balance of the painting is assymetrical. It features the subject in her chair in the left side of the painting. All the major content is als relating to that side of the painting. By contrast, the rigth side of the painting seem empty. With the exception of what I assume is the subjects hat, and the sky, the right side of the painting is virtually empty.
Implied motion is prevalent in the painting. The subject appears to be drawing her right leg close to the chair. this is evident by the fact that there is skin exposed between the bottom of her pant leg and the top of her sock. In addition to the leg, the wind also apears to be blowing. The curtain in the background appears to be billowing somewhat. It does not look as if it has ripples merely where it is resting.
Well, that is about it. I hope that will get me through most of the required two pages for the paper. It is hard to formally analyze a piece of artwork without trying to determine the meaning behind it. Well this entry keeps getting longer and longer. It will stop eventually. Well it will stop...........................................................................................................
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2003 3 October :: 8.55pm
:: Mood: content
:: Music: "In The Light" DC Talk
Again
I saw it again. I heard it again. All those familiar things that she used to do and say to me. I see, she knows I heard it. It was to someone else. He was a little more obvious about it, but she tries to make it so I don't know. But I know.
The same reactions. What was once mine should always be mine kind of reaction, a jealous reaction. Then I picture them together. Not together together, just together in a certain situation. And I just get more and more angry.
I always have felt that way towards anyone who was like that with her. I didn't like anyone she choose, well except for one. I know that they treated her right. But for the first time i was finally able to accept who she was with. I got outside information that said that they were decent, despite the seemingly contradictory evidence I got from her. I accepted that. I didn't accept how she treated them though, it wasn't fair, and now I wish I hadn't been a part of that.
But all these feelings just flow out of me normally, always have and I thought they always will. I can't shrug off and ignore those things that happen, but I can control myself. I can let those feelings go. And I did tonight. No one believes me, how powerful He can be. How He can help. But those feelings are gone now. Now all I feel is pity for them, because I know they can know, but they don't. He is awesome, that is all I can say.
Shout out to all you kiddies out there. Brianna, you should come tomorrow, celebrate your roots. Jessa, don't get down, be who you are and not what we expect you to be. And don't worry, all good things come to an end, if it is truly the end. Peace out.
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2003 15 September :: 8.11pm
Yeah, sure I knw it looks stupid. But hey, I need to be able to see it when I'm at school.
CPR tonight, I hope it will put me back wher I belong.
I had a First Draft of History paper due today. I think I did pretty good. One of the twins read my paper, but some things were not as in depth as I would like them to be. I'm sure Dr. Smither will totally obliterate my paper. There is no clear thesis, I did not do a good job of abstracting the works, and my conclusion sucked. Oh well. I think I did better than the paper I had to critque. YOu couldn't even get an idea of what she was trying to prove, she hadn't sited anything, and the paper was filled with spelling and grammatical errors, the like I've never seen since spell check was invented. I know I'm harsh, but it's a 300 level class, c'mon.
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2003 14 August :: 6.12pm
:: Mood: calm
:: Music: "Mrs. Robinson"- Paul Simon
Yuppies
Those stupid people on the East Coast. After I found out it wasn't a terrorist attack all I could do was laugh. I appreciate my creature comforts, however, I can live without them. Ohh, your power went out, wow, big deal. That's the great thing about living in a "hick" town. I've been through sporadic power outages. Some as long as a week. A high toleration for life without those creature comforts.
It kind of reminds you of how small and insignificant we are. All the things we construct, all the things we try to conquer. All out great cities, all our beautiful buildings, all powerless. Now is the time to take stock in nature, the beauty of it. The simplicity of it. Naturalism.
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2003 10 August :: 8.50pm
"The argument stated about being "against nature" is quite frankly absurd. ALL studies on the topic have shown that nearly every species on earth has about a 10% homosexual population. " –PaulR295
Is this a random phenomena? I would have to be for this large a percentage to show up in all species on earth. A brief evolutionary and genetics lesson if you please: Homosexuality in the general animal population, if genetic, would quickly be extinguished. Homosexuality is a trait that runs contrary to natural reproduction. If animals were homosexual it would seem to indicate that they would only have sex with others of the same sex in their species. Therefore these "homosexual" animals would never reproduce. If they never reproduce, how can they pass on their homosexual genes? Now I do have to grant to you the idea of bisexuality inherent in animals. I’ve seen squirrels try to have sexual relations with a power transformer before, it does not mean that the squirrel is irreversibly attracted to a power transformer, it’s just that it feels good (or felt, considering the electrical shock quickly extinguished the squirrel’s life). However lending credence to bisexuality in this argument can have no other conclusion that homosexuality is not genetic.
"b/c people are finally being able to realize that gay people are a very real part of our society and it is our duty as Americans to accept it." –Tony
Marijuana smokers and drug addicts are also "very real" parts of our society. Is it our duty to accept their "lifestyle" too? I know that goes to a certain extreme, however, the American people don’t have a duty to do anything that they disagree with.
"Perhaps the best evidence to support the fact that being gay is genetic comes from BYU.BYU had a scandal were they took gay students and they forced them to buy homosexual things that aroused them like gay porn.And then they gave them electro-shock therapy,making them watch the porn and shocking them everytime they were aroused.the results...all of the students still came out gay." –future world dictator
Behavior modification therapy is not always 100% effective. Psychologists have repeatedly tried to influence peoples’ behavior in this manner, and they have found that the mind can endure excruciating punishment inflicted on the body without changing. For example, the POW’s from WWII, the Korean Conflict, and Vietnam, they were subjected to beatings and starvation, and while some of them caved into the pressure to renounce their actions, others did not, because they had set their minds to it. Gay teenagers are very persistent. I do however agree with you on your point about Republicans and their hypocrisy on states’ rights.
"This is how we are treating homosexuals. We are denying their rights and even forgetting they are human…..But to deny the average middle class human being their rights and respect is just wrong"
–Armedatwar
Please, somebody give me one instance where the law is denying homosexuals their rights to be homosexuals? I do agree that there is discrimination out there against homosexuals, however, as long as the law remains blind to this, there is nothing we can do legally to stop people’s discriminatory feelings. Plus homosexuals are not the average middle class human being. Homosexuals, on average, have higher incomes that most middle class people. They tend to live in large cities. If we want to talk average middle class citizens are predominantly white, married, with a minivan, children, and live in suburbia.
"It's great that you think that gays should have the same rights as straights in all cases because they are EQUAL under the Constitution; that is very true. But, why then are you against seeing homosexuality on TV? If the treatment for gays and straights should be the same , as you rightfully say, shouldn't both be allowed to be shown on TV? There are TONS of acts of heterosexual affection shown on TV every day. But homosexual affection shouldn't be allowed? Can you explain yourself here, cuz that doesn't make sense." –PaulR295
Now this is just straight our homosexual propaganda you are asking for. Why, if 10% of the population is homosexual, should 50% of the affection, or sex, on television be of homosexual nature? At this point you are revealing the true nature of the homosexual movement. That is, we have been oppressed, accept us, and because we think we have been oppressed we want 50% of everything. Why, only 10% of the population is homosexual? The Gay Rights movement is no longer about attaining equality it is about obtaining special rights. If I could give it a historical context it would be the Korean Conflict. MacArthur was told to just fight back until South Korea was reestablished, but he pushed, and was eventually defeated.
I know that some of you may be misinformed on the facts. Of course I also know that some of you downright, out and out, disagree with me. That’s fine. This is America and we both have that right. I have a right to object to homosexuality. And while it may seem that when conservatives talk about this issue in broad contexts, they seem like heartless bigots. To be honest, I have worked and went to school with quite a few homosexuals. I find them to be remarkable individuals to endure everything that they do. I feel it is my duty to my God, to love that person. My love for that person has nothing to do with their behavior, which I happen to object to. Thank You for taking the time to consider my statements.
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