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My favorite revision strategy so far in class has been rereading my own work out loud to myself. This strategy highlights the errors in my writing. I can hear if something doesn’t sound right. This method also catches small grammatical mistakes. For example, leaving an I uncapitalized. These small mistakes are highlighted from reading my … [Read more…]

My goal for this paper is to write something that people can enjoy reading. I want it to be attention grabbing from the first sentence until the last. I want this paper to have flow as well. I think that flow is important in a paper because if a paper doesn’t have flow then it … [Read more…]

Part 1: Media that I hope to use in my final essay would be pictures of my experiences of beauty along with visuals that help me to talk about Armstrong, and the Book of Life video on “What is Art For?”. I think that inserting pictures from the video will help my description so that … [Read more…]

I think what Armstrong is trying to say is that when we view beauty in the sense that it is what makes an object more appealing to us, then it quickly can become not about the beauty of the object itself. For example if someone buys a brand new fancy red car, they can either … [Read more…]

One presentation that I was very captivated by was Max’s work on how music and visual art are so well intertwined. I enjoyed the visual of watching the different notes that were all different colors. The you tube video was a spectacular demonstration. It was almost meditative to watch. This was an interesting way of … [Read more…]

Jonah Lehrer starts his essay by talking about advances in science where for the first time we as humans were uncertain if we would be able to understand the cosmos as a whole. Things such as black holes and atoms are such wild ideas that it is hard to fully grasp the concept. There are certain … [Read more…]

The following quote is a short excerpt from this Ted Talk where the two artists discuss how they made a difference: “A visual statement was the thing that came to my mind immediately.  Like, would we just make something that looks so nice so that if people look at the place and they already know … [Read more…]