WorldLit: Remembering Babylon Project
You've received the assignment, now you need to write and publish your proposal. In 200 -250 words, discuss your project. Which concept will you explore? What questions will you have to consider? Which sections of the text relate to the concept? Will you make connections to your own experience? What format will work best for presenting your explorations? Will you work with a partner? Be sure to include:
-a couple relevant quotes from the text
-several questions which develop the concept
-description of materials you may use; design elements
Read and comment on others' ideas. Your goal is to help classmates think about their concepts and projects more deeply. If you know of useful resources, let them know. You may have to visit the blog a couple times to do this second part.
posted by Randy Barnett @ 2:20 PM
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margie wants to explore "how race is constructed" what it means to be black or white.... and she wants to do this through maybe like photos or actually maybe like articles or comic strips, it sounds weird but it could be tight...
(im not sure if we're supposed to talk in 1st or 3rd person so i just kinda followed "matthew zack" on that one)
(jasmin+kyla)We will be exploring how we map SF using the restaurants that we attend frequently. We will explore the deeper meanings of their locations, price ranges, and food types. To present this we will create a poster-sized map of San Francisco highlighting the restaurants with pictures that we will take around the city. Along with this we will do a one page write-up explaining our ideas.
Quetsions: What do the areas with no restaurants represent? Why do some neighborhoods contain more restaurants/why do we stick to the familiar?
Parts of text: TBA
ya, about that colin...maybe you should take a shower
I will be writing about what makes one person respected or popular and another person the opposite. I will be selecting either two movie stars or two sports teams and compare and contrast why they respected or popular/opposite. I will also include some sort of highlarious drawing which will include stick figures, illustrating the main arguments for my paper.
hey jazyla, be sure to include donut world on 9th and irving, and on 24th and church. There are no other places in the city that are open 24 hours a day that you can get a full meal (with drink) for less than 4 dollars.
My proposal is to create a painting which depicts the way in which people act according to perceived social norms. Specifically, I plan to examine the way skin color and the issue of colonist vs. colonized affects the treatment of the “aborigine” in this novel, Gemmy Fairley. Gemmy is seen as a savage, not only because of his decrepit appearance, but also due to his relations with actual aborigines. Thus he is looked down upon my the majority of the settlement.
In my project, I would like to explore this subject further, and show the direct impact of skin color on one’s social standing in authority; those with a darker skin color, such as Gemmy, are looked down upon by those with lighter skin color, who see themselves as more civilized, and therefore, more intelligent, capable, and ultimately, human. I would like to do this in the form of a painting, which will depict a stage, representative of the world stage, what the rest of the world sees. At the top of the stage will be a pair of hands, and from the ends of the fingers will hang multiple strings, each attached to a part of a fragmented mannequin. The hands represent the colonist, the white man, who takes over land and rule from the colonized, those with darker skin. The colonists are able to manipulate the indigenous people with their more advanced technology and domineering demeanors. And thus, the natives become their puppets, swung this way and that, unsure of what they are being made to do and think, making them in effect broken apart and disconnected from their original selves.
sorry this is kim that just posted
dear colin/andrew/logan,
i think this is an excellent idea, and that you should question not only why you are connected to certain places, but how. Like, explore not only the memories, but also the surroundings that are around and within your places, and see how you can make connections to other places by comparing surroundings.
-kim
Dear Mar-g,
I think it would be amazing if you drew/wrote the comics and articles yourself, pretending to be diff ppl w/ diff views...
<3 kim
Dear Jazyla,
maybe you could talk about why you personally go to certain restaurants in addition to comparing different restaurants, and discussing why the general public goes to them. Does this have to do with memories, convinience, price, taste, etc.
<3kim
dear matt & zack
you should be like, zackew?, or something. regardless, i think your idea is fabulous. You should tie colors and contrast etc. into ideas/emotions towards certain places. And like, have certain colors represent certain emotions, and have overlapping colors, and maybe have contrast represent the intensity of the memory/place. i really like this idea for your project. and also, is it mapping matt's personal view of teh city, matt and zacks, or matts from zacks view...
<3 Kim
We will take the idea of place and map it out according to how each of us defines where we live. Through video, we will show how everyone has a different worldview, just how Gemmy sees Australia from different eyes compared to the Scottish settlers.
We will take places like, like our homes, to see how different people map their worlds differently.
Questions:
How can one place represent different things for different people?
Why do we need to “map” our worlds? Can you survive without a map?
I'm guessing the donut world comment was Andrew....but I think that project idea sounds fun about the restuarants, and you can show how food is really a univseral thing in that it connects ppl and such.....
Matt and Zack: How can color and contrast show how you map SF? it sounds really cool, but I was just wondering how you can explain it as mapping...
jazyla - have you considered interviewing people who go to those places to reveal an even deeper meaning?
emily - maybe you should do a place that is of personal significance to you, something that has changed since you were a kid.
Ya, Matt & Zack, I'm fellin the idea. Maybe include personal memories of places? DP for instance . . .
All the people who are trying to use pictures should do so, but develop them themselves
Jazyla, definently include Goat Hill Monday Nights.
And whoever said you can get a full meal at Happy Deez on 24th for less than $4, they charge $1.45 for a SMALL can of Arizona!
I'm going to explore the parallels between the American and Australian Natives' experiences, such as being raped of their lands, considered subhuman, experiencing extreme population declines, and succumbing to alcoholism. Damn Firewater! This would most likely be in the form of a paper, suggestions of any other way to this would be appreciated. I would use all those passages where they talk about how the settlers view the aborigines.
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