blog 4

I feel like the song “Poppa was a rolling stone” by the Temptations is a song describing Boy Boy. Boy Boy left his wife Eva and there three kids Hanna, Pearl, and Plum.

http://www.imeem.com/latrice920/music/qKKLYIIu/the_temptations_poppa_was_a_rolling_stone/

Blog 3: Streetcar Named Desire

In my opinion the second actress does a better job of bringing Blanche from page to screen. I feel this way because the setting of the play was close to how I would have imagined it. Also the dress and tiara she was wearing gave her the look of a woman with no where else to turn trying to portray a wealthy classy woman. This was also evident in the way she carried herself. The second clip was also a better description of the quote Tennessee Williams. You could see that Blanche is desperate for any help that can be given when she runs to the phone and goes into a panic while the operator waits.

Blog Topic for the Week of August 29

One of the major differences between Modernism and Postmodernism is that modernism is the belief that there is only one right way to do something, and postmodernism is the belief that there is no one set way of doing things. In the video "The Obsolete Man" the character of the judge helps me to understand these differences clearly. The judge a modernist believed that any person that thought different form the state was wrong and possibly crazy. He states during the librarian’s trial that there is no religion since the state has proven that there was not. The judge feels that everyone has one purpose and one purpose only and since there were no more libraries, there was no need or point to have librarians. Also the fact that the state got rid of all books including the Bible further lets me know that they want to eliminate all free thought, which just leaves the beliefs of the state which are modernism beliefs. The judge and the video as a whole showed me how closed minded modernism was.