Musical Mayhem - 0 views
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As an upcoming Teacher, I will teach in the inner-city school system. My students will learn that regardless of what society labels the city they come from and how society expects them to be just another statistic of “the hood”, they are someone and they will be someone successful if they so choose. I will give them support, care, and a chance to see themselves as people and NOT just another statistic or number among the uneducated. I will share with them my willingness to help them achieve despite of the surroundings and experiences - if they were negative.
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anonymous on 14 Apr 08As a recent participant of this blog, I have to say that this is one of the most inspiring comments anyone could put up; even though it had absolutley nothinng to do with the blog. I feel like this because I was once one of those inner-city children trying to make it. And even though I haven't made it yet, i think it's nice to know that there are people oout there preparing the next generation of inner-city children to make it.
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I enjoyed the article “Understanding Comics” by Scott McCloud. It was entertaining, funny, a little complicated, but true. I agree that “we” do program ourselves to believe that a representational symbol is the actual object or person. Take a look at how street signs have an affect on us. If the word Yield was in the red octagon with white letters, we would STOP instead of Yield. Why? Because we would associate the symbol and not read the sign. Think about it!! We are so used to seeing the red octagon as STOP that we don’t read the signs, we just see them. It would be the same as taking a minute to comprehend what we are actually seeing versus what the word says when we have to read the words red, blue, green, yellow out loud. It will be difficult. If we took more time to examine, read, and process information then our lives would be much smoother to live.
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This is a very true statement and the first thing that i thought about was Prince. We have programed ourselves to know that when we see the weird symbol that represents Prince, to know it's Prince. Even when it comes to good and bad; something blue would be associated with good while something bad would be associated with red or black.
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