magazines

What i observed from my magazine was that it was mainly about hip hop, trends, and fashion. It talks about album releases, updates on rappers, up and coming rappers, hip hop in pop culture, hottest trends most seen, and a million advertisements about shoes and clothes. The culture this magazine tries to show is a modern, music loving, hanging out culture. i used my seeing to make connections and i used my touch to buy the magazine to see it and my hearing to hear the music they talked about to further connect with the magazine. My magazine was definitly different than the ones my classmates brought in mostly because of genre, topics covered, and culture.

page 94 # 1 + 2

1. When i examined the room the first thing that i saw was the bike in the middle of the room because who keeps a bike in their room in like the middle that's dangerous. I don't know if those are individual cards on the wall or wall paper but that caught my eye because it's awesome looking and pippen on the wall as well as the reflective floor and puerto rican emblem on the bed head. I notice the bike has some age to it because the paints peeling off and if i had to guess he's probably a cyclist because of the shape and style of the bike. As for the Scottie pippen poster i noticed this kid is probably living in the 90's because of the players he has up and the shoes he has and the movies he watches. The puerto rican emblem and American basketball players and family pictures are all cultural references. based on the details i can infer the kid is puerto rican but lives in the united states and loves to play basketball and rides his bike to the park every day. I just feel like he lives in New York because of his love of basketball and the type of shoes he wears. he definitely loves sports in general because of all the trophies he has and the baseball cards on his wall. He loves his family back home and still misses them based on all the pictures he has hanged around his room. Osorio's style is very detailed and precise i feel like he wants the viewer to look deep into the picture to find out what he's really trying to say and all the noticeable details are just diversions.

2. He's been pretty good at capturing a teenage boy's room all the details are there. For example every guy I've ever known has some type of poster of their favorite athlete lying around or a random basketball you're ready to trip over. Another example ? the movie posters and family pictures. Something that struck me as fantasy is the golden fists attached to the bed i feel like it would've been cool in his eyes. Another thing is the reflective floor because that just doesn't happen. The differences between fantasy and fiction when it comes to a guys room are if it looks expensive it's probably fantasy or if it's over the top it's probably fantasy or if you have a million little golden fists it's probably fantasy.

page 91 # 1 + 2

1.What she finds magically seductive about it is the use of imagination it takes to envision such a world. To contemplate the world of a flea or the view of a giant "all cast spells that take us far beyond the realm of everyday living into exotic landscapes accessible only through the imagination". Cole's essay showed me all the living creatures that inhabit my face and arms and bed that i forgot were even there that are now freaking me out but she also showed me the different ways animals like fleas and flies view the same things that we do. For example, a bug leaning over a puddle is the same as us reaching over a cliff to pick a berry. Something that will change the way i think is the fact that if i was to ever become a giant my bones would shatter with only one step or that a flea is like a mini superman the way it can carry an object 160,000 times its weight and jump really high. I also find it cool how a mouse can survive falling off a cliff where a rat couldn't because of its surface area and size. Knowing that a fly could die if he stepped into my soup makes me feel bad for the guy but in the end i still don't like flies so he can go drown in a puddle. some facts that won't change the way i think are that if a planet was shaped like a teacup it would still change in to a circular planet or that flea superman can't actually fly through the air like a speeding bullet because frankly I've never liked superman so flea superman can go fall in a puddle and planet sizes aren't my main concern.

2. I think Cole ends her essay like that to make the reader grasp the concept of how we can't grasp the concept of the world we can't see to an extent she can't explain but he could. If she had paraphrased the guy instead of quoting his whole paragraph it probably would of looked better because she would have successfully integrated his paragraph creatively with her concept. If she would have ended the essay with the first paragraph i think it would've had a more successful impact on the reader because in the beginning i was like what ? but in the end i would of been like damn you changed my way of thinking. she footnotes Bodanis on page 89, and Humphrey on 86 then she references Haldane on 85,86, and 87, Frost on 88 and Margulis and Sagan on 89.

page 42 number 1 and 2 for writing and rhetoric

1. The way i would describe peter menzel's pictures to someone who has not seen them is unbelievable. One picture shows a wealthy, middle class family surrounded by food of all sorts. They're sitting around their living room with the floor and coffee table covered in food. They're a family of four 2 kids a wife and a husband and they're Japanese. They're all sitting around looking at the photographer as he takes their picture. The Other photograph shows a family of 6 from the Darfur province of Sudan. They're sitting outside their tent home on a blanket with their food on the blanket in front of them. The area looks like a desert and very hot and the kids and mom look very skinny. The tent is not to big maybe big enough for a family of 4. The crazy thing about the pictures is seeing all the food a small family eats in a week compared to how small a large family eats in that same week. Some specific words i would use to characterize what i see is damn!,wow,really?,hungry,happy,desperate. What stands out to me is each families diverse choices of food. In the mendoza family you see a lot of vegetables, fruits, and very natural healthy stuff. Where as in the Fernandez family there's a lot more pizza, and microwavable stuff and things you can make quick. In the ukita family i can infer the dad has a high paying job and is able to easily maintain his family not only by the food but because of the way they're dressed. I can also tell that a lot of the food they don't need but got more because they can. The mom probably works as well and has a nice job. The Ukita picture suggests a story of struggle from the dad's part to pay for his education when he was young and he spent nights working to pay his tuition but when he finally finished he got a scholarship to graduate school and worked in his field while he payed off the rest of his debts. He met his wife and got happily married after 2 years of going out. The wife comes from a nice middle class family and never had to suffer or struggle to survive. They have 2 kids now and one of them is in a great college in japan studying marketing and the other daughter has 2 years left in high school and plans on majoring in journalism. My appreciation honestly is not affected by faiths writing.

2. The mendoza family is from Guatemala the fernandez family is from the united states. The room in the fernandez picture is dark and elegant the mendoza family is outside with more bright and natural colors. The fernandez family has junk food the mendoza family likes their veggies. There are 5 people in the fernandez family there are 6 in the mendoza family. The mendoza family are dressed in traditional clothing. The fernandez families just plain and regular. A full plate definitly varies in these pictures in the mendoza family a full plate is probably some vegetables rice with some fruit in the fernandez family a full plate is a bunch of stuff piled together. The mendoza family eats more traditional food based on their country and so the the fernandez family. The mendoza family lives in a farm area so they have more fruits and vegetables the fernandez family live in america so all they're going to eat is random easy make stuff. d'aluisios text is more informative when he explains the prices of foods because it really opens your eyes to see what different cultures spend in a week and how they eat their meals.