"Inspirational Information"

It is  a jolly, feel good song, and it makes me want to jig.
The bass guitar makes the song have the jolly happy feeling.
The singer used a significant chorus to fill the spaces between his singing, and the evident base were the choices made by the artists in this song.

Painting evaluation

Subject: Two working men
Occasion: A Mexican Revolution
Audience: The working class
Speaker: A working man
Purpose: To she how hard people work, and will never move up the social ladder
Meaning: The working man will work long, hard hours for very little pay. This man will also have very little potential to move forward in the social world, or the working world. This is shown by the man being stretched out looking practically exhausted with the rolling of the painting making it look like it is going on forever.

The process of song making

1. They go for the approach where they just make the song; then go back through the song to dissect it and look for ways to change it.
2. My process for writing a paper is to brainstorm for 10-15 minutes about the topic, and then I write a few sentences. After writing I go through the paper and proofread for errors and decide where I can improve my paper.

Listening journal #2 and Art journal #1

Nostalgia: The desire for the good things in the past.

It makes me imagine an old ice cream parlor, with red and white walls, classic milkshakes, in the 1960's .

My childhood makes me remember doing what I wanted to do when I wanted to do it. I felt free fro the most part, and I remember the smell of crisp spring air, listening to the birds, and the occasional car passing by.

The major contributing factor to poverty is the lack of business ideas, skills, and opportunities.

The art relays poverty in a negative tone because the people look pale and sad, also they have metal bars behind them making it appear as they were trapped in poverty.

The artist shows us that poverty is bad because they seem unhappy and trapped.

The bars behind the family shows us how they seem to be trapped and are negatively affected by it.

Response to article #1

The article written by Divakaruani argues to ban goods that are produced by child laborers. He believes this will solve more then one problem. I completely disagree with his argument. It will do more harm then good. Sure it will cause less child labor throughout the world, and that is a good thing. It is sort of like the American illegal immigrant circumstance, there is the fact that we need these people as a part of our economy but we do not want them in our country. We need the cheap labor for our goods, but we do not want to pay for children to work in horrible conditions. This causes a give or take relationship in which we are benefiting from. The USA does not have the financial means to produce their own goods, and it will hurt the world economies even further. Not to mention that it will cause the prices for these goods to go up substantially. His logic is poor behind all of his thinking, and banning goods produced by children would do more bad than good.

Listening Journal #1

Both of my facts influence my opinion because the both make it difficult to comprehend the lyrics, and the vocals sound sloppy. The main correlation is the difficulty to understand the singers. I have some bias towards this song because it is not the type of music I am accustom to, and it sounds foreign to my ears.