Graceful and Small

In English class we needed to do a collage that illustrates our selves. Each of us included things that represent our hobbies and ourselves. My collage reflects how a Polaroid camera shows my love for photography and how I want to keep photography in my heart, the primarily thing I want to study in the future. Then the drawing of the Polaroid camera reflects the different photos and images showing my family, my hobbies, and things that I enjoy looking at and talk about.

I chose different objects and people such as drawing one polaroid camera, image of a cup of Starbucks, a photo of the cast of the X factor 2012, a girl dressed as a panda, The Beatles, my family, a map of the world, my best friends from both countries Peru and Panama, myself when I was little, a photo with my brother, a photo of me swimming at the swimming gala, and my nickname written by myself. These things represent a lot for me and have a meaning inside of them instead of being just colorful pictures and drawings you can find in the Internet. I chose them because they are the ones who make me the most happy when I think of and also because make me remember that I that’s the way I was raised by my self it was by developing my own identity.

Each of the things I mention has that one particular meaning on them. The cup of Starbucks represents my addiction to Starbucks food and products I loved Starbucks smell makes me feel free. The cast of the X factor 2012 shows how entertained I am by watching reality shows and see what people can do in real life, different talents that everyone wants to see. The girl dressed like a panda is my favorite animal and also combines the immaturity and cuteness that it is know becoming mature at this period of my life. One of the important ones The Beatles they show passion for old music, sincerely I love hearing old music in the car is so funny and interesting and my favorites are the Beatles.

Also photos from my best friends in Panama and Peru. They show my identity because they are the ones who know the best of myself and the ones who I can count on or to vent with. There’s a photo when I was little. Represents the evolution since the beginning to who am I right now. Adding to the photo when I was a little baby there is also a photo with my brother when we were little. It shows the siblinghood and powerful twin reality and how we love our selves and still in fights but never hate each other.

Also there is a photo of me in the Met’s swimming gala. It represents the perfection and athletic I am. The perfection because how I dive in the water shows a lot of precision and concentration wanting to get everything right that’s how I am, and I also can be very competitive for that reason. The athletics because I always try new sports and I really like them I can’t live without doing some exercise. The sports keep me away from education for a while they are one of the important hobbies in my entire life. Then, comes my family they represent ascendance and culture the world map pointing on Spain and Italy are my families ascendance we considered our selves part of both countries, that’s why I have a Italian passport, but we still are surely known %100 percent Peruvians. Finally the most important one my nickname, it is the most important one because I don’t like too much my name it’s two names in one and people only consider it as one, sometimes I get mad because they start to call me Ana. That’s the reason my name is really important to me I love it and sounds like the real me, not too classy.

Finally, in my collage I showed different aspects of the use of art especially its elements and principles. In the principles I had the idea to use a unity and emphasis. Unity because all the images and drawings connected together into one piece. They had a harmony, which created a sense of completeness and enthusiasm. The emphasis because the nucleon of the Polaroid reflected all the images in the collage, the one who cached the viewers attention and was cut in the center to show that difference of color and material between the camera and the images. In the elements my collage contained color, space, and specially shape. The color were shown allover the collage especially were a mix of pastel colors like girly colors. The space was approach in all the collage and showed depth and feeling into the collage made it significant and people see it in a heart felt manner. And finally the shape was shown everywhere circles and geometric figures were formed for the format of the pictures and showed a connection between them that make the work awesome.

Native Americans Lose Their Hope of Opportunity From Young

This image summarizes the whole purpose of this radio show, this picture shows how Arnold needed to make the most important decision in his life, stay on the reservation or find a opportunity.

Living in a reservation is really difficult. Since the 1800s when the Europeans came to America, they forced the Native Americans to move away from their land so the Europeans take advantage of their land. Since then, native americans have been living in different reservations, suffering because of poverty, and hope to get out of the reservations and have a better life without betraying their culture. The Native Americans are living different conditions, their hope but they simply give up because the whites are letting them know that they are piece of garbage.

Native American teenagers are being influenced in their schools. They are being treated badly and thats the reason primarily all of them finish up drunk going to gambling casinos doing nothing for their life’s . Majority of the Native Americans who live on reservations end up influencing their kids by demonstrating there wasn’t any luck for them of life out of the reservation and there wouldn’t any opportunity for their kids too.

Mary a young girl living on a reservations says, “I wanted to become a writer and I wanted to write. Don’t laugh, but I wanted to write romantic novels. I always loved to read them, but kept them hidden so people would not find them or know that I like them. You know I am a teenager from a reservation, we don’t accomplish our dreams.They treat us like garbage letting destroy our opportunities” she also said “I lost hope. I didn’t think that I would be able to write books. I didn’t go to college. I may have just faded away. Living so long in a reservation, I must have gotten real depressed. My whole family was depressed. Depressed of failure, fear, and loss. I guess that just rubbed off on me.” and last of all she expressed “After that most of us don’t know what to do with ourselves. Half the time we can’t go to collage because we may not be able to have enough money. Then there is leaving the family, or helping out the family. So most of us stay at home, take a job, and leave our dreams behind”
Thank very much Mary

Mr P, an expierenced white school teacher, teaching on the reservation says, “I guess that is to reform students so they will be able to assimilate to the American way of life. It was an idea used long ago around the 1900’s taking their cultures and traditions to civilize the Native Americans. So the best way to take away their culture is influencing the children” he also affirmed “ell, all my years as a teacher, I have not found such a bright student like Junior. He was thoughtful and kind and deserved the world. When he was expelled from school I wanted to help him succeed, and that the only way to do that was to get away from the reservation. In the reservation a lot of people are alcoholic living in poverty and have dropped out of school, so an opportunity to follow your dreams will not come true in a reservation. If he were to stay he would have ended up like the rest of them. But he had an opportunity to get out of there. And I just wanted to help him to realize that he will find hope the farther away he is from the reservation”

More on the topic of Mr. P, he may have been one of the teachers whose main role in life was to teach young students how to give up on their culture, but he is different from the other teachers. Most teachers in reservations do not encourage their students to get up and do anything, Mr. P decided that this was wrong and decided to help one kid change his life. If teachers would help there students in working towards their goals, more kids will be able to find more jobs ending poverty in reservations. Making a lot of Native Americans regain hope for their life because it is never to late. And one kid who is already on the road to finding hope is none other than Junior Spirit.

Young student Arnold Spirit, stated that, ” can honestly say that I was pretty scared. I was going to a school where Native Americans weren’t really welcome. My tribe thinks that I have betrayed them for going there, and my best friend just turned into my worst enemy. And it is pretty lonely over there. Everyone gives me this look like I am some sort of alien from another planet. No one talks to me; they don’t see me like I am some sort of a ghost. And apart from all of that, I think I was pretty brave to be the only Native American going to a white school. No one has ever thought of doing it, but I don’t think that I am going to get an award for it” and he also explained “In the begging I wasn’t really treated fairly and then there was the time where I got a big zit on my nose. That only happens when I get lonely, so I really needed to get some friends. The first friend I made in Reardan was Penelope and then Gordy became my friend also. So I guess you could say that in due time, I did have some real good friends that will always have my back no matter what, if I open up and let people into my life a little bit” Thank you very much Arnold

“A Strong mind always hopes, and has always cause to hope”
-Thomas Carlyle
That all for today fokes, this is met public radio, history on the go

Sources:
http://www.nrcprograms.org/site/PageServer?pa…
http://www2.nau.edu/~jar/INAR.html
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http://arnoldspirit.wordpress.com/2011/06/08/…