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Flowers in the Gutter, notebook page submission (I know it’s such a boring name)

January 25, 2025 / / 0 Comments

The fascinating book I will introduce today is, Flowers in the Gutter, by K.D. Gaddy. This book takes place from end of the World War I in 1932 to current, 2019. It is showing a different perspective of Edelweiss Pirates, who have usually seen as a aggressive, violent, and brutal teenagers, misunderstood as a group of gangs. This book shows how they beaten in EL-DE prison and how it changed their life, and their perspectives by quoting interview or biology of themselves. Fritz Theilen (27 September 1927 – 18 April 2012), Gertrud Koch (1 June 1924 – 21 June 2016), and Jean Jülich (18 April 1929-19 October 2011)

My first notebook page is about social issues presented throughout the book; war, low-employment, lack of freedom, discrimination towards Jews and Communists.

Fig 1. Social Issues; War, Discrimination, Low-employment, Lack of freedom

My second notebook page is about an central idea: Nazis are violent to people who does not support them. I derived this idea from social issue, Discrimination towards Jews/Communists.

Fig 2. Central Idea 1: Nazis are violent to people who does not support them

My third notebook page is about my first theme I found from part 1 to part 4 that, War has negative effect for innocent citizens. I evoked this idea from central idea 1, because it ties to the social issue of war, and emphasizes damadge of warfare, but unprofitable for innocent citizens.

Fig 3. Theme 1: War has negative effect for innocent citizens.

My fourth notebook page is about my second thime I found from part 5 to part 7 (end) that, A monarched society even let teenagers to fell duty for making society better.

Fig 4. Theme 2: A corrupted society even let teenager to feel duty for making the society better.

My fifth note book page is a combination of post-its I attached while I’m reading this book, I found some clues for writing previous notebook pages.

Fig 5. Post-its

Fig 6. Post-its

Fig 7. Post-its

Fig 8. Post-its

In Future Freedom of Foundation once stated that “the enemy of our enemy; it is not our friend.” K.D. Gaddy might just want to tell us that Edelweiss Pirates are not brutal gangsters, they were the righteousness resistance soldiers against Nazi-Germany. In addition, she might also tackle sometimes the hidden heroes are treating so poor that they might fade away from the history, til we give them a little attention.

Fritz Theilen (27 September 1927 – 18 April 2012), Gertrud Koch (1 June 1924 – 21 June 2016), and Jean Jülich (18 April 1929-19 October 2011)

 

Thanks for finding my post,

 

JJ

 

 

LETS TALK ABOUT Humanism in Humanities!

October 24, 2024 / / 0 Comments

I believe I am an 82% Renaissance humanist, after I finish this infographic. Among those unique treats of humanists, the most agreeable topic is ‘Question Everything’. For example, in any kind of learning, I ask question for justification of details: “What do you mean by informative? How much evidence should I put for my essay? How thoughtful should my content of speech be to get MA?” While the least agreeable topic is ‘Classical Culture’. I feel like those Greek and Roman culture is cool, but I argue there is no need to be ‘analyzing’, because as old thoughts are literally old, making too serious observation and experiment might be waste of time, it had better to invest our time on the futuristic ideas, such as space investigation, use of artificial intelligence, climate change. Therefore, though, I mostly agree about what Renaissance humanists’ ideas, but there are some parts I don’t, I will define myself as an 82% Renaissance humanist.

Peculiar Giggle

August 25, 2024 / / 0 Comments

Lamb to the slaughter, by Roald Dahl

Found poem I crafted is about the internal conflict made in my chosen story, “Lamb to the slaughter” by Roald Dahl  was taken from page 4 to 5. (I chose this part because it was the climax of this story) This amazing short story was also adapted on short film. I highly recommend everyone to click and look at this film at some points.

Among the several internal and external conflicts, I focused on the internal conflict of Mary Maloney, which is the self conflict between avoiding the guiltiness of killing his husband by letting the instincts take over her behavior after murder and feeling guilty of murdering her husband. I focused on this internal conflict because I thought this self conflict is the theme of this story, which is being the perspective of murderer. As many detective fictions take place in perspective of detectives or victims, not the perpetrators, it is hard to fully understand why those perpetrators committed the crime or murdered someone, and readers often generalize them as ‘bad person’, however Roald Dahl criticize that point and wrote this story in murderer’s perspective, and the internal conflict I presented helps readers to understand and recognize Mary, who is murderer, was multi-dimensional character, who also guilt, not just crazy killer. So, the summary of internal conflict object I found will be:

Protagonist: Mary who felt guiltiness and sadness to kill her husband impulsively.

Antagonist: Mary who try not to be sentenced death penalty and justify herself that he is deserved to be dead because he cheated on someone else.

My poem shows the internal conflict in its quote such as,

“Feeling cold and surprised”

“Extraordinary relief, smile”

I tired to find quotes apathetic and insensitive in order to express the numbness and confusion of Mary. I wanted to describe two contradictory emotions that Mary have felt after she killed Patrick so that readers understand the murder of Mary with according reason, not just unfounded impulses.

I chose image of giggling clown as a background image of my poster because I think this image shows Mary who was changed after she killed her husband, giggling offended and getting any guiltiness of murdering someone, dark, and grainy, which is also mentioned in the quote, at the very end of the story:

“And in the other room, Mary Maloney began to giggle.”

I believe this image fit perfectly to my poem’s characteristic.

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TMI: My found poem was crafted with the same order from the story, top to bottom, left to right, not just scrambling the whole words.

September 13, 2023

This is my Process Journal for the creation of the appp I am making for my client.

Welcome to Your New Blog!

August 15, 2023 / / 0 Comments

When you blog you create posts and posts are categorised according to your subject. Some categories have already been set up for you. If you need more categories you can add them as needed. It’s important that your posts have the following:

  • An engaging title – this should not include the name of the subject since this is referenced in the category.
  • Body – this is where you share your learning. This can include text, images, embedded videos from Dragons’ Tube or elsewhere. You should always consider how your post looks to your audience. Is it engaging? Do they want to keep reading?
  • Category – select one that has been set for you or add a new category. Posts can have more than one category e.g. Humanities and Myself as a Learner

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