This Land Is Your Land

Gunthrie is very exclusive but is not completely individualistic. He tries to exclude the government, so its more of a clique like situation than saying "I can do this all on my own". He uses a lot of "I" and "we", which means he is excluding "them".

Communist Utopia

This painting shows the communism most throught the eyeballs. The communist party heads are all-seeing and all-knowing, this is shown by the eyeballs everywhere. The wall is the communist party and the other side is hope. The cracks in the wall are the hope through which freedom could be found; the problem is the eyeballs are filling the cracks. The gray throughout the picture also shows a "dreariness" throught which everyone is living. Its a utopia for the communists; a dystopia for everyone else.

Don't You Want Me?

The subject of this song is how two people can see the same events in different ways. The boy sings "Success has been so easy for you but don't forget it's me who put you where you are now...", and the girl later comes back with how she did it on her own. In this song the guy seems desperate since she doesn't like him anymore; he is going to do whatever necessary to get her back. This is why I find the girl more credible, she isn't as emotionally impacted.

Emic v. Etic Culture Views

When writing both Emic and Etic culture views can be helpful. If you have the Emic view you can know the history behind what is happening behind what is happening so you can easily back up your points. This is a nice way to support an arguement. If you have the etic perspective this can be helpful because you can compare their culture to yours, so you can see more of a difference; you can't do this with the emic. I don't think one is better than the other; they are equally important

Final Brave New World: Answers

1) Do you think John decided at that moment to hang himself or did it take a build up of emotions and eventually he just decided to end it?
I think he probably was unhappy and wanted to find a way out for a while. Then he saw an opportunity to take his life instead of the government doing it for him, so he took it.

2) Why would John not want to go into exile?
He was too strongly rooted in his beliefs. He was so convinved his way was right, he would not give in because he would rather have it his way, or die.

3) 1984 is seen as a distopia and BNW a utopia. Do you think these could be switched depending on the person you're talking to?

Definitely. I think BNW could easily be considered a distopia with the way it abuses technology and 1984 is a great world because you don't have to think. I think that it depends on how people view their freedoms, which stance they take on this.

Final Brave New World

1) Do you think John decided at that moment to hang himself or did it take a build up of emotions and eventually he just decided to end it?

2) Why would John not want to go into exile?

3) 1984 is seen as a distopia and BNW a utopia. Do you think these could be switched depending on the person you're talking to?