YouTube Channel pt. 3

Since everyone is going to be looking at each others blog in the next few days/ weeks I thought I'd take this opportunity to make another post about my YouTube Channel so people can see it and hopefully please go subscribe to my YouTube Channel. Like I said in previous posts you probably haven't read I am trying to build a YouTube Channel for my masterpiece and it would be a big help if you could go and subscribe to it and like all (two) of my videos. I will have another video coming up by the end of this week from kayaking this past weekend and then next weekend I'm thinking about doing a video about my trip to San Diego with Noah Hernandez to visit UCSD and SDSU, and show all the shenanigans he and I get up to. Once again please subscribe to my YouTube Channel. thanks.
By the way the channel is called JoeyB GoPro so if you didn't want to click any of the above links you can search for it on YouTube if you're so inclined.

"Out, Out"

Meaning:

A boy is cutting wood with a personified "evil, snarling" saw, and cuts his hand when his sister calls him for dinner. He begs the doctor not to amputate but it is too late, the boy has lost too much blood and dies. Frost feels that if the boy had been allowed a half hour break, or told to take the rest of the day off, he would have been spared. After the boy dies everyone returns to their work, seemingly unaffected.Frost is showing us that to much work and no play can have serious consequences, causing physical harm, and such an obsession with our work that we forget the rest of the world. Though the poem is a bit of a hyperbole for what could happen, the message still gets across.

Antecedent Scenario:

Before the poem begins it is implied the boy has been working all day chopping wood or doing other chores.

Climax:

The boy's sister comes and calls him for dinner and the saw "leaps" out of his hand and cuts it badly.

Other Parts:

The doctor arrives and the boy begs not to get his hand amputated, but he has lost too much blood and dies. Everyone watching, presumably the boy's family, is unaffected because it wasn't them who got hurt, and return to their work.

Skeleton:

The poem appeals to our emotions by demonstrating the horrible affects of becoming disconcerted with the world because we are too obsessed with our work.

Content Genre Games:

Frost uses imagery and personification to describe the situation up to the climax, then after the climax is just vague enough to where it takes some thinking to figure out exactly what happened, but the general meaning is conveyed to the casual reader. Frost juxtaposes the peaceful outdoor setting with the violence of a severed hand to convey meaning.

Tone:

Frost's attitude shows that people need to take time to live and enjoy themselves without being completely consumed by their work.

Agency:

Frost gives agency to the saw portraying it as "snarling" and "jumping" out of the boy's hand. The boy is also given agency pleading for his life when he knows it is too late.

Roads Not Taken:

Frost could have described more with what the other people where doing before the incident and then referred back to them after the boys death.

Speech Acts:

There wasn't much dialogue in this poem. Frost mostly used onomatopoeia with the "buzzing" of the saw. The boy's sister did say "Supper" inciting the jumping of the saw to cut the boy's hand, and the boy did plead for his hand but there was no direct quotes.

Imagination:

Frost uses imagery in the beginning of the poem calling the reader to imagine the mountain ranges and at the end of the poem imagine how the boy dies since it isn't explicit.

Youtube Channel

Hello internet,

Please subscribe to my YouTube Channel, I just made it for my masterpiece and I have two videos so far and am working on a third this week. I'm really trying to build my channel because I really love making GoPro videos and want to share with the world. You don"t even have to make a YouTube account, just by having a blogger account you have a YouTube account. All you have to do is click this link and then hit the subscribe button on the page it takes you too. It won't send you annoying emails, or notifications of any kind unless you turn on that setting. If you subscribe it makes my videos more likely to come up from search results the more subscribers and views they have, and the more likely I am to get partnered by YouTube.
In case you missed the other link here's another one: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCTOkziG6ypvz-eAwcaMC5Cg

Kayaking update

So it turns out there is supposed to be a huge south swell this weekend with up to eight foot waves in peak locations, which would make kayaking fairly unpleasant. Since Avila Beach is a south facing beach, and there is a coastal warning in our area for high surf, kayaking has been moved up the coast to Moro Bay where it would be a little more calm. Rentals there are actually cheaper as well at $12 for an hour and an additional $8 for every hour after that. Stand up paddle boards are the same.

Tobermory

After reading the story, I at first thought the last line: ""If he was trying German irregular verbs on the poor beast," said Clovis "He deserved all he got."" was making a Historical allusion perhaps to world war one or two, thinking perhaps the Germans mistreated elephants, thus making German "offensive" to elephants. I then realized that the story was published before either war. I then looked into German irregular verbs and found that there are a lot of them and they seem really complicated, so perhaps it is a joke about the complexity of the German language. I feel that this might be to simple or shallow for what it really means but I can't really come up with anything better.

This weekend's masterpiece event

This weekend I am trying to get together a group of people to go stand up paddling or kayaking at Avila beach Sunday the 30th around 1pm. Paddle boards and kayaks are $17 /hour each and double kayaks are $23/hour each. Please respond to the poll to your right on your preference and comment and tell me in person if you're interested. Also please subscribe to my YouTube Channel, where I will be posting videos about each weekends excursion.

Do what you love

Today in class Dr. Preston assigned us "homework" to do something with greatness. I interpreted that as take some time do really sit down and do what you love and only what you love with no distractions no multi- tasking and this afternoon/ evening I did just that.

My masterpiece is a YouTube channel, so I spent this afternoon researching YouTube monotization, copyright, etc.. along with making graphics for the channel header and profile picture. When I started I had no idea how to use the graphic program and now I feel I have a fairly good understanding of the process behind making graphic art. To be honest, it was a struggle. I watched several hours of tutorials and even longer playing with the program getting a feel for how it works. I loved every minute of it.

After spending so long preparing my channel visually, I am really excited to start making videos. This weekend I am planning ocean kayaking or stand up paddle-boarding at Avila beach this upcoming Sunday afternoon. Please comment to this post if you're interested or let me know at school. I am also going to put up a poll to see if people would be more interested in stand up paddling or kayaking. Lastly please subscribe to my YouTube channel I just started and it would really help me out :)

Masterpiece Project Trailer

I decided to make a trailer for my masterpiece to really show what my project is all about. Hope you enjoy.

Huxley Essay Expirience

Last night I sat down to write this essay and let me tell you, this was probably the hardest essay topic I've ever written. There were so many directions that I wanted to take it that I had trouble organizing my thoughts into sentences that made sense when read together. I felt I introduced what I wanted to talk about well, but when it came to actually talking about it I struggled. Intro paragraphs have always been my strong suit, and while this intro paragraph isn't my best, it still beats the rest of the essay. On that note, here, in all its glory, is my Huxley essay:

Huxley Essay

               “No one is perfect.” “You’re only human.” These two phrases have been used over and over again, often interchangeably, suggesting what it truly means to be human: to be imperfect. In his novel “A Brave New World” Aldous Huxley demonstrates how imperfection is needed for humanity through John’s struggle between outward conformity and inward questioning. In order to achieve perfection we must sacrifice out humanity. To achieve the perfection of the World State, societal members had to sacrifice their humanity and become “perfect.” Conformity meant efficiency and efficiency meant perfection, so people conformed. And because of neurological conditioning, no one questioned inwardly, except John. Outwardly John conformed several times, whether it was through his love for Lenina, or his taking of soma, while inwardly John questioned the very basics of society.

               John’s suicide is a symbol. After conforming via soma and Lenina, John became a part of the perfect society he questioned. Because he became part of the perfect society, John lost his humanity, symbolized by his death. On a less abstract level, John’s death also comes as a result of his struggle between inward questioning and outward conformity. John opposed the conformity of the World State society, condemning the blasphemy and seemingly vulgar nature of it, and spent a lot of time trying to avoid becoming a part of it. So when he did cave and take part in conforming, the side of him that inwardly questioned hated himself and terminated the existence of the part of him that conformed, thus ending his life. John’s struggle between outward conformity and inward questioning cost him his humanity and thus his life.

               Even at home on the reservation, John struggled between outward conformity and inward questioning. As a boy, John just wanted to be included and take part in the activities the other boys got to do. When he was denied, John questioned the rules which bound him. He questioned the people who restricted him. John built up such a conflict that he tried to kill someone who was sleeping with his mother. John’s struggle became external, his instinct to question overcame his will to conform.

               Imperfection is needed for humanity. The struggle between outward conformity and inward questioning is imperfect and thus human. In “A Brave New World” by Aldous Huxley, John exemplifies the humanity of the internal struggle between conformity and questioning.

               

Huxley Response

A Brave New World is an extreme. Huxley is however correct in saying that we aren't far from it. There are more parallels between A Brave New World and today's society than most people would care to admit. From drugs, to social classes, to control of the many by the few; today's society is not far from the totalitarian utopia of A Brave New World. 

There are at least 80 drug commercials on television every hour of every day. American society is bombarded with pharmaceutical related advertisements developing societal dependencies on drugs. You have a headache? Take a pill. You can't get it up? Take a pill. You can't sleep? Take a pill. Feeling down? Take a pill. Runny nose? Take a pill. While all these reasons may be medical, and all these pills and drugs are different for each symptom, there is still the reliance on them for comfort just like the society of A Brave New World's reliance on soma. In A Brave New World, people use soma to cure all their ailments. While A Brave New World may use one futuristic drug and America uses endless other drugs there is still a strong connection between A Brave New World and today's society around the basis of drug usage. 

In America today, the probability of a child born into the poorest quintile has around a 10% chance (depending on where he or she lives) of becoming part of the top quintile. While this is still 10% higher than the probability of an Epsilon becoming an Alpha in A Brave New World (0%), it shows a great parallel between A Brave New World and society today. Low social class mobility leads to strict castes correlating to the type of employment, housing, and education much like in A Brave New World, with Epsilons correlating to the poor and Alphas correlating to the rich. A Brave New World also demonstrates the population to wealth ratio we have in today's society with the top 1% controlling more wealth than the bottom 90% put together. There are very few rich people and a massive amount of poor. Much like the small amount of Alphas versus the enormous amounts of Epsilons. 

While today's society may not be as extreme as the society in A Brave New World, America defiantly had a lot of parallels to the totalitarian utopian society of Huxley's vision.