HOMEWORK FOR FRIDAY:
None... am I forgetting something?
HOMEWORK FOR SUNDAY:
The Academy Awards (Oscars) are on, so for those who missed the inauguration and the Grammys, you need to write a short post discussing how aesthetics came into play.
HOMEWORK FOR MONDAY:
Watch the Porgy and Bess DVD with the subtitles on (it's hard to understand what people are saying in operas even if it's in English... thus I've actually seen this before, but have no idea whatsoever what it's about). Pay special attention to Act II, Scene IV (chapter 24 of the DVD). Supposedly most of you bought this at the bookstore, but per the email you got last night, there will also be a screening on Thursday night from 6:30-9:50, in PCB 1100. Here are some good materials that Moeller gave to us at the last staff meeting, including primary sources like original newspaper reviews of the play. You might start looking at that stuff in anticipation of paper #6.
HOMEWORK FOR TUESDAY:
Final draft #3 to turnitin.com.
ADDITIONAL RESOURCES ON SOVIETS:
On Moeller's website.... Including "Seventeen Moments in Soviet History," and more Brittanica. And a lot of other stuff as well.
More Shostakovich here, here, here, and here.
You're not a high school student... if you need/want to learn more, you have to take some initiative for yourself.
MORE SHEPHERD FAIRY:
Debate about his copyright dispute with the Associated Press, on the Colbert Report.
IS THIS ART?:
Corona Del Mar high school cancels performance of "Rent" over some objection to the content, replacing it with "You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown."
Alyssa Kim
ReplyDeleteQuestion 3: 3. Was there/should there be a specialized “artist” worker in the Soviet state?
Whether there should or shouldn’t be a specialized “artist” worker in the Soviet state is not important. If there IS a specialized “artist,” that defeats the purpose of communism because in a communist nation, everyone should be equally exposed to art.
How did Soviet education compare to the “capitalist” education of which Gorky writes?
ReplyDeleteGorky argues that although the capitalist educational system claims to want to educate the general population, it actually only enforced strict social standards. He asserts that their end goal was basically to educate the lower classes to be their slaves. According to Gorky, capitalist education created more discrimination based on race, religion, and nationalism. What they should truly strive for is complete public schooling that emphasized cooperation and collective effort. In addition, Gorky states that education should include a combination of intellectual and physical labor.
The Soviets claimed to fix the problems of capitalist education and promote the needs of society by educating a new type of man. They wanted to erase social distinction from education to help society grow culturally as a whole. They also sought to end racism and intense nationalism because they saw communism as an international phenomenon. Soviet education operated on a supposed equal opportunity system and encouraged students to pursue education consistent with labor needs. They took care to place emphasis on educating children as social individuals who should be constant aware of their role in society and how to best serve the needs of the community.
Teresa Hoang
Nicholas Tanoto
Lorena Talactac
Was there/should there be a specialized “artist” worker in the Soviet state?
ReplyDeleteUhhh I think that's kind of unfair, since in the communist state the work distribution is supposed to be equal. So if there's some guy breaking his back doing factory work while this other guy gets to sit around and write stories all day, there's obviously an imbalance there. Unless the writer was commissioned to write for the good of the Soviet Nation, then it'd be alright, but if not than I can't see it as being advocated for anything besides leisure, not getting in the way of work.