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Genre translation pre-writing (Fosters home of imaginary friends to real life/

 Posted by on Fri, 3/22 at 1:19pm  genre translation prewriting  No Responses »
Mar 222019
 

Fosters home of Imaginary Friends -> Real life orphanage

I think it would be a cool concept to take this show and turn it into a real life version of itself. The premise of the show is that imaginary friends co-exist with humans and they wait to be adopted by children. I think this concept would be a cool concept to make those imaginary friends into real life personalities that children could choose to be apart of when they reach a certain age of maturity. Or i could translate it to how children at a certain age leave their imagination behind due to real world consequences.. Something along those lines not sure yet i just like this topic and feel like there are multiple directions i could go.

 

Car advertisements real vs reality

So like i just bought a car a year ago and it’s already having transmission problems even though it’s new. So it got me to think about car commercials and how they advertise every car to be the best car a consumer could drive. What if car commercials advertised the reality of each car and its brand. How much time your going to waste fixing the car, common parts that go bad, maintenance cost ect… instead of advertising how good a car is it would advertise how not bad ( i need better wording i know) the car would be.

Nursery’s Horror Stories

 Posted by on Fri, 3/1 at 1:37pm  proposal  No Responses »
Mar 012019
 

This paper will be about the irony of overprotective parents introducing nursery rhymes to children that have dark, rated-r content. These same parents condemn introducing anything violent, or what they deem “inappropriate” to children because it may ruin a child’s mental stability in the future. This paper will highlight the ironies of how nursery rhymes are these inappropriate actions, events, history that are just repurposed to fit their child’s needs. Introducing these “inappropriate actions” undermine the parent’s purpose of protecting their child. The ultimate goal of this paper is to show that it is not what you introduce to your child in terms of entertainment that will ruin your child’s mental health, it is the upbringing and how you raise/teach your child to approach these situations that determines the direction the child will grow up to be in the future.

This paper will highlight the contrast between parents mindlessly using nursery rhymes as a gateway to teach their child how to build an imagination by introducing things that they are afraid other influences will damage their child such as video games, tv shows, movies.

This paper will compare and contrast similarities and differences between nursery rhymes and other influences that have been deemed potentially damaging such as video games or tv shows.

This paper will compare and contrast the psychology of introducing to children horrible influences directly vs influencing the child discreetly. Breaking down which method is more influential to a young child or if these influences have any affect on a young child at all.

This topic deserves attention because it is important to not mislabel any genre based on what is assumed to be damaging. The hypocrisy of labeling one artwork damaging while using another artwork with the same ideals only hurts people who are trying to make their art that they are proud of noticeable to the world while we dilute the special attributes of their artwork because it “may be damaging”

Nursery Rhymes take 2

 Posted by on Fri, 2/22 at 1:20pm  subject-pos take 2  No Responses »
Feb 222019
 

Subject: Mindlessly reciting nursery rhymes

Point of Significance: introduces topics such as murder, rape, taxes ect. at an age too young for these topics?

 

Subject: Parent’s trying to protect their kids from the harsh reality of the world

Point of Significance: by introducing the children to the harsh history of the world through nursery rhymes

 

Subject: Parents try to introduce morals to children

Point of Significance: by introducing stories that have a historical opposite of the moral they are trying to teach their child

 

Subject: Nursery rhymes introduce a gateway to imagination

Point of Significance: by  re-purposing historical tragedies as cute rhymes to induce fun imagination

 

Parents ironically introduce bad influences through recreating the purpose of nursery rhymes to coexist with their kids protection from the harsh influences of our world.

 

Prompt: How do Nursery Rhymes undermine Parents attempts to protect their child from bad influences at a young age?

 

Dark Nursery Rhyme Subject-POS

 Posted by on Wed, 2/20 at 1:09pm  subject-POS  No Responses »
Feb 202019
 

Subject: Mindlessly reciting nursery rhymes

Point of Significance: introduces murder, rape, taxes ect.. at a fragile age.

 

Subject: Parent’s trying to protect their kids from the harsh reality of the world

Point of Significance: by introducing the children to the harsh reality of the world through nursery rhymes

 

Subject: Parents try to introduce morals to children

Point of Significance: by introducing stories that have a historical opposite of the moral they are trying to teach their child

 

Subject: Nursery rhymes introduce a gateway to imagination

Point of Significance: by remediating historical tragedies as cute rhymes to induce fun

 

 

Prompt: How do Nursery Rhymes undermine Parents attempts to positively influence their child at a young age

Technical Definition of Dark Nursery Rhymes

 Posted by on Wed, 2/13 at 1:30pm  technical definition  No Responses »
Feb 132019
 

In Children’s Educational environments, Nursery Rhymes are collections of entry level stories that introduce children how to read that derive from the darkest moments of human history.  Unlike normal stories that have a direct plot/theme these stories are introduced to children as cute rhymes with themes that are supposed to teach children morals. However, a majority of these stories are inspired by the darkest times in our human history. The attempt to whitewash the dark ties to these rhymes by applying educational values to them sprouts an ironic image of parents trying to keep their children safe while introducing them to the worst of human history.

Herustic 2 continuation of topic 1

 Posted by on Wed, 2/6 at 5:49am  underappreciated heuristic #2  No Responses »
Feb 062019
 

Identify and Describe Patterns in the Genre’s Features

  1. What content is typically included or excluded? How is the content treated? What sorts of examples are used? What counts as evidence (personal testimony, facts, etc.)?

… Content included is these short stories that are supposed to be cute morals to the story. For example humpty dumpty is themed to “not sit atop the wall.” Or little miss muffet is “ do not be picky with your food” it demonstrates discipline in a childs life while being fun

  1. What rhetorical appeals are used? What appeals to logos, pathos, and ethos appear?

… I suppose if these nursery rhymes appeal to the pathos and ethos as it for the hidden meaning/origin behind the stories tell a history of a dark past. The other teaches valuable lessons, both depend on ethics and emotion in order to connect to its audience. One to tell history the other to train the kid to be disipine.

How are texts in the genres structured? What are their parts, and how are they organized?

… Very short, rhymes, very simplistic style, not a lot of complex wording or structure. Statement based

  1. In what format are texts of this genre presented? What layout or appearance is common? How long/big is a typical text in this genre?

… presented in short story/song format. Typically

  1. What types of “sentences” do texts in the genre typically use? How long are they? Are they simple or complex, passive or active? Are the sentences varied? Do they share a certain style?

… short compact sentences that rhymed,

  1. What diction is most common? What types of words (or symbols, images, etc.) are most frequent? Is a type of jargon used? Is slang used? How would you describe a typical writer’s tone?

… simplistic wording s most common

 

Analyze What These Patterns Reveal About the Situation and Scene

  1. What do these patterns reveal about the genre, its situation, and the people who use it?

…

  • What do participants have to know or believe to understand or appreciate the genre?

… they believe that these stories teach a lesson

  • Who is invited into the genre, and who is excluded??

… historians, children, people of the past. Casual readers are discouraged

  • What roles for writers and readers does it encourage or discourage?
  • The reading level most nursery rhymes and simple plot resolutions discourages most casual readers due to the lack of challenge or complication the piece lacks

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  1. What can you learn about the actions being performed through the genre by observing its language patterns?

…

  • How is the subject of the genre treated? What content is considered most important? What content (topics or details) is ignored?

…used to teach kids. content that is most important is those who have a moral ending. Those that have no purpose are not used to teach kids

  • What values, beliefs, goals, and assumptions are revealed through the genre’s patterns?

…  values beliefs consist of right and wrong, greed and sharing, mean and nice ect….

  • What actions does the genre enable? What actions does the genre constrain??

… genre enables the action for taught morals, restrains creative outlook of what good vs evils complexity are.

Killer Nursery Rhymes

 Posted by on Sun, 2/3 at 10:18pm  underappreciated heuristic #1  5 Responses »
Feb 032019
 

Introduce Your Genre

  1. Identify your tentative “underappreciated” genre (or subgenre)

… The double meaning of nursery rhymes.

  1. What is interesting to you about this genre? Or, why might it be significant or otherwise worth paying attention to?

… As kid’s we are introduced into literacy through nursery rhymes thinking they are these cute plots/characters/settings/ideas but after researching a bit I find that most of these stories are messed up. Parents prevent their kids from watching and playing violent and sexually active videogames but ironically are okay with children reading, repeating and making games to these these nursery rhymes which hold the same meaning behind them.

  1. Tentatively, define/describe your corpus (collection of texts/examples)

… Pop goes the weasel is technically about how the poor have to pawn their clothing in order to buy food or drink

London bridge is an obvious one where the Vikings attacked Norway and destroyed the bridge during the attack

Ring around the rosie was about the plague “ashes” or “a-tishoo” and falling down was supposed to mimic sneezing and eventually dying from the disease

Jack and Jill  Louis XVI of France, who was deposed and beheaded in 1793 (lost his crown), and his Queen Marie Antoinette (who came tumbling after),

  1. Provide links (and/or titles) of five samples. (Try to gather samples from more than one “place” [or type] in order to obtain a diverse and accurate representation of the genre. For now, choose samples without significant deviations).

… https://www.sporcle.com/blog/2017/08/real-meaning-behind-ring-around-the-rosie/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9JDUtHwqeos

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pop_Goes_the_Weasel

http://mentalfloss.com/article/55035/dark-origins-11-classic-nursery-rhymes

https://www.grunge.com/23605/dark-history-behind-7-classic-nursery-rhymes/

 

Describe the Context

  1. Setting: Where (in what context or medium) does the genre appear? How and when is it used? With what other genres does this genre interact? How?

… This genre appears in school classrooms, kids tv shows, at home when the parents try to teach kids, books, daycare, Sunday school ect.. a kids learning environment.  Normally it is used in a sense to entertain the child or to teach the child early literacy skills.

  1. Subject: What topics, issues, ideas, etc. are common to this genre? When people use this genre, what are they communicating about?

…Death, disease, historical dark times, sexual activities They report on very dark events that take care of the past but also create this cutesy fantasy world for the kid to start building his/her own imagination. Some nursery rhymes are seen a cute rhyme to teach a kid a chore but have a double meaning of sexual history ect.. Others are just imagination builders but have a double meaning history of death of some messed up king who slaughtered his wives when he was mad. It’s like horror stories/ violent stories for kids.

  1. Writers: Who writes the texts in this genre? Are multiple writers possible? What roles do they perform? What characteristics must writers of this genre possess? Under what circumstances do writers write the genre (e.g., in teams, on a computer, in a rush, for their profession? for fun?)?

… The writers themselves are not fully known as these stories developed in the early medieval times when a lot of dark stuff happened mostly to do with dying and perversion. Researchers have narrowed the timelines down to medieval times or early colonial times. Kids may have seen actions and made rhymes during these time periods and these nursery rhymes just traveled throughout the generations. Kids watch and create and it just travels

  1. Readers: Who reads the texts in this genre? Is there more than one type of reader for this genre? What roles do they perform? What characteristics must readers of this genre possess? Under what circumstances do readers read the genre (e.g., at their leisure, on the run, in waiting rooms)?

…  Normally the readers read these texts in order to teach or learn. The reading level is an easy entry level to teach children just starting to learn how to read or to start building their imagination. A lot of the time a parent/ teaching being is involved as kids at a young age do not just pick up books and try and read. I mean if I had to define a child who would read nursery rhymes based on characteristics, I suppose he/she would be illiterate, a newcomer to imagination/ short attention span/ just beginning to grasp talking/ a child… Or it could be an adult trying to find the right way to parent not trying to introduce the kids into messed up things like murder and disease and ultimately falling into the irony that these stories are messed up.

  1. Exigency/Purpose(s): Why do writers write this genre, and why do readers read it? What purposes does the genre fulfill for the people who use it?

… I suppose the writers wrote the genre as a sense of recording what they saw. Kids don’t fully understand the gravity of a situation and just repeat what the see in clever ways in order to mold a scenario to their situation. It also could be parents who taught the children these rhymes in order to explain to their kids the situation in an innocent way. Regardless this genre is not used in modern times how it was when it originally was created. Now we mold these horrid stories to be cute rhymes to teach kids how to read and understand literature.