Thursday, February 4, 2016

Response #11

        In Sojourner Truth's speech she repetitively asks the audience "aint I am woman"which I think is a rhetorical qiestion, but in case it isnt clear, yes, she is a woman. She's bred 13 children,was a slave, and is capable of doing everything a man is doing and stated this in stanzas three, four, and five when she said "I could work and eat as much as a man and bear de lash as well" and "I have borne thirteen chilern and seen 'em mos' all sold off to slavery". In my opinion, she is a woman. My other thoughts on this is that women can't do everything single thing a man can do, but most things, and other things that are much more important.

Wednesday, February 3, 2016

Response #10

        In the beginning of the documentary, you see a man (Thierry Guetta) who carries a camera around everywhere he goes, and films random people. He begins filming street artists as they are in  the process of making their work,  and tells them he is making a documentary, when actuality he did not plan to edit the footage. Most people, including myself didn't see the problem in him shooting his film, and I even felt a little bad for him when he tells his life story about how his mom dies, and he didn't know that she was sick, so he wanted to film everything, to insure he wouldn't miss anything else. Towards the middle/end, he meets a famous street artist that goes by Banksy, and befriends him. Banksy convinces Thierry to take all of his film and turn it into a movie, and in a way tells him to become a street artist himself. This is when my whole view of Guetta changed. He started poaching other artists techniques, and he got really cocky and arrogant, so my pity for him turned into hate.