The Coca Cola Christmas commercial with red trucks caravan and their holiday famous song makes me feel nostalgic and brings me back to my childhood, I was amazed all the time when I was watching that […]
Dilora I agree with your first paragraph that music world is a big business, and if a singer has money, his songs will be on top charts, and online platforms are recommending them to listeners.
1.Krukowski by his statement “the marginal-the rejected-the repressed-is whatever the powerful have decided is of no use at the moment,” he means that online corporations control the music tren […]
Jure I agree with you fourth paragraph, that is nice to be able to download music for free, and on the other hand, we should be honest and pay for someone’s work.
The main differences between a cellphone and microphone according to Krukowski is that through cellphones people connect with each other, they can recognize each other’s voice, and “everyone so […]
I heard first time the song “Desi Thoughts” by A.R. Rahman, when I was watching “A Million Dollar Arm” movie. There are no words, it is instrumental, and it touched my heart. When I listen to the sound of violins […]
Tenzin I like your fifth paragraph, about nostalgic sounds, especially when we listen to some soul music and relate it with our memories. Also, sometimes, we can recognize some of our friends by hearing their […]
Jure I agree with your third paragraph, people are losing their freedom, there is no more self-expression as before it was on those public places, now we can see more rules and restrictions.
1. According to Krukowski’s main point, “real” time is variable and always changing, humans experience and express time in analog world, and it does not move quickly or slowly like in “digit […]
Scott I agree with your third paragraph about skin dream. Nowadays, wrinkles is a shame for some people, who are manipulated by ads, they want to be forever young, and to have a smooth skin buying the most […]
Salma I agree with what you have mentioned in the second paragraph, that advertisement and publicity indirectly influence people to work harder to be able to buy more things presented by them.
1. According to Berger, publicity has the purpose to make people to want to buy new things, and buying new things, people will feel more self-confident and happier. Likewise, advertising is an act of informing […]
Tereza I agree with your first paragraph about many women having the same way of thinking as those women portrayed in older Western works of art. Although feminism is manifested worldwide, they still choose to be submissive.
Norjahan I agree with your second paragraph. In many countries still exist the inequality of the sexes, where men are dominant, and women do not ask for their rights.
1.According to John Berger’s “Ways of seeing,” nakedness and nude female form seem to have many similarities, but they have opposite concepts. Both words mean not to have clothes on, but nude is about a posed […]
This is the famous painting “Girl with a Pearl Earring,” an oil painting by Johannes Vermeer. The subject in this painting is a mysterious girl looking over her shoulder at viewers, attracting them with her […]