SUPA Writing 105

  Little Miss Sunshine, directed by Jonathon Dayton and Valerie Faris, released in 2006, is a movie about a family just trying to be normal. But they are far from normal. With a broken bright yellow station wagon bus, the blended family of six travels to California for the Little Miss Sunshine beauty pageant for little Olive. Because all Olive wants is to be a beauty queen and make her family proud, mainly her father, following his 9 steps to being a winner, and her grandfather, who trained her with everything she knows. This tragic-comedy movie expresses various ideas, from following your dreams to leaving no man behind(literally) in such a funny yet practical way.   The idea of following your dreams is expressed in various ways throughout the movie. The first explanation of this idea of following your dreams is Dwayne, the older half brother to Olive, and how he has a dream of becoming a flyer for the Air Force. He takes a vow of silence, works out every day and keeps t...

      You might be questioning how there is a smarter way to argue, even if there is a smarter way to argue. And I am here to tell you that there is. The main idea of arguing to prove the one person is right, and the other person is wrong, right? Wrong. Arguing was not designed to prove one party right and the other party wrong.      Arguing was designed to talk through things and have an open mind about them. Arguing was brought out to be the idea of people with different opinions, expressing those different opinions and everyone gathering new information from this argument. But do people argue this way? No. Most people argue to prove the others wrong, missing the whole idea of what arguments are supposed to be. In the article “Evaluating Arguments”, it states that “No one has a monopoly on knowledge, and no one is right all of the time.”(Pg 168). The fact that people argue like they know everything, and don’t care to stop for a second to breathe and try t...

  Plastic surgery. Living in the hills. Being beautiful. All things that everyone looks at and aspires for. Right? Maybe. My artifact explains the deeper meaning of these ideas, and that it’s not as beautiful and luxurious as it seems through social media, news, and tv. My artifact is a song by japanese singer-songwriter, who goes by his stage name of Joji. On September 25, 2020 Joji released his album Nectar, with my artifact in this album. My artifact is the song “Pretty Boy” by Joji featuring Lil Yachty. This song explains people living on the west side, being beautiful and living great lives. Or so it seems. His upbeat instrumental music defeats the lyrics, words consisting of “livin’ so loud you could never hear me cry, nah, see no tears run down my eyes”, and “poppin’ blue pills and sippin’ on finest, nah, no more fears and no more lies, I tell myself to sleep at night”. I feel that this song is relevant to the world we live in now with young children seeing hourglass body sh...

  The New Yorker is a weekly american magazine that consists of journalism, commentary, criticism, fiction, satire, cartoons and poetry. The New Yorker is well known for its illustrated and often topical covers and its “gag cartoons'' since publication. The magazine cover that we are going to dissect is called “Guns Of September''. This cover consists of 11 students, all students of different races, genders, and ethnicities. But they all have one thing in common. They all are carrying a gun or firearm of some sort. In the far background, covered by the title of the magazine, you can see students getting off a school bus with firearms.  In the top left corner you can see a mother with a wide smile walking her son towards the school. The boy is wearing a blue jacket and red pants, carrying a gun in one hand and has an extra gun and holster strapped to his thigh. Looking at the cartoon, everyone seems to be wearing the colors of red, green and blue. Except one child. On ...

     The Single Story of Gender vs. Sex                                                                              Either/Or: Sports, Sex, And The Case of Caster Semenya written by Ariel Levy is an article focusing in on the single story of sex and gender, but with a deeper meaning on how sex and gender could possibly ruin someones life. Caster Semenya; Olympic Gold Medalist in 2012 and 2016, named Time magazine's “100 Most Influential People of 2019”, and received a gold medal in 2009, 2011, and 2017 World Championships, had her life taken away from ...

 Two Op-Docs. At first I didn't know what an Op-Doc was. The New York Times created Op-Docs as a series of short documentaries from solo film makers to Oscar winners. After browsing The New York Times Op-Doc page with 5 seasons (ranging from season 1 from 2011 to season 5 in 2020). There is a little bit of everything for everyone with these Op-Docs. The first Op-Doc I watched was Solo, Piano-N.Y.C by Anthony Sherin. Now when I first clicked on this video I never would have thought I would be so attached to a piano on a sidewalk in New York City. Another reason why I enjoyed this video so much was because it wasn't your normal video. It was a person behind a camera taking pictures of everything that happened to the piano. With this video it shows how people can come together over the simplest things.(In this case our piano) It was really heart warming watching normal people, strangers even better at that walk past this piano and play it, from the simplest notes to people standin...