SUPA Writing 105

  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 ...