♥ ASSIGNMENT ♥

1. Mark Twain, whose real name was Samuel L. Clemens and lived in Hartford for several years, was the author of the classic American novel, Huckleberry Finn.

2. Mark Twain’s house which was very elaborate and elegant was on Farmington Avenue in Nook Farm and his neighbor was Harriet Beecher Stowe, the writer of Uncle Tom’s Cabin.

3. Mark Twain’s home had windows and a balcony that overlooks the porch and people say that the window and the balcony reminded them of a steamboat by which during Twain’s younger years, he piloted on the Mississippi.

4. The telephone was first used commercially in nearby New Haven and Mark Twain was one of the first three people in Hartford to own it but he never really liked it because there was practically no one to talk to.

5. Mark Twain loved industrial inventions and one of these was the Paige typesetter but this machine was developed at the same time as the Linotype machine which was much simpler and less expensive so he lost a fortune on investing them.




6. Twain never felt the same about his house since his beloved daughter, Susy, died because of spinal meningitis and soon he left his house and Hartford but returned once for the funeral of his friend, Charles Dudley Warner.

ENTRY 2: PARAPHRASING

1. Aristotle on the other hand, believed that imitation involves human experience and in that sense he saw a role for the arts. According to Aristotle, the artist has the freedom to imitate aspects of nature, but he does insist on the unity of form (formal and structural qualities). Aristotle explains form in terms of its “causes” by which he means any external factor (apart from “matter”’) that explains why something is the way it is, and what function it can perform. In short, form is that which causes something to be the thing it is. So whereas Plato’s form relates to Ideal forms, Aristotle relates form to something inherent in the object.
Imitation and Beauty

Answer:

         Imitation, according to Aristotle, involves human experience and has a role for arts. For him, the artist has the freedom to imitate the aspects of nature, but still insist on the unity of the form. Aristotle explains that a form becomes what it is, and what factors it can perform because of the external factors it exhibits.  In short, form is that which causes something to be the thing it is. So, whereas Plato's form relates to ideal forms, Aristotle relates form to something inherent in the object.

2. Another difference between Plato and Aristotle is the way they discuss imitation in relationship to beauty. For Plato, beauty is an idea, something abstract that is revealed in the order of the natural world. Hence the importance he placed on mathematics as the key to understanding the natural world. For Aristotle, beauty is something real, it is also a function of form, it is not abstract as for Plato, but it is grounded in an object. In other words, it is bound to a context.

Answer:

      Another difference between Plato and Aristotle is the way they discuss imitation in relationship to beauty. Beauty, according to Plato, is an idea and something abstract that is revealed in the ordinary order of the natural world. Therefore, the importance for him is placed on mathematics as the key to understand the world. While beauty, for Aristotle, is something real and a function of form and not abstract but it is grounded in a specific object. Particularly, it is adjoin to the context. 

John Berger's "Ways of Seeing" by Emily McEwan

MAIN IDEA: The essay discusses about how traditional oil paintings affects  today's advertisements and people viewing it. 

• The art of publicity today does not talk about your existence  but talks about the future and  your state of happiness.
• Advertisements today show new products that viewers would like to purchase, thinking that it will make them happy.
• Being materialistic are used to advertise products and this idea was taken from the traditional oil paintings.
• The key in advertising is envy because it makes the viewer want what the person in the advertisement has.
• Advertisements make the viewers not contented with what they have today and thinking that having the thing advertised will make them happy.
• Women are used as subjects in traditional oil paintings and today's advertisements for constant need of the viewer's to consume that certain product.