Journal Dec. 17

1. Team 1's major arguement was that colonialism generally made the country better. It improved the people's well-being anlong with proviene them with better health options. It also gave them better oppurtonities and made them more intelligent.

2. Team 1's major evidence to back up these arguments was that there was a writing saying that African men were taller after colonialism. Taller men meant healthier men. They also kept focusing on the fact that the countries GED had raised after colonialism.

3. Team 2's main arguement was that the colonizers had taken away the African culture. They also argued that the British were showing off African arguements as trophies. 

4. They didn't have much evidence to support there arguement. One peice of evidence they had was that Alex had been to the British museum and got the impression that they were using the artifacts as throphies. Another peice of evidence they had was when Dr. Jafar said that Nigeria lost tons of artwork.

5. Right now I think that team 1 won the arguement based on the fact that they seemed more prepared and had stronger evidence. However at the time of the debate, I thought team 2 had won. That was probably because team 2 did very good in the Grand rebuttal by contradicting Team 1's points. Now I feel like Team 2 did better in the whole debate not just in the Grand Rebuttal. Also writing this blog helped me see that team one actually had more evidence. 

Journal Dec. 9

Overall I enjoyed the book a lot. I thought that it was a lot easier to read anything in than Heart of Darkness but I also thought the story wasn't as interesting. I think this book showed that the African people didn't want to be colonized where as Heart of Darkness just showed that the Europeans wanted to colonize Africa. However I feel like Heart of Darkness showed that horrors of colonism where as this book didn't really touch upon the that. I felt like since the book used easier vocabulary the meaning wasn't  as strong. In Heart of Darkness, Conrad showed how bad colonialism was by being very descriptive of the African people's treatment. This book wasn't as descriptive which is why I feel like it didn't show how bad colonialism was. I feel like this book just showed that the African people didn't like colonialism. 

Journal Dec. 5

I found it a little sad how christianity had influenced Umuofia. I mean, Umuofia had an amazing culture and now that culture is not around as much in the book because Christians had taken over Umuofia. I think that Christianity has affected Umuofia a lot. It has converted a few people to Christianity. It has also caused a big stir in the community. This was really not needed. I don't really understand why they had to destroy this beautiful culture trying to spread their ideas onto people who had their own ideas. However, knowing that most of the people in Umuofia still tried to keep up with their original culture. I don't agree with Okonkwo though, when he said that he should of had a big welcome back into the city. I think he needs to calm down. He expects that he should get everything and that doesn't happen all the time. He also killed someone, I don't think someone should be rewarded or welcomed back after killing someone, not even after seven years. I think that the Christians need to realize that there culture is not supreme. I believe that everyone's culture is equal which is why I dislike colonialism. I would be fine if the Christian people that came into Umuofia, settled down, and practiced their religion. Then people could just come in if they are interested. I do not think that it was necessary for the Christians to be going around and disrupting the people just to try to "sell" their religion. I am perfectly fine with Christianity but I dislike it when one culture or religion tries to put down or convert people unwillingly to their religion.

Journal Dec. 5

I think that the Abame tribe was so violent to the white evangelists partly because they were confused. Being confused often makes people scared. It also tends to make people either very defensive or offensive. These people probably became both defensive and offensive. This is why they were so opposed to the Christian ideas. Since they were confused by the chrisitian ideas, they probably lashed out on the Christians. They also found it weird how they didn't die even though the Christians were in the evil forest. This probably caused them think that the Christians were demons since they could survive in a the evil forest. Since no one wants to be around demons the Abame tribe probably attacked them for this reason. Most of the people that joined Christians to escape from there home life. The Abame tribe probably also attacked the Chirstians because they thought that the Christians were taking people from there village. 

Journal Dec. 3

I think part of the reason that Okonkwo was not eating was that he was still in shock. This probably worried him because he probably never experienced it before. He also probably thought that he was being womanly because he was experiencing shock and feeling emotions. This shows that he is not fully a man inside according to him but he wants to do anything to become one. His "son" was also killed because he wasn't Okonkwo's true son. This probably made him feel more like a woman because he had to deal with the fact that basically his son wasn't good enough. He was also left with only one other son, Nyowe. He probably felt like a woman because Nyowe wasn't that much of a man. If he could not have any manly sons than that would make him not manly. This shows that he is self conscious about his manliness. One can see that he really wants to be treated like a man which is why during the sacraficed of Ikemefuna. He doesn't stand back and try to avoid the sacrafice. He jumps right in and kills Ikemefuna. This shows that he wants to impress everyone with his manliness. However, deep down on the inside he is sad because his son has died. He doesn't want to let this show but it has been shown when he doesn't eat. He feels like this makes him a woman.

Journal Nov. 25

Okonkwo- Okonkwo is a man who was born into a family of not hard workers. He is now a very hard worker with three wives and more than two children. He owns two farms full of yams. His family is very high up and he is young. He is respected by the elders since he has worked so hard. He is also the protagonist.
Nwoye- Nwoye is Okonkwo's son and is not a very hard worker in the beginning of the book. However he becomes a slightly harder worker and his father starts to get along with him a little more. His father is still pretty harsh on him because he wants him to be successful.
Unoka- Unoka is Okonkwo's dad. He is dead and Okonkwo didn't get along with him very well. Okonkwo didn't like him because he was lazy. He was in major debt with everyone. He also was very poor and didn't have any farms of yams since he wasn't a hard worker.
Nwakibie- Nwakibie is a rich dude who gives Okonkwo a large number of seeds. He does this because he thinks that Okonkwo is a hard worker and can handle the work. He gives Okonkwo the seeds at Unoka's funeral.
Ani- Ani is the earth goddess and is respected by everyone. She is supposed to be in charge of all the crops and people make sacrifices to her.
Wives- A lot of people are said to have wives but their names are never mentioned in the story. They are just called the first wife or second wife. I think that this book is kind of sexist in this way because the wives don't have names.
Daughters- Okonkwa's daughters are mentioned a lot in the reading. They are mentioned a lot in the end. Their names are Ezinma, Ekwefi, Obiageli, and Nkechi.

Art Journal Nov. 23

There was this one picture with a bunch of flowers and a black background. I walked by this picture and at first glance it made me feel warm inside because it had a lot of flowers. Then I looked at it and after I looked at it for about five seconds I started to feel cold and sad. I think it was the black of the background that slowly made me feel cold. Another reason why I probably felt good when I first looked at the picture is that the bottom of the picture was bright. The flowers were bright and so from far away I only noticed the bright part. As you got closer you could see the darker parts of the picture which were higher up. The top flowers looked like they were older because the petals were falling off and some of the flowers had holes in them. One could not see that the flowers were falling apart from far away so one could only see that it was a group of flowers. The flowers also reminded me as if they were from a funeral because the background was black. They also looked old because they were falling apart. The combination of these things made me feel happy from far away but sad when close up.

Journal Nov. 22

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I think at the beginning of the story it shows that she doesn't know how to feel about Edward. This is because no men have been introduced into the story. As the story progresses she meets an interviewer who I think is supposed to symbolized Edward. The interviewer likes her and hires her and then starts to try to touch her. I think this represents Edward becuase Edward likes her and brought her to Jumping Monkey Hill but he is also creepy. I think the bank trust manager is supposed to represent how she feels about Edward at that time. She likes him but also thinks that he is not paying close attention to her anymore. Edward then starts to become very creepy and is always looking at her body. The alhaji is also supposed,to represent Edward because whenever he talks to her he does not look at her eyes he looks at her body. He also wants her to be his personal contact even though she had not said anything through-out the meeting. He then tries get her to like him by showing her his perfume collection. He will do anything to grt her to like him just like Edward. Chioma then walks out and leaves her job. I think this shows what Ujunwa wants to do. She wants to leave Edward because he is creepy just like how Chioma left alhaji because he was creepy. I also thnk that having a story in a story was a good and intresting way to tell the story. It provided more depth to the story but the story was still easy to understand. It was better than just saying something like "Ujunwa wrote a story about how Chioma..."

Journal Nov. 21

I think that the white man's burden is trying to say that all of their problems come from the African people. To me it feels like the white man's burden is just blaming the Africans for creating problems. The the white man's burden makes the person writing it seem rich and spoiled because they are saying they have all these hard thing to do. However the things that they are saying are hard aren't even that hard. The white man's burden makes it seem like white people are higher up therefore they shouldn't have all these troubles. The white man's burden is also saying that they feel like it is there duty to colonize everyone and they are putting more problems on themselves . They could easily solve most of there problems but they just chose to complain. The black man's burden kind of makes the white man's burden seem childish and whiny. The black man's burden  contains more realistic problems as well as harder problems. To me, The black man's burden is kind of like, "Oh, you say you have all these problems but look at us, we have more problems." I think that this relates to the book because the white men feel it is there duty to colonize Africa and they are putting more problems on themselves. However, the African people don't want them. 

Journal Nov. 16

Overall, I enjoyed Heart of Darkness. I felt like it was a very good book to read. I thought that it was confusing at times and discussing it in class helped a lot. It had a lot of symbolism that I didn't pick up on right apt thoe beginning but after we talked in class I began to enjoy the book even more. I think that the protagonist could either be Marlow or the Congo and the antagonist could be either Marlow or the Congo. I believe that the Congo was the protagonist and all of the Europeans settling around the Congo were the antagonists. I think that heart of darkness could mean the heart of Africa. It could all mean the heart of up advanced people. Another possible thing that it could mean is colonization. The Europeans were trying to do something good which would be the heart. However this thing they were trying to do turned to be a bad thing for the colonized people and that was the darkness.

Questions for seminar:

- Do you think Conrad was racist?

- Do you think that the arguement in Image of Africa were valid?

- What do you think heart of darkness means?

Journal Nov. 15

On page 10 in the kindle version, he describes the huts as having gaping holes and being very dark. This sets the mood of scary or abandoned. This intern makes colonialism seem like a scary thought because it is the white people who have been making these huts collapse. On Page 60 he starts talking about the fog and how thick it is. He also says that he cannot see through it and therefore he is unable to guide the ship. This make the mood seem mysterious. Out of nowhere he has the natives attack the ship. Since the story quickly changes from not knowing what's happening to all the sudden  being attacked, it makes the ambush much more dramatic. This puts emphasis on how bad colonialism is. The natives are attacking the whites because they don't like being colonized. A last example is when Marlow meets Kurtz. Kurtz is kind of just speaking random things and not making sense. This makes the mood creepy or confused. This mood helps when we find out that Kurtz has gone insane because of the Congo. Since he has also been hurt we find that colonialism is not only bad for the people being colonized but it is also bad for the people colonizing.

Journal Nov. 14 Addition

I thought of this like five minutes after I published my first journal. I think that the Congo represents Africa's growth and development towards technology. The Congo River is hard to travel and it takes a long time. It is also very windy with lots of turns. Africa is thought to be behind in technology and it is slowly starting to become more use to technology. This is like the river. Things move slow on the river and technology is growing slowly in Africa. It is hard for so e people in Africa to become use to technology just like it is hard to travel the Congo. However on the Thames River they are not going any where. This is because the tide is out. They are just going with the flow. This is kind of like England and technology. England is up to speed with technology so they can keep up with the technology of other countries. They can just go with the flow since they do not have to try to catch up. They will advance when the rest advances. The tide of the Thames represents the rest of the world and the boats on the Thames represents England. When the tide(world) is not moving it is very very hard for the boats(England) to move forward. However as soon as the tide(world) moves in or advances the boats(England) moves in or advances. 

Journal Nov. 13

I learned that all his art meant something. This kind of changed the way I looked at African Art. The book made it seem like African people didn't have any culture so therefore there artwork would have no culture. Now I know that African Art can mean a lot to the people making it even if it does not look like it means anything. I also learned that in African Art the higher the arms the more money one has. This was very interesting because there were two pieces and one had one arm raised and the other had both arms raised. I also learned that when faces are made in African Art it is usually not just a random face. Those faces are usually of someone close to the artist. They are also supposed to perfectly represent the person they are carved of. The fourth thing that I found interesting was how the artists could only use each cast once. This means that each piece was unique. Overall my favorite piece was any one of the statues with the nails in them. These were really cool because each nail represented an oath and it was almost like looking back into history. I also liked all the pieces with those small beads. Those must have taken forever to make because they are so intricate. In Heart of Darkness, I think that the symbolism between the Thames and the Congo is the most interesting. In pages 3-6 when the crew is on the Thames, they are just chilling out. I think that this shows that the Thames is much calmer. Since it is calmer it is safer and Marlow feels more at home. On page 8 & 11 he describes the Congo as a snake. I feel that this makes the Congo seem more dangerous because snakes are associated with danger. Also there is a general fear of snakes and there is a general fear of the Congo. The snake could also mean that the Congo is poisonous because it slowly poisons people over time making them go insane. I think by describing the Congo this way he is trying to show that it is dangerous and feared and the Thames is calm and safe. I think this plays into how he see England and Africa as a whole. I think that the Thames also represents all of England which would make sense because he feels that England is safe. I think the Congo represents all of Africa because Marlow has always thought of Africa as mysterious and things that are mysteries are usually scary. Snakes are also usually very aggressive. This could symbolize that the Congo doesn't like the English just like how snakes don't like people. However people can overpower snakes just like the English have overpowered the Congo and now trade on it. In the end, I think that he is trying to say that the Congo poisonous and dangerous whereas the Thames is safe and calm. He is also trying to say that the Congo doesn't want English invaders but the English invaders,have taken over.

Journal Nov. 12

The story starts off with five characters sitting on a boat. They are waiting for the Thames River's tide to go down so they can sail in. While waiting, Marlow begins to talk about what it must have been like for the Romans when they were first exploring England. He then relates this to him exploring the Congo for the first time. He decides to go to Africa on a ship to explore since he has always been intrested with Africa since he was a young child. Luckily a job opens up as a captain because one of the captains of a ship got into a fight with the people on the mainland and was killed. He travels down the coast of Africa for 30 day until he reaches the first station. At this station he sees many black people working. They are called criminals and a sent to work. However they are treated more like slaves. The manager of this station tells him about how good of a worker Kurtz is. Marlow is stuck at this station for ten days. He then travels to a second station with his partner. This trek takes him about 15 days. Once at the second station the manager of that station tells him even more about how good Kurtz is. The manager also says that his ship crashed into rocks and sunk. The manager said that it would take Marlow about three months to fix his ship. Marlow meets the brick maker who he has never seen make bricks. The brick maker tells him even more about how good Kurtz is. He is almost done with rebuilding his ship and all he needs are rivets. The rivets do not arrive on time. He then overhears the manager talking with his uncle about some plans. He gives up on building the ship because the rivets have not come and decides to focus on thinking about Kurtz.

Character Description: 

- Marlow: Marlow is the protagonist of the story and is intelligent. He is also philosophical and talks a lot. His crew is somewhat annoyed by this and they don't usually respond to him. He likes telling stories and is really good at it. He is also adventurous. I believe that he is younger like maybe in his 30s. 

- Congo: I believe that the Congo is a antagonist in this story. The Congo is dangerous and not very well explored. It is also somewhat feared in this book because of the people that live there. The Congo is described as a snake. I believe that this is because it slowly "poisons" people and makes them go insane. 

- Kurtz: Kurtz is liked by everyone that Marlow has met. He is the best ivory gather and gets more than any other person. The leaders of the company in England say that they have great plans for him. On the other hand, I believe that he is and antagonist. I think that he is distracting Marlow from his goal of exploring Africa. He is making Marlow think of him more than think of exploring Africa. I also think that Marlow will get jealous and some bad competition might start between them. 

- Manager of second station: The manager of the second station seems like a fake. He doesn't seem to know much and is only good for keeping the things running. He doesn't know how to make new adjustments and he seems only to be in it for the money. 

-  Marlow's partner: Marlow's partner was unnamed and seems weak. He is somewhat overweight and he faints a lot. Marlow has to care for him when he faints. He also does not seem cut out for the job and is only in it for the money.

- The Director of Companies (on the ship): He seemed responsible and trustworthy. He also seemed intelligent but very focused and serious.

- The Accountant (on the ship): He seemed childish and not very serious. He was trying to play dominoes on the ship. 

- The Lawyer (on the ship): He seemed greedy because he was lying on the only pillow and rug on the deck. He seemed intelligent and serious. He seemed like he was a friend of the narrator. 

Journal Nov. 5

I found Spain's reasoning for why they were taking over colonies very interesting. They said that the Indians did not have natural laws so they were not fit to govern. They also said that they should govern for the Indians because the Indians did not know how to govern. It was funny how they made it seem like they were looking out for the Indians by governing them even though they treated them unfairly. Another interesting thing was the difference between Marxism and Leninism. I had heard of Marxism but I never knew what it was. Lenin seemed like he didn't like colonialism. He was saying about how colonialism was only for economic purposes. One example is when a producer has sold all of the country his goods then no one will want to buy them anymore. The producer will colonize other places because those people might want to buy it. They will also colonize if they run out of resources in their country. Lenin also said that countries will usually colonize if they have a lot of economic problems because then they can put their economic problems onto those other countries that they have colonized. Marx said that it wasn't only for economic purposes and it was also for spearing culture. I found it interesting how we are still looking back at colonialism and still trying to understand it. I would have thought that we would have just forgot about it since it doesn't happen. I found it suprising that Joseph Conrad lived near the Congo River. I expected him to not live anywhere in it but to just be interested in it. Knowing this makes the book seem almost more real. He experienced all of these things, maybe not firsthand, but he sure saw some off this. This makes the book seem like it is written slightly better now that the author has experienced what he is writing about. I was also interested in Kurtz. He or it seemed very mysterious and creepy. I think that we are all attracted to mysterious things which is why he seems so interesting. I did not really understand what or who he was which is why I am interested to read the book. The line, "At the point when Marlow's panic sets in, Kurtz becomes a more material presence" really interested me. It made me think that Kurtz was just a figure of Marlow's imagination. Kurtz then might make Marlow insane because Kurtz is so crazy. As Marlow becomes more insane p, Kurtz becomes more real, which makes Marlow even more insane. This seems really interesting. I would really like to find out the relationship between Kurtz and Marlow. I want to see if my predictions are correct or if they are totally off. 

Journal Nov. 1

I really enjoyed this project. I felt like I learned a lot of valubale information. It was weird how much I felt like I was connected with Kermit. It felt like I had been with him for more than just an hour. He was so open. If I had been interviewed I do not think that I would have been that open and I really admired that about him. My favorite part was going to the interview. I think that the bond formed between us and Kermit would not have been as strong if we had not gone to his house. It was very interesting seeing his house. My least favorite part was transcribing. I didn't dislike transcribing but it was just my least favorite this to do. I found it very hard and I had to pause many times but I felt like I learned a lot at the same time. Next time I would want to be a lead interviewer. I feel like I could ask him even more follow up question and I feel like I would take even more out of this experience. 

Journal Oct. 31

Happy Halloween. While doing the transcription I found it pretty tedious. I took a really long time to do it while the rest of my group had finish. I would like to do it again. I also started to get faster as l went on. This could have been because I started to remember more than just one word  or because I started to focus more. I also felt like it helped me to remember what he said. If you had asked me what he said like a day after the interview I would not be able to remember all the as well. Now if you ask me I will be able to answer much better. I felt like I learned a lot of stuff that I had missed or forgotten before such as why Houston is a good city for an artist and who inspired him to be an artist. I thought that transcribing was a good process to go through. It was tedious but at the same time it was fun. It helped me remeber things. I would like to do it again if we have another project requiring it. 

Journal 8/29/13

Overall I think the interview went really well. I found it a little interesting how at the beginning he answered the questions with maybe one or two words but then as he got more comfortable he started answering the questions with a few more words and then eventually going to long stories about each question.  This may have been because our questions got better as we progressed but I believe that it was because he became more comfortable with talking to us and became more open. It was also really really cool how he took us around his apartment and showed us all of his work and all of his students work that he had kept. I felt like the interview went pretty well but I thought there were a few mistakes that could've been fixed. One example in our interview is that the interviewer would say wow in the middle of his sentences. When we were transcribing, at first, we thought we had to put all those wows in and that just took a lot longer. Now that we found out that we don't have to put the house and I don't think that such a bad mistake. Probably our biggest mistake that was bringing the flip camera  with only one hour of memory. We thought the both the flip cameras had the same amount of memory remember to check if the other flip camera has a different amount of memory. Since our interview went over an hour we did not have enough memory on the camera so we had to switch to Kirby's phone. Unfortunately Kirby's phone had very little memory on it, so we were only able to get five minutes off of that so we had to use my phone and got our last 10 minutes. This called to have blank spots in the video. If we have used other flip camera it would've been one straight video without blank patches missing. Again overall I felt like the interview was really intrresting. 

Journal October 25, 2013

Not many scary things have happened to me but one of them happened at the Rennisance Festival. Lastyear I went to the Rennisance Festival with two of my friends and we decided to go in a maze. There were two different mazes, a haunted house and a neon maze. We chose the neon maze and we were given special glasses that made the neon paint twist and the walls contort. We were walking through and it was dark except for the black lights shinning on the neon walls. We got to the end of the maze and there was a grown man sitting in a black cloak. To exit yip had to pass by him. We were all so scared and then Caitlan told me to just run past him. I sprinted past him and he the yelled to me that I had to give him my glasses and I started lauhghing. I then handed him my glasses and the situation turned from scary to funny. They were many funny experiences just hanging out with my friends. I can't remember them that well but here was one time when my friend poured nearly all of those shredded mozzarella jars on his pizza. He left to go to the bathroom and my other friend pour probably a tablespoon of those red chili flakes onto his pizza. We then hid them under the shredded mozzarella. When he came back he was in for a shock. Many other funny things happened at the camp that I went to last summer. One of the scariest things that ever happened to me was when my sister and my dad went for a hike in Canada. My family had taken a hike to get to a beach. My sister and dad then wanted to hike even further over a boulder and onto some rocks near the ocean to get a better view. I was on the beach with my mom waiting for them for about thirty minutes. We could not here them nor see them. I just remember hoping that they hadn't been swept of the rocks into the cold, harsh waters. Finally I saw the tip of my dad's head and I knew they were safe.

Journal Oct. 18, 2013

The first question I want to ask him is how has Houston in general changed over the time while you have lived here? I am interested in this because he has lived in Houston for a while and I think that it would be helpful to know. 

 I would also ask what is your favorite art piece and why? I think that he would have a lot of reason for having a favorite peice and he would and it would be interesting to learn about this. 

  I would also ask what are some of your major projects right now and are there any more in the future that you know of? I would not be able to find this on the internet because he would be the only one knowing what he is planning. It will also be interesting to learn what he thinks of as major.

 I would also be interested to learn if he would envision staying in Houston for the rest of your life and what is your favorite thing about Houston? He might want to move or change city. I would want to know why he wanted to stay in Houston and why he was attracted to Houston.

I would also want to know if there are any other interests that you would like to pursue in the future? He might want to do other things and he probably doesn't talk about it that much because society has placed him in a box and expects him to just be an artist and paint and sit quietly.

Journal October 17, 2013

The questions all seemed to be very helpful with moving the story. Even though this was an hour long series of interviews that I watched I felt like it was only mabye twenty minutes. This is because the interviewer kept the questions interesting and the questions did not just have a one word answer. One question thati found good was when Father Thomas Santos was asked what the hardest part of listening to a scrupulous persons confessions was. He responded by saying that it was hard to be patient with such trivial questions and that it was also hard for him to be loving because he was bored. It was interesting because the questions all fit together well but it would have been impossible to know what someone's answers would be. These answers were needed to make some of he questions. I think that next week my group should write all the questions we are planning on asking but also being prepared to make up questions on the spot if he says something interesting that we don't have any questions about. Another question that I found interesting was when Jeffery was asked if he felt like a victim. Jeffery said no which surmised me because he had been discriminated against ever since ths case. I certainly would have felt like a victim. I think that itis very important to research the subject before hand so that we are not caught off guard by so ething they said. This will help us be able to make up questionse more easily.

Journal 8/12

I think that one thing that drives Andrew Stanton is that he wants to make people care about what he is doing. He wants to give readers a story that they will care about and enjoy reading. What drives me is wanting to change lives for the better. I want to positively influence at least one persons life.  It's scary to think about going that in two hundred years you most likely won't be remembered. I don't want that to happen. I want to be remembered by at least one person as the man who gave him money when I couldn't buy food or the man who gave people shelter when they did not have a house. I know that this is a grand wish but I believe that it is possible. I want to be able to change people's life's for the better. I want to help people and I believe that everyone should have equal rights. We say that everyone has equal rights in America but that is a flat out lie. People are constantly put down everyday and I think that needs to stop. My spine is the idea that I don't care what people say about me. They are holding themselves back by saying those things and if I choose to respond to them then I am holding myself back. If I let them go then I can continue going forward and helping people. This video helped me to learn how to make one care. You have to let them guess a little for themselves  you can't just give them all the answers. It didn't really affect the way I see the world it just helped me understand why I see it that way. Andrew Stanton said, " We're born problem solvers, work compelled to deduce and to deduct,  because that's what we do in real life, it's well organized absence  information that draws us in." This quote helped me to better understand why I see the world the way that I do.

Journal October 8, 2013

I was surprised by the amount of all the movie theaters there were in Houston. I was also surprised of how ornate they were. I was sad that most of them got torn down or were not protected. I really want to go to one of the ones that is still standing because I think that it would be interesting to see. I was also surprised with how many people these theaters could fit. These were huge. They could seat up to about 2,000 people. Nowadays theaters seat up to mabye 200 about. I was also surprised with how so many people turned up in the 1920s to hear that boxing game at Miller theater. Boxing must have been much more popular in those days. I was also surprised to hear how Houston wasn't affected by the Great Depression. I had expected it to be hit hard because it was a big city. However since it had oil which was a nessecity, it did not get hit hard. Jesse jones also built a lot of buildings and roads. This helped people get jobs because there were more places to work. Artists were also hired to paint murals, this gave them a job. Some of those murals are still around today such as the ones in the Houston Public Library. I was surprised with how some bad things made Houston successful. One example is when Saudi Arabia stopped giving us oil because we supported Isreal. Houston got profit from this because we had lots of oil and we could sell it. This also caused us to look for other places with oil which is how we found the Alaskin Pipeline. Another tragic event that was good for Houston was Hurricane Katrina. We provided protection and help to citizens. This was the largest event in which the government worked with private people. We also helped over 200,000 people. This provided a model to people of the USA and people of the world.

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