1. Declaration
2. 10 color copy images
3. Narrative #1
4. Critique #1
5. Narrative #2
6. Narrative #3
7. Critique #2
8. Critique #3
9. Narrative #4
10. Narrative #5
11. Example of Existing Criticism #1
12. Example of Existing Criticism #2
13. 20 Additional Images
14. 5 Examples of Literature
15. 20 Examples of Literature
16. 10 Relating Websites
Friday, May 21, 2010
Wednesday, May 19, 2010
Narrative #3
Even though their voices were muffled by the sliding glass door in between them, he knew what they were talking about. They argued a lot, they always had, but they only step outside when it’s something they really don’t want him to hear. They usually argue over things like dinner, money, or work hours inside, since it doesn’t really matter if he hears, but when they step outside he knows what it’s about. It’s about him.
His father was always very stubborn; he didn’t change his mind about anything, even when he knew he was wrong. He would have made a great lawyer if he decided to stick with law school, but instead, he was an accountant who dreaded his decision to drop out since the first day out. He always encouraged his son to be a lawyer, to stick with law school, and to lead the life he wish he had. He used to always say, “Don’t make the same mistake I did, John, because you don’t know how much you’ll regret not taking that chance.”
His mother was almost the exact opposite. She didn’t care if he became a lawyer or not, as long as he was happy with his decision. Of course, she also didn’t want him to live in the same regret that her husband was, but she didn’t care what career he wanted to pursue. She was a therapist, a great one, and she always thought that parents should not pressure their children into making decisions that they don’t want to make.
“I just don’t want him to make the same mistake that I did,” John could hear his father say.
“If he doesn’t want to be a lawyer, then he won’t be living in regret. He can pursue whatever career he wants to,” his mother replied in a tired voice. This was an argument she was beginning to grow sick of.
“I know, but I just feel like he would be great in court, and I think he should take the opportunity of a life time.”
“Will you just drop it?” his mother hissed, “He can do whatever he wants.”
They both had good points to John. He saw the pain that his dad goes through almost every single day, and he knows that that’s not something he wants to live with. Also, maybe being a lawyer won’t be the most terrible thing in the world. There are some jobs that are much worse, and John knows that. Maybe being a lawyer and leading the life his dad always wanted to isn’t such a bad idea.
At the same time, however, his father’s mistakes shouldn’t influence John to make the decision about his career. Just because he didn’t pursue the career he wanted to doesn’t mean John should. He’s only 14-years-old anyway- he has plenty of time to make the decision. His father doesn’t have the right to pressure John into making decisions, just like his mother said, it’s just not right.
Both of his parents obviously make a pretty convincing point. At this point in the never-ending argument, John doesn’t know what he wants to do. He doesn’t even know what to do in general.
“Fine,” he suddenly heard his father say. “Let’s see what he wants. John, can you come out here please?”
His father was always very stubborn; he didn’t change his mind about anything, even when he knew he was wrong. He would have made a great lawyer if he decided to stick with law school, but instead, he was an accountant who dreaded his decision to drop out since the first day out. He always encouraged his son to be a lawyer, to stick with law school, and to lead the life he wish he had. He used to always say, “Don’t make the same mistake I did, John, because you don’t know how much you’ll regret not taking that chance.”
His mother was almost the exact opposite. She didn’t care if he became a lawyer or not, as long as he was happy with his decision. Of course, she also didn’t want him to live in the same regret that her husband was, but she didn’t care what career he wanted to pursue. She was a therapist, a great one, and she always thought that parents should not pressure their children into making decisions that they don’t want to make.
“I just don’t want him to make the same mistake that I did,” John could hear his father say.
“If he doesn’t want to be a lawyer, then he won’t be living in regret. He can pursue whatever career he wants to,” his mother replied in a tired voice. This was an argument she was beginning to grow sick of.
“I know, but I just feel like he would be great in court, and I think he should take the opportunity of a life time.”
“Will you just drop it?” his mother hissed, “He can do whatever he wants.”
They both had good points to John. He saw the pain that his dad goes through almost every single day, and he knows that that’s not something he wants to live with. Also, maybe being a lawyer won’t be the most terrible thing in the world. There are some jobs that are much worse, and John knows that. Maybe being a lawyer and leading the life his dad always wanted to isn’t such a bad idea.
At the same time, however, his father’s mistakes shouldn’t influence John to make the decision about his career. Just because he didn’t pursue the career he wanted to doesn’t mean John should. He’s only 14-years-old anyway- he has plenty of time to make the decision. His father doesn’t have the right to pressure John into making decisions, just like his mother said, it’s just not right.
Both of his parents obviously make a pretty convincing point. At this point in the never-ending argument, John doesn’t know what he wants to do. He doesn’t even know what to do in general.
“Fine,” he suddenly heard his father say. “Let’s see what he wants. John, can you come out here please?”
Narrative #2
As soon as Auntie informed us that she was done taking pictures, Mother’s happy expression instantly turned into one of anger and frustration. “Can’t you kids smile for just one minute?” she hissed to me and my little sister through clenched teeth. I looked over at my sister, and she returned my expression of anguish.
“Sorry, Mother,” Lucy whispered, letting her head drop.
“Well, just remember to smile when we get there. We don’t want anyone thinking we aren’t a happy family.” From where I was sitting, I could see my daddy’s hands tighten around the steering wheel.
Now knowing that my daddy was angry about this too, I blurted, “Why do we have to go to this? We never had to do anything like this before!”
“We’re in a new town now, and we don’t want to make a bad first impression, so stop complaining!” Mother snapped, causing me to slouch down in my seat and not say another word.
Mother had not always been like this. She used to be fun, nice, and she would smile all the time, not just for Auntie’s pictures. Moving to a brand new town changed her; she just wanted to fit in with all the other families in the neighborhood. When our neighbor invited us to the town’s annual End of the Summer Cookout, she was so excited. She called up Auntie right away to tell her the good news, since Mother and Auntie are pretty much the same person. I think that’s why Auntie wanted to take so many pictures.
My daddy has changed too. He was the best daddy anyone could ask for. He would always help me whenever I needed anything, and he was just such a fun person. Now he’s very quiet and keeps to himself most of the time. I think he’s a little bit afraid that he’ll upset Mother if he tries to be himself in this town.
Lucy is just sad most of the time. I think she doesn’t like having to leave all of her friends behind. She’s been hanging around me a lot for the past week. It’s nice to have some company, since I’m pretty lonely too, but she’s starting to get annoying.
I don’t like this new town. I don’t like the fact that my family is changing. I wish Mother wouldn’t try so hard to impress these new people, and I wish that my daddy would say something, since I know that he can. I wish Lucy would make some new friends, so she wouldn’t be hanging around me so much. Maybe I could say something, but I’ll be like my daddy and keep quiet so Mother will be happy.
We pulled up to the town’s park in about ten minutes. Mother sighed then put on a smile, turning around to make sure me and Lucy were too. When she was confident that everyone looked happy, she opened her door and headed towards our neighbors.
“Sorry, Mother,” Lucy whispered, letting her head drop.
“Well, just remember to smile when we get there. We don’t want anyone thinking we aren’t a happy family.” From where I was sitting, I could see my daddy’s hands tighten around the steering wheel.
Now knowing that my daddy was angry about this too, I blurted, “Why do we have to go to this? We never had to do anything like this before!”
“We’re in a new town now, and we don’t want to make a bad first impression, so stop complaining!” Mother snapped, causing me to slouch down in my seat and not say another word.
Mother had not always been like this. She used to be fun, nice, and she would smile all the time, not just for Auntie’s pictures. Moving to a brand new town changed her; she just wanted to fit in with all the other families in the neighborhood. When our neighbor invited us to the town’s annual End of the Summer Cookout, she was so excited. She called up Auntie right away to tell her the good news, since Mother and Auntie are pretty much the same person. I think that’s why Auntie wanted to take so many pictures.
My daddy has changed too. He was the best daddy anyone could ask for. He would always help me whenever I needed anything, and he was just such a fun person. Now he’s very quiet and keeps to himself most of the time. I think he’s a little bit afraid that he’ll upset Mother if he tries to be himself in this town.
Lucy is just sad most of the time. I think she doesn’t like having to leave all of her friends behind. She’s been hanging around me a lot for the past week. It’s nice to have some company, since I’m pretty lonely too, but she’s starting to get annoying.
I don’t like this new town. I don’t like the fact that my family is changing. I wish Mother wouldn’t try so hard to impress these new people, and I wish that my daddy would say something, since I know that he can. I wish Lucy would make some new friends, so she wouldn’t be hanging around me so much. Maybe I could say something, but I’ll be like my daddy and keep quiet so Mother will be happy.
We pulled up to the town’s park in about ten minutes. Mother sighed then put on a smile, turning around to make sure me and Lucy were too. When she was confident that everyone looked happy, she opened her door and headed towards our neighbors.
Narrative #1
As the clock struck 12:30, every person in the sales department got up from their seats and grabbed their lunches. Everybody always brought their own lunch, and nobody ever bought anything from the company hot line lunch. Soon, the cafeteria was filled with men and women carrying brown paper bags, as if they were going to lunch in an elementary school. Everybody moved into their usual seats and took out their sandwiches. They all awkwardly shifted in their seats, waiting for the first person to take a bite of their usual turkey on white sandwich. That person was usually Joe, their boss, and everyone was used to that. It was their routine.Jim, however, was not used to this routine. As he turned towards his colleagues after filling up his cup of coffee, he noticed that no one else had walked up to buy, well, anything. Embarrassed, Joe quickly and quietly took the closest empty seat he could find, which happened to be right across from his new boss. He quickly drank his cup of black coffee while ducking behind the metallic pillar next to him, since he didn’t want anyone, especially the boss, to notice him. He made a mental note to bring turkey on white to his second day of work.
Meanwhile, Martha was silently scolding herself for being too adventurous. If she hadn’t been tempted to put on that shiny red headband she bought herself last week, she wouldn’t be sticking out so much. No other woman in the office ever wore a headband, especially one as bright and bold as hers, so why should she? Why was she so different? Still, she couldn’t take it off now, because people would notice and she didn’t know what they would think about that. There was no escaping her mistake.
Throughout the half hour the salespeople had for lunch, everybody silently chewed on their sandwiches while looking down at the spot of the table in front of them. Nobody wanted to say anything, for no one knew what the other people would think if they let out a single sound. However, that didn’t stop the people from thinking to themselves. Janet was yelling at herself for not being as brave as the woman across from her who was wearing that beautiful headband. Gertrude, sitting way in the corner, reminded herself to get new glasses that did not have pink frames, or any color that wasn’t black. Nobody was brave enough to put their thoughts into words.
Then, at 1:00, everybody followed as Joe got up from his seat and threw away his trash. They all silently shuffled back into their offices. It was all a part of their routine.
Example ofExisting Criticism + Image #2
Caillebotte's ambitious modem history painting Paris Street; Rainy Day, much like his Floor-Scrapers, shown the previous year, secured the artist critical appreciation at the Impressionist exhibition in 1877 for its "science of design and arrangement. "According to one reviewer, it was a canvas "that, despite the bizarre quality of some of its details and its jerky handling ... would still figure honorably beside pictures receiving the approval of the Champs-Elysees (official Salon) jury." Indeed, in the relative finish of its brushwork, in the well studied rationality of its composition, and especially in its impressive size, Paris Street--despite the shocking modernity of its subject-must have looked familiarly academic in 1877, betraying Caillebotte's recent study with the Salon artist Leon Bonnat. It even prompted one critic to exclaim that "M. Caillebotte is an Impressionist in name only," because in comparison to many of his colleagues who were being derided for daring to exhibit sketches as finished works of art, this painting demonstrated that Caillebotte "knows how to draw and paint more seriously. . . ."The fact that Caillebotte followed an academic rather than "Impressionist" method in many of the large paintings of his early career is evidenced by a group of preparatory drawings and oil sketches for Paris Street, through which the artist developed and altered his original conception for the picture. These studies and sketches certainly attest to the 'considerable effort' described by the critic Georges Riviere in 1877 in reference to the painting, and "how difficult it was and how much skill was necessary to complete a canvas of these dimensions." Nevertheless, they also demonstrate the lengths to which the artist went in order to construct an image that would appear at once both obsessively ordered and precariously fragile-a construction that constitutes the very basis of the picture's meaning.
http://www.mystudios.com/art/impress/caillebotte/caillebotte-paris.html
http://www.mystudios.com/art/impress/caillebotte/caillebotte-paris.html
Names of Images
Red Coquette by Ernst Ludwig Kirchner
Pastel on Cardboard
Germany
Confronting Conformity by Alexandra Isaievych
Acrylic, oil on canvas
Ukraine
Village Dance (Dangast) by Erich Heckel
Oil on canvas
Germany
The Waiting Room by George Tooker
Oil on canvas
United States
The House Painters by Gustave Caillebotte
Oil on canvas
France
The Conference by John Brack
Watercolor, pen, ink
Australia
Woman and Dummy by John Brack
Medium unknown
Australia
White Sea Canal by Alexander Rodchenko
Gelatin-silver print
Russia
A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte by Georges Seurat
Oil on canvas
France
Berlin Street by Ernst Ludwig Kirchner
Medium unknown
Germany
Bathers in Asnieres by Georges Seurat
Oil on canvas
France
Zirkusparade by Georges Seurat
Oil on canvas
France
Three Dancers by Pablo Picasso
Medium unknown
Spain
The Floor Scrapers by Gustave Caillebotte
Oil on canvas
France
Le Pont de l'Europe by Gustave Caillebotte
Oil on canvas
France
Dogs Playing Poker by Cassius Marcellus Coolidge
Medium unknown
United States
Coney Island by George Tooker
Egg Tempera on Wood
United States
Sleepers ll by George Tooker
Egg Tempera on Wood
United States
Embrace of Peace by George Tooker
Egg Tempera on Wood
United States
Pastel on Cardboard
Germany
Confronting Conformity by Alexandra Isaievych
Acrylic, oil on canvas
Ukraine
Village Dance (Dangast) by Erich Heckel
Oil on canvas
Germany
The Waiting Room by George Tooker
Oil on canvas
United States
The House Painters by Gustave Caillebotte
Oil on canvas
France
The Conference by John Brack
Watercolor, pen, ink
Australia
Woman and Dummy by John Brack
Medium unknown
Australia
White Sea Canal by Alexander Rodchenko
Gelatin-silver print
Russia
A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte by Georges Seurat
Oil on canvas
France
Berlin Street by Ernst Ludwig Kirchner
Medium unknown
Germany
Bathers in Asnieres by Georges Seurat
Oil on canvas
France
Zirkusparade by Georges Seurat
Oil on canvas
France
Three Dancers by Pablo Picasso
Medium unknown
Spain
The Floor Scrapers by Gustave Caillebotte
Oil on canvas
France
Le Pont de l'Europe by Gustave Caillebotte
Oil on canvas
France
Dogs Playing Poker by Cassius Marcellus Coolidge
Medium unknown
United States
Coney Island by George Tooker
Egg Tempera on Wood
United States
Sleepers ll by George Tooker
Egg Tempera on Wood
United States
Embrace of Peace by George Tooker
Egg Tempera on Wood
United States
10 Websites
1.Science News (Science Daily)-http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/01/090114124109.htm
This aritcle reveals the brain activity that explains the exsistence of conformity. The results show that social conformity is based on mechanisms that send off a "prediction error" signal that signals when one is about to make the social mistake of being too different. This relates to my concept because it shows how conformity is actually caused by activity in our brains.
2.Psychology Experiment(PsyBlog)-http://www.spring.org.uk/2008/08/elevator-psychology-and-london.php
This article describes an experiment that took place on an elevator. On an elevator with doors on both sides, one person would confidently turn to the door that no one else was facing, forcing the other passengers to decide to stay with the group or turn around with the confident man. This is an example of conformity because it shows how other people’s behaviors influence a person’s decision.
3.Psychology Experiment(Age of the Sage)- http://www.age-of-the-sage.org/psychology/social/asch_conformity.html
This experiment deals with social pressure. Subjects are asked simply questions that have to do with the lengths of lines, and only one of these subjects is a real subject; the other ones are actors who know what is going on. The experiment’s purpose is to see if the one real subject will give the same answer as the other actors, even if their answer is obviously wrong. This is an example of conformity because it shows how the subject was influenced by the answer all the actors gave so that he or she wouldn’t seem out of the ordinary.
4.History(Visions of Perfection)-http://library.thinkquest.org/27648/cgi-bin/ais.cgi?display=html&type=html&page=5
This article focuses on Hitler’s concept of the Aryan Race during World War II. To him, if everyone had blonde hair and blue eyes, then everyone would be happy and perfect. He wanted to have this Aryan race dominate the majority of Western Europe.This is conformity because it shows how Hitler wanted everyone to look exactly the same, and how anyone different was not accepted.
5.Sociology Guide-http://www.sociologyguide.com/basic-concepts/Conformity.php
This article is all about the social aspect of conformity. It states the sociologists have been trying to find the answer to why social activity always ends in order and not chaos. To explain this, they study social conformity. This is an example of conformity because it shows how conforming to a mass group in society can actually cause order and stability.
6.Book Review of Hello, I’m Special by Hal Niedzviecki (City Lights) http://www.citylights.com/book/?GCOI=87286100021260
This review is of a book called Hello, I’m Special: How Individuality Became the New Conformity by Hal Niedzviecki. In the book, Hal calls out the thousands of people who try to stick out so that they can finally fet their fifteen minutes of fame. He points out that it’s not indviduality if one purposely tried to dress and act the opposite way that the people around that one person. This shows conformity because it shows how other people’s appearance and behavior influences other people to stick out more. Also, it shows how other people are influenced by these people who are displaying individuality to do the same.
7.History (The Flow of History)-http://www.flowofhistory.com/readings-flowcharts/the-world-since-1945/the-post-war-world-1945-60/fc142
This article explains the different kinds of pressures to conform the people living in the 1950’s experienced. It talks about how millions of men were pressured to join many of the large cooperations that were a huge part of the economy of America. People were also pressured to get married, start a family, and move into the suburbs after the war. Several other events are brought up throughout the article. This shows conformity because it explains how millions of people were pressured to join mass groups in work and in their personal lives.
8.Psychology Experimenthttp://www.spring.org.uk/2007/02/stanley-milgram-obedience-to-authority.php
This psychology experiment mainly focuses on obedience to authority. Normal people were asked to give a subject (who was really an actor) different levels of electric shock. The point of the experiment was to see how long these people would stay and obediently issue the electric shock, even though the person didn’t know that no electric shock was actually being given. This shows conformity because the person giving the shock would just listen to the man in the lab coat, even if he or she thought it was wrong.
9.Editorial by Carol Noble (Associated Content)-http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/468398/is_conformity_within_society_a_good.html
This editorial addresses whether or not conformity in society is a good thing. The author talks about how people conform as a group or even as a nation to create order and stability. She says that people have lost the idea of indivuality over the years because of this. This is an example of conformity because it shows how people just go with what other people are thinking or doing just so there won’t be any chaos, and how they lose their individuality because of it.
10.George Tooker Biography-http://www.leninimports.com/george_tooker.html
This is a biography of the American artist George Tooker. In this biography, it states the George once said that he was more of an observer of society, not an interpreter. In several of his paintings, all of the people in them look exactly the same. This shows conformity because it states the Tooker thinks he observes society in a way where nobody is their own individual.
This aritcle reveals the brain activity that explains the exsistence of conformity. The results show that social conformity is based on mechanisms that send off a "prediction error" signal that signals when one is about to make the social mistake of being too different. This relates to my concept because it shows how conformity is actually caused by activity in our brains.
2.Psychology Experiment(PsyBlog)-http://www.spring.org.uk/2008/08/elevator-psychology-and-london.php
This article describes an experiment that took place on an elevator. On an elevator with doors on both sides, one person would confidently turn to the door that no one else was facing, forcing the other passengers to decide to stay with the group or turn around with the confident man. This is an example of conformity because it shows how other people’s behaviors influence a person’s decision.
3.Psychology Experiment(Age of the Sage)- http://www.age-of-the-sage.org/psychology/social/asch_conformity.html
This experiment deals with social pressure. Subjects are asked simply questions that have to do with the lengths of lines, and only one of these subjects is a real subject; the other ones are actors who know what is going on. The experiment’s purpose is to see if the one real subject will give the same answer as the other actors, even if their answer is obviously wrong. This is an example of conformity because it shows how the subject was influenced by the answer all the actors gave so that he or she wouldn’t seem out of the ordinary.
4.History(Visions of Perfection)-http://library.thinkquest.org/27648/cgi-bin/ais.cgi?display=html&type=html&page=5
This article focuses on Hitler’s concept of the Aryan Race during World War II. To him, if everyone had blonde hair and blue eyes, then everyone would be happy and perfect. He wanted to have this Aryan race dominate the majority of Western Europe.This is conformity because it shows how Hitler wanted everyone to look exactly the same, and how anyone different was not accepted.
5.Sociology Guide-http://www.sociologyguide.com/basic-concepts/Conformity.php
This article is all about the social aspect of conformity. It states the sociologists have been trying to find the answer to why social activity always ends in order and not chaos. To explain this, they study social conformity. This is an example of conformity because it shows how conforming to a mass group in society can actually cause order and stability.
6.Book Review of Hello, I’m Special by Hal Niedzviecki (City Lights) http://www.citylights.com/book/?GCOI=87286100021260
This review is of a book called Hello, I’m Special: How Individuality Became the New Conformity by Hal Niedzviecki. In the book, Hal calls out the thousands of people who try to stick out so that they can finally fet their fifteen minutes of fame. He points out that it’s not indviduality if one purposely tried to dress and act the opposite way that the people around that one person. This shows conformity because it shows how other people’s appearance and behavior influences other people to stick out more. Also, it shows how other people are influenced by these people who are displaying individuality to do the same.
7.History (The Flow of History)-http://www.flowofhistory.com/readings-flowcharts/the-world-since-1945/the-post-war-world-1945-60/fc142
This article explains the different kinds of pressures to conform the people living in the 1950’s experienced. It talks about how millions of men were pressured to join many of the large cooperations that were a huge part of the economy of America. People were also pressured to get married, start a family, and move into the suburbs after the war. Several other events are brought up throughout the article. This shows conformity because it explains how millions of people were pressured to join mass groups in work and in their personal lives.
8.Psychology Experimenthttp://www.spring.org.uk/2007/02/stanley-milgram-obedience-to-authority.php
This psychology experiment mainly focuses on obedience to authority. Normal people were asked to give a subject (who was really an actor) different levels of electric shock. The point of the experiment was to see how long these people would stay and obediently issue the electric shock, even though the person didn’t know that no electric shock was actually being given. This shows conformity because the person giving the shock would just listen to the man in the lab coat, even if he or she thought it was wrong.
9.Editorial by Carol Noble (Associated Content)-http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/468398/is_conformity_within_society_a_good.html
This editorial addresses whether or not conformity in society is a good thing. The author talks about how people conform as a group or even as a nation to create order and stability. She says that people have lost the idea of indivuality over the years because of this. This is an example of conformity because it shows how people just go with what other people are thinking or doing just so there won’t be any chaos, and how they lose their individuality because of it.
10.George Tooker Biography-http://www.leninimports.com/george_tooker.html
This is a biography of the American artist George Tooker. In this biography, it states the George once said that he was more of an observer of society, not an interpreter. In several of his paintings, all of the people in them look exactly the same. This shows conformity because it states the Tooker thinks he observes society in a way where nobody is their own individual.
Thursday, May 13, 2010
25 Excerpts
1.“Don't think you're on the right road just because it’s a well-beaten path. “
-Author Unknown
2."Beauty is power the same way money is power the same way a gun is power. We’re all such products.” -Chuck Palahniuk (Invisible Monsters)
3."Let me tell you this: if you meet a loner, no matter what they tell you, it's not because they enjoy solitude. It's because they have tried to blend into the world before, and people continue to disappoint them."
- Jodi Picoult (My Sister's Keeper)
4.“I allowed myself to become a peculiar, unlovable ghoul because first my mother left me, to be raised primarily by the public school system and secondarily by my father, who hated me. Then my father left me, to start another, I assume better, family abroad. But I didn’t mind because I had love, a beautiful new wife, a beautiful new home. And then my wife left me and I decided that I no longer wanted to be left. I made a freak out of myself, Joanne, to keep everyone away.” -Lisa Jewell (Roommates Wanted)
5.“If you don't control your mind, someone else will.” - John Allston
6.“Toby was glad not to be a teenager in the twenty-first century- it all seemed so stifling, so conformist. Young girls all looked the same to Toby these days. They all had the same strip of stomach showing between the same jersey top and low-slung jeans, their belly buttons all studded with the same flashy gems. They all wore their long hair in the same side-parted style, their lips sticky with the same glossy gel, their complexions the same shade of Balearic brown all year round.” -Lisa Jewell (Roommates Wanted)
7."Here is the story of Tom and Betsy Rath, a young couple with everything going for them: three healthy children, a nice home, a steady income. They have every reason to be happy, but for some reason they are not. Like so many young men of the day, Tom finds himself caught up in the corporate rat race - what he encounters there propels him on a voyage of self-discovery that will turn his world inside out.” –Sloan Wilson (The Man in the Grey Flannel Suit)
8."Surely you remember the boy in your own school class who was exceptionally ‘bright,’ did most of the reciting and answering while the others sat like so many leaden idols, hating him. And wasn't it this bright boy you selected for beatings and tortures after hours? Of course it was. We must all be alike. Not everyone born free and equal, as the Constitution says, but everyone made equal. Each man the image of every other; then all are happy, for there are no mountains to make them cower, to judge themselves against. “ -Ray Bradbury (Fahrenheit 451)
9."She didn't choose this role / But she'll play it and make it sincere” –Panic At the Disco (Time to Dance)
10.“You are a good man, but misguided. These people do not appreciate you or your generosity. They are holding you back. My greatest fear for you, Toby, is that you will end up like me, alone, misunderstood, unappreciated, and I fear this could happen all too easily.”
-Lisa Jewell (Roommates Wanted)
11.“You don't get harmony when everybody sings the same note.”
-Doug Floyd
12.“One who walks in another's tracks leaves no footprints.”
-Proverb
13.“When I was four years old they tried to test my IQ, they showed me this picture of three oranges and a pear. They asked me which one is different and does not belong; they taught me different was wrong.”
-Ani Difranco
14.“What we call human nature in actuality is human habit.”
-Jewel Kilcher (Pieces Of You)
15.“Just because something is tradition doesn't make it right.”
-Anthony J. D'Angelo (The College Blue Book)
16.“And what is a good citizen? Simply one who never says, does or thinks anything that is unusual. Schools are maintained in order to bring this uniformity up to the highest possible point. A school is a hopper into which children are heaved while they are still young and tender; therein they are pressed into certain standard shapes and covered from head to heels with official rubber-stamps.”
-H.L. Mencken
17.“Common experience shows how much rarer is moral courage than physical bravery. A thousand men will march to the mouth of the cannon where one man will dare espouse an unpopular cause.”
-Clarence Darrow (Resist Not Evil)
18."We all believe that we are a certain kind of person, but we never know until we do something that proves otherwise, or until we die."
- Chuck Klosterman (Downtown Owl)
19."In and of itself, nothing really matters. What matters is that nothing is ever in and of itself.”
- Chuck Klosterman (Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs)
20.“Nothing of me is original. I am the combined effort of everybody I’ve ever known.” .
- Chuck Palahniuk (Invisible Monsters)
21.“Old Man Warner snorted. ‘Pack of crazy fools,’ he said. ‘Listening to the young folks, nothing's good enough for them. Next thing you know, they'll be wanting to go back to living in caves, nobody work any more, live hat way for a while. Used to be a saying about 'Lottery in June, corn be heavy soon.' First thing you know, we'd all be eating stewed chickweed and acorns. There's always been a lottery,’”
- Shirley Jackson (The Lottery)
22."No question now, what had happened to the faces of the pigs. The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which."
- George Orwell (Animal Farm)
23.
They say the poet is unique,
At others he won't stoop to peek
To learn just how his pen must tweak
His words before he dares to speak.
Yet, would the poet still create
If his audience cast no bait
To catch the one who thinks he's great
And thus to seal his sorry fate?
No, his lines would soon abate I
f too long he had to wait
Every time he took a pause
For a round of due applause.
And, would the Muse still amuse
If he was not duly used
To take a big, tasty bite Of the critics' sweet delight?
Surely, no verses would emit
If the pundits threw a fit
Just because they did not get
Rhyme and rhythm that doth fit.
-mckee (Matching to the Beat To a Different Drum )
24.Sometimes we search for the impossible, often we hate what is found.
Sometimes we long for the truth, but when spoken it has an unpleasant sound.
Most people want to be someone, and some people don’t care either way.
Some people hate their emotions, and most are hurt by what others say.
All that I want is some meaning; I have no need for either fortune or fame.
I see my peers all around me, and from the looks of it they all are the same.
Same smell, same hair same, clothes; same wants and needs.
Same walk, same talk, color.
No variety to be found. Same phone, same purse, same ambitions.
Hundreds of minds linked as one.
No wrong, no right, no black, no white; nothing to separate them at all.
They are one in thinking, they are one in breathing.
They are one in hearing, they are one in seeing.
They are one in feeling; they are one in their fears.
They are one in their joy; they are one when the tears fall.
They are one in their pleasure; they are one in their pain.
They are one in their losses, they are in their gains.
They are one in their conscience; they are one in the same…
-Odd One (One)
25.
You've got a great car,
Yeah, what's wrong with it today?
I used to have one too, Maybe I'll come and have a look.
I really love your hairdo,Yeah,
I'm glad you like mine too,
See what lookin' pretty cool will get ya.
- The Dandy Warhols (Bohemian Like You)
-Author Unknown
2."Beauty is power the same way money is power the same way a gun is power. We’re all such products.” -Chuck Palahniuk (Invisible Monsters)
3."Let me tell you this: if you meet a loner, no matter what they tell you, it's not because they enjoy solitude. It's because they have tried to blend into the world before, and people continue to disappoint them."
- Jodi Picoult (My Sister's Keeper)
4.“I allowed myself to become a peculiar, unlovable ghoul because first my mother left me, to be raised primarily by the public school system and secondarily by my father, who hated me. Then my father left me, to start another, I assume better, family abroad. But I didn’t mind because I had love, a beautiful new wife, a beautiful new home. And then my wife left me and I decided that I no longer wanted to be left. I made a freak out of myself, Joanne, to keep everyone away.” -Lisa Jewell (Roommates Wanted)
5.“If you don't control your mind, someone else will.” - John Allston
6.“Toby was glad not to be a teenager in the twenty-first century- it all seemed so stifling, so conformist. Young girls all looked the same to Toby these days. They all had the same strip of stomach showing between the same jersey top and low-slung jeans, their belly buttons all studded with the same flashy gems. They all wore their long hair in the same side-parted style, their lips sticky with the same glossy gel, their complexions the same shade of Balearic brown all year round.” -Lisa Jewell (Roommates Wanted)
7."Here is the story of Tom and Betsy Rath, a young couple with everything going for them: three healthy children, a nice home, a steady income. They have every reason to be happy, but for some reason they are not. Like so many young men of the day, Tom finds himself caught up in the corporate rat race - what he encounters there propels him on a voyage of self-discovery that will turn his world inside out.” –Sloan Wilson (The Man in the Grey Flannel Suit)
8."Surely you remember the boy in your own school class who was exceptionally ‘bright,’ did most of the reciting and answering while the others sat like so many leaden idols, hating him. And wasn't it this bright boy you selected for beatings and tortures after hours? Of course it was. We must all be alike. Not everyone born free and equal, as the Constitution says, but everyone made equal. Each man the image of every other; then all are happy, for there are no mountains to make them cower, to judge themselves against. “ -Ray Bradbury (Fahrenheit 451)
9."She didn't choose this role / But she'll play it and make it sincere” –Panic At the Disco (Time to Dance)
10.“You are a good man, but misguided. These people do not appreciate you or your generosity. They are holding you back. My greatest fear for you, Toby, is that you will end up like me, alone, misunderstood, unappreciated, and I fear this could happen all too easily.”
-Lisa Jewell (Roommates Wanted)
11.“You don't get harmony when everybody sings the same note.”
-Doug Floyd
12.“One who walks in another's tracks leaves no footprints.”
-Proverb
13.“When I was four years old they tried to test my IQ, they showed me this picture of three oranges and a pear. They asked me which one is different and does not belong; they taught me different was wrong.”
-Ani Difranco
14.“What we call human nature in actuality is human habit.”
-Jewel Kilcher (Pieces Of You)
15.“Just because something is tradition doesn't make it right.”
-Anthony J. D'Angelo (The College Blue Book)
16.“And what is a good citizen? Simply one who never says, does or thinks anything that is unusual. Schools are maintained in order to bring this uniformity up to the highest possible point. A school is a hopper into which children are heaved while they are still young and tender; therein they are pressed into certain standard shapes and covered from head to heels with official rubber-stamps.”
-H.L. Mencken
17.“Common experience shows how much rarer is moral courage than physical bravery. A thousand men will march to the mouth of the cannon where one man will dare espouse an unpopular cause.”
-Clarence Darrow (Resist Not Evil)
18."We all believe that we are a certain kind of person, but we never know until we do something that proves otherwise, or until we die."
- Chuck Klosterman (Downtown Owl)
19."In and of itself, nothing really matters. What matters is that nothing is ever in and of itself.”
- Chuck Klosterman (Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs)
20.“Nothing of me is original. I am the combined effort of everybody I’ve ever known.” .
- Chuck Palahniuk (Invisible Monsters)
21.“Old Man Warner snorted. ‘Pack of crazy fools,’ he said. ‘Listening to the young folks, nothing's good enough for them. Next thing you know, they'll be wanting to go back to living in caves, nobody work any more, live hat way for a while. Used to be a saying about 'Lottery in June, corn be heavy soon.' First thing you know, we'd all be eating stewed chickweed and acorns. There's always been a lottery,’”
- Shirley Jackson (The Lottery)
22."No question now, what had happened to the faces of the pigs. The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which."
- George Orwell (Animal Farm)
23.
They say the poet is unique,
At others he won't stoop to peek
To learn just how his pen must tweak
His words before he dares to speak.
Yet, would the poet still create
If his audience cast no bait
To catch the one who thinks he's great
And thus to seal his sorry fate?
No, his lines would soon abate I
f too long he had to wait
Every time he took a pause
For a round of due applause.
And, would the Muse still amuse
If he was not duly used
To take a big, tasty bite Of the critics' sweet delight?
Surely, no verses would emit
If the pundits threw a fit
Just because they did not get
Rhyme and rhythm that doth fit.
-mckee (Matching to the Beat To a Different Drum )
24.Sometimes we search for the impossible, often we hate what is found.
Sometimes we long for the truth, but when spoken it has an unpleasant sound.
Most people want to be someone, and some people don’t care either way.
Some people hate their emotions, and most are hurt by what others say.
All that I want is some meaning; I have no need for either fortune or fame.
I see my peers all around me, and from the looks of it they all are the same.
Same smell, same hair same, clothes; same wants and needs.
Same walk, same talk, color.
No variety to be found. Same phone, same purse, same ambitions.
Hundreds of minds linked as one.
No wrong, no right, no black, no white; nothing to separate them at all.
They are one in thinking, they are one in breathing.
They are one in hearing, they are one in seeing.
They are one in feeling; they are one in their fears.
They are one in their joy; they are one when the tears fall.
They are one in their pleasure; they are one in their pain.
They are one in their losses, they are in their gains.
They are one in their conscience; they are one in the same…
-Odd One (One)
25.
You've got a great car,
Yeah, what's wrong with it today?
I used to have one too, Maybe I'll come and have a look.
I really love your hairdo,Yeah,
I'm glad you like mine too,
See what lookin' pretty cool will get ya.
- The Dandy Warhols (Bohemian Like You)
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