Imagery on Brave New World

Descriptive words:

         -Squat grey

         -Enormous room

         -Cold

         -Tropical heat

         -Thin light

         -Pallid shape

         -Goose-flesh

         -Wintriness

         -Pale corpse-coloured

         -Frozen

         -Dead

         -Ghost

The impression of the society that I get reading this description of the Central London Hatchery and Conditioning Centre is that there is a very dark and cold society; a society that doesn’t care about human feelings, that thinks all like robots, that do all thinking in progress instead of people and humanity.

The Central London Hatchery and Conditioning Centre is really like a human factory, they are created and have to do specific things, a forced labour, thinking that they are being happy.

Aldous Huxley

               Aldous Huxley was born the 26^th of July of 1894, in Godalming, Surrey, England. He was the third son of Leonard Huxley, a writer and school master; and his first wife Julia Arnold, niece of poet, essayist and critic Mathew Arnold. His brothers were Julian (a biologist), Trevelyan and his half brother Andrew (also a biologist). Aldous was the grandson of the zoologist, agnostic and controversialist Thomas Huxley (Darwin’s Bulldog).

                Huxley studied at Eton College. Then he studied English Language and literature at Balliol College, Oxford. His first poetry collection was “The Burning Wheel”, published in 1916; then he wrote “Jonah” (1917), “The Defeat of Youth” (1918) and “Leda” (1920). Then he wrote his first short story collection, “Limbo” in 1920. In 1921 he wrote his first novel social satire, called “Crome Yellow”; but he cemented his reputation as thought-provoking writer of fiction in 1928, with his book “Point Counter point”.

                His life was marked with a lot of tragic events: his mother died of cancer when he was only a schoolboy at 1908, and his brother Trevelyan committed suicide in 1914 because of clinical depression. Aldous was unfit for military service and to participate at the First World War, so he worked as a farm labourer at Lady Ottoline Morrel’s Garsington Manor after he left Oxford; here he met D.H. Lawrence, Bertrand Rusell, Clive Bell, Mark Gertler and a Belgian refugee, Maria Nys, who ended up being his first wife in 1919.

                Having writer’s kin and friends, living both World Wars and looking the death of his mother and brother, are events that marked him and his literature.

                Finally, he died in his house in Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, United States, the 22^nd of November of 1963 because of cancer.

Comparing Ads

Communication and Media

Comparing Ads

       For this activity we worked in pairs comparing two advertisements, one from the 60’s and other from the XXI Century.

Gordon’s Gin     

          

             1960’s ad (1963)

      In this ad we think that the intended audience it can be adult women, because there says that girls that ask for Gordon’s will get what they like, so if women buy that product they will have men and beauty. But also it can be adult men, because the girl of the ad attracts men attention because of her beauty.

      The girl of the ad looks like a first class person (with her jewellery and hairstyle), so here is an economic stereotype, only rich people can buy this.

       Also, this advertisement presents bias. This ad is trying to persuade people to buy this alcoholic drink instead of others. For this, they use an attractive woman, so women would think that buying this drink they can be as pretty as the girl of the ad, and men would think that drinking that, they can be with a girl like her.

       The underlying message here is: Buy Gordon’s Gin because you like it.

XXI Century’s ad (2011)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yr5CIkVl6T4 (TV ad)

     With this ad we think that the intended audience is people that is not interested in being like posh people.

      Here is an economic stereotype, that first class people analyse everything (the wine in this case) and drink it slowly to taste it. In return, the other man think that talk about the drink is stupid, he only wants to drink it, as is said in the slogan: shall we get started?

      The bias in this ad is that this TV ad is trying to persuade people to buy this gin instead of others. So they use the slogan “shall we get started?” saying that the drink is so good that you have to start drinking it immediately.

      Finally, the underlying message here is: buy one of this and start drinking it rapidly.

The Media

What is?
          This word means different things depending on how it is used. A "medium" is a method of communicating information, entertainment or other messages. "Media" is the plural of medium. "Mass media" refers to methods of communicating with large numbers of people. And "the media" is refering to the sources of our news and information about current events. The media keep us informed about what is happening and what our government is doing.

The media plays different roles, some of them are:
         As "gatekeeper" the media decides which stories are important enough to receive public attention and which aren't.
        As "agenda-setter" the media select the things that will be discussed in the public sphere.
        As "watchdog" the media keeps watch on the government and it speaks out to alert if something happens that shouldn't.

Who is the media's audience?
        The media's audience is you, the public, made up of people just like you. The public influences the media because the media can't function without people's attention.

Writing a Newspaper Report

TOBBY, THE NEW DOLLY

Juan Pablo Cortés R.

            Dr. Jackson and Dr. Sawyer cloned a dog last Monday 24^th of September of this year in the laboratory of The Mackay School using the process of nuclear transfer.

            In Monday 24^th of September of 2012, the scientists Alfred Jackson and Matt Sawyer finished successfully their experiment started the 24^th of July. They did the same process that Ian Wilmut and Keith Campbell did to clone Dolly sheep. They worked hardly during two months to finish this job, making a perfect clone of the Pomeranian. Now, the two white puppies are in the farm of the owner of the original dog, in Mantagua.

            The Mackay School of Reñaca lend it laboratory for the scientific experiment and now they are very happy with the results. “We are so happy, this is incredible, an historic project, we are very proud”, said Mr. Mark Rosevear, headmaster of the school.

Themes in Frankenstein: Activity

Quote:
"No one can conceive the variety of feelings which bore me onward, like a hurricane, in the first enthusiasm of success. Life and death appeared to me ideal bounds. which I should first break through, and pour a torrent of light into our dark world. A new species would bless me as its creator and source; many happy and excellent natures would owe their being to me. No father could claim the gratitude of his child so completely as I should deserve theirs".

Theme:
Creation

Explanation:
Here, Victor Frankenstein is creating the Monster, he is thinking that it will be wonderful and that he will be the most happy father because he will create completely his creature and that new species would bless him as its creator and source. Victor is proud of his work.

Tone and Mood: Activity (Frankenstein)

Scene 2 : Victor Frankenstein, Creature. The creature is brought to life
It was on a dreary night of November that I beheld the accomplishment of my 
toils.  With an anxiety that almost amounted to agony, I collected the 
instruments of life around me, that I might infuse a spark of being into 
the lifeless thing that lay at my feet. It was already one in the morning; 
the rain pattered dismally against the panes, and my candle was nearly 
burnt out, when, by the glimmer of the half-extinguished light, I saw the 
dull yellow eye of the creature open; it breathed hard, and a convulsive 
motion agitated its limbs. 
How can I describe my emotions at this catastrophe, or how delineate the 
wretch whom with such infinite pains and care I had endeavoured to form? 
His limbs were in proportion, and I had selected his features as beautiful. 
Beautiful!  Great God!  His yellow skin scarcely covered the work of 
muscles and arteries beneath; his hair was of a lustrous black, and 
flowing; his teeth of a pearly whiteness; but these luxuriances only formed 
a more horrid contrast with his watery eyes, that seemed almost of the same 
colour as the dun-white sockets in which they were set, his shrivelled 
complexion and straight black lips. 
I had worked hard for nearly two years, for the sole purpose of infusing 
life into an inanimate body. For this I had deprived myself of rest and 
health.  I had desired it with an ardour that far exceeded moderation; but 
now that I had finished, the beauty of the dream vanished, and breathless 
horror and disgust filled my heart.  Unable to endure the aspect of the 
being I had created, I rushed out of the room and continued a long time 
traversing my bed-chamber, unable to compose my mind to sleep. (finally 
falls asleep)...I started from my sleep with horror; a cold dew covered my 
forehead, my teeth chattered, and every limb became convulsed; when, by the 
dim and yellow light of the moon, as it forced its way through the window 
shutters, I beheld the wretch-- the miserable monster whom I had created.  
He held up the curtain of the bed; and his eyes, if eyes they may be 
called, were fixed on me. His jaws opened, and he muttered some 
inarticulate sounds, while a grin wrinkled his cheeks.  He might have 
spoken, but I did not hear; one hand was stretched out, seemingly to detain 
me, but I escaped and rushed downstairs.   

      In the first paragraph we can appreciate a serious and suspicious tone, because Victor is working at the night of a rainy day. Then, when he is creating the creature, with the most beautiful parts found in different bodies, the mood that I recieve is an excited mood. When he realized that joining all beautiful parts, it became a very ugly thing, tone and mood changes to a disliking and disappointed tone and to a gloomy and discontented mood. Finally, when says: "He held up the curtain of the bed; and his eyes, if eyes they may be 
called, were fixed on me. His jaws opened, and he muttered some 
inarticulate sounds, while a grin wrinkled his cheeks.  He might have 
spoken, but I did not hear; one hand was stretched out, seemingly to detain 
me, but I escaped and rushed downstairs", the tone became a frightened tone, and the mood changes to a nervous mood.