Comm 1 Assignment

1. Mark Twain, whose real name is Samuel L. Clemens and lived in Hartford, is the author of Huckleberry Finn- a classic American novel.

2. Mark Twain's elaborate and elegant house was located on Farmington Avenue in an area called Nook Farm and was a neighbor of Harriet Beecher Stowe who wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin.

3. Mark Twain's home has windows and a balcony that overlook a large side porch which reminded people today of a steamboat since he used to pilot steamboats when he was young. 

4. Mark Twain was one of the first three people in Hartford to own a telephone, which was first used commercially in New Haven, but since there was practically no one to talk to, he never liked the newfangled gadget.

5. Mark Twain loved industrial inventions and one of these was the elaborate Paige typesetter but he lost a fortune investing in them since it was developed at the same time as the Linotype- a much simpler and cheaper machine.

6. The death of Mark Twain's daughter, Susy, because of spinal meningitis made him leave the house at Harford for he never felt the same about it again and returned only once during the funeral of his friend, Charles Dudley Warner.

Comm 1 Assignment: PARAPHRASING

1. In contrast, Aristotle believed that imitation involves human experience, and in that idea he saw a new role for the arts. According to the philosopher, the artist is free to imitate aspects of nature, but he does take a firm stand on the unity of form- which are its formal and structural qualities. Aristotle explicates form in terms of "causes"which means that any external factor apart from matter explains why something is the way it is, and what function it could do. In short, form is that which causes something to be the thing it is. And while Plato's definition of form relates to Ideal forms, Aristotle associates form as an intrinsic characteristic of the object.

2. Another difference between Plato and Aristotle is the way how they discuss imitation in relation to beauty. For Plato, beauty is an idea- something unseen or unexplained that is exposed into the order of the natural world. Hence the importance he place on mathematics as the key to understanding the natural world. On the other hand, Aristotle believe that beauty is something real and it is also a function of form, it is not abstract as of Plato but it is grounded in an object. In other words it is bounded inside the environment upon which it takes place.

Comm 1 Assignment

Based on Emily McEwan's "Berger's way of seeing the Arts"

1.What is the main idea of the essay?
     Berger's outlook on how people in the past look at Art and how certain aspects changed the way people view it in the modern times.

2. Show the supporting ideas. (in bullet form)

• During the time of traditional oil painting, Berger said that paintings were prized because they were the only way to capture a  moment and possess it forever but this changed when cameras were introduced to the society.
• The way how Art is interpreted and viewed as a whole has changed because of the turbulent effects that technology has brought to the civilized world and how it affected people.
• Publicity is also one of the multitudinous aspects why Art has been differently viewed today. One example of this is how Art is used as forms of advertisements to show what people need to satisfy their needs.
• Female nude painting has also been viewed in a different light today compared to the era of traditional painting because before then, it seems modest than what we see today.