I was at a Film Society meeting today and out guest speaker was talking about some of the lighting equipment we have on campus. One of the items he emphasized was an HMI light. It is a light used in filming that consumes a comparatively lower amount of energy and emits less heat than many comparable lights, making them very useful on sets with limited power. It made me think of Blum’s lecture and his focus on the light bulb and its improvements over time as this is a light that has been improved and tweaked to suit a very specific purpose.
I draw on my hand with pen almost every day and people are constantly assuming it’s henna, so I decided to research where henna was started. It turns out the origins of henna are difficult to track due to ancient people interacting with different cultures, but the most likely origin is within the Neolithic people in Catal Hoyuk, and it was used to enhance fertility. I found this interesting because the very first thing we learned in my art history class freshman year is about the ancient cave drawings of the people of Catal Hoyuk. While my hand doodles are neither henna or intended to inhance fertility, it was interesting to find that both the origins of art and henna are thought to be located in the same place.
The change in the 3 R’s has gone from relief, recovery, and reform to reuse, reduce, and recycle. It shows how our country and world has partially transformed into a society that focuses on environmental status’. As in the past this was the last of their worries during the great depression.
I looked on the New York times website and found an article from Feb, 13 2015, “States Consider Increasing Taxes for the Poor and Cutting Them for the Affluent”. I read the article and was shocked that the rich, who have more wealth than more than America practically combined, feel that they are being taxed too heavily and want even more money from those who have none. “If the top 1 percent were taxed at such rates, the revenue would be $68 billion…and that would be almost 10 times the amount needed to restore five years’ worth of cuts to higher education…” I tweeted Professor Blum information from the article that was astonishing to me.
With the invention of the light bulb Americans began to be much more efficient in their field of work. Soon enough people began to use the light bulb in innovative ways. In the late 1950s and early 1960s, overhead projectors began to be widely used in schools and businesses.
Before the lecture, Professor Blum asked us to tweet an interesting fact about income inequality. The resemblance between our economic situation beginning in 2008 and the economic depression during the Great Depression is uncanny. During the 2008 recession, large influxes of people became unemployed and were forced to move out of the state of California to find better jobs. Migrating families became popular, very much like the start of the Great Depression.
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Today, in my communications class, we were to read an article and create citations and an outline for the article. My partner and I were assigned an article about a 17 year old girl who wasn’t hired at Abercrombie & Fitch, most likely because she wears a hijab and doesn’t fit the “image” of the store. The case has been debated since 2008. Everything has a history, as we have heard multiple times during lecture. This form of discrimination in not hiring the Muslim girl has been seen increasingly since the events of 9/11. Not all discrimination stems from that specific event, but the occurrence of it has increased dramatically since then. Abercrombie & Fitch doesn’t seemingly cater to more than a few types of people, bodies, and styles, which is the cause of the growing animosity towards the company.
http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2015/02/24/supreme-court-abercrombie-muslim/23882405/
http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2015/02/25/supreme-court-muslim-abercrombie/23997045/
After Professor Blum’s lecture today, I became interested in “sundown towns”, and looked up youtube videos pertaining to the topic.
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