What's Inappropriate?

I think it's silly how classes in school try to shield us from bad words and bad images: it's nothing we haven't already heard or seen in the knuckle. Furthermore, since these things do exist, it's not like we're never going to encounter them and school is doing us a favor. Seriously, I think that by high school age, we're all aware of the realities of the world. We aren't stupid, so school shouldn't treat us like we are.
And why is it considered ok for us to read "Like Water For Chocolate" and "How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents" if we aren't even allowed to watch a segment of an R rated film (even if the segment we watch contains nothing R rated) in history classes. I remember my 9th grade Social Studies teacher being really mad because the school wouldn't let him show us a segment of the film Braveheart. I wonder if the reason schools allow us to read "inappropriate" texts as opposed to watching "inappropriate" movies has something to do with the ability to interpret them. Perhaps teachers assume that images are straightforward, whereas texts require interpreting. If this is the case, the teachers are wrong. Universally, images are easier to understand than words...so is the school so extremely proud of its accomplishments in educating us that it thinks us above learning through images? It's quite a puzzle.

Post Modernism Book

The book "Post Modernism: A Graphic Guide To Cutting-Edge Thinking" is bright and colorful on the outside, and on the inside, it's filled with illustrations that appeal to visual learners. Overall, the book is very engaging to someone who learns visually rather than verbally, which is interesting because books are almost always composed of words. This book has a novel approach towards teaching post modernism and I think it will be fun learning from it; the monotony of reading dull, uninteresting books in school is finally over!

What is Modern?

TV shows today really love killing people that live in clean, modern houses. Admit it. Every time the detectives go to solve a murder mystery, they enter a house with all the latest styles and technology. Either the modern look is now considered stylish, or it's cheaper for the shows to use such novel appliances. It must be the former.
So what exactly is modern? Things that are considered modern today are sleek, shiny, streamlined and filled with stylish goodness. In a word, modern things are perfect. They have a certain look to them - nothing extra, just the necessities, usually black and white with no distracting colors. Modern houses usually have boxy architecture and a lot of glass involved; even if the glass isn't for a window, there's always glass. Stainless steel is a must. These are the kinds of houses that echo.
Modern art is never straightforward. It always has some obscure meaning that no one ever understands unless it's explained, but of course art teachers think they understand it perfectly and feel the need to study it in class and have students brainstorm the potential meaning behind it, and if for some reason the students fail to comprehend the depth and meaning behind the art, then of course the teacher dictates his/her own beliefs to the class and eventually grades the students on their ability to remember said beliefs.

Our Movie!!!!!

I think that the movie we made, "The Art Class," accomplished our goal of using stereotypes about artists to answer the questions what is art and who decides. Each different artist has a very different idea concerning the answers to those questions, and the use of confessional interviews like what "The Office" uses helped show the audience how each individual feels about art. By using stereotypes in the movie, we were able to portray many different answers instead of just focusing on one answer. I think our movie is really good; it answers important questions while simultaneously encouraging laughter.