How it connects to your studies of Humanities.Santa Barbara is located in Southern California, between the coast and the Santa Ynez Mountains. It has a beautiful Mediterranean climate and is a destination spot for tourists, due to the weather, it's beaches, and the beautiful Spanish style architecture. The city has both Spanish and Mexican roots, and a rich cultural background. This connects to my study of humanities because Santa Barbara is outside of my personal experience; by studying it, I get a greater understanding of the area itself and California as a whole.
A. Observation: What did you choose? What do you see or hear or feel or think of in the choice you made? What is the subject of the work? If you chose a 'thing' what is the work made of and what techniques (colors, lines, shapes, textures)does the creator use? Be specific in your description. If you chose a place, be specific in your description of what you see or hear. Talk to your reader as though they cannot see the item but somehow must draw a painting of what you see or hear.
- My subject is Santa Barbara. I saw a lot of architecture called Spanish Colonial Revival, which I found out is actually modern architecture that is designed to look like the Spanish Colonial architecture that would have been there while the Spanish were colonizing there. It's truly beautiful! White walls with Terra-cotta colored roofs. The contrast is very appealing. The city definitely has a Mediterranean, Spanish flare. I also saw beautiful views overlooking the city from the Santa Ynez Mountains. The coast of Santa Barbara is more calm and tropical looking than our craggy Sonoma coastline! The city itself looks tropical too, as there are many places lined with palm trees throughout it.
B. Interpretation: What is your choice about? Give specific examples to support this statement in 2 sentences; do so in a way that teaches us something about your choice. Make Paulo Freire proud! .75 point
- I chose Santa Barbara because I've heard of it many times, and was curious about it's history. I learned that around 13,000 years ago, the Chumash (a Native American tribe) lived in the Santa Barbara area. The Spanish sailed there in 1542, but didn't really colonize it until 1782, when Spanish missionaries came with their families to build the mission and the Presidio (a military outpost). In 1812, the earthquake destroyed the mission and the town, although it was later rebuilt. In 1822, the Mexican War of Independence ended Spanish rule, and the area was controlled by Mexico until the Mexican-American war in 1846.
- I was curious to learn how this area was founded, and compare it to an area close to home. I found it interesting, because santa Barbara's history was quite a bit different than the history of the city of Sonoma. Sonoma was first inhabited by Miwok, Pomo and Wintun Native Americans, and later had a Spanish mission built there. The mission in Sonoma was under Mexican control, however, as it was built after the Mexican War of Independence. This shows how the culture of these two towns would be different. Santa Barbara had primarilly Spanish influence, which is demonstrated in the architecture and in it's cutural festivities (mainly the anual Fiesta, also called "Old Spanish Days). The city of Sonoma has Mexican archetecture and is designed like a traditional Mexican town.
- I learned there is an adobe named the Carrillo Adobe in Santa Barbara. I would like to know- is the same family that built the Carrillo Adobe in Santa Rosa?
- I learned that Jennifer feels "that everyone has a little bit of information that he or she brings to the discussion and that information is going to be different from what other people got." I agree with her. This relates back to the concept of dialogue and sharing ideas. Everyone has different experiences in life that cause them to think/feel/act in different ways, and by sharing our views and information about our worlds, we can really begin to understand one another and connect to each other.
Monday, February 9, 2009
Assignment 1c
The two people I chose to write about are Sierra and Frank.
From Sierra's blog, I found that she loves her family and friends very much and that she not only uses a Mac, but she is very enthusiastic about that. She's also very excited about Obama.
I found out that Frank is a native Californian. He has an impressive vocabulary. He also seems excited about Obama.
Sierra has taken a class where she studied Paulo before. She seemed to have a lot of insight into what he's all about. She had brought up how he had gone hungry during the depression and that was the impetus for his lifelong fight against hunger and poverty. I knew he had lived through the depression, but I didn't ever put two and two together. Sierra also talked about how he was really interested in languages and how languages may be misconstrued. The issue of poverty is very interesting because so much of the world does live in poverty and that is going to be the prevailing basis from which they interact with the world. In addition, the issue of language is of utmost importance. Language affects how we perceive the world. We are affected by symbolism of all kinds, language included. One example of this is in Japan. The Japanese word for husband is shujin, which means master. That term hasn't been used as much during the latter half of the twentieth century. The word that is now commonly used is a Japaneseified version of an English word, patonaa (partner). If I were a little girl growing up in Japan and I was to understand that someday I would be marrying my master, I would have a very different perception of marriage and my place in the world than if I grew up knowing that I would someday be marrying my partner. There are examples of this sort all throughout the world and as students of the humanities we have to realize that our understanding is limited by our experiences and the connotations that certain words and symbols have in our culture.
Frank talked about how he found that Pauolo was influenced by Marxist and Anti-Colonial thought. Secondly, he talked about how when he was forming his educational theories, he based it on eight basic principles. These two concepts are interlinked because the educational theories that he has ask questions about things like who is to present the material, what kind of material should be presented...etc. The colonial approach to ruling the indigenous people of the lands that took over was to lord over them, demean them, subject them to poverty and exploit their labor. The educational systems introduced by colonialists mirrored that social structure, so the students became the marginalized subjects. This is important because the remnants of this kind of rule and education are still alive and well in many developing countries and continue to reinforce a way of thinking continues to keep people impoverished.
What I learned the most from this assignment is that everyone has a little bit of information that he or she brings to the discussion and that information is going to be different from what other people got. It's going to be interesting to see how we all weave our thoughts together as the semester goes on.
From Sierra's blog, I found that she loves her family and friends very much and that she not only uses a Mac, but she is very enthusiastic about that. She's also very excited about Obama.
I found out that Frank is a native Californian. He has an impressive vocabulary. He also seems excited about Obama.
Sierra has taken a class where she studied Paulo before. She seemed to have a lot of insight into what he's all about. She had brought up how he had gone hungry during the depression and that was the impetus for his lifelong fight against hunger and poverty. I knew he had lived through the depression, but I didn't ever put two and two together. Sierra also talked about how he was really interested in languages and how languages may be misconstrued. The issue of poverty is very interesting because so much of the world does live in poverty and that is going to be the prevailing basis from which they interact with the world. In addition, the issue of language is of utmost importance. Language affects how we perceive the world. We are affected by symbolism of all kinds, language included. One example of this is in Japan. The Japanese word for husband is shujin, which means master. That term hasn't been used as much during the latter half of the twentieth century. The word that is now commonly used is a Japaneseified version of an English word, patonaa (partner). If I were a little girl growing up in Japan and I was to understand that someday I would be marrying my master, I would have a very different perception of marriage and my place in the world than if I grew up knowing that I would someday be marrying my partner. There are examples of this sort all throughout the world and as students of the humanities we have to realize that our understanding is limited by our experiences and the connotations that certain words and symbols have in our culture.
Frank talked about how he found that Pauolo was influenced by Marxist and Anti-Colonial thought. Secondly, he talked about how when he was forming his educational theories, he based it on eight basic principles. These two concepts are interlinked because the educational theories that he has ask questions about things like who is to present the material, what kind of material should be presented...etc. The colonial approach to ruling the indigenous people of the lands that took over was to lord over them, demean them, subject them to poverty and exploit their labor. The educational systems introduced by colonialists mirrored that social structure, so the students became the marginalized subjects. This is important because the remnants of this kind of rule and education are still alive and well in many developing countries and continue to reinforce a way of thinking continues to keep people impoverished.
What I learned the most from this assignment is that everyone has a little bit of information that he or she brings to the discussion and that information is going to be different from what other people got. It's going to be interesting to see how we all weave our thoughts together as the semester goes on.
Sources:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HbsGBElDR7o
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Santa_Barbara,_California
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Santa_Barbara_Presidio
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonoma,_California
http://gicgott.blogspot.com/2009/02/assignment-1c.html
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