Kaysie Rich Mr. Dibattista ENGL A111 619 September 25,2016 Literacy is Not Just Reading and Writing Creating art is one of the many ways our brains can go on autopilot and deal with the stress everyday events may cause. It isn’t just drawing or painting; in fact, art can be defined as visual, auditory, or performing acts that convey unique and creative thoughts to be appreciated for their beauty by oneself or others. The artist’s thoughts become the art through their personal hardships, struggles, and overall awareness of oneself. In her essay The Sanctuary of School, Lynda Barry, an art major and successful artist, demonstrates her founding love and freedom through art provided by her teacher in her classroom as a young child. In relation …show more content…
Knoblauch’s scholarly article, Literacy and Politics of Education, he elucidates that literacy isn’t just reading and writing. Literacy is much more than that. In fact, someone could be literate in just about anything. To expand, Knoblauch also explains literacy in different areas in life, such as the basic needs to function and personal development. These two concepts go hand in hand with Barry’s situation. While fulfilling her needs to escape to her own little dimension and find her way through her difficult life, she learns to deal with the stresses and problems that come about by making art. In addition, Heather Stuckey and Jeremy Nobel, authors of The Connection Between Art, Healing, and Public Health: A Review of Current Literature, state that “art helps people express experiences that are too difficult to put into words…” (Stuckey 24). This leads me to believe that Barry felt that art was the only way to work through her issues, especially because she drew the exact opposite of what her living conditions were, “a sun in the corner of a blue sky over a nice house with flowers all around it” (Barry …show more content…
Whether visual, written, or performance, art is a form of expression that can help individuals find themselves and where they are meant to be in this intimidating world. Barry was not forming art for the primary reason to please others; she did it for herself. Not only did she come to know herself through art, but she also acquired some information to function in the world surrounding her. Art acts as a form of self-expression and in some cases, such as Barry’s, a type of therapy. Works Cited Barry, Lynda. “The Sanctuary of School.” Issues in Education. 83-85. Print. Knoblauch, C.H. “Literacy and the Politics of Education.” The Right to Literacy. Ed. Andrea A. Lunsford, Helene Moglen, and James Slevin. New York: MLA, 1990. 74-80. Print. Scribner, Sylvia. “Literacy in Three Metaphors.” American Journal of Education 93.1 (1984): 6-21. Print. Stuckey, Heather L., and Jeremy Nobel. “The Connection Between Art, Healing, and Public Health: A Review of Current Literature.” American Journal of Public Health 100.2 (2010): 254–263. PMC. Web. 28 Sep.
In today’s world education plays a vital role in everyone’s life. No matter what you do or what you intend to do, education is needed. It was clearly not the same in Frederick Douglas and Bich Minh Nguyen’s world. In both cases the author’s education wasn’t needed and took a back seat because of their race and other factors. Frederick Douglas the author of the article “Learning to Read and Write” shares his experience of how he educated himself but it didn’t bring any change in his life.
Shivam Patel Professor Caitlyn Doherty English 1001 30 January 2023 Text in Action Proposal For the Text in Action paper, I plan on using Malcolm X’s Learning to Read. I chose this piece of text because of the impact Malcolm X had on the Civil Rights Movement. I believe that people like Malcolm, MLK, and Rosa Parks had a big part to do with the changes in culture and beliefs in America on African Americans. The moving essay "Learning to Read" by Malcolm X describes how, while imprisoned, he taught himself to read. He became a civil rights activist after reading about the terrible events in history and learning about them.
Would you be happy if you had received an A in your class? Do you feel that you truly learned enough to deserve that perfect A? Students who are in either high school or college are forgetting the true meaning of having knowledge and being able to learn. People think that how well they perform in the classroom will justify how well the teacher teaches their students but necessary that might not always be that way. In Brent Staples piece, “Why Colleges Shower their Students with A’s”, he argues that there must be an end to the grade Inflation and continues by examining for a possible solution by using language techniques to emphasize the main point.
The speech “Art can heal PTSD’s invisible Wounds” spoke by Melissa Walker, she spoke about how art can heal unspoken wounds. Melissa’s grandfather was a war veteran, which inspired her to search for a cure. She persuaded people to speak about their problems through art. The many patients she had dug up their old pains and put it on a mask. She helped thousands come out about their experience in the war in a sculpture.
Pepon Osorio is a sculptor and installation artist of Puerto Rican descent that creates artwork which are testimonial to his life. Osorio’s parents discouraged him from pursuing a formal education in the arts because “being an artist is not going to do it.” As a result, Osorio majored in sociology and became a social worker in New York City in which he constantly connected with the community around him. Although being a social worker was not his true calling, what he did as an artist was not so different from his social work. “As a social worker, going and visiting homes, moving from here and there, realizing that the impact was very similar in many different ways.
“Empathy is more useful and more important. It requires more rigor. That rigor will make an artist stronger of heart and spirit.” (Pg-124) “Being outside does not mean being without compassion. But it does mean that you may sometimes become clinical.”
Four years ago when Jess was 6 years old, father says drawing is just thing that old ladies in damn school teaches, looking Jess. By portraying Jess getting trauma by his father, the author shows close-minded citizens of Lark Creek, thinking drawing as a girlish thing. In addition, his dad gave him an electric racing car set instead of brushes or sketchbook for Christmas present. Here, the author criticizes father, who kills unusual talent of his
In the “Against Schools” article, author John Gatto describes the modern day schooling system and its flaws. He uses several rhetorical strategies in trying to prove his point. He successfully uses all three types of rhetoric in writing this article, which includes ethos, pathos, and logos. He establishes these strategies very early, and often throughout the article. He believes one issues with today’s schooling system is boredom, and that there is a distinct difference between what it means to be educated and schooled.
Mr. Freeman comments “You are on fire, Melinda, I can see it in your eyes. You are caught up in the meaning.” Mr. Freeman saw Melinda's passion for art. Art was like therapy for Melinda, she could show her emotions without having to talk about them. ”The art room is one of the places I feel safe.”
In the 1940s, there was quite a difference between black and white education. Grant Wiggins, the protagonist, is a school teacher who is worried about his students not getting the proper supplies for their education. During the superintendent’s visit, Grant stresses this when he says “I don’t have all the books I need. In some classes I have two children studying out of one book.” (Gaines 57).
The Language Police, by Diane Ravitch, meticulously documents the authors search for solving the political mystery behind the unorthodox reasoning behind K-12 education. She always believed that textbooks were designed to help students gain beneficial information, and that tests were assessed on the knowledge from what they had learned throughout the year. Over many years, testing was reflected on a controversial language of screening and affairs that negatively were associated with all personable groups. What once had been commended had now developed far beyond the method of censorship. It was now, restricted as an approach for masking the reality of literal knowledge from students.
For example, when most people are diagnosed with any type of mental disease, the first and foremost thing to do is get them on some type of medication. Nevertheless thanks to new and upcoming research there has been proven evidence that “ engagement with artistic activities, either as an observer of the creative efforts of others or as an initiator of one’s own creative efforts, can enhance one’s moods, emotions, and other psychological states as well as have a salient impact on important physiological parameters” (The Connection Between Art, Healing, And Public Health: A Review of Current Literature) by Heather L. Stuckey and Jeremy Nobel). Any type of art between, music, drawing, painting, writing, or etc. has been used to help ease the emotion of the mentally ill. Not only can it create a sense of safety, but the please some get from making art has been proven to ease anxiety, decrease depression, calm nerves, and help cope with things that may be harder for one to take in with a mental
The article goes on to explain that art has been proven to generate a relaxation response and can overall improve the child’s mood. Creative activity is linked to the increased production of serotonin, when serotonin is not present depression usually is. Playing with clay for a few minutes works much more sufficiently at reducing stress hormones than squeezing a stress ball. These things may seem little to those without mental illness but these kinds of things can be crucial to those with
While secondary Discourses are obtained through “various non-home based social institutions,” such as churches, schools, and organizations. 4) Lindquist and Seitz argue that the No Child Left Behind
For children, drawing involves both a process (making of art) and a product (the completed art expression). These drawings need to be considered within the context of the child’s developmental, social, cultural and emotional experiences. (Malchiodi, 1998). I have chosen to examine three drawings by C, an 8-year-old girl I have been having therapeutic play sessions with. She was referred to me by her father, due to her inability to concentrate at school, hyperactivity, and impulsivity, which cause her to get into trouble at school, and in social situations.