The Arts & I
The entirety of my high school experience has been a conjunction of dynamic variables; not one variable has remained static. Year by year, my taste, attitude, and environment have constantly changed. My preferences have been enrichened, thankfully due to the exposure to the several different forms of media and the language of the arts.
I find my experience through high school to be anchored with an equal amount of static elements, coexisting with the dynamics. I am in no way going to gull you into believing this is anything besides a personal story, a display of what I’ve learned, and a writing experiment. By recognizing you the reader, as “you the reader”, I am using second person point of view(and by pure insertion of this sentence and the next sentence, I am directly providing a warrant to my argument that I created in the previous sentence(more on that later)). Use of these writing techniques is as pure a personal story as a story about my dog would be a personal story. My love of the arts(and among that my love of my dog) is what has personally kept me interested in school all these years. The past 4 years has proved the most useful in supplying me with an increased understanding of social-sciences, by my observation of others and myself.
Year by year, I found myself wanting to endure more and more challenge in my classes; I never realized why. I would enroll in difficult classes and not succeed at times, yet I wouldn’t stop to think about why I would enroll in the first place. After reflection at the time of this writing, I find that my threshold for difficulty was tested and, for the best, my truest interests were revealed. Through failure and success I have found that I simply love conducting the analytical process that goes with placing a piece of media under a microscope; This process of analysis is beautiful because there never is a concise answer, everything is up for an infinite amount of interpretations. The supplication of the answers from the various interpretations from an unknown amount of various people is what I truly find enjoyable; these vast interpretations is what is so revealing about people, an interpretation reveals a vast amount of information about one’s personality.
I followed the rabbit hole that was advanced English classes, which ostensibly took me to my conclusion of love for linguistics. AP Lang. surfaced an entire world of argument that is used in every single piece of media; the crux of entertainment and the great works that have graced humanity was revealed to me at almost no cost, all I had to do was pay attention to what was in front of me. AP Lang. revealed a love of linguistics that beautifully paralleled my love of music and movies. As opposed to the social stigma that art and analysis must juxtapose, AP Lang. was the riposte to that mantra. The revolutionary method that is the claim-data-warrant is incredibly basic, yet ultimately complex, allowing the user to manipulate it to their advantage.
The entirety of my high school experience has been a conjunction of dynamic variables; not one variable has remained static. Year by year, my taste, attitude, and environment have constantly changed. My preferences have been enrichened, thankfully due to the exposure to the several different forms of media and the language of the arts.
I find my experience through high school to be anchored with an equal amount of static elements, coexisting with the dynamics. I am in no way going to gull you into believing this is anything besides a personal story, a display of what I’ve learned, and a writing experiment. By recognizing you the reader, as “you the reader”, I am using second person point of view(and by pure insertion of this sentence and the next sentence, I am directly providing a warrant to my argument that I created in the previous sentence(more on that later)). Use of these writing techniques is as pure a personal story as a story about my dog would be a personal story. My love of the arts(and among that my love of my dog) is what has personally kept me interested in school all these years. The past 4 years has proved the most useful in supplying me with an increased understanding of social-sciences, by my observation of others and myself.
Year by year, I found myself wanting to endure more and more challenge in my classes; I never realized why. I would enroll in difficult classes and not succeed at times, yet I wouldn’t stop to think about why I would enroll in the first place. After reflection at the time of this writing, I find that my threshold for difficulty was tested and, for the best, my truest interests were revealed. Through failure and success I have found that I simply love conducting the analytical process that goes with placing a piece of media under a microscope; This process of analysis is beautiful because there never is a concise answer, everything is up for an infinite amount of interpretations. The supplication of the answers from the various interpretations from an unknown amount of various people is what I truly find enjoyable; these vast interpretations is what is so revealing about people, an interpretation reveals a vast amount of information about one’s personality.
I followed the rabbit hole that was advanced English classes, which ostensibly took me to my conclusion of love for linguistics. AP Lang. surfaced an entire world of argument that is used in every single piece of media; the crux of entertainment and the great works that have graced humanity was revealed to me at almost no cost, all I had to do was pay attention to what was in front of me. AP Lang. revealed a love of linguistics that beautifully paralleled my love of music and movies. As opposed to the social stigma that art and analysis must juxtapose, AP Lang. was the riposte to that mantra. The revolutionary method that is the claim-data-warrant is incredibly basic, yet ultimately complex, allowing the user to manipulate it to their advantage.
The years prior(and following) to learning of linguistics, I simply didn’t fully comprehend how to best interpret media, my views on media were barebones. My perception of media was based purely on emotions that led to my pallette being very milquetoast and conclusions being made upon faulty, facile arguments. My selection of classes led to my enrollment in the multimedia class at Heritage, which disclosed to me how much effort and work goes into creating media. By creation, I learned about quality, my qualitative standards had changed due to my transformed perception of the efforts required to creative a truly effective piece of art. My enrollment in a second semester of the class led to learning even more about quality and by taking the class I also met teacher Adam Strong. Mr. Strong helped cement my interest in arts and media much more, and by more by way of purely speaking about the media than showing me how to create it; although he did help immensely in teaching me the way s of editing and production. By going in depth about pieces of media and music, Mr. Strong showed me how to approach things with an open mind. Whereas prior to enrollment, I simply was stern about my selection in consumption of media. Mr. Strong showed me that one can find joy in their work as well as solidarity with others in the likes of review of related works.
Through the years, my experience in high school has vastly changed. I have ostensibly become one who is more satisfied with their life and one who has discovered much more about themselves, information that is in no way facile, information that has provided me with a better understanding of life and social interaction.
Through the years, my experience in high school has vastly changed. I have ostensibly become one who is more satisfied with their life and one who has discovered much more about themselves, information that is in no way facile, information that has provided me with a better understanding of life and social interaction.