Love Language

1. She was deaf.
2. The girl was deaf and the guy wasn't. It would be hard for them to have a strong relationship because she would never be able to hear him. She's grown up adapting to this culture and it's a conflict between hearing and not hearing.
3. She can't hear and he can.
4. This could be an internal conflic with the man because he couldn't know whether to go forth with this relationship.
5. The conflict wasn't really resolved because she's still deaf, but we could see in the video that they were communicating through writing.

This Land is Your Land

**I was absent this day and am making up the work.

I believe that Guthrie's message is somewhat of an individualist one. It may sound like a positive, patriotic song, but if you look into the lyrics, you realize that it's an individualist ideal. He's saying 'you and me', but he wants to leave the land that he lives in. He wonders why 'his people' are all standing in line for welfare and why they're all hungry. He doesn't want to believe that his country of freedom and great opportunities is actually giving its people these bad things. In the song, he's pretty anti-government as he protests the way his country is going.

The Egg

Before the father was married, he was a cheerful and kindly man, as stated by the narrator. The father became a father after he was married. He and the mother both became very ambitious in life.
The narrator feels bad for the chickens somewhat, but still blames his bad childhood on the chickens ruining it.
The narrator also says that because so many things died on their farm every day, he wasn't optimistic about life. He said 'death was a daily visitor'.

American Friendships

Many cultures think American friendships are superficial because of the fact that Americans value independence. This value controls a lot of why Americans do things. It's a feeling of reciprocity that makes Americans feel like their friendships are a 'you scratch my back, I'll scratch yours'. Other cultures believe that friendships go much deeper than that and that one should lean on one's friends for help, not outside sources.

Collectivists vs. Individualists

1. In a collectivist culture, team work, being in agreement, and equality are all ideal personality traits. Originality, hard work, and unique ideas are all ideal in an individualistic culture.
2. I think this is part of a collectivist society. Like they mentioned, a nail that's sticking up will be hammered down. Being knocked down because of one's individual ideas is a theme in a collectivist society.
3. If Mr. Behler was a teacher from a collectivist culture and had his own child in his class, he would most likely favor the student in the classroom with special benefits because they're family. The value of family would clash in the individualistic culture because that would be unfair special treatment.
4. An acquaintance is someone whom you're sort of friends with, sort of not. It's kind of like a peer; it has a relatively positive/neutral connotation.

1984 #2

Winston isn't buying what Big Brother and the State are putting forward because he's starting to think logically and make sense of it all. When he wonders about these things that the government is saying and is skeptical of it all, he realizes that maybe the government's not right and wonders why so many people follow it. Throughout it all, he's protesting the Party and his acts of defiance are indeed protests. The difference between Winston's protests and the modern day protests is that modern protests aren't trying to completely overrule the government all at once and are doing so in a way that's legal in our law system. Protesting in the setting of 1984 was illegal, forbidden, and they were going completely against the government, not just parts of it.

"2+2=5" by Radiohead

1. This song is mostly about feeling trapped and stuck in a world where the speaker can't control what's going on. The speaker is completely unsure of what to think about his world and what to do about it. He complains about paying attention because when you think everything's fine and you stop paying attention to what authority's doing, they can change it on you.
2. The music behind the lyrics feels very creepy and weird. It gives off a feeling of confusion and being lost.
3. This relates to 1984 in how they change the basic things and principles of life, but Winston can't do anything about it because he doesn't have the power or authority.