Blog #17

The article is about music so this is an easy choice. The addition of audio and visual aids will be used. For audio, I can choose a piece of music that I talk about within the paper, although which ones as of now I do not know. For visual I have an idea of a …

Blog #16

Thesis: Beauty is complicated and seen in many ways, while it can bring one individual pleasure, there is only so much it can do for society as a whole. -Form and sense drive definitions go here Claim 1: Beauty is not determined by what group they are a part of, but by the experiences they …

Blog #15

http://blogs.sciencemag.org/books/2017/05/31/the-evolution-of-beauty/ This article talks about sexual selection from the view of an ornithologist, also known as a biologist focused on the study of birds. The author calls into question some of the original theories put forth by Darwin that beauty is what attracts females to males, but more focused on other features. I think I …

Blog #14

I can tell you when I see something beautiful, I don’t know if I can really use words to describe what I find beautiful. Thinking back into my own experiences, I could say general things such as nature (trees, animals, bodies of water), music (anything from Camille de Saint Saens to Tyler the Creator to Queen), moments …

Blog #12

Barclay Paragraph: Both Jonah Lehrer and Mark B. Boslough argue for whether science should be left alone or if a change needs to happen within. In “The Future of Science… Is Art?” Lehrer stresses that the sciences need the arts to progress our current knowledge. He states, “The current constraints of science make it clear …

Blog #10

Naysayer Paragraph going against the use of STEAM in education: The addition of the arts into the STEM fields is a misguided effort. We have reached an age where art cannot explain the new observations in our world, and it must be left to science, technology, engineering, and math. Yo-Yo Ma, esteemed cellist and STEAM advocate, …

Blog #9

As for the surrounding context, I couldn’t find all the information in the PDF. The article was written by Yo-Yo Ma, who is a famous cellist. Although he speaks in the usefulness in arts in science, he is not a scientist but an artist himself. The purpose of reading the text is for class. While …

Blog #8

Looking at They say/I say along with feedback I wanted to change how I introduced my quotes for better flow. My first change was introducing the quote in a more flowing manner. My second change consisted of trimming the fat of a long quote and leaving the meatier and more meaningful part in. At this point, I would …

Blog #7

  In my edits, I made changes to the flow and beefed up some of the not so fleshed out sentences or ideas. The composition feels better to me personally and with other changes that cannot be seen here it matches the theme of the paper better. Overall I think the paper has a much smoother …

css.php