As I revise my essay, the goal for my revision process is to backup all of my arguments with facts and/or quotes. This will make my paper more credible and more likely for it to persuade someone towards the importance of art. I can also correct all of the comments that my classmates made on … [Read more…]
Ideas: In my mind the ideas section of peer reviews is when you try to recommend to the author that they should change their thesis somehow in order to set themselves up for the body/evidence paragraphs. This could be anything from expanded on their thesis to completely rewriting it to fit their paper better. I … [Read more…]
During class we each wrote our introductions to our upcoming essay that is due next week. Reading and critiquing other peoples introductions helped me in a couple ways. First off, it made me realize that mine is way too short, maybe I will add some more background on Titus and Southan. The other thing it … [Read more…]
In the Ted talk “Can Art Amend History?”, artist Titus Kaphar discusses how a visit to the Natural History Museum in New York City evoked him to ask if art can amend the travesties that have taken place in history. This happened when he and his sons were visiting the museum and his older son … [Read more…]
The Effective Altruism website makes their mission statement very clear, they want to better the world. They provide statistics to prove how they would be able to make a difference if they could raise money. They also provide examples of all of the ways they can make a difference like raising money to reduce the … [Read more…]
The Effective Altruism is the concept of doing all that you can in order to help the less fortunate. In Rhys Southan’s article “Is Art a Waste of Time?”, he describes their movement as “working hard to earn money and then giving as much of it as you can to the needy”. This resinated with … [Read more…]
