Literate arts is what makes the world more creative and everlasting with inventions. Mae Jemison once said,“The difference between science and the arts is not that they are different sides of the same coin even, or even different parts of the same continuum, but rather, they are manifestations of the same thing. The arts and science are avatar of human creativity.” Literate arts are a way for us to express ourselves; they are ways of communication such as poems, songs, or artistic works. In a transcript of literature arts Miller says that reading and writing do not determine a person’s behavior, they majorly reflect on what people are going through in life. Human life is expressed through communications; through this, people come to learn …show more content…
who you are from your experiences and your reactions. The meaning of the literate arts is portrayed from the articles:The Achievement of Desire, Richard Rodriguez; The Dark Night of the Soul, Richard Miller; Merced, Danielle Ofri. There are different ways in which the literate arts help us in life such as improving the standard of living, educational success, and the safety of society. A keen concentration of students is a key aspect in the class, especially in a science class. The expression that the lecturer conveys plays a great role in building of the student’s skill. From Richard Rodriguez; The Achievement of Desire, the guest speaker tries to express himself to the students, but the students mind are miles away (Rodrigues 597). The students give the guest speaker empty stares as he tries to express his enthusiasm. Songs and other arts help in keeping up the student’s minds up as information is passed as expected. Songs can also be used as tool for learning and passing the message. The lecturer uses the song as a literate art to try and bring back the attention of the student. This is one of the importance of literate art in studies/education success although in this situation, it does not work as intended (Rodriguez 597). Songs also create in impact to people nationwide. Following the devastating event of 9/11, the power of literate arts was what healed and unified America. The President and Ceo of Americans for the Arts, Robert Lynch said, “the humanities and the literary, visual, and performing arts have been a major vehicle for expressing the inexpressible--- even the unbearable,” (Joseph). God Bless America was sung nationwide the month following 9/11. It was used as a powerful anthem to express our feelings of sorrow to those who past away and to show courage to Americans. We are never born wise, knowledge is gathered from people and other sources, it calls for self-drive and self-sacrifice. Some other external factors drive this, of which they have equal driving potential as the inner forces. The article, The Achievement of Desire, shows a boy who is not bright in class; he is motivated to work hard to the fact that his scholarship boy hence not expected to fail. He expresses his sadness about this by working very hard for perfection in class. Rodriguez writes,“My father opened a closet one day and was startled to find me inside, reading a novel. My mother would find me reading when I was supposed to be asleep or helping around the house or playing outside” (Rodriguez 7). Because of the boy’s drive to succeed, he had a habit of reading. To achieve this education success, literate arts was highly important. He used literate arts to study. The boy must rehearse his thoughts and see if he is just about to utter the correct thing (Rodriguez 599). He learned this through reading. Reading is highly significant throughout one’s life. One article states that future business leaders need reading as a way to drive their intellectual curiosity (Meyer). This is the common way for them to gain knowledge from books and articles that can enable them to grow as future leaders (Meyer). Our backgrounds are always there as a challenge in our lives. We should never despise our parents if they are not as educated as we are; it’s through their efforts that we are who we are. We should forever be good and appreciate them for their well-done work. However, Rodriguez states how the boy feels embarrassed by the lack of his parents’ education. He expresses his embarrassment by becoming ambitious and not listening to his parent’s advice anymore (Rodriguez 600). Most students feel like they have to disconnect themselves from their parents and get help from other resources such as their teachers. Rodriguez defends himself by following what his teacher says. He intends to hurt his mother and father as a way of expressing his anger as he is told to go to the English class but eventually feels guilty of that since school has become a great place to be in. Even though, his parents are not well educated, their advice to focus on English class was what brought him into the person he is. As one gets older, books and studying becomes redundant. We lose interest in reading and start grasping interest in new technologies. Although studying is something that never ends, it is a huge importance with the use of literate arts. On, A Dark Night, the mother expresses her love for the child by giving it warmth and sweet food, the sweet expression fades out when the child grows and its mother is trying to make it walk on its feet (Miller et al. 428). From this, we can clearly see how the love for books always trend, for instance when joining the nursery school we were always passionate about it, as we grew studies became boring but we had to keep up since that is the trend of life. For those who have been fervour by the devil tend to resolve much and accomplish very little since they express the desire of people who will always go with what they say or do (Miller et al. 428). This comes in that we try to argue with the written document instead of studying it and trying to understand what the writer was trying to pass to us. They desire to be favorites or the team leaders of their confessors, and this makes them too ashamed of confessing their sins since they feel that people will despise them (Barton et al 18). Pride in studies does not create a good mood or atmosphere. We should always be humble despite our leadership positions in school. They are always there to seek for praises and never want to praise others. Extensive reading helps in identifying and giving illusions and emotions that are able to understand the patients brought to us as health science students. As future healthcare provider, critical thinking is needed. A program called HEAL-X, created by Joel Goldberg, is a program designed for medical students that teaches students the communication skills and empathy in addition to knowledge of science and research (Krisberg). This program will be able to teach healthcare students more than knowledge. They will be able to use literate arts as the prime way to learn which is by critical thinking and doing hands on experience by communicating and relating with patients. One medical student says, “Just having a privileged knowledge base isn’t going to cut it anymore… With the explosion in advancements, medical students have to be able to critically evaluate the literature,” (Krisberg).The humble people are always expressing their humbleness by following commands and always being ready to follow the right path as they are commanded (Miller et al. 21). Unnecessary or meaningless thing should not bother us to safeguard the power of learning. The things that cause the different expressions in a person’s life towards motions are the spiritual life that we live, the devil, and that fear that a person has towards something. The power of thinking outside memorizing is beneficial to someone who is studying healthcare. The best doctors are those who can think and develop practices in innovative ways and still stay at the forefront of medicine by keeping up with the literature (Krisberg).
In Danielle Ofri: Merced, Merced tries to express her feeling; she says that she sometimes have a headache and sometimes pain that is like that of pins being pressed on her hand (Ofri et al. 123). The narrator stood dumbfounded due to the situation in which Merced was in; she was on the floor while all her clothes were off. As a health student, literate arts specifically literature help us to learn some basic skills like how to behave or what is expected of us in some instances and critical occasions like the one the narrator was in when she found Merced on the floor. It teaches us to think on the spot and prepare ourself on how to behave. From this article we can always appreciate the doctor’s work since we can see how dedicated they are always in spite of the challenges and failures. Extensive reading for the health science students is very important since they are mentally prepared that some of the efforts they will put in life might go astray, and they realize that they are not the first people that their efforts are turning them down. By the mental awareness, they will not have lots of
difficulties. The narrator was greatly affected by Mercedes’s Situation (Ofri et al. 130). Merced’s mother and her sister's’ sobs in grief openly. The best effort as a healthcare student is to try to comfort the people,we can do this by trying to fit into the family's feeling and do as they are doing. We can show empathy and a sense of understanding.The narrator wished she wasn’t a doctor feeling sorry for the family, by this all the sadness in her heart was expressed and clearly evident (Ofri et al 131). Giving up in life is not a solution to problems from the extensive reading as a pharmacy student, we should always put in mind that even if we abandon problems we just done a disgrace to ourselves since will live in regrets. Using one’s creativeness and extensive ability to solve problems and find the best solution for patients is what people need. Literate arts is used so much in our daily lives that it's necessary for the safety of society. Literate arts is very important for healthcare students to study. We use it in our everyday lives to think critically and creatively. Without it, the inventions and science that we now have would not have evolved. It helps us express through communications such as from expressions and experiences. In my everyday life, I use literate arts by either listening to a song, or writing to think freely and be open minded. It helps myself to be more empathetic and to connect with others’. The articles: The Achievement of Desire, The Dark Night of the Soul, and Merced all constructed the ways people learn from their experiences and how they used literate arts. It helps us live our life, use the knowledge we learn as a way to achieve success, and use it for the safety of our patients.
The two essays, Splintered Literacies and Writing in Sacred Spaces, both revolve around the inherent “why” of storytelling. Each addresses a different facet, with the former delving into how the types and varieties of writing we experience affect our identities. Meanwhile, the latter explores the idea of thought concretization. Humanity developed writing as a tool to capture the otherwise intangible. Whether belief or abstract concept, the act of putting something in writing creates a concreteness, trapping the thought in a jar like a firefly. The thoughts and ideas we manifest onto the page or into the air give life to our knowledge, perpetuating its’ existence.
Although the greater picture is that reading is fundamental, the two authors have a few different messages that they seek to communicate to their audiences. “The Joy of Reading and Writing” depicts how reading serves as a mechanism to escape the preconceived notions that constrain several groups of people from establishing themselves and achieving success in their lifetimes. “Reading to Write,” on the other hand, offers a valuable advice to aspiring writers. The author suggests that one has to read, read, and read before he or she can become a writer. Moreover, he holds an interesting opinion concerning mediocre writing. He says, “Every book you pick has its own lesson or lessons, and quite often the bad books have more to teach than the good ones” (p.221). Although these two essays differ in their contents and messages, the authors use the same rhetorical mode to write their essays. Both are process analyses, meaning that they develop their main argument and provide justification for it step by step. By employing this technique, the two authors create essays that are thoughtful, well supported, and easy to understand. In addition, Alexie and King both add a little personal touch to their writings as they include personal anecdotes. This has the effect of providing support for their arguments. Although the two essays have fairly different messages, the authors make use of anecdotes and structure their writing in a somewhat similar
The arts, as interpretations of reality or even the creation of new ones, constantly inform a society’s perceptions of what is real or plausible and what the experience of the individual entails. This is done through a series of perceptions that begins with an artist’s perception of reality. In literature, the author translates this perception into a text that can be as whimsical as Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, as outwardly observant and insightful as Fyodor Dostoevsky’s Crime and Punishment, or as straightforward as Nathaniel Hawthrone’s The Scarlet Letter. It is then the readers’ interpretations of a text that provides individuals and society with new understandings of reality. It is this basis of understanding that is continually added to so that reality is further defined and redefined and there is a greater comprehension of the human condition.
Literature has long been an important part of human life. We express our feelings with ink and paper; we spill out our souls on dried wood pulp. Writing has been a form of release and enjoyment since the beginning of written language. You can tell a story, make yourself a hero. You can live out all your fantasies!
Literature—the dictionary defines it being the art of written works that is designed to entertain, educate and instruct; writers use literature in an attempt to transfer their ideas from paper to the reader; for some, this task means bringing their story to a different place and time that is entirely separate from what the reader could perceive as ordinary, on order to serve the writer’s intent. With this the impossible, becomes the probable, and the worst fear possibly imagined becomes the breathed reality; with no stated separation between the living, and the dying. The word literature in itself cannot be accurately defined, and by attempting to do so limits, the word is instantaneously limited in its usage and effect. Literature just is, just as much as it is not.
A successful writer is he who is able to transmit ideas, emotions, and wisdom on to his readers. He is cable of stirring emotions and capturing the reader's attention with vivid descriptions and clever dialogues. The writer can even play with the meanings of words and fuse reality with fiction to achieve his goal of taking the reader on a wonderful journey. His tools are but words, yet the art of writing is found in the use of the language to create though-provoking pieces that defy the changing times. Between the lines, voices and images emerge. Not everyone can write effectively and invoke these voices. It is those few who can create certain psychological effects on the reader who can seize him (or her) with inspiring teachings, frightening thoughts, and playful games with the language. These people are true writers…
Often I sit at the computer, or with a pen and paper, and I think about what I should write. I reflect on my experiences with life, or with my feelings and emotions. If the subject that I write about is coming from my heart, I could write forever, opposed to something that I do not have interest in like the mating habits of fireflies. I don’t care about how, when, and much less why they procreate. I would always dread having to write a paper for my English class, and it was not until I discovered my own love for poetry that I began to enjoy writing. It was my junior English teacher in San Diego, Howard Estes. He allowed me to open my mind to not only the academic perspective of literature, but also to my own personal connection to this confusing written language. This newfound passion gave me a sort of sixth sense. When I look at something, I not only think about what it means to me, but what it means to the world on a larger scale as opposed to taking everything at face value. Through my own writings, and the writings of others, I have been shaped as a unique individual.
In recent years the meaning of literacy has become much more than that. Now literacy includes things such as, numbers, images, and technology. Literacy can be something that developed through things like Books, the internet, television, family, and many other resources. In this literacy narrative I will discuss the origins of my current attitudes about writing, and reading.
Growing up in working class family, my mom worked all the time for the living of a big family with five kids, and my dad was in re-education camp because of his association with U.S. government before 1975. My grandma was my primary guardian. “Go to study, go to read your books, read anything you like to read if you want to have a better life,” my grandma kept bouncing that phrase in my childhood. It becomes the sole rule for me to have better future. I become curious and wonder what the inside of reading and write can make my life difference. In my old days, there was no computer, no laptop, no phone…etc, to play or to spend time with, other than books. I had no other choice than read, and read and tended to dig deep in science books, math books, and chemistry books. I tended to interest in how the problem was solved. I even used my saving money to buy my own math books to read more problems and how to solve the problem. I remembered that I ended up reading the same math book as my seventh grade teacher. She used to throw the challenge questions on every quiz to pick out the brighter student. There was few students know how to solve those challenge questions. I was the one who fortunately nailed it every single time. My passion and my logic for reading and writing came to me through that experience, and also through my grandma and my mom who plant the seed in me, who want their kids to have happy and better life than they were. In my own dictionary, literacy is not just the ability to read and write, it is a strong foundation to build up the knowledge to have better life, to become who I am today.
A few scholars theorize that art, as well as story-telling, should consider a versatile capacity for the human species, that they should fill a profound human need (cite). The first fundamental concept is there is the narrow border between art/literature and entertainment. The entertainment is usually a short-lived concept that focuses on short time-scales such as a week or a year. Entertainment such as comedy is mainly targeted to help people to forget their troubles for some time. However, art has a different concept. Anything that claims as art should have, the more permanent timeline. Art/literature can remain for centuries in which connect the generation to each other. Art has more meaningful and profound topics rather than entertainment.
Reading and writing are the basis of the original meaning of literacy. This definition, however, changed over time and culture. The term has expanded to include computer literacy, digital literacy, information literacy, health literacy, etc. (Vacca, Vacca, & Mraz, 2011). Nevertheless, the most important change to the term literacy is expanding the use of reading and writing. Literacy is defined as understanding, thinking and practicing the use of language in different cultural/social settings through the use of all types of media which allows people to communicate and make meanings (Vacca et al., 2011). To support this new meaning of literacy, specifically in the classroom, a new method or strategy has emerged called “write to learn.” This method describes short and informal writing tasks that help students make connections to previous knowledge, and allow them to represent their knowledge of specific content areas through writing (Vacca et al., 2011). These activities can be used in any content class to further improve students’ learning.
Looking back over the course of the semester, I feel that I learned many new and interesting uses for technology within the classroom – both for classrooms that have a lot of technology and for classrooms that are limited with technology. For the majority of the class, we utilized William Kists’ book The Socially Networked Classroom: Teaching in the New Media Age (2010), which provided multiple modes of instruction that both utilized and/or created technology. One of the first things that I remember, and consequently that stuck with me through the course’s entirety, is that individuals must treat everything as a text. Even a garden is a text. The statement made me change the way that I traditionally viewed Language Arts both as a student and as a teacher, as I very narrowly saw literature and works of the like as texts only; however, by considering nearly anything as a text, one can analyze, study, and even expand his/her knowledge. Kist (2010) states that society is “experiencing a vast transformation of the way we “read” and “write,” and a broadening of the way we conceptualize “literacy” (p. 2). In order to begin to experience and learn with the modern classroom and technologically advanced students, individuals must begin to see new things as literature and analyze those things in a similar manner.
As a medical professional, there are many different aspects of the job. Most of the journey towards the profession is filled with long hours of studying all the technical terms and symptoms for a diagnosis. While all these aspects are important, humanities and fine arts aspect of learning should be incorporated into the studies of the current and future healthcare professionals as well. Literature and art impact and improve many different aspects of improving one’s skills as a carer, including, ethics, self-reflection, aesthetics and interpretation, empathy, and ambiguity. All parts of these aspects are interconnected with one another, with one aspect also enhancing the others, however, I believe the most important aspects are the ethics, empathy, and ambiguity that in which studying literature and art can provide for the learning healthcare provider.
In my way of thinking, I’ve changed considerably and now I can see how literature is getting more accessible for people. And this is good thing, but it eventually attaches me to get lost in its dimension and forgetting things that are important for me, like my responsibilities and my life. Now I see that literature is adapting itself to be commercial, that tends to be written more to satisfy the public than to express valuable things, and eventually coming vulgar, something common in today’s songs.
Every day humans participate in the consumption of media. Technology has changed the means of production of media making it more readily available. The advancement in technology, such as television, smart phones, and the internet, has caused a declination in the use of literary communications. People are more inclined to watch an online video rather than read the daily newspaper; also, people tend to enjoy watching movies rather than reading a book. Society, especially in the United States, has become consumed by the advancements in technology. People no longer have to read printed books, due to the invention of the Kindle and Nook along with the apps on other tablets to read. The use of the internet has made it accessible to order books directly from websites rather than going to the bookstore. All these things factor into the consumption of literary communication. Literature effects people in unique ways compared to other sources of media. Each reader perceives a text in a different way and each book affects each reader in different ways. If reading literary communications promotes creativity and encourages the mind to interpret the content of a text and to analyze the effect it has on the reader; then the declination of reading will affect the perspective of life in a culture.