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Week 1: Modernism is ...

1: Modernism is really a way of thinking and sometimes a system of belief as well. It is a way to think about what is going on in the modern world and how it seems to be making it better. Modernists seem to believe the only way forward is to modernist everything they can. If you use past devices then you will remain in the past. Modernist people also seem to have ideas and inventions that are way ahead of their time. For instance Leonardo Devincie who had so many great inventions but at the time did not have any technology. Since he did not have the technology to be able to bring his inventions to life all he could do was write them down. There were many other great modernists that are now dead in gone but still the idea of modernism lives on. -Schuyler Sloop

Week 2

The best way to describe modernism is that a person characteristics demonstrate modernism. " characters reflect a growing socail isolation caused by mass industrialism, alienation, and experimentation" (Shingler). The poem is very confusing when you read through it the first time. When read again the story of the poem becomes a lot more clearer. The main character is really a pig he has no respect whatsoever for women. He disrespects them in a number of ways, he talks about feeding the women oysters and taking them to a cheap hotel. He has no respect for women which could stem from a number or reasons. He may have in the past been rejected by women. Since he has been rejected he became very angry and hateful towards all women. -Schuyler Sloop

Week 4 Existentialism is a belief system that started out with some men and grew very big. Existentialism is "a group of attitudes that emphasizes existence rather than essence and sees the inadequacy of human reason to explain the enigma of the universe as the basic philosophical question" (Shingler). Those people who believe that our existence precedes essence are called Existentialists. they belive in many things that differ from the norm of society. This is really how existentialism started out as a belief system that was our of the norm that some people who believed differently started. Essence is a state of living or being in an objective reality. Each existentialsit brings their own ideas to the whole belief system that changes it a bit each time if it is accepted. Their can really be no ture definition of Existentialsim because it changes with each person that becomes an existentialist. -Schuyler Sloop