Blog #2

1) The person is said that the forest is being destroyed.

There is a sign that says forest is reserved

Guy looks like he tried to fight for the forest

Sky is dark like its about to rain

There are still trees in the back

Death in the front life in the back

2) Artist is Latif Maulan

Title is Forest Reserved

I think the painting exist to show that companies do not care if they are not allowed to destroy land just as long as they can do it they will.

In the painting it looks as if a man tried to fight to keep the forest up and not be destroyed, but he lost. there was nothing he could do to stop the bull dozer. this causes him to be sad so he sits on a rock with his head down.

3)There is still life in the background. This to me can either show hope for a future or it could just mean the bull dozer has not gotten there yet.

The intended function is to show that sometimes you just can't do anything to save something.

In this case the person is trying to save the forest and he failed.

4)

First Blog

Hey, my name is Matthew Everson and i am a first year student here at Ohio State. I did not do to much writing in high school so blogs are new to me. I have only had to blog once before in my life and I did not do it so this is my first official time blogging.
The first year writing assignment was very interesting and it made me think about my writing past. This really made me realize that I do not like reading or writing too much. When I did write it was normally for a given topic assigned be the teacher. Every year I had to do atleast one research paper for my english class. The last research paper that I did was to compare a poem to a song. This was very challenging and it really tested my writing skills.
I do not recall ever writing analytically for an assignment in high school. This new style is very new and a little confusing. I will have to change my way of thinking because I do no feel like I am an analytical thinker. What I am used to is free writing as I did a lot of it in high school. In most of my english classes we had journals atleast 2-3 a week and they were free writing asignments.
I feel like I am pretty well prepared for the writing in this class and in college. With all of the writing help here on campus you just can not fail in your writing. I plan to use these resources to help me and look forward to the future writing assignments.