CH 8:
“Adolph Hitler himself was an artist, painting scenes of battlefields when serving in and, afterwards, streetscapes of Vienna. He wasn’t a very good painter, and was twice rejected by the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna, but to dismiss him as merely a mediocre artist with thwarted ambitions is to miss the more important point: Hitler was a very successful artist, only his medium was not paint and canvas, it was politics and power.”
I knew that Hitler was rejected from art school, but I have never heard that his type of art was politics and power, and I think that's interesting. It's all about the give and take, and I can see how if art wasn't his thing that he would lean towards politics because he was good at it.
“The Sanskrit word svastika translates to something like “to be good,” and by the early twentieth century Europeans had adopted it as a good luck symbol. By picking the swastika as the symbol for their movement, the Nazis drew upon people’s positive associations and familiarity with the symbol.”
I knew that the swastika was a symbol that meant peace, but I didn't know how many cultures had the same symbol. Hitler was evil and a madman, but Ithink that the fact that he took a symbol and forever ruined it and changed the whole meaning is genius in a way a mad scientist is.
CH 9:
“They described a fantastic world, but it’s important to take such fantasies seriously because this is what the activists in Texas were really fighting for, it was the core vision that motivated them.”
I think that the concept of a utopia is a great one but an idea that is unobtainable because there have to be people at the top and people at the bottom. What i mean is that there are people that have to work minimum wage jobs for these corporations to make millions and io just think this system will never change.
“What can one possibly do if one accepts that the world that we live in is the only possible world there is, and that our station in life is not the result of political decisions, but the natural, inevitable outcome of history?”
This is interesting because of what I said in my last quote, but I don't think that a utopia is obtainable and I would love to be wrong on this, but I don't think I am.
My projects aim is to bring more attention to what is happening between Palestine and Israel and continue off my midterm. I plan to spread the word of what is happening in that part of the world. The idea for my project is to have two big pieces of paper and one of them will represent Israel and the other Palestine. I will make tally marks that will represent deaths but of course they would represent thousands each because of how much death is happening.Israels color would be blue because of the color of their flag and Palestine's would be red to represent all the bloodshed. I will do this on two big pieces of paper.
In the background of the tally marks i want both posters to have distinct details to really get my point across. The israel one will have a money aspect to it maybe bags of cash or just a dollar sign while the palestinie one will have some blood (red marker or paint). I think that this will help get the audience's attention and get the conversation started with them. At the top of both papers will be a title saying that these are the death tolls as of November 2025. I really want to emphasize the two distinctions and the Israel all nice and pretty and give the Palestinian some struggle to it to represent what the people feel like.
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