PHOTOMONTAGE

Student:Kouliga Koala

Instructors:Jess,Jasmine

Class: American culture
Date: 07/29/2010

Paragraph about photomontage

This photomontage is about Man and the world. It is also about how technology and science have changed our planet and the world into a better place to live. It is undeniable that human mind is dominated by the material. Not only do we think that it the best way to have a comfortable life, but it also how scientists could process to discover more interesting things. The results will be for the welfare of the whole society. Whatever the consequences, our destiny is linked to progress and the bigger the consequences, the more noticeable the progress. Can we say that we are moving towards the best and the right kind of destiny? What if we were walking to a collective disappearance? There is a chain between everything in life going from good to bad. Life made of material wealth, money, the desire of fame, celebrity and beautiful life co-inhabit with environmental destruction, human slaughtering, criminality

alcohol and drug addiction and sexualdiversion. But “If you think that the world is not good enough, then you are old-fashioned. Go to the direction of your destiny and free your mind to give you whatever you want. If humanity disappears, that will be how things should be. If there are problems threatening your life and that you cannot solve, go over them and make new things”. Do we really have problems in the world? Can we solve them? The present day Man looking into the future is deformed and cannot see any of them. His chin hides his eyes and prevents them from seeing, his head bigger that his trunk and his legs that can barely hold him up. He is looking for something for all of us.

Cultural Icon by Alejandro Lopez

Who is Gustavo Dudamel and Why I choose him?

The Venezuelan icon that I would like to write about is Gustavo Dudamel. Gustavo Dudamel was born January 26, 1981; he started to dedicate his life to music at the young age of 10 years old when he entered violin classes. Without finishing he’s violin training he started to study composition to lead a symphony in 1995.

Something that it’s really amazing about him is that with just ten years latter he would be the director of the symphonic of Berlin that is one of the most famous. His debut was with the philharmonic of Los Angeles California where he made an extraordinary performance in 2005. His career has really taken off since 2005. In 2006 he married with Eloisa Maturen and went in 2008 on a European music tour with the philharmonic of Berlin. Right now he’s working with the Gothenburg Symphony in Gothenburg, Sweden. He claims to feel the music to feel alive when he is there on the stage, and that make him continue no matter what, so I know how it feels and I’m agree with that opinion we must find the reason to continue forward and music is mine, everybody should have one.

I choose this man because he doesn’t live with limits in any moments of his life. He just looks forward all his life, and I mean, I never thought that he wasn’t something, he just doesn’t care the size of the thing he is now director of 3 important symphonies. However, I’m sure that he’s not thinking that he reached the maximum point at all. Actually, I think that he still looking forward, he enjoys his life, he reached his goals but now he proposed new ones to himself, and I’m sure he would get all those new ones.

What I feel is the same thing just look forward no matter what or how much it can take. I want to reach my goals, and I know I will do it. For my life is not long enough to regret, we have to work on what we want and enjoy it at the same time. I don’t put limits on myself in nothing I want to do, because no matter in which circumstances I am or if something that its hard for me its easy for others I just thing “I can do it” and it work for me because I never give up and I sure Dudamel is the same way as me in this aspect.

Violet

Do you want to be skinny?

But! you can not stop to eat fooooooods!

Diet! Diet! Diet!

The foods are ENEMY of girls.

You still want to be skinny

with holding a hamger in your hand.

Pills? Low fat?

Those are useless.

Just do exercise!

Thst is real beauty^^

Violer - Korean Icon

Korean Icon “Hanbiya”

Hanbiya is very famous in Korea as a world traveler and writer. She was graduated in English literature at Hongik University. She received a Master's degree in international PR studies from the University of Utah in the USA. Then, she worked in Burson-Marstella, the international PR Company, but she handed in her resignation to realize her childhood's dream which was to make a journey around the world. After that, she traveled almost every hinterland of the world for about seven years. She went to all over the world: Africa, North America, South America, Europe, Southeast Asia and so on. From her travel experience, she wrote some books like "That was Love", "A Daughter of the Wind" and "March out of the map".

Now, she has been working for World Vision, the international NGO, as a chief of an emergency relief squad. She said that she always tries to thanks to god everything. Even that is very small thing like ‘Thank you god that I can come here that I can help people’, ‘Thank you that you give me health’, ‘Thank you that I was born in Korea : there is plenty of clean water, good condition to live.’ Etc. I think because she always goes to abroad for giving help, she can realize lot of things. Positive thinking and mind are really good for us. She always writes in her book how many people are in trouble in Africa because they don’t have enough water even for drinking. She persuades people a small sum of money could save lives of millions and thousands of children in Africa. I respect her character and her way of thinking. I am always eager to have an energetic, positive and optimistic attitude of mind like her. She was given me a lot of lessons. I think she is real Korean Icon.

Jessica's cultural icon

Like many other countries, Korea has some cultural icons, which have influenced people in a variety of ways and in many fields. Korea is a very small country and most people did not know anything about Korea even few years ago. However, there were several Korean, who let the world know about Korea. Kim Yu-na, who I am going to talk about, is one of them.

In the 2010 Vancouver Winter Olympic, all Korean were extremely excited the day when the final figure skating game was on. Everybody in Korea gathered in front of TV even stopped working and watched the game with breathless interest since Yu-na was going to challenge the champion and also the world record. When Yu-na finally got the gold medal, everyone went wild that day. Even she broke the world record, so she was the first female skater to surpass the 200-point mark ever since the ISU judging system has made. Also, this medal meant a lot to Korean people since Yu-na is the first Korea figure stake medalist in history. No one cared about this field because we thought that the figure skating is just not ours, but Yu-na changed our stereotype. So now, Yu-na is one of the most highly recognized athletes and media figures in Korea.

However, her life as a figure skater was not easy from the first even though she had a natural gift. Yu-na began skating at the age of 7 and her trainer noticed her talent so she recommended her mother make her keep doing skating. And Yu-na started showing her instinct for figure skating ,at 12 Yu-na won the senior title at the South Korean figure skating championships, becoming the youngest skater ever win that title. However, her parents did not have enough money to support her since the tuition fee and all equipments and clothes for skating were too expensive for them to afford. So, they tried to convince Yu-na to quit skating but they could not do that because Yu-na was full of passion about skating. If Yu-na gives up her dream at that time, present Yu-na could not have been existed.

Since Yu-na became famous, her agency produced the ice show. Ice All Stars,2009, which took place in Seoul on August, 2009, Michelle Kwan, who is Yu-na's idol and the most decorated figure skater in the U.S history, joined the ice show. Also, Yu-na took a role as an ambassador for the 2010-2012 Visit Korea Year and international UNICEF goodwill ambassador. Furthermore, Yu-na has been rated as one of the world's most influential people in 2010 by TIME. After the 2010 Winter Olympic, all press from all over the world exalted Yu-na's playing by releasing the articles about her even Hilary Clinton praised Yu-na's performance with a letter.

She also has appeared on multiple commercials in Korea even sings in some commercials and most companies earned plenty of money from advertising their products with her. For example, Samsung Electronics has sold over one million cell phone devices in a record seven months. So, Yu-na made a lot of money but she did not use all that money just for herself. Yu-na has donated more than 1.7millon dollars in last 3 years to support young figure skaters and patients suffering rare diseases and children in need. Because of this donation Yu-na has nicknamed as “queen Yu-na".

For all these reasons, Yu-na became the most highly recognized figures in Korea. She showed us the huge effort, passion, confidence, possibility and personal appeals. Although, Yu-na is just 20years old, she is very brave and audacious. A lot of young people admire Yu-na, I also think that she is fully qualified to be a cultural icon of Korea. Yu-na moved people's heart by playing perfect performance, not only Korean but also all people of the world. Everyone was touched because they could see the effort and hardship which Yu-na has been training, not just because of the glamorous of the shell.

Dora's photomontage

"Actually, these thing are what I reaally like."

This is my photomontage and in the picture I want to present what most of people like in Taiwan. Music, money, power, and fame are things that most Taiwnese admired. In the right side are most of boys' favorite; such as baseball and basketball games, rockers, comic books and cartoon, they are really popular between boys. For girls, there are women things and delicious foods but must be diet, and being a skinny girl is the most important thing in most of girls' minds. I like my photomontage and I think my composition is really cool when I finish it.

Dora-Taiwan Culture Icon

In every country there are always some icons in the people’s minds. Maybe the icon is good at music, and is admired by young people. Or the icon is a very important person for the country, and everybody in the country will remember what the person did for the country. Maybe the icon is good at sports and always wins medals from all kinds of competitions. The icon in Taiwan I will mention in this essay is a famous singer of Taiwan. He’s a super idol in young people’s minds.
Who is he? He is Jay Chou. (Chinese name is 周杰倫). He is not only a singer, but also a songwriter, a composer, a rapper, a musician, and a director. He’s also known as an actor; the movie “Secret” was direct by him, and he was the main character of this movie. I think it’s this movie made him become more famous in Asia. He is good at music since he was a little boy, and the styles of his songs are hip-hop and blues. His music style is usually different from other singers; he likes to mix the music style in Eastern and Western style. It is the special thing that only belongs to him and he soon became a popular singer of Taiwan. His music talent was discovered on a TV show. At that time, he is only a songwriter and was not so famous because he hadn’t sung any songs yet. However, his good voice was found in a song named “Cute Woman” and which was recoded by him, since then, he stared his singing career.

Besides music, he is also good at being an actor and a director. His first movie is called “Initial D”, which was origin as a comic book from Japan. He was the main make character of this movie. In the movie, he was a boy that shy and quiet, but was very good at car racing. It was said that he was acting himself in the movie; though there was some bad critics of his first movie, he still won the best Newcomer Actor in Golden Horse Awards and Hong King Film Awards. After that, he directed his first movie “Secret” and was soon very popular in Taiwan. Furthermore, the music of this movie was all made by him. In the movie, he was a genius pianist in high school and was falling in love with a girl who was from the past. After this movie was played on the big screen in the theater, Jay Chou became a really famous singer and musician in Asia.

I admired Jay Chou as a talented person, though there are still some scandals between him and many female singers, his music and compositions are really good. His music is really unique in young people’s mind, and I think his career life of music will go on and on.