2012 Media Studies

2012 Media Studies

Sunday, November 4, 2012

Rye Deng

1. Statement
            The value I hold is that to be faithful to myself.  It is hard to achieve sometimes, because the faith is from the bottom from your heart not from your religion or someone else. When something comes that it won’t push you and won’t punish you, it becomes much harder to keep the way you usually are. In China, we believe in an old saying: everyone was born with a kind heart and the unique blessing, and all you have to do is to keep the innocence, rather than fix or heal the damage.

The first one of my presentation is the theme of “stay alive”, like the same song from Bee Gees suggests, which is also the main goal of one’ s life. Because you won’t have any chance to reach goals like fortune and love without this achievement of “staying alive”. And the question is how do you stay alive, eating healthy or keeping exercise?  The answer from me is to be faithful to yourself during your whole life. The baby who was seeking for something means the search of lifestyle and faith of your life. Seeking is the great symbols of staying alive, because everyone in the world should seek for something in order to make lives more meaningful, or we will become the walking dead man. Since babies mean the hope and youth, I think the search should be started at our age. The flower in the middle means every tiny thing, which can make you happy. Since the living creatures like flowers and trees also mean the hope and growth, I chose them as the symbols of happiness. The sign of conversation in the corner shows a part of staying alive, talking. To stay alive, you have to have something, which contacts you and the world, like communication with others and your judgment of things in your life.  The little train in the left edge means another aspect of staying alive. People should walk and travel all the world, as the saying that” meet half of yourself on the road”, traveling is a good way to find your soul, because you never know what and where is the best part of life until you really touch it.


            The second part of my collages is called” thinking is free”. Thinking is the most beautiful part of one’s life since no one can steal your thoughts, which also the way to distinguish the difference between humans and the other living creatures. We can think the meaning of many lusters in our lives instead shallow, ordinary things like livelihoods. Thinking about things like the contact between humans and nature, and humanities subjects is the power to raise the quality of our lives and create the improvement of the society. The budges I used are the symbols of candidates of the United States Presidents. Those represented the freedom of voting and the consideration, which is the thinking part, of the country’s future. The picture of Chinese Chairman, Mao, shows the preference of myself, which means thinking the political position of China. I put the national flag of USA and the chairman’s picture together showing I am interested the differences and commons of those two countries. I used the pictures of a bike and a plane to show that thinking is your transportation that can bring your mind to anywhere, and thinking is also the compass to help you find the right way and not be lost. The camera means that thinking is the document of every piece of one’s life. The gun represents that thinking is your weapon. Thought is the most powerful weapon to protect you from harms especially the mental damage, and fight back properly. Kurt Vonnegut’s Manifesto: “how embarrassing to be human“ where I found via Internet, which I love a lot, shows another style of thinking. Thinking could be unique and you should never be shameful about your thoughts. Being different is not a shameful thing at all, instead, that’s why thinking makes you so beautiful.

The third one is called “contribution”, which is used to represent the part of my philosophy. Being faithful to yourself, means you have to do something for others. The picture of Thomas Vermaelen, the captain of Arsenal, means the responsibility of contributing.  Being a captain means you have to sacrifice yourself and combine your team as a union. In my views, being a leader means contribution more than privileges; that’s why leadership is one the vital standards to judge the person.  I used the crown and the audience to represent the contribution. When you were chosen to be a king or president, your have to keep you words to your people. Contributing is the process, which has to be mutual, there’s no unilateral contribution or demand. Your final goal is to seek for the sense of accomplishment or being respectful during contributing.

The next part of my collage is called” enjoyment”, which is an important element of our daily life.  I used kids on the bottom to represent the theory that children are the footstones of any society; teaching them to be faithful and being faithful to them is being faithful to the society. Education is the cheapest national guarantee. Making the kids know the true meaning of having fun and enjoy every latter moment in their lives, is our tasks today to guarantee the better future of the entire human beings. The way the country teaches the kids, in a way, decide the nation’s characters. Enjoyment also means a lot to an individual; it is the way to avoid people being machine. Making everything in order is a habit; make be sure to there’s any spare time for enjoying. Learning how to enjoy your life, then you can create your own.
In general, being faithful is not always a serious topic; instead, keeping the way you used to be, which is simple but tough, is the proper method, and it can also lead you into a wonderful realm.


2. 5 personal things

enter the ivy league college and get a good job in my field
me and my family are healthy
see the celebrity and my favorite soccer team
travel around the world and make lots of friends
get married with my true love


strive for human rights for others do social work
help the poor people in my country and teach them for free
I can be there when someone needs me
Protect the environment
Donate


3. Philosophy 
 The value I hold is that to be faithful to myself.  It is hard to achieve sometimes, because the faith is from the bottom from your heart not from your religion or someone else. When something comes that it won’t push you and won’t punish you, it becomes much harder to keep the way you usually are. In China, we believe in an old saying: everyone was born with a kind heart and the unique blessing, and all you have to do is to keep the innocence, rather than fix or heal the damage. 
4. collage 

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