diff --git a/notes/2024/as-am-5/week-2.md b/notes/2024/as-am-5/week-2.md index 6ceddaf..879bc4d 100644 --- a/notes/2024/as-am-5/week-2.md +++ b/notes/2024/as-am-5/week-2.md @@ -34,9 +34,9 @@ immigrate to US -> 1946 Phillipines gains independences -> Bulosan arrives in between - Context between Bulosan's arrival in 1930 and publication of book in 1946: - The Great Gatsby -> Emblematic of Roaring Twenties; not a huge hit immediately - -> Fitzgerald explores the life of striving outsider -> critique of American - promise (upwards mobility, second chances) + The Great Gatsby -> Emblematic of Roaring Twenties; not a huge hit + immediately -> Fitzgerald explores the life of striving outsider -> critique + of American promise (upwards mobility, second chances) - Context 2: The Good Earth -> American born Pearl S. Buck, daughter of Chinese, grew up in China, Wrote her most famous novel about inhabitants of a Chinese village. Shaped ways in which Americans viewed Chinese in America @@ -45,14 +45,39 @@ Filipino reality for Western audience, split between young and older/wiser Bulosan - What is Bulosan doing besides just talking about nature? Why is he - concentrating on it? -> in conversation with specific type of literary style -> - the "pastoral" + concentrating on it? -> in conversation with specific type of literary style + -> the "pastoral" - The pastoral is a literary tradition -> traditionally, poems about shepherds - -> beauty of life, waking up early, farming, etc -> idealized lives of the poor - -> tension between cultivated author and low born subjects -> Bulosan + -> beauty of life, waking up early, farming, etc -> idealized lives of the + poor -> tension between cultivated author and low born subjects -> Bulosan deconstructs pastoral through realism - Social Realism -> unvarnished and unfiltered economic racial injustice -> - working class figure as hero -> scrutinizing ills of society -> reality without - illusion -> one problem: emphasis on collective vs. individual + working class figure as hero -> scrutinizing ills of society -> reality + without illusion -> one problem: emphasis on collective vs. individual - Do for Filipinos in America what Lange tried to do for working class -> book as work of pastoral social realism + +## Lecture 2 (10/10) + +- AH is a biography in the "social realist" mode -> leaves home in the + Phillipines after beaten down by harsh realities of life -> tries to maintain + optimism about American Dream as he continues through his journey + +## Section + +- Pastoral +- Realism -> depict life as it truly is, complexities, imperfections, etc, + verisimilitude + - Social realism -> see peoples' struggles, critiques about causes/reasons, + +### Writing assignment + +Then, please write up why Carlos portrayed them in this particular manner. + +Each individual should write your own answer. Please write the name of the woman you are analyzing. + +1. Mary Strandon +2. Marian +3. Judith + +Mary Strandon was portrayed as a kindly woman who gave Bulosan work and allowed him to read diff --git a/notes/2024/math-4a/week-2/main.typ b/notes/2024/math-4a/week-2/main.typ index 52896a5..40cd385 100644 --- a/notes/2024/math-4a/week-2/main.typ +++ b/notes/2024/math-4a/week-2/main.typ @@ -12,4 +12,4 @@ ), ) - +$ integral^oo_(-oo) e^(-x^2) dif x = sqrt(pi) $