My name is Joy Marie Prior and these are a two of my favorite things. Don’t worry, I will be able to feel the page quota because I want to do more than list off my favorite things in a question and answer form (I would find that a waste of time). I want to tell you why these are my favorite things, because I feel like that would be a better way to show you who I am. You see, my favorite things are my favorites because out of all the things I like these are what I like best, what I prefer.
Favorite Color: Yellow
I have a firm belief that people really only know someone when they can say what their favorite colors is. It is probably a biased opinion because I like colors, more than I like shapes or designs; I like colors. Last night I realized that I like the color purple; the bashful shade of purple that dusted the billowing edges of the mandarin orange clouds when the sun was setting. When I got dressed I admitted to myself that I love the color turquoise because when I wear it my eyes pop out. After I got my rough draft back from my professor it reaffirmed my conviction that reds are probably my least favorite shades, but I have learned to like a shade of coral. In general I like all colors though.
Sometimes at the grocery store when I think no one is looking I go to the paint isle to look at the colors. If I am sure that no one is watching I pick out the samples that catch my eye. The colors I get vary as drastically as the weather I chose a pasty pinks, toucan oranges, daisy yellows, or burnt black. Last time I went to the store I was with two of my old friends from High School. We are all in college now and not much older than when we first meet, but after listening to their memories I realized that in their memories I am the slightly-crazier-than-you-but-not-dangerous-enough-to-worry-your-parents-friend. We were recounting the time that the police pulled us over for walking across the picnic tables at the baseball park while we tried putting a scavenger hunt clue on the underside of the roof. Without thinking I turned down the paint isle and asked them if they wanted to pick out their favorite colors with me. That day I had to pick four colors: chocolate brown, electric orange, forest green, and ocean blue, because I just could not decided which one I liked more and which one fit my mood best. They laughed and babbled on about how cool this was, because it was so unexpected and odd that surly only people as unique as us would think to do such an outlandish thing. I smiled to myself; I take paint samples from the store far to often to even find it unique anymore.
My favorite color of yellow is the shade that circles the edge of the sun just before sundown. It is almost the shade of a ripe mango, but more creamy and less vivid. Some people mistake it as the same shade as a sunflower but the color of yellow that I like is more bright than that and less common.
Favorite Food: Cinnamon roll
A favorite food is a difficult choice because food varies from place to place and cook to cook. For the food I eat everyday I am kind-a a granola I like to eat spinach salads, black beans and rice, and cereal with a sliced banana. When I feel like a treat I put Adam’s Natural Peanut butter in between two gram crackers and pour myself a glass of whole milk. I also like to dip potato chips in Brigham Young University Vanilla ice-cream, but I don’t like to eat potato chips alone.
A few weeks ago I visited Hawaii, and the family that I stayed with believed that food is the language of love. I had some of the best pastries I have ever had! This is significant because I dislike donates, I actually used to think that I hated donates but then I tried the ones in Hawaii and realized that some donates are ok, except for the chocolate covered donates. Gag! It is just not normal to like something that feels like mud and taste like lard that had water added to it and then was dyed brown. Maybe I like chocolate covered donates in South Africa… I have never been to South Africa and I don’t know if they have good chocolate donates or not. So, basically I like a lot of the donates in Hawaii, dislike the donates in the Provo bakery, and have never tired a chocolate covered donate from South Africa so I can not tell you if I like those kind or not.
My favorite food is cinnamon rolls. The kind of cinnamon rolls that my mother makes. Not the store bought ones that come in a package; you might as well just buy a pound of sugar and eat that. There are some bakery ones that I like, but sometimes the frosting is to heavy. My favorite cinnamon rolls are made from a light dinner roll dough and filled with cinnamon and sugar. I would rather have the curves of the dough to large than to thin. The frosting is the pure white and made from just powder sugar and a little melted butter. When I was little I used to help my mom cut the cinnamon rolls with a piece of mint dental floss that cut through the rolled up dough better than a knife. I am the youngest of nine, and now that everyone is married and has children of their own there can be fifty of us at a one family dinner. My mom rarely makes homemade cinnamon rolls anymore. Instead she makes cinnamon wands, which are strips of dough covered in cinnamon and sugar that are twisted instead of rolled. They taste just as good if not better that a traditional cinnamon roll because they have more room for more frosting, and they are quicker to make. I think that is why I like cinnamon rolls best, because I know when they are coming out of the oven and you drizzling the frosting across the steaming golden brown rolls dripping in sticky cinnamon that someone had to put in the extra time to slice the dough with dental floss.
Tuesday, June 21, 2011
REG assignment #2
My name is Joy Marie Prior and these are a two of my favorite things. Don’t worry, I will be able to feel the page quota because I want to do more than list off my favorite things in a question and answer form (I would find that a waste of time). I want to tell you why these are my favorite things, because I feel like that would be a better way to show you who I am. You see, my favorite things are my favorites because out of all the things I like these are what I like best, what I prefer.
Favorite Color: Yellow
I have a firm belief that people really only know someone when they can say what their favorite colors is. It is probably a biased opinion because I like colors, more than I like shapes or designs; I like colors. Last night I realized that I like the color purple; the bashful shade of purple that dusted the billowing edges of mandarin orange clouds when the sun was setting. When I got dressed I admitted to myself that I love the color turquoise because when I wear it my eyes pop out. After I got my rough draft back from my professor it reaffirmed my conviction that reds are probably my least favorite shades, but I have learned to like a shade of coral. In general I like all colors though.
Sometimes at the grocery store when I think no one is looking I go to the paint isle to look at the colors. If I am sure that no one is watching I pick out the samples that catch my eye. Sometimes I chose a pasty pinks, other times a toucan orange, often I get a daisy yellow. Last time I went to the store I was with two of my old friends from High School. We are all in college now and not much older than when we first meet, but after listening to their memories I realized that in their memories I am the slightly-crazier-than-you-but-not-dangerous-enough-to-worry-your-parents-friend. While, we recounted the time that the police pulled us over for walking across the picnic tables at the baseball park while Jace tried to tap a scavenger hunt clue on the underside of the roof I walked by the paint isle. Without thinking I turned and asked them if they wanted to pick out their favorite colors with me. That day I had to pick four colors: chocolate brown, electric orange, forest green, and ocean blue, because I just could not decided which one I liked more and which one fit my mood best. They laughed and babbled on about how cool this was, because it was so unexpected and odd that surly only people as unique as us would think to do such an odd thing. I smiled to myself; I take paint samples from the store far to often to even find it unique anymore.
My favorite color of yellow is the shade that circles the edge of the sun just before sundown. It is almost the shade of a ripe mango, but more creamy and less vivid. Some people mistake it as the same shade as a sunflower but the color of yellow that I like is more bright than that and less common.
Favorite Food: Cinnamon roll
A favorite food is a difficult choice because food varies from place to place and cook to cook. For the food I eat everyday I am kind-a a granola I like to eat spinach salads, black beans and rice, and cereal with a sliced banana. When I feel like a treat I put Adam’s Natural Peanut butter in between two gram crackers and pour myself a glass of whole milk. I also like to dip potato chips in Brigham Young University Vanilla ice-cream, but I don’t like to just eat potato chips alone.
A few weeks ago I visited Hawaii, and the family that I stayed with believed that food is the language of love. I had some of the best pastries I have ever had! This is significant because I dislike donates, I actually used to think that I hated donates but then I tried the ones in Hawaii and realized that some donates are ok, except for the chocolate covered donates. Gag! It is just not normal to like something that feels like mud and taste like lard that had water added to it and then was dyed brown. Maybe I like chocolate covered donates in South Africa… I have never been to South Africa and I don’t know if they have good chocolate donates or not. So, basically I like a lot of the donates in Hawaii, dislike the donates in the Provo bakery, and have never tired a chocolate covered donate from South Africa so I do not know if I like those kind or not.
My favorite food is cinnamon rolls. The kind of cinnamon rolls that my mother makes. Not the store bought ones that come in a package; you might as well just buy a pound of sugar and eat that. There are some bakery ones that I like, but sometimes the frosting is to heavy. My favorite cinnamon rolls are made from a light dinner roll dough and filled with cinnamon and sugar. I would rather have the curves of the dough to large than to thin. The frosting is the clear and light kind made from just powder sugar and a little melted butter. When I was little I used to help my mom cut the cinnamon rolls with a piece of mint dental floss that cut through the rolled up dough better than a knife. I am the youngest of nine, and now that everyone is married and has children of their own there can be fifty of us at a one family dinner my mom rarely makes homemade cinnamon rolls. Instead she makes cinnamon wands, which are basically strips of dough covered in cinnamon and sugar that are twisted instead of rolled. They taste just as good if not better because they have more room for more frosting, and they are quicker to make. I think that is why I like cinnamon rolls best though, because I know that when they are coming out of the oven hot and warm someone had to put in the extra time to slice the dough with dental floss.
Favorite Color: Yellow
I have a firm belief that people really only know someone when they can say what their favorite colors is. It is probably a biased opinion because I like colors, more than I like shapes or designs; I like colors. Last night I realized that I like the color purple; the bashful shade of purple that dusted the billowing edges of mandarin orange clouds when the sun was setting. When I got dressed I admitted to myself that I love the color turquoise because when I wear it my eyes pop out. After I got my rough draft back from my professor it reaffirmed my conviction that reds are probably my least favorite shades, but I have learned to like a shade of coral. In general I like all colors though.
Sometimes at the grocery store when I think no one is looking I go to the paint isle to look at the colors. If I am sure that no one is watching I pick out the samples that catch my eye. Sometimes I chose a pasty pinks, other times a toucan orange, often I get a daisy yellow. Last time I went to the store I was with two of my old friends from High School. We are all in college now and not much older than when we first meet, but after listening to their memories I realized that in their memories I am the slightly-crazier-than-you-but-not-dangerous-enough-to-worry-your-parents-friend. While, we recounted the time that the police pulled us over for walking across the picnic tables at the baseball park while Jace tried to tap a scavenger hunt clue on the underside of the roof I walked by the paint isle. Without thinking I turned and asked them if they wanted to pick out their favorite colors with me. That day I had to pick four colors: chocolate brown, electric orange, forest green, and ocean blue, because I just could not decided which one I liked more and which one fit my mood best. They laughed and babbled on about how cool this was, because it was so unexpected and odd that surly only people as unique as us would think to do such an odd thing. I smiled to myself; I take paint samples from the store far to often to even find it unique anymore.
My favorite color of yellow is the shade that circles the edge of the sun just before sundown. It is almost the shade of a ripe mango, but more creamy and less vivid. Some people mistake it as the same shade as a sunflower but the color of yellow that I like is more bright than that and less common.
Favorite Food: Cinnamon roll
A favorite food is a difficult choice because food varies from place to place and cook to cook. For the food I eat everyday I am kind-a a granola I like to eat spinach salads, black beans and rice, and cereal with a sliced banana. When I feel like a treat I put Adam’s Natural Peanut butter in between two gram crackers and pour myself a glass of whole milk. I also like to dip potato chips in Brigham Young University Vanilla ice-cream, but I don’t like to just eat potato chips alone.
A few weeks ago I visited Hawaii, and the family that I stayed with believed that food is the language of love. I had some of the best pastries I have ever had! This is significant because I dislike donates, I actually used to think that I hated donates but then I tried the ones in Hawaii and realized that some donates are ok, except for the chocolate covered donates. Gag! It is just not normal to like something that feels like mud and taste like lard that had water added to it and then was dyed brown. Maybe I like chocolate covered donates in South Africa… I have never been to South Africa and I don’t know if they have good chocolate donates or not. So, basically I like a lot of the donates in Hawaii, dislike the donates in the Provo bakery, and have never tired a chocolate covered donate from South Africa so I do not know if I like those kind or not.
My favorite food is cinnamon rolls. The kind of cinnamon rolls that my mother makes. Not the store bought ones that come in a package; you might as well just buy a pound of sugar and eat that. There are some bakery ones that I like, but sometimes the frosting is to heavy. My favorite cinnamon rolls are made from a light dinner roll dough and filled with cinnamon and sugar. I would rather have the curves of the dough to large than to thin. The frosting is the clear and light kind made from just powder sugar and a little melted butter. When I was little I used to help my mom cut the cinnamon rolls with a piece of mint dental floss that cut through the rolled up dough better than a knife. I am the youngest of nine, and now that everyone is married and has children of their own there can be fifty of us at a one family dinner my mom rarely makes homemade cinnamon rolls. Instead she makes cinnamon wands, which are basically strips of dough covered in cinnamon and sugar that are twisted instead of rolled. They taste just as good if not better because they have more room for more frosting, and they are quicker to make. I think that is why I like cinnamon rolls best though, because I know that when they are coming out of the oven hot and warm someone had to put in the extra time to slice the dough with dental floss.
Monday, June 20, 2011
Rel devotional quote
“It is our responsibility to strive to find where we can make a contribution to our fellowman—an area where we have some interest and abilities and where we can, at the same time, provide for our own.
“I am glad Beethoven found his way to music, Rembrandt into art, Michelangelo into sculpturing, and President David O. McKay into teaching. To find your proper niche and do well at it can bless you, yours, and your fellowmen. If you need help in finding your career, it is available: Ponder and pray about it; study closely your patriarchal blessing; consider what you do well; take some vocational and interest tests; and get acquainted with various professions to see what is available” (The Teachings of Ezra Taft Benson, p. 484-485).
The art of leaving behind a legacy
“I am glad Beethoven found his way to music, Rembrandt into art, Michelangelo into sculpturing, and President David O. McKay into teaching. To find your proper niche and do well at it can bless you, yours, and your fellowmen. If you need help in finding your career, it is available: Ponder and pray about it; study closely your patriarchal blessing; consider what you do well; take some vocational and interest tests; and get acquainted with various professions to see what is available” (The Teachings of Ezra Taft Benson, p. 484-485).
The art of leaving behind a legacy
SFL 222 Newsletter page
I am Joy Marie Prior, and I am excited to be a part of your child’s learning experience this summer. A little about me is that I grew up on a Dairy Farm in Springville Utah. My summers were filled with days of running through fields of alfalfa and felling the mud squish between my toes. In the winters the snow-slush would fly into my eyelashes and the cold turned my already pink checks a fire engine red when I raced my older brother down the snow packed hill near our home. Compared to the constant blast of the train whistles and rattling of the tracks in front of our family farm the first day of Kindergarten seemed ridiculously quite. I liked my teacher well enough; she had chestnut brown hair that she kept in large curls close to her head. Naturally, I have always been a curious person but in Kindergarten I began to love school: the cheap pasted projects, the paperback books, and the pasty color of the #2 pencils. In all honesty I am as anxious to learn as much as I hope that your children are. I welcome your feedback and hope that we can develop a sense of trust as we all being to learn this semester.
Rel Assignment #1
Religion C 261 – Sister Kelly Summers
Assignment #1 – Introduction Letter – 5pts
Please include the following elements as a part of your letter:
1. Name
Joy Marie Prior
2. Brief background of yourself
I am currently a student at Brigham Young University. I’m the average height of five feet and five inches but in my family I am about six inches shorter than the rest. My hair is what I like to call a honey blond, my eyes are a vivid blue, and my skin is more of a strawberry milk cream color than actually white. Truthfully, I like clothes more than I have ever liked to do my hair or makeup. I like to get dressed and I have an odd obsession with matching my outfit with my mood. When I introduce myself I always say, “I am from Spanish Fork, and that is about twenty minutes south from Provo. I grew up on a dairy farm out there. I’m the youngest of nine.” And if their eyes bug up when I say that I am the youngest of nine (as if that is too large of a family even by Mormon standards) I add, “I come from a mixed family.” I usually don’t like to add this last part because it makes my life sound more complicated than it actually is, and I don’t like to think of my siblings as anything than my siblings.
3. General knowledge of your ancestry
I guess that if you want my heritage background I am a regular European-middleclass-American-mutt, but I like myself that way. My ancestors came from England, Ireland, Swedish, and a little Welch. My grandfather’s sister wrote a book about of family heritage, and I read it during High school but have not looked at it again. Once in a while I have logged onto the church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saint website to figure out if I should do family history work, but from what I can understand on the website the names, dates, and work have been filled out.
4. Why are you taking this class?
Question number 3 leads to my response for this question. I don’t know how I am supposed to fulfill this commandment. After reading the scriptures and being inspired by the words of the prophets I understand that it is important that I do family research I just do not know how to or what I should do. My prayer is that this class will teach me the foundations and give me the insights that will help me to know how to do my own family research.
Submit your letter to me at: ksummers@byu.net
Assignment #1 – Introduction Letter – 5pts
Please include the following elements as a part of your letter:
1. Name
Joy Marie Prior
2. Brief background of yourself
I am currently a student at Brigham Young University. I’m the average height of five feet and five inches but in my family I am about six inches shorter than the rest. My hair is what I like to call a honey blond, my eyes are a vivid blue, and my skin is more of a strawberry milk cream color than actually white. Truthfully, I like clothes more than I have ever liked to do my hair or makeup. I like to get dressed and I have an odd obsession with matching my outfit with my mood. When I introduce myself I always say, “I am from Spanish Fork, and that is about twenty minutes south from Provo. I grew up on a dairy farm out there. I’m the youngest of nine.” And if their eyes bug up when I say that I am the youngest of nine (as if that is too large of a family even by Mormon standards) I add, “I come from a mixed family.” I usually don’t like to add this last part because it makes my life sound more complicated than it actually is, and I don’t like to think of my siblings as anything than my siblings.
3. General knowledge of your ancestry
I guess that if you want my heritage background I am a regular European-middleclass-American-mutt, but I like myself that way. My ancestors came from England, Ireland, Swedish, and a little Welch. My grandfather’s sister wrote a book about of family heritage, and I read it during High school but have not looked at it again. Once in a while I have logged onto the church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saint website to figure out if I should do family history work, but from what I can understand on the website the names, dates, and work have been filled out.
4. Why are you taking this class?
Question number 3 leads to my response for this question. I don’t know how I am supposed to fulfill this commandment. After reading the scriptures and being inspired by the words of the prophets I understand that it is important that I do family research I just do not know how to or what I should do. My prayer is that this class will teach me the foundations and give me the insights that will help me to know how to do my own family research.
Submit your letter to me at: ksummers@byu.net
Wednesday, April 20, 2011
VA final
Joy Prior
Final Questions Issues in Contemporary Art and Art Criticism
As I read the final questions for my Contemporary Art and Art Criticism class I pulled my hoodie over my ponytail, pushed my statistic notes across the living room floor, and imagined a critique. A tall man sitting erect on the edge of a leather coach and his combed hair bouncing when he moves his hands. His pastel colored shirt is tucked into a pair of pressed khaki pants. I look at my own appearance: I studied too late last night; I am wearing the same stuff I wore yesterday because everything else is packed in moving boxes; and my nose is running from allergies. No one would take me serious if I was a critique. I read the question again. My professor was not asking if I thought that I was a critique, but to explain the nature and purpose of Criticism as a discipline. I reflected not simply on how I view art differently after my class, but how I view myself. In the best way that I can articulate I feel that the purpose of criticism is to overcome the fear of stating something you believe in that you are brave enough to change when you understand more.
The reason for studying a discipline is not to obtain a title, but to explore. I take mathematics not because I am mathematician but to learn mathematics. I am in biology not because I am a biologist but to learn biology. I am taking art criticism not because I am a critic but to learn criticism. The nature of criticism, just like other disciplines, should be driven by a desire to expand ones knowledge and not in the vain pursuit of a title.
I believe that criticism is a discipline that benefits the individual more than the observer. I thought about what a critique is. He does not only look like a critique, but he has educated himself, learned to articulate his responses, and above all remains confident in himself even when he loses confidence in his response. This semester I have come to the conclusion that learning to critique an art work is more than simply taking the fragments of knowledge I know and pasting them together for publication. As I take art criticism I have learned to reform my opinion when I question my understanding and perspective but I no longer feel that I have to question my self value to reform an onion. I have benefited the most from learning about art criticism.
I no longer approach the connection between the culture of Zion and postmodernism as if I were in a balancing act. Imagine a balance: a feather on one side of the balance and boulder on the other side. The balancing point has to shift between the two items until it finds balance. This image helped me to see that before I can balance two items, such as a feather and a boulder, I have to full understand the two individual objects and their relationship before I can put them in balance. My attempts to balance religious and artistic beliefs were fruitless not because of my lack in effort but because I do not fully understand the two items I was trying to balance. As I have taken more time to discover what postmodernism and the culture of Zion are I am making progress into knowing how I can have both of them in a balanced life. I now approach the connection between the culture of Zion and postmodernism as a discover; two subjects that I image could take more than a life time to explore.
I never imagined that a Visual Arts minor would complement an Early Childhood Education major so well. When I picked Visual Arts as my minor I chose it because I wanted to do something I found relaxing, and something that I know would not require me to cram in useless information the night before an examine. It was when I started helping in a Kindergarten classroom that I began to value the simple things I learned in art, such as there are more mediums than crayons that I can have in my classroom, to more valuable concepts such as how to discuses and recognize visual stereo types in a reading books, or streaming in from the media. The connection between my personal aspirations as an artist and an educator seems to enhance each other. As I study theories on how to engage children in education my own curiosity takes control. Within the safe elements of art I can be daring enough to explore the world and myself. As I see how art has helped me to discover more I put forth extra effort to provide the same opportunities for my students.
Before I began to write out a few important ideas, experiences, insights that I gained while studying contemporary art and artists I looked through my thought journal.
The black silhouette of Kara Walker made me to explore the important idea of imagination and fear. While I looked at Kara Walker I realized that no one else saw the same image that I saw in her work. I took my own experiences and images and put them into the blank silhouettes, filling the scenes with life and color. Her images seem so familuar and entirely unkown. I made this image as a parallel to how I handle the fear of the unknown. When I am afraid of the future it is because I have filled what I can not see with fears that I am familiar with.
One experience that helped me to grow the most in the class was my presentation of my artist. I felt unbelievably self-conscious of presenting my artwork in front of the class. Even during the last week I do not think I would even dare to sketch a house on the white board in front of all the students. Although I still feel pressure that my art work will never be presentable the experience of showing a simple chalk in front of the class helped me to take baby steps of actually sharing my artwork.
An insight that I learned in class that I reread in my thought journal was “the arts encounter the other and challenge the ego of what we know.” I liked this thought for multiple reasons. One reason I liked the thought so much is because it brought up the idea that I develop my the ego is from facts that I think I know, my experiences, and what I am comfortable with. The other thought that I liked was that the arts challenge my ego. That means that art makes me question facts that I think I know, my experiences, and what I am comfortable with. I like the idea of questioning what I know to discover and continue to discover the world and truth around me.
Return my book: I returned you book
I finished Assignment 45: Reread your favorite book from the 5th grade.
I remember my 5th grade teacher read A Year Down Yonder to my class, and I loved it so much that I read the series later that year. After I finished finals on Monday I did one of my favorite things. I went to the gym sat on one of the stationary bikes and reread the book A Year Down Yonder from cover to cover. It seemed a lot shorter than I remembered it in 5th grade, but I had forgotten most of the stories. I can not believe that I forgot about the naked women running out of the house with a snake wrapped around her! How unforgettable is that?
After considering my work, attendance, participation, writing, reading I would give myself an A in this class. I worked at my personal project, and thought about what I wanted to do until my head almost hurt. Not only did I try things this semester that I never thought I would be brave enough to do but I thought about concepts and ideas that I had never dared to think. I finished the reading, and tried to keep up with all of the writings. I can not remember missing class. I really tried hard to not only participate in the group discussions. Most of all I know that I learned and worked in the class because I found what I was learning in Art creeping into my other subjects, Sunday school lessons, and the very way that I think and perceive the world. I enjoyed the class immensely and would honestly say I feel that I deserve an A.
Final Questions Issues in Contemporary Art and Art Criticism
As I read the final questions for my Contemporary Art and Art Criticism class I pulled my hoodie over my ponytail, pushed my statistic notes across the living room floor, and imagined a critique. A tall man sitting erect on the edge of a leather coach and his combed hair bouncing when he moves his hands. His pastel colored shirt is tucked into a pair of pressed khaki pants. I look at my own appearance: I studied too late last night; I am wearing the same stuff I wore yesterday because everything else is packed in moving boxes; and my nose is running from allergies. No one would take me serious if I was a critique. I read the question again. My professor was not asking if I thought that I was a critique, but to explain the nature and purpose of Criticism as a discipline. I reflected not simply on how I view art differently after my class, but how I view myself. In the best way that I can articulate I feel that the purpose of criticism is to overcome the fear of stating something you believe in that you are brave enough to change when you understand more.
The reason for studying a discipline is not to obtain a title, but to explore. I take mathematics not because I am mathematician but to learn mathematics. I am in biology not because I am a biologist but to learn biology. I am taking art criticism not because I am a critic but to learn criticism. The nature of criticism, just like other disciplines, should be driven by a desire to expand ones knowledge and not in the vain pursuit of a title.
I believe that criticism is a discipline that benefits the individual more than the observer. I thought about what a critique is. He does not only look like a critique, but he has educated himself, learned to articulate his responses, and above all remains confident in himself even when he loses confidence in his response. This semester I have come to the conclusion that learning to critique an art work is more than simply taking the fragments of knowledge I know and pasting them together for publication. As I take art criticism I have learned to reform my opinion when I question my understanding and perspective but I no longer feel that I have to question my self value to reform an onion. I have benefited the most from learning about art criticism.
I no longer approach the connection between the culture of Zion and postmodernism as if I were in a balancing act. Imagine a balance: a feather on one side of the balance and boulder on the other side. The balancing point has to shift between the two items until it finds balance. This image helped me to see that before I can balance two items, such as a feather and a boulder, I have to full understand the two individual objects and their relationship before I can put them in balance. My attempts to balance religious and artistic beliefs were fruitless not because of my lack in effort but because I do not fully understand the two items I was trying to balance. As I have taken more time to discover what postmodernism and the culture of Zion are I am making progress into knowing how I can have both of them in a balanced life. I now approach the connection between the culture of Zion and postmodernism as a discover; two subjects that I image could take more than a life time to explore.
I never imagined that a Visual Arts minor would complement an Early Childhood Education major so well. When I picked Visual Arts as my minor I chose it because I wanted to do something I found relaxing, and something that I know would not require me to cram in useless information the night before an examine. It was when I started helping in a Kindergarten classroom that I began to value the simple things I learned in art, such as there are more mediums than crayons that I can have in my classroom, to more valuable concepts such as how to discuses and recognize visual stereo types in a reading books, or streaming in from the media. The connection between my personal aspirations as an artist and an educator seems to enhance each other. As I study theories on how to engage children in education my own curiosity takes control. Within the safe elements of art I can be daring enough to explore the world and myself. As I see how art has helped me to discover more I put forth extra effort to provide the same opportunities for my students.
Before I began to write out a few important ideas, experiences, insights that I gained while studying contemporary art and artists I looked through my thought journal.
The black silhouette of Kara Walker made me to explore the important idea of imagination and fear. While I looked at Kara Walker I realized that no one else saw the same image that I saw in her work. I took my own experiences and images and put them into the blank silhouettes, filling the scenes with life and color. Her images seem so familuar and entirely unkown. I made this image as a parallel to how I handle the fear of the unknown. When I am afraid of the future it is because I have filled what I can not see with fears that I am familiar with.
One experience that helped me to grow the most in the class was my presentation of my artist. I felt unbelievably self-conscious of presenting my artwork in front of the class. Even during the last week I do not think I would even dare to sketch a house on the white board in front of all the students. Although I still feel pressure that my art work will never be presentable the experience of showing a simple chalk in front of the class helped me to take baby steps of actually sharing my artwork.
An insight that I learned in class that I reread in my thought journal was “the arts encounter the other and challenge the ego of what we know.” I liked this thought for multiple reasons. One reason I liked the thought so much is because it brought up the idea that I develop my the ego is from facts that I think I know, my experiences, and what I am comfortable with. The other thought that I liked was that the arts challenge my ego. That means that art makes me question facts that I think I know, my experiences, and what I am comfortable with. I like the idea of questioning what I know to discover and continue to discover the world and truth around me.
Return my book: I returned you book
I finished Assignment 45: Reread your favorite book from the 5th grade.
I remember my 5th grade teacher read A Year Down Yonder to my class, and I loved it so much that I read the series later that year. After I finished finals on Monday I did one of my favorite things. I went to the gym sat on one of the stationary bikes and reread the book A Year Down Yonder from cover to cover. It seemed a lot shorter than I remembered it in 5th grade, but I had forgotten most of the stories. I can not believe that I forgot about the naked women running out of the house with a snake wrapped around her! How unforgettable is that?
After considering my work, attendance, participation, writing, reading I would give myself an A in this class. I worked at my personal project, and thought about what I wanted to do until my head almost hurt. Not only did I try things this semester that I never thought I would be brave enough to do but I thought about concepts and ideas that I had never dared to think. I finished the reading, and tried to keep up with all of the writings. I can not remember missing class. I really tried hard to not only participate in the group discussions. Most of all I know that I learned and worked in the class because I found what I was learning in Art creeping into my other subjects, Sunday school lessons, and the very way that I think and perceive the world. I enjoyed the class immensely and would honestly say I feel that I deserve an A.
Thursday, April 14, 2011
Geog terms
Confucianism: Chinese ethical and philosophical system developed from the teachings of the Chinese philosopher Confucius
originated in China but has spread to Korea, Taiwan and Vietnam. Most people who adhere to the teachings of Confucius follow Chinese traditional religion
shogun ate: government of the shogun, or hereditary military dictator, of Japan from ad 1192 to 1867.
is a military rank and historical title for (in most cases) a hereditary military dictator of Japan.[1] The modern rank is equivalent to a Generalissimo. Although the original meaning of "shogun" is simply "a general", as a title, it is used as the short form of seii taishōgun 征夷大将軍, the governing individual at various times in the history of Japan, ending when Tokugawa Yoshinobu relinquished the office to the Meiji Emperor in 1867.[2]
Geomancy: is a method of divination that interprets markings on the ground or the patterns formed by tossed handfuls of soil, rocks, or sand. The most prevalent form of divinatory geomancy involves interpreting a series of 16 figures formed by a randomized process that involves recursion followed by analyzing them, often augmented with astrological interpretations.
Wind and Water, an indication that this belief or study put great reference to the natural wind and water elements of Mother Nature
Burakumin: are a Japanese social minority group

Superconurbation: a large urbanized area formed from a number of large metropolitan areas, generally with populations of over a million. Superconurbations occur when metropolitan areas physically merge to form one continuous built up area through population growth and expansion.
Examples include Japan, where Tokyo continues to grow as an urban environment.
Central Place Theory: created by the German geographer Walter Christaller, who asserted that settlements simply functioned as 'central places' providing services to surrounding areas

Pollution exporting: a more developed country sending their waste and garbage to another less developed country.
Bissau Harbor, Guinea Bissau (Credit: T. Agardy)
Special economic zones: is a geographical region that has economic and other laws that are more free-market-oriented than a country's typical or national laws. "Nationwide" laws may be suspended inside a special economic zone.
The category 'SEZ' covers a broad range of more specific zone types, including Free Trade Zones (FTZ), Export Processing Zones (EPZ), Free Zones (FZ), Industrial parks or Industrial Estates (IE), Free Ports, Urban Enterprise Zones and others.
prominent SEZs in the country are Shenzhen, Xiamen, Shantou, and Zhuhai. It is notable that Shenzhen, Shantou, and Zhuhai are all in Guangdong province, and all are on the southern coast of China where sea is very accessible for transportation of goods.
Anthropogenic landscapes: Human Landscapes" are areas of Earth's terrestrial surface where direct human alteration of ecological
Poor air quality in China due to factories and burning fossil fuels
Rust belt: Manufacturing Belt or the Factory Belt
BEIJING - Once China's industrial heartland, the country's northeast region has turned into a "rust belt"
Cast system: is a system of social stratification and social restriction in India in which communities are defined by thousands of endogamous hereditary groups called Jatis

Monsoon: rainy phase of a seasonally-changing pattern, although technically there is also a dry phase
term was first used in English in British India (now India, Bangladesh and Pakistan) and neighbouring countries to refer to the big seasonal winds blowing from the Bay of Bengal and Arabian Sea in the southwest bringing heavy rainfall to the area
Jainism: is an Indian religion that prescribes pacifism and a path of non- violence towards all living beings. Karma. There is no divine being but the universe has its own order a peace

4.2 million followers in India
Sikhism: monotheistic religion
Punjab is the only state in India with a majority Sikh population
Hindi: Hindu belief is enormously diverse: some Hindus are vegetarian, others eat meat; some Hindus believe in many gods, some in one God, some in none at all.
Common to the majority of Hindus is the search for salvation (moksha) – release from the cycle of death and rebirth (samsara) Brahman is the term for the divine and absolute reality. Brahman may be worshipped in many different guises (pantheistic), and also as only one of many Gods (polytheistic) is the predominant and indigenous religious tradition[1] of South Asia whom approximately 1 billion live in India.[10][11] Other significant populations are found in Nepal (23 million), Bangladesh (14 million) and the Indonesian island of Bali (3.3 million
Green revolution: refers to a series of research, development, and technology transfer initiatives, occurring between the 1940s and the late 1970s, that increased agriculture production around the world, beginning most markedly in the late 1960s.[1]
The initiatives involved the development of high-yielding varieties of cereal grains, expansion of irrigation infrastructure, modernization of management techniques, distribution of hybridized seeds, synthetic fertilizers, and pesticides to farmers
In the 1960s and '70s, farmers in the Indian state of Punjab changed from traditional methods to American-style farming.
British east India company: was an early English joint-stock company traded mostly with India cotton, silk, indigo dye, saltpetre, tea, and opium. The Company also came to rule large areas of India, exercising military power and assuming administrative functions, to the exclusion, gradually, of its commercial pursuits
The Indian Mutiny of 1857 resulted in widespread devastation in India and condemnation of the East India Company for permitting the events to occur.[citation needed] One of the consequences of the Indian Mutiny was that the British Government nationalised the Company. The Company lost all its administrative powers; its Indian possessions, including its armed forces, were taken over by the Crown pursuant to the provisions of the Government of India Act 1858.
Orogrphic rainfall: is the study of the formation and relief of mountains, precipitation occurs on the windward side of mountains

the orography of East Africa substantially determines the strength of the Indian monsoon
Dravidian language: includes approximately 85 languages, spoken by around 200 million people. They are mainly spoken in southern India
Forward captial: location may be for either economic or strategic reasons
Islamabad is the capital of Pakistan; region has historically been a part of the crossroads of Punjab and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa with Margalla pass acting as the gateway between the two regions.
Southeast asia: 
ASEAN: Association of Southeast Asian Nations; goals are to peacefully economic growth, social progress and cultural development in the region through joint endeavours in the spirit of equality and partnership in order to strengthen the foundation for a prosperous and peaceful community of Southeast Asian Nations;
was established on 8 August 1967 in Bangkok, Thailand, with the signing of the ASEAN Declaration (Bangkok Declaration) by the Founding Fathers of ASEAN, namely Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore and Thailand.
Brunei Darussalam then joined on 7 January 1984, Viet Nam on 28 July 1995, Lao PDR and Myanmar on 23 July 1997, and Cambodia on 30 April 1999, making up what is today the ten Member States of ASEAN.
Sunda shelf: is a south east extension of the continental shelf of Southeast Asia. Major landmasses on the shelf include the Malay Peninsula, Sumatra, Borneo, Java, Madura, Bali and their surrounding smaller islands.[1] It covers an areas of approximately 1.85 million km2.[2] Sea depths over the shelf rarely exceed 50 metres and extensive areas are less than 20 metres resulting in strong bottom friction and strong tidal friction
Typhoons: is a storm system characterized by a large low-pressure center and numerous thunderstorms that produce strong winds and heavy rain.
forecasts is in Japan, with other tropical cyclone warning centers for the northwest Pacific in Honolulu (the Joint Typhoon Warning Center), the Philippines, and Hong Kong. While the RSMC names each system, the main name list itself is coordinated amongst 18 countries, including the United States, who have territories threatened by typhoons each year. The Philippines uses their own naming list for systems which approach the country.
Swidden agriculture: is an agricultural technique which involves cutting and burning of forests or woodlands to create fields. It is typically part of shifting cultivation agriculture, and of transhumance livestock herding. Slash and burn agriculture typically uses little technology and other tools, and is almost always done for subsistence activity. It is also commonly called swidden agriculture. Most slash and burn agriculture is subsistence agriculture done by farmers who plant crops and raise crops for local consumption. Very little land cleared using labor-intensive slash and burn methods is sold for market; rather what is grown is usually consumed on the farm.
many parts of Indonesia, and involves an estimated 11 million hectares of land, and some six million people
Golden triangle: is one of Asia's two main illicit opium-producing areas

Transmigration: to cause to go from one state of existence or place to another
by Indonesian government to move landless people from densely populated areas of Indonesia to less populous areas of the country. This involved moving people permanently from the island of Java, but also to a lesser extent from Bali and Madura, to less densely populated areas including Papua, Kalimantan, Sumatra, and Sulawesi.
Primate cites: leading city in its country or region, disproportionately larger than any others in the urban hierarchy
Bangkok is the epitome of the primate city in Thailand
Khmer rouge: was the name given to the followers of the Communist Party of Kampuchea, who were the ruling party in Cambodia from 1975 to 1979

Entrepot: is a trading post where merchandise can be imported and exported without paying import duties. The origins of the entrepot are traced to the commercial behavior of ancient societies. Traders entering foreign territory were exposed to numerous natural and cultural hazards. In addition to facing harsh traveling conditions, they might be attacked by brigands or find themselves in places where they did not know the local languages or customs and were subject to territory-specific laws under which they would find no protection.
Hong Kong also serves as an entrepôt for trade between Asian economies not including China.
Elongated state: An elongated or attenuated nation such as Chile makes for difficult governance of peripheral areas in the north and south from the central capital region near Santiago. Vietnam is also an elongated state.
Fragmented state: Nations such as Indonesia, which is composed of more than 13,000 islands, are known as fragmented or archipelagic states (because they are composed of archipelagos). It is difficult to govern such a country composed of islands (and more than 200 million people).
Denmark and the Philippines are also archipelagic countries separated by water.
Prorupt state: A protruded or panhandle country such as Myanmar (Burma) or Thailand have an extended arm of territory. Like an elongated state, the panhandle complicates that shape of the territory. The state of Oklahoma also has a prominent panhandle.
Comopact state: A compact state with a circular shape is the easiest to manage. Belgium is an excellent example because of the cultural division between Flanders and Wallonia within Belgium. The compact form of Belgium has helped to keep the country together. Compact states are also easier to defend than states of other shapes.
Abroigine: are those people regarded as indigenous to the Australian continent.
Australian Aborigines have been categorised and labelled over time. Her lecture offered a new perspective on the terms urban, traditional and of Indigenous descent as used to define and categorise Aboriginal Australians. She said:
"Not only are these categories inappropriate, they serve to divide us. [...] Government’s insistence on categorising us with modern words like ‘urban’, ‘traditional’ and ‘of Aboriginal descent’ are really only replacing old terms ‘half-caste’ and ‘full-blood’ – based on our colouring.[6]"
Maori: people of New Zealand,
One of the first things you become immediately aware of in New Zealand is the influence of the Maori culture. The vast majority of place names are of Maori origin. At first, visitors may be puzzled by the seemingly impossible-to-pronounce names
Melanesia: is a subregion of Oceania extending from the western end of the Pacific Ocean to the Arafura Sea, and eastward to Fiji

Micronesia: is a subregion of Oceania, comprising thousands of small islands in the western Pacific Ocean.

Polynesia: “many islands” Hawaiian Islands at one corner, New Zealand at another, and Easter Island
The larger islands are generally volcanic in origin; the smaller ones are generally coral formations. The principal groups are the Hawaiian Islands, Samoa, Tonga, New Zealand, Kiribati islands, Cook Islands, and the islands of French Polynesia. Malayo-Polynesian languages are spoken in Polynesia.
Tsunamis: Earthquakes, volcanic eruptions and other underwater explosions (including detonations of underwater nuclear devices), landslides and other mass movements, meteorite ocean impacts or similar impact events, and other disturbances above or below water all have the potential to generate a tsunami

Atoll: is an island (or islands) of coral that encircles a lagoon partially or completely.

A very famous atoll is Bikini Atoll in the Pacific Ocean due to its use as a testing ground for atomic and hydrogen bomb tests
Archipelago: islands or island group is a chain or cluster of islands Archipelagos are often volcanic, forming along island arcs generated by subduction zones or hotspots, but there are many other processes involved in their construction, including erosion, deposition and land elevation.
The five largest modern countries that are mainly archipelagos are Indonesia, Japan, the Philippines, New Zealand and the United Kingdom. The largest archipelagic state in the world, by size, is Indonesia
Haoles: is generally used to refer to an individual that fits one (or more) of the following: "White person, American, Englishman, Caucasian; American
mainly in Hawaii to describe a white person. Depending on how you say it, the word can mean either an insult or just a fact.
Outback: is the vast, remote, arid area of Australia

originated in China but has spread to Korea, Taiwan and Vietnam. Most people who adhere to the teachings of Confucius follow Chinese traditional religion
shogun ate: government of the shogun, or hereditary military dictator, of Japan from ad 1192 to 1867.
is a military rank and historical title for (in most cases) a hereditary military dictator of Japan.[1] The modern rank is equivalent to a Generalissimo. Although the original meaning of "shogun" is simply "a general", as a title, it is used as the short form of seii taishōgun 征夷大将軍, the governing individual at various times in the history of Japan, ending when Tokugawa Yoshinobu relinquished the office to the Meiji Emperor in 1867.[2]
Geomancy: is a method of divination that interprets markings on the ground or the patterns formed by tossed handfuls of soil, rocks, or sand. The most prevalent form of divinatory geomancy involves interpreting a series of 16 figures formed by a randomized process that involves recursion followed by analyzing them, often augmented with astrological interpretations.
Wind and Water, an indication that this belief or study put great reference to the natural wind and water elements of Mother Nature
Burakumin: are a Japanese social minority group

Superconurbation: a large urbanized area formed from a number of large metropolitan areas, generally with populations of over a million. Superconurbations occur when metropolitan areas physically merge to form one continuous built up area through population growth and expansion.
Examples include Japan, where Tokyo continues to grow as an urban environment.
Central Place Theory: created by the German geographer Walter Christaller, who asserted that settlements simply functioned as 'central places' providing services to surrounding areas

Pollution exporting: a more developed country sending their waste and garbage to another less developed country.
Bissau Harbor, Guinea Bissau (Credit: T. Agardy)
Special economic zones: is a geographical region that has economic and other laws that are more free-market-oriented than a country's typical or national laws. "Nationwide" laws may be suspended inside a special economic zone.
The category 'SEZ' covers a broad range of more specific zone types, including Free Trade Zones (FTZ), Export Processing Zones (EPZ), Free Zones (FZ), Industrial parks or Industrial Estates (IE), Free Ports, Urban Enterprise Zones and others.
prominent SEZs in the country are Shenzhen, Xiamen, Shantou, and Zhuhai. It is notable that Shenzhen, Shantou, and Zhuhai are all in Guangdong province, and all are on the southern coast of China where sea is very accessible for transportation of goods.
Anthropogenic landscapes: Human Landscapes" are areas of Earth's terrestrial surface where direct human alteration of ecological
Poor air quality in China due to factories and burning fossil fuels
Rust belt: Manufacturing Belt or the Factory Belt
BEIJING - Once China's industrial heartland, the country's northeast region has turned into a "rust belt"
Cast system: is a system of social stratification and social restriction in India in which communities are defined by thousands of endogamous hereditary groups called Jatis

Monsoon: rainy phase of a seasonally-changing pattern, although technically there is also a dry phase
term was first used in English in British India (now India, Bangladesh and Pakistan) and neighbouring countries to refer to the big seasonal winds blowing from the Bay of Bengal and Arabian Sea in the southwest bringing heavy rainfall to the area
Jainism: is an Indian religion that prescribes pacifism and a path of non- violence towards all living beings. Karma. There is no divine being but the universe has its own order a peace

4.2 million followers in India
Sikhism: monotheistic religion
Punjab is the only state in India with a majority Sikh population
Hindi: Hindu belief is enormously diverse: some Hindus are vegetarian, others eat meat; some Hindus believe in many gods, some in one God, some in none at all.
Common to the majority of Hindus is the search for salvation (moksha) – release from the cycle of death and rebirth (samsara) Brahman is the term for the divine and absolute reality. Brahman may be worshipped in many different guises (pantheistic), and also as only one of many Gods (polytheistic) is the predominant and indigenous religious tradition[1] of South Asia whom approximately 1 billion live in India.[10][11] Other significant populations are found in Nepal (23 million), Bangladesh (14 million) and the Indonesian island of Bali (3.3 million
Green revolution: refers to a series of research, development, and technology transfer initiatives, occurring between the 1940s and the late 1970s, that increased agriculture production around the world, beginning most markedly in the late 1960s.[1]
The initiatives involved the development of high-yielding varieties of cereal grains, expansion of irrigation infrastructure, modernization of management techniques, distribution of hybridized seeds, synthetic fertilizers, and pesticides to farmers
In the 1960s and '70s, farmers in the Indian state of Punjab changed from traditional methods to American-style farming.
British east India company: was an early English joint-stock company traded mostly with India cotton, silk, indigo dye, saltpetre, tea, and opium. The Company also came to rule large areas of India, exercising military power and assuming administrative functions, to the exclusion, gradually, of its commercial pursuits
The Indian Mutiny of 1857 resulted in widespread devastation in India and condemnation of the East India Company for permitting the events to occur.[citation needed] One of the consequences of the Indian Mutiny was that the British Government nationalised the Company. The Company lost all its administrative powers; its Indian possessions, including its armed forces, were taken over by the Crown pursuant to the provisions of the Government of India Act 1858.
Orogrphic rainfall: is the study of the formation and relief of mountains, precipitation occurs on the windward side of mountains

the orography of East Africa substantially determines the strength of the Indian monsoon
Dravidian language: includes approximately 85 languages, spoken by around 200 million people. They are mainly spoken in southern India
Forward captial: location may be for either economic or strategic reasons
Islamabad is the capital of Pakistan; region has historically been a part of the crossroads of Punjab and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa with Margalla pass acting as the gateway between the two regions.
Southeast asia: 
ASEAN: Association of Southeast Asian Nations; goals are to peacefully economic growth, social progress and cultural development in the region through joint endeavours in the spirit of equality and partnership in order to strengthen the foundation for a prosperous and peaceful community of Southeast Asian Nations;
was established on 8 August 1967 in Bangkok, Thailand, with the signing of the ASEAN Declaration (Bangkok Declaration) by the Founding Fathers of ASEAN, namely Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore and Thailand.
Brunei Darussalam then joined on 7 January 1984, Viet Nam on 28 July 1995, Lao PDR and Myanmar on 23 July 1997, and Cambodia on 30 April 1999, making up what is today the ten Member States of ASEAN.
Sunda shelf: is a south east extension of the continental shelf of Southeast Asia. Major landmasses on the shelf include the Malay Peninsula, Sumatra, Borneo, Java, Madura, Bali and their surrounding smaller islands.[1] It covers an areas of approximately 1.85 million km2.[2] Sea depths over the shelf rarely exceed 50 metres and extensive areas are less than 20 metres resulting in strong bottom friction and strong tidal friction
Typhoons: is a storm system characterized by a large low-pressure center and numerous thunderstorms that produce strong winds and heavy rain.
forecasts is in Japan, with other tropical cyclone warning centers for the northwest Pacific in Honolulu (the Joint Typhoon Warning Center), the Philippines, and Hong Kong. While the RSMC names each system, the main name list itself is coordinated amongst 18 countries, including the United States, who have territories threatened by typhoons each year. The Philippines uses their own naming list for systems which approach the country.
Swidden agriculture: is an agricultural technique which involves cutting and burning of forests or woodlands to create fields. It is typically part of shifting cultivation agriculture, and of transhumance livestock herding. Slash and burn agriculture typically uses little technology and other tools, and is almost always done for subsistence activity. It is also commonly called swidden agriculture. Most slash and burn agriculture is subsistence agriculture done by farmers who plant crops and raise crops for local consumption. Very little land cleared using labor-intensive slash and burn methods is sold for market; rather what is grown is usually consumed on the farm.
many parts of Indonesia, and involves an estimated 11 million hectares of land, and some six million people
Golden triangle: is one of Asia's two main illicit opium-producing areas

Transmigration: to cause to go from one state of existence or place to another
by Indonesian government to move landless people from densely populated areas of Indonesia to less populous areas of the country. This involved moving people permanently from the island of Java, but also to a lesser extent from Bali and Madura, to less densely populated areas including Papua, Kalimantan, Sumatra, and Sulawesi.
Primate cites: leading city in its country or region, disproportionately larger than any others in the urban hierarchy
Bangkok is the epitome of the primate city in Thailand
Khmer rouge: was the name given to the followers of the Communist Party of Kampuchea, who were the ruling party in Cambodia from 1975 to 1979

Entrepot: is a trading post where merchandise can be imported and exported without paying import duties. The origins of the entrepot are traced to the commercial behavior of ancient societies. Traders entering foreign territory were exposed to numerous natural and cultural hazards. In addition to facing harsh traveling conditions, they might be attacked by brigands or find themselves in places where they did not know the local languages or customs and were subject to territory-specific laws under which they would find no protection.
Hong Kong also serves as an entrepôt for trade between Asian economies not including China.
Elongated state: An elongated or attenuated nation such as Chile makes for difficult governance of peripheral areas in the north and south from the central capital region near Santiago. Vietnam is also an elongated state.
Fragmented state: Nations such as Indonesia, which is composed of more than 13,000 islands, are known as fragmented or archipelagic states (because they are composed of archipelagos). It is difficult to govern such a country composed of islands (and more than 200 million people).
Denmark and the Philippines are also archipelagic countries separated by water.
Prorupt state: A protruded or panhandle country such as Myanmar (Burma) or Thailand have an extended arm of territory. Like an elongated state, the panhandle complicates that shape of the territory. The state of Oklahoma also has a prominent panhandle.
Comopact state: A compact state with a circular shape is the easiest to manage. Belgium is an excellent example because of the cultural division between Flanders and Wallonia within Belgium. The compact form of Belgium has helped to keep the country together. Compact states are also easier to defend than states of other shapes.
Abroigine: are those people regarded as indigenous to the Australian continent.
Australian Aborigines have been categorised and labelled over time. Her lecture offered a new perspective on the terms urban, traditional and of Indigenous descent as used to define and categorise Aboriginal Australians. She said:
"Not only are these categories inappropriate, they serve to divide us. [...] Government’s insistence on categorising us with modern words like ‘urban’, ‘traditional’ and ‘of Aboriginal descent’ are really only replacing old terms ‘half-caste’ and ‘full-blood’ – based on our colouring.[6]"
Maori: people of New Zealand,
One of the first things you become immediately aware of in New Zealand is the influence of the Maori culture. The vast majority of place names are of Maori origin. At first, visitors may be puzzled by the seemingly impossible-to-pronounce names
Melanesia: is a subregion of Oceania extending from the western end of the Pacific Ocean to the Arafura Sea, and eastward to Fiji

Micronesia: is a subregion of Oceania, comprising thousands of small islands in the western Pacific Ocean.

Polynesia: “many islands” Hawaiian Islands at one corner, New Zealand at another, and Easter Island
The larger islands are generally volcanic in origin; the smaller ones are generally coral formations. The principal groups are the Hawaiian Islands, Samoa, Tonga, New Zealand, Kiribati islands, Cook Islands, and the islands of French Polynesia. Malayo-Polynesian languages are spoken in Polynesia.
Tsunamis: Earthquakes, volcanic eruptions and other underwater explosions (including detonations of underwater nuclear devices), landslides and other mass movements, meteorite ocean impacts or similar impact events, and other disturbances above or below water all have the potential to generate a tsunami

Atoll: is an island (or islands) of coral that encircles a lagoon partially or completely.

A very famous atoll is Bikini Atoll in the Pacific Ocean due to its use as a testing ground for atomic and hydrogen bomb tests
Archipelago: islands or island group is a chain or cluster of islands Archipelagos are often volcanic, forming along island arcs generated by subduction zones or hotspots, but there are many other processes involved in their construction, including erosion, deposition and land elevation.
The five largest modern countries that are mainly archipelagos are Indonesia, Japan, the Philippines, New Zealand and the United Kingdom. The largest archipelagic state in the world, by size, is Indonesia
Haoles: is generally used to refer to an individual that fits one (or more) of the following: "White person, American, Englishman, Caucasian; American
mainly in Hawaii to describe a white person. Depending on how you say it, the word can mean either an insult or just a fact.
Outback: is the vast, remote, arid area of Australia

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