Siddhartha

     "Very beautiful are your verses," exclaimed Kamala, "if I was rich, I would give you pieces of gold for them.  But it will be difficult for you to earn thus much money with verses as you need.  For you need a lot of money, if you want to be Kamala's friend."
"The way you're able to kiss, Kamala!" stammered Siddhartha
"Yes, this I am able to do, therefore I do not lack clothes, shoes, bracelets, and all beautiful things.  But what will become of you? Aren't you able to do anything else but thinking, fasting, making poetry?" 
"I also know the sacrificial songs," said Siddhartha, "but I do not want to sing them any more.  I also know magic spells, but I do not want to speak them any more.  I have read the scriptures-"
"Stop," Kamala interrupted him.  "You're able to read? And write?"
"Certainly, I can do this.  Many people can do this."
"Most people can't.  I also can't do it.  It is very good that you're able to read and write, very good.  You will also still find use for the magic spells."


     In this passage, its clear that Kamala is interested in Siddhartha but there is more to it.  She has showed him how well she can kiss and those kisses can very well be a trap for her convenience.  She knows he can think, fasting, and make poetry, but she wants more than that.  She tell him that for him to be her friend he will need a lot of money and lots of it, since she does not lack clothes, shoes, bracelets, and all beautiful things.  Moreover, her learning that he can read and write makes it more interesting for her to get to know him.  It opens up the idea that with him reading and writing he will obtain more money as she made it obvious that it will be something that he most have to be with her.
     I choose this passage because when she says "For you need a lot of money, if you want to be Kamala's friend" it caught my attention.  It made think of today's society and how there are so many people around us that only use their so called "friends" as a way for them to get something out of the friendship.  It's a sad world knowing that there are plenty, plenty of people who are just ignorant and only use others to get what they want.  They won't value the meaning of priority in life, and they are just stock in their own "bubble word".


1.  To my understanding Siddhartha leaves his father so he can escape life his father and other teacher were teaching.  He want it to follow his own path and learn from his own decision the good and bad of life.  They knowledge he was seeking for was something nor his father or teacher were going to be able to provide to him, it was something that he needed to learn on his own.
4.  The significance of the river, its life itself.  Its the road, path, or stream that one can choose to experience life by our own decision and gain knowledge by own trial and error of life, and not live only by what they teach us.
7.  Siddhartha feels the priest cannot see the true beauty of the world because they only live by what they are taught.  To uncover the meaning of the world will only be learned through experience.
8.  Vasudeva is the ferryman he encountered when he first began his journey decades ago when still a young man, which he confides in.  It's like an inner voice that kept him company through his path of life.
10.  Siddhartha decide not to follow Buddha because he didn't want to reach the level of enlightenment by just "believing" in the what he was being taught.  He want it to understand, explore, and learn form his own experiences of the world through trial and error.  How can one say that they have learned from their mistakes when they haven't encounter that bumpy road to experience on their own.






  

Hannah Hoch

     Hannah Hoch was born (Anna Therese Johanne Hoch) on Nov. 1, 1889 in Gotha, Germany.  Her mother was an amateur painter and her father a manager for an insurance company.  By the time she entered college she wanted to study fine arts, but in the attempt to please her father she studied glass design and graphic arts at the College of Arts and Crafts in Berlin from 1912-1914.  By this time, World Ward I was beginning  and her studies had to come to a stop for the moment.  In 1915 she resume her studies in graph class at the National Institute of the Museum of Arts and Crafts.  Also in 1915, she began a friendship with Raoul Hausmann who was a member of the Berlin Dada movement which later on became a romance but terminated on 1922.  While she was involve with Hausmann she did learned a lot, and both artists entered into the world of collage.  Even though there was evidence of their work together, she didn't received any credit for her talent.  She as a woman was not treated as equal as man, so she had to remain on the background while Hausmann was presented as the only one with talent.
     While in the Berlin Dada group, she began to witness the hypocrisy in the German society and that's when her photomontage came in to play "Da-Dandy".  "Many of her pieces point out the faults of beauty culture comparing reality to depictions targeted to women", the media and the reality of woman was not the same.  Women were not giving the same respect as men's, and they were not allow to decide for themselves.  In the 1920's Hoch saw herself as part of the women's movement.  In her art work she shows the equality of women and men as one, and that was totally the opposite of the reality.  Women's were punished if they break the law of the traditional gender role "Men Law".  Must of her pieces always involved women and that was mostly because of her bisexuality.  Women were supposed to follow a law, a rule, and that was something the Hannah Hoch was not.

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In this artwork< Hannah want to portray and illustrate the many opinions an issue can have coming form society.  Also the many eyes color seen here can be representing a different point of view regarding a particular case.

In this piece, we can see how many individuals can take pride in their country by wearing military / officials clothing.  On the other hand, there will be always those particular persons who tent to show nothing but disrespect to their nation.  As seen here, we can see men's almost without clothing and exposing themselves without caring about it.

In this artwork we can see how two men are appreciating a woman's leg.  But what takes me by surprise is seeing the lips of a woman on the tip right corner.  This could have been a sign that same sex sexuality was starting to rise but everything was kept on the shadow where no one will know about it.

"Dada Manisfesto"

Dada - "Defense Against the Dark Arts"
Dadaists - "Suggested a new form of expression which was simultaneously anti-art, anti-establishment, and anarchist."
     
     "I don't want words that other people have invented.  All the words are other people's invention's.  I want my own stuff, my own rhythm, and vowels and consonants too, matching the rhythm and all my own."
    
      The word "Dada" is suppose to be a nonsense word, a word with no meaning.  The Dada movement was a way, an attempt to break away from the current system.  A system where all individuals where to follow the law and formulas given to them, and nothing less.  Having the option think and express  their own feelings was no allow.
     In "Dada Manifesto", I can see how Hugo Ball wants to be acknowledge and recognize as his own person.  In the text that I choose the author is saying that as an individual, he should be allow to think whatever he wants, create his own ideas, mark his own life, follow his own path, and all should come from his own words.  Following someone else words and inventions will only allow himself to walk a certain direction without being permitted to step out of that row.  As a human being with its own mind, the freedom to express himself as he knows best, will give others the opportunity to see and learn from his point of view regarding the world.  I do agree with Hugo Ball, every individual has the right to be themselves no matter what other think.  Freedom of mind and expression is a beautiful way as to show our feelings, what we think, and all without having anyone telling us what to do and how it should be done.  Having someone tell you that you can't do something, or give you the impression that your goal in life is to far to reach, is just a person that doesn't respect nor gives support to other to at least try and succeed in life.  
     A certain procedure or process can be done in more that on way as long as your results are accomplished.  Example;  planting a plant on a nice soil ground works better for must people, but there will always be someone that will prefer on planting a plant on a plastic container.  They use different methods to reach their goal, but they still will get a growing plant.  I believe that each one of us as an individual will have our way to shine throw life.  A perfect person without no faults, doesn't show the struggles in their path.

Introduction
This is my first semester at Lehman College as a transfer student.  I currently have an A.A.S in Accounting and I'm pursuing my Bachelors degree in Accounting as well.  Taking courses that are not accounting related can be very powerful as to we can learn from other countries, their people, and their history.