Closer in Comics

http://www.iranian.com/Books/2002/November/Satrapi/

I choose a chapter/comic strip from the complete Persepolis comic that is a compilation of comics that together formed the memoir of Marjane Satrabi. This particular comic is titled The Trip and takes place in Iran during the war that was taking place in the late 1970's and into the early 1980's. Most of the frames in this particular comic use the closure that Scott McCloud discusses called subject-to-subject. Closure is when we as human being's get closure from our learned experience and use it to put together incomplete images seen by the eye. In comics, we as readers must find closure in the images and the way that they are intricately placed upon the page. We find closure from using our past experiences to put together fragments of a whole idea. In The Trip Satrabi uses subject-to-subject transitions by using the illustration and words to create closure for her readers as well as using scene-to-scene transitions. Both these transistions are used to illustrate to her readers closure in the way that they understand what it is she is trying to explain and/or show her audience. This comic does a good job of using these two types of trasitions to illustrate a sense of closure to the audience that is easy to grasp considering the seriousness of it's contents and therefore I believe that The Trip can be successfully understood by an audience and ultimately will enable them to find closure in the ideas she is attempting to project through her comic.

Ecojustice

http://www.ecojusticeeducation.org

I chose to look at the website Ecojustice Education, this website is directed toward educational idea's and links about the current ecological situation we face around the world. The website interlinks the subjects of not only our physical Environment but also our cultural environment and the way's in which all aspects of our social existence and understanding of our surroundings effects the larger ecosystem. This website has a compelling design that play's on the color green which is universally associated to the enviornment. The information is symetrically layed out with the text at the center of a green frame. There is a quote on the home page that states, "All the flowers of the tommorrows are in the seed of today and yesterday" (anonymous quote) which reflects a metaphor about how the past has created the present which will in turn create our future. This quote represents the basic idea of the website which is to conserve and practice eco-friendly lifestyle behaviors so as to sustain the ecosystem of the past and for the future. There is also a sense of comparing and contrasting on the home page in the section that brief's what the website is about. Here the site compares and contrast the past generations in history and thier ways of living to that of today's generation reflecting how the past generations that concerved and worked the land as individuals rather than as a corporation should be considered seriously by today's generation as a lifestyle habit we reincorporate in our own lives. Overall I thought the site was very informative and well laid out considering the seriousness of it's contents.

Peer Review 2

I found this way of doing peer reviews was much more effective in communicating with other writers about their papers as well my hearing what others had to say about my own work. I also liked the fact that we could browse through more than a select few papers because it was educational to see the different points of view several of the same style rules had. I found that I had a great deal of helpful information from my peer's and these comments have ultimately helped me to reach a more satisfied point in my ability to accept my own work. I have also found that my ability to complete assignments, as a student, should not be over analyzed and/or overdone to the extent that I over think the assignment and ultimately buckle from self inflicted idea's of expectation.