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november 18

In this picture it show the truth about Trump. What he says is mostly hateful, usurped and unkind. 

This is a comical depiction about Donald Trump and its from Scooby Do cartoon.

In the first picture it shows the Scooby Do gang capturing Donald Trump. The gang looked very happy, but Donald Trump’s face expressed disgust and anger.

In the second picture they try to unmask Donald Trump by pulling his hair.  

In the third picture it shows rats telling the truth that Donald Trump hates and wants for the American people: 

• He talks about building a wall between Mexico and the USA
• Talks of deporting people out of the country.
• Last, he talks about women and their age and looks.

This example shows his true feelings and opinions about other people.

This is one of the funniest graphic comics I found about Donald Trump.

I chose this cartoon because it is very funny and it illustrates Donald Trump’s real  truth in his speeches. Also, I chose this cartoon because it is a very graphic comic about the Scooby Do gang finding out the truth about him. The rats represent the hatred and the despicable ideas that Donald Trump has about other people.

november 4

The author I choose was Akira Kurosawa. The movies I picked from him were Seven Samurai, Throne of Blood and Tsubaki Sanjuro. 

Seven Samurai takes place in Japan. The story is about the government attempting to take the land from rice farmers. The farmers seek a way to the government from taking their land and their rice. They seek the help from samurai to protect their land but only have rice to offer as payment. The farmers found it difficult to hire samurai because the government was watching over them. However, one samurai came to their aid and stood against the government. His name was Takeshi Shimura. In the story, the farmers and Takeshi manage to get six other samurais to help their fight against the government. In the end five samurai die for the cause, leaving only Takeshi and a younger samurai live to tell the story. 

Throne of Blood focused on two samurai lost in a sacred forest.  They encounter a mysterious woman in white who tells them about their futures. This mysterious person tells the first samurai his fortune. She tells him how he will be the Emperor in the North.  Then she tells the second samurai his fortune.  He would be the Emperor of the Forest of the Clan. This story is similar to Macbeth by Shakespeare because it has the same story structure.  In this story, the medieval knights in Macbeth are replaced with samurais. The three witches in Macbeth are replaced by one spirit in Throne of Blood. The themes in the stories are similar. The emperor and king are killed.  In the end of Throne of Blood, the first samurai, Emperor of the North died just like Macbeth in Macbeth. 

Tsubaki Sanjuro focused on a group of samurai, who supposed killed one of the emperors from a different clan but untrue. So the emperor tries to go after those people by taking away their land. The samurai group did not know what to do. One man who was a Ronan came to their aid. He was there to save the people and their land.  In the end they manage to get their land back from the emperor and kill him.

Akira Kurosawa focuses on ancient Japan.  His films revolve around three groups of people: the emperor and his men, the peasant or farmers and the samurais.   Through out the three films there appears a struggle for power. The author points to re-appearing themes of betrayal, lies and killings involving the emperor,s the peasants and samurai in ancient Japan in all three movies. 

november 11

             My Brother, the Reluctant Swimmer

One of my mother’s philosophies regarding her sons was: “If you can walk well and run well, then you will swim well.” When my brother, Tobey was about four years old, my mother told me that Tobey refused to put his head in water at the Maui YMCA pool and learn how to swim.  He told her to go put her head in the water. My mother was determined to make sure my brother would learn to swim at an early age.  He did not want to swim.  He was just happy with splashing the water at the pool or at the beach.  At the beaches in Maui, he would just play in the sand at the edge of the surf.  He would never venture deeper than his knees despite my mother watching both of us like a hawk.

As a drastic measure, my mother enrolled my brother in the Maui YMCA swim camps during the summer.  She figured that maybe peer pressure would do the trick.  At the end of several summers, he was only able to swim one or two strokes and for short distances.  He would always say, “I hate the water!”

The first summer after we moved to California, my mother enrolled both of us in the Nike Swim Camp at Stanford University.  In the Stanford parking lot, my mother and him were butted heads.  He would not even get out of the car. Ultimately, she won and got him settled in the dorm room and she left for home. He swam because of the swim coaches and peer pressure.  I think the only saving grace at the swim camp was the dorm cafeteria. He liked the food and could eat as much 

as he wanted.

The following summer my mother enrolled us both into a local swim team.  He just did the minimum.  This did not last long because my mother’s work schedule prevented us from getting to regular practices. Boy, was he relieved and happy!

Finally, when he got into high school my mother convinced him to join the water polo team.  She actually bribed him with a goal of getting a MacBook Pro laptop.  He had to complete several summers of swimming and several seasons of water polo.  The several summers of swimming meant sending both of us to my aunt for the summer.  My aunt lived in Oceanside, CA.  We were enrolled in the Oceanside Junior Lifeguard program.  Tobey had to learn to swim in the ocean, swim in the rough surf, swim around the Oceanside Pier and swim back to shore after jumping off a speeding boat.  There was a lot of competition from male peers and female peers. The peer pressure really had an impact on him and he survived that summer. 

In his second season of high school water polo, he met my mother’s requirement in swimming.  He got his MacBook Pro laptop.  He still continued to whine, “I hate the water!”  Then the following summer, my mother enrolled us again for the Oceanside Junior Lifeguard program.  But to the surprise of my entire family: my aunt, my uncle, my two cousins (who by the way are Oceanside Lifeguards) and myself, Tobey decided at the last minute, literally the few minutes before the competition at the beach was going to begin, he decided to tryout for one of the Junior Lifeguard Assistant positions for the summer.  He was not physically prepared for the tryouts.  His last water polo game was seven month earlier. The competition was stiff.  However, he did finish and got to be a Junior Lifeguard Assistant.

After playing three years of water polo with me, my mother thought Tobey would quit playing water polo.  But to my mother’s surprise and mine as well, Tobey played water polo in his senior year in high school.  To top if off, he won the Armijo Sports scholarship from our high school.  Now to surprise us again, my mother just told me that Tobey is taking scuba diving lessons at his college.  Is this my brother, Tobey, the reluctant swimmer?

Your work of voice

My voice in my work focuses on mythical or traditional art, and water. My art work focuses on Japanese art style like anime or realistic art of painting, but with a fantasy touch to it. I do a lot of digital work that focuses on characters and environments. It is based on  Japanese culture while mixing fantasy work in it.
My other voice is the water. Most of my art work focus on the ocean, lakes, rivers and other things that relate to water. Water reminds me of Hawaii. Sitting on the beach and staring at the sunset. The water feels warm reminding me of a fantasy life under water. I enjoy showing this work to other people to show how life is so calm staring at the ocean and watching the sunset. I usually paint or draw/ color the beach in Hawaii. I feel this nice vibe of calmness just sitting there giving me a body of work.