Pecha Kucha is pronounced so many different ways. I watched all of the interactive youtube videos to help us with different techniques in our projects, and each person pronounced the word in more obscure ways from the last. I decided to do a little research to find out the answer to this little problem. As it turns out, the word pecha kucha is Japanese, and is pronounced in the way that you would expect it to be pronounced (A very important youtube link is included on "pronounced" ).
On a more important note, I finalized my project on Sunday night (yes, this is a late blog so I'm going to cover week 25 and 26). I'll talk a little bit about my presentation before I delve into the development of my ideas for the project. It was important to me to find high definition art. In presentations I've always tried to shy away from using real, hd pictures because I think it makes topics seem a bit more unrealistic. Furthermore, after watching the Pecha Kucha presentational guideline video in class, I figured it would be beneficial to have a consistent theme throughout, and using art is a very easy way to capture this idea.
I initially decided to read The Great Gatsby and The Pearl for my project to study what pushes one to attain wealth. Immediately after I read The Great Gatsby, though, I was interested in changing the idea. It seems pretty obvious that monetary wealth is available to anyone that has the desire for it - only passion and dedication is necessary. My original idea of what pushes one to pursue wealth is closely related to my final idea of what wealth is. Within this topic, comes the idea of illusions and mirages. Paraphrasing the great British Philosopher Alan Watts, what we see is not always what is, and we only perceive in certain ways because we choose to see things that way. This statement was a very important point in creating and developing my presentation. It first allowed me to put The Great Gatsby into an illusional lenses and develop specific ideas on this topic, and then read The Pearl while searching for similarities that could have a contrasting effect.
With the end of this project, and a successful end to the second trimester in advanced placement literature, I'm looking forward to what third trimester has to bring. Spring is here and summer is around the corner, but 12 weeks is still a lot of time to make more discoveries.
On a more important note, I finalized my project on Sunday night (yes, this is a late blog so I'm going to cover week 25 and 26). I'll talk a little bit about my presentation before I delve into the development of my ideas for the project. It was important to me to find high definition art. In presentations I've always tried to shy away from using real, hd pictures because I think it makes topics seem a bit more unrealistic. Furthermore, after watching the Pecha Kucha presentational guideline video in class, I figured it would be beneficial to have a consistent theme throughout, and using art is a very easy way to capture this idea.
I initially decided to read The Great Gatsby and The Pearl for my project to study what pushes one to attain wealth. Immediately after I read The Great Gatsby, though, I was interested in changing the idea. It seems pretty obvious that monetary wealth is available to anyone that has the desire for it - only passion and dedication is necessary. My original idea of what pushes one to pursue wealth is closely related to my final idea of what wealth is. Within this topic, comes the idea of illusions and mirages. Paraphrasing the great British Philosopher Alan Watts, what we see is not always what is, and we only perceive in certain ways because we choose to see things that way. This statement was a very important point in creating and developing my presentation. It first allowed me to put The Great Gatsby into an illusional lenses and develop specific ideas on this topic, and then read The Pearl while searching for similarities that could have a contrasting effect.
With the end of this project, and a successful end to the second trimester in advanced placement literature, I'm looking forward to what third trimester has to bring. Spring is here and summer is around the corner, but 12 weeks is still a lot of time to make more discoveries.