When I think of mainstream I think of popularity, so is Watchmen mainstream or is it underground. Well I think it can be a bit of both. For one, I personally don’t think Watchman can be categorized under mainstream but if you ask a person who is a comic book lover, they would probably say that Watchmen is very much categorized as main stream. So Watchman is both mainstream and underground, I say this because I have never read a comic book, and this is my experience of reading this book…..as I was reading watchman I got lost within the story so I had to constantly be rereading. I do not like comic books because as I was engaging with every characters story as I read, all of a sudden the characters story would come to a stop, with the exception of another characters story either starting or continuing, so I felt like it would leave you hanging until you read a hole hell of a lot more and then all of the characters stories would come together in the end, I did not like watchman……but like I said if a comic book lover had read this they would probably think watchman is thee all time best comic book ever!!!!!!!!…Maybe?.... When analyzing the comic book the Watchmen and thinking back at lenses we have looked at, the only lens that I can make a connection with Is “where are all the non white people.” In the comic book the only colored person I saw was Dr Malcolm the psychoanalyst, in which he is in only in a few panels, other than that everyone else is white (Oh and the female that Malcolm talks to is also colored) two people..wow,….and if there were more I did not catch that because all I saw was white characters…. I think this is kind of sad because the some of the characters in this story are super heroes and well there all white as well, I also thought about other super hero stories lines like batman and superman and others as well, they don’t seem to have a colored super hero, why can’t there be a few more colored people put in as some of the characters……Ew….talk about not having diversity……

 

Watchmen

 

The first comic book that I have ever read is watchmen. The style of readings is very different compared to a any other book, like we had said in class if this comic book was written as a stander  book it would not flow because there are some scenes in the comic book that cannot be describe in a  stander book form without losing such detail that this comic presents. I feel the genre of this book is like a super hero-ish, because they have some characters with super hero powers which live in the big city. From what I notice usually all super hero comics are placed in a city. The appearance of the panels gives off a dark feel to the story line, there are a lot of dark colors used throughout the comic book, which is like if the comic gives off an action- mystery genre, which goes along with the story line in finding out who has killed comedian. Since the comic has super heroes I expect that it will have some super heroes save some who is in danger but as I read I do not think this comic is like that, as I continue to read this comic book I feel like the genre can be mixed with mystery-action-superhero..ish. The reason why I think of the comic book  like this is because of what I have read so far, the first thing that happened in the comic is that someone died, and figuring out who did it and why?, is like a mystery, the comic book has plenty of action throughout it and there are of course super heroes, like dr manhattan who apparently is blue and can make his self grow really huge and go back to normal size.  This comic book has a good flow to it and as I continue to read I will be able have a better understanding in how style, genre, appearance, themes is being presented and also what kind of lens does it belong to.

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The notes that were in the PDF Barrys Feminism, I thought they were both helpful and distracting. They were helpful because after I would read and then view the notes that you had on the margins, I would understand why you had written them ….(like if a light bulb when off in my head)...They were also helpful because when seeing your annotation first  and then reading it would make me think, so I would ask myself, why did you annotate in this area or I think about what is important that she had to annotate. Your notes made me think a little more. The reason I say it was a bit distracting is because when I would read and view your notes sometimes I would not understand why you annotated so I would read I again to see if I understood  a bit more, but overall the notes helped me.

     While I read I usually annotate what I read if I feel that it is important or if I had made a connection with a paragraph to another or to another part of the book, that I had read previously. I usually annotate reading that are difficult for me, this helps me think about what I have read already and it usually makes me of what is to come next like… where is this topic going?.... what is the writer trying to get across?...IN my opinion I LOVE to annotate I don’t take notes on a different paper or journal, I just write in the book. When I annotate I think its fun, it makes me think more. To annotate I use Colored Pins, Glitter Pins, highlighters of all color ANYTHING that is in color other than just black..why?, because when I look over in my book it just looks so pretty with all the colors and It also grabs my attention to reread what I annotated and also reread the paragraph or page if I do  not understand something. I started annotating when my tenth grade teacher showed me how to. I would tell her taking notes was a waste of my time and it was too much extra paper that I did not need to carry around. She was the one who asked me if I ever annotated….I never use to like taking notes until she showed me how to annotate which was very helpful. Annotating is my way of taking notes.

what is the solution......?

     When hearing about this government shut down, I did not know what it was or why it was happening I just knew that it’s probably bad. Well I briefly researched what it was and the shutdown is due to the fact that congress cannot make a decision on the budget. I do not know much about all this political science, but what I do know is that many people are not involved in politics, why do I say this? Well for starters some people are well informed about politics and they know a lot about it but I’m sure it’s a small percent of people, but of other people some are not informed well at all, as you can tell from the video of Jimmy Kimmel. When I watch this I thought I was super funny. It made me think also do people just go with the flow…..like vote for Presidents and like or dislike laws or whatever that government decides to do…..without being well roundly informed. This video is a perfect example, everyone knows one thing or another about the Obama Care, whether it’s the pros of it or the cons, but the thing is people don’t fully know what It is, because if they did they would not be fooled….as you can see on the Jimmy Kimmel video, but yet the people think they know what they are talking about just because they are somewhat informed about the situation, many are quick to jump the gun and form an opinion without being fully informed, so when people are asked which is better the Obama care or the affordable care…you get stupid answers form people who think they know what the hell they are talking about……when in reality they down know much to support their opinion. How sad…….and this is the country we live in….is there a solution.


    For the solution all people need to inform themselves better so they actually know what they are talking about and form their opinions with more structure. As for the government shutdown I don’t think there is much the people can do…..sure people can protest, complain, write letters so congress can make a decision…..but I think people will not really protest because the government has made us comfortable too where we like our way of living, also at the same time we complain about what we do not like (for example when people complain about the Obama care), but in the end we settle for the flaws in our system....Ultimately the government (congress) has the last say in what goes down and the common people in the end lack representation in a congress filled with predominantly white, rich people.