Daily Blog Post

Hello Everyone,
So today like most days we started with Mr.Rivers wishing us a good morning in typical Rivers fashion. Along with the good morning Rivers gave us some healthy reminders of what is to come and what will be due soon. Rivers then shared out how he was at a teaching work shop and presented us with a rather odd looking image. Rivers then asked us to look at the image ourselves first then share out what we thought. Personally I thought that this image was a representation of social rankings being that there were multiple levels and on each level there was a different animal/ living thing on each level.

This image was then later to revealed as the "Great Chain of Being". "The Great Chain of Being" is an  ancient photograph that has Latin, this picture had several layers to it from our analysis. We then came to the conclusion that this picture represented multiple key terms that we were studying. For example; being that there are multiple levels the highest of which being God's side, which appeals to Cosmos(order). And the devils side which is at the very bottom of the chain which represented disorder and chaos. Within our deeper analysis we made a connection that this image was a representation of preserving order.   

In-making this connection Rivers then moved into reading us an article by Bj Novak about a principal who has a clear hatred for math. Within this article we analyzed it for our usual Incongruity, Relief, and Superiority theories as well as themes. One of the large themes that my group took away from this was tools like math help took maintain order in society and keep people comfortable. Relating outside of the class room I cam up with a list of movies where the rules of society are put into question. Be sure to check out if your interested in these movies:

The Matrix
Blade Runner 2049
Brasil
Equilibrium
Donnie Darko