Learning Profile

As a gestalt learner with a "J" learning profile:

I learn best through imagining the whole picture of the subject I am learning about. For example the Julius Caesar book. I would have to stop and try to imagine what is happening after each paragraph. I also learn when communicating with peers and teachers but not when communicating in front of the whole class. Emotions effect the way I learn as well because when relaxed I would try my best to communicate more and easily with details and evidences. Imagining my ending results and not following everything step by step instructions is also the way I learn but when I have trouble figuring out what to do exactly and can not actually imagine the end. I would prefer and try to follow the instructions step by step. Then doing what is appropriate for me.

I need help most of the time with modeling how to work because of the vocabularies that is being used to explain the work. Also the way it is being explained because according to me sometimes the teachers explanation goes really fast for me and I would not be able to translate to my own language. Encouraging is really helpful for me when doing work or when I do not understand what to do because when encouraging I would put my best work into the work I am doing. Encouraging mixes with my emotions and makes me concentrate when not relaxed. I would prefer sitting in the middle section or right side in the front. My eye sight is week on my left so sitting in the front helps me to be able to see better. My dominant ear is my left ear so sitting in the right side is also helpful. When grouping people I would prefer sitting with peers who can control them self and can work with anyone.

The strategies that would help me in my learning is use of visuals because visuals helps me understand strategies easier. Visuals also helps me the work I am doing for example the Julius Caesar Acts we watch as a class. Watching the act helps me with the understandings I have and leads me into the exact place knowledge I need. Discussing topics also is a strategy that would help me succeed because when discussing topics I learn more and be clear with the topic as well. For example after talking a test then discussing gives me better grade that last time with the similar test.

I would like my teachers to know this about me that I need more time to understand what the teachers or peers are saying. Mostly because English is my first language but Malayalam is my mother tone and also because it normally takes me a while to know what to do. Sometimes I would want my teachers to go a bit slower because I probably did not understand what my teacher explained.

Mirror Society

How does art mirror society?

 

The Ambassadors

Artist : Hans Holbein the Younger
Year : 1533
Type : oil on Oak

One of the famous painting from Renaissance is The Ambassadors (1533), which is painted by Hans Holbein the Younger. He used Oil on Oak to do this painting. As well as being a double portrait, the painting contains a still life of several meticulously rendered objects. It is also an example of anamorphosis in painting and require viewers to reconstitute the image. Holbein used symbols to link his figures to the age of exploration.

The choice for the inclusion of the two figures can be seen as symbolic. The figure on the left is in secular attire while the figure on the right is dressed in clerical clothes. Their flanking of the table, which displays open books, symbols of religious knowledge is therefore symbolic of a unification of capitalism and the Church.

But we can also look at this painting on an other angle and see that the painting contains overtones of religious strife. The conflicts between secular and religious authorities are here represented by the portraits of Jean de Dinteville ( a landowner and later ambassador ) and Georges de Selve ( a bishop ). The commonly accepted symbol of discord, a lute with a broken string, is included next to a hymnbook suggesting strife between scholars ( or Landlords ) and the clergy ( or Church ).

Artist clearly portrays in the painting the unification and rift between rich scholars and church. By using the landlord and bishop with symbols like flanking of the table, books etc artist shows the relationship during the Renaissance period. By symbols of lute with broken strings, the artist also shows the rift that was prevalent during Renaissance time between scholars and clergy.

Painting by Hans Holbein the Younger The Ambassadors reflects the interaction between different groups in the society during Renaissance time. By portraying two people from different groups of society and using symbols, Holbein managed to convey the unification and rift at the same time. 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ambassadors_(Holbein)

 

Driving Forces of the Renaissance

Guilds were very important driving force during the Renaissance because they had a lot of power to control the market and the church was expanded form guilds because a lot  of money went to church, through sharing ideas knowledge it developed. The people working within the guilds were strictly supervised in order for their city to prosper and outrank the other city states. Without the guilds trading would not have been able to happen, the guilds were some of the people traveling around selling there goods.