I don’t know why I haven’t posted this paper. Anyway, I really liked this one. It actually merited a perfect score! Yay! In the end, I really haven’t built a concrete definition, rather, a definition through giving a condition (What?!). Just read it!

Art is Madness

Defining art is similar in defining other complex ideas like freedom, justice, beauty, etc. The problem for defining such concepts is that the concept itself branches out to other different disciplines and defining each and every one of them entails a need for perspective. Through out the ages, mean searched for how a thing is unique from other things. Similarly, they thought of how intangible concepts would be defined, be understood by all and be accepted by all regardless of any present force like gender, culture and environment. Numerous dictionaries define art as “all creative human endeavors, excluding actions directly related to survival and reproduction”; “any product of the creative impulse, out of which sprang all other human pursuits”; “requires a creative and unique perception of both the artist and audience”; “skill required by experience, study, or observation”. The task of having a single definition of art seems to be impossible. Art is mutually exclusive with the one who is attempting to define it. You may ask, what is art after all? The endless conversations would eventually lean to an answer: “it depends”. With myself, however, I could still define art. This kind of definition came to me during my Communication II class last year. And from thereon, I accepted it with my heart and with my mind. And I think that this would stipulate to me forever. Something becomes art when it has subtleties, when it has hidden messages or concepts lurking behind it, when we have to figure what it is, when we do not understand it on the surface level, when it makes us think, when it gives us headaches, when it seems to have no solution and when it transforms the human mind into a machine fusing all his knowledge and experience in life. With all of these, I believe that the best artwork in the world is something argued by the scholars in deciphering its meaning, and, even better, something unresolved.


This work by Alfred Miguel M. Aguado is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-No Derivative Works 3.0 Unported License.

Stressed, rushed paper. Uber basic.

Kiss Me and I Will be Crazy

Because You Kissed Me Goodnight is not your typical love poem. The poem, at the first level of analysis, would yield humor to the reader. But in a deeper level, one could see the reference and the representation. The reference means the poem’s meaning itself: What does the poem want to convey? Or what does the persona wants to tell us? The representation, on the other hand, is the thing or the tool used by the author to present the meaning of the poem i.e. the reference.

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This is the paper that I was doing while I am sick! Spare some mercy for me Heavens!
By the way, this is also the paper that ended our fiction discussion in Humanities I.

1. How was foreshadowing employed in “?”?

Foreshadowing was employed in ? through the emphasis of different elements that were proven to be vital as the story goes and on and most especially, during the story’s end part. These foreshadowing elements were introduced immediately during the first part of the story. Clearly, the foreshadowing technique lacks proper logic initially. But it proves to be indeed logical after which the elements are introduced. The element first introduced was the sign that Harris did something fishy prior to the beginning of the story. It was done through the silent talking of Harris and the frog where the frog witnessed the events that took place before hand. The second element is the blood sample with Harris’ name on the inscription. The reader would assume that it is Harris’ job to manage the whole blood samples found in the refrigerator. But it is quite weird that Harris’ own blood sample is present therein. The last element (I believe) is the discussion between Harris and Dr. Vaughn. Clearly, the pathologist and the technician’s discussion is about a crime that Harris could be a suspect. The parts of the story after the introduction of these foreshadowing elements already incorporated the said elements onto those parts. That is how I draw the demarcation line between the foreshadowing part and parts after it.

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Reaction paper for “The Storm”. Erm, no comment!

A Bug Called Question

Questioning yourself is the primary force that makes a reader go on reading a specific material. In the case of Malmar’s The Storm, I was motivated to read and finish it excitedly due to a lot of questions bugging me since Janet realized that Ben is not home yet. These questions that readers ask, I believe, are the basic foundations of a story being a suspenseful one. It is innate for humans to strive answering unanswered questions, most especially, when the story pushes the reader to investigate. Furthermore, these questions are integrated with the story’s plot development—the author forces the readers to ask questions and guide them through the story’s progression.

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I like this rushed paper! Fishing aside!

Check Boxes

Music, as good as it can get, is a thing known to the world. From the start of civilization to the emergence of globalization, music’s presence is very evident. One may say that music can be found everywhere, which is indeed true. It has captured all curves and angles of the world, embraced people’s lives regardless of culture, place and time. We are all witnesses to the development and modernization of music. However, music, in its intrinsic value, is not growing. With all due respect to the classical and old music, it just continues to expand. Name them: we have different qualities, forms, types, genres and classification of music. They are objective in the sense that they can be found on different written accounts describing or talking about music. Music became a discipline, an institution. Music became an entity that need to be studied. Furthermore, it became a language that could be parallel to out own arbitrary language. It is a language in its own right. But we question, is music a universal language? This time, the objective approach to music becomes subjective. Let us see whether or not music is a language understood by all—once played, everyone could understand or at least relate to the message it wants to convey.

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Super Rushed! (What’s new Alps?)

1. Discuss the aesthetics of religion and everyday life in the context of the architectural styles from the Greek to the Renaissance period. Cite similarities and differences in the Philippine context seen in the churches of Morong, Paete and Pakil.

Religion played a major role in history through the showcase of different forms of art especially the ones espoused in the field of architecture. Specifically saying, it is the Roman Catholic Church who have shown great exuberance in featuring their grandest forms of art that apparently links to their philosophy and faith. I would be first discussing about the value intrinsically present in the aesthetics of religion. In my humble analysis, there are three factors that play in religion’s aesthetics: Iconoclastic Nature, Power Factor and Emotional Involvement.

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