Tag: Academic

For my second blog post, I went to attend an art exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art. Throughout my life, I have not been really the artistic type so if I saw art in person it would not stand out to me. The same would go for the Museum of Modern Art. I went there to check out their exhibits and the most interesting piece of art was the picture above. From what I can perceive it as, it looks like its saying how a person can have different faces than what they show from the outside. Though it is not related to how I am doing during my first semester at Baruch, it was the only thing that actually appealed to me. As I said above as much as the picture was enjoyable to look, the event did not assist me any way. I did not study harder because of that exhibit nor did I look at art in a different way. The only thing that I would say that this trip to the museum helped me with was getting closer to strangers at Baruch. It is not likely that you will hang out with people who are not in your group, but I went to the museum with new people that my friend’s brought which helped developed new friendships. Friendships are important because it leads to things such as connections in the future and people will be more willing to help you out if you build good rapport with them.

9/12/17

Timur Tashmukhamedov

Today, there was a Baruch Writing Center workshop held during my English class. Carin from the Writing Center came and showed us the significance of comparing and contrasting. She began by showing us a Venn diagram, the quintessential compare and contrast tool. After that, she handed us a pair of ads from the famous sportswear brand, Nike. One of the ads was targeted towards women and one towards men. The one targeted towards women portrayed a woman’s gluteal area and had a piece of text next to it talking about why it is okay for women to have a big butt. The one targeted towards men portrayed NBA star Kobe Bryant and had the simple slogan of “Prepare For Combat” next to him, with “Nikebasketball.com” written underneath the slogan and a short quote by Bryant in the bottom right corner of the ad. We were told to fill in a Venn diagram comparing and contrasting the two ads and then we shared what we wrote. Next, Carin handed out an ad by Dove body care products. This ad portrayed 6 women dressed in white underwear and said something along the lines of “For women with real curves”. This time we had to compare and contrast the Dove ad with the women’s Nike ad, again using the Venn diagram. At the end of the session, we discussed how creating those Venn diagrams and finding the similarities and differences in such seemingly simple advertisements could help us develop a thesis statement for an essay about the ads. We came up with ideas for essays about women being objectified and women’s body image issues. This workshop was very helpful because it opened up my mind and made me realize how easy it is to find something to write about and come up with a thesis statement about something. I look forward to working with the Writing Center again in the future, perhaps to help me complete some of the assignments for my current courses.