Month: September 2020

Emotional Intelligence – my musings around goal setting

This year, I would like to develop the skill/quality of Focusing on myself this is important to me because I think it will make problems and challenges be easier to overcome this will help me be a better person and overcome challenges and problems easier I think This will help others by allowing me to be more emotionally aware and be able to help others through their problems. I dislike when I make emotional choices/ statements, I see this in myself when I am upset or stressed and faced with a problem and can sometimes make bad choices based on emotions. This bothers me because I feel the consequences of the bad decision that I made when I was emotional and it sometimes affects others. I can overcome this by taking the time to compose myself and breath during stressful times and take time and space away from the situation.

Analytical response

I will be exploring how identity is portrayed and how identity effects this visual piece of work. This visual piece offers multiple themes and perspectives on the issue trying to be addressed by the poster. Identity affects the perspectives of work and also helps us to ask questions about how can this text or visual piece offer multiple perspectives, how are we affected by the text or visual piece as well as how do language and culture stereotypes affect and change the way we look at the text or visual piece but also how do the texts and visual pieces of work affect our view on culture and language and can they form stereotypes.

The girl on the left is holding a book more specifically the book is little red riding hood which has been banned in some places in the US and the girl on the right is holding a gun. The two objects are the centre of attention of the poster as they are in the foreground. The contrast between the two objects shows that the book is a symbol of education however the gun is a symbol of violence and death. This message that could be trying to be portrayed could be that the wrong things have been banned.

We could also say that they are reversing the roles of racial stereotypes and their relationships with certain objects. For example, we may associate books and education with privilege and wealth which is often stereotyped to be associated with white people. The gun that represents violence and crime is often associated with people with black/coloured skin. This could be displaying the message of equal rights possible or educating children to understand that those stereotypes arent true.