8
January
2007
January
2007
FIRST POST24
For your first post, I want you to publish, so to speak, your Logo piece.
To receive credit you must post by Monday night at 12:00 or whatever! Just before class on Tuesday night!
For your first post, I want you to publish, so to speak, your Logo piece.
To receive credit you must post by Monday night at 12:00 or whatever! Just before class on Tuesday night!
Steel: a quality suggestive of this alloy, especially a hard, unflinching character.
Magnolia: any of numerous evergreen or deciduous trees and shrubs. Having aromatic twigs and large showy white, pink, purple, or yellow flowers.
One would think to call oneself a Steel Magnolia is a paradox. I suppose that at the crux of my being I am a paradox. I am a liberal and a conservative; I am a saint and I am a sinner; I am at times made of unbuckling steel, and at others, I’m as genteel as a soft, southern Magnolia.
I am like the steel buildings that have risen from the ashes of the antebellum landscape of the south. I am ever changing. As the magnolia stretches its roots deep into the red Georgia clay, so are my roots inextricably bound to the culture of the south, of Georgia, and of Cherokee County.
I am a true child of the old south. I was reared on raucous family reunions with plates teeming with golden fried chicken, garden fresh corn, okra, and green beans, homemade pound cake, and sugary sweet tea out of a mason jar. I am from that Old Time Religion of fire and brimstone preaching, sweltering summer revivals, walking down into the watery grave of baptism and being reborn in the blood of the Lamb. I am from an oral tradition of “the good old days” spun around the dining room table on Sundays and from the cocooned safety of grandmother’s lap. All of this has been both the “miracle grow” and “the welding” of my soul.
It has taken a steely character, an unflinching faith, and a tremendous resolve to see me through the darkest times of my life. Cancer came with fiendish delight devouring my innocence with its ravenous appetite.
If someone is not made of steel then how is it possible for them watch as their father wastes away to resemble someone who had wandered out of a concentration camp? To watch a heartless and unfeeling disease degrade him from a fiercely independent man to a diapered and helpless shell of his former self. Seventeen years old, two weeks away from high school graduation and I sat before my father’s casket on a bleak, rainy Sunday. Taps, a 21 gun salute, and then a kneeling soldier presented me with a folded flag, “On behalf of a grateful nation..” Soft Tissue Sarcoma, an Agent Orange related cancer, cut my father’s life short at 51 only one month after he was diagnosed.
Five years later, Cancer came calling again. This time it was for my best friend, my rock of support, my hero. My mother, another Steel Magnolia, a history teacher, a friend to all, a faithful daughter of Christ, was diagnosed with Glioblastoma, a spider-like brain tumor. Its tendrils had embedded deep into her brain, robbing her of her memory, her ability to speak, and ultimately the hope of survival. Only a month after her diagnosis, she passed away peacefully in the home that she grew up in, surrounded by her family and friends.
To be orphaned at 23 would devastate anyone. Ordinarily, you would buckle under the pressure and snap. There has been many times when I felt myself dying from the inside. Death, despair, and disillusionment had hacked and broken me. I willed myself to succumb to the hardening winter that crushed my spirit. But then as springtime would enter my soul, and I would be rejuvenated with faith and a hardened determination to go on.
After each tragedy and each heartache, I am only stronger. I have seen that nothing can tear down the steely resolve of my character and no disease can truly kill my roots.
My logo peace is a trunk of a car with car subs, lights, boxes, amplifiers, cross overs, and capasaters.
This is my logo peace. This is my passion I love to install car audio it is my favorite past time this keeps my out of trouble untile I get pulled over by a cop and get a ticket. For noise pollution when I put something together like that and u turn it on it just gives me the biggest high to no I had something to do with that and it all works. I do not no were I would be with out car audio probley in drugs and trouble.
Jesse Pruitt
My logo would be a family of Orcas. Killer whales keep their families close to them, and if they separate, they can identify each other and get back together. I feel that way about my family. Several of my family members are gone, and some just live quite a distance away, but my heart tells me that we will someday find each other again, and remember why God made us family.
Zack Brown
My Logo
The logo I chose for myself is a Ford Mustang, but it is representative of my love of horsepower and cars in a general sense. I feel that the running horse emblem on the Mustang is also a symbol of freedom and of the free spirited person. Not only did I choose this symbol because I drive a Mustang, but I think that it is an icon in American pop culture. Also, the Mustang represents horsepower, which obviously feeds the male ego.
Lacey Nelson
April 10, 2007
ENG 101
This ring represents who I am in many ways. I am part Irish for one. The hands represent friendship, the heart represents love, and the crown represents loyalty. I am a friendly person first of all. I will not turn anyone away who wants to be friends. I love everybody that’s why I’m so friendly. And Loyalty, I will stand beside my friends for any reason, even if they are in the wrong I am there for them. Thick and thin no matter what I’m there.
Kimberly Griggs
April 10, 2007 ENG 101
My symbol that represents me is hanging cherries! I have a tattoo of them on my lower back. I love the color red and all cherries are red. It is a fruit that means it is good for you and I like to eat and be healthy. It relates to me because when people think of cherries they think wild and crazy and that is me I love to have a great time. People don’t understand that you can go have clean fun without having to be wild. I like it because they just hang out and be lazy and I can be like that just be lazy and watch a movie and hang out.
Cherries remind me of being young and fun. They are in drinks and they are used for great decorations and I love to decorate! My car is all in wild cherries. They are great in food I love to eat them with my ice cream! I love go out and have a good time hanging out with friends, laughing and being loud. That is why I picked hanging cherries to represent me!
My picture symbolizes me because I have butterfly tattoos and with each one that I get I feel more free spirited. A butterfly is a flying insect and belongs to a super family and many butterflies have striking colors and patterns on their wings. The colors represent me also because I love to be the center of attention and so my tattoos are very original and bright! I do not regret any one of my tattoos and I don’t think I plan on getting anymore, but I will not tell you how many I got!
Shaneen Osborne
Everything or parson is made of a whole, by breaking the elements that whitch they or it is made of helps me know you and make me a stronger and knowing person. I am rare and different to others. I like who I am and know where I am going, down these roads we call are life’s.
The picture on the left of Homer Simpson and his famous expression, “D’oh!” is what many would say is representative of myself because most of the time I am confused or lagging behind the punch line of a humorous topic. I do have naturally blonde hair and some might contribute that “significant” attribute to be the source of my demise. On the other hand, the picture on the right of what most people would consider to be a nerd is what I believe to be a more accurate representative of myself. My perception of my timely uncertainty is that my “power house” is ahead of the game. I find myself lost in thought trying to identify the obviously recognizable humor that just has not triggered the switch to my light bulb. Perhaps I am too deep in thought imagining that the outcome is more complex than it really happens to be. I rule out the most simple of possibilities and proceed directly toward the most multifaceted of them all. What seems to be a “no brainer” to some can be very complicated to others. Thus, never judge a book by its cover and things are not always what they seem.
John Deere tractors, mower, collectables, and supply’s, basically anything John Deere I love, and well the reason I chose this 1949 John Deere B Tractor to represent me is because any one who know me personally know how much I like John Deere Tractors. A Tractor is a hard working machine, and I try to work hard at anything I try to do, but like anyone I have to have a little motivation sometimes to get certain thing accomplished. This is the reason a chose John Deere.
Kimberly Turner
I chose an opal because of a comment made by Corrie Ten Boom. Miss Ten Boom stated that an opal’s beauty exists from the many fine cracks found in the gem. The cracks are created from tremendous pressure. The beauty of the opal is revealed when the light shines through the cracks in the gemstone. As long as I allow God to shine His light through all the cracks and fissures of my life, beauty will exist. This beauty is not physical necessarily and is certainly nothing of my making! My job is only to allow Him to work through me.
I choose this symbol because I’m a crazy free spirit who has a take no prisoners attitude and is not scared to try anything. I know that’s not great for an English class, but that’s who I am. I also choose it because it looks cool. Not to complicated huh? It also symbolizes my love for the fringe tastes in the world we live. i don’t like everything everybody else thinks is “cool”.
CHRISTY DODD
My personality is like a heart, so soft and so sweet. I pump to keep striving, and keep beating to make people happy. I will help anyone and can not say no. I came from a big family that depends on each other. I guess you could say I am the heart of all of us. I keep the peace between everyone. I am the one that they all depend on for everything. If I don’t keep beating our family would fall apart
I chose the butterflies because they symbolize change from something ugly to something beautiful. To me, they symbolize that even though you make bad choices; you can change and become something better; a better person; friend, daughter, son, or parent. Butterflies also, to me represent freedom. Free to live as we choose to. I love to watch butterflies as they fly and float for they act as if they have not a care in the world. If only I could be like a butterfly and have no worries, but I’m human, and I have worries.
I chose this 1956 Chevrolet Belair as my logo for one main reason. I consider myself to be old fashioned. And like this car, I am stuck in a time where there are no computers or cell phones. I am technologically behind when compared to others my age. I don’t have anything against modern technology. I just seem to be the last person to acquire it. I also own one of these cars, and I enjoy the feeling you get driving it. The only thing high-tech about me is my home entertainment center. I don’t usually get out much or party. I spend most of my time at work and the rest with my girlfriend. I guess I’m stuck in the old days.
For my logo I chose a hound dog. A hound is loyal, reliable, and friendly and has little time for BS. A hound best represents me because of my sense of humor and dedication to what needs to be done.
I feel this picture represents me. I found this under caregiver images. The reason why I feel this would describe me is because I have always been the caregiver. I have always had a job in taking care of other people. Whether it was in a daycare center, taking care of other parents children. Or a CNA in a nursing home, taking care of other peoples parents. Sitter for the elderly, so that a child taking care of their parent at home can go out and have a break. I took care of my terminally ill parents for 2 years. I held my Dad as he died in my arms at my house. My own children, foster parent for my great niece, certified therapeutic foster parent for 27 kids over a 2 year period. And now driving parent’s children to school. Then eventually, taking care of patients, hopefully mothers giving birth.
The clip art that I chose to represent me consists of many gears with symbols. The gears portray how my thoughts are constantly turning from one idea to another. I often wonder how things are put together and work which is represented by the question mark. The dollar symbol is also a question of if I can make money from my ideas. Last is my individual personality shown by a single I.
The logo I choose for myself would be a mother with her children. There are several reasons I choose this to represent me. First of all I am a mother and I am always doing something for my son, whether it is physical or just verbal or even just a little motherly love. The same treatment is carried on to my grand children also my pets. My pets think they are human. As if I didn’t have enough at home, as a facilities manager I take care of 100 people at work. On a daily basis I make sure they are warm or cool which ever are appropriate, company functions I make sure everyone has been taken care of and has everything they need. I love and worry about them as if they where my own
The symbol I have choosen is The Flying Dove. I have choose this symbol because the dove is flying so free in the air with no hardships to pull it down. In my life there are always hardships and the dove flying free reprsents the freedom I myself hope to have. Also the dove is very beautiful and beauty is always something I have yeared for.
My picture that i wanted to share with class, is the
periodic table. Each of the elements which make up the table, make a whole. I feel I’m rare and different from other’s. Sometimes that’s a good thing and other cases that can be bad. Although the
periodic table sounds dull and gray, I’m colorful with feelings and some what good common since.
The logo I chose was a flaming dragon yin-yang symbol. This symbol represents my personality in many different ways. I feel the dragons represent me because of the fact that I was born in the year of the dragon. The Yin-Yang symbol represents the two sides of my personality, good and bad. The flames around the symbol represent the heat of the moment situations that cause me to act instinctively. I usually make an instantaneous decision that’s either good or bad.
I choose a turtle, one because I can be hard on the outside, then soft on the inside. Sometimes too soft and then I have go and hide. I like to keep my real thoughts, feelings, and some other oponions to myself. I just feel that I choose a turtle, one because I can be hard on the outside, then soft on the inside. Sometimes too soft and then I have go and hide. I like to keep my real thoughts, feelings, and some other oponions to myself. At times I can be the life of the party, but at times I can just sit in a corner and be just as happy. Just to clear the air, I am fine and I don’t need a shrink. I am also a hard person to get to know, I just feel things are safer this way,one day I may change, we shall see.
I chose a guardian angel because I have five children and I am constantly watching over them.
Guardian angels are suppose to watch over you and protect you. They also keep you from doing anything wrong. And that is basically what a mother is suppose to do. I also have a tendency of
watching out for everyone I am around.