Matthew's E-Portfolio

Old thesis- Beauty is something that every person in society views differently and has their own perspective on. Although beauty is so easy to find in the world today there are still times people disagree and different communities disagree what is beautiful.  New Thesis – Everyone experiences beauty in different ways, whether that be by chance Read More …

  Prompt: Can beauty help us become better people—as individuals and as a society? Use Armstrong’s essay, two podcast, outside essay, experiences and values to “answer question” and form argument.   Introduction   (Working) Intro Sentence : My understanding of beauty is it is something that appeals to any five senses, you have your own Read More …

For my online article I chose “Why does beauty exist” an article I found on Discover magazine. This article was written by Jonah Lehrer and starts in introducing some of his general thoughts about beauty and what it does to us. He then goes to explain how neuroscience can be related and shows an experiment Read More …

“To regard beauty as a luxury adornment or a social signifier was to miss the true potential of the experience.” I think when Armstrong says this he means that we can’t just look at beauty and take it for granted. When we really see something beautiful we shouldn’t just look at it and look away. Read More …

For my choice chapter in “They Say I Say” I chose “Her point is” which is the Art of summarizing. I chose this one because I feel although summarizing is not a major part of writing an academic essay it is still something that I need help with and will help me down the road. Read More …

Both Jonah Lehrer and Mark Boslough argue the benefits regarding the investments made into the research of science and the arts. In” The future of science is …..Art?” by Jonah Lehrer, Lehrer shows multiple reasons why it is important to start integrating art and science together in school now more than ever. According to Lehrer Read More …

The way stem is taught now is the best strategy and no changes need to be made to improve this. Currently students in today’s schools are taught all about the sciences, maths and about engineering. If we start adding art into these core curricular courses it will throw off the balance we have created over Read More …

This essay was written by YO-YO Ma who is a cellist and songwriter with over 17 grammy awards. YO-YO Ma continues with the accolades also earning the national medal of the arts and the presidential medal of freedom. The purpose of reading this text was perfectly summed up by Ma when he said “The arts Read More …