#mbtp

🕑 1 min / Text: Adrian Prath Release Date: Sept 17, 2021 I unfortunatly don't speak swedish, so I can't tell anything about the lyrics of the track, but as a huge fan of the city, I really had to share this damn cool indie rock record with you. 'Amsterdam' is a fantastic new release by MBTP and it features virtuoso and infectious guitar riffs, washed out lead vocals and fresh retro synths. What an outstanding lofi vibe here, give it a shot, you will dig it:  Melody: ★★★★★ | Production: ★★★★★ | Arrangement: ★★★☆☆ | Energy: ★★★★☆ | Stream: https://open.spotify.com/track/4fzVaZfCbpOqCBt9RzrqXz ✔️ Available on our Inide Playlist on Spotify.

INFP: I wasn't lying It was just... What's the word? *Sputtering* Super Bowl, Hyper Bowl, HYPERBOLE!

Moving Beyond the Page

Martin Luther King, Jr.: The Purpose of Education pg. 59 #3, 4

3. “Bull-sessions” do seem to exist in universities and colleges. Often times, I’ll find myself discussing things that I learned in a lecture with a group of friends. It is an informal discussion of topics, more often than not, related to political, social and moral issues. Take for example the second humanities short essay about whether history is subjective or prejudiced. I took it upon myself to ask some of my friends what they thought, and I found many of them saying it is objective. After explaining Twain’s quote and Dussel’s paper, many of them changed their opinions to say it was subjective. If something as “concrete” as history can be challenged, so can other issues. University also gives students many things to talk about because of its intricacy and level of depth. Compared to high school, university broadens our need to know things by showing us how much we don’t know. Thus making us crave more and more information about things we seemingly know less and less about. 

4. King’s first paragraph of the early draft seems very uncertain. He seems like he almost has his thesis figured out but hasn’t found a way to put it clearly. King says, “I will attempt to answer the question, what is the purpose of education?” That is not a very strong introduction because he did not clearly and confidently state his thesis but rather said he will attempt to. It seems to me like he wasn’t too sure of what to write. His second draft started off in a much stronger manner. By using “bull-sessions” to start off his essay, he provides a real-life, solid introduction to the purpose  of education according to King. In the final draft of the essay, King seemed certain of what he was saying and authoritatively began his essay. Also between the first draft and the final draft, King must have paid more attention to his theory in action at school. By collecting evidence to support his claim, King was more confident in his ability to form a functional and more importantly justified thesis. 

They Say I Say

pg. 14 #1

Moving Beyond the Page

The Baby in the Airmail Box pg. 377 #1, 3

1. At first I thought that every single character in the story was racist or had some sort of prejudice. Then, I thought about the baby who hasn’t been given a reason or basis to be racist or prejudiced yet. Out of all the characters introduced throughout the story, the baby is the only one who wasn’t racist. Since the baby doesn’t have skills to truly understand anything yet, it remains purely objective. Depending on who finally gets the baby in the end may change the baby’s perception causing it to be either prejudiced or racist or both.

3. Throughout the whole book, babies are treated like objects. First of all, the method of the baby’s arrival is an airmail box. Things that get shipped are objects and not people. When the baby arrives at its destination, the council members could care less about it. They are instead more enticed by bingo, coffee and doughnuts. It is as if the baby is worthless until the golf course where it is seen as a “rabbit’s foot” because Louis is winning the golf game. When Louis decides to put the white baby up for auction at the bingo game, it shows that he has little to no sympathy for the baby. The attitudes towards babies in this story are all different, yet they are all negative. There is not one positive attitude towards babies that doesn’t seem fake. For example, Mrs. Cardinal suggests that white people have been taking care of their (The Natives’) babies for so long and she feels they should return the favour. That adds onto the satirical element of the story but is still a negative attitude in terms of the story. 

They Say I Say

pg. 29 #2