1. Please make sure you are up to date on all posted work.
2. Bring a copy of the beauty myth along with your printed answers to the homework. We will unpack it in class.
3. Read "Libido for the Ugly"
http://grammar.about.com/od/classicessays/a/hlmlibidougly.htm
Make sure you see it is two pages, and make sure you have it in class
Answer and bring to class the following questions, in a few sentences each.
1. What is the tone of the essay?
2. What is a libido for the ugly in the context of the essay?
3. What is Mencken's thesis statement?
4. Summarize the article in a few sentences.
5. Explain this quote.
I award this championship only after laborious research and incessant prayer.
Pradeep Shivram
ReplyDeleteEnglish 101 - 136
Friday 20th 2013
(Just incase i forget to bring it in)
1. The tone of Mencken expression in "The Libidio for the Ugly" is disappointment. Mencken is disappointed about the way the towns of Pennsylvania looks. How can towns full of wealth can look so hideous. Mencken express his feeling by saying "Here was wealth beyond computation, almost beyond imagination--and here were human habitations so abominable that they would have disgraced a race of alley cats."
2. A libido for the ugly in the context of the essay is the more christian you are the more you're attracted to the ugly.
3. Mencken thesis is "Here was the very heart of industrial America, the center of its most lucrative and characteristic activity, the boast and pride of the richest and grandest nation ever seen on earth--and here was a scene so dreadfully hideous, so intolerably bleak and forlorn that it reduced the whole aspiration of man to a macabre and depressing joke."
4. This article is about Mencken feelings toward the way on how Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania looks. How can a town full of wealth and richness looks so disdainful. Pennsylvania is the heart of of industrial America where you will find coal and steel towns but dispute the income generated the towns still manage to look hideous and disgraceful comparing to the other towns in the US. Mencken expresses himself as he's very disappointed on the way the towns present themselves.
5. This quote means that a championship is only awarded after tremendous hard work and numerous prayers.
2. What is the dominant impression in this story? Give a few examples to support your claim.
Delete3. Explain why H.L Mencken chose the word “Libido” in the tittle. What do you think this word means in the context of the story?
Sandra Astacio
ReplyDeleteEnglish 101-136
1) H.L. Mencken's tone in "The Libido for the Ugly" is disgust. He hates the way Westmoreland looks. He feels the town looks ugly. He also sounds disappointed. He felt that the builders could have built more to fill in the empty spaces and built nicer architecture.
2) In the context of the essay, a libido for the ugly is referring to how the author feels only in the United States can you find such ugly areas but in other countries, no matter how poor the country is, you will not find one ugly town. Then he goes on to ask himself if it's ugly because whoever built them had no love of beauty in them.
3) Mencken's thesis statement is in paragraph 8, "The love of ugliness for it's own sake, the lust to make the world intolerable"
4) This article is about Mencken's view on the structures and land of Westmoreland County, the land along the Pennsylvania Railroad, and the whole United States compared to other countries. To him, this land has ugly structures, they didn't use the land and all it's space adequately and he even does not like the color of the structures and land. He feels it's because the American race has no love for beauty.
5) I award this championship only after laborious research and incessant prayer means the author has searched for all the most ugliest towns in the world and he feels they are all found in the United States. He awards that title of the most ugliest towns to the U.S..
2. What is the dominant impression in this story? Give a few examples to support your claim.
Delete3. Explain why H.L Mencken chose the word “Libido” in the tittle. What do you think this word means in the context of the story?
Maria Aguilar 101-136
ReplyDelete1.Mencken his tone in this essay is disappointed he wasn't liking how Pennsylvania was turning into a place where everything seemed to be coming down he wasn't pleased to how the buildings were built he felt it didn't really feel as if it was Westoreland county.
2.A libido for the ugly in this essay it means that he is not much satisfied of the towns ugliness he felt it could have been built better in the sense of making it look beautiful but he believes the people who built or created Westmoreland didn't have no creativity to make it look stupendous.
3."Are they so frightful because the valley is full of foreigners--dull, insensate brutes, with no love of beauty in them?" I believe his thesis statement is in the beginning of paragraph 6 because it is stating and also asking at the same time weather is there a reason to why they didn't built the city better then it is and it asks if they didn't have no love or lets say passion to come up with better buildings.
4.Mencken is stating that he sees his the town of Westmoreland is suppose to be better then other places but instead he sees that there are poor places and the towns they live are not ugly at all they may be poor but still have the creativity to make their town look beautiful and unlike where he lives with the money that they have they could have made Westmoreland look like a place never seen before he is ashamed that there's other places that are more beautiful then his.
5.The quote means that if you show you do great work and do anything possible and work like a champion and pray and have faith in yourself you will be rewarded at the end because is also like another quote that says "hard work pays off"
2. What is the dominant impression in this story? Give a few examples to support your claim.
Delete3. Explain why H.L Mencken chose the word “Libido” in the tittle. What do you think this word means in the context of the story?
Jailall Persaud
ReplyDeleteEnglish 101-136
1. What is the tone of the essay: the tone of the essay is the outrange of the unattractiveness and disturbing view of the wealthy land in our country that’s being deprived as a result of bad housing taste and choices in the town of Westmoreland, Pennsylvania .
2. What is libido for the ugly in the context of the essay - America is such a melting pot and despite this foreigners have the opportunity to act upon to be built higher standard of houses in farmland but yet choose poor standard to makes it looks ugly.
3. What is Mencken’s Thesis statement – is that America could have built higher standard of housing compare to the rest of the world, despite this, the look of these town is poor and awe full looking on such a rich nation.
4. Summarized the article –This article revolves around the lucrative land that we have in the United states of America and how great profit is being earn at these coal and steel town and yet it’s being deprived from is wealth by the awe full and terrible looks of the houses built on beautiful landscape . The color and design of these houses are so disgusting to look at, that it makes the town look like a cemetery. The people lives in that valley have no love for beauty as they are lacking physical sensation. The chose that style of living as they are not fully explore to intelligent demands.
5. Explain this quote: I awarded this championship only after laborious research and incessant prayer ; based on the Journalist’s quote; after doing years of hard work and research he conclude that the ugliest town in the world is the Westmoreland in Pennsylvania.
2. What is the dominant impression in this story? Give a few examples to support your claim.
Delete3. Explain why H.L Mencken chose the word “Libido” in the tittle. What do you think this word means in the context of the story?
The tone of this essay is negative and depressing with strong accent of sarcasm and arrogance " Here was the very heart of industrial America,the center of its most lucrative and.........here was a scene so dreadfully hideous,so .....and depressing joke."
ReplyDelete2.A libido for ugly in this essay is American people prefer ugliness,they are attracted by it and admire it.
3.The thesis statement is in the paragraph 7 :" thus I suspect that .... 100 pro cent Americans among them,actually admire the houses they live in,and are proud of them.For the same money they could get vastly better ones,but they prefer what they have got......but they chose that clapboarded horror with their eyes open,...it's present shocking depravity."
4.This article shows towns of Westmoreland country with its streets,architecture and people who are living in it ,through the eyes of H. Mencken and his personal perception of this country.He,in details,describes how ugly and horrible the city looks "they bury themselves swinishly in the mud" and specify the reasons of it.In the end of the article the author claims :"the love for ugliness for its own sake, the lust to make the world intolerable .Its habitat is the United States."
5.The author putting himself in the position of giving feedback after all the researches he made,but he is doing it with sarcastic notes.
2. What is the dominant impression in this story? Give a few examples to support your claim.
Delete3. Explain why H.L Mencken chose the word “Libido” in the tittle. What do you think this word means in the context of the story?
HELP PLEASE!!!!!
1.What are of the country does this essay describe?
ReplyDelete2. What is the principle occupation of the region?
3. Mencken not only citicizes the architecture of the region, he also suggests an alternative. What sort of architecture does he think is suitable to this region?
4. On what does Mencken blame the ugliness he describe?
PLEASE I NEED HELP, I'M LOST