I liked how Thierry used photoshop to create his posters and that makes me feel a little more comfortable with using photoshop and not making a sculpture. I also noticed that the artists incorporated their message into the art piece. I guess we're already doing that because of our original idea but I still wonder if it's enough, if people will still get the message.
A lot of the artists had their own unique way of making art. They all had different mediums like paper, paint, metal, photoshop; they had things that I don't even know what to call. They also had very different messages. They all did their own thing and I liked how artists from all over the world came together and used the world as their canvas.
The artists used a lot of different ways to convey their message. Some painted words, others by the actions of the subject in the art piece, others by where the art piece was placed and others with all three. Bansky used the placement and the actions of the subject ways when he painted on the wall in Israel.

Political Cartoons

The purpose of a political cartoon is to show something that someone thinks is wrong with or to make fun of a certain current situation in the government. Like the picture to the right, it is from the Revolutionary War and I'm guessing that what it means is that you have to join the 13 colonies or you will die or that the 13 colonies were bad.

The Metamorphosis Chapter 3

I think that Kafka was trying to bring to light the way a certain type of family (that is quite similar to Kafka's family) behaves. He did this by giving them a problem that brings out the true colors of each family member. In order to do that he had to transform one of the family members into something, well, horrible, and apperently he chose Gregor as the one to suffer a horrible fate.
This brings me to the next question, why a beetle/roach? Kafka could've chosen a frog or some other well known fairytale creature. Well, I think that Kafka chose a beetle/roach because it fits the way that Gregor's family treated him, like an invalid or something disgusting. They abused him in order to pay off the family's debt and when he turned into an insect they didn't even bother to try to communicate with him before they decided to get rid of him!

The Metamorphosis Chapter 2

The Samsa family benefit and harm each other in many ways. One way that they sort of harm each other is that they all depend on one person at a time, an example of this is at the beginning of the story when we learn that Gregor is the only one working in the family to pay a debt that his parents owe, pg. 1"Once I've got together the money to pay off my parents' debt to him [the boss]" One way that they benefit and sort of harm each other is that Mr. Samsa, Gregor's dad, is very aloof and at times rude and frightening. For example on page 3 "'He will be good enough to forgive the mess in your room.'" when Mr. Samsa was talking to Gregor, this is an example of his rudeness on how he didn't really care for his son's dignity. An example of when his is frightening in the story is on page 14 "And now, without for the moment taking accurate aim, he was throwing apple after apple." when he is throwing apples at Gregor.

I believe that the Five Rules to Having a Happy Family are:
1) Support (not money support but like people giving other people emotional support!)
2) Understanding/Listening (you have to listen and try your best to understand your family members and their problems!)
3) Free of Judgement! (this kind of goes with Understanding/Listening in the way that you have to not judge your family, why do you think it exsists?)
4) Respectful (you have to be respectful to your family, their belongings, feelings, etc.)
5)Work Together (every one has to pitch in, not just one person making the money and another cooking and cleaning, you have to do something too!)

I would probably give the Samsa family a D becuase although some people do help and at times some are respectful with Gregor's bug issue, they don't really work together, most do judge, they don't listen much(and i don't think they can understand what Gregor's saying.), and they don't support each other!

The Metamorphosis Chapter 1

There are many ways that Gregor might've felt dehumanized. One way is that his parents had been using him to repay their debt, something that was not his responsibility, he is of course a grown man. Another way is that since he was always so punctual he was probably thought of as someone who was more like a clock than a human being. And althought he hated his job he always worked at his best which is quite odd.
His family also probably thought of him as a pest seeming as he was never to move out of his parents house and gain some sort of independence. His parents would always be stuck with him until they died unless they did something, but of course they didn't seem to care for him much since they did nothing. Another way that he might've felt dehumanized is that his bosses never really cared for him, just his productivity and his punctuality.