"Writing Through Snapshots"
Sydney Salloum
English 1102-062
BORN AND RAISED IN CHARLOTTE | 19 YEARS OLD | fRESHMAN AT UNCC | mAJORING IN PRE-BIOLOGY
Hi there, my name is Sydney, and I’m currently finishing up my freshman year at UNC Charlotte.
My favorite subject has always been English, the main reason being that I love to read. I'm not too great with math, but I want to be a doctor (sounds like a good plan, right?).I'm wanting to pursue a career in forensic pathology (if the math doesn't get to me first!). I spend a lot of my time with my friends and family, and I love to be active and outdoors.
My passion lies in creativity- I love to make things from my imagination through painting, sketching, and writing, among other things.
When I am trying to create something, I always try to focus on what I see, (both around me and in my head) and try to put the image or idea in a form that others can see. I express myself through snapshots- each image flowing together with the next to show others what I see and feel. Just like with any other form of art or creativity, I try to express myself in a way that can draw out new emotions and ideas for my viewers (or in this case, readers!). I try to challenge the views and thoughts of other people, and sometimes even my own.
This portfolio shows how my writings have changed and developed over the semester, and how I’ve learned to write from different ideas and aspects. It shows how I’ve grown not only in writing itself, but seeing and understanding the writing of others.In my portfolio you will see not only my “good” pieces of writing, but also the ones that I may have not done all too well on. Each piece shows how my thoughts of writing were challenged and how my writing has changed and developed over the semester.
Being made into a sex object is not the only problem female artists are facing.
Credit is not being given where it should. For many female successful female artists, the media did not focus on her achievements, but rather, how the man supporting her made it all happen. Lady Gaga’s ex-boyfriend, Fusari, claims that it was he “came up with the moniker “Lady Gaga,”” (Idolater) and therefore, her whole persona. Similar situations have happened with Adele and her manager Jonathan Dickens and Beyonce with Jay-Z.
Early April of 2013, “ indie darling” Solange Knowles tweeted: “I find it very disappointing when I am presented as the “face” of my music, or a “vocal muse” when I write or co-write every fucking song, How can one be a “vocal muse” to their own melodies, storytelling, and words they wrote?” (fact mag).
Yea, She's Good For a Girl
“Although Beyoncé, Lady Gaga, and Madonna are essential ingredients of our modern culture, women musicians have had a very difficult time breaking through and getting the credit they deserve.” -Abbey Phillips
Claire Boucher took to her tumblr to post “I’m tired of men who aren’t professional or even accomplished musicians continually offering to ‘help me out’ (without being asked), as if i did this by accident and i’m gonna flounder without them. or as if the fact that I’m a woman makes me incapable of using technology. I have never seen this kind of thing happen to any of my male peers,” she writes. “I’m tired of the weird insistence that i need a band or i need to work with outside producers (and I’m eternally grateful to the people who don’t do this).” (fact mag) "I don't want to be molested at shows or on the street by people who perceive me as an object that exists for their personal satisfaction, I'm sad that my desire to be treated as an equal and as a human being is interpreted as hatred of men, rather than a request to be included and respected." (huffington)
Both Knowles and Boucher were said to have not even written their own songs by the media. Female artists are not getting their due.