The South's Development, What Do You Think About It?

In my previous blog, I told about a claim that is made by A. V. Huff. The claim is how recent and profound the South's transformation had been. To me as a newcomer in Atlanta, I agree with the claim that A. V. Huff made.

The first reason why I agree with the

 claim is about Atlanta's architectural and method of transportation, the city where I live now. In the past, Atlanta did not have as many skycrappers as it is now. The picture in the left is Peachtree Street in 1907. It looks pretty old-fashioned. The transportation vehicles in that picture are also different from now. The right picture is Peachtree Street right now. There are a lot of cars nowadays and the building is taller than Atlanta back in 1907.

Below is the video that shows Atlanta development from time to time. The real movie about Atlanta starts on minute 2:10.

A. V. Huff also said that the he still picks cotton crop in the 1940s when he was still a child. But today, a lot of Southern kid does not even know what cotton crop looks like. Below is a graph that I find in my economic books. It tells about the percentage of jobs that people have during that period and what goods is produced during that time.

From the graph, we can see that in the 1940s, the percentage of people that work in agricultural area is around 20%. In the 2000s, the percentage of people that work in agricultural area drops into around 3%. This decrease also means the decrease in farm area. That is the reason why today's kids do not work in the farm during school's year and why they don't know what cotton crop looks like. Finally, below is two images that pictured what A. V. Huff said about kids picking cotton crop during school's year.

Argument/Claim & Evidence

I later put this to A. V. Huff, a historian of the South at Furman University in upland South Carolina. He responded by reminding me just how recent and profound the South's transformation had been. Huff told of picking cotton as child in the 1940s, when the rhythm of the school year still moved to the cotton crop. Children attended class in midsummer, during lay-by season, and returned to the fields for the autumn harvest.

Yet in Huff's own lifetime, this most fundamental of Southern rites had all but vanished from the experience of many Southerners. Many of Huff's students-mostly middle-class kids from the suburbs of Atlanta and other cities-had never ever seen a cotton crop. Huff illustrated his point by inviting me sit in on one of his classes. Lecturing on Eli Whitney's invention of the cotton gin, he produced a boll from his family's farm as a teaching prop. The students passed the boll around, gazing at it with wonderment, as if at a mastodon's tooth.

Fewer than 5 percent of present-day Southerners now worked the land, and Dixie was fast becoming the nation's new industrial heartland, with car plants sprouting across the former cotton belt. Per capita income in the South-half the national average when Huff was born in 1937-now ranked close to the rest of America. The eleven states of the Old Confederacy comprised the fifth-largest economy in the world.

This text is based on Confederates in the Attic chapter 4 page 86-87

What is the argument?

A. V. Huff tells Toni Horwitz about how recent and profound the South's transformation have been. (the orange sentence in the paragraph)

Who is the audience?

Toni Horwitz

What is the reason?

A. V. Huff  said that the most fundamental of Southern rites (picking up cotton crop) had vanished nowadays. (the green sentence in the paragraph)

What is the appeal?

• Ethos: A. V. Huff is a historian of the South at Furman University. He also has experienced what Southener's kid usually do during school year (picking up the cotton crop).
• Pathos: We can see the emotional appeal when the kids are gazing the boll with wonderment.
• Logos: There are fewer than 5% of Southerners that worked on land. This means that most southern area has changed from agricultural area to industrial area. (the blue sentences in the paragraph)

Is it successful?

Yes it is. A. V. Huff makes a lot of appeals from ethical appeal, emotional appeal and logical appeal. He also support his argument/claim with evidences.

Indonesia

This video is about Indonesia tourism.

As an archipelago, Indonesia has a lot of tourist destination. There are a lot of beaches and mountain, for example is Kuta Beach at Bali island and Mount Bromo in East Java.

Mount Bromo

Kuta Beach

There are a lot of flora and fauna in Indonesia. Some of them like anoa and komodo dragon are indigenous to Indonesia. Western Indonesia is more  influenced by Asian Fauna like elephant and rhinoceros. Meanwhile, the east is more influenced by Australian, like maleo bird and bird of paradise. The east and west area is divided by Weber line and Wallace line. This diversity is caused by diversed range of ecosystem.

There are also a lot of historical place and building such as Borobudur temple that was built during Sailendra dynasy at around 800 AD and Monas (National Monument) that is a trademark bulding in Jakarta. Borobudur also part of the 7 wonders of the world last time. Unfortunately, now it is not.

Borobudur Temple

You can also watch a lot of traditional dance like Kecak dance and also traditional musical instruments like Gamelan in Indonesia. You can also buy batik clothes for souvenir

Gamelan

Also, you can try some exotic food like Gado-gado and ketoprak in Indonesia.

This video is made to promote Indonesia tourism to the world, especially after there is a lot of travel warning from another country such as America and Australia that forbids its citizen to go to Indonesia. This happened after the Bali bombings and several bombings in Jakarta. This terrorist act severely damaged Indonesia tourism industry and foreign investment prospect. By this video, Indonesia wants to tell that Indonesia is already safe now and fight the terrorism in the world. 

Friday, 22nd August 2008 Assignment

Hello everyone! Welcome to my first blog. I am majoring in industrial engineering in Georgia Tech. Pardon me if my english is bad.

For the last 24-hours, here is the activity that I've done:

• E-mail my friends in Indonesia (written) 6:00 PM; ask their condition and experience in their university.
• Text messaging my parents (written) 10:00 PM; remind them to call my cellphone on 7:30 AM today, or I will not be awaken.
• Talk with my parents (oral) 3:15 PM; tell them about the class that I have.
• Read flyer about Georgia Tech Swarm (visual) 5:25 PM
• Chat with my friend using windows messenger (electronic); I ask him about his condition.
• Read my friend's blog in the internet (electronic) 6:15 PM; I read about her experience in her university.
• Using body language to my mother (non verbal) 08:20 AM; My mother asked me if I have math class today and I nodded, which means yes.

In Indonesia language, there is also some convention. For example, the word "I" in English, have several words in Indonesia language. They are:

• "saya"; this word is used between us and someone who is much older than us such as our parents and teachers.
• "aku"; this word is a little bit more informal. It is used between us and our brother, sister, cousin.
• "gw"; this word is informal. It is used between us and our friends.

So we use the word depends on our relationship with the people we speak to.

In Indonesia, there is a lot of tribe and race that have their own language. So, there is also some homophone words. For example is the word "pisang" in Indonesia, it means banana in Jakarta but for Toraja people, it means "jackfruit". Also, there is some words that sounds rude to some tribe or race.

Actually, there is almost no abbreviation in Indonesia language. When we teenagers communicate with our friends via text message or 3-mail or instant messaging, we rarely use abbreviation like in the United States. To shorten the word, we simply don't write the vocal alphabet. For example, the word "saya" is written "sy". We don't write the word only as its initial like IMO, LMAO, LOL in English. We sometime use some English abbreviation like BTW that means "by the way". But we seldom use it when we write e-mail or text message to our parents. We rarely use them because mostly they don't understand about what is written in it.

There is also body language. I think it is the same in almost all part of the world. For example, if we nod our head, that means "yes", if we raise our shoulder, it means we don't know.