Inspirational Kinetic Type

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Attractions: The organization fits well to it's confined space. The designer makes it easy for the right words to pop out at the viwer. The smaller words are still legible. The large quotation mark leads out eye to the quote and is asthetically pleasing.

Kinetic Quality: Scale and Weight difference

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Attractions: Every word has it's own space to be. The shape created isn't boring or too traditional. Color and Blocks are used to really make words pop out at you. The arrangement is smart in a
typographic way and asthetically. The words are still, but look like they are moving with them going in all different directions.

Kinetic Quality: Scale, Weight, Color, Directions

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Attractions: Cracks looks like it's in motion even
as a still photo. There is a surprise element to the "back" and "cracks". The word spacing is perfect for the eyes to follow the motion. The quote is well organized but not too static.

Kinetic Quality: Cracks actually breaking, Back being repetitive





Mario Cuomo: In Photo Review

Meet Former Governor Cuomo

Mario Cuomo was the longest-serving Democratic governor in the modern history of New York State. He was elected New York States 54th Governor in 1983 and twice won re-election, setting records for popularity in both contests. Beginning with his widely admired keynote address at the 1984 Democratic National Convention and his celebrated speech on the relationship of religion and politics at Notre Dame, he has helped define the progressive political landscape for two decades.
In twelve years at the helm of the nation's most populous state, Governor Cuomo steered the state through two recessions, balanced twelve consecutive budgets, created more than half a million jobs, and led the state through two national recessions.

During the decade that rocked the nation with the exploding crises of crack cocaine, homelessness and AIDS, Governor Cuomo also enhanced New York's reputation as a leader in socially progressive legislation. He created the country's most extensive drug treatment network, its largest program of housing assistance for the homeless, a nationally recognized plan for AIDS prevention and treatment, and tough but constructive new approaches to criminal justice, particularly in the area of drug-related crime. Cuomo also launched Child Health-Plus and the Children's Assistance Program, America's first real alternatives to welfare reform later used as models for federal welfare programs.

His record was defined by enlightened innovation, instituting first-in-the-nation laws on everything from seat belt use to acid rain controls; the state's first significant ethics laws for public officials; the law requiring the application of generally accepted accounting principles to the state's budget; and the first state statute requiring regular and independent audits of all executive agencies, including the Comptroller's Office, the State Inspector General's Office, and his own Office of the Governor. The Seat Belt Law has since been adopted by every state in the union and has proven to have saved thousands of lives.

His son, Andrew M. Cuomo was elected New York Governor in 2010 and is currently still upholding the postion. He is the 56th governor of the state.

Kinectic and Expressive Speech: Questionaire

What is your chosen speech?
Keynote Address For The Democratic Convention

Who is speaking?
New York Governor Mario Cuomo

Why was the speech important to society?
It showed individuals livng in 1984 that the president was not taking necessary action for the povery struck population in New York. The speech points out how utterly blind President Reagan was being to the part of the country not living in luxury, because he thought everyone was doing just fine. Instead of thinking about all of the population, the president only thought of who was right infront of him most of the time - the wealthy white males. Governor Cuomo wanted his people of New York to know that he understood the struggles, wanted to support the struggling, and would attempt to improve those lifes as soon as he was able.

What is the emotion, mood, tone, personality, feeling of the speech?
Mario is seeming to try and get the community to wake up, and cause an upset for the way that the government has pushed aside minorities such as the poor and the Hispanic. Cuomo's personality screams out that he truly cares for his peoples' well beings and if they end up in the street. He is stern with wanting action but caring at the same time for what is right. The speech has a feeling of power and hope for something better than the present.

What is the intonation, emphasis? What is loud, stressed, or soft? Where are pauses?
The clear emphasis is that the government is not doing anything about the inequality of the country. Mario emphasises that race, gender, and social classes are no where near equal. He becomes loud when addressing the president directly. He also raises his tone when the crowd begins to cheer and applaud. He is softer at the beginning of the speech. He is softer when talking about the touchy subject of living on the cold streets, homeless. He pauses after asking what if and why type of questions and after each main point he makes.

What do you feel should be loud or soft, long paused or rushed?
I feel like he does a great job of picking the areas to stress or to pull back on. I think it is smart to pause after saying a statement such as "The president does not understand" or something similiar to that. When addressing the audience directly or especially Reagan, he should be louder to get them to really listen up. He could have slowed down when giving stats that would most likely shock the people in the audience.

Is there a call to action? When listening to it what are key words?
There is an absolute clear call to action. The call is for the government, and more specifically President Reagan. Mario Cuomo is calling out for people to fight for the rights that they deserve, no matter man or woman, Mexican or white, poor or rich. He is asking also for the president to wake up and serve all of the country, not just a portion.

How does it make you feel?
The speech made me feel that the governor actually cared for the well being of everyone and that he wanted to do right instead of by corrupt that most politicians. It made me think of power, and saying what you feel, no matter if it is against the most power man on Earth - the president. It made me realize that even if some people in the 80's were against equally and rights of all, others really desired a better country with the right kind of government.

How do you imagine the audience felt?
It was clear, not only by the clapping, but that everyone in that room felt lifted by hope. Every word Mario spoken the people hung onto and waited patienly for the next powerful statement. Now, the president probably felt attacked. He may of thought the governor was stepping over his boundaries. The room however must have had a sense that their state's governor wanted better for them in their time of true struggle and inequality.

Could there be another interpretation of the speech?
The wealthy, and possibly even white population could have had a completely different outlook on the speech. They possibly interpreted it as a pity party for a group of people asking for the impossible, considering there would always be homeless people somewhere. They could have viewed Mario's speech as false hopes. The wealthy could have believed that there is no need for anymore equality since they already had what they wanted as the rich and white population.

Former Governor Mario Cuomo Speech (Smaller Portion)

Ten days ago, President Reagan admitted that although some people in this country seemed to be doing well nowadays, others were unhappy, even worried, about themselves, their families, and their futures. The President said that he didn't understand that fear. He said, "Why, this country is a shining city on a hill." And the President is right. In many ways we are a shining city on a hill.

 

But the hard truth is that not everyone is sharing in this city's splendor and glory. A shining city is perhaps all the President sees from the portico of the White House and the veranda of his ranch, where everyone seems to be doing well. But there's another city; there's another part to the shining the city; the part where some people can't pay their mortgages, and most young people can't afford one; where students can't afford the education they need, and middle-class parents watch the dreams they hold for their children evaporate.

 

In this part of the city there are more poor than ever, more families in trouble, more and more people who need help but can't find it. Even worse: There are elderly people who tremble in the basements of the houses there. And there are people who sleep in the city streets, in the gutter, where the glitter doesn't show. There are ghettos where thousands of young people, without a job or an education, give their lives away to drug dealers every day. There is despair, Mr. President, in the faces that you don't see, in the places that you don't visit in your shining city.

In fact, Mr. President, this is a nation -- Mr. President you ought to know that this nation is more a "Tale of Two Cities" than it is just a "Shining City on a Hill."

 

Maybe, maybe, Mr. President, if you visited some more places; maybe if you went to Appalachia where some people still live in sheds; maybe if you went to Lackawanna where thousands of unemployed steel workers wonder why we subsidized foreign steel. Maybe -- Maybe, Mr. President, if you stopped in at a shelter in Chicago and spoke to the homeless there; maybe, Mr. President, if you asked a woman who had been denied the help she needed to feed her children because you said you needed the money for a tax break for a millionaire or for a missile we couldn't afford to use.