1. A Picture’s Worth A Thousand Words: Evaluating Human Emotions through Pictures and Songs

2. Look Closely…..

3. What did you see? A man? A woman? Happiness?Sadness?Poverty?Wealth? Despair? Hope? Picture from previous slide taken from: http://memory.loc.gov/cgi- bin/query/r?ammem/fsaall:@filreq(@field(NUMBER+@band(fsa+8a16190))+@field(COLLID+fsa)) http://memory.loc.gov/cgi- bin/query/r?ammem/fsaall:@filreq(@field(NUMBER+@band(fsa+8a16190))+@field(COLLID+fsa)) http://memory.loc.gov/cgi- bin/query/r?ammem/fsaall:@filreq(@field(NUMBER+@band(fsa+8a16190))+@field(COLLID+fsa))

4. Well, the reality is…… They were cotton pickers in 1935 Leaving for the fields at 6:30am in Arkansas Their clothes are tattered and torn, but….. Perhaps they are glad to have a job, embarrassed to be photographed in their current condition……you decide.

5. Look closely again… Taken from: http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/r?ammem/fsaall:@field(NUMBER+@band(cph+3c29107)) http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/r?ammem/fsaall:@field(NUMBER+@band(cph+3c29107))

6. Look at their faces, look at the background…..practice empathy, and now what do you see?

7. About the picture: It was taken in 1936 The title is “People living in miserable poverty in Elm Grove, Oklahoma County, Oklahoma” They are not on some Chevy Chase wild vacation…..this is their HOME! Yet, it could be worse……..

9. You’ve probably seen this picture before….. She was a migrant worker in California in 1936. She had seven children and was very worried because of the failure of the pea crop that season – how was she going to pay for things? Sound familiar? How? Picture on this and previous slide taken from: http://memory.loc.gov/cgi- bin/query/r?pp/fsaall:@filreq(@field(NUMBER+@band(ppmsc a+12883))+@field(COLLID+fsa)) http://memory.loc.gov/cgi- bin/query/r?pp/fsaall:@filreq(@field(NUMBER+@band(ppmsc a+12883))+@field(COLLID+fsa))

10. Do you have to be rich to be happy?

11. Perhaps we should ask Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Lyman….. They were Polish tobacco farmers in Connecticut in the early 1940’s. They were poor. Yet, they seem happy. What about Paris Hilton? Very Rich…………but what about happy? Picture on previous slide taken from:http://memory.loc.gov/cgi- bin/query/r?ammem/fsaall:@filreq(@field(NUMBER+@band(fsa+8c03211))+@field(COLLID+fsa))

12. Is this the face of Happy? Picture taken from: http://www.thewest.com.au/getfile.aspx?Type=image&ID=40081&ObjectType=3&ObjectID=45822 http://www.thewest.com.au/getfile.aspx?Type=image&ID=40081&ObjectType=3&ObjectID=45822

13. This man was a bum who claimed to be a Scotch comedian, at Third Ave and 14 th St. in New York City. (1942) Man at Colonial Park: Upon being asked, “Do rich people and poor people have anything in common?” "God made all this, and he made it for everybody. And he made it equal. This breeze and these green leaves out here is for everybody. The same sun's shining down on everybody. This breeze comes from God and man cain't do nothing about it. I breath the same air old man Ford an old man Rockerfeller breath. They got all the money an I ain't got nothing, but they got to breath the same air I do." Picture and quote taken from: http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/wpaintro/manpark.html

14. What do you think? Do rich people and poor people have anything in common?

15. What about music? Music has been used since slavery in the United States to pass time and make unbearable situations bearable. We don’t listen to the same artists, styles, or much of anything else, but are the messages similar or different? Well, decide for yourself……………

17. Give Me Three Grains of Corn, Mother! The song, “Give Me Three Grains of Corn, Mother,” written by Mrs. A.M. Edmond, with words by O.R. Gross, tells of a poor boy who is about to die of starvation. All he wants is enough food to make it to the next morning, but feels bad for wanting because he knows his mom needs food just as badly. He goes on to show resentment toward those who have so much more and don’t even realize it. This song was written in Boston in 1848. Would it still apply to people now in 2007? The song on the previous page was taken from: http://memory.loc.gov/cgi- bin/query/r?ammem/mussm:@field(NUMBER+@band(sm1848+431920)) http://memory.loc.gov/cgi- bin/query/r?ammem/mussm:@field(NUMBER+@band(sm1848+431920)) http://memory.loc.gov/cgi- bin/query/r?ammem/mussm:@field(NUMBER+@band(sm1848+431920))

18. Well, hey, that’s just the way it is. Some things will never change…… http://www.powerpictures.4t.com/NewFiles/tupac_shakur.jpg

19. Use your music analysis sheets and compare the two songs.