This is the text I am going to be comparing using Arola Ball's multimodality. The different types of modes they use and how they use them. The reading has counter arguments about what people should be focusing on and fighting for. It also explains how people are understanding the meaning of the "pussyhat" and what it symbolizes.

Everyone has their own fights, but as they said earlier people should be fighting together not against one another or even ignoring one's problems. Just like the "pussyhat" is important to some people, it shouldn't be limited to just those people. It should include all types of people regardless of their gender, that seems like a better fight.

This is something that people should be focusing, since it actually forces people to do something they may not even be able to afford. It also denies their rights we cannot call this equality if we don't treat others as mere means instead of ends in themselves.

What he said was a big issues to everyone but did the "pussyhat" really help solve the problem. Regardless of the hat I don't think he will change I do think spreading awareness was a good thing to help people understand the struggles but the hat is causing all sorts of controversy for others.

We continue to worry about how things are not safe but in general there is nothing safe at all. Violence and people becoming homeless are bigger issues but we are so concerned with trying to make a safe place that we forget that even if we have a safe place people will still be homeless this doesn't solve any of the bigger issues.

This is a use of visual mode and it's because people find that instead of using aural and linguistic mode they find more comfort in visuals. Which is a bad thing that means that things will never get done because people are so obsessed with things being symbolized rather than just focusing on their original purpose.

The hat symbolizes what they should be doing fighting for their freedom and rights. Their actions does show that they are serious about what they want to stand up for rather than making a hat. According to Arola this hat uses the mode gestural, spatial and affordance. Gestural is their body and interaction between people because of this hat. Spatial is the way the hat was designed. And affordances is the strengths and weaknesses of media and modes.These are influenced by the modes.

It shows that Americans don't focus on the bigger picture and only care about the small issues that pop up here and there. What should be important is the long time problems, things like immigrants and refugees is what we should be focusing on at the moment rather than the "pussyhat".

It apparent that the "pussyhat" shouldn't be as important as it is. Due to the fact that they are definitely bigger problems we are facing. Being disrespected is wrong of course, but if you are being murdered and are homeless is this really something that we should be thinking about at the moment. It should be something that comes after all the bigger problems are fixed.

The hat was meant to be a symbol for everyone who has been disrespected or treated as if they should be a certain way.

This hat and word uses two multimodality modes which are linguistic and visual. The linguistic part is called it a "pussyhat" which they are hoping to show people that they are proud of who they are and don't care about how others think of them. The visual part was using the color pink and making the hat with cat ears, which symbolizes femininity to some people, it also shows the same that they don't care what anyone thinks.

There are five modes of communication that people use on a daily basis.

Anything that has to do with communication is multimodal.

Multimodal is basically just several different ways of communicating

It's a great idea to have the full quilt but it would have been nicer if you had a full image of the panel too I was sort of confused as to where the panel was in the beginning. The more pictures the better.

You could also talk about the different types of patterns and shapes you see. Maybe what they they mean or even if they made it like this for abstract reasons, or because Ray Crude was an artist.

You could also try to explain what's happening in the picture more like what are they holding in their hands where does it seem like they are, maybe you could try to find out when the picture looks like it was taken.

I liked how you went in depth into the NAMES Project and what they do as well as gave an example of another one of their quilts. That's how it should be for your pictures go into as much info as you can. Background information about objects and things help too.

Maybe take a closer picture of the boots and cowboy hat, also there's like a white box with blue boarder it looks like it says something but I cannot tell. Not sure if you talked about it either but you should take a closer picture of it as well. It'd be better if you took more pictures of all the objects so we can see, people with bad eye sight such as myself would have a hard time looking at the pictures.

You should take a closer picture of all the organizations cause I'd love to read it myself.

The panel itself is about Ray Crude then who is Tommy Ray? Is there any infomration about I'd love to know why his name was also listed. Maybe he was apart of the trio.

You could try to go more in depth with them, like see if they were popular back in the day or even known at all. That'd be pretty interesting if it was an actual band that played at different kinds of places.

This picture is blurry I think it would be best to retake it so we can see what's within the picture better.

Here is an example of a group of people that used them in a day to day basis, but turned them into a weapon so that they could be free.

The machete wasn't just used in American it was used all across the word, but it was interpreted differently by other cultures.

If historians found this weapon they would be able to understand that it was definitely used for so many other things and will continue to be apart of our culture.

A machete was originally used by farmers and/or slaves, as well as a toy for children. But we can definitely see that it was apart of a culture.

It's so easy to percieve things as a weapon no matter what it is, this just assumes that a shovel can also be a weapon.

If we compare this to "What Is a Machete, Anyway" we can see that this explains that things we observe we try to understand their function and then give it a different description.

It is true that we study an object based on it's structure but I also believe that we study it based on what it is used for.

Not only do we describe an item by it's culture by also how it is said to be signified which can go in so many different ways.

People who study Material Culture are trying to understand the object and what makes it so significant to the culture and/or person. It could be interpreted in so many different ways as well.

It's amazing that even we all look and examine the same item and give a item description of the item and where it comes from they are all not likely to be the same each other

This would be another example as to how the machete changed from being a tool to a weapon of revolution. As we can see it probably the most picked up weapon when it came to defending themselves if they didn't have a gun. You also see this in movies as well the first thing they would have picked up would be the machete probably because of it's size gives a good distance,

I think because of who used to use it like slaves etc it changed from being a tool to a weapon so that they could defend themselves. And I believe that this will forever be a long discussion about whether it is a tool or a weapon, but not only machete I'm sure there is several tools that are used as weapon that we can not understand whether it is a tool or a weapon.

It's so interesting how we can percieve anything as a weapon, even if we use it as a daily tool. But in my opinion although the machete is a tool used in farming, it is more of a weapon when used aggressively. But you can say that with anything no matter what it is. If it's held with aggression and anger then it's automatically considered a weapon.

It is amazing how one simple machine could have changed the world forever. Designed to help us be able to watch motion pictures, but now it is just scrap. But even though it is no longer being made it is still helping to shape the world. People are still trying to find ways to reuse and recycle it. But it is extremely hazardous to the environment.

It's a beautiful scenery from the moon. It must have been a long journey from them. Also this was the first time that they ever got to see what earth looks like from the moon. This probably answered their questions to whether the earth is flat or not.

The U.S Marine is trying his best to attempt to save his friend during this war. It looks like his friend is not only severely wounded but he is also unconscious.

It's a beautiful scenery and yet there is a lot of helicopters coming in to rescue someone.

The photo is solely focused on him, he has a blank stare like he's tired of all this.

A bunch of African Americans marching but there is one who doesn't have a sign, and he is the only one of his race there.