My poems for this week juxtapose the language of Trump’s 2018 Federal Budget with the Sequoia National Park text I’ve been using. Because the federal budget is not a text I enjoy engaging with and we learned natural language processing tools, I thought it might be interesting to use these new tools to decipher it. I found it as a PDF: I tried using PDFMiner & Slate but ended up using pyPdf to convert it to text.
Considering there have been a number of controversies around the current White House administration and the Parks Department, I became curious about using the National Parks text, specifically (and considering I’m familiar with it). I tried combining the two texts in different ways and finally found what I thought was a compelling way to show the different priorities, values, and kind of patriotism exhibited in both (final code), while also analyzing the similarities.
I couldn’t find Ibex Meadow but I did find Horseshoe Meadow, Lone Pine, California.
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