Reflection

Doing this class blog has really been fun and interesting to do. The blog allows others as well as myself, to expand our voice and learn about other people and their ideas. It was fun creating the whole blog because you could make it the way you wanted to by choosing a background, your font, format, and style of writing. It really expressed who I am as an individual and it showed people who I am as well. I also liked how you can comment on other people's blogs. It gives great feedback to people, and gives them constructive complements on their work. When people do this, it really makes me and I'm sure others, feel good and inspired by the  work they've done, and promotes them to keep up the good work.  I would definitely do another blog if I got the chance to. It was a really great experience.

Obsessions with Women In The Media

Now days in the media, women are brain-washed into wanting to look like celebrities and have a perfect, sexy image.   This is conducted by the way media advertises women, by giving an image that is false by photo shopping, stray tans, and computerized touch ups.  The media has convinced women in believing that they could be beautiful and sexy with the styles that famous women advertise, in which are pretty pricy,  when in reality, women are just as beautiful as being themselves.  Women are so obsessed by what they look like, they start feeling that they have to raise their standards, and look like the women in the media in order to feel pretty and beautiful. My best friend is a hair dresser and she  told me about all the women who constantly come in with pictures of women from the media, such as famous people, and they ask her to do their hair like the picture they brought in. So I went into my friends work and watched and analyzed the women that came in for appointments. For the whole day that I was there, 5 out of 7 clients brought a picture that was from a magazine or off the internet of a women they didn't know. The clients got good results, so they are repeatedly drawn back into the cycle of looking like women from the media and getting their look, when in reality it was the hair dresser who created the outcome of beautiful hair, not the picture.  This just really shocked me because they wanted to look like the women that the media advertised, but didn't want to have their own voice in the way they looked. This just really showed me how much of an impact advertising really has on people. Advertising takes away originality from people and limits the creativity a person can have on their own, by making women believe they have to look like a certain image in order to feel beautiful and accepted.

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Secret Life Of Bees

 On the last page of S.L.O.B, page 302, Lily says, " This is the autumn of wonders, yet every day, every single day, I go back to that burned afternoon in August when T-Ray left. I go back to that one moment when I stood in the driveway with small rocks and clumps of dirt around my feet and looked back at the porch. And there they were. All these mothers. I have more mothers than any eight girls off the street. They are the moons shinning over me."  When Lily says this, you can really feel the struggles she went through and the outcome of happiness she now lives. Throughout the whole book Lily has pain and mourn in her heart for her mother, and the author uses bees as a metaphor to express how much having a mother, or " queen bee" is important to her. She has Rosaleen, August and her sisters who love and care for her. Even though Lily's mother is dead, you can tell she feels close to her when she stays with August, June, and May, because August took care of her mother when she was little. This quote also holds an event from the book where T-Ray lets Lily go and stay with the three sisters. It shows that he really does care about Lily, even though he would never show it. She is with people she can love and grow with and she is truly happy.

" Is Harry Potter Evil? "

In this Essay by Judy Blume, she talks about how now days famous children books are being banished for the most absurd reasons. People these days are so concerned about the content that books hold. They bash some of the greatest books that really told an important message or that brought imagination to children. It's crazy! Why are children not allowed to imagine. For example in this essay where they banned Harry Potter because of its witchcraft and wizard content. What if one of those books, from all the books that they've banned, saved someone's life, or even inspired them? What is the harm in that? I think that if a parent doesn't want their child to read something, then that's ok, don't have them read it, but don't take really good books away from other children that could benefit from them.

" Yahoo Says Americans Work Too Much"

In this essay by Jason Lee Miller, I strongly agree with the author when he says that you should seperate your at home life and your work life. When you work, you should do a good job and call it a day. People are gone from their families all the time because they're working, and they come home from work ready to work some more. It's absolutely crazy. Spend the time that you have with your family to bond more and have the time to do family things. Not hop on your iphone or computer and check your emails for work. Life goes by fast, and people don't realize that they are missing out on their families, friends, and not to mention the time to rejuvenate their body. It just seems crazy to me that people would rather work more than spend the time at home with their family or friends. How can Americans be more happy working more than taking time to relax with the people they love?  We're NOT ROBOTS PEOPLE! We're not programmed to work every second of our lives. Know the limits from work and your at home life and spend time with the people around you, because they won't be there forever.

Movie Review

The Notebook is a 2004 romantic dram film directed by Nick Cassavetes, based on the novel by Nicholas Sparks . The film stars Ryan Gosling and Racheal McAdams as a young couple who fall in love during the early 1940s. Their story is narrated from the present day by an elderly man played by James Garner. Im sure that many of you have already seen this movie. It is my absolute all time movie favorite! I love this movie because the story is just so touching, and truly expresses the value of ever lasting love. The message that stood out to me was that if you love someone, then never give up trying. This message was important because throught the whole movie it expressed how even though Allie ( Racheal McAdams) moved away and was with another man, Noah (Ryan Gosling) still tried to show her that she was happier and was her true self with him.  And after all those years, he still never gave up on her. This movie is very sad, because after all those years together, Allie develops Alzhimers and Noah reads her the story everyday so that she'll come back to him. It is the best romance movies of all time!! So if you haven't seen it....Go rent it!!!

Cartoon Analysis Compare & Contrast

I found this cartoon on the inernet and I am comparing and contrasting it to the cartoon on page 172 of "What Materrs in America" in which I could not find online to display. Both of the cartoons are media and technology related. This cartoon expreses how teens are so addicted to facebook and social netorks and a broader idea, media. In the other cartoon, it's expressing how violence in the media affects people, and how it adds "fear" to peoples lives. Both of the comics were done by Jerry Scott and Jim Borgman based on the comic Zits, and shows how media has an impact on peoples lives in a negative way.