"the Wating Room"

Recently in class we read “ The Waiting Room” by Lisa Loomer. Lisa Loomer uses three different characters, from three different nations, and three different time periods. She discusses all of the pain, and trouble they go through to become beautiful.

In this script Lisa Loomer starts out by informing the audience about the patients problems. All of there problems are due to there struggle to make themselves look beautiful. You could tell that the script was informing people about the dangers of conforming to society’s image of beauty. All of the patients in the waiting room conformed to what they thought was beauty and ended up regretting or suffering from there decision.

Victoria was one of the three Maine characters in this script. She was supposed to represent the 1800 English civilization. She wore a corset and the corset was crushing here organs and her ovaries. Since the corset was crushing her ovaries her hormones where going crazy. She eventually got her ovaries taken out. The sad thing about Victoria is that she did not really change throughout her whole experience. She still wore her corset after her surgery.

Forgiveness was a very depressing and insecure character in this script. At an early age in her life she got her feet bound because that is what her asian society thought was beautiful. Her husband has five wives and has complete control over her life. The feet binding ended up giving her gangrene and she was losing her toes. She was a character that really evolved from the beginning of the script. She did not take her bindings off her feat tell the end of the play because she wanted her husband to think she was beautiful. But at the end you could tell she was starting to think more independently and took her bindings off.

Wanda was by far the most evolved character in the script. She started out as a sassy girl from modern New Jersey who had allot of surgery to make herself look beautiful. She thought that implants and lipo suction would make her more beautiful and that the only way to get married by forty is by looking beautiful. Later on you find that she has breast cancer. She then realizes that she lived her whole life changing her body to look pleasing in a mans eye. She then turns into herself. In the end of the script she states that she will start living life her way.

There were two other characters in this play named Ken and Larry. They both were greedy men who worked for the pharmaceutical business. They were both debating on weather they should use Carson serum to treat cancer. They were going to try and use Carson serum to make business even if it didn’t work. Lisa Loomer was trying to discuss how corrupt the pharmaceutical company is.

The ending to this play was great. It was kind of a cliffhanger. She left you with the idea that Wanda and Forgiveness liberated themselves from society image of beauty. She did not leave you with the since that they will live happily ever after but she left you with a happy and important morale and idea of what was going to happen after her ending.
I think the ending was trying to make you rethink on your personal idea of beauty instead of societies.

Purdue fairy tail reflection.

This was a very interesting article that i look forward to discussing in a Socratic seminar. The article was written in a way that any reader could understand. this article also had allot of facts in it that supports there subject. There article also made me put the pieces together that this is where the unhealthy eating habits and the fashion trend starts. It starts from little girls or in some cases guys wanting to be handsome or beautiful princess/princes i think that later girls start realizing that they cant be princesses and try and make themselves become more beautifully. This has to be one of the most interesting and eye opening articles i have read this year.

Fat and Beuty Reading and Socratic Seminar Review

I think that the article about beauty in the eye of the beholder was my favorite. It really made me think allot about how the western culture was the kingpin of fashion and media. The article not only explains about how much the world is affected by fashion and the western media, but it explains how much fashion has it’s affect on more cultural parts of the world. Like for example “In areas of Nigeria, brides-to-be are sent to "fattening houses" so that they may look plump, and thus beautiful, on their wedding day.” I think that in areas that are very pore and tribal people don’t have the opportunities to read magazines or watch television. Also I think that have tried to turn beauty into wealth. I think that fat in Nigeria means wealthy, fertile, and can afford food.
I really wish that I had a better vocabulary for this article. I really can’t understand allot of the important topics because I can’t understand the words in them. I know that what the article was trying to explain was about the pros and the cons of fatty and low fat foods where. I also think that the article was trying to explain about how people that eat low fat foods aren’t necessarily thinner than people who eat fast food every day. I really think that is true. I also recently had to lose weight for football and I noticed that healthy foods weren’t the trick. I ate healthy foods anyways because I needed to get my body healthy, but the weight lose personally metered on my portion sizes. Also people who are really skinny are usually that way because of there genes and how there body processes food. My body doesn’t process food as fast as others.
I was not a big fan of the Socratic seminars that took place on both of these topics. I think that I personally did a poor job and couldn’t get my true message out in an articulate form. I also don’t see were we go with these seminars that are so big. How the heck are we supposed to find a global resolution to the medias sick message of how people need to dress. How is a class that couldn’t even agree on one supposed to make a resolution that change 6 billion peoples minds. I like the seminars but I think that we are getting to big with are subjects. I am not Socrates I cant figure out resolutions to global issues. That’s why there global issues because no one can solve them.

Women In Ancient Greece

I think that women in Sparta had it allot easier than women in Greece. Both countries where only using women for reproduction but spartan women did have more rights than Greek women. Spartan womens parents usually arranged the wedding, and the age they were supposed to get married at was 18. Women in Sparta also are aloud to own property, dress freely, and get a good mental and physical eduction. Women in Greece who were married had to obey there husbands order, they wern't aloud to leave the house or meat any male inside the house unless supervised by their husband. The reason why I think that Spartan Women and Greek women are so different is because Greek women were supposed to populate and raise there kids until marrying age. Spartan mothers where to raise healthy and strong kids untill the kids are seven and forced to live and serve in the spartan military. i think that since Spartan mothers didn't have so much responsibility they did not need to be kept under such strict rules.

I think that role of womens freedom had no affect on how advanced there country was. I think that there creations and discoveries could have been created by men and men only. Since women have liberty these days it makes are coubtrie allot more advanced than ancient Greece.

vocab qiuz

Hearing the mesmeric but sad storey of how girls in mali bleach there skin white because it makes them feel beutiful, is pretty sad. Some people who dont bleach there skin in Mali are considerd second class citizens and are sometimes not alloud to enter baptisims and asked to leave group photos. African's who try and bleach there skin white is solacious to me. They put ther selves in pain and in risk of cancer by bleaching there skin. the more white there skin is the more ebullient and weakthy they feel. Black skin and bleach dont really mix, the bleach just makes there skin look pallid. Over half the women in mali are using bleach, there are over 100 types of bleach that they use and the cheaper bleaches are more lickleyy to give you cancer. In no way is this cream salubrious, all it does is make women uglier and unhealthy.

Amazing comercial

Wow this add was one of the most powerful adds that i have ever seen. i was grossed out and amazed on the way they fast forwarded the commercials, to the scale, to the surgery. I also really liked the closing sentence 'talk to your daughter before the media does" because that is actually the only part of the commercial were they tell you what there message is but still it was more powerful than most messages where people just talk for 30 seconds. I think that there objective was to scare people out of listening the media by showing all the commercials, and surgerys. this commercial is strong because it representing a good point, and is unique from your average boring commercial.

socratic seminar

Today in class we had a socratic seminar. We talked about subjects such as fortitude prudent temporance and justace. I was not personally a big fan this socratic seminar because the subject were to huge. And during class i think student were trying to hard to impress ms. Golub by making the subjects bigger. This caused the class not to come up with universall trait. There were many good points brought up butt I often found myself very confused becuase the subjects were so huge. Some ideas brought up in the socratic seminar were forgivness, bravery, justace... I was so confused on how the way things esculated during the seminar. I think that those topics are to hard to seminar about because the subject is to braud. I believed that you cant forgive everything and there is a fine line between forgivible and non forgivible. I hope that next time we either get time to study for a socratic seminar or choose a smaller topic.

WELCOME TO MY WORLD OF THINKING! (A.K,A my Philosophy )

What is beautiful about youth? I believe that youth and adults are in envy of eatchothers roles in society. I look at youth like a bubble. It is a kind of funny bubble were most things are done for you. Everything is paid for you, most things are done for you, but in order to live in such a way you must follow the bubbles rules. The bubble is what makes us different from adults we don’t get to make our choices until we are ready to leave it, and enter the adult world. All that the bubble is trying to make you do is get you ready for your adult years by going to school and doing a couple choirs. What youth mostly doesn’t realize is how easy we have it. We don’t have to take complete care of ourselves, pay for our self, or feed ourselves. We also don’t realize that when we hit twenty we cant party all night every night, we have to go to bed early and wake up early for work. They do there own taxes, work long hard hours for money, take care of there kids. The ironic thing about adults is that they ground themselves in a way. They aren’t having fun everyday and if they do they could risk losing there job, there house, there money. They have added the responsibility of parenting themselves witch is allot harder than being parented. I am just a kid I am not an expert on adulthood. What I am saying is just my own common since. My Message is that I know many adults who wish that they didn’t take there youth for granite, when it is in every kids nature to.

What is perfect? Perfect generally to me means when expectations are exceeded. Perfect to me can fit into every emotion except depression, sadness, anger or envy. To me perfect is when I am happy or in a above average mood. If I was having a good time with my friends with no problems on my mind I would consider that perfect. If my emotions are above what they are normally than my mind is above my abilities or control(perfect). I say that last sentence because I can’t make myself happy and I admit I can’t control my mind but if my mind does that my mind is beyond me and that is perfect.

WHAT I THINK IS BEAUTIFULL

I believe that this picture is beautiful for many reasons. Personally I love snow. I wish I could live some where when it snows in the winter. I love snow ball fights and skiing. For some weird reason when I go to visit snowy places I hate it when there is an inch of ground that isn't covered by snow. This picture is so beautiful to me because there is no dirt or ground showing, and everything is layered with snow. This picture makes me Think of all the fun things that I could be doing if I was there. I also take into mind the bright blue clear sky and the sun that brightens up the snow to make the mountain and the snow stand out more.







This Picture does not need a good quality for it to be beautiful. To me beauty cant just be how nice the quality of the picture is or how pleasing whats in the picture is to the eye. In order for me to consider something beautiful it must make an affect on me in a way that makes me want to physically be there and if am already there it must be something that makes me exited, or makes me feel an emotion that is unique. so when I look at this picture I think of my friends and us jumping off the top of the arch and having a good time. It makes me think about a place I want to live near there when I grow up. It makes me think and laugh when I used to show up to the arch and watch all my friends get busted and fined by the lifeguards for jumping off it. It makes me feel interested unique, and happy when nature itself created this arch and we have more fun than ever jumping off it than anything that is fun and costs money.






Now the person in this picture(Jessica Alba) I have not physically meet. But the details in this picture make me want to meat this person. Her blond hair tan body and pretty face... Physically attract me and make me think that if i had allot of game we could have a good time together. So this picture makes me feel mentally interested and inspires me to physically hang out with her some day. Like I said in my last picture the picture can not just have good quality and look pleasing to the eye. you may confuse me as a hypocrite because the object of the picture was to represent both of those subjects. But since this picture physically makes me want to be on that beech with that girl wearing that bikini it is in my mind considered beautiful. And I agree that in the long run beauty is in the eye of the beholder.