"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.