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.