i forgot about breast cancer! response to that

ok so the poor woamn just wants advice from her ma and pa and all this stuff starts. i can understand why too. i guess not having real boobs is a drawback, but shes guaranteed to be less likely to die and she is willing to give them up. its interesting though because if there was no way to tell she had the gene thing for cancer like in her moms day her life would have been different. just like her mom said she didnt know and she got married and had kids and then got surgery. she doesnt want her daughter to miss out on Gods gifts. i mean its a mix of paranoia and precaution. she will still be able to have kids. she just cant give her nutrients to them.

it also reminds me of song of solomon by toni morrison. i guess im twisting the situation around a bit. in the book this weird woman gets pleasure form breast feedin her son so she feeds him that way till he's like 8! the point is that how bad can it be not do feed ur kids this way. the moms all like that was a big part of raising kids and how she enjoyed it so much. i was like eeeeww!!

it basically seemed that some people valued the womans life while others valued......eh.....uh.....? anyway they thought she should not get the surgery and keep herself at greater risk for the chance of raising kids "normally".

in the end it made me thank God that the cancer gene is not in my family...i know it sounds like im a selfish bum...but it reminds me theres always somthing to be thankful for.....8)

the last 1.......--->im a bad writier?

when i saw the options for this paper immediately i knew i wanted to write about the hsitory of these body modifications we talked about. i didnt know which ones nor how i would get enough info about any of them to write 4-6 pages

i talked to ms farrugia and she said how theres tons of info available on the origins of mnay of these practices we discussed. that was the good part. so i went to the library to find books. i found one on tattooing and its associating community, corsets and their origin and finally some random book on body modification practices today around the world. everything terribly interestng.

the worst part began: searching through the books trying to find things i could use, things that said where the practices came from, when they came to america and how we changed them as americans. number one: i suck at research. number two: i suck at researching, and number three: researching things is not my forte, especially in books. im having a great time learning about all these things but im having a terrible time writing the paper. and i dont want to ask ms farrugia for help because my topic is so vague shed end up making the topic for me. unfortuately im running out of time and im going to have to ask for her help if i cant get this done.

it doesnt help that im such a mediocre(bad spellers of the world untie!) writer

just figured id "vent" or whatever...hope no one reads this lol

response to liz

go her to se what im responding to

so i agree completely with lizs argument about meme crazy roth: she shouldnot be saying anything like the things shes saying if she wants anyone else to join her in the fight against obesity. i just want to know who told her she could talk like that....i mean if shes been moving up the ladder and getting on tv didnt anyone tell her how to behave?! i also agree with liz when she says the things she said in the video were juvenile. it was pathetic. i suck at public speaking and debates so the only thing i can think of is that she sucks too. she just ran out of things to say because of bad research or not enough of it so she just said whatever. if i went on tv and started bashing gays or anarexics and saying all i see when i see them is aids and diseases that result from anarexia you dont think people would throw a fit & curse me out, be on my door step with a bat for 2 days straight?! yea right. i understand my example is a bit extreme, but the point is she should know better. shes a grown behind woman for crying out loud.....what is this world coming to......

ill tell you...............................

an end!

p.s.-dont you love the morbid ending?

response to good-limb amputations

yea...as i said i dont know what to think of it. its just sooo unheard of...sooooo out of the norm of the majorital society (i might be making up words...) but me and my Christian values are always getting in the way of looking at situations objectively. i say God gave you that body with the right amount of limbs or not for a reason. if you were born with all your limbs it could be because youre meant to do something only a whole properly functioning body can do & talk to someone about something that can save their life and the lives of all their relatives. you say im a nutcase but anything can happen/ anything is possible. the point is if you get something amputated that rules you out for that amazing purpose of saving lives and God might find someone else to do it...or he might allow those people to be lost because you were the only one He chose for that purpose...it seems hard to understand for people who dont believe in Him. i guess in that way its a sin because were accusing God of making a mistake when he made us. i know its psycological but there has to be a root where all this type of thinking begins......im frustrated

better response to visibly queer

i just have a quick question: it says that some guy said that homosexuals have 2 spirits ....and that straight people only have 1/2?!?!?!? what is this bafoonery?!?!? even if i wasnt a Christian... thats demeaning to me. whats he trying to say: youre not whole if youre straight!? or if youre not straight your better off?!? why does one need 2 spirits ANYWAY!?!?!?!? as you may be able to tell im a little p.o.ed. its all good though because ill never meet this man...even if i did i wouldnt say/do anything to him.. i would just ...i dont know...it just makes me mad because people are always saying how homosexuals etc are looked down on and treated differently....WAY TO STOOP TO "OUR LEVEL"!!!!!! technically speaking you could argue that its their turn to vent because of all the discrimination etc....but thats what i look down upon....it so immature....but w/e im just andgry i guess...

rsponse to danielle

im reponding to danielles thing....

so she saying its up to them what they want to do with their bodies.....this is where im different...again. i guess almost everyone would agree with danielle, but i guess i cant just because i worry about people too much. i know what happens at the end of this life and its a tragic ending for many people because of the things we do in this life. im not saying anyone is perfect and i know im far from perfect, not am i saying putting silicone in your body is a sin and that you go to hell for it. i just dont know whether you can go to hell for it or not, thats why i just advise against it. it sound crazy but if people want to be complete and fill voids and what not God want to do it - hes the ultimate void filler upper. whats more, whether all this stuff is "sin" or not if someone does it and theyre still looking for completion...GOD IS STILL THERE!!! im not trying to convert people im just sayin try Him out...

but on a lighter note...
if thats the way they want to go about finding completion it is obviously up to them: im not gonna go up to someone and stop them mid-surgery.....thats foolishness...it is interesting to see how far/fast technology has taken us..the best part is this has been happening in the US and i never even knew!! it could be that im just slow and not up on current events...............

response to the vicky one

yea so i'm not used to these kinds of discussions mainly because people usually avoid talking about homosexuals/transgender etc. around me...they kno itll end badly. i guess i can tell you why, considering i can write about anything i want: as a Christian, i firmly am against homosexuality and all the things this piece is about, basically. (people are usually fuming by now.) i am a believer in the Bible because its God's Word....im willing to talk about any of these things if you want to! anyway it says in the Bible that these practices are strictly prohibited because they were done by pagan nations...this is hard to understand if you dont see anything wrong with other religions. the bottom line is God made us the way we were supposed to be made...He made no mistakes b/c Hes God. people who "change" genders are decieved by the devil into thinking they were made wrong. in that ways its just like every other temptation: we have to resist....i obviously could go on and on and on and on....but i wont

im supposed to be talking about the piece in this response...its a good writing structure....she took a lot of quotes and made it seem we were talking directly to the person in that respect....sorry if it seems im blowing it off..........*ill finish this sentence one day*

response to the critic

that show confused the heck out of me...at first i thought it was going to be like family guy and/or the simpsons...i cant really say whether or not this was the case because i dont watch either show really. but i saw the political jokes (bill clinton), and the jokes about celebrities (keaneu reeves, oprah!) then there was the reason we watched the show: weight issues. i understood the main concept that the kid lost weight and they only wanted him for his looks, but it just bothered me that i didnt get all the little stupid random things in between...o well

until net time!!!!

response to MEME?!?!

She has good intentions. America is probably one of the "fattest countries" in the world, and were wasteful among other things. It's really just the fact that she focused so bluntly on one person.

In one sense Jordin Sparks should be proud because she got to where she was in spite of or, with the help of her size. Because she's not insanely large, she really shouldn't be ashamed of anything beacuse we dont know what her home situation is like. we dont know what her life is like. on the other hand from the third party perspective, she looks like she could be healthier if she was just a little more careful. but oncea gain who am i to say that?! it could be in the genes i dont know dangit!!!!

i bet there are people who want to support the cause of miss meme dobson here, but nobody wants to follow someone who puts people down...unless they can look past all her foolishness to the fact that she wants to help people who struggle with weight problems.

response to fair/lovely

it goes to show black people arent the only one that are having these problems. i knew that wasnt true from the jump but there was a time, sadly, when i did think that all indians looked the same. asians looked the same to me a while ago as well. im glad ive grown out of these generalizations because i realize how offensive they are.

its just sad that there is the universal desire to be light skinned. i know black people got this notion from being enslaved, but where do asian and indian people get it from? i should do some research...

respose tp the ritual by valerie boyd

this one was different but the same as the "hairpeace". its the same because boyd is still saying to be proud to be black and we worry about hair too much but she decided to take it a different direction with all the funk and james brown and slavery so thats how it differs. even though it has the same general concept as the first one, it was harder for me to relate to this one, nor did i enjoy it as much. i know no one in this class thinks this way: but im not required to like every piece on black people....i just wanted to say that to be stereotypical by being unstereotypical....it didnt even have too much to do with this reponse.

her writing style wasn't as enjoyable either...i didnt like the random slang/ebonics. it was kind of cheesy to me.

anyway...i do know a girl whos hair would take the whole day if there were no salons.

but through both these essays and in my little life experiences, i know that hair does mean a lot, and not just to black people. most poeple want what they can't have. thats why weaves were invented. i used to think that only black women used weaves but many celebrities who are other races use weaves too. thats why we have flat irons and chemicals for straightening and curling hair. the list goes on. there will forever be ways to get your hair close to what you want it to look like, but rarely is amyone satisfied with the finished product. its a funny thing you know.

response to hairpeace by pearl c

well...i really enjoyed this one...i guess because i could relate but that sounds so stereotypical...but its true. anyway it was hilarious because even though ive never slowdanced with a boy on a hot detroit night and had my hair sweat out, i can understand how bad that could be. also when i was younger my sisters used to say i had the good hair all the time just because it grew the fastest. i never knew what to say because i thought i had the good hair too, after a while. i also remember getting my hair straightened with a flat iron for the first time. it was nothing like i imagined. there were no chemicals so it was starighter than usual but still poofy. i realized i should just wait for the relaxer. i got my first one when i was in 10th grade, and i felt like such a woman! my mom no longer had to spend the 20 minutes to half hour on my hair and i could do whatever i wanted, and it blew in the wind!! this was too much for me to handle. now i wish i could go back to braids sometimes because i love braiding. it requires a creativity and skill that im just beginning to develope. so yea

i loved the style of writing also. it was simple and quite blunt, which im okay with. it was funny how some of the sentences were a whole paragraph long, something sort of juvenile but it worked for her somehow.

response to kilbourne

it's amazing because i never thought about advertising like that. the messages started out subliminal but now they are much more blatant. there were a few times when i would see seductive obviously nasty advertisments and get grossed out. people thought i was being too Christian. i've never seen any of these ads before but i still dont think my reaction would have been drawing the conclusions she draws. the conclusion scared me "the advertisers are ready for her" like they're sharks or some other wild beasts waiting to eat her alive...like in the Bible "your enemy the devil walks around like a lion seekiang who he may devour" (I Peter 5:8) its so sad how her mind has been so twisted or that she interprets all this from advertisements...i'm by no means saying she's wrong...in fact, she reiterates her own point by her thinking changing so drastically. i'm sure she didn't always think like this, there must have been some occurance or realization to make her realize all this. but obviuosly i dont know. but that's why i'm so glad i know Jesus because he's the only hope this world has left. after all the objectifiying abuse and whatever else people go through the only poerson who can keep you sane is Jesus. he's always there form me to love and talk to. he's not going to objectify and subject women and men and children to any abuse or psychotic behavior. he's just awesome.

response to jjjoanna

i had a similar problem when trying to figure out what to write about. it was either going to be the chicken pox mark under my left eye, my second ear hole or my feet. now that i think about it, i could have done a lot with each of those but with the feet, it was easier to remember the memories than with the other two. and i never really thought about writing about my eyes, but now that you mention it, that might have been interesting. i feel the same way about hating them at first and being able to live with it in the end. ...i wonder if everyone who gets glasses hates them at first and accepts them later.

i responded to this posting....http://jjjoanna.blogspot.com/

writing about my feet

i had fun writing the essay. it was definitely awkward to say some of the descriptions that i always associated with feet though. writing helped me sort out the thoughts and the way i felt when all the situations were happening "so long ago". i know that there are people who are less fortunate than me and less (or more) toes, or have one foot, or no feet. it soudns really strange, i guess but it did make me realize how blessed i am to have both feet and the right amount of toes and all the muscles working properly. i really do need my feet to have fun go everywhere and live a full life. i almost feel bad beacause there are plenty of people who have just as fulfilling a life without parts of their body.

i guess people make the best of what they were given or they sulk and become depressed. i imagine it's easier to do the latter but i feel that no matter what we go through, catestrophic messes or diminuitive situations we must try with all we are to do the former.

response to brianne L aka brilista4

i never thought about it that way. but now that you mention it, our voice is a pretty important part of our lives and i'm not sure how i would handle having a stutter either. it seems that because i'm such a joking, never-take-anything-seriously kind of person, i'd find some way to cope with it. but one can only tell when the situation is in effect. i also have to agree with you in complementing hoagland for being so strong. just like walker and updike said kids are cruel, so i know that going to school in the earlier years (with even less control over the stutter, i imagine) must have been challenging. but that's why his story is so great to me: he still became a huge success. and, like we discussed in class i feel a little guilty for crying over the petty things that get in my way and for those days that i have such a lack of motivation. its good to be taught a lesson.

i'm responding to this article -~->http://brilista4.blogspot.com/

response to ed. hoagland

i enjoyed Hoagland's piece very much. i felt like i could read more of his work if the opportunity arose. anyway, i do know a few people who stutter and i could empathize with what he was saying. i loved the line in the beginning about people who think they can calm someone down in order to stop the stuttering. in some cases this is true, but it would only be temporary and it doesn't help everyone. it was also pretty funny/strange that he's a genius because one of the people who stuttered graduated from my high school a year ahead of me was also brilliant and also went to an "ivy league" school. hoagland is eloquent on paper, and i'm quite sure he is in person, just like my older friend. even with a stutter, the high schooler would stand up and speak in a crowd & he always had great insight on whatever topic we were discussing. i'm not saying that all people who stutter are insanely smart or not, i'm just reemphasizng the fact that a stutter is exactly what is it and nothing more: a stutter. it potentially has no effect on the well-being of a students academic career, or his/her ability to get a job. even though on the other side of that, you can be the smartest in the world, but there are still peope who judge by those standards, and therefore, there is no guarantee that you will get the job, but neither is anyone else technically speaking....this could go on for a while.....

response to alice walker

i enjoyed the story very much. the vignette format was far more interesting than if she had just written the accounts straight through. another thing that made it interesting was the way she ended it with her daughter and the dream. when she mentioned that her daughter was staring, i either thought she would not say anything or say something cute and cheerful about it (which might be a silly thought).

but i did think it was weird that no one told her the truth about how she'd changed. my guess is that they didn't notice for real, or they just acted like they didn't notice so they wouldn't make her feel bad. but i just don't understand why they'd pretend like that. i think she would have felt the same about herself, or maybe even tried to change it.

but the worst part about it all to me was how her and her brothers kept up with the lie, even after she was older. i know i would have told eventually, especially since the lie made her seem like the idiot who blinded herself for life. no way