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.