Illness

A topic we discussed in class was about illnesses. It was said that when you have an illness that causes treatment you look at your body different. Now I can not really say yes that is true or no that isn’t, but I feel like if I did have a disease I would try my hardest not to let it effect my life and who am I. You were the same person before the disease so why can’t you find it in you to be the same without? Both set of my grandparents (from my mom’s side and from my dads) have diabetes, and my grandma on my dads side says she still feels the same, she just knows that she has to give herself a shot and watch what she eats! I think there are still ways to do things the way you use to do it before you got your illness. I mean there are people in wheelchairs that will never be able to walk again, but they don’t let that stop them from going out and playing sports. In middle school I was on the basketball team, and for a rec. thing we played basketball in wheelchairs against kids that really had to be in wheelchairs. They were so excited to play and they were really fast to. They were also really good. So I don’t think an illness should keep you from feeling like yourself, its just another obstacle that your facing in life.

So in class today the question of can intimacy be without touching? For older people are younger people. For me the answer is NO! Intimacy, especially in our culture is a big part of relationships. For example sex is a big intimacy trigger. People have sex for the pleasure yes, but it also makes one feel closer to their partner. Even if you wait along to have sex there are still ways of being intimate. For example kissing, holding hands, cuddling and all ways to show that you’re intimate with one another. If I had that boyfriend that wouldn’t like holding hands with me or kissing me I would feel no real connection to them. Yeah there is more than just kissing to a relationship, but that is one of the ways to feel closer to your boyfriend. Also with having sex (when you’re younger and maybe some older people) it is an exciting creative way to show intimacy toward that person. Now some older people don’t have sex, but they show they are intimate with one another just by a kiss. I feel like for them they have already done that young wild life already, so now they show their love in different ways.

12-2

In class we talked about going to the extreme of othering (judging) someone and it coming back to you that you may have in yourself. I necessarily do not really believe that. If I end up judging someone it is because what they are doing I can not stand, and If I can not stand it than why would I do it myself. For example if I am talking to a friend and she is not looking at me when I talk and then I ask her if she is listening and she says yes that really gets to me. So to get her back I may do the same thing to her if she is telling me something that is important I will do something else like txt on my phone or something just so she sees it does get annoying when you’re trying to tell someone something and it feels like they are not listening. But I do not see that kind of quality in myself.  There is only one example I see that concept agreeing with.  I really do not like fake people, although I do not consider myself a fake girl, in High School I sum what lived up to the standards. What I mean is that sometimes there were things in High School everyone wanted to do and I didn’t I still did them and didn’t speak up just because that was what everyone wanted to do.

11-11

Allison was a guest speaker we had today  in class. She mainly focused on the movie Startrek, and somewhat introduced it to us (especially the one's who have never seen Startrek before). There's something on Startrek called the board that's suppose to be about alien species that travel around the galaxy. The enterprise persues the board back into time. There's an African American female on there by the name of Lillie, which I guess she was the first to have an interracial kiss. But the show/movie tried to cover it up and that they weren't techniqually in their right mind. Lillies the type of woman that always saves the day. Which to me is kind of different becuase mostly at the ends of movies it's always the male who "saves the day", so I guess in that case Lillie and Ripley have something in common, because Ripley saved the day and everyone who was still alive lives. We also started to have a conversation on asian adoptations. We talked about how asian girls are the main ones being put up for adoption more than the asian boys, but the majority of asian population is male. I thought that was kind of different because in my Geology class we were talkin about how every Asian family wants a boy not a girl, but yet if you only have a couple of boys and more girls you have to have some kind of plan to pregnant them.

10-21-10

The assignment we had for today’s class was to start reading the book Deerskin. When I first started reading it I started to get a little confused on who was who. Then we went over it somewhat in class, and I understood it a little more. It was weird to see that some people just had the statue as their cover, and others had the face of the girl. Why do authors do that? Some people said that the cover of the girl symbolized how beautiful they portrayed her to be in the book. I think the cover with the statue and dog, showed that the dog was more important than anyone else in the book. I thought that because the dog was the main picture on that particular cover.  I felt bad for Lissar, that girl that got raped by her dad, not just because she got raped by her dad, but because she had to experience rape in general. No girl ever wants to experience that. Her dad’s a creep, because what father would actually think about doing that let alone to their own child? And then he just left her there all bloody. She should defiantly pay for what he did to that girl

Buffy vs Graceling

So the other day in class we watched Buffy, that was I think my first time ever seeing it, and probably my last. I'm not that big on shows that deal with super hero's fighting. It did resemble the book Graceling in many ways. Both of the main characters are young (Katsa younger than Buffy) and don't live the normal teenage/kid life. They both have to go out and protect the ones close to them by killing people/monsters. By them killing others shows they do have some maturity to them, because not a lot of people can truly kill someone just like that. They both just done kill for fun, they kill for a purpose. Katsa kills for the king, and Buffy killed to protect her friends and the other students at the dance. It was different seeing Buffy actually kill people, because in the book Graceling we kind of have to imagine Katsa killing people. This show is defiantly for low teenagers and maybe even some kids. When I was watching it I was like "really that's so fake looking". I really don't feel like Buffy is unhappy with her gift, or at least in the episode we watched it didn't seem that way. It more seemed like she was unhappy because her guy broke up with her right before the dance.

Gracelings

Today My group was the first group to present in the round table discussion. I thought it went good especially for us to be the first group to go. We basically just discussed the book, and what we felt about it. I was kinda surprised because I really didn't understand how we truly had to write discussion questions. I felt like one question will kind of just lead to another question randomly, and it kind of did. I think I over analyzed it for sure. I think people telling Katsa that she's beautiful in the long run will help her self-confidence, but she has to start believing she is first. Every girl has there weak moments where they feel unattractive, but we also have our moments where we feel so beauty. Whether we are wearing our favorite color, favorite or new pair of fly heels. Some girls it only takes make-up for the to feel attractive. I know I feel cuter when I'm all dolled up with make up on and my hair done. I also think people do have an effect on girls and they way they look. Society shows us that girls wearing make up is pretty. Even though now there are adds with girls and their "natural" look, but even that natural look I'm sure they still have some form of make up on their face. They also don't show girls in magazines with sweat pants on and their hair looking all wild. Beauty will also play a role.