Deadly Tattoos??

Studies have shown that tattoos have some costly effects. The F.D.A. has concerns for the people that get tattoos. Even though tattoos amaze me i think its atrophy to get a tattoo. The F.D.A. are behind on knowing what is getting permanently marked in your skin. The F.D.A. hasn't been making studies on the pigment that is being marked on our skin. The tattoo parlors who have been fabricating these pigments aren't scared to have the F.D.A. because they know that since they haven't been coming to inspect they're pigments. If the F.D.A. comes to inspect the tattoo parlors pigments the tattoo parlors might say the F.D.A. usurped they're pigments and they don't have any to make new pigments. The F.D.A. is very scrupulous about what is healthy and what is not. They are not always right about what they think is unhealthy. What i think is that tattoo parlors connive together and try to make they're healthier way of making tattoos but right know they have to use what they have. The F.D.A. has another concern about the pigment and that is were does it go after you get the tattoo? The wonder if your skin is capacious of holding the pigment and the ink? And what happens if they stay in the sun to long what would happen? It is still in my head where does it go?
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The Waiting Room(edited version)

What I think the key message in this play is to be happy with how you look. If you aren't happy with who you are then it leads you to harm your body with different ways to some how "Beautify" your body in which all you need is to be happy about how you look and don't harm your body for with comes a harmful price.

Some comments that Lisa Loomer talks about in the play is how people go through so much trouble just to get there body to look like some super model. People go through so much financial trouble to enhance they're body to make them more appealing to the other sex. Take for example a character in the play Brenda, a typical New Yorker who has so many fake body parts she doesn't know what is real. She has entered the waiting room to find out that she might have cancer. Brenda is a good example of how people go to the doctors office to see if its possible to get another implant. Which also touches on how people don't care about they're health when they get something fake in they're body.

In the play they're three characters one is a female lady named Victoria from the Victorian era and has problems with her ovaries and doesn't know either to get them taken out or not. Her husband made her think that she needed painful surgery to take out her ovaries but ends up getting a mild case of hysteria which ends up increasing and find out that they're is another way to get her ovaries removed without painful surgery. In other words Forgiveness from heaven is a eighteenth century Chinese woman who has entered the waiting room due to foot binding. Forgiveness' big and small toe have fallen off and is wanting to put them back in order to be beautiful to her husband of many wifes. Forgiveness's husband only wants Forgiveness because of her feet and he love the sexuality that he gets out of it. On another hand, Brenda is in the waiting room to find out what would happen if she gets on a plane with her implants instead she finds out that she has a possible chance of having cancer. All three of these women have three very difficult situations and starts thinking of what they’re husbands want. They end up doing what they thought was going to be the safest way to cure there problem.

In the play they're two meds that have two different ways to try and cure cancer. Larry was the guy who didn't care about the people’s health and wanted people with cancer to try the Carsons Serum. You can call Larry one of those peoples who just want to trick you out of your money and get famous by doing it. Ken on the other hand wants to try to cure cancer by this prescription medicine called INT-2. Ken and Larry have a confrontation about the serum that Larry wants people to start taking to see if it has any affects. Larry soon comes to find that he has cancer and is struggling to chose if he wants to take a risk and go for the Carson Serum or another treatment that he has heard of. The thing is Larry is Brenda's doctor and soon Larry finds out that she has cancer and offers her a treatment that is free and he doesn't take that offer and offers it to someone else.

According to me, Lisa Loomer did end the play how she did to get you wondering if one of the characters survive or however you want to put it. Lisa Loomer does get the message that she is trying to get out to the people who are reading this play and it really makes you wonder exactually how many people do this and it turns out to be a very high number.

Fairy tale BEAUTY?

You might think that beauty is only portrayed in only adult movies or commercials but if you think about it they portray it in fairy tales as well. To me i don't think the authors know about this but on the second thought they might. Think about it do people sell beauty products with fairy tale characters? Well they do and what the producer is trying to do is make little girls think that they could be as beautiful as the fairy tale character by selling make-up or glitter etc. Liz Grauerholz at the Western Illinois University was studying how beauty is written about in fairy tales and whether stories with beautiful princesses and more likely to be popular. And also said that "Fairy tales, which are still read by millions of American children, say it pays to be pretty." That there makes kids want to be more beautiful but they don't know what kind of price it comes with. Now kids just think that the price is money, but when it really symbolizes pain and suffering. What i think the fairy tale authors are doing is a really bad way of telling people to change i think that the authors should make the morale of the story to be that beauty is only in the inside not the out!

Socratic Seminar"Beauty or Fat?"

12/4/07

Well it comes quite interesting to me that most people in America want to be skinnier which leads to what i want to talk to you about. Did you know that America does have the fattiest people but the skinniest models? Well that was mentioned in our class discussion. What The morality of fat and what its doing to people know a days. And The globalization of beauty. Many people are pressured to do something when it comes down to beauty. Usually parents don't want they're children to put make-up etc. but children now a days are pressured to rebel and do what ever they're friends want them to do. The beauty industry to me just wants to sell products and will go and do anything to find out the new thing that might improve beauty. But what kids don't know they don't have to put on make-up just to make themselves look beautiful. I think people shouldn't go to an extent of damaging your body just to enhance beauty the natural beauty is inside you. The same goes to people who think they're to fat. People are force to think they're fat because of what the television thinks is beauty. But if you think about it back in the earlier ages people liked upset women instead of skinnier women because if you were some one that was upset mean that you can afford food but now it is the total opposite. My favorite quote from both articles was one was by a magazine editor and she says that "There is no one type-quite the opposite." To me that send a big message because she just basically siad that you don't have to want the same body as some one else because there is no one type of body.

Mali Women and Skin Bleaching

I have just read an article on Mali women and the concerns of them bleaching they're skin. To read this articles Click Here.

The epidemic in Mali is very bad the women in Mali are basically forced to want they're skin to be more pallid. Malian physician Dr Ali Gindo commented and was worried about the health and the pain that these women endure. Another reason why the women are bleaching they're skin is because the men in Mali like light skinned women. The doctor was more concerned for the poorer women because the women had problems with dowry. The reason why the why the doctor was concerned for them is because the cheaper the product is the worst it is. For women they become very salacious because other women have the whiter skin and thats why they bleach they're skin. Even though these women go through the most pain that they go through just for they can embellish themselves. This could be stopped only if we get what might be the consequences but the women have a mesmeric affect to this astonishing thing they do to they're skin. The doctors of Mali are in to making this insalubrious epidemic to make women not do this any more.

You Tube Commercial

This posting is reflecting on a You Tube commercial on Dove Onslaughter. to see the commercial Click Here.

My thoughts on why this commercial was made is to inform young girls and they're parents to talk with each other before the girls are taking over by tying to beautiful and doing this harmful stuff to your body. Now a days the beauty industries want to try and make young girls do things to make themselves look prettier when they don't need to. The beauty industry in my point of veiw portrays sex, lust, jealousy of another female, and competition to be the most beautiful girl or women. When I saw this video I was so shocked and worried to let my parents see and think I was watching some porn video. The thing that shocked me most is that women do get "hypnotized" by the beauty industry just to make themselves look prettier. I was shocked to see that women want to have what famous actors on tv have and to get that women would risk there body that your only giving once just for "FAKE" beauty. I would like you to take a look at the video and tell me what were your thoughts were on the video.

Socratic Seminar-Greek, and Virtues

I was really amazed how people in the seminar had to say about Ancient Greek rules and restrictions. I would probably say that most of the kids in the group had wondered why did they have those restrictions for the women as I do. We Came upon virtues and what types of virtues there were the big virtues that were talked about the most were Prudence (Knowledge), Fortitude (Bravery/Courage), Temperance (Moderation), and Justice (Fairness). The one that had the most disagreeing was Justice . The reason was because one student made a comment about revenge. He wanted to know if it was justice to kill the man who killed your father. A lot of people totally disagreed with the idea but is really got to some people because they had follow up questions that were like what do you do if someone just came running up with you with a knife would self defense be justice even though you killed the person? That question really got to me in all sorts of ways and i want you to answer that for me would that have been justice? I would love to hear what you have to say.

Athens Women vs. Spartan Women!

1. What i think about the roles that women of Athens is that what they categorized them in classes and when they were categorized they had restrictions on were they could be and were they could go. Another restriction i think was unfair was that Spartan women were married at age eighteen but didn't have a say which basically in a weird way that was better if they had no say in who they married. With women in Athens who were in the lower class or any class women they're fathers chose who they married but it wouldn't be a rich husband if the women was poor. Spartan women married at the age of eighteen because th Spartans' thought that if they marry at that age will mean stronger healthier babies and that women are emotionally stronger if they're young and married. But most of all women in Sparta had more chances to go out and had a lot of power and in comparison to women in Athens which they couldn't even leave the house if they were lower class and they couldn't enter any place at all.

2. I think that there were no gender equality because men around the world didn't believe in making unreasonable and responsible decisions. Many people might say it is because of the story of Adam and Eve and how because she didn't listen to Adam when he told her not to eat the forbidden fruit in which she did and thats when people think that gender equality wasn't applied. What i think is that men never trusted women making unreasonable and responsible choices which still goes on today.

3. How i think women in ancient greece was the naked women paintings over women paintings with there clothing on have two totally different aspects. No one has come to think why they either painted the women naked or with clothes. What i come to think the artist painted them a certain way is to put meaning to them. I think that artist who painted the women who are wearing clothes are actually supposed to resemble the poor women. It might seem that the women are wearing pretty nice clothes but to me it might resemble the poorness and the work that they are supposed to do. I think the artist who draws or sculpts women naked would resemble the beauty and how wealthy they were and how many things they were able to do.

Questions I have been asked.

1. What is so beautiful about youth?
Well when you are young you can do so many thing that you wouldn't be able to do when you are older. For example piercings it is best to get piercings when you are young because the company that you want to work for might not except it and there might be a chance that you won't be hired. The other beauty about being young is that you can have the chance to learn new things every day and not that many people take that in consideration and take it for granted. Think about it some of our parents didn't have the chance to study what we are studying right now so thats why what ever I am learning I am taking it in consideration and using that knowledge.


2. We know what "perfect" most likely means to Socrates by looking at ancient Greek sculpture and art and drawing inferences, but he doesn't describe this "perfect" human form. What are your thoughts on the idea of a "perfect" human form today? What is it in your culture for men? women? What are your thoughts surrounding those ideals?
Well it is different for both men and women, for men i would say that it would be strong, and intelligent. And for women it would be Beautiful, intelligent, and time manageable. What i don't like is that people use stereotypes and put people in categorize and i would love for people to describe people for who they are and not what category they should go in.

Is beauty in the eyes of the beholder...?

To me this is beauty because i just love harvest moons and how they reflect against a lake or any sort of body of water is gorgeous. What this symbolizes to me is peace and calmness. What i like most about this picture is because the moons reflection in the water looks like a bullet that has been fired from a gun and is about to hit the moon. I also like the color and how clear the picture looks. I think people take the moon for granted, they don't realize if we didn't have the moon we wouldn't have anything to light up the night so brightly.






For me this is beauty because I see a lion that doesn't ask for things in life he takes it. It resembles power while still being well groomed. To me a lion giving his roar is a spectacular sight. If I Were to be a lion my roar would symbolize that I am hungry and you have a ten second head start to hide or it would symbolize that I am "KING". Even though lions are furious animal they are animals that you should have total respect for, I mean every other animal in the jungle does if they don't want to get eaten. But to me this photo is beautiful to me because i see the lion in the morning or so roaring as if it was yawning.

For this piece to me on how it symbolizes beauty to me is because any artist who can just get out there and just do what ever they want and feel like is just magnificent. What i think this reminds me of are hot stone massages which are just so relaxing and soothing. Thats is exactly what this picture bring to me it brings relaxation and soothing thoughts. To other people they might think it might be something that they're three year old kids can draw but its not. Paintings like this are drawn out by older people and people who relax there thoughts. If people think that people have rough draft drawings of they're abstract art they're wrong. Abstract art is a form of painting that only takes one try to make colors look into something totally different like a figure.

My first post

The best teacher has the best hair best smile and you can always be with her in the most uncomfortable situations. Who is she well none other than Cortney Golub!!!