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.