Week 6 guided response

I was recently browsing upon the Septemeber issue of Seventeen magazine, when I came upon an intresting article. The article was entitled "beat the body bullies," I felt like this topic really tied in with our research about bullying and Thirteen Reasons Why. This article states that everyone has a body critic, a person who points out a flaw or digs at the difference of your apperance that instantly makes you feel bad about yourself. Sometimes it can even be a close friend that shoots out compliments at your apperance but they feel more like slams. Complements like "That top is perfect for you, you can't even tell your flat" or "Wow you totally fill out that dress."Then everyone time you look at your body you pick out the flaws, the size of your hips, your chest. Women and young women everywhere should embrace thier size and love their body. God gave you that body for a reason, and you have two choices. Be your biggest critic or take what you got and embrace it! The article states that when hurtful words and insults are used against you like that you really take a minute to think about the person behind them. Usually the problem isn't you its them, they're insecure about themselves, so they use the insults to make them feel better. We need to make peace with our bodies, if we run around sulking about every little curve wheres that going to get us? We need to be happy and take it as it goes. Why try to fit into a size 0 when that is clearly not your body type or size. We're not that little girl anymore that can just slide into anything, everyone has a different body type. Go ahead grab whatever size fits those curves at work it girl!

13 Reason's why (free choice)

As I've bee reading the book 13 reasons why I keep questioning the motaive of Hannah Baker. Right now it doesn't really make a lot of sense that Hannah would take her life from such light wieght events. Maybe she's just being overly sensitive. Maybe she has a lot of phycological problems that could of been fixed if she asked for help. It seems like Hannah has a good head on her shoulders, but she doesn't know how to stand up and take defense for herself. I just think maybe if she had a thicker skin or was raised to stand up for herself she wouldn't of taken her life. Maybe if she would of seeking a different revege. But that's two words that you can question over and over again in a lifetime "what if". You can't go back in the past. I hope that the story goes into a deeper state and I will come to find out the real pain hannah went through, and I will begin to understand her.

Free choice blog: Week 3.

Tuesday, September 7, 2010

Free choice blog: Week 3.

I just recieved my October issue of Glamour magazine and I came upon an article titled "These Bags Are Just for You!". The article was discussing several fashion disigned totes that are for sale and when you purchase one of these bags all the proceeds go to the Gulf Relief. Which really intreset me because it involves two of the things I care about fashion and animals. People don't think much about the gulf because they think it doesn't effect them. But they really need to think about all the innocent lives that are at stake and how many animals are in danger! I would do anything to save those animals live and give them a voice that they don't have. The articles also discusses how people are living in a superfical zoolander world where they only care about what's in thier wallets, closets, and thier self image. But amongst all the superfical there are plenty of people who are aware of the gulf disaster and are eager to make a difference. Which they are because they are the disigners of the totes that are for sale. I think this is a smart idea on they're part because the are knocking two birds with one stone. Teaching teens and young women like myself gulf awareness, getting the word out there and getting money to make a difference. And what more to get teens intreseted then fashion.

Week 4 Guided Response

In October's issue of "Glamour" I read an article with the title "Will the internet kill magazines? Did instant coffee kill coffee?" I Think this title was rather creative and it made you really sit and think about the future and that past. Just to think about the technology when you were just in diapers compared to the technology now when your now in college is a huge difference. As well as everything else that is completely different. Studies show that now typical young adults read more then your adults. The question "Did instant coffee kill coffee" makes you really think how things develope over the years and how things go from somewhat interacting with people and actually doing somewhat manual labor to now holding a conversation with somebody without even seeing them or actually using your mouth to speak to them. But to answer the question will the internet kill magazines? Magazines do what the internet doesn't it holds deeper connections, they hold relationships, and ingage us in a different way then just clicking a mouse. But the future can only speak for itself.