When our first speaker, the security guard, came in and she said that decided to breastfeed and she felt like she had that bond between a mother and child. She would have little connections with the baby while looking at him. I thought that that was interesting and it's something that the alot of books say are good for a child. She mentioned that most of the books she read on parenting really did not help and said that not all kids are the same which is true because each child has kind of their own "manual". What stood out to me was how she said that she also recieves help from her mother and grandma showing he has more than one female figure in his life that can take of him and love him. In addition, she said she doesn't want to raise her child in a place like New York City because of the infulences around here but rather in a place like Florida because the way it is strutured which i to a certain extend agree with that.
When the second speaker came i thought that he was very intriguting. When he talked about coming from a tight Catholic puerto rican family and being who he is today i thought that was cool. As far as him being a parent i think that it is nice how he uses his skills in a classroom as a teacher and uses it at home with his daughter. He also mentioned that parenting comes naturally and i agree with that i think that taking care of a child is not all about books but how you nuture the child as well. He said that lots of older people when they see his partner and him with their baby they don't discrminate they actually applaud them and i thought that was shocking at the same time nice.
After listening to this two speakers it made me think a lot about my future parenting skills and what choices i would be making. When i do decide to have a child i will use the same skills my mother used on me just like generations passed on. The skills and knowledge she has used on me has made a "good" person and see the good and bad things in life. I feel like with each generation you learn each time and know for the future how you are going to raise your child. Lots of times parents say "i don't want you to end up like me because of how i was raised" so they have new expectations and opinions on what they are going to do to make their child better or successful.
Going back to the idea of raising a child in the urban area such as NYC i think if i did have a kid i would raise them in this kind of environment for two reasons. First i have lived in this kind of environment all my life so why change now? Secondly because i think that at some point in their life they are going to come across people who are will try to pressure them into things. Every place is different but they all have the same thing so it's not that its that much different. When i have a child i think that i will also use some type of punishment like hitting them if they don't listen to me because it worked for me as a child and sometimes kids need discipline to show them value of respect.
Sunday, May 23, 2010
Monday, May 17, 2010
Hw#57-Parenting 101
I think that parents should be strict at times with their children and be stern with them because if you let your child just do whatever they want they will not respect you as an adult furthermore a parent which just causes more conflict. Parents should make sure that their kids doing what they have to do and are discipline. Without discipline then the child will be all over the place. At the same time the parents should let the child have a freedom and do things they like. I feel like it's 50/50 if give what you get. Also i think that if your child is misbehaving you should hit them because sometimes it works but not to the extreme where it abuse. Sometimes you have to show the child who has the upper hand and who they have to respect. In order to give respect you have to earn it.
The best parts of how i was parented was that my mom gave me a lot of discipline at the same time allowed me to do things that i wanted to do which gave me the best of both worlds. Even though my mom is strict at times with me, it has helped me with me now especially with school because i am a very independent person and i don't need someone on my back all the time. I think that if my mom did not parent me the way she did, i would probably be doing bad in school and not having my priorities straight. I would probably be a mess. The parenting my mother did has molded me in a intelligent young woman and i know that later on i will use the same skills she did on my future children.
I think babies should not be treated like puppies but not like adults either because they are so young. They don't know exactly what they are doing, they brain is not functioning correctly. As the baby grows older, they should get treated more like an adult because in the real world you don't get treated like a baby so they should learn from a young age. Like babies tend to get what they want and they are "suppose to win" because they are going to get upset but that is not like that when they grow up. So i lean more towards babies should be treated like adults. In reality, people do not get treated like puppies. I think that parenting is a thing that comes naturally and things that you learn from others. There is not really a manual that can teach you how to "take care of YOUR child". As your child grows so do you and you learn new things on the way. In my family didn't look in books to find out how to care for their children. I feel like my family in general just knows how to care because in my cultural its the kind of environment that we "stay together and care for one another" especially after generations and generations of reproduction.
After reading about the Ferber method i thought that it was an interesting theory. i find it funny how people have these different techniques to help these kids at a young age. I wonder how good this is and if it actually works. Another one i read when parenting backfires, i thought that it was pretty reasonable but most of the time i don't feel that works because the child always wants to take charge so it's better for the parents just dominant over them until they get older to really understand the concept. I agree with the lady that you just have to be the one to say how it is.
Reading about the attaching parenting i thought it was interesting how each thing a baby does is broken down and means a different thing because i didn't really know that but at the same time it don't believe that it's 100% true because how do they know that exactly. "Breastmilk contains unique brain-building nutrients that cannot be manufactured or bought" i thought that was kind of funny like can breastmilk really do that? I just think that all these theories are very interesting and i was wondering if these people who made them up actually have kids.
The best parts of how i was parented was that my mom gave me a lot of discipline at the same time allowed me to do things that i wanted to do which gave me the best of both worlds. Even though my mom is strict at times with me, it has helped me with me now especially with school because i am a very independent person and i don't need someone on my back all the time. I think that if my mom did not parent me the way she did, i would probably be doing bad in school and not having my priorities straight. I would probably be a mess. The parenting my mother did has molded me in a intelligent young woman and i know that later on i will use the same skills she did on my future children.
I think babies should not be treated like puppies but not like adults either because they are so young. They don't know exactly what they are doing, they brain is not functioning correctly. As the baby grows older, they should get treated more like an adult because in the real world you don't get treated like a baby so they should learn from a young age. Like babies tend to get what they want and they are "suppose to win" because they are going to get upset but that is not like that when they grow up. So i lean more towards babies should be treated like adults. In reality, people do not get treated like puppies. I think that parenting is a thing that comes naturally and things that you learn from others. There is not really a manual that can teach you how to "take care of YOUR child". As your child grows so do you and you learn new things on the way. In my family didn't look in books to find out how to care for their children. I feel like my family in general just knows how to care because in my cultural its the kind of environment that we "stay together and care for one another" especially after generations and generations of reproduction.
After reading about the Ferber method i thought that it was an interesting theory. i find it funny how people have these different techniques to help these kids at a young age. I wonder how good this is and if it actually works. Another one i read when parenting backfires, i thought that it was pretty reasonable but most of the time i don't feel that works because the child always wants to take charge so it's better for the parents just dominant over them until they get older to really understand the concept. I agree with the lady that you just have to be the one to say how it is.
Reading about the attaching parenting i thought it was interesting how each thing a baby does is broken down and means a different thing because i didn't really know that but at the same time it don't believe that it's 100% true because how do they know that exactly. "Breastmilk contains unique brain-building nutrients that cannot be manufactured or bought" i thought that was kind of funny like can breastmilk really do that? I just think that all these theories are very interesting and i was wondering if these people who made them up actually have kids.
Sunday, May 16, 2010
Hw#56 Interviews and Survey Question
Chris
What is your opinion on marriage?
Uhmmm if you really in love marriage is the way to go, but marriage is a ery important step in a couples life. Think it over and make sure it is for you.
Do you think marriage is overrated why or why not?
I think marriage can be overrated depending on who the couple is and how the couple presents themselves while their married.
Do you think marriage has changed over the years? Why or why not?
Yeah, i think marraige has. I think before it was a way to show a couple's love for one another, now i think it is just something couple's do to keep their families together.
Yarelyn
What is the valid reason you think people get married?
To feel like it is really official
Do you think marriage has evoloved over the years? If so, why?
Yeah. I feel like before it meant something and now people just do it for no reason, like just because you love one another, they feel obligated to marry.
When should people get married?
When they feel that they're both stable emotionally and economically as well.
My Mom (Jenny)
Do you think marriage has changed over the years?
Yes because now relationships the women work more and the responsiblities have to be 50/50 and men often cannot multi-task as much as women can.
Do you think marriage is overrated?
At times because religion/church made marriage to be a certain way. Society today people are making their own marriage in their own way.
Was your marriage different from the first? If so, how?
Of course, it's different for me at 20 i had a kid, most kids are starting college. The second time i was more mature and had goals. I already experienced having a child, had a career and different life.
After doing the interviews i thought that each person that i asked how has marriage changed over the years they each had a valid point. I think that its interesting how people do get married and stay in relatioship to keep families together and how marriage is not the traditional Catholic Church that everybody is making their own movement to things especially in how they want to get married. I feel like we find more people getting divorced than we see getting married. Also that it does not mean the same thing anymore kind of like a new trend.
*Do you think marriage is a lead to success or leading to disaster?
What is your opinion on marriage?
Uhmmm if you really in love marriage is the way to go, but marriage is a ery important step in a couples life. Think it over and make sure it is for you.
Do you think marriage is overrated why or why not?
I think marriage can be overrated depending on who the couple is and how the couple presents themselves while their married.
Do you think marriage has changed over the years? Why or why not?
Yeah, i think marraige has. I think before it was a way to show a couple's love for one another, now i think it is just something couple's do to keep their families together.
Yarelyn
What is the valid reason you think people get married?
To feel like it is really official
Do you think marriage has evoloved over the years? If so, why?
Yeah. I feel like before it meant something and now people just do it for no reason, like just because you love one another, they feel obligated to marry.
When should people get married?
When they feel that they're both stable emotionally and economically as well.
My Mom (Jenny)
Do you think marriage has changed over the years?
Yes because now relationships the women work more and the responsiblities have to be 50/50 and men often cannot multi-task as much as women can.
Do you think marriage is overrated?
At times because religion/church made marriage to be a certain way. Society today people are making their own marriage in their own way.
Was your marriage different from the first? If so, how?
Of course, it's different for me at 20 i had a kid, most kids are starting college. The second time i was more mature and had goals. I already experienced having a child, had a career and different life.
After doing the interviews i thought that each person that i asked how has marriage changed over the years they each had a valid point. I think that its interesting how people do get married and stay in relatioship to keep families together and how marriage is not the traditional Catholic Church that everybody is making their own movement to things especially in how they want to get married. I feel like we find more people getting divorced than we see getting married. Also that it does not mean the same thing anymore kind of like a new trend.
*Do you think marriage is a lead to success or leading to disaster?
Monday, May 10, 2010
Hw#55
Part #1 :What are the factors that cause a new relationship to end based on human needs for terminology?
Part#2: For Steph's Question:
I agree with Matthew that the question should be how instead of why because you will get specific evidence or more valid points to get good information and be able to answer your question well. Overall i think the question is interesting and keep going. Be specific. :)
For Matt's Question:
I think your question is good and i liked how you elaborated on the second part of the question going in deeper meaning not just who we determine to love. I do not have really any corrections. Good Job!
Why do we have labels and how does it that it affects us to cause relationships to lead to disaster? How is it that new young relationships end based on human terminology is it past experiences or nature insecurities? Is there a way to label and not lose yourself completely?
1.) http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/147198/relationship_ambiguity_boyfriend_girlfriend.html?cat=41
This article talks about how when kids were younger that kids were forced to pick that one friend who was close to them and label them "bestfriend" which caused fights between kids just by the label. Everybody wants to be cared and loved for. It also said that when woman become involved with someone and get into that lovey dovey stuff they want to label the romantic relationships. I feel that that is true because woman sometimes become attached. "In the past few years, I've come to both love and hate labels. Whether they define relationships, personal acheivements, beliefs, or whatever. I've learned that labels lead to all sorts of expectations and pre-conceived notions. And labels can rob an individual of his/her uniqueness or force a relationship to comply with certain standards." I agree with this because "labels" do tend to lead to things like that and takes away your true colors.
2.) http://www.stevepavlina.com/blog/2009/11/intimacy-abundance-and-label-free-relationships/
This article is mainly discussing the person's views on labeling relationships and intimacy abundance and giving you insight. I think that the person has valid points on how labeling different relationships cause you to pre-judge. "Social conditioning affects us in two ways. First, we may have a tendency to pre-judge others based on their associated labels. If you know someone is single vs. married, does that change how you relate to the person? The second way social conditioning affects us is through the labels others associate to us." I think that it s true that people who are more consicious that labels do have less impact on them and it goes the same way vice-versa.
3.) http://ojar.com/view_15811.htm
This a story about a man who tells a story about this woman and his "relationship". He discusses how she basically wanted to put a label on their relationship but he was feeling the opposite. They obviously were not seeing eye to eye. I think overall if you are relly feeling a person and like them why not consider them your boyfriend or girlfriend? "But this got me thinking about labels: seeing each other, dating, going out, boyfriend, girlfriend, exclusive, a couple, .... just what do they mean." At the same time i think that what he saying is true that what does these relationships really mean and why does it have such an affect on us. Its one of those things that you feel if you put a label on it or something that it always turns out for the worse.
4.) http://move.themaneater.com/stories/2010/4/23/label-or-not-label/
The author of this column i think leads more on the term of labeling just to save yourself for the future drama that awaits you. She saying that you should not rush into things and rather just take them slowly. "It's a lot harder to get out of being called "boyfriend" or "girlfriend" than it is to get into it. And it's not just about being "exclusive;" when you put labels on a relationship with any other person, it becomes more difficult to make individual decisions. I'm not judging if you need the title. I'm just saying you should think about it first -- will your relationship really change with someone for the better simply because you both decide you're "in a relationship"? Probably not. " I agree that its hard to get out of that naming type, thats why its just good to over think things instead of rushing.
Part#2: For Steph's Question:
I agree with Matthew that the question should be how instead of why because you will get specific evidence or more valid points to get good information and be able to answer your question well. Overall i think the question is interesting and keep going. Be specific. :)
For Matt's Question:
I think your question is good and i liked how you elaborated on the second part of the question going in deeper meaning not just who we determine to love. I do not have really any corrections. Good Job!
Why do we have labels and how does it that it affects us to cause relationships to lead to disaster? How is it that new young relationships end based on human terminology is it past experiences or nature insecurities? Is there a way to label and not lose yourself completely?
1.) http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/147198/relationship_ambiguity_boyfriend_girlfriend.html?cat=41
This article talks about how when kids were younger that kids were forced to pick that one friend who was close to them and label them "bestfriend" which caused fights between kids just by the label. Everybody wants to be cared and loved for. It also said that when woman become involved with someone and get into that lovey dovey stuff they want to label the romantic relationships. I feel that that is true because woman sometimes become attached. "In the past few years, I've come to both love and hate labels. Whether they define relationships, personal acheivements, beliefs, or whatever. I've learned that labels lead to all sorts of expectations and pre-conceived notions. And labels can rob an individual of his/her uniqueness or force a relationship to comply with certain standards." I agree with this because "labels" do tend to lead to things like that and takes away your true colors.
2.) http://www.stevepavlina.com/blog/2009/11/intimacy-abundance-and-label-free-relationships/
This article is mainly discussing the person's views on labeling relationships and intimacy abundance and giving you insight. I think that the person has valid points on how labeling different relationships cause you to pre-judge. "Social conditioning affects us in two ways. First, we may have a tendency to pre-judge others based on their associated labels. If you know someone is single vs. married, does that change how you relate to the person? The second way social conditioning affects us is through the labels others associate to us." I think that it s true that people who are more consicious that labels do have less impact on them and it goes the same way vice-versa.
3.) http://ojar.com/view_15811.htm
This a story about a man who tells a story about this woman and his "relationship". He discusses how she basically wanted to put a label on their relationship but he was feeling the opposite. They obviously were not seeing eye to eye. I think overall if you are relly feeling a person and like them why not consider them your boyfriend or girlfriend? "But this got me thinking about labels: seeing each other, dating, going out, boyfriend, girlfriend, exclusive, a couple, .... just what do they mean." At the same time i think that what he saying is true that what does these relationships really mean and why does it have such an affect on us. Its one of those things that you feel if you put a label on it or something that it always turns out for the worse.
4.) http://move.themaneater.com/stories/2010/4/23/label-or-not-label/
The author of this column i think leads more on the term of labeling just to save yourself for the future drama that awaits you. She saying that you should not rush into things and rather just take them slowly. "It's a lot harder to get out of being called "boyfriend" or "girlfriend" than it is to get into it. And it's not just about being "exclusive;" when you put labels on a relationship with any other person, it becomes more difficult to make individual decisions. I'm not judging if you need the title. I'm just saying you should think about it first -- will your relationship really change with someone for the better simply because you both decide you're "in a relationship"? Probably not. " I agree that its hard to get out of that naming type, thats why its just good to over think things instead of rushing.
Hw#54
| ENTJ - "Field Marshall". The basic driving force and need is to lead. Tend to seek a position of responsibility and enjoys being an executive. 1.8% of total population. |
After taking the the survey, i thought that i had to think a lot about myself to answer the questions. I think that the test kind of inaccuate about me because i feel that i am not the type of person who can just "sell" things to people. On the other hand, i think that i would make a good hostess and easy to socialize with people at the same time not with people i do not know. The part where is says that i am "extroverted" and "sensing i think that is true about myself because i am outgoing towards people and able to express my feelings in a excessive matter. Sensing is another trait because i do use my senses for everything especially my feelings. The "judging" part i think that is true because i am the type of person to be like you do it "like this this and that" everything very precise.Overall i think that the survey was pretty accurate on my personality.
Comparing my results to my mom we are very similar when it comes down to it just as i am judging and want things in particular order she is the same way. For example when we were in class we could easily tell if a person was introverted or exotroverted. I think that the results of the test were pretty reliable and accurate.
*My results are a little different this time because it would not post i had to do it over.
Friday, May 7, 2010
Hw#53-Survey Analysis
While taking the survey it made me think a lot about myself and the people around me. Looking at the questions and reading them made me think further ahead about what my life consist of and where im going. The questions about family made me think more deeply than anything because family is a big thing to me and then finally answering those questions was just like "wow" and answering honestly. One question that struck me was the sucicide question because never in my life did i ever thought about ending my life. I kind of enjoyerd taking the survey even the personal questions. I feel like the survey itself made me think about life more such as family, friends, and love and how these different things affect us. For the short answer questions, i did not really hesitaite i feel like it was straight forward for me while some other questions you really had to stop and think about what to right or how your are really feeling. Its hard for someone to just lay their thoughts all right there.
Looking at the results for the survey i found some of the results kind of shocking and interesting. When i saw the percent of friends come before family and it had 2% i thought that was shocking because i feel no matter what family is always first. Another result that shocked me was i'm happy by myself because its a pretty high percent and usually people feel they need other people to be happy not by themselves. I feel like i am similar to most of the other students who took the survey and that the majority of the class had similar answers to myself. I feel like sometimes we just look at the big numbers and do not pay attention to the small numbers which counts as well like the question i cry once a week. How is that 7.7% of kids cry once a week that kind of weird and interesting.
Looking at all three survey i feel they are similar at the same time different. Unlike the other two our survey was not that many people but like for the drugs, and sex part i feel the percentage were simliar. One part that stuck out to me was looking at the YRBSS survey and how the percentage of obesity and dietary was high for females and as high for males. It seems females are more self-consicious about theor body than males were. I feel like overall you do not know really if all this is true because people may lie or the question may not be questioned correctly so it not so accurate. In the survey for our section we had more of an varieties unlike the others who had to answer straight yes or no answers which is also not fair. I also feel like people of color were targeted for most of them.
Looking at the results for the survey i found some of the results kind of shocking and interesting. When i saw the percent of friends come before family and it had 2% i thought that was shocking because i feel no matter what family is always first. Another result that shocked me was i'm happy by myself because its a pretty high percent and usually people feel they need other people to be happy not by themselves. I feel like i am similar to most of the other students who took the survey and that the majority of the class had similar answers to myself. I feel like sometimes we just look at the big numbers and do not pay attention to the small numbers which counts as well like the question i cry once a week. How is that 7.7% of kids cry once a week that kind of weird and interesting.
Looking at all three survey i feel they are similar at the same time different. Unlike the other two our survey was not that many people but like for the drugs, and sex part i feel the percentage were simliar. One part that stuck out to me was looking at the YRBSS survey and how the percentage of obesity and dietary was high for females and as high for males. It seems females are more self-consicious about theor body than males were. I feel like overall you do not know really if all this is true because people may lie or the question may not be questioned correctly so it not so accurate. In the survey for our section we had more of an varieties unlike the others who had to answer straight yes or no answers which is also not fair. I also feel like people of color were targeted for most of them.
Monday, May 3, 2010
Hw#52-Intital Theories of Human Relationships
One theory that i grew up with is, is that family always comes first no matter what. No matter what family is always going to be there for you not just friends. It's kind of like your obligated to your family and to always have their back. I think specifically in hispanic culture they try to keep their family very close to them. They are very family orientated. I do not really understand why in the hispanic culture we are so much trying to be "one for all and all for one". The theory of having family come first, i like it in a way that you create a close bond with your siblings and other family members that you can't create with just ordinary people.
A theory that i live by is Live. Life. Love because you should live your life to the fullest and enjoy it. People should not worry about the bad things in life but cherish the good ones and laugh it off. I feel like this relates to teenagers a lot because you don't want to worry about nothing but having fun and doing what you want to do to enjoy life. Lots of people say that you should live your life to be successful and do what you want to do. People want to picture their life with the ideal family perfect job and nice living circumstances but that does not always happen.
When it comes to love, i feel like it can be broken down into many different things. They say you find one soul mate in your life time. I think that it is true because their only one person out there for you. On the other hand i think that there is no such thing as love at first sight because that is very misleading to people and not everybody you meet or like your not going to end up with. In a typical boyfriend girlfriend relationship that we created in our society is that the male is suppose to take out the female out, give her flowers, and tell her how beautiful she is everyday but why?
When it comes to friendship i think that its pretty simple. In a friendship you should always be loyal and have their back as you do with family. The most common theory on friendship is being there for the person no matter what and being that shoulder to cry on. In society we made so if you dont have a family of your own thats why you create friends and make a new one especially when kids go to school creating new bonds that are different from family. As the same time why is that those supposedly "friends" of ours backstab each other and mistreat one another thats not family or is it?
When it comes to friendship i think that its pretty simple. In a friendship you should always be loyal and have their back as you do with family. The most common theory on friendship is being there for the person no matter what and being that shoulder to cry on. In society we made so if you dont have a family of your own thats why you create friends and make a new one especially when kids go to school creating new bonds that are different from family. As the same time why is that those supposedly "friends" of ours backstab each other and mistreat one another thats not family or is it?
A common theory that we all have been taught is if you want respect you have to give and that do to others they way you would want to be treated but i think that doesn't work all the time so what is the point? Some of theses theories that we leave by i think is a lot of bull because not all of them work and we don't always follow thru with it. Other times those theories just seem to fall into place in what we might be going thru especially life in general.
Monday, April 26, 2010
Hw#51
School as a whole is a great place to get an education to farther on in life and even if you struggle with something that you have to keep trying in order to succeed because if you dont then you will not go anywhere but at the same time what does school really offer with overbearing teachers and following rules. Personally i think that school has it downfalls and good points about it. For example, in Obama speech about school he talked about kids in schools should take on responsibitiles to try in school to get what they want in life even if it means to fail a thousand times just keep going. Nothing comes easy with just getting by in order to achieve or what me as a student being told you have to get an education.
Obama and the woman that Bob Herbert was talking about Deborah Kenny views are very similar and i think its possible but in order to succeed to the top you must start at the bottom, do not try for the impossible. To elaborate i feel that just saying "well lets try hard and get to top" will not have people say that if schools did X, every kid in the US would have a better future, less racism, less poverty, more creativity, be skinnier, love poetry, better gender training because that is not true. Many believe that school is the key to everything and will open doors in some cases no in other yes. I feel like people such as Obama and other put too much emphasis on school as if its kind of like "god" and they are wrong. Over the years i think school is not what it is and things change.
Connecting back to the movie Freedom Writers, one of the students (Mario Barrett) he told the teacher why he should respect her because she has teacher written across her head just because she has the upperhand and domination. School is a place for kids to be bullied by people older then them teaching unneccesary things. In school kids just get pushed around like little slaves. "School" is an essential support system for a vision of social engineering that condemns most people to be subordinate stones in a pyramid that narrows to a control point as it ascends. "School" is an artifice which makes such a pyramidal social order seem inevitable (although such a premise is a fundamental betrayal of the American Revolution)."
Sometimes it seems that school is just a trap for kids. Some people may think its like a training camp to do this this and that. Like in the article about training youth for capitalism they said "Go to school and get good grades, so you can get a good high-paying job." In simpler terms that means, "Go to school to become a good employee." I believe school is beneficial to the government to make money and make future teens puppets to themselves. Students are just being trained to be another employee not a better day for tomorrow that is what i believe or what i've been seeing for the past few years.
I agree with Gatto, i think that school is there should be a different school system (well the way he teaches). Why go to school? will it really help succeed in the future if i do not want to this with my career. We are stuck in these schools for 8 hours to learn things that do not have our interest at the same time is boredom. "Basically if you go to school, you suppose to get a good education, good job, and It only takes about 50 contact hours to transmit basic literacy and math skills well enough that kids can be self-teachers from then on. The cry for "basic skills" practice is a smokescreen behind which schools pre-empt the time of children for twelve years and teach them the six lessons I've just taught you." This statement i find to be very true why spend all these hours that will take the mininmium.
School i feel is a place kind of like a church trying to conform your beliefs and do something you do not believe in or things you feel are unneccessary for your life. Larche said "schools really are: laboratories of experimentation on young minds, drill centers for the habits and attitudes that corporate society demands.” This is why we all go to school and is why society wants us to go to school. School is a trap and we can’t escape it, we have to join the institution or it will find us.Schools are nothing more than a part of a system of oppression that keeps us down" i agree thats is all we done we like repeating little robots and do what society "thinks is right for the future" or better for themselves.
I think that school is a whole is salvation and its all we know at the same time why stick with something we known and try something different. I think that we should try Gatto idea and see how it plays put in other schools in different areas. There must be a reason he has won this award multiple times not just once. Who knows what we could accomplish with new ideas as we did with technology and look where it has us now. Maybe it can make us better as a whole in the world.
Overall i think school has good apsects to it such as getting the proper learning skills and learning tools to succeed but at the same time would this really actually help me? I think that not all the things we learned in school are not needed in the everyday life and we would need them when we get older.
Obama and the woman that Bob Herbert was talking about Deborah Kenny views are very similar and i think its possible but in order to succeed to the top you must start at the bottom, do not try for the impossible. To elaborate i feel that just saying "well lets try hard and get to top" will not have people say that if schools did X, every kid in the US would have a better future, less racism, less poverty, more creativity, be skinnier, love poetry, better gender training because that is not true. Many believe that school is the key to everything and will open doors in some cases no in other yes. I feel like people such as Obama and other put too much emphasis on school as if its kind of like "god" and they are wrong. Over the years i think school is not what it is and things change.
Connecting back to the movie Freedom Writers, one of the students (Mario Barrett) he told the teacher why he should respect her because she has teacher written across her head just because she has the upperhand and domination. School is a place for kids to be bullied by people older then them teaching unneccesary things. In school kids just get pushed around like little slaves. "School" is an essential support system for a vision of social engineering that condemns most people to be subordinate stones in a pyramid that narrows to a control point as it ascends. "School" is an artifice which makes such a pyramidal social order seem inevitable (although such a premise is a fundamental betrayal of the American Revolution)."
Sometimes it seems that school is just a trap for kids. Some people may think its like a training camp to do this this and that. Like in the article about training youth for capitalism they said "Go to school and get good grades, so you can get a good high-paying job." In simpler terms that means, "Go to school to become a good employee." I believe school is beneficial to the government to make money and make future teens puppets to themselves. Students are just being trained to be another employee not a better day for tomorrow that is what i believe or what i've been seeing for the past few years.
I agree with Gatto, i think that school is there should be a different school system (well the way he teaches). Why go to school? will it really help succeed in the future if i do not want to this with my career. We are stuck in these schools for 8 hours to learn things that do not have our interest at the same time is boredom. "Basically if you go to school, you suppose to get a good education, good job, and It only takes about 50 contact hours to transmit basic literacy and math skills well enough that kids can be self-teachers from then on. The cry for "basic skills" practice is a smokescreen behind which schools pre-empt the time of children for twelve years and teach them the six lessons I've just taught you." This statement i find to be very true why spend all these hours that will take the mininmium.
School i feel is a place kind of like a church trying to conform your beliefs and do something you do not believe in or things you feel are unneccessary for your life. Larche said "schools really are: laboratories of experimentation on young minds, drill centers for the habits and attitudes that corporate society demands.” This is why we all go to school and is why society wants us to go to school. School is a trap and we can’t escape it, we have to join the institution or it will find us.Schools are nothing more than a part of a system of oppression that keeps us down" i agree thats is all we done we like repeating little robots and do what society "thinks is right for the future" or better for themselves.
I think that school is a whole is salvation and its all we know at the same time why stick with something we known and try something different. I think that we should try Gatto idea and see how it plays put in other schools in different areas. There must be a reason he has won this award multiple times not just once. Who knows what we could accomplish with new ideas as we did with technology and look where it has us now. Maybe it can make us better as a whole in the world.
Overall i think school has good apsects to it such as getting the proper learning skills and learning tools to succeed but at the same time would this really actually help me? I think that not all the things we learned in school are not needed in the everyday life and we would need them when we get older.
Sunday, April 25, 2010
Hw#49-Film
For the film my personal contribution was being in the film and trying to improvise with other people in the film also. I played the role of one of the four students who come to his classroom after a school dance and find out about their teacher Jake Westwood drug addiction to crack cocaine which later helps Jake realize that the drug addiction is not the way to go. The students and i go on about how we are proud of him for stopping and staying clean. In addition to his fanazcing ideas in history.
Honestly i do not really know exactly what the message of the film was but i think that the message was that if someone is seeking need, help them. The tone of the film is very serious at the same time sympathetic towards Jake Westwood. Showing how the students helped him and he did not relapse and how serious he took the situation especially when the four students were gathered talking to him when they caught him. He realized he needed change.
Compared to the other films it was different. This film was showing the students in the classroom taking a stand and helping the teacher. Unlike the other movies the teachers were stuck teaching rebelling teenagers who came from the ghetto and felt they were going nowhere. In the end the teacher was able to teach the students and they grew on each other. In the film we did in class the table were turned and the teacher was the one in need this time but in the end he could not do by himself.
This film connects to real life in school because lots of times teachers try to be the heroic figure (not all some) and try to help those kids in need. On the other hand that does not always happen and in reality the teacher needs help. The teachers who do not show much appreciation to the students is the reason kids nowadays the way they are because teachers do not allow themselves to open a relationship with a student.
Honestly i do not really know exactly what the message of the film was but i think that the message was that if someone is seeking need, help them. The tone of the film is very serious at the same time sympathetic towards Jake Westwood. Showing how the students helped him and he did not relapse and how serious he took the situation especially when the four students were gathered talking to him when they caught him. He realized he needed change.
Compared to the other films it was different. This film was showing the students in the classroom taking a stand and helping the teacher. Unlike the other movies the teachers were stuck teaching rebelling teenagers who came from the ghetto and felt they were going nowhere. In the end the teacher was able to teach the students and they grew on each other. In the film we did in class the table were turned and the teacher was the one in need this time but in the end he could not do by himself.
This film connects to real life in school because lots of times teachers try to be the heroic figure (not all some) and try to help those kids in need. On the other hand that does not always happen and in reality the teacher needs help. The teachers who do not show much appreciation to the students is the reason kids nowadays the way they are because teachers do not allow themselves to open a relationship with a student.
Monday, April 19, 2010
Hw#50
6 Lessons
Gatto is saying why bother with school. I think he is saying its like a prison just to tame children. He does not believe in typical teaching that is done in school. He says that the school system messes up our kids and why should they be put in a place they do not like or truly enjoy. Also being forced to learn things they do not want to learn. We are basically prisoners in our own homes and we simply just follow rules like slaves. Gatto does not believe in the school system he believes the opposite of the school system. In this article he puts the school system in 6 different components in what they go by.
I agree with Gatto i think that schools are very robotic "do this, do that". Teachers are the enforcers and we have to listen what they say because they "have the upper hand which i think is kind of unfair. I like Gatto teaching how he opposes the school system. I think it is kind of interesting. "In any case, again, that's not my business. My job is to make the kids like it -- being locked in together, I mean -- or at the minimum, endure it. If things go well, the kids can't imagine themselves anywhere else; they envy and fear the better classes and have contempt for the dumber classes. So the class mostly keeps itself in good marching order. That's the real lesson of any rigged competition like school. You come to know your place." I believe this is true you are below the teacher and you do as you are told.
Pedagogy of the Oppressed
He is saying that education is just memorization. The students just memorize things and repeat it from the teachers they learn it from. Also that they are not actually fully developing any learning skills just the basic four times four is sixteen but is it really? He also says that the student is a slave towards the teacher giving the teacher existence and silent themselves not knowing that the teacher is learning from them.
I agree with Paulo on some level i think the way teacher teach are just a process of memorizing things and repeating it over and over again. "Education thus becomes an act of depositing, in which the students are the depositories and the teacher is the depositor. Instead of communicating, the teacher issues communiques and makes deposits which the students patiently receive, memorize, and repeat. This is the “banking” concept of education, in which the scope of action allowed to the students extends only as far as receiving, filing, and storing the deposits. They do, it is true, have the opportunity to become collectors or cataloguers of the things they store." This whole paragraph i agree with we are collectors collecting information and we save it but there is not is not a "WOW" factor and its misleading us.
Interview with Lisa Delpit
In the article Lisa Delpit is talking about finding the brilliance in the students no matter what kind of background they come from. If you judge them from they come from how are you going to teach them and make them better. She wants to provide urban kids to have a opportunity to show their brilliance to the world and what they can accomplish. She also says that the art department can help these children and can open doors for them. This can expose them to poetry and other things can appeal to the children.
I agree with Lisa, i think it is a good idea to give children in the urban communities a chance to better themselves when the people and neighborhood around them may not be doing the same. It reminds me of my old middle school Kipp Star who gave me and other of my fellow classmates to learn above and beyond and experience college experiences and being exposed to new ideas just like the arts that Lisa Delpit was talking about. "I think teachers must believe in their children’s brilliance. If teachers make judgments only according to the tests being inflicted on the children by the schools, then they can misunderstand their children's brilliance. The biggest thing is that despite what you have read or been told about these children that may indicate otherwise, these children carry a brilliance that you have little access to. You have to figure out how to bring that brilliance out. I don't think we do a good enough job of showing teachers how to uncover the children's strengths" i agree with this and i believe its true, its kind of judging a book by its cover.
Mr.Fanning Speech
Mr.Fanning was talking about the basic structure of School of the Future and how its an liberal arts school. He said SOF embodies students as individuals learn social skills. He talked about juniors to pull up their grades because the seniors were going downhill. Right now grades are not good and students are failing.
I think what Mr.Fanning said is true and that as a school we need to pull ourselves together and get better grades. Lots of kids today are not doing what they should be doing and do not have their priority straight.
Monday, April 12, 2010
Hw#48-Treatment of Savior/Teacher Movie
Emily Robinson an experienced teacher for 2o years raised in a small town and worked up in the surburan area walks into the classroom and witnessed the kids she was going to teach. There were jocks, preps, popular kids, rebels, all you could think of. They were all looking at her dumb-founded. She has on her a white blouse and a high-waisted a pencil skirt and a pair of 3 in heels. She walks up to the board and writes her name on the board "Ms. Robinson".
As she turned around all hell broke loose. Chairs were thrown, papers thrown eveywhere and cursing lunatics. It was impossible for Ms.Robinson to calm them down. She told them all to sit down and be quiet. Obviously they did not listen and told her to fuck off. Stephanie one of the popular girl who was kind of the ruler of the classroom told everybody chill and they listened. Ms.Robinson returned to her introducing herself but nobody paid any attention except suck their teeth and continue to socialize.
She could not take it anymore so she told all the students to shut the hell up. Little did they know that she was in the miltary and spend 5 years as a Marine. Ralph one of the rebels told her that he was not going to do shit. In some way she was able to straighten him out in a matter of two seconds. One by one they student realized that Ms.Robinson is actually a tough cookie and started to give her the respect she needed and wanted. The question would be how long would this go on for and when would it stop?
As she turned around all hell broke loose. Chairs were thrown, papers thrown eveywhere and cursing lunatics. It was impossible for Ms.Robinson to calm them down. She told them all to sit down and be quiet. Obviously they did not listen and told her to fuck off. Stephanie one of the popular girl who was kind of the ruler of the classroom told everybody chill and they listened. Ms.Robinson returned to her introducing herself but nobody paid any attention except suck their teeth and continue to socialize.
She could not take it anymore so she told all the students to shut the hell up. Little did they know that she was in the miltary and spend 5 years as a Marine. Ralph one of the rebels told her that he was not going to do shit. In some way she was able to straighten him out in a matter of two seconds. One by one they student realized that Ms.Robinson is actually a tough cookie and started to give her the respect she needed and wanted. The question would be how long would this go on for and when would it stop?
Tuesday, April 6, 2010
Hw#47 Class Film Preparation 1
1.) Alpha male or female
2.)Different races separated
3.)"Bad Class"
4.)"Very caring teacher"
5.)Exact opposite of the movies we saw
6.)Make fun of each of them
7.)SOF version of Freedom Writers
So Far...
2.)Different races separated
3.)"Bad Class"
4.)"Very caring teacher"
5.)Exact opposite of the movies we saw
6.)Make fun of each of them
7.)SOF version of Freedom Writers
So Far...
Hw#46 Research and Writing
I read the book The Curious Incident of the FOg in the Night-time by Mark Haddon. The book was about a kid named Christopher with autism and tries to figure out who murdered his neighbor's dog Wellington. On his way trying to find out he learns a lot of things about the dog and his family. There are a lot of mysteries behind everything he does and says. He later finds out that his father actually killed the dog in defense to his neighbor which causes Christopher to uncover the real true behind his mother's "death".
The main point of the story that connects to my topic is that Christopher attends a "special school" and kids with "special needs" because they do not function like "regular kids" i guess which is different than other public or private schools we know. Compared to other schools such as private and public they have do not have the same thing. As Christopher described his school he takes some high level math and learn things out of the ordinary.
On some level the book kind of did not really connect to my topic because it talked more about austism and it did not really give me valid points but on the plus side i was able to see Christopher's point of view on things from being i would not say disable and going to a different school compared to schools i've been too and heard about. It was nice to see the perpective of another child but not of some article.
The main point of the story that connects to my topic is that Christopher attends a "special school" and kids with "special needs" because they do not function like "regular kids" i guess which is different than other public or private schools we know. Compared to other schools such as private and public they have do not have the same thing. As Christopher described his school he takes some high level math and learn things out of the ordinary.
On some level the book kind of did not really connect to my topic because it talked more about austism and it did not really give me valid points but on the plus side i was able to see Christopher's point of view on things from being i would not say disable and going to a different school compared to schools i've been too and heard about. It was nice to see the perpective of another child but not of some article.
Monday, March 22, 2010
Hw#45-More Big Thoughts on School
After reading about Hirsch he's arguing that "He concluded that schools should not be neutral about what is taught but should teach a highly specific curriculum that would allow children to understand things writers take for granted". I think that Hirsch is trying to say that before you learn something you should have background on it such as war and other things before going on and reading other texts. In the text where it said "Students at the University of Virginia were able to understand a passage on Ulysses S. Grant and Robert E. Lee, while students at a community college struggled with it, apparently lacking basic understanding of the American Civil War" i found this kind of interesting because compared to the community college they did not know the background of the topic they are learning about which is Hirsche is point of how concept of cultural literacy, which is understanding the back ground information.
Reading about Sizer he talked about how kids should be thinking more instead of looking at books and taking standarized test more on trying to make students use their brain instead of a piece of paper. "Schools, he argued, should abandon one-size-fits-all educational methods like standardized tests, grading and even the grouping of students into classes by age." What i found interesting is how he said that the teachers were the mentor/coach and the kids were the workers which i find to be true and that the teachers should motivate the students.
Looking at both views i think they both make valid points Hirsch believes in background knowledge and cultural literacy while Sizer on the other hand allows the students to think more and use the habits of mind rather than whats on a piece of paper. I lean towards Sizer views because i believe they are better and im used t0 what he is talking about rather than test-taking and other things. Just as Sizer said the teachers in SOF actually do play the part of the mentor which has helped and allowed students to think out of the box.
Reading about Sizer he talked about how kids should be thinking more instead of looking at books and taking standarized test more on trying to make students use their brain instead of a piece of paper. "Schools, he argued, should abandon one-size-fits-all educational methods like standardized tests, grading and even the grouping of students into classes by age." What i found interesting is how he said that the teachers were the mentor/coach and the kids were the workers which i find to be true and that the teachers should motivate the students.
Looking at both views i think they both make valid points Hirsch believes in background knowledge and cultural literacy while Sizer on the other hand allows the students to think more and use the habits of mind rather than whats on a piece of paper. I lean towards Sizer views because i believe they are better and im used t0 what he is talking about rather than test-taking and other things. Just as Sizer said the teachers in SOF actually do play the part of the mentor which has helped and allowed students to think out of the box.
Monday, March 15, 2010
Hw#44 Big Expectations For School
After watching the Obama speech i thought that it was really good and thought he had very interesting points. I liked how in this speech he talked about how your not going to succeed the first time you try something and you have to keep trying as he referred to Michael Jordan and J.K Rowling. I like how he didn't sugar code anything and put it all out there because its true what he is saying. On the other hand, i feel that when he says its the students responsibitly to fullfill their responbitlites its easy said than done. There are kids out there who struggle everyday and aren't able to balance school compared to workign or taking care of their family for finanical reasons etc. How is that kid going to succeed compared to another kid not dealing with these issues.
Reading the article on "Where the Bar Ought to Be" i thought that Bob had a good point at the end stating that maybe the bar is a high coming from a tough surburban neighborhood. It kind of goes back to what Obama said both articles relate. So far from what i read school is primarily to get to the top and get the highest education. Also learning the impossible and having high standards which i believe is kind of hard. I think that in general we should work our way to the top at a good pace instead of shooting to the top. At the same time i think that its good that the schools are like this because it opens up the children's brain and make them comfortable not just like you have to do "this this and that".
After reading this article i agree that we just to school just to be "good employers". Like they said "Go to school and get good grades, so you can get a good high-paying job." In simpler terms that means, "Go to school to become a good employee." But there are too many employees, which is why we have an unemployment problem. Today, kids just out of school aren't finding jobs. At the same time, many of their parents are going back to school for retraining. But they're not finding jobs, either" its true and i think that it would b a good idea if we did have two systems.
Reading the article on "Where the Bar Ought to Be" i thought that Bob had a good point at the end stating that maybe the bar is a high coming from a tough surburban neighborhood. It kind of goes back to what Obama said both articles relate. So far from what i read school is primarily to get to the top and get the highest education. Also learning the impossible and having high standards which i believe is kind of hard. I think that in general we should work our way to the top at a good pace instead of shooting to the top. At the same time i think that its good that the schools are like this because it opens up the children's brain and make them comfortable not just like you have to do "this this and that".
After reading this article i agree that we just to school just to be "good employers". Like they said "Go to school and get good grades, so you can get a good high-paying job." In simpler terms that means, "Go to school to become a good employee." But there are too many employees, which is why we have an unemployment problem. Today, kids just out of school aren't finding jobs. At the same time, many of their parents are going back to school for retraining. But they're not finding jobs, either" its true and i think that it would b a good idea if we did have two systems.
Monday, February 22, 2010
Hw#41 and Hw#42
http://www.greatschools.org/find-a-school/defining-your-ideal/private-vs-public-schools.gs?content=59
This talks about the comparison between public schools and private schools. In one part it says "Is it like comparing apples and oranges — two different things that can't be fairly held to the same standards?" i agree they are different but at the same time they can be held at the same standards also.
http://www.brighthub.com/education/k-12/articles/16137.aspx
This was talking about mostly the pros and cons of standardized testing taking for students. In one part of the text it said how the test were bias and i agree to that. Also it talks about how students feel pressure and have many different emotions which is true because the test has a big impact on us and its annoying. Its true that the bottom line is about money more money "better education" which is so wack to me why does it have to be like that.
http://www.briankim.net/blog/2007/03/top-5-things-that-should-be-taught-in-every-school/
This one talked how in school especially high school that teachers do not really teach us the life skills in life that we need as kids kind of like guiding. It seems like in America today we are catching up like we are suppose to, kind of rust such as getting ahead of the game. One of the 5 things that the person said what talking about personal finance which i agree with because lots of time coming out of highschool kids deal with money issues trying to go to college and things like that and schools should talk about it more.
http://www.publicschoolreview.com/articles/5
http://autism.about.com/od/summerandautism/a/privateschools_2.htm
http://www.babycenter.com/0_school-types-the-difference-between-public-private-magnet-ch_67288.bc?showAll=true
I want to know the differences between public schools and private schools and the different aspects that they carry such as the curriculm. I also want to know about the special kinds of schools since i am reading The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time and see how it relates to each other also how its different from regular school.
I member attending middle school (Kipp Star College Prep Charter School) and then coming to School of the Future it was so different. Coming from a charter school, they recieved a lot of money extra special activites and getting acknowledge and then coming to SOF it was totally different, how it is really that much different. Why is that both schools cannot recieve the same thing.
*Going to add more kind of stuck any ideas?
This talks about the comparison between public schools and private schools. In one part it says "Is it like comparing apples and oranges — two different things that can't be fairly held to the same standards?" i agree they are different but at the same time they can be held at the same standards also.
http://www.brighthub.com/education/k-12/articles/16137.aspx
This was talking about mostly the pros and cons of standardized testing taking for students. In one part of the text it said how the test were bias and i agree to that. Also it talks about how students feel pressure and have many different emotions which is true because the test has a big impact on us and its annoying. Its true that the bottom line is about money more money "better education" which is so wack to me why does it have to be like that.
http://www.briankim.net/blog/2007/03/top-5-things-that-should-be-taught-in-every-school/
This one talked how in school especially high school that teachers do not really teach us the life skills in life that we need as kids kind of like guiding. It seems like in America today we are catching up like we are suppose to, kind of rust such as getting ahead of the game. One of the 5 things that the person said what talking about personal finance which i agree with because lots of time coming out of highschool kids deal with money issues trying to go to college and things like that and schools should talk about it more.
http://www.publicschoolreview.com/articles/5
http://autism.about.com/od/summerandautism/a/privateschools_2.htm
http://www.babycenter.com/0_school-types-the-difference-between-public-private-magnet-ch_67288.bc?showAll=true
I want to know the differences between public schools and private schools and the different aspects that they carry such as the curriculm. I also want to know about the special kinds of schools since i am reading The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time and see how it relates to each other also how its different from regular school.
I member attending middle school (Kipp Star College Prep Charter School) and then coming to School of the Future it was so different. Coming from a charter school, they recieved a lot of money extra special activites and getting acknowledge and then coming to SOF it was totally different, how it is really that much different. Why is that both schools cannot recieve the same thing.
*Going to add more kind of stuck any ideas?
Friday, February 19, 2010
Hw#40-School Interviews x5& Synthesis
Chris Arroyo
Q:Do you think the hours of school is enough?why?
A:Uhmm, i think the hours are substantial, they're not long and their not short. I mean they could be longer but its equal hours for each class.
Q:Do you think kids should be based on a letter/number grade why or why not?
A: I mean it might not show how bright the student is but shows the effort the kids put in their work to get the grade, so i think they should be based on letter grades, as the concept is you get what you earn.
Q:Do you think teachers take advantages of their placement?
A: Uhmm, I think at times they may, but they have that superior power their students, it really in my opinion depends on the matter at hand.
Tommy Healy
Q:Do you think the school like a prison? Why or why not?
A:No, i don't think its like a prison because its not a form of punishment its actually to help better yourself for the future.
Q:When you hear the word school what do you think of and why?
A:Uhmm homework that i didn't do lol. Because i am too lazy.
Yarelyn Mena
Q: How do you feel about the teachers in your school? Do you like them/do you dislike them?
A:They teach good money. It doesn't go much further than that. I don't really know most of my teachers besides the way they teach you know? like some connect much with their students.
Q:Is there anyway we could improve the school system? How?
A:More students togetherness lol. I don't know how to say it. Like more things where the whole grade could be mad cool.
Q:Would you like school if you more successful at it? Why or why not?
A: I already like it, i feel like I'm pretty successful at it now because I'm happy with my grades and what not.
Edward (Dad)
Q:Would you like school if you more successful at it? Why or why not?
A:I guess yes, it would encourage me to do better of course. I would know what i was doing.
Q:Do you think kids should be based on a letter/number grade why or why not?
A:I like numbers, they are more accurate, i don't think grades should be eliminated because how you suppose to know if they know what they are assessing.
Q:Does school teach you more than life experiences?
A:Its a different type of learning school, school learning and when you go outside its street learning should know both.
Part B:
Most of the people i interviewed felt we should have grades to assess them none thought they we shouldn't eliminate them. I thought at least one person would want to eliminate grades but it didn't happen. I noticed that when i asked my dad who did good in school but as well said he would like school more if he was successful at it and my friend Yarelyn feels she is doing well because she is getting good grades. One thing i find interesting about the concept of school is the actual school experience and the fact that if were more successful in school such as getting good grades and not getting trouble kids would like it more but unfortunately it is not.
Monday, February 8, 2010
Hw#39-First School Assignment
Part A:
Questions:
1.)Why is school so overrated?
2.)Why does a grade determine everything?
3.)Why are we all split up into different groups what is the point?
Ideas:
1.)If you get "good" grades, you go to a "good" college, and get a "good" job.
2.) School is a dog eat dog world and kind of competitive especially with different people in school trying to fit in and some aspects like that.
3.) Kids are all just a number.
Experiences:
1.) Getting told pointless things told to me by the teacher but at the same time my work is always completed and i get high grades.
2.) My friends getting in trouble for no reason and getting a huge consequence.
3.) Being exposed to so many different cultures and different kinds of personalities.
Part B:
One aspect of school that really kills me is the teachers. I hate the fact that they think because they have higher authority that they "think they can rule the rest of us like little kids which is unfair. Back in the day, in some schools teachers were allowed to hit students. That's really bizarre. I would be damned if a teacher laid a hand on me. Personally i think that some teachers abuse their right as a teacher and just play with it.
I remember one time the teacher manipulated a student, so she would confess to something about someone else which i find to be cruel. The teacher has no right to do that what so ever. Its just a way to beat the system. Punishments are another thing such as suspension and expulsion. A kid could do the slightest thing especially in SOF and get suspended which i find to be dumb. The smallest thing with the biggest consequence. I feel like they do certain things to just get the kids out of their hair and not have anything to worry about.
Questions:
1.)Why is school so overrated?
2.)Why does a grade determine everything?
3.)Why are we all split up into different groups what is the point?
Ideas:
1.)If you get "good" grades, you go to a "good" college, and get a "good" job.
2.) School is a dog eat dog world and kind of competitive especially with different people in school trying to fit in and some aspects like that.
3.) Kids are all just a number.
Experiences:
1.) Getting told pointless things told to me by the teacher but at the same time my work is always completed and i get high grades.
2.) My friends getting in trouble for no reason and getting a huge consequence.
3.) Being exposed to so many different cultures and different kinds of personalities.
Part B:
One aspect of school that really kills me is the teachers. I hate the fact that they think because they have higher authority that they "think they can rule the rest of us like little kids which is unfair. Back in the day, in some schools teachers were allowed to hit students. That's really bizarre. I would be damned if a teacher laid a hand on me. Personally i think that some teachers abuse their right as a teacher and just play with it.
I remember one time the teacher manipulated a student, so she would confess to something about someone else which i find to be cruel. The teacher has no right to do that what so ever. Its just a way to beat the system. Punishments are another thing such as suspension and expulsion. A kid could do the slightest thing especially in SOF and get suspended which i find to be dumb. The smallest thing with the biggest consequence. I feel like they do certain things to just get the kids out of their hair and not have anything to worry about.
Hw#38 Art Project
From my art project, i want people to see that the picture is representing the emptiness people have and how we cover each other faces that is the reason i colored the people's faces all black, showing the protection and how there is nothing there. I also put what i would call curtains on the side of each paper and a stage to show how we perform because the image of "cool" is all an act. We have to look, play, and the be the part. Another reason i colored all the faces black to show that we all the same we are not really that different. Each and every one of us are trying to portray "COOL".
At first, i did not really know what to do. I wanted to have different people with different images of cool but i thought it was too simple. So i decided put a whole different elements into one picture. I wanted to put emptiness, protecting each other's faces, and how we perform the role "cool". Also the colors i wanted the word "cool" to be bright yellow to make it stand out and be noticed which is what "cool"does.
I think that art is cool in a way that you can create anything you want and allowing you to express yourself thru painting, sculpture, drawing, and other things. You can make anything you want and its never wrong. I think it brings out the creative side of everybody no matter who your are.
Sunday, January 24, 2010
Hw#37-Cool Paper Final Draft
Cool? Where did it come from? that's what i ask myself all the time. Nowadays there are some many different versions of cool, it so hard to keep up with. Its a constant ongoing battle within ourselves and with each other. Everywhere you go you witness it. Its what we live off of. We seems to try and make this idea of "cool" but what is it really? Especially kids my age they are willing to change everything about them (appearance, lifestyle, etc). Is it really worth all this trouble? Some may think so. I feel like we push ourselves to be this "cool" person but what happens when its over. There nothing much there but just pure emptiness.
When it comes cool, there's no way in stopping it, its like an epidemic. Lots of kids these days when they think of the word "cool", they think of name brand things and being popular or some sort. It relates back to that Merchants of Cool video when they talked about the little girls becoming like Britney Spears or MTV hiring kids to look good in a video to make other kids want to be like them. Referring back to the Britney Spears thing it said to "flaunt your sexuality even though you do not know what it is" just because that is told to be "cool". I agree with what Stephanie said "But what does it fill? Nothing we are once again giving into a fake society just to fit in and be "cool" If we maybe branched off and did our own thing maybe our emptiness would be filled a lot quicker and easier" we all play these characters in our society being fake and then we don't even know who the "true you" is.
When it comes to appearance piercings, tattoos, hair, etc all determine if you are "cool" or not. When Mr. Fanning came in and talked about his tattoos he mentioned that his tattoos was his armor and that he felt like a rebel kind of showing his side of "cool". Part of the tattoo thing is where you get it if your a guy your "suppose" to get it on your arm signifying masculinity or if your a female you get it representing femininity. I think that refers to the cool factor and that when it comes to cool there are rules and different ways to go about it. Its kind of like a game. The same thing goes for piercings. No only does it matter where you get your tattoos its sort of like what your background is such as ghetto or if your white, black, or Hispanic. It all varies. We pierce our bodies to show how "cool" we are but when in reality is kind of showing how fake we are being. So who the hell our we really?
It seems as if we look at ourselves we are empty and just use things to distract us in life to full up this emptiness. There's nothing really there. "Sometimes we feel an inner sense of emptiness. When we look within, it seems like nothing is there, so we distract ourselves with something on the outside, like food or television; and yet, these outer distractions only temporarily take care of the emptiness, or more accurately, they only temporarily keep our attention. When the distraction is over, the emptiness returns." I agree with this we live our lives with all this crap such as technology, pleasing people, and other objects around us to fill up this emptiness we have but we do not even know what is. Its like an unsolved mystery. Its impossible to find the emptiness, we cover it with being "cool".
Constantly trying to be this and that. With the concept "cool" everybody trying to gather things to be this image of cool. Once you get one thing you have to another thing. " If meaning is what we desire, then meaninglessness is a hole, an emptiness, in our lives. whenever you have a vacuum, of course, things rush to fill it." I agree with Viktor Frankl because we have these emptiness in us and then fill it up with all this junk and superficial stuff that is on television and society around us. Its like without all of this bullshit our lives are meaningless. There no actual satisfaction on life. One of the reason we might feel this emptiness because we always have something covering it up. Its like a bandage, we get a cut use a bandage to cover it up and heal but it still there. Everybody wants to be accepted and become this other person to be "cool" so is that emptiness?
"Cool" not only to cover up our emptiness, we live cultural maps revolving this. If you live in a wealthy neighborhood then you have expensive clothes and a hot shot car they are "cool". On the other hand, if your in the ghetto living in the projects you have you pants "saggin", you don't go to school and chill all day that is "cool". It shows the cultural maps we follow within our community and what is already set for us in our families. Every kind of race has their own cultural map and how to about it. The poem by Gwendolyn Brooks reminded me of the cultural maps because those kids in the poem are following what all the other kids are in their neighborhood are doing. We are all slave in our cultural maps. That's if you have a bodega in every corner around you live, it's obvious that where everybody goes just like Andy said about the chicken spots and people always there. Is it our fault though?
People are so used to their cultural maps why would they want to change it? Not every cultural maps can fit into other ones. For example, if you are minority and want to change your lifestyle by going to school and doing what you have to, to go to college. It might fit with those other people like you but not where you live cause then people going to make fun of you "your a loser or your white". Why is that the minority get stuck with the fucked up cultural maps? If your Caucasian you live the "good life" and if your Hispanic or black you "struggle" most of the time that what it is or what people think. Is it possible to change that? Personally, when it comes to my cultural map it is to get an good education and attend college. I think its like that for a lot of kids because their parents did not attend college so they want to make these cultural maps better and better each time with their children.
Cool can be shaped into any form we want to and mean whatever but it what it does to us that makes this whole thing so complicated. It's one of those that are unexplainable. No matter what anybody says about it we live off of it and perform in these roles to be "cool". Its an ongoing cycle. Its physically with piercings and tattoos and then mentally with our "emptiness which we do not even what the hell it is. Then we have the cultural maps that we present ourselves with to be "cool" or try to change out of them to be better.
Sources
http://www.endless-satsang.com/emptiness.htm
Merchant of Cool
We Real Cool by Gwendolyn Brooks
When it comes cool, there's no way in stopping it, its like an epidemic. Lots of kids these days when they think of the word "cool", they think of name brand things and being popular or some sort. It relates back to that Merchants of Cool video when they talked about the little girls becoming like Britney Spears or MTV hiring kids to look good in a video to make other kids want to be like them. Referring back to the Britney Spears thing it said to "flaunt your sexuality even though you do not know what it is" just because that is told to be "cool". I agree with what Stephanie said "But what does it fill? Nothing we are once again giving into a fake society just to fit in and be "cool" If we maybe branched off and did our own thing maybe our emptiness would be filled a lot quicker and easier" we all play these characters in our society being fake and then we don't even know who the "true you" is.
When it comes to appearance piercings, tattoos, hair, etc all determine if you are "cool" or not. When Mr. Fanning came in and talked about his tattoos he mentioned that his tattoos was his armor and that he felt like a rebel kind of showing his side of "cool". Part of the tattoo thing is where you get it if your a guy your "suppose" to get it on your arm signifying masculinity or if your a female you get it representing femininity. I think that refers to the cool factor and that when it comes to cool there are rules and different ways to go about it. Its kind of like a game. The same thing goes for piercings. No only does it matter where you get your tattoos its sort of like what your background is such as ghetto or if your white, black, or Hispanic. It all varies. We pierce our bodies to show how "cool" we are but when in reality is kind of showing how fake we are being. So who the hell our we really?
It seems as if we look at ourselves we are empty and just use things to distract us in life to full up this emptiness. There's nothing really there. "Sometimes we feel an inner sense of emptiness. When we look within, it seems like nothing is there, so we distract ourselves with something on the outside, like food or television; and yet, these outer distractions only temporarily take care of the emptiness, or more accurately, they only temporarily keep our attention. When the distraction is over, the emptiness returns." I agree with this we live our lives with all this crap such as technology, pleasing people, and other objects around us to fill up this emptiness we have but we do not even know what is. Its like an unsolved mystery. Its impossible to find the emptiness, we cover it with being "cool".
Constantly trying to be this and that. With the concept "cool" everybody trying to gather things to be this image of cool. Once you get one thing you have to another thing. " If meaning is what we desire, then meaninglessness is a hole, an emptiness, in our lives. whenever you have a vacuum, of course, things rush to fill it." I agree with Viktor Frankl because we have these emptiness in us and then fill it up with all this junk and superficial stuff that is on television and society around us. Its like without all of this bullshit our lives are meaningless. There no actual satisfaction on life. One of the reason we might feel this emptiness because we always have something covering it up. Its like a bandage, we get a cut use a bandage to cover it up and heal but it still there. Everybody wants to be accepted and become this other person to be "cool" so is that emptiness?
"Cool" not only to cover up our emptiness, we live cultural maps revolving this. If you live in a wealthy neighborhood then you have expensive clothes and a hot shot car they are "cool". On the other hand, if your in the ghetto living in the projects you have you pants "saggin", you don't go to school and chill all day that is "cool". It shows the cultural maps we follow within our community and what is already set for us in our families. Every kind of race has their own cultural map and how to about it. The poem by Gwendolyn Brooks reminded me of the cultural maps because those kids in the poem are following what all the other kids are in their neighborhood are doing. We are all slave in our cultural maps. That's if you have a bodega in every corner around you live, it's obvious that where everybody goes just like Andy said about the chicken spots and people always there. Is it our fault though?
People are so used to their cultural maps why would they want to change it? Not every cultural maps can fit into other ones. For example, if you are minority and want to change your lifestyle by going to school and doing what you have to, to go to college. It might fit with those other people like you but not where you live cause then people going to make fun of you "your a loser or your white". Why is that the minority get stuck with the fucked up cultural maps? If your Caucasian you live the "good life" and if your Hispanic or black you "struggle" most of the time that what it is or what people think. Is it possible to change that? Personally, when it comes to my cultural map it is to get an good education and attend college. I think its like that for a lot of kids because their parents did not attend college so they want to make these cultural maps better and better each time with their children.
Cool can be shaped into any form we want to and mean whatever but it what it does to us that makes this whole thing so complicated. It's one of those that are unexplainable. No matter what anybody says about it we live off of it and perform in these roles to be "cool". Its an ongoing cycle. Its physically with piercings and tattoos and then mentally with our "emptiness which we do not even what the hell it is. Then we have the cultural maps that we present ourselves with to be "cool" or try to change out of them to be better.
Sources
http://www.endless-satsang.com/emptiness.htm
Merchant of Cool
We Real Cool by Gwendolyn Brooks
Thursday, January 21, 2010
Hw#36-Triangle Partners Help
Steph
What is cool? There are so many different definitions its hard to be cool. Depending on your social map and the way your raised you cool is different from someone raised with a different sense of cool. Cool varies, depending where you come from and how you approach things. Its branches off into some many things to physical appearances and what we think mentally. Teenagers these days do whatever it takes to be in the "cool" crowd at the same time be "who they are".I believe the route of "cool" has become more and more competive. At the same time it starting at younger ages. Young teens nowadays are getting piercings like crazy trying to be "cool" but not looking long terms same thing goes for tattoos. Kids are just trying to fit in, its going to an extreme at the same time its like whatever. Like you said they are under pressure and do it just to fit in do they know when to stop though? Cool is corrupting young people these days.
Tips:
Spelling and grammar
Make sure everything flows together
Quotes?
Overall your rough draft was good my steffy weffy lol. =) Good Job!
Matt
In society today young teens are surrounded by trying to be "cool" and being someone their not.
If you do not have the latest fashion they you are not considered cool. Even if you do not know what it is as long as you have it, you have that upperhand. Its like that video we saw "Merchants of Cool" and the girls are told to flaunt their sexuality even though they do not what is. This goes with the fashion statement. In order to be the part you have to act the part which is "cool".
Tips:
Spelling and Grammar
Make sure to have a conclusion to sum everything up
Nice Job on your paper. Its a great start! =)
Tuesday, January 19, 2010
Rough Draft
Cool? Where did it come from? thats what i ask myself all the time. Nowadays there are some many different verisons of cool, it so hard to keep up with. Its a constant ongoing battle within ourselves and with each other. The idea of cool varies in many different ways. Everywhere you go you witness it. Its what we live off of. We seems to try and make this idea of "cool" but what is it really? Especially kids my age they are willing to change everything about them (appearance, lifestyle, etc). Is it really worth all this trouble? Some may think so. I feel like we push ourselves to be this "cool" person but what happens when its over. There nothing much there but just pure emptiness.
When it comes cool, theres no way in stopping it, its like an epidemic. Lots of kids these days when they think of the word "cool", they think of name brand things and being popular or some sort. It relates back to that Merchants of Cool video when they talked about the little girls becoming like Britney Spears or MTV hiring kids to look good in a video to make other kids want to be like them. Referring back to the Britney Spears thing it said to flaunt their sexuality even though they do not know what it is just because that is told to be "cool".
When it comes to appearance piercings, tattoos, hair,etc all determine if you are "cool" or not. When Mr. Fanning came in and talked about his tattoos he mentioned that his tattoos was his armor and that he felt like a rebel kind of showing his side of "cool". Part of the tattoo thing is where you get it if your a guy your "suppose" to get it on your arm signifying masculiny or if your a female you get it representing feminity. I think that refers to the cool factor and that when it comes to cool there are rules and different ways to go about it. Its kind of like a game. The same thing goes for piercings. No only does it matter where you get your tattoos its sort of like what your background is such as ghetto or if your white, black, or hispanic. It all varies. We pierce our bodies to show how "cool" we are but when in reality is kind of showing how fake we are being. So who the hell our we really?
When it comes cool, theres no way in stopping it, its like an epidemic. Lots of kids these days when they think of the word "cool", they think of name brand things and being popular or some sort. It relates back to that Merchants of Cool video when they talked about the little girls becoming like Britney Spears or MTV hiring kids to look good in a video to make other kids want to be like them. Referring back to the Britney Spears thing it said to flaunt their sexuality even though they do not know what it is just because that is told to be "cool".
When it comes to appearance piercings, tattoos, hair,etc all determine if you are "cool" or not. When Mr. Fanning came in and talked about his tattoos he mentioned that his tattoos was his armor and that he felt like a rebel kind of showing his side of "cool". Part of the tattoo thing is where you get it if your a guy your "suppose" to get it on your arm signifying masculiny or if your a female you get it representing feminity. I think that refers to the cool factor and that when it comes to cool there are rules and different ways to go about it. Its kind of like a game. The same thing goes for piercings. No only does it matter where you get your tattoos its sort of like what your background is such as ghetto or if your white, black, or hispanic. It all varies. We pierce our bodies to show how "cool" we are but when in reality is kind of showing how fake we are being. So who the hell our we really?
It seems as if we look at ourselves we are empty and just use things to distract us in life to full up this emptiness. There's nothing really there. "Sometimes we feel an inner sense of emptiness. When we look within, it seems like nothing is there, so we distract ourselves with something on the outside, like food or television; and yet, these outer distractions only temporarily take care of the emptiness, or more accurately, they only temporarily keep our attention. When the distraction is over, the emptiness returns." I agree with this we live our lives with all this crap such as technology, pleasing people, and other objects around us to fill up this emptiness we have but we do not even know what is. Its like an unsolved mystery. Its impossible to find the emptiness, we cover it with being "cool". Constanly trying to be this and that. With the concept "cool" everybody trying to gather things to be this image of cool. Once you get one thing you have to another thing. One of the reason we might feel this emptiness because we always have something covering it up. Its like a bandage, we get a cut use a bandage to cover it up and heal but it still there. Everybody wants to be accepted and become this other person to be "cool" so is that emptiness?
"Cool" not only to cover up our emptiness, we live cultural maps revolving this. If you live in a wealthy neighborhood then you have exxpensive clothes and a hot shot car they are "cool". On the other hand, if your in the ghetto living in the projects you have you pants "saggin", you don't go to school and chill all day that is "cool". It shows the cultural maps we follow within our communtiy and what is already set for us in our families. Every kind of race has their own cultural map and how to about it. The poem by Gwendolyn Brooks reminded me of the cultural maps because those kids in the poem are following what all the other kids are in their neighborhood are doing. We are all slave in our cultural maps. Thats if you have a bodega in every corner around you live, it's obvious that where everybody goes just like Andy said about the chicken spots and people always there. Is it our fault though? People are so used to their cultural maps why would they want to change it? Not every cultural maps can fit into other ones. For example, if you are minority and you want to change your lifestyle by going to school and doing what you have to, to go to college. It might fit with those other people like you but not where you live cause then people going to make fun of you "your a loser or your white". Why is that the minority get stuck with the fucked up cultural maps? If your causcian you live the "good life" and if your hispanic or black you "struggle" most of the time that what it is or what people think. Is it possible to change that? Personally, when it comes to my cultural map its get an good education and attend college. I think its like that for a lot of kids because their parents did not attend college so they want to make these cultural maps better and better each time with their children.
Cool can be shaped into any form we want to and mean whatever but it what it does to us that makes this whole thing so complicated. It's one of those that are unexplainable. No matter waht anybody says about it we live off of it and perform in these roles to be "cool". Its an ongoing cycle. Its physically with piercings and tattoos anf then mentally with our "emptiness which we do not even what the hell it is. Then we have the cultural maps that we present ourselves with to be "cool" or try to change out of them to be better.
Thursday, January 14, 2010
Hw 34-The Cool Pose and Various Approaches..
When it comes to the word "cool" depending where you grow up it means something different especially with race and gender. When it comes to whole trying to be gangster and trying to be "white" i feel like those roles switch between different races. For instance, a white person will try to act all "tough-like and sag their pants" trying to be like a black person because that is considered "cool" or the black person will dress preppy talk in a "white form" and then considered an oreo but to them its "cool". It all depends where you come from in your community. I know like kids who travel from uptown to downtown manhattan try to dress more "nicer" or have a different look from where they actually from because its cool. For example like if your a black african american wearing a marmot jacket and some ACG boots you know off the bat "oh that person is from Harlem" the people might not want to be portrayed as that so they change their outer apperance to fit in with others.
In class when we talked about the cultural maps i thought everything was true. We try to fit these maps based off our parents or our surroundings. In one view, if you are a hispanic/black kid trying to attend school just getting by being pushed by parents to go to college at the same time getting made fun of by those same people within your community is that really "cool?" Some cultural maps do not work in other cultural maps. Its like we are slaves in our very own cultural map. I remeber in class when Andy talked about Asians kids being told they have to go to school and be this and be that and not talk or interact with the black kids because they are a bad infulence but in that kind of place it not so "cool" to do that. So what should we really follow?
I think that the paths of coolness that is leading us down is trying to follow that same cultural map that we are so used to and then trying to fit it in a new environment at the same time doing what we think is "cool" ourselves. Its just impossible. Both aspects collide. I do not think we should blame the people making us do this stupid shit because i think it does not provide us to think for ourselves. When it comes to myself and my cultural its been the same in my family go to school, go to college and be successful. Thats what i've been told i feel like it will never changed although i think that as the years go we are just trying to make these maps better.
In class when we talked about the cultural maps i thought everything was true. We try to fit these maps based off our parents or our surroundings. In one view, if you are a hispanic/black kid trying to attend school just getting by being pushed by parents to go to college at the same time getting made fun of by those same people within your community is that really "cool?" Some cultural maps do not work in other cultural maps. Its like we are slaves in our very own cultural map. I remeber in class when Andy talked about Asians kids being told they have to go to school and be this and be that and not talk or interact with the black kids because they are a bad infulence but in that kind of place it not so "cool" to do that. So what should we really follow?
I think that the paths of coolness that is leading us down is trying to follow that same cultural map that we are so used to and then trying to fit it in a new environment at the same time doing what we think is "cool" ourselves. Its just impossible. Both aspects collide. I do not think we should blame the people making us do this stupid shit because i think it does not provide us to think for ourselves. When it comes to myself and my cultural its been the same in my family go to school, go to college and be successful. Thats what i've been told i feel like it will never changed although i think that as the years go we are just trying to make these maps better.
Tuesday, January 12, 2010
Hw 33-Cool Paper Outline
Thesis: The idea of cool varies in many different ways. Everywhere you go you witness it. Its what we live off of. We seems to try and make this idea of "cool" but what is it really? I feel like we push ourselves to be this "cool" person but what happens when its over. There nothing much there but just pure emptiness.
Body Paragraph 1: Meaning of Cool.
Body Paragraph 2: Apperance of Cool.
Body Paragraph 3: Emptiness
Body Paragraph 4: Cultural Maps
Conclusion: Sum up everything
**Might switch a few things.
Body Paragraph 1: Meaning of Cool.
Body Paragraph 2: Apperance of Cool.
Body Paragraph 3: Emptiness
Body Paragraph 4: Cultural Maps
Conclusion: Sum up everything
**Might switch a few things.
Thursday, January 7, 2010
Hw 32- Tattoos and The Presentation of the Self
After listening to Mr.Fanning story about his tattoos i thought that it was interesting how when he said that after his band broke up he decide to go more farther than this elbow more to his wrist. When he talked about his tattoos being armor i thought that was kind of significance, they were kind apart of him and like it was like his outer shell. When he said that America does not have the "formal right of passage" like in jewish reilgion when they reach thirteen they become a man or woman i agree. Maybe when people or young teens get tattoos, dye their hair, wear make-up or get piercing thats their own way of "formal right of passage" to grow or maybe not.
In my opinion, tattoos signify just you expressing yourself in art just as you do with hobbies or things you have passions for such as a sport, music, etc. Tattoos branch off to so many things. Depending who gets a tattoos it means different things such as age and race. If a minority got an tattoo they are considered hardcore and "hard life". On the other hand if a non-minority got an tattoo it means totally different.
Lots of time when people get tattoos they feel special and "cool". Its just very symbolic. When it comes to gendering tattoos, i think men get them on the triceps because it shows a sense of "i am a macho man! I am strong" etc as for the women getting them on their ankles and their cleavage its a sign of sensual and sexy. It crazy how we catergoizes us so that we are portrayed as this particular male or female.
I feel like back then tattoos were more like if you had one you were considered a rebel or like "oh my god you really got that?" to that degree. Nowadays when people get tattoos its common and its a not a "wow" factor but it also considered "cool". To me i like tattoos and think they are "cool". I actually want one myself. Seeing other people with tattoos makes me want to get one even more.
In my opinion, tattoos signify just you expressing yourself in art just as you do with hobbies or things you have passions for such as a sport, music, etc. Tattoos branch off to so many things. Depending who gets a tattoos it means different things such as age and race. If a minority got an tattoo they are considered hardcore and "hard life". On the other hand if a non-minority got an tattoo it means totally different.
Lots of time when people get tattoos they feel special and "cool". Its just very symbolic. When it comes to gendering tattoos, i think men get them on the triceps because it shows a sense of "i am a macho man! I am strong" etc as for the women getting them on their ankles and their cleavage its a sign of sensual and sexy. It crazy how we catergoizes us so that we are portrayed as this particular male or female.
I feel like back then tattoos were more like if you had one you were considered a rebel or like "oh my god you really got that?" to that degree. Nowadays when people get tattoos its common and its a not a "wow" factor but it also considered "cool". To me i like tattoos and think they are "cool". I actually want one myself. Seeing other people with tattoos makes me want to get one even more.
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