Girls in the Media

Women are portrayed to have great bodies and to be perfect. Well, that is how the media portrays women to be, all the time on advertisements and in shows women are ridiculously skinny and it does not look right. It makes them look anorexic and even fake. When, my teacher showed us a website that showed us the different changes that magazines editors made that changed the look of Britney Spears or Kirsten Dunst it was sort of sickening, because they were altering the real person and changing them to what the media thinks they should look like. I feel that women should be comfortable with the way they look, they should not compare themselves to supermodels or famous people. If girls keep getting skinnier by a younger age it is so unhealthy. Now we see younger girls who are eating less because they are not happy with the way their bodies look, but the less you eat it affects your hormones and your appetite. Women are ridiculed more to have the perfect body because that is what many guys look for in women's body types, they have to have the best looking girfriend or friends because it will make them look cool. However, why couldn't people just be happy about the way they look they don't need to be criticized by the media.

Guns

From watching Bowling for Columbine it made me have a different view on guns and fear. Most people have guns because they fear everything that surrounds us. Most people try not to stereotype different racial groups that are around us, but when we see the news and the media it is very hard not to judge those different types of different people. Some people caring or have guns just because they can and because they fear what is out there and they feel safer having a gun by their bedside; however, some people do not have those types of fear and they find other ways to defend themselves if they need to not using a gun or having a gun. Sometimes you can not tell why different people bring guns to school or tell the different types of people who create a shooting at school. Sometimes they do not have a reason, but most of the times they do and they have all that built up anger that this is how they release it, by creating a massacre. Watching Bowling for Columbine it made me sort of scared because the people who caused that shooting can be anywhere, no one knew from their school that those two kids would ever do something like that but they did, so that is why people fear what is around us.

Tuesdays with Morrie

Morrie talks about how everybody is afraid of death. That is one thing we all fear even though that we all know that someday that we are all going to die at one point. Morrie tells Mitch why there is no point of being afraid and why we should just accept it. I do think Americans are afraid of dying because we are afraid of leaving the ones we love behind and we are afraid of dying because you never know when it is going to happen. We Americans like to know what is going on in the world not what is going to happen sometime in the future when you do not even know when it is. That moment scares us. I think what Morrie says is true, we shouldn't be afraid of dying because it happens to all us. One day I am going to die, yes, I am sad that I will be leaving loved ones behind but I will see them soon in heaven. We will all find each other at the end.

Different Norms

When I first lived in Hong Kong everything was different from they way my family and I lived in Illinois. The food, the culture, the language, even the toilets were different. The food was all Chinese and everybody just spoke Cantonese, no one spoke English. At first, it was the hardest thing for me to understand what my grandparents were saying to me, my mom had to translate for me and my brother. However, after a few months we started catching on to what others around us were saying. It was a completely different lifestyle for us. The culture was different too, people in America everybody basically just has a set time when they eat; however, in Hong Kong people there just eat whenever they want normally they eat dinner probably around 8,but my family aways went out for midnight snack because everything in Hong Kong was still open. The stores and night markets, which were shops on the streets at night, were always open no one went to sleep. Everybody just stayed up because they can. Also, one other thing was different the school schedules. They go to school everyday besides Sunday and they go from like 9 until 4. Their schedules in Hong Kong were completely different, but I got used to it eventually. When, I first moved back to Chicago everything just seemed really weird to me, like the language and school. Everywhere there are different norms we just have to get used to it instead of judge it.