SKIM...Do We Respond to the Milk or the Book?! Just Kidding

Overall I had trouble getting over that some of the things in the story could have been in Skim's mind or what she wanted. When I saw the picture of Skim kissing someone, I didn't know is she had kissed Ms. Archer or if she wanted to kiss her. Their relationship was different after that scene, but I don't know if that was showing Ms. Archer trying to stay somewhat professional or if she felt different after kissing Skim.
Just little things like that kind of distracted me some times during my reading. I liked like the story, kind of depressing, but I picked it up and read it all the way because I was curious. And I'm still curious because I wanted more from the ending.

The Terms From Class Get Photos!

WOMEN

I like this war poster because it shows the woman as a pretty woman and also strong and can survive on her own.
















BODY

This tree is so cool. It looks like a free, dancing body. A strong body that is strong, that can give to others and can provide for itself (the symbol of the tree being a plant and making its own food and giving back the oxygen we need).
TEXT

I see text as something that can set you aside from everyone else. It can set you free and it can let your voice be heard.


SELF-IMAGE

I think if you see yourself in the way where you love yourself, than you'll portray that to everyone else.

Cover Song

I chose Foreigner's 1984 "I Want To Know What Love Is" because I've loved it since the first time I've heard it. I think it's powerful and can be taken in different people who may have certain ideas of love. It came be taken as a guy who has faced many heartbreaks and have found someone he is pleading to show him real love. It can be taken as a guy who wants to see real love among many people. Here is the link to Foreigner's version of "I Want To Know What Love Is"
The cover song was sung by Mariah Carey. I think this brings the meaning of how different people are and the hardships they may face in their life. The videos are different in the sense people are smiling in Mariah's and people don't some together until the end of Foreigner's. I like her version too because it has the woman's tone to it. Here is the link to Mariah's "I Want To Know What Love Is"

And the lyrics

I gotta take a little time
A little time to think things over
I better read between the lines
In case I need it when I'm older
Aaaah woah-ah-aah

Now this mountain I must climb
Feels like a world upon my shoulders
And through the clouds I see love shine
It keeps me warm as life grows colder

In my life there's been heartache and pain
I don't know if I can face it again
Can't stop now, I've traveled so far
To change this lonely life

I wanna know what love is
I want you to show me
I wanna feel what love is
I know you can show me
Aaaah woah-oh-ooh

I'm gonna take a little time
A little time to look around me, oooh ooh-ooh ooh-ooh oooh
I've got nowhere left to hide
It looks like love has finally found me

In my life there's been heartache and pain
I don't know if I can face it again
I can't stop now, I've traveled so far
To change this lonely life

I wanna know what love is
I want you to show me
I wanna feel what love is
I know you can show me
I wanna know what love is
I want you to show me
And I wanna feel, I want to feel what love is
And I know, I know you can show me

Let's talk about love
(I wanna know what love is) the love that you feel inside
(I want you to show me) I'm feeling so much love
(I wanna feel what love is) no, you just cannot hide
(I know you can show me) yeah, woah-oh-ooh
I wanna know what love is, let's talk about love
(I want you to show me) I wanna feel it too
(I wanna feel what love is) I wanna feel it too
And I know, and I know, I know you can show me
Show me what is real, woah (woah), yeah I know
(I wanna know what love is) hey I wanna know what love
(I want you to show me), I wanna know, I wanna know, want know
(I wanna feel what love is), hey I wanna feel, love
I know you can show me, yeah

BOOKS Battle MOVIES!!!! Ding Ding Ding

I've watched movies before reading the book and it kind of stinks. It takes away from what the pages uncover. I spend the entire time seeing the movie images instead of making my own. I have read books , such as the Twilight Saga and Harry Potter Series, before actually watching the movies. I think it's more fun to see what the movie has and what it left out. I feel like I know little secrets that people who didn't read the book but watched the movie don't know.

Personal Topic- Life After Death...Among the Living

On Christmas morning, I experienced death for the first time. An old family friend, Mr. Jones, had passed in his sleep while staying at my family's house for the holidays. That day was the hardest day I've had to come to terms with because of the situation and close to four months after, there is not a day that goes by that I don't think of the scene I woke up to. I remember Mr. Jones as the man he was when he was alive, but also the man I found lifeless.
For the first time since his funeral in December, I made my way to where he rests to leave some flowers on his grave. As I was walking through the cemetery, I saw all the graves either had flowers or no flowers. And a sad reality hit me, this is where life comes to end...a few words on a granite stone and some fake flowers. Life has went on without those people by the scene of the littered cemetery.
When I finally got to where Mr. Jones rests, my sadness was gone. For that moment I realized that his life didn't end there with the words on the granite stone and the fake flowers. His life after death was the life in me. It's the life in my memories of him and the valuable life lessons he taught me. The shell of the man I admired lays there in the cemetery, but his love, his mind, and his soul lives on in every one he meant so much to.

Differences in Men and Women Articles

From the discussions we have had in class, there is a huge difference in writing for men and women. Women articles are about beauty, relationships, love, men, fitness (in terms of being skinny and smaller), body image, and everything that targets a woman's feeling. Men on the other hand are sweet and to the point. Men articles have words like strong, what women want, money, fitness (in terms or being stronger and bigger, and things that would appeal to a man's ego.
I can also see the difference in commercials aimed for sexes. Men commercials normally have a guy using a product and getting a beautiful woman. Women commercials have a women using a product to be a more independent/strong woman or using a product to be closer to a man.
I guess that's how we can determine what is aimed for women and what is aimed for men because of what attracts them to it.

Private Versus Public Writing

I feel that private writing is something you do for yourself and have the liberty to share it with whoever you wish. But I feel that with public writing is something that you want people to see and can be any way you it to be just as private writing. I think that personal and public writing have a the personality of the writer no matter what the piece is about.