What makes a perfect parent?

How can you judge what the perfect parent is? Who can judge it? Really I don’t see anyone who could actually be able to say what a perfect parent is because there is no real way to judge what the “perfect parent” is. Really it’s just someone’s opinion. The author does a great job of bringing out how all parents and experts contradict one another and themselves. And I think that parents all the time seem to contradict themselves and be sort of a hypocrite. They may here about a parent doing something and judge how they treat their children but 30 minutes later there doing the same thing. One thing that kind of bothers me is the way parents look after their children and protect them. Some parents can be so protective and cautious that their kids don’t get to experience life. The kids need to be able to do stuff and get hurt, to an extent, like a scrape or bruise. It makes them tougher and not so dependable on their parents. The author really gets in saying how other parents can be so neglectful when it comes to their child’s safety. You always see the parents who don’t thing there is anything wrong with letting a 3 year old sit in the front of a car or even sitting on someone’s lap in the front seat. That’s just so stupid, why risk the life of your own child and just go spend some money and buy a car seat, it’s not that hard. I could go on forever and ever but that would just be my opinion out of how many million.

The Ku Klux Klan and Real Estate Agents

It's really pretty interesting how much the Ku Klux Klan resembles present day terrorist groups so much. They believe in something so strongly that they do anything they can to make a point. It just amazed me how much that those terrorist groups seemed to have followed the Klan’s beliefs and ideas and how they followed their type of rituals.
What was really kind of shocking but really didn’t surprise me at all was the section about cars and there resale value and how dealers or sellers don’t tell you what may be wrong with it. It related this “ordeal” with real estate agents and how they care more about the dollars signs than making a person happy and finding them the perfect house they’re looking for. Talking about how funeral directors, car salesman and life insurance agents are the same got very interesting. All they care about is filling there “quota” and seeing more dollar signs. Every single client is just a check mark. They may tell you that they feel like they’re your friend and how they care so much about you and how they are here to serve you. To me it just seems like a bunch of crap, they don’t care about you they just care about making money off of you. I really enjoyed the reading and how true it was and was a lot more easier to read than the other readings before.

I see it a lot especially here on campus related to the reading “Why are all the black kids sitting together in the cafeteria.” On campus you see a lot of ethnicities together in lots of groups. In classes you see a lot that many kids sit with people from their same ethnic background. You see a lot of African American students sitting together and whites and Middle Eastern ethnic backgrounds all in groups and hanging out together. I think it happens just because that’s who we may feel most comfortable around. I mean you don’t always see just these groups together all the time, you see a lot of other ethnicities hanging out together too. Again, I think we just like hanging out with people were comfortable with and we don’t like to create a tension or just feel awkward between another ethnicity if were around someone who doesn’t make us feel normal.
The third reading called “Censoring Myself” just seemed like a waste of my time to have to read that women’s work. She goes off and starts criticizing our president for wanting to imprison people that were thought to be terrorist. Her remarks show exactly why she’s writing a worthless and stupid writing and why she’s not the president. I know it’s just her opinion, but why would we risk more attacks from terrorists when we know the history of how people from that part of the world are and how they are sometimes known to be terrorists. I don’t see how she can criticize someone who know a little bit about what he’s doing when she went to school for writing. I just totally disagree with everything this woman has to say but I guess that’s just how I feel about things and look at the topics she talks about.

This reading seemed pretty interesting in how it talked about stereotypes. I think it’s pretty popular today of how strong stereotypes are towards certain races. Like most people today would look at a six foot six tall African American male and most likely think that they are probably a basketball player because of their height and the history of his race. It’s just something people do because that’s what it seems like that our culture seems to make a stereotype of every single race there is. Most people will say that they don’t stereotype against someone because of their race but their full of it. Everyone judges someone by their race or heritage. Like on most TV shows it’s pretty evident that stereotypes exist. Like on an episode of Family Guy Peter meets an American Indian and automatically asks where his casino is at. It seems crude but that’s what the real world is like, most people traveling out near Las Vegas might meet an American Indian dressed well and insist the same exact thing.
A strong stereotype since the September 11th attacks has been a strong stereotype against Middle East people. Everyone got a little bit more sensitive after the terrorist attacks and it was very evident that no one really knew how to feel about them. People didn’t fly because of certain people flying on the same plane and seemed to not trust anyone of the Middle East decent. Eventually most people got over their fears and stereotypes but not everyone.
But I think the real person or thing to blame in this is the media in the United States and other people who seem to teach these stereotypes. People don’t just bring on these stereotypes on their own they are taught and learned from another source. They come from people who like to brainwash this into someone’s mind. We need to stop blaming ourselves and maybe stop looking at others.

This reading seemed really kind of repeating itself over and over but had some good points to it. It makes a strong point when saying that when looking at a book you know who wrote it and you know what its going to talk about when you get to it. But differently, in television you really don’t know who to give credit for or where it came from or even its attended audience. I see it that when you usually look at a book it usually describes who the intended audience is and what the author hopes you get out of reading the book and what you may learn from it. When you want to watch a TV show or a movie you really don’t see that. Yeah you may push the info button and learn a little bit about what the story behind the movie is but you don’t know much other than that. You have to watch the whole movie or show then to see who should get credit for it or maybe the purpose.
This has a lot to do with the strong section of the reading about genre. When you watch a TV show or read a book you kind of get the sense of what am I reading or watching and how is the writer showing this. You try to decide what gives out the genre when looking at whatever it is your reading or watching and then try to see what genre it goes into. Is it a romance or a horror or even a comedy. But when you see previews for a movie or show you can’t really tell what genre it may fit into. You may get the impression that it is a romance but then end up realizing it’s a comedy. I think this is sort of a reference of how you can read something. You may not be looking at it how it’s meant to be and get the wrong impression. Other than these two points I didn’t really see anything else that was really that important to talk

January 19, 2010

This reading has amazingly opened my mind to what goes through my mind when looking at anything. You never really realize how broad off a work read is. You always read when you look at anything. You try to read some one’s mind when with a friend or family. I’ve never really realized how much I actually do this. When I look at anything I usually look at it right away and immediately start making observations of what I’m looking at. Maybe looking at what is wrong with it or what its function is or anything that could help or benefit me. I just found it very interesting how it said about looking at the Mona Lisa painting and trying to decide what the painting is all about and why it was painted. The whole reading really focused on how much you read anything you look at. I especially notice myself how much I look at someone and how they dress. I look at how they dress or what maybe things they are wearing on their body, or even what car they are driving. Then after looking at that I usually try to guess what kind of life they live and maybe what job they do or what career field they are in. It’s pretty interesting to take some guess’s then possibly finding out what they really do and seeing how close your reading of this person’s life may be. Then later in reading they look at how different kinds of text and sizes of fonts can affect how you look at something. I thought of when maybe my girlfriend writes a note to me and how you can tell what kind of mood she is in by how she writes. If it’s really messy and all over the place then you can kind of tell she may be a little mad or upset. But usually it’s written really neat and collective then I know she’s in a good mood and I’m in the clear. This whole reading really seemed to get my attention and was actually something very interesting to read.

My Name

I asked my mom where my name came from and didn't really get an exciting answer. She said it was just something that my mom and dad really liked one day when they heard it. They were having trouble thinking of a name for me and I'm not sure what or where but they heard it said the one day and they really liked the name. And that's where my name, Lance, came from.