Who to Choose

     I have some interesting people to choose from. I haven't decided for sure, but I really I reallly like Uri Geller. Uri is a magician best known for his spoon bending trick.He is also a self proclaimed psychic.Uri was born in Isreal, his father a retired military sergeant. His magic has long been a source of skeptics. Uri has taken great offense to anyone who dared to publicly doubt or criticize his talents; at times even takeing his offense to the court room and sueing his critics.There is alot more to Geller then simple hand tricks. He is able to speak English,Hebrew, Hungarian, and has written several books, he is to say the very least a gifted mind. Uri's claims to psychic ability were also backed by Stanford scientists who put him through a stream of labratory tests. However tested Geller's abilites have been hit and miss in the public eye. When asked  to help in a in a missing person case Geller failed miserably and publicly, predicting the missing would be found alive and when when in fact she had already been murdered.
   My second option would be Mother Theresa.I can personally remember the day she died and being shocked that she had spent her whole life as a humanitarian ,yet her death was over shadowed by that of Princess Diana. Mother Teresa grew up poor, her father died when she was only eight years old. Her mother taught her about the importance of giving to others, her mother even invited the homeless into their home to eat dinner.At he tender age of 18 when most girls are thinking of marriage and babies , Mother Teresa decided to be a nun and moved to Ireland.She began to teach and did so for 17 years before being called by her God again to help the poor.
   As you can see I have some very interesting subjects to choose from. I can say I am excited as there is an abundence of information about them out there.I was truly concernd I would get someone and be at a loss for something to write.

The Skinny of it

I wasn't too sure what thinspo was, but after reading the article it didn't take me long to realize it is where media and social status has once again played on the mental illness of others. I think it's sickening to take already starving images,photo shop them even more then call it a form of art. Absolutely pop culture can produce mental illness and send a pre-disposed, impressionable teenager into all out anorexia. It is a long standing stereo type I believe that over-weight people are lazy, that along with other misconceptions I think have been taught by main stream media. I myself out of curiousness googled thinspiration and was shocked. But to someone who was struggling with their weight and looking for answers could be misguided. The women I saw looked SICK, not at all beautiful. I have heard the saying pictures are worth a thousand words I agree and the women in the pictures I saw were saying "I am hungry!" It's crazy that so many can be lead to think what is beautiful. I don't understand how some ones self image can be so distorted.

Banned in the USA

If we ban books we are banning part of history. Some books like "The Diary Of Ann Frank" tell a long lost story that many need to know. Others about the underground railroad are our history. The speeches of Martin Luther King bring words of peace from a grave. No I don't think some should say the things they do, but my dad fought in two wars to make sure we all should be able to read and speak freely.The worlds our children live in now have a different out look. The only way they will ever know the past is from books and history.And a poem from Maya Angelou can place you in a time capsule to another time. No I don't think books should be banned.I think they should be read,taught, and passed on.Many stories are horrific but very true. I think if we don't pass on the injustices that have occured in our history we may be doomed to repeat it.When i was younger I read many Dean Koontz books. They did not teach me much about history, but they did spark a great interest for me in books.I also read "The Diary of  Ann Frank" and it prompted me to study about the Holocaust.It's hard to believe in todays world that things such as mass murder, starvation, and experiments were done to even the smallest of children was allowed to happen a time in history that many would like to forget. Reading use to be a privilege. A privlege that many were denied in hopes to keep them ignorant by people trying to suppress them.

The Yellow Wallpaper

I wasn't sure if the story teller was mentally ill or suffering from post-partum depression. I think she saw herself locked in the wallpaper as she was locked in the room. Her husband, a doctor, only furthered her illness by his constantly denying his wife to express herself. I think the story teller contemplated suicide to break free from her vaction style prison. But in the end found releif in helping the lady in the wallpaper who represented herself. I think there may have been alot of feminist symbolism in this story, however the narration coming from the mind of a mad women made it very hard to read and to follow. I was left confused and in the end wondering if she possibly killed her husband. The work was very descriptive as I could see the wall paper in my minds eye.

A man's code

    I think Hemingway had some underlying issues. After reading "The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber" I was very disappointed that Francis died. Just as he was gaining self confidence from hunting the buffalo he was shot down by the same women, his wife, who had obviously been shooting him down for years. I thought the same as Mr. Wilson she did it on purpose. I hardly saw where Mr. Macomber achieved heroism. As a women I felt the character of Margot was trashy and mean. I wonder now if all the women in Heminway's stories are similar. I saw Mr. Macomber only being sure of his money, but without confidence in anything else.