Susan Bordo Blog

While writing this essay, I used a source from the New York Times I found this article titled "It's a Face-Lifted, Tummy-Tucked Jungle Out There," in order to fit my essay well because this article states exactly what I was trying to get across in this essay. Back in the day having a bad body was a norm for men, and no one ever really paid any attention to the fact that men could look good too. Now men are paying money to go to the gyms, and buying products to make themselves look good. As I have stated, muscles have devalued money, and the market for products and procedures is at $9.5 billion or so a year. After reading this article I knew that I had to included this information in my essay.

Bibliography
Spindler, Amy M. "It's a Face-Lifted, Tummy-Tucked Jungle Out There - New York Times." The New York Times - Breaking News, World News & Multimedia. 9 June 1996. Web. 27 Oct. 2011. .

Blog 5: DFW, "Address to Kenyon College"

This article was very interesting to read. I found that many of David Foster Wallace's points to be true. I wish that I was able to hear this speech in person. The one thing that I did not get was the in very beginning of the piece, when he talks about the two fish. While reading that I was thinking, what did the fish have to do with anything? Maybe if someone explains this in simpler terms for me I will understand it. There was one part of the article that stuck out to me, when he was talking about the two men in the bar, the religious man and the atheist. When the atheist told his story about him being stuck in the blizzard, and he prayed for the first time, I thought that since he got out of the blizzard alive, the he would start to believe in God. That was not the correct guess, because he said that the only reason that he got out of the blizzard was because of the Eskimos that told him the right way to go. My way of thinking would have been that God sent the Eskimos to help out the atheist, but that was not his interpretation of the whole thing. Like David said, there is always two sides to a story, and you should not be so arrogant when thinking about things. All in all, I thought that this was an interesting article to read and I would love to read more of his speeches, if there are anymore out there.

Blog 4: "The Banking Concept of Education"

While reading the essay "The Banking Concept of Education," by Paulo Friere, I found many things to be pretty interesting and some parts to be quite complicated. The beginning and the end parts were easy to grab a hold of, but the middle part of the essay was not easy to understand. I had to keep rereading things so that I could get a better understanding of what he was talking about. But there was one part of the essay that stuck out to me, and that was when he said "Education thus becomes an act of depositing, the students are the depositories, and the teacher is the depositor. I have been in school for a while and I have never thought of education that way. I agree with this statement because that is how most of my schooling has been. The teacher giving me information, me remembering it for a test then forgetting most of it after the test is over. I do not think that this is the best way for people to learn because if you do not take the time out to learn the information, you will not know anything when it is time to apply the information that you learned in school to work. I do not think that tests are the best way to grade a person on whether they are learning anything. I believe that there should be another way to grade a student of whether they know the information or not.