Tim O'Brien's The Things They Carried has me at the edge of my seat every time I open it. I think of myself carrying 100lbs on my back every day, of the humidity of Vietnam, of watching people constant die. Not having the chance to see my family for months, or reading the letter they sent me over and over again.
It always reminds me of Forest Gump and how he got to see it rain for weeks. I can only imagine how it felt to live the best part of a person's life in those conditions.
O'Brien points out that they were all children. How would a mother feel thinking of her child being shot at, injured or dead? I am not a mother but to have an image like that of my brother would hurt too much.
Funny how war comes to be, how it is fought by the men who just started to live, but authorized by men who really do not see how the world works.
It was very tragic for those who went to Vietnam, and were treated horribly once they came home. Was it really their fault?
Who is to blame for war?
Sunday, October 26, 2014
Sunday, October 12, 2014
In my English 1A class we were talking about how Maya Angelou's I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings points out the "white Beauty" standard. Well back then before WWII all the way back then! there was this crazy idea that if you ere white you were better than everyone else! Crazy right? We are lucky we do not have to deal with that now... Well, kind of... not as much...
Sad thing is, we still deal with it. Today we do not point it out as much as they would back when Maya Angelou was a child but the media does it indirectly. Today woman are constantly being told that they need to be 5'11'' and 117 lb... It is explained well in this video
Skin color
My god! Marilyn Monroe was not even a size 0 she was a size nine and let me tell you she was HOT!!! Woman are also told that being white is right... You may ask how! Well look at all the magazine we see today or the build boards! We see dark skinned people with straight hair and blond and lighter skin than what they are and they are all skinny, if they are not in real life they are constantly being photo shopped. So like before in the 1930s they were told that being white is the most perfect look, but if we think of science... white skin has a higher percentage to suffer from skin cancer... To be completely honest I usually do not see the difference if the person is nice and well mannered it does not matter what color they are
Sad thing is, we still deal with it. Today we do not point it out as much as they would back when Maya Angelou was a child but the media does it indirectly. Today woman are constantly being told that they need to be 5'11'' and 117 lb... It is explained well in this video
Skin color
My god! Marilyn Monroe was not even a size 0 she was a size nine and let me tell you she was HOT!!! Woman are also told that being white is right... You may ask how! Well look at all the magazine we see today or the build boards! We see dark skinned people with straight hair and blond and lighter skin than what they are and they are all skinny, if they are not in real life they are constantly being photo shopped. So like before in the 1930s they were told that being white is the most perfect look, but if we think of science... white skin has a higher percentage to suffer from skin cancer... To be completely honest I usually do not see the difference if the person is nice and well mannered it does not matter what color they are
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