Is it clear which is strong and which is beautiful-the truck or the model?

It is very easy to figure out which person or object is supposed to stand for something strong and which one is supposed to stand for something beautiful. The good looking blond model with her tight pink outfit on is supposed to be seen as the ideal woman who is seen as the picture perfect idea of beauty. Long haired blonds with good bodies are always shown as beautiful which tells girls that is the way they are supposed to look, like the Barbie doll for instance. The truck is seen as a more masculine and stronger picture, and shows a manly side that can appeal to many audiences, making the girl almost look a little rough around the edges.

Thesis

I have always thought of a thesis as literally stating your three main points of your three body paragraphs and being really straight forward while doing so. The thesis is supposed to show your main point of your paper, but you really do not need to spell it out for your reader. I learned that it is supposed to lead your reader into the rest of your paper, and it is also supposed to hold your paper together. Your thesis will most likely not stay the same as your drafts change. I know with my paper my thesis did not really connect with my evidence at first, even though I thought it would all come together in some way. It was not really clear what my main point was until my final draft.

Girls Just Wana Have Fun

In the two videos there are many things that stick out the most to me. In "Girls Just Wanna Have Fun" the main point was getting the average housewife up and out of the house and having fun, but other things can be taken from this video. I think that is is also saying that women stepped out of their normal conservative ways and began to show more skin and do more inappropriate things for this time period, for instance, having fun. The party in the bed room suggested to me that women were doing things that they were not okay for them to be doing. In "Love is a Battlefield", the part that stuck out to me the most was her little brother watching her as she got kicked out of the house because I think it is kind of showing that parents put more pressure on daughters to be perfect because of reputations and just being lady like. "Girls Just Wanna Have Fun" showed a stronger message to me because women have always been put in a certain stereotype and this song was trying to change that. The video I chose for my paper is "Cant Hold us Down" by Christina Aguilera, and watching these videos really helped my ideas for my essay because they are all about woman power and about how women should be equal and no one can hold us back. 

TV vs MTV

Honestly I rarely have time to watch TV now that I am in college, but this summer I watched more of the Disney channel than I could possibly handle because I was a full time babysitter. I now officially believe that I have seen ever Phineas and Ferb episode known to man. As if I didn’t feel enough like a baby watching the Disney channel, the commercials were targeted towards little kids also. There were commercials about Barbies, zoo pals, the foam that you can make things out of, and most of all pillow pets. The advertisers knew exactly what they were doing when they played these commercials over and over again because they were trying to get the children just interested enough that they would beg their parents non-stop until they got what they wanted. What I got most out of the article is that TV shows and music videos have the visual affect unlike writing. The audience gets to see with their eyes what the producer or writer is trying to put out there, but when you are reading you have to imagine on your own and come up with your own conclusions. TV is almost an easy way out of reading.

Befriending Barbie

Every time I think of a Barbie doll I think of little girls playing with them in a doll house; I never would of thought that so many grown women and even some men would enjoy collecting and playing with these childish dolls. This story does not change my perspective on Barbie dolls completely. I understand the older women collecting the dolls and keeping them in their boxes to increase the value and maybe one day make money off of it but I do not understand the idea of forty- year old women playing and dressing up the dolls as if they were five -year old little girls with a new toy. I learned that people have many different and legitimate reasons for doing what they do. I said earlier, that the idea of older women with dolls kind of seems immature but some of the women’s reasons made sense of it all. The woman, whose son died, kept collecting dolls because the women of the Barbie world were the only ones who were there for her at the time of his death. This shows that the bond between these collectors is enormous. They do not even know each other all that well and yet they are still there for each other in moments of need. I also think that this is the most important part of the story. It is important because it is displaying the idea of a bond between girls. Having girl friends that understand and believe the same things that you believe is always a great resourse when there are hard times in life. As a writer, this essay has helped me look at trying new things as a good experience or a learning experience and like the girl in this essay you may enjoy the new things.

The Last Stop

In "The Last Stop", the assumptions that were made were very common because he is describing a funeral home and a man that works there. It is very easy to judge a man that works at a funeral home as a gloomy, creepy, and depressing sort of man. I agree with the writer when he assumes that about Mr. Deaver. Although you would think that about this man, he was really the opposite. He was a kind man. This is a story depicting that you cannot judge a book by its cover, this man just wanted to help the deceased's families by making their loved ones look lively at their funeral.