The deep fried truth article response

In the article “The Deep Fried Truth” It talks of how much even though we are more environmentally friendly, we have a long way to go before this problem is solved. Hopefully however, this is the pinnacle of gas emissions and they will go down. This will not occur however without much scrupulous study of the subject. This article specifically targets a conniving and discreet part of gas emissions, food. Farming and food manufacturing equipment contribute a lot to the atrophy of this planet. This subject has caused much divisiveness because some still believe Global Warming to be fabricated. Until everyone acknowledges the problem, it will not be solved. Let’s just hope it isn’t too late.




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Fairy Tales and Gender Roles

As the article states, boys are not as affected by fairy tales but from my experience with little kids, (I work at a preschool over the summer) they seem to look up to princesses and such with admiration. This leaves a lasting impression of beauty. This article also made me respect a movie I didn't care for that much. Shrek. It talks about how the movie tries to get out of the tradition by making the good guy hideous and the beautiful princess becoming an ogre in the end. A large twist on fairy tales indeed. Another interesting thing in the article was the list of the 5 tales that have been reproduced more than 101 times are Cinderella, Snow White, Briar Rose (sleeping beauty), Little Red Cap (Red riding hood), and Hansel and Gretel. Now if you notice of the five books, three have beautiful prinsecces (Snow White, Cinderella, and Briar Rose) and two have ugly witches (Briar Rose and Hansel and Gretel). The only one that dosn't exemplify this beauty is good value is Little Red Cap. So what does that tell us about little children? That they idolise beauty but that is just my opinion. Read the article if you want and make your own.

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Morality of fat socratic seminar

Today we had a Socratic seminar about an article we read. To tell you the truth, I wasn't feeling very well during the first half so I didn't absorb that part but I felt better by the second half so I will talk about that. We talked about things like what we could do as a project to help stop the media from influencing people in such extreme ways and teen suicides and such. It seems that the main problem is that people are easily influenced by media and this overload on thinner=better has created an extremely stressful enviorment for kids to grow up in. The only way to truly escape it is not to care about it which is hard. It is very interesting that we are captives of our own mind in this time of fashion and trends. If we believe we aren't part of it, we usually aren't. An idea I had for a project was show a diet pill commercial ad but instead of pill containers, show vegetables by either photoshopping them in or creating an ad that imitates the ads on TV. However, that dosn't promte inner beauty which is suposed to be the goal of the project. We will be doing this project soon probably so I'll probably go more in depth about it later. If you would like to read The Morality of Fat article, click ont the following link. Bye.

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Response to in the Eye of the Beholder article

I recently read an article about beauty throughout the world and how western civilization has effected it. It opens by talking about size and how in Nigeria, being plump is considered a sign of beauty. Another interesting thing is that the more plain or normal someones face is, the more beautiful they are usually considered. I find it interesting that beauty is the act of being extra ordinary instead of extraordinary. A little joke to lighten the mood but I digress. Another thing that I thought was interesting or poetic was a comment someone wrote.

Beauty is imperfection. Imperfection is character. Character is individuality. Individuality is what you need to fall in Love. And someone you can fall in love with has the truest beauty of all.
Luke Tennant, England

Very poetic. While not wholly related to the topic, It could be interpreted as meaning that trying to become beautiful actually makes you less beautiful. Quite an interesting prospect. However, because Beauty is in the Eye of the Beholder, I will not say that the above phrase is universally true.
This was a fairly interesting article from BBC and I think it should be read by whoever has read this post.

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