how celebrity obsessed are we?

Tonght when i sighned on to AIM, AIM Today's webpage came up and there is always i guess you could say like teenage interested headlines running across, and when i looked one was a picture of Miley Cyrus eating a french frie. The caption read Hannah's Hungry (clever alliteration) and i clicked on the link and this website is dedicated to themed pictures of celebrities. And when you look to the left them have such topics as, celebrities working out, celebrites wihtout make-up, celebriteis at the beach, embarrasing pics of celebrities. And the question i have is who really cares? like no one else has had a bad picture before or no one else has been caught off guard all sweaty and gross at the gym or who wants to see 13 pics of celebrities at the gas station i mean WHO CARES. I really think the paparazzi and the 'supply and demand' of what paparrazi think people want to see has gotten way out of proportion and now is really teatering on stupid.

Relating back to Woman Theme

My friends and I were at the Jewel in Glenview this past sunday night, and we decided to go to the self-checkout lane to pay because we only had a few things and also it's still kinda fun for us to scan things, but anyways there was a woman on the machine who was supposed to be demonstrating what you do, and what was funny was the way she was dressed, she was portrayed,she was white wiht shoulder length brown hair, a button up blouse on, and she had pants that went up to what looked like her rib cage. And yea she was exagerated a little but it was interesting to see how the Jewel-Osco company would stero-type a woman who might be shopping at their store, which the stero-type seemed to fit the portrayal of an average stay-at-home mom. And this jsut interested me in the way she looked and how she was supposed to appeal to other costumers and it's jsut crazy like how much thinking the makers of this step-by-step program on how to self-checkout it took them to figure out how to make an average white woman.

Does this make you sad?

Something that really humbled me in today's class and really made me think about how luckey i really am was seeing Tammy's story. It made me so sad to see her singing to herself and walking in the rain 10 1/2 miles to her job at Burger King that doesnt even pay enough, and her kids dont support her or barely like her and she is still relatively content with the way she lives.

While Reading..what to think about Gatsby?

While sitting down to read chapter six and seven in the Great Gatsby today, I looked back and remeber how on friday Mr. Bolos excentuated the point about if Gatsby is a symbol of America? And i just feel with two such interesting chapters to talk about dreams, and the purpose of life and love; I hate the topic of if Gatsby is a symbol of America. I'm assumising hear that Mr. Bolos/O'Connor want this question to bring up to point of the american dream and it's relevance and yada yada blah blah if you can or can't climb the social ladder. While thinking back on how to really think about Gatsby I'm kinda confused on what to think because in one sense he had all this success and money all for daisey and that is kinda remarkable and honorary but at the same time he lied about his education and up bringing and in my opinion I think money is reallly and always be the main component of social class and if you have enough money you can totally move up.

What is my green light?

Today in class when we wrote down what are main 5 goals for life are and had to narrow it down to just one. What i ended up having was to be "rich" and the people around me laughed and were like come on Mark why of all things would you just care about being 'rich". But my point is, is that to be "rich" is very subjective. For example I would want to be rich with knowledge, rich with family purpose, rich with health, and the normal connotation for rich, which is to be wealthy or have money. So that is my point where I would want to be "rich" in alot of ways rather than just money. Does this make sense? and what are some other peoples most important life goals?

I would really like to hear.

Are We Living the Lap of Luxery?

In response to today's interesting discussion in class, it got me thinking. I know we all on the north shore live pretty nice lives and are really luckey and i always knew that but i still thought most of us are middle class, thats why i was surprised when only about 14 people said middle class today but than when Mr. Bolos said that 90% of the people on the North Shore and upper class it was just really weird to me. Just in the way of how we try to be modest and I've never personally lived a life altered from the North Shore and i though Ali brought up an iteresting point that we still look up to people around us who are "richer" and we still look up to like Hollywood but to think of someone looking up to the life that I lead seems so odd to me. I definitly see how we are in the upper class now from the stats Mr bolos put up at the end of class but somehting still in me feels like we're not and its just kinda scary to see the deseption i see and the filtering type way that this life i've lived for 17 years is like every other normal 17 year olds life.