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.

Bix box chain stores?

In a world of Wal-Mart, Target, Cosco, and Sam's Club one is made to wonder what's happening to our cute small business's like whatever happened to the neighborhood butcher or fresh fruit stand at the Farmer' Market or now everyone buys flowers bulk at the grocery store instead of a Flowershop or the shoe repair store where now people would just buy new shoes. I know i sound like a grandpa saying this but the quality of things are just not adequate anymore, or like a vacuum store and if there was a problem they would fix it and the people at the grocery store would know your name. I mean what happened to the old fashioned way things used to be.

Possibly the most suicide provoking comercial ever!

I don;t know if everyone has seen these commericals, but the recent LUNA carpet commercials are so weird and annoying! I'm sorry i had nothing better to blog about but these commercials are possibly the stupidest comercials on the planet, you know the one's with the wife sterotypicalyl being obsessed with her new carpet and giving it compliments and the husb and comes out of the bathroom laughing at her basically and i just think it is the worst advertisment for carpeting, like seeing a woman being in love with her carpeting does not make me want to go and get the carpeting, and now they're doing spin off;s of these comercials with like the man loving his hard wood floor;s and they are just really annoying and cheapily made but ironically happen to be sponcering every program i watch! If you havent seen them here is the link to one of the comericals. Also in the commercial check out how the man is just casually walking out of the open bathroom, like he couldn;t hear her or in the short duration he was in there; she came in and layed down on the floor starting to compliment her life-less carpet!

Junior Theme (HELP!)

For my Junior Theme I'm going to do how kids are a target for marketing and advertsing today and just how much kids consume or make their parents buy them things. I'm really interested in the subject and I have a good book and I'm excited but I'm having trouble finding more sources; like I've been looking online which I'm nervous about because some sources may not be legit and Mr. Bolos gave me a good book. But yea i think i still need to do alot of work before i start writing the solid paper or drafts.