blog 5

When pollan says "Men have become tools of their tools”I think pollan means that every man has a tool something that controls their life.They all have something that is a basic to what they use everyday .In the book it was corn ,corn was the tool.In the chapter corn was what kept food on the table and money in the wallets.Corn was a very big essential something needed to survive.pollan says"farmers faceing lower prices have only one option if they want to be able to maintain their standard living ,paying their bills,and service their debt,and that is to produce more"(53).In this qoute which is saying how important corn is in their life,that this is the major tool needed and without this they cannot live.Men do become toold of their tools becuase in this example everything they do is for the better of the corn to make more corn sell more for a better life.I feel this is also very interesting because men are usually the ones useing tools and tools are something that help you with everyday things.Tools get you to fix something they are an object that helps you.If you have to fix a table for example you will need tools without a tool it cant be fixed.Everyone has a certain tool they need and use to get them throught the day to accomplish things get them where they need to be.

Yes i believe men face problems in their diet and body image just as woman do.Of course not just woman worry about their bodies and how they look.I feel as if thought to men its a different issue they have this pressure to be the "macho man".Society always describes men as being manly, taller and built.The man should be powerful over the woman the woman should be feminine and feminine men isnt what is attractive.orbach explains in her book how men have "labor power roles and expectations"(orbach 202).When you think of these words you think a more powerful person both mentally and physically.Your not gonan think of those words and imagine a 5 foot 100 lb guy that isnt what society thinks of so i believe this is the pressures men face with body issue to be the more masquline ,"tough guy"

Blog #4

Asimov and sedaris both relize that being educated doesnt have anything to do with the way something apears.The way thats being communicated doesnt make the person more intelligent then the next,but the infortmation thats trying to be told is important.By what a persons saying you can also tell if that person is academically intelligent or street smart.Assimov states,"I received the kind of aptitude test that all soldiers took and, against a normal of 100, scored 160''.This made him feel asthough he was more educated then others from one test,as stated by assimov,"All my life I've been registering scores like that, so that I have the complacent feeling that I'm highly intelligent, and I expect other people to think so too".As he finds out later that this is clearly untrue.Theirs different types of intelligence in the world ,common sense,handy work ,not just book smarts.From passing one test doesnt make you intelligent maybe academically but theirs more in life to be educated by then what u answer correctly on a test.Sedaris states that launguage doesnt have to do with how intelligent a person is ,its not how you say it but more important if the infortmation trying to be told thats what makes a person seem educated.

Blog#3

a)My favorite qoute in goffman was when goffman says,"In our society when a man and a woman collaborate face-to-face in an undertaking the man-it would seem is likely to perform the executive role,provideing only that the one can be fashioned(32).I dont understand this qoute,this qoute is saying how in most commercials or advertisements the man is over powering the woman.The man plays the lead role and that the woman follow.Showing maybe that the man is more inferrior then the woman.I dont believe that a man always has to seem like hes more powerful and superior to the woman ,that he has more power because thats not the case now.Woman and men both have roles now where they can both seem to perform the executive role.

b)Another qoute i found interesting when bordo said"When did perfection become applicable to a human body?( 151).I like this qoute because she is trying to say that no body is perfect.Theirs no such thing as perfection.In the passage she is explaining how looks have taken over woman liposuctions,face-lifts all the plastic surgery thats how obsessed people have become with trying to look perfect.Thats leaveing a bad role model for young girls who have the presure to be perfect perfect body perfect looks.

c)Honoslty i think that goffmans and some of bordos analysis still hold up somewhat today.Goffmans passage was saying how how woman usually show most of the emotion and are more of the acting role.They are less of the main effective roll.This usually isnt true in some cases.Yes the woman still play feminine rolls obviously and some cases the man has to be the overpowering one in the advertisement.In susans case alot of her points still hold up today most girls in commercials have to look perfect.They have to attract the customers and the way they attract is by useing sex cells.To attract the men buyers in most commercials they use a woman selling her sexuality more then so the product but that will attract the man to buy it .Also with woman they use a gorgeous girl which will get the woman to buy the product because they want to resemble the beautiful woman.

Blog#2

a)"We assign identities and emotions where none exist "(McCloud 204).I found this qoute pretty interesting.Do we really assign an emotion to objects where their is none?I personally sometimes thing i do see an emotion on something where their is none,like in a cartoon or drawing.How come when we look at and drawing of lets say random shapes we try to make it something?When we look at the shapes we never just looked at it as a bunch of scribbles ,were always looking to see if it makes something or what it resembles.McCloud said "The fact that your mind is capable of takeing a circle ,two dots,and a line and turning them into a face is nothing short of the incredible,but still more incredible is the fact that you cannot avoid seeing a face here your mind wont let you "(202).This is very true and backs up exactly how i was saying we're always trying to see something in an image.A simple design can be made into the most complicated image.

b)I chose hasty generalization,My parents work monday through friday so everyone else's parents must work to.This is me assumeing that everyone works monday through friday because i know that my parents do.This is unrealistic because this evidence from my parents have nothing to do with anyone elses parents just me assumeing.

c)If ever there was an idea custom made for a jayleno monologue,this was it homeschooling,Isnt that like holding your children back from education?Parents think they can give their children a better education at home.Isnt that like holding your kids in from the real world?What ever happened to sending your children to public school?I happen to simpathize with the parents though perhaps because they want to deprive their kids from a normal childhood.