Nickeled and Dimed

 I really enjoyed reading the Book Nickeled and Dimed. This book really gave the reader a glance into the real world for a couple minutes. but the truth is for some of us, it is more than just minutes that we  experience this world. real people do live like this in every town in every state in america. some people have it a lot harder than we want to give them credit for. we just tell ourselves that these people are lazy and uneducated, but this is not the case, as proven in the book. i found it deeply satisfying when she found it hard to live like those people. it was the hardest she had ever worked , as she stated in the book. and it gave me an even deeper apreciation for those hard working middle class workers who just want to take care of the family they have.

    I really enjoyed the second chapter when she worked in Portland, Maine. I am from Portland and t was really funny to hear her talking about places  that i grew up really close to. it did give me a different view of it though. when i was growing up, i didnt see the working class, as you might say. all i saw was the people who owned beach houses, so it was important for me to see this view of the town.

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K Fed Fighting fo the right

LOS ANGELES, California (AP) — A day after Britney Spears asked for a divorce, Kevin Federline filed court papers seeking sole custody of the couple’s two children.

Filing hints at Federline-Spears divorce battle – CNN.com

 ok so i know that i blog  lot about what some my say stupid crap, but it is the only thing that makes what to blog. i do not want to blog about something important, for fear i will get my facts wrong, so why not blog about meaningless garbble. but really, i know everybody thought that Britney and K fed, as he is called now, were going to call it quits but i had no idea it would happen this soon. i figured Britney loved KFed even though all the crap people say about him, but still she is getting a divorce? they just had a kid? things could not have been going that bad. but i guess she had just had enough with the white trash cracks. even though i knew that this was coming, i do feel bad for Britney and her kids. and i think its just retarted that Ken=vin is filing for sole custody for both children. he probably figuers if he doesnt get custody, he will actually have to get a job to support all the other K fed babies in the world. And then what will become of the freeloading rapper? with  no Britney to fall back on, i bet he could go as high as bieng the next Eminem. or at least have a full name, not just initials!

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Hunger as Ideology

i did not really enjoy reading Hunger as Ideology by Susan Bordo. i did not like this article because i do not like reading about how women are supposed to eat. i had a lot of trouble when i was younger for this very reason. It was always shown to me how women were supposed to eat and how they were supposed to look. after hearing about it and dealing with it for so long, i really cold not get into the fact that i was supposed to be analysis’s the story. even forgetting about m y past, i still did not like this story for the reason i thought it was way to wordy. i did like how she used a lot of examples, but even then, i got confused with the writing. i liked how she started out with the example of twiggy because i also like the history of Twiggy. and i did like when she talked about how men are able to eat completely different then women. i do think this is true and completely unfair. i hate it how women always watch what they eat because, god forbid, they eat to much and get looked at funny. yet men can eat as much as they want. the more the better for men. so all in all, i thought this article was way to wordy with way to many inquisitions for me to deal with. she made her point that women have to eat differently than men. Bravo.

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Bill Cosby is now a doctor in real life

PHILADELPHIA, Pennsylvania (AP) — Bill Cosby settled a lawsuit Wednesday with a woman who said the entertainer drugged and sexually assaulted her at his home outside Philadelphia.

Bill Cosby settles suit alleging sexual assault – CNN.com

 this article made me rather upset. as a child i watched the cosby show religously. i looked at him as my father. i know that bill cosby may not be the actuall person that he played on television, but he amde the character really come true. so it is very hard for me to believe that BILL cosby could do these things that he is acused of doing. i read through this article many times and i stilll cant decide if he really did it or not. why would he give her pills for trouble sleeping? what is he a doctor in real life? im confused. and the woman said that when she woke up from after she Voluntarily took these three blue pills, her clothes were a mess. first off, i dont take pills from anybody but my doctor. and then she stayed over night? why? how? but at least the man had enough decency to make breakfast the next morning.

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Reese and Ryan over?

CHEATING SCANDAL BEHIND REESE’S MARRIAGE BREAKUP

National Enquirer

ok how many more people can i possibly loose respcet for?Reese and Ryan were the perfect couple for like a million years. who ever thought they were going to break up. its just like Jessica Simpson and Nick Lachey. i never thought they were  going to break up and when they did it took a couple of days for the idea to sink in. i wonder if this scandal really took place or if it is another enquirer rumor? i just cant get myself to believe it. i am going to have th=o hear the same story from at least two other reliable sources for me to believe it. they are (or were, who knows?) the perfect couple. i knew they were goign to get together when they were in cruel intentions. they played it so real and made me believe they were really in love. i guess they were, so what happened? please someone confirm.

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The achievement of Desire

after i read this story of a young spanish child going to school and become a teacher, i wondered why he disrespected his parents so much? throughout the whole story, he talked like he absolutly hated them. he did not like them for the reason that they were not as educated as he was. they talked differently  and didnt read the same books as he did. i do think that we are reformed by the education we recieve. i think it effects people on certain levels. you see some kids that have a chance to get a good education yet take advantage of it. for me, high school was never that important to me. but now that i am in college and on my own i have learned to apprciate education on many more levels. i sometimes want to read certian books that maybe my peers have not. and i have noticed myself watching political programs that i would not normally watch, for the fact that it gives me something to talk about in my poliytics  class. so in this way, eduaction has reformed me personlally and i am sure events like this take place for many people.

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