Monday, December 8, 2008

Im so sorry girls i forgotten to post my essay on time!
I have some trouble with my eassy hopefully our input will help me out.
Thought out time people have change alone with what’s in style. People around the world have had an eating disorder at some point in there live. It was said that years ago people who were over weight were the one’s that grabbed all the attention. Nowadays skinny people are the once that are in style, there the once that grab the attention. Now people are trying to be as thin as possible to fit in, being fat is not acceptable. This is when Bulimia kicks in, bulimia is characterized by episodes of bingeing and purging—through vomiting, laxative use or compulsive exercising. Bulimics often binge on large quantities of food, however it is also common for a bulimic to purge after a small or normal sized meal. (*) . Another eating disorder is Anorexia, which is distinguished by the refusal to maintain a normal body weight. The longer and more extreme the starvation, the more severe the health repercussions (*)

But who is responsible for this big change that has cost a lot people their live? One that plays an important role is the media, along with friends and family. The sad part is that a lot of these disorders are not noticeable. When food becomes a human being’s enemy is when all the complications start.
There was a article in teens magazine wrote my Stephanie Booth of two teenage girls, “Brooke Casey and Denise Gray” on how each the girls developed their eating disorder. The first story is about Brook.
Before I became anorexic, people complimented me on how thin I was—not how pretty I was or how great I dressed. By high school, I thought being thin was my only positive physical attribute. It felt good knowing that I may not be as cute as the cheerleaders, but I was skinnier. I started worrying that if I ever gained weight I'd become ugly. That's why I stopped eating all fast food and anything with more than 2 grams of fat—basically, anything I liked. The worse something tasted to me, the safer I felt eating it. I'd usually have herbal tea for breakfast, a plain salad and diet soda for lunch and a cup of white rice for dinner. I ate slowly, trying to make every bite last. So many foods were "bad" to me. The hot fudge sundaes and fried cheese I once loved came to gross me out. When I felt hungry, I'd take a bath or go to bed early. Drinking a lot of hot water filled me up. I gave myself strict rules: no eating after 6 p.m., no eating more than half of anything and each time I walked into my kitchen—even for just a glass of water—I'd have to "pay" for it with 50 sit-ups. I was in constant motion three hours a day to burn calories. I'd bike-ride, do exercise tapes or swim a mile at the YMCA (sometimes I'd walk the two miles there and back). Exhaustion made me forget how hungry I was. In six months I went from 122 to 87 pounds—which felt more like 870 pounds to me. My jeans were hanging off of my 5-foot 6-inch frame, but I thought I looked huge. I was constantly freezing, even with long underwear and two pairs of wool socks on. Everyone would be wearing shorts while my fingers and toes would be turning blue. My life was counting calories, weighing myself and standing nude in front of the mirror while I hunted for fat. I didn't have much energy. My grades dropped, and if it was a choice between exercise and going out with friends, I would sweat through two aerobics classes. Friends said, "You need to fatten up," but I thought they were jealous—I even thought my mom was. I'd get so mad when she asked, "Are you eating?" What was she trying to do—make me fat? When I fainted in aerobics, everyone realized how bad I'd gotten. My body was so undernourished; I had to go to the hospital. (* )
The second story is about
I've had trouble dealing with my weight since I was 12 years old. Eighth grade was the worst. I was going through a chubby phase, and kids were really cruel. To gain control, I basically stopped eating. Not all at once, of course. First I started cutting down on fat. Then meat. Then I wouldn't touch any fat or food that I enjoyed. My parents pleaded with me to eat, but losing weight became an addiction. I knew the calorie and fat counts of everything. I would never eat in restaurants because I didn't trust them. I was afraid that I would become that chubby child again if I ate regular meals. I mostly ate alone. I was such a picky eater, it was embarrassing sitting there with friends. In time, I managed to push away most of my friends. Now I realize they must have been scared of me. Who wants to hang out with a walking corpse?
As I continued to give up food, I ultimately had to give up the one thing that made me feel good: running. In tenth grade I started on the track team and went for 8-mile runs every morning. After my runs, I'd eat a slice of diet bread, a quarter of an apple and a scoop of soy protein powder. For the rest of the day I'd snack on fruits, vegetables and low-calorie crackers. I never allowed myself more than 900 calories a day. By the time I was in twelfth grade, my body didn't have enough energy to run. I had to quit.
In school I was always a good student, always on the dean's list, but it was never good enough. I was really hard on myself. When I got less than an A, I felt horrible, and I would eat even less—making it harder to concentrate and memorize or learn anything.
During stressful times I ate the least. The only thing I could control was food. I weighed my lowest, 89 pounds, in the summer of 1998. I was transferring to a new college, my sister moved away and my parents were having problems. This time, however, I didn't go back to eating my normal amount. I seriously restricted my calories, until the time I thought my heart stopped beating.
I relate myself to Brook’s experience, When I was in high school I was so skinny and I felt like one of the hottest girls in school. But I lost control and I started gaining weight like crazy. From 125 pounds I gained 35 pounds, when I try to fit into my clothes nothing fit. I felt so depress, I would hear my parents and sister of how much weight I gained. They didn’t make me feel bad put deep inside I didn’t believed that I was overweight. One day I was setting in my history class when the teacher called out my name for me to get my test back, some I got up and walk up to the front and when I was on my way back to sit my friend told me that I had gained a lot of weight. It was then when I felt my face burning, I got so embarrassed that I didn’t want to go back to school. Since that day I got depressed about my weight and I started drinking pills to loss weight. When I stop drinking those pill i gained twice the weight I that I had lost. I felt like if was drowning and that no one could help me. Luckily I’m not in depression anymore and my life is moving forward.
my parents never knew that I was going through depression, since I was the third child out seven and going to school and working at the same time it was difficult for them to notice that I was going through depression. My depression for being over weight wasn’t as risky like in other cases. When a person experience and eating disorder that they give a lot signs that many people don’t recognize. It was estimated that at some point in a women’s life span 1 out 4 will developed eating disorders. I think that these is a problem and needs a solution. I strongly believed that if women, teens, or men get educated and recognized the characteristic and behavior of eating disorders they could by the first once to save children’s, wives, husband’s, or your own life.
Here are some of the characteristic and behavior that people experiencing when developing eating disorders. People are different and they would experience different behavior or Characteristics . For example: dieting, restricting, fasting, Bingeing—a typical binge consists of 3,000 to 10,00calories being ingested between 20-40 minutes, Purging—by self-induced vomiting, laxative abuse, use of ipecac, diet pills, diuretics, and/or compulsive over-exercise, Food rituals such as cutting and dicing food into small pieces, arranging food in a particular way on the plate, chewing a certain number of times before swallowing, Collecting recipes, food coupons, Obsessing, counting calories, fat grams, Cooking and baking for others, Discomfort when eating with others, Secret hoarding and/or secretive eating of food, Obsessive-compulsive behaviors, Isolation, Suicide attempt

Wednesday, November 19, 2008

i think that students recieved what they earn. no i dont think that the University honor code is too harsh. First of all students should go to teachers when having troubles. I believe that the university is preparing students for the real world, and in the real world you can be doing stupid things with no consequences.People think that just copying a sentence is not going to harm anybody, but the true is that it's someone's else work!!! I dont think that nobody is responsible except the student. Unless if the student is not well inform then i would think that the teachers are responisble. I think that every english teacher should inform alittle on plagiarizm. in every class when i have a project teachers always give students a brief info on it and "they are not english teachers". My teachers always warn us about the consequences and they always do plagize, is not worth it! So maybe the schools might be reponsible also. bottom line students should be more aware of what is plagiarizm.

Monday, November 17, 2008

This is what i have so far!!!!
I assume that almost every person in this plant has lied once before. Even the presidents have lied before! I think that I would consider a person that has lie before an honest person. However it also depends in certain variables. Honesty is what makes a human bean a better person.
I believe that there are also certain times where people shouldn’t lie at all. A personal experience taught me not to lie unless it’s necessary. Last year on my birthday I decided to rent a party bus. I was very excited for that day to arrive; but at the same time I was also so stress out because I didn’t know what to wear. It had to be some thing unique, but that same time elegant. I had a friend help me out, what I was wearing that night it wouldn’t be something that I would ever wear. That night I taught it look good the day after I couldn’t believe what I was wearing.
I tried that outfit once again and it didn’t look good on me, first because I’m short and second I’m not super skinny. I don’t understand why people special girls have to lie this way. I totally thought that my friend was a true friend but after actually seen what I wore she wasn’t my friend. If I was in her place I would have chose something else. But did realize that was my fault. I could have not worn what she chose out.
However even though my friend lie she is the type of person that to be she is not honest. I do believe that my boyfriend is a honest person even though he has tell me small lies before. Why do I consider him an honest person even though he lies? Will it’s because I think there is grades of lies. The lies that he has told me are lie to surprise me with dinner, flower, lunch etc. Those are lie that wont hurt me or anybody else.

Wednesday, November 12, 2008

The media focus more on who is the best looking! Sometimes theirs TV shows run contest on what girl is the better looking and the winner would get dinner with a handsome guy. The message that I got from the show was that in order to have dinner with a handsome you would need to be super hot. Also nowadays I see more teenage girls dressing sexier at younger age. Next cartoons nowadays are teaching children of the opposite sex at younger age and on some cartoon they even have the sex jokes! On the other hand sometimes media is very informative to parents and children. It depends also on what are you watching, different channels have didn’t things going on.

Wednesday, November 5, 2008

Dear President Obama,

First of all I wanted to congratulate you on your first victory. I’m writing this letter to you to let you know what I think and probably many other people think about what is going on in this country. Right now I feel that this country is in crisis. And I think that you’re a man capable of making a change for the better. I know that it isn’t going to be an easy job to do. There are a lot of different issues that need to be dealt with. For example the war that’s going on right now in Iraq where many people are dying for no reason. Another really big issue is the economy. Too many people are losing their jobs and homes. Businesses are being closed, and the prices of things have gone up. These are just some of the many issues that have to be dealt with. But I have faith that you’ll have many more victories in your term as President.

Thank you

Wednesday, October 22, 2008



                                           Essay #4

Huckleberry Finn novel has raised a lot of controversy through out time. A lot of Controversy rose because of the text of the book. Some people argue that the text is racist, sexist and along with many other critics. In Peaches Henry’s essay she argues that the text is not races, she talks about other critiques that are against the book to help her support her point of view. She talks about those essays and gives the other side of the coin. I agree with Peaches Henry that the book is not racist. However I do agree with other critics that the book shouldn’t be present in elementary, junior high, or even high school. I also disagree with Henry for presenting that novel as an American Classic.

            John Wallace a former administrator at the Mark Twain intermediate school was against the book. While serving on a school’s human relations committee, he did a campaign to have Huck stricken from school curriculum Later schools from New York City, Virginia, Florida, Pennsylvania, Illinois, and Iowa to Texas concur with Wallace’s assessment of Huck Finn “demands the attention of the academic community”. It was news that the book was number nine out of thirty books that is frequently challenged which instead of being a positive thing it was turned to be a negative thing, Classified as a “racial problem”. Still the book is one of the most requested.

            I do agree with the removal of the book from schools because of its issues.  A lot of children aren’t ready to read a novel with its complicated text. Children are the ones that are more cruel at younger ages, because they don’t stop and think of what they’re actually saying. New York Times received a letter from Allan B. Ballard recalling the moment was he was in class reading Huck Fin in a class with white children.

“I can still recall the anger I felt as my white classmates read aloud the word “nigger.” In fact, as I write this letter I am getting angry all over again. I wanted to sink into my seat. Some of the whites snickered, others giggled. I can recall nothing of the literary merits of this work that you term “the greatest of all American novels.” I only recall the sense of relief I felt when I would flip ahead a few pages and see that the word “nigger” would not be read that hour.”(p386)

            On the other hand Henoff believes that “ by confronting Huck it will give students “the Capacity to see past words like nigger”….into what the writer is actually “saying” (p.387)

Henoff wonders “what’s going to happen to a kid when gets into the world if he’s going to let a word paralyze him so he can’t think” (p.387)

I do think that children should get presented with certain books at a young age, but not Huck Finn. Huckleberry Finn was a book written years and years ago and the text was how people would call slaves back then. I’m saying that it was okay for them to treat human being like that, but the text was presented how it was back then.

            On the other hand Langston Hughes offers a convincing explanation of the signification of  the word “nigger” to blacks:

            The word “nigger” to colored people of high and low degree is like a red rag to a bull. Used rightly or wrongly, ironically or seriously, of necessity for the sake of realism, or impishly for the sake of comedy, it doesn’t matter. Negroes do not like it in any book or play whatsoever, be the book or play ever so sympathetic in its treatment of the basic problems of the race. The word nigger, you see, sums up for us who are colored all the bitter years of insult and struggle in America”(p.388)

            I can understand what Langston is talking about when he says that it is like waiving a red rag in front of a bull. Me being Chicana I have had to deal with racism myself. I know what it feels like to be called names by someone who is from another race. However if you really think about it, a word is just a word. It’s the idea of someone trying to disrespect you. So I think that it really depends on how the word is being used. I don’t think that Mark Twain was trying to disrespect anybody when he wrote the book. He was just trying to show how it was back then. If you’re going to tell a story that has to do with history, then you shouldn’t leave anything out because no matter what, you can’t change history.

             

 

Angelica Flores

English 1A

                                            Huck

Huckleberry Finn novel has raised a lot of controversy through out time. A lot of Controversy rose because of the text of the book. Some people argue that the text is racist, sexist and along with many other critics. In Peaches Henry’s essay she argues that the text is not races, she talks about other critiques that are against the book to help her support her point of view. She talks about those essays and gives the other side of the coin. I agree with Peaches Henry that the book is not racist. However I do agree with other critics that the book shouldn’t be present in elementary, junior high, or even high school. I also disagree with Henry for presenting that novel as an American Classic.

            John Wallace a former administrator at the Mark Twain intermediate school was against the book. While serving on a school’s human relations committee, he did a campaign to have Huck stricken from school curriculum Later schools from New York City, Virginia, Florida, Pennsylvania, Illinois, and Iowa to Texas concur with Wallace’s assessment of Huck Finn “demands the attention of the academic community”. It was news that the book was number nine out of thirty books that is frequently challenged which instead of being a positive thing it was turned to be a negative thing, Classified as a “racial problem”. Still the book is one of the most requested.

            I do agree with the removal of the book from schools because of its issues.  A lot of children aren’t ready to read a novel with its complicated text. Children are the ones that are more cruel at younger ages, because they don’t stop and think of what they’re actually saying. New York Times received a letter from Allan B. Ballard recalling the moment was he was in class reading Huck Fin in a class with white children.

“I can still recall the anger I felt as my white classmates read aloud the word “nigger.” In fact, as I write this letter I am getting angry all over again. I wanted to sink into my seat. Some of the whites snickered, others giggled. I can recall nothing of the literary merits of this work that you term “the greatest of all American novels.” I only recall the sense of relief I felt when I would flip ahead a few pages and see that the word “nigger” would not be read that hour.”(p386)

            On the other hand Henoff believes that “ by confronting Huck it will give students “the Capacity to see past words like nigger”….into what the writer is actually “saying” (p.387)

Henoff wonders “what’s going to happen to a kid when gets into the world if he’s going to let a word paralyze him so he can’t think” (p.387)

I do think that children should get presented with certain books at a young age, but not Huck Finn. Huckleberry Finn was a book written years and years ago and the text was how people would call slaves back then. I’m saying that it was okay for them to treat human being like that, but the text was presented how it was back then.

            On the other hand Langston Hughes offers a convincing explanation of the signification of  the word “nigger” to blacks:

            The word “nigger” to colored people of high and low degree is like a red rag to a bull. Used rightly or wrongly, ironically or seriously, of necessity for the sake of realism, or impishly for the sake of comedy, it doesn’t matter. Negroes do not like it in any book or play whatsoever, be the book or play ever so sympathetic in its treatment of the basic problems of the race. The word nigger, you see, sums up for us who are colored all the bitter years of insult and struggle in America”(p.388)

            I can understand what Langston is talking about when he says that it is like waiving a red rag in front of a bull. Me being Chicana I have had to deal with racism myself. I know what it feels like to be called names by someone who is from another race. However if you really think about it, a word is just a word. It’s the idea of someone trying to disrespect you. So I think that it really depends on how the word is being used. I don’t think that Mark Twain was trying to disrespect anybody when he wrote the book. He was just trying to show how it was back then. If you’re going to tell a story that has to do with history, then you shouldn’t leave anything out because no matter what, you can’t change history.

             

 

Wednesday, October 15, 2008

In the history of the book Huckleberry Finn there has been a lot of controversy. The novel has gotten a lot of criticism from different people for the way the book was written. The critiques come from different people like; critics, authors, religious fundamentalist, right-wing politicians, encompass parents and even librarians. These people argue that the book is racist against black people for the words it uses to describe Jim. It also makes a Jim (black person) look like a fugitive because he escapes trying to look for his freedom. A lot of people wanted for the book to be taken out of schools. Something that I agree with Peaches Henry is that the book shouldn’t be removed from school; it should be introduced to children later on in High School.