Just do it

Gatsby's problems, Daisy's problems, and Tom's problem's are all because they can't just do it.

Gatsby: Love is so very persistent. After four years, Gatsby is still chasing Daisy. Yet, all he could do was wait for her from his mansion and hope that she might've wandered in. Lucky for him that Nick could arrange a "coincidental" meeting between them. What would've happened if Nick never came? He should've tried harder when he was in love with her before.

Daisy: From the very beginning she had second thoughts about marrying Tom. She wanted to return the pearl necklace back to Tom. Yet, she couldn't and now she's being cheated on and getting into  arguments, and in general unhappy. If she could've go her act together all those years ago maybe she could've fallen in love with Gatsby sooner.

Tom: This confused man just can't seem to do anything. He doesn't exactly seem to love Daisy, yet he lies to Myrtle so he doesn't have to divorce Daisy. Even so, he lusts for Myrtle and complies with her wishes. ut maybe he doesn't truly love her either. He broke her nose. In any case, this man has a whole load of problems that he needs to get sorted out.

Strife, hardship, and frustration come to those that wait too long. Patience may be a virtue, but when you see your goal you have to reach for it. Not let it come to you. Learn to act on your wishes and make them come true. Look to Nike. Just do it.

The Tales of Time

Let's examine the word "history" and what it means. 

It's been said that history is written by the winners. The winners of war and life. From history we can learn what the winner's have to say about the past. "History" has the word "story" in it after all. Not to say that all the history textbooks in the world are propaganda, but that sometimes they may not be 100% true. After all, if history is written by the winners, then it will always be missing the tales of the losers.

To better our futures we must learn from the past so we do not repeat mistakes. Yet what good is their to learn from lies or massaged truths. How can one teach a lie to one's own students? Ethically it's wrong, but the ink has already dried on the chronicles of the past and cannot be rewritten. This cannot be helped.

In class on Wednesday, we read an interesting poem pertaining to a history that taught his own history to protect the innocence of his students. These little tyrants, however, were far from the angels they portrayed themselves to be. He was blind to his class. He was now a "winner" of history.. He wrote his own books and passed it down to his youth. As he worried about their innocence they beat each other up and break their glasses. As he lied about the past to protect their present innocence, he destroyed their future. 

History:the study of past events, particularly in human affairs.

Being a Good Parent

In the book, "The Bluest Eye", Pecola has a terrible mother and father who don't take care of their kids very well and in general live terrible lives. Unfortunately, this is largely due to both of their sad, sad childhoods. It's true they were discriminated by race, sex and even a different degree of race (Pg 92). But undisputably one factor to their lack of parental capabilities was due to their own lack of childhood.

Lesson 4: Don't abandon your child on a junk heap. (Pg 132)
Now this goes without saying, but apparently it happens. Cholly's mother abandoned him on a pile of trash near a railroad track--dangerous and disgusting. He's forced to be taken care of by his great aunt who isn't much of parental figure, at best just a caretaker.  Cholly doesn't have a basis for a parent so in turn he can't be a parent. Well, at least Aunt Jimmy didn't throw her child away.

Lesson 9: Don't ignore your child (Pg 111)
This one happens quite a bit, see Middle Child Syndrome. Pauline, Mrs. Breedlove, got a nail stabbed through her foot at age two. Someone should've been paying attention, but in this case it can maybe be forgiven as she was the 9th child. Afterwards she was the "broken" child. None of the other kids played with her and her parents went on to overlook the 9th child. Worse, she was given the bare minimum attention required of a parent to her child and none of the other kids even really talked to her. No teasing, abusing, or any attention given at all. It's been said that being alone makes you insane. Pauline, got off easy as a semi-delusional, incompetent parent.

Lesson 16: Do make sure that your child is thinking straight.
Cholly thinks about all sorts of stuff, like preferring the devil/evil over God/good(134). From a young age Cholly's corrupted. Something should've been done, anything. Pauline's not much better. She's found sanity through arranging stuff and categorizing objects throughout the house. Then she starts daydreaming and now she's lost forever in the world of her imagination. Until one day, the Stranger appears. Unfortunately, Pauline's parents ignored Lesson 9. So Pauline was whisked away riding into the sunset living happily ever after...for a while. Then they discovered money, probably something that they should've learned to deal with by then, and a tooth came loose, and everything started to fall apart.  Now Pecola has been raped.

Parenting isn't a hobby. It's a full-time job.

Beautiful

Just something that is pleasing.

Beautiful: pleasing the senses or mind aesthetically

Of course everyone has their own eyes,ears and mind so beauty should therefore be different to everybody. Yet, almost everybody happens to find the same things beautiful, like sunsets and rainbows. That's where the beauty standard to come into place. This standard of beauty does very region to region, yet within those regions manages to pervade the mind of every individual within. Pictures and ideals are shoved, sometimes just placed, into our everyday lives and we fully accept them. Everyone else does and we are apart of everyone so therefore we do too. How could everyone be wrong? Naturally there are the "rebels" among us who chose to be independent and use their own eyes, but that's just weird.

So why does beauty beauty matter? 

The very being of beauty saves national parks, creates jobs, and sells products. It exists and we have made use of this very interesting and alluring feeling that is beauty. 

So what happens to that which aren't beautiful? Who saves those that aren't beautiful? What job do they get? How do you sell that product?

These are the easy questions because everyone would save another person/nature, there are other jobs, and products don't always have to be beautiful.

So what else is there?

"Toni Morrison in the novel The Bluest Eye asserts that systemic racism results in unappreciated beauty and “psychological murder.” Morrison supports her assertions by illustrating a tragic anecdote of racial beauty standards and uses a young, vulnerable African American girl, Pecola Breedlove, to show how one can slowly accept illogical hate. The author’s purpose is to explain how readers should be “move[d]” to question their own morality in order to challenge the existing standards of beauty, assimilating black culture into western traditions.  The author writes in a conversational yet aggressive tone for those who are racially privileged." -5th Hour Ms. Valentino's Class

In truth beauty is much too complex to ask about with a couple of questions. It intertwines with all of life and changes the views, maybe even the hearts, of society. The Bluest Eye shows a young girl, Claudia, who leads an "ugly" life, who feels unappreciated and not as pretty as a white girl. What makes something Beautiful can either save it, or destroy it.

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       Remember the commercial that sold the miraculous medicine? ...then at the very end, in a voice twice the speed of the rest of the commercial, listed all the potential side effects ranging from coughing to death. Not all companies do. Only the ones legally obligated happen to have a little warning at the end.
      Toys happen to be exempt from whatever law that compels companies to put a side effects label. Yet, toys still can be dangerous--Prager even wondered if Barbie was a weapon! Their effects subtly change kids forever.
      From a young age, children, depending on their gender, can be given a toy. That very toy will influence the very essence of who the child is. Dolls in particular happen to heavily impact children's sense of self. They just figure that the doll is correct, that it is what truly defines a girl or guy. Naturally, toys seem so innocent, just like the children playing with them. In reality, they are one of the causes of gender stereotyping and death, 'cause those small parts choke the little kids.



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