You Tube Commercial Response

When I watched the Dave Onslaught video, I was not very shocked or surprised. The video starts out with this young girl probably around ten or twelve starring into the camera with an "I want it" look in her eye that draws you in and makes you wonder what she is looking at. The next thing you see is a series of images and clips for weight loss supplements, advertisements for make up and beauty products, workouts, plastic surgery, a woman on a scale, a women throwing up, and with this young girl looking at all of it. At the end it said “Talk to your daughter before the beauty industry does". The reason I wasn't very shocked was because I feel like this is very normal. For example when I go to the store I always see little girls around the age of six and eight buying make up and talking about how they shouldn't eat this or they shouldn't eat that.

What I think the central message for behind this video was to open your eyes to the effects that the media and and beauty industry have on all of us, especially young girls. With the media telling us to do all of these things many people go to drastic measures to achieve this "perfect" body or clear skin. Young girls are easily influenced and vulnerable and believe everything the media is projecting to them, and that is why I think Dove put the message "Talk to your daughter before the beauty industry does". I thought that this video had a good message but it is really unrealistic. A young girl is very easily influenced and when there is magazines telling you your body should look a certain way and television commercials advertising a new makeup product, I don't think a talk a small talk with their daughters are going to help much. There is way too much campaign telling us otherwise.

Reflecting on Symposium

During our symposium we started out by discussing the meaning of virtue. In Greek and Latin virtue meant "Moral Excellence". For the most part I agreed with this meaning of virtue, goodness and righteousness. From there we learned what the Four Cardinals of Virtues were which Socrates and Plato came up with. The first one being Prudence (Knowledge), the second being Fortitude (Bravery and Courage), the third one was Temperance (Moderation), and fourth being Justice (Fairness). The two statements we built off on were "Wrongful doing is a consequence of ignorance" and "The best way to live is to focus on self-development rather than material wealth"
This was the first time our class had done a symposium and I thought it was very interesting but confusing at the same time. There was a lot of things I wanted to add to this discussion but I couldn't put a lot of my thoughts into words that everyone would understand. I knew what I wanted to say but it was a lot of scattered thoughts. I thought it was really interesting to hear my classmates thoughts on the subjects that were brought up. Although sometimes it would turn into more of a debate than a discussion.
Overall I enjoyed hearing every ones thoughts and opinions next time I will try and get all of my thoughts together so i can get into the discussion more.

Women in Ancient Greece.

The women of Athens role in society was very different from the women of Sparta. The women in Athens were s small step above slaves in the 5th century (B.C). In Athens, there was an ideal of an obedient woman, the women lived under the protection of her father or husband (or some type of male figure). The women of Athens primary responsibilities were to have and educate kids, manage the house, spin, weave, and oversee food preparation. Small girls in Athens were expected to earn their education, In wealthy families girls were educated to run the household of servants and slaves, and were usually married by the age of 13. Athenian woman were put into three different classes, the lowest class was a slave who helped with domestic chores and helped raise children of wifes. The second class was the Athenian citizen woman. The third class was known as the Hetaerae. The Hetaere unlike the slaves and the citizens, were very similar to the Geisha's of China. Hetaerae women were given an education in reading, writing, and music, and were allowed into the Agora and other structures which were off limits to citizen and slave women. Unlike the women of the Athens the women of Sparta were born with respect and freedom, they were required by law to be given the same care as their brothers. Spartan girls were required to attend school but a shorter period than boys. At school girls were allowed to participate in sports. Spartan women rarely got married before the age of 20, and unlike Athenian woman who covered up and were rarely seen outside the house, Spartan woman were allowed to wear what they pleased.

Plato and Socrates

I think one of the most beautiful things about youth is how naive a child starts out. For example when you are a kid you are told Santa is real, and that they should put their tooth under their pillow so the tooth fairy can leave money. Being a kid (youth) is so beautiful because they are not aware of the worlds problems, so they have nothing to worry about making them have such a great simple outlook on life. Because youth has this simple out look on life, without worry and care free it makes them beautiful. As kids grow older they start to learn that things such as the tooth fairy and Santa do not exist. They then learn about problems around the world and in their own life and no longer have a simple outlook on life. These problems and worries that come with age take away from their innocence and care free way of life. Therefore taking away the natural beauty a child has, their innocence.
Plato and Socrates, Socrates was the first of the three great Athenian philosophers. He was born in 469 BC, In his mid forties he began questioning things like "what is wisdom?" and "what is beauty?". He decided that he would ask people he met these questions to come up with some ideas for answers. The Socrates encouraged people to answer these questions by asking even more questions. Plato followed these ideas and wrote them down, he himself also began to write down his own ideas on philosophy. Today there is an idea on the perfect human form. Here in America the ideal perfect body for a woman is mostly skinny, busty, and tall. This "perfect" human form does not exist and is very unrealistic. This "perfect" human form is different every where around the world.
I do not have an idea on the perfect human form but I have asked a couple of people on what they think the "perfect" human form is.

Female,13.

"I think that there is no real perfect body. What everyone thinks is an ideal body is very unrealistic"

My Images of Beauty

Beauty is not in the face; beauty is a light in the heart.

~Kahlil Gibran

My first image of beauty is a sunflower. I think that the sun flower repersents beauty becuase of its simplicity. To some beauty is all about aesthetics such as; make-up, hair, clothes, and body image. I think beauty is nature, things in their natural state. Nature does not need make-up, good hair, and clothes to be beautiful, it does not need to be altered. That is why I chose a sunflower for my first image of beauty.

My second image of beauty is this girl in a field jumping. I think this image repersents beauty because when I look at this photo I automatically think that this girl is happy, and care free. I think someone enjoying life and being happy and original is beautiful becuase happiness is great. Another word that comes to mind when thinking of what repersents beauty is music. Music is a wonderful way of expressing yourself through instruments or through singing. Beauty can be defined many different ways but I think beauty is happiness, and nature.

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wow my name is stephanie i picked a LAME template for my blog. lamaleme


that was mike....he sucks at halo3.
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