Sad But True

This week in sociology, I had the privilege to go to a soup kitchen downtown. What an experience it was. Much more than I could have possibly imagined. Every single person I had met at the soup kitchen had impacted me heavily. First off, the people that work for the soup kitchen are insperatoinal. Doing the best they possibly can to feed those in need. Now in terms of the people in need of food, that is a whole other ball game. Some of these people have jobs..but just not enough money to by themselves a good meal. Others don't have jobs or homes, or anyone they can call family or a companion. One person that I met who really touched me was a woman by the name of Jamie. She comes to the soup kitchen almost everyday to eat. She seemed to have a great head on her shoulders, outgoing, and to me did not seem like someone who needed financial help based off the things she said she had done. Well it turns out that she is dying of cancer and has only a few months to live at most. She comes to the soup kitchen everyday because she lives alone and has no one else. Truly heartbreaking.

perception or perfection?

This week in sociology we discussed perception of gender based off of society.
perception of men & woman are skewed by modern society to give men the role of badass carefree jocks, who don't cry at the sight of fear, to woman who are always sweet, sensitive, sexy & conforming. A man is whatever a man wants himself to be, a woman is whatever a woman wants herself to be. There should not be in any way a social norm for the "perfect girl", or guy, and how they should act, look, speak, walk, breathe, smell. Being a feminine man, to being a manly women; none of this is at all wrong, or out of the ordinary, abnormal, unexusible. Everyone, no matter the color of their hair, the tint of their skin a man just as much as mike tison; and every women is just as much a woman as Megan Fox.
Some examples of a "perfect man"



Societies "perfect woman"

Skin & Bones

Media,
the source of your son/daughters potty mouth,
 the reason your 13 year old is wearing pushup bra's,
the source of your friends anorexia,
the reason your at Mcdonald's reading this off your smart phone.

Media is apart of most familles daily lives. Everytime you turn on the television, any time you open up your internet browser, you are exposing yourself to media. Media has a massive impact on woman none the less men.
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Do you see what is wrong in both of these pictures.. These are models, and in this industry this is considered "normal" & or "expected". With this understood, apply this to an average every day female with this type of media apart of her life. Tragic.
In an attempt to digest this, this is only one issue that is relevant in media.

Hunny Chew Your Food

Nature vs. Nurture

In sociology this week, our class partook in a lesson of how everything you do is a learned trait. Something as simple as chewing your food. It is a trait that has to be learned over time. Michael Jordan wasn't born a star basketball player. He created that persona from a lot of practice, over a long period of time. What really took me over the edge this week was the news stories on several young children who were neglected by their families to which by age 8, most weren't at the age level of a six month old baby. Simple traits like walking, were some of the most difficult demands for some of these children to do. In one of the cases, due to confinement to a small room for such a long period of time, the child not able to see objects far away from them. The neglect of the parent, overal led to the child being near sided, from a medical standpoint. 

Though this man seems to be having a hard time chewing, I assure you this is a trait he did not know how to do when he was born.

Tuesday's with Morrie

The movie Tuesday's with Morrie, is about a man who is so into his work that he ignores his girlfriend to a point. Throughout the movie he goes over to his old Sociology professors house every Tuesday for advice on life. I must say from my own personal perspective the movie taught me a lot. In some ways I felt like Morrie himself was giving me the advice personally. Last week my friend had passed.  This as well as the movie really hit me hard with the people in my life and how they can be so close but so far away.  Today as I was sitting at her funeral, Morrie words among other things was in my head. Truly it has been quite an eventful last two weeks of my life, and the experiences I have had respectively made it clear to me what Morrie meant.