PV jinx day tally

Today is PV jinx day. As I walk around the halls I see girls with money pinned to them and/or wearing shirts addressing the $10 fellatio scandal last year. Is it offensive or funny?
Some t-shirts said: I'll do anything for $10" or offered a special menu to choose from. Is this degrading the school or is it just plain old fun?  I decided to ask my 12 classmates. The tally came down to...9 people thinking it was offensive and 3 people thinking it was funny.

I guess this is what it takes to get medical attention!

Indigenous Women gives birth outside of Hospital in Oaxaca.

Mail Online:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2451618/Mexican-woman-gives-birth-clinic-LAWN-treatment-denied.html

USA Today:
http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2013/10/09/woman-denied-help-gives-birth-on-a-hospital-lawn/2955209/

SanDiegoRed.com
http://www.sandiegored.com/noticias/44288/Woman-gives-birth-in-a-hospital-front-yard-after-she-was-denied-medical-service/

Irma Lopez of 29 years old went to the hospital to give to her baby boy. At the hospital she was denied service because she was only 8 months and according to the nurse not ready to give birth. There was also said that there was a language barrier between the nurse and Irma. All Irma understood was the word no. as her husband pleaded inside Irma went to the lawn and waited in pain. According to the hospital they were also very busy and unable to help. About an hour later Irma gave birth to her baby boy Salvador on the hospital lawn. Without any help. Alone. In public.

When I heard the news on the television I stopped what I was doing and I asked out loud what? what the he**? They denied her service why? The anger rushed in easily. I quickly typed in the case on the internet and read and skimmed different sources on the case. My question is why would a nurse tell a women she is not ready to have her baby? Is it not the mom that feels when she is going to have her baby? The women can feel when she is about to dilate. The nurses job is to care for the patient. No excuses. No personal opinion.

The nurse blamed the situation on a language barrier and a busy day in the rural hospital. Does misunderstandings and busy work days give the hospital a free pass? What is this monopoly? There is no get out of jail free card in the hospital!

Many are saying that this case can be seen as an act of racism because not many pay attention to the indigenous people. They are considered low class in the Mexican hierarchy. It is arguable.

I understand that language can be a huge barrier, but that is why we have hands and eyes and bodies. Not all communication is done with words. The nurse could have offered her a room with clean sheets to lay down on. I understand that due to the busy schedule in the hospital that day the nurse might have been under a lot of pressure and frustration, but there was no need to deny Irma. On the other hand I wonder why Irma did not insist more on having the proper care. Why did she just walk outside? Was she frustrated? Did she believe that she would get the hospital's attention that way?

This is a topic that can be looked at in many different ways. It can be argued and debated many times and each time will have slightly different conclusions.

What has happened to humanity? To dignity? How do you say no to a mother ready to give birth? How do you blame your actions on a busy work schedule and language?

Busy.
Language Barrier.
A baby born outside a hospital Lawn.
I guess that is what it takes to get medical attention!

SONNET ANALYSIS #1

Big Question: Why is it that people in society are intensely interested in pleasing others and/or fitting in to the "perfect" world society has drawn for us? Why the desire to live in that world?

Sonnet 141: http://www.shakespeares-sonnets.com/sonnet/141

In faith I do not love thee with mine eyes, 

For they in thee a thousand errors note;

But 'tis my heart that loves what they despise,

Who, in despite of view, is pleased to dote.

Nor are mine ears with thy tongue's tune delighted;

Nor tender feeling, to base touches prone,

Nor taste, nor smell, desire to be invited

To any sensual feast with thee alone:

But my five wits nor my five senses can

Dissuade one foolish heart from serving thee,

Who leaves unswayed the likeness of a man,

Thy proud heart's slave and vassal wretch to be:

  Only my plague thus far I count my gain,

 That she that makes me sin awards me pain.



Interpretation:
I do not love you on the outside, not with my eyes for I see faults in you. I like you, but I despise your image.

When hearing your name I am not delighted, nor do I feel a tender or sensual pull towards you.

Despite this I am still your servant, I cannot escape that.

I only gain one thing from you. You are the women that makes me sin and rewards me with pain.


In my big question I state my frustration by asking why people are people pleasers. I ask why the world we live in has shaped our perception of many things. This sonnet is focused on outer beauty and the physic of a women. The reader recognizes that the narrator is degrading the women he is talking about. The women is unlike any other women. She is ugly, the sound of her voice is unpleasant, she is not desired yet there is something about her that forces the narrator to stay close to her. It is something not even he could fully explain.

In our world today we have media telling us how we should look and what we should wear. The media lets us know that in order to be pleasant and fit into their perfect little world is to look and dress a certain way. It has taught young women to strive to look one way, and young men to fish for that perfect all over girl; nothing more and nothing less. Nothing and nobody else matters. In the sonnet the narrator is focused on the physic of the women, and last comes her power, heart and personality. The fact that the women is not really present in the sonnet may be a coincidence, but I take it as another point to support my thoughts. The women has no say, she lives to please the man for what he is looking for first is outer beauty. Our media is to blame.

A POETIC INQUIRY

Thought Process: As I thought about what topics could make a connection with my big question I skimmed my brain and did not get to far. I thought about sonnet 65 and all of the sonnets we read in AP Spanish Literature last year and I smiled, because I knew I was not going to start my homework with a blank mind. I typed in Sonnets on Google and of course many sources popped up. I typed in the key words “pleasing people” and sonnet 141 and sonnet 130. I chose Sonnet 141. 

HAMLET REMIX

       1ST ATTEMPT: Hamlet's character uses three languages to get his ideas, thoughts and actions across. These languages consist of, locutionary, illocutionary, and perlocutionary force. Locutionary is when Hamlet speaks of his plans, he is basically delivering a message; getting his ideas in the air. Illocutionary is experiencing that idea, it is whatever is being done when the idea, thought or emotion is being said.  As Hamlet tells Horatio his plan does he pace around the room?, hold anything?, lower or higher his voice? Perlocutionary force is what is achieved by what is being said, so basically what actions have been done. I believe what Austin is trying to let the reader know is that there is a connection between what is said and what is done. There is a process and it begins with locutionary force and makes its way up to perlocutionary force; from words to actions.

      Every time Hamlet says one of his soliloquies he is self overhearing. He is hearing himself think and feeling the emotion through his own words. Every time Hamlet speaks to himself he has a melancholic yet angry and disappointing almost hopeless tone. The tone allows the reader to recognize how desperate and in need Hamlet is. He is wrestling with his thoughts and emotions and contemplating whether or not he should make them a reality. Hamlet is trapped and is unsure on how to take his locutionary force to perlocutionary force.  If he made the transition he would actually be doing something with his words instead of throwing them up into the air. There is a process that Hamlet has to go through to actually make the transformation successful. I am an over-thinker sometimes I make things harder than they really are. The thoughts and ideas that run in and out of my head are a vast amount. I believe there is a process to changing words into actions. When my words slip into the air I know that all of a sudden there is something tying me to them, whether it be accountability or just plain hope that I could get whatever I said done. The more I say something the more I reassure myself that it could be done. Sooner than later I see myself achieving what I said. Hamlet is the same way; he goes through a process, restates his goal and ideas to himself often and finally turns his words into actions by killing Claudius.

      When I look back on an experience I like to think of an accomplishment or something I struggled to    achieve. How did I get to that point? What drove me? The memory is created by the struggle. Hamlet had to battle with the memory and command of his father. He suffered his loss and was motivated to to carry on a memory, a legacy, that of his father.

      In the beginning of the play it almost seemed as if Hamlet were going to be the vision of pre-modern man, but throughout the course of the play he proved the reader wrong. Instead of being a talker he converted himself into a man of action. By pre-modern man Austin meant someone who talks and talks, but does no action. Polonius was the perfect example, he was like the dog that barked the loudest, but never bit a leg.

     

2ND ATTEMPT: 

3RD ATTEMPT: PEER INTERPRETATIONS

I went up to as many people in our class and asked what they thought about performative utterance, Hamlet and self-overhearing. I had lots of fun going around and asking if they could share their knowledge. ☺

Izamar: Performative utterance is a series of words that not only convey action in them, but influence it also. Hamlet used words to make people think he was crazy and was successful. Performative utterance is about saying the words to a specific person and having that person get the meaning you want them to get. 

Javi: Hamlet is crazy lol

Mia: The purpose was to break down the language in Hamlet, to give us a better understanding of things.

Sam: (puts face on desk)

Ugh that requires thinking

Alright

(face palm)

Andrew: I have nothing to say on the subject

Lindsey: Perforamtive utterance is the ability to say something, hear it, and act upon it. 

Kendall: Self-overhearring is when you say something out loud and it reinforces your belief that it is something you want to do. 

Ricky: Not right now

Miranda: Performative utterance helps you portray your general message, tone, the way you speak, your body language etc. It helps you decode a persons character. 

TED TALK ON BODY LANGUAGE: Amy Cuddy

check it out on: 

http://www.ted.com/talks/amy_cuddy_your_body_language_shapes_who_you_are.html

     

Evolution of Music - Pentatonix

IT IS A MUST WATCH! Pentatonix is the best!

THIS IS THE LINK: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lExW80sXsHs


http://www.youtube.com/v/lExW80sXsHs?autohide=1&version=3&autoplay=1&showinfo=1&attribution_tag=qOuTAa2DR-TmwJa4hM2yjg&autohide=1&feature=share

offensive or funny?

You always have those light hearted people that try to look at the bright side of things. Yes! Those people are great people to be around, but when do you draw the line...

Read these articles: http://shine.yahoo.com/healthy-living/woman-s-boston-marathon-bombing-costume--what-it-says-about-everyone-205502002.html
http://www.orlandosentinel.com/features/blogs/gone-viral/os-boston-bombing-victim-death-threats-11042013,0,5316014.post
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2486663/Twitter-turns-user-posted-picture-Boston-Marathon-victim-Halloween.html

A 22 year old women dressed as a participant in the Boston Marathon Bombing for halloween. The bloodied women wore a t-shirt with a participant number in the middle and running shorts and shoes as she posed with a flashing smile to a camera. My question to her is was this some kind of a joke? How can you explain  your decision for this heartless costume?

I am trying to look at the situation from both sides of the fence, but I am finding it quite difficult to argue that the costume might have served as a sign of honor and remembrance for those who were lost.
I wish this women would have thought about her costume more, because now she is suffering the despise and hate that comes with idiotic decisions. I find her action embarrassing and plain heartless.