I'm thinking of write on "The ways we lie" by Stephanie Ericsson. This is a wonderful work of art on the human condition of the lie and the mean different ways in which we lie. The most common known to us is the good old fashion "white lie", but there are many more and I would like to take this time to express my feeling and thought about the lies we tell and the crazy reason why. Are they okay in small doses, can we really justify them and is this always going to be? These are just a couple of the things I'd like to review much deeper.

Cut and Paste

What’s the world coming to, there needs to a clear line about copy writing papers and the price one would pay? If today’s University’s are having too much trouble with “cut and paste” it’s up to each school to fine a new way of dealing with it. With the time’s University must learn to change, grow and be more up to date on the new ways young adults are trying to create short cuts.
It crazy that this has become such a problem, I can remember back in the day we all did a little. But this case was just a bit much, it was his first paper of the class, just a couple of words not the hole paper and had been in school for sometime before this all came to light. I fine this a little out of line, maybe the lower grade and a slap on the hand would have been just fine.
I can see if this was an on going problem with this student, but clearly it was not, the University over reacted. But on the other hand if the rules are clear they could have known better, still it was a bit over the top.

My Essay was on Masculine and feminine, its posting was Sunday night November 16th. The posting for today was a oops, sorry for the confusion.

Essay #5

Today we view the world in rose-colored glasses. Looking for that perfected body, judging others and ourselves along the way. Is this okay to do, are we setting ourselves up for failure? Or has our society brainwashed us into thinking that this is okay? Who is to say what is masculine and what is feminine, where do we draw the line? These are but just a few of the questions I find myself asking all the time.

Masculine and Feminine ideas come from many different places, such as television, movies, radio, and also from culture to culture. People’s ideas of what they see as or judge upon are as different as the wind. Let me start with culture, some culture’s find that a large woman is beautiful, it means that she is healthy and can carry for her family, but in other cultures thin and tall with blue eyes and long following hair create the perfect woman. These cultures differ greatly but they both fell that’s what makes up feminine. As for men it maybe about how many children he can father or what a mighty hunter he is, these make up the masculine features for other cultures.
And here in the USA we look for brave, strong, and mighty warrior as our masculine outline, and for our woman we tend to look for body size of the month, like slim, tall and curves with ivory skin. I’m not judging just saying, look at our top models over the years, there is your proof.
Crazy, but we judge people based on their masculine and feminine qualities such as size, shape, job, color and the way one carry’s oneself. Which brings me back to where did the ideas come from, as I stated before media, magazines, sports and our culture through out time and history. These things create, shape and impress upon us what is to be masculine and feminine. We look at size not to big, not to small, not to short, not to tall, funny it sounds like a classic children’s story from Dr. Seuss, but the fact is that’s the truth in all its full colored pages.

Our views are shaped for us by the one’s who carry the golden rod think about it? Media plays a great part in our window of life, movie, videos, television, radio and magazines. These forms show us what we think we what to see, creating an idea of what we should see, but taking away are free will as we know it. I’m not saying that we are all robots following some crazy made up god but on some level we do follow like sheep the way of the world until someone or something comes along an alters it.


Masculine and feminine are just a part of us, but a big part of what the world sees, making it look, feel, and seem as if it was everything. The idea starts us out very young with ken and Barbie, and then it grows with us like Disney to MTV, before you know it, its implanted into the core of whom we are without us even knowing. Sad, but true, funny still crazy, weird but real, this is our masculine and our feminine wrap nice and neat just for us. We try to fight it but once again he who has the gold makes the rules, so it true money does talk. I guess I’m saying that we are all sheep at one time or another. I to fall into the trap of what the world feels about masculine and feminine even as I fight to teach my own children not to judge but to feel, hear and see with their hearts that it takes all shapes and sizes to create a wonderful world today. Thank you for letting me be me today, tomorrow and forever.

1. Masculine and feminine ideas come from many different places, such as television and movies but also from culture to culture. People’s ideas of what they see as masculine and feminine are as different as the wind. Some culture’s fine large women to be beautiful and other look for blue eyes, to these cultures this makes up feminine. But for the men it may be about how many children he fathered or what a mighty hunter he is, this makes up masculine features for other cultures. And here in the good old U.S.A. we look for the brave, strong, and mighty warrior as our masculine outline. As for a woman we tin to look for body size, like slim and curves with skin that looks pure. Crazy, but we judge people based on their masculine and feminine qualities such as size, shape, job, color and the way one carry’s ones self. Which brings me back to where did the ideas come from, as I stated before media, magazines, sports and our culture through out time and history. These things create, shape and impress upon us what is to be masculine and feminine. Looking at size not to big but not to small, not to short and not to tall, sounds like a book by Dr. Seuss, but the fact is that is the truth. Our views are shaped for us by the one’s who carry the golden rod think about it? “He who has the gold makes the rules”. The same is true for how we view the world and the people in it today.

Mr. Obama, I’d like first to say, thank you for taking that grand step that will open doors for my children’s future. You ran your campaign in the true stile of a gentleman, with all the grace and beauty. This was not just a race about you being a black man; this was about the opportunity for all people to have a voice. You sir, Mr. Obama have become the long awaited voice, that cry for freedom. I image that from heaven both your grandmother and Martin Luther King Jr. are smiling down at you with tears of joy and a long awaited exhale. Your dream became our new world. I thank God and your family for you. We love you, my little boy can look at you and say, “ he looks like me, mom, I can do that too”, you put a smile of hope into my children, all five of them. You have given me hope for a future that I too can be prude of. As a black woman, I can raise my head high and walk with freedom at my back. I can tell my children to dream big, for look at your new President, he made history. Thank you again, for you will walk among the blood, sweat and tears of our pass, those who dead to create the steps that you will cross to enter your station of life.