Summary:
Popular music has a vein of killing woman, according to john Hamerlinck, it leads to lots of domestic violences. Although this kind of violence sometimes reflected in movies and novels, the violence toward woman is most common shown in pop musics. This genre of woman- killing song didn't only show in recent years, in fact, it had already shown in an old type song called” murder balled”. This type of song is often blue, telling about their women are doing wrong with them, and how men get even with their women. For example, in 1920s, a song called” Careless Love” sang by Lonnie Johnson, Said” he promises to shoot his lover numerous time and then stand over her until she is finished dying”. This kind of song often belies a message of killing and retribution.
Because those type of songs are often smooth, and people can remember the song easily, influenced by the music, the physical violence become a way for some people to express their emotional pain. Other famous song like“ Run for Your Life” and “ Every Breath You Take” also sending a message of premeditation, stalking, and threats to their target. Another famous song called” Hey Joe” is also in this vein, which sang almost by all garage- band in that time. It had a lyric saying” where you goin' with that gun in your hand?”
The MTV generation also has a vein of woman- killing, such as” man in black” a murder song sang by Johnny Cash. This kind of MTV show like man digging a grave for his victim or even the odds by arming victim. Though there is a female covered the song” Run for Your Life” and sang “little boy” instead of “little girl”, the victim of violence are often women. This phenomena lead the public think it is common to” crimes of passion” and it is reasonable. But the author tell us this is not about love it is about power and control.
Response:
I was astonished that some popular music can lead to such a big trouble. By curiosity, I searched for some of these musics that mention in this article and listened them. Before I listen to those songs I though it was frightening and gloomy, but it turns out that the music was quite relaxed and catchy. It was surprised me that this kind of music can do such a big effort on our society, and mislead some people to do violence actions. But is this the really reason lead the man to act domestic violence? My answer is NO.
Men are often consider the master of a home and the leader in our society, so they can't bear to be treat by others. This may also make sense why those so-called” murder balled” songs often written or sang by men. Maybe it is not because of those music but because of man's nature action. I am not denying that music can't influence human's emotion, in fact, music sometime does lead our feeling. Sing a song is one of a way for human to express their feeling, sometimes it touch the emotion deep inside of our hart. The singer might act strange in their MTV, doing some crazy things, but audience need to separate right from wrong, not just follow the video.
2011年1月9日 星期日
Male fixations
Summary
Men are born to fix things historically. Men take the responsibility to do fixations so as to avoid cleaning. Dave Barry gives his own examples to describe that it is men’s damned fate to fix in “Male fixations.”
When there is something wrong in the house, the author will pretend to take a look at and say that everything is fine finally. This is all because his lack of fixing ability but he also has to pretend well-known for men’s dignity. He complains his disability for the tonsillitis. In his school time, he was absent due to the tonsillitis one day. His absence resulted that he missed the chance to acquire the knowledge of machinery with his classmates. Thus, he regards that he don’t know how to fix things deservedly.
There is another example when he was forced by a mechanical guy. One day a salesman told the author that every man should have instinctive ability to repack a bearing. Being afraid of salesman’s noogie, the author nodded his head knowingly though he was never sure what a bearing is.
The author always uses his technical trick to disguise that there is nothing wrong everywhere. He shows that this is a guy’s natural tendency to act as is they are in control of everything in the world.
Reflections
Actually I also have the cognition that men always have to fix all stuffs. I even believe that every man know repairs since they were born. I think that men are supposed to repair things owing to their strength.
The reason why I have this kind of thought is due to my father. If there are any household appliances or any problems in the house, my father can solve them by himself. He likes to DIY like making wooden cabinets and repairing furniture. In addition to fixing, my father is good at house works as well. To others’ amazement, he is especially good at cooking meals. I have missed his meals all the time when I go to the college. He is a man who has the ability combing fixing and house works. As I growing up, I realize that not every man can fix things. I become adoring my father much more. I definitely recommend he as the model of every man.
Although there is no rule that men have to know how to repair, men must learn a bit of the ability in my opinion. Girls are lack of the strength to do some heavy works, so they need men’s help sometimes. In fact, everyone has to know how to deal with the problems happening in daily life. This is the first lesson we have to learn when being independent.
Men are born to fix things historically. Men take the responsibility to do fixations so as to avoid cleaning. Dave Barry gives his own examples to describe that it is men’s damned fate to fix in “Male fixations.”
When there is something wrong in the house, the author will pretend to take a look at and say that everything is fine finally. This is all because his lack of fixing ability but he also has to pretend well-known for men’s dignity. He complains his disability for the tonsillitis. In his school time, he was absent due to the tonsillitis one day. His absence resulted that he missed the chance to acquire the knowledge of machinery with his classmates. Thus, he regards that he don’t know how to fix things deservedly.
There is another example when he was forced by a mechanical guy. One day a salesman told the author that every man should have instinctive ability to repack a bearing. Being afraid of salesman’s noogie, the author nodded his head knowingly though he was never sure what a bearing is.
The author always uses his technical trick to disguise that there is nothing wrong everywhere. He shows that this is a guy’s natural tendency to act as is they are in control of everything in the world.
Reflections
Actually I also have the cognition that men always have to fix all stuffs. I even believe that every man know repairs since they were born. I think that men are supposed to repair things owing to their strength.
The reason why I have this kind of thought is due to my father. If there are any household appliances or any problems in the house, my father can solve them by himself. He likes to DIY like making wooden cabinets and repairing furniture. In addition to fixing, my father is good at house works as well. To others’ amazement, he is especially good at cooking meals. I have missed his meals all the time when I go to the college. He is a man who has the ability combing fixing and house works. As I growing up, I realize that not every man can fix things. I become adoring my father much more. I definitely recommend he as the model of every man.
Although there is no rule that men have to know how to repair, men must learn a bit of the ability in my opinion. Girls are lack of the strength to do some heavy works, so they need men’s help sometimes. In fact, everyone has to know how to deal with the problems happening in daily life. This is the first lesson we have to learn when being independent.
2011年1月8日 星期六
Appearances are destructive
Summary
Appearances have become a kind of school violence in America. The experience of the author’s two sisters proves that dress codes can protect students and promote learning.
Although there are many advantages in American schools, the author’s two sisters’ homely clothes are mocked seriously. Students there pay a lot of attention to their appearances than their knowledge. Teachers are often disrupted by students dressing up or making up in the classes. Students also compete with their expensive dresses but not their academic achievements. They even measure parental love by how much their parents will spend on their clothing. As a result of the vicious competition, some poor children may get involved with gangs or peddle drugs to raise the money. Students emphasize the importance of appearances because they think that good clothing can earn more status and respect. Girls think that only sexy dresses make them more attractive rather than intelligence to boys.
Dress codes won’t deprive people of expression freedom. School dress codes can help teacher create the better learning environment. Students will also benefit from it because their minds are more focused on learning. American school should realize that dress codes bring much more benefits of safe and effective schools than the freedom of expression.
Reflections
I approve the viewpoint of Mark Mathabane in “Appearance Are Destructive.” Students should be required to follow dress codes in schools. I think that college is a proper time to let students have the freedom of expression. College students will be more mature to know which behavior is accurate to do.
In my experience, there are some restrictions on students’ appearances in my junior high school. Like all of the boys should have a cropped hair and girls’ length of hairs can’t be longer over ears. Of course, we can’t dye or perm our hairs. All of students’ hairs are exactly the same. Therefore, we won’t pay any attention on our appearances. On the other hand, there are no any restrictions on hairs in school recently. My younger brother pays a lot of attention on his appearances. He dyes and even perms his hairs and cares about his hair style very much. He spends more than half hour every morning to clean up his hairs though he already has no enough time to sleep. Wasting most of the time to dress up him results in his school falling behind.
Comparing to the above examples, I firmly believe that schools should have some dress codes toward students. Wearing uniforms can avoid students do some bad things out of schools because they will be recognized soon.
Appearances have become a kind of school violence in America. The experience of the author’s two sisters proves that dress codes can protect students and promote learning.
Although there are many advantages in American schools, the author’s two sisters’ homely clothes are mocked seriously. Students there pay a lot of attention to their appearances than their knowledge. Teachers are often disrupted by students dressing up or making up in the classes. Students also compete with their expensive dresses but not their academic achievements. They even measure parental love by how much their parents will spend on their clothing. As a result of the vicious competition, some poor children may get involved with gangs or peddle drugs to raise the money. Students emphasize the importance of appearances because they think that good clothing can earn more status and respect. Girls think that only sexy dresses make them more attractive rather than intelligence to boys.
Dress codes won’t deprive people of expression freedom. School dress codes can help teacher create the better learning environment. Students will also benefit from it because their minds are more focused on learning. American school should realize that dress codes bring much more benefits of safe and effective schools than the freedom of expression.
Reflections
I approve the viewpoint of Mark Mathabane in “Appearance Are Destructive.” Students should be required to follow dress codes in schools. I think that college is a proper time to let students have the freedom of expression. College students will be more mature to know which behavior is accurate to do.
In my experience, there are some restrictions on students’ appearances in my junior high school. Like all of the boys should have a cropped hair and girls’ length of hairs can’t be longer over ears. Of course, we can’t dye or perm our hairs. All of students’ hairs are exactly the same. Therefore, we won’t pay any attention on our appearances. On the other hand, there are no any restrictions on hairs in school recently. My younger brother pays a lot of attention on his appearances. He dyes and even perms his hairs and cares about his hair style very much. He spends more than half hour every morning to clean up his hairs though he already has no enough time to sleep. Wasting most of the time to dress up him results in his school falling behind.
Comparing to the above examples, I firmly believe that schools should have some dress codes toward students. Wearing uniforms can avoid students do some bad things out of schools because they will be recognized soon.
The Decline of Neatness
Summary
In the “The Decline of Neatness,” Norman Cousins claims that the sloppiness virus has expanded all aspects of our society. The virus affect on our sloppy style of dress, slovenly speech, emotionless attitude to violence and brutality and our negative human relationships.
In the “The Decline of Neatness,” Norman Cousins claims that the sloppiness virus has expanded all aspects of our society. The virus affect on our sloppy style of dress, slovenly speech, emotionless attitude to violence and brutality and our negative human relationships.
Taking the way what we dress as an example first, sloppy and frayed jeans become a trend in recent times. People think it is fashionable to look disheveled rather than neatness today. However, the author thinks our messy clothing as if we had been stamped out by cookie cutters. Furthermore, the sloppy speech is so common today as well. People like to speak in chopped-up phrases and grunts or chants; they rarely speak in complete sentences. The media like to use some violent and foul words and prefer for the restricted rating than general rating. Thus, they always produce gaudy language and bloody scenes to attract audiences. This mindless violence is desensitizing our children’s feelings.
All the sloppy dress, slovenly speech and emotionless attitude affect our human relationships. Our acceptance of the casual sex has paralyzed our feelings and destroys our privacy. The author hopes that fashion designers and the media producers might show more respect for the human spirit but not pollute children’s genuine creativity.
Reflections
Today is the prosperous media’s generation. It brings lots of convenient benefits and some negative results as well. Media violence becomes a serious problem toward children. School bullying has emerged in an endless time.
Media violence is happened through TV programs, the NEWS, video games and the Internet. These Medias exist everywhere in the daily life, so it’s hard to avoid children contacting with them. TV programs provide children some violent heroes to imitate and these heroes often have some aggressive behaviors. Children may want to the heroes like the actors, so they use the violence to bully other children. They may be misled that such behaviors can make them popular. There are most of fight scenes in the video games. Children gain the achievement by defeat the opponents. These excitements lead to stress and negative feelings of children invisibly. The Internet is the most dangerous area because there are no any restrictions on the information which children absorb.
Parents can encourage children to seek more educational activities to reduce their daily exposure to media as entertainment. And parents have to educate their children that violence can make people lose friends and feel bad. The true heroes mean that people who are courageous and help others. They won’t use violence to solve problems.
Summary & Response of The Decline of Neatness
Summary of Decline of Neatness:
Norman Cousins is the author who attributes the so-called sloppiness virus that infects the wholesome society from three aspects like clothing, speech and relationship.
Cousins takes blue jeans as the example of clothing sloppiness. “Current usage is more reflective of a slavish conformity than a desire of ease.”, he emphasized. We human beings dodge ventionality in purpose, but we still put on a uniform on it. Everyone intend to alienate from the society by means of slavish wearing. Not knowing that everyone attempt to do so, slavish wearing soon become another way to present “ventionality” that they reluctant to obey.
While if sloppiness being applied in speech? The chopped-up phrases would be the proper representative compare with any other. Phrases like”you know” or “I mean” to cover up a damnable incoherence. Neatness in language should be as important as in dressing. Language violence has no difference with handgun possession. Our language is so foul that screenwriters themselves they avoid turning it in scripts. Not only entertainment but daily life fosters casual attitudes toward violence and brutality. People would also have the habit of doing everything run the risk of feeling nothing with casual attitude; it would create a sex fiend, moreover. According to Cousins, he claims that respect for the shortcoming of human is the most essential course in education. The first aim of education is to cultivate the respect of life, for that beean deadening of everything and feeling.
To sum up, Cousins doesn’t want to return Victorian’s etiquette but he hopes that calculated sloppiness would disappear in someday. Also, he hopes that people could response truly from films to show their genuine love and respect to human beings. Last but no least, school might foster the conception of things are rewarding than creativity in some aspects.
Response of Decline of Neatness:
Human being are gifted to be sensitive of untidy, uncomfortable wearing or appearance. But seems that contemporary people intend to violate the gift that creator owed to them. The rising of blue jeans is the best example of it. People tend to wear in depraved., making themselves like a homeless person with torn wearing. The motivation for them to do so is unique. Standing out from the crowd, distinguished from the people, make them self more characteristic than others. Namely, they hope to catch eye from other.
However, I think that they do not figure out that if every one want to be their so-called unique through same way. Everyone still the same, therefore, in vain. That is quite ridiculous and ironic. After all, they have devoted endeavoring to make themselves become unique but still in vain. Why they need to work a lot and no repay at last? The reason why could be traced to lack of confidence. For them , depraved wearing, looking is just a tunnel to obtain confidence. That is a morbid habit, I think.
Someone may claimed that they are just pursue or elaborate their creativity. I have to quoted from the author , few things are more rewarding than genuine creativity. Respect is one of precious and essential element they must to posses of. Creativity is an excuse. You can not say like that I am elaborate linguistic creativity so I could say anything I want it is my freedom. Such impractical vocabulary should in the condition of not violate other people. With this premise, everything will in peace. Seems that people do not have conception about it , that’s why there are numerous violence event would be printed on the newspaper.
Summary & Response of A Generation of Bigots Comes of Ages
Summary of A Generation of Bigots Comes of Ages
Children are our future. It is true but the way that things are going should be worried. A generation of bigots is coming of age. The mentioned issue is indicated by the author, Richard Cohen.
A recent public poll conducted for Anti-Defamation Leauge( ADL) could give us account as an evidence through that prognostication. The result of polls has always found that schooling person is likely to be more tolerant. For that reason, elder people are the most impatient group in the nation. However, in the survey of ADL, the result is quite disturbing. The result claims that both of younger and older American share same biases. When white guy were asked questions like if blacks prefer to remain on welfare rather than work. “Probably true “said by the 50-year-old respondents are occupied about 42%, on another hand, the young party is occupied as same as the elder, about 36%. Similarly, a majority of younger respondents thought blacks “complain too much about racism” and “stick together more than others”. Above two potions have occupied 68% and 63% respectively. The young has the highest percentage of agreement.
Abraham Foxman, the national director of ADL, claimed that the generation is destined to racist or racism to a degree, which he named it as a ‘crisis’. How could it happen? No one could give a reliable answer. But it could sure to guess that younger generation has ignored American recent history. Beside of historical ignorance there is still another , that is , affirmative action. The data suggests that progress on racial attitudes is being reserved.
A generation has come of age without any appreciation of the recent history of African-Americans. Affirmative action need to be re-examined and without being labed as racist.
Response of A Generation of Bigots Comes of Ages
I have to say, I can not agree with it anymore. In contemporary society, people seems to be eroded by other alien dominant cultures like
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The decline of Neatness
Summary
Norman Cousins was the editor of The Saturday Review, he discussed the problem about how the sloppiness virus affected the generation in the article. He thought that the generation was more favor in uncombed, unshaved, and undressed, which he thought that it was bad for the whole society.
He first gave an example about the phenomenon that people liked to buy things that was not normal. People liked to buy tattered, old, and stained jeans, instead of the clean and new one. They liked to buy oversize clothes or muddy sneakers. Cousins thought that the generation “disheveled is in fashion, neatness is obsolete.”Slovenly speech was also another problem that the generation had. People did not communicate in a good language like before. People liked to use chopped-up phrases and Cousins thought it was terrible to hear people used this kind of language. As he referred that English as a beautiful language, he was upset how generation changed the language. “Neatness in language is as important as in dress.”
Violence in language is also another problem. Cousins said that nowadays it was hard for people not to communicate without the use of bad language. And this phenomenon not only just happened in entertainment but also in our daily life.
Cousins suggested that the target we should focus in on education which was developing respect for life. School should persuade people in the clothes we wore, the way people spoke, and the care of human relationship, not just rewarded people who were school smart.
Reflection
I think that the sloppiness virus indeed influences our society a lot. It includes our clothing style and the form of speech.
Taking clothing styles as an example, many people tend to like wearing some uncomfortable old jeans instead of new one. And many people do not even care whether the clothes they have adopted even suits them or not. They just want to mimic the celebrities’ wearing and prove that they do follow the trend of fashion.That is quite a strange phenomenon. In my opinion, wearing suitable is more important than wearing fashionable.
The way we talk also has changed a lot. More and more people like to communicate with no more four words. Maybe this conversation can reduce time. However, it will also cause them not knowing how to communicate with others by using long sentences. Bad language is also another main problem in our society. Many children and teenagers are influenced by TV, movie and Internet. Their language becomes violent. It is really awful for people communicate with violence language. With bad language, it makes us ignore treating respect to others easily. Therefore, lots of conflict has happened more often in our society than before.
Perhaps technology bring us a lot conveniences, it also brings us some bad habits. Be a smart modern citizen, we should learn how to judge correctly instead of following or mimicking blindly.
Norman Cousins was the editor of The Saturday Review, he discussed the problem about how the sloppiness virus affected the generation in the article. He thought that the generation was more favor in uncombed, unshaved, and undressed, which he thought that it was bad for the whole society.
He first gave an example about the phenomenon that people liked to buy things that was not normal. People liked to buy tattered, old, and stained jeans, instead of the clean and new one. They liked to buy oversize clothes or muddy sneakers. Cousins thought that the generation “disheveled is in fashion, neatness is obsolete.”Slovenly speech was also another problem that the generation had. People did not communicate in a good language like before. People liked to use chopped-up phrases and Cousins thought it was terrible to hear people used this kind of language. As he referred that English as a beautiful language, he was upset how generation changed the language. “Neatness in language is as important as in dress.”
Violence in language is also another problem. Cousins said that nowadays it was hard for people not to communicate without the use of bad language. And this phenomenon not only just happened in entertainment but also in our daily life.
Cousins suggested that the target we should focus in on education which was developing respect for life. School should persuade people in the clothes we wore, the way people spoke, and the care of human relationship, not just rewarded people who were school smart.
Reflection
I think that the sloppiness virus indeed influences our society a lot. It includes our clothing style and the form of speech.
Taking clothing styles as an example, many people tend to like wearing some uncomfortable old jeans instead of new one. And many people do not even care whether the clothes they have adopted even suits them or not. They just want to mimic the celebrities’ wearing and prove that they do follow the trend of fashion.That is quite a strange phenomenon. In my opinion, wearing suitable is more important than wearing fashionable.
The way we talk also has changed a lot. More and more people like to communicate with no more four words. Maybe this conversation can reduce time. However, it will also cause them not knowing how to communicate with others by using long sentences. Bad language is also another main problem in our society. Many children and teenagers are influenced by TV, movie and Internet. Their language becomes violent. It is really awful for people communicate with violence language. With bad language, it makes us ignore treating respect to others easily. Therefore, lots of conflict has happened more often in our society than before.
Perhaps technology bring us a lot conveniences, it also brings us some bad habits. Be a smart modern citizen, we should learn how to judge correctly instead of following or mimicking blindly.
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