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English 1 Course Blog
Welcome to the English 1 Course Blog. This blog will serve as a forum where we can discuss the course readings and other topics related to our class discussions.
You will be expected to post on this blog at least ten times during the semester. To receive credit for your post, you must write at least one paragraph (5-7 sentences). You do not have to worry about spelling, grammar, or punctuation.
You will be expected to post on this blog at least ten times during the semester. To receive credit for your post, you must write at least one paragraph (5-7 sentences). You do not have to worry about spelling, grammar, or punctuation.
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Cindy Jackson's comments show the world as a very shallow place where looks are everything. I don't believe she has an accurate view of what society really is. She may comment on how some people are and all they care about is how a person looks. She claims that she changed the way she looked so that guys would like her. But the only guys she wanted to like her were the shallow guys and now she is shallow only looking at a persons apperance. Also she makes some very crazy claims about women and how only there looks count. She even says in the article that if you look good you don't even need a brain. But who would want to be just a dumb bimbo who is being used for eye candy. She claims that the world is cruel for shunning the beautiful but maybe if she had a good personality people would over look the way she appered. She complains about how everyone loved her sister so much because she was pretty but what if her sister was just a nicer person to be around. I don't feel any symnpathy for Cindy Jackson there are tons of people in this world who may not be the most attractive but are living very happy lives. She is a superficial person who can stay in her superficial world. But i don't think she should be giving inspirational speeches because she did nothing but get sugeries to fit her superficial personality.
Cindy Jackson's story says alot about how shallow and high standard today society is. The world is a shallow place where pretty women have it made compared to unattractive women where they have to fight or have plastic surgery in order to fit in. I believe that her perception is in accurate because she was trying to receive attention from guys who are only attractive to attractive women when in fact there are men who enjoy women who would be found not as attractive as others. She believes that plastice surgery was her way out of being lonely but thats may not be the case for everyone.
I think that Cindy Jackson's story exposes how focused the world is on appearances. I think that her perception of the world is very accurate. The world sees people for their external "characteristics" such as beauty in women and money in men. Her generalization that "its a man's world" is extremely true. Everything is catered to what men want and what women want does not really matter. I think that a "dark truth" about American culture that this story reveals is how far men and the way that our world is can push women to extreme measures to have some sort of control. Women have been pushed to, in this case, multiple plastic surgeries as well as anorexia and other dangerous practices.
cindy jackson story and reaction suggest many things. what it sounds like is that she perceives the world as an all physical world. according to her only looks matter along with other ohysical attrations. such as money and power. other characteristics are considered useless to her and wont cause yourslef to get recognized by others. her perception is very inaccurate, however she has some followers. alot of people besides cindy jackson have that same train of thought, but it is still not the right perception of the world. but it does go back to her culture and where she resides which is america. this proves that the american values have shifted to the more physical side than what actually counts. this does reflect some dark not coincidental changes that america is going through
Cindy Jackson's story shows how much people judge others based on outer appearances. Even Cindy, who knew how bad it felt to be judged on her looks, judged others on their looks. She judged the good looking guys for not wanting to go out with her because she wasn't pretty, but at the same time she only wanted to go out with the best looking and most popular guys in school. I think this shows just how judgemental and hypocritical people can be. So, Cindy's perception of those guys was right - they were judging her because she wasn't pretty - but she didn't have to become one of them. She makes it like everyone in the world is so judgemental and noone would ever like her if she didn't get surgery. That's totally not what it was. It was because of her being judgemental and only wanting to hang out with those types of people that made her end up being part of such a judgemental, fake society. If she wouldn't have been so judgemental, there were tons of other people in the world that she could've been with and she wouldn't have been treated so differently from how those men who only went out with her for her looks treated her. I think in the end, it was her judgemental attitude that hurt her, not those guys in high school who didn't wanna date her.
i think that cindy jackson talks from the darkest aspects of our society. she accepts the shallowness of society and by being as shallow as she is, she takes that shallowness to a whole different place. women like cindy get a sense of empowerment by making these changes to herself and becoming who she really is, but that really is just what men supposedly want. why would you want to just make your self arm candy or a trophy wife with nothing to contribute to a relationship accept your "good looks" which everybody knows fades. knowing that other people may be looking at her for guidance and allowing herself to be that way shows that there is something fundamentally wrong with her.
reading cindy jackson's essay re-enforced my belief about how vain and superficial our society is.most people are taught to idolize rehab people like Paris Hilton instead of the more forward looking people in society.
I almost feel bad for Cindy Jackson. Most people want someone to love them for exactly who they are- not what society defines as beautiful. She reveals the fake, superficial, and hollow aspect of society today in her search to love herself. People today are manipulated by the media into believing and trusting set standards of beauty- and are made to feel inferior if they do not conform. It is very sad that a woman is happy to say that she no longer knows the person she was because that person is dead by her own hand.
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