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Looks like I may have a ton of these, so this is collection 1 of Reflections |
| On the surface it has nothing to do with race... BUT if you delve deeper, it has everything to do with race. Near the surface it's a matter of Socio-Economic STATUS UNFORTUNATELY minorities make up a MAJOR bulk of the "lower" class (I would say 'mid to lower' but the middle class is dying out). My Tweets: Can't wait for a black cop to do this to an 'unruly' white girl. I'm sure all of the comments will be exactly the same. #SVHS #sarcasm I DON'T think the cop should lose his job. I DO think ALL disruptive kids deserve this, but I also think there's a double standard. #SVHS Me, I'm ALL for corporeal punishment. I think students get away with WAAAAYYY too much these days. I wish we didn't need officers in schools but if you take away a teacher's right to effectively discipline then all you have left is the law. So, in a nutshell: I have no problem with what the officer did to what sounds like an entitled child rejecting authority. I DO have a problem with the fact that not all schools are equal and they should be. http://thebertshow.com/too-much-or-warranted-student-violently-arrested-at-sprin... |
| Day 2 Halloween Controversy - Many Christian Churches encourage their congregations to boycott Halloween Celebrations. What is your opinion, is Halloween pure evil? http://reviewofreligions.org/5071/halloween-harmless-or-harmful-fun/ PandaPaws-Bewitching Bear (182) ----------------------------------------------------------------------- God Bless my mom for trying to instill Christian beliefs in me at an early age. In most ways she succeeded but it always baffled me when she said we couldn't go trick-or-treating. Thankfully there were always "Fall Festivals" at the local church that we attended otherwise I we were bound to revolt. What confused me the most was that I remembered very vividly going trick-or-treating back in Baltimore before my parents moved to the south and I guess rediscovered their religion. I even remember her encouraging me to go down the hill of our apartment complex and ask the creepy neighbor that was all decked out in full costume and creepy makeup, banging on a drum and staring at us without blinking. If I were a weaker child I'd say that event scarred me but in reality it was just memorable. I don't remember any of the other houses we visited that day. To answer the question: I don't think the holiday in itself is pure evil. Like anything, it's what you choose to do with it and how you decide to celebrate that can make any day/holiday/event evil. Though she'll never admit it, my own mother knows this but is afraid her kids will pick up some bad habits I guess.... I mean call me crazy but how can she tell us not to watch Harry Potter or read vampire books but she loves Hocus Pocus and Charmed?! At the end of the day I think my mom just liked to go with the Christian flow so to speak and did her best by my brother and I. Will my kids go trick-or-treating? Probably, but we'll also be attending the church's fall festivals. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Prompt: Is there an image, a story-line, or a scene that keeps coming up and persisting in your writing? Do you know why? Do you put it there knowingly or does it show up on its own, unannounced? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Great question.........never really put much thought to it. I would say 'no', at least not at this point in my career. I do lean toward girl protagonists b/c I don't think there are enough of those and of course: GIRL POWER! |
| Benicio del Toro is great as always. Josh Brolin is ...well Josh Brolin and I love Emily Blunt for taking on the role but....think the script wasn't very kind toward women agents and perhaps just women in general. Overall LOVE the movie and the thought provoking messages that came with it. However, as is often the case, the things that irked me have a way of metastasizing over my entire view of the movie. Maybe after I get them out here I'll just be left with the tasty remains of a really honest and well crafted film. Basically I hate how weak they portray Blunts character. It's believable and all but we've seen enough of the weak heroin that can't seem to make it on her own. SPOILER ALERT! My first issue comes when Kate (Blunts character) can't muster up the courage to demand more information for herself. She has to get her partner Reggie (Daniel Kaluuya) to do it for her. [I could rant about the only black character being portrayed as an ever anger black man but whatever, I'll let that slide. Perhaps he's just angry from his Iraq tour.] Not a major faux pax in the grand scheme but it irked me. Next we have Kate demonstrating just how green and hopelessly naive she is by going against Matt's (Brolin) better judgement and stalking into a bank thus getting her (and her partners) face on camera. I'm no cop/detective but even I can see that the BIG picture is what she should be after, not the peanut of a case she could build from the bad bank accounts alone. On to issue number 2.2: She brings a decent dude (nice Jon Bernthal cameo) back to her place to blow off a little after Juarez, Mexico trip steam. All seems well, after all her own partner vouched for the guy. He turns out to be connected to the bank deal *mild shocker* and Kate loses her S! I mean talk about absolutely no poker face! Kudos to her for getting a little aggressive in her fight/flight reaction but point is she'd be dead if not for Alejandro (del Toro). *pause, will finish later* |
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