March 30 Monthly Connection

A Doll's House, A Room of One's Own, and The Awakening all discuss the roles of women in society. When discussed in class, we concluded that women were overall slaves for their husbands. They were supposed to obey, submit, and serve. They were to be something for the man to look at, to be pleasing to the eye.
Since the time those novels were written, women's roles have changed for the better. However, there are still some things that in society that set the gender's progress back. For example, the idea that all women should be "beautiful", eye candy, if you will. Magazines, television shows, advertizments all show flawless women. They are to be the role models to all of the gender.
In my opinion, beauty is not everything. So a girl is beautiful. So what? What if she can't hold a proper conversation? What kind of a man would want a beautiful girl who can't tell a rock from a cookie? Not a decent one.

February Monthly Connection

A Thousand Splended Suns presents many issues. The new set of rules the Taliban enforces are extremely harsh, especially toward women. Rules included women denied the right to be educated, denied the right to walk the streets unless they were accompanied by a male relative, must not speak unless spoken to, and their faces were to be covered at all times. The worst part is, the rules were real. There was such a thing as the Taliban and they did enforce such harsh laws with a penalty of a beating.

One of the reasons the United States went to war with the Afgans was the fact that they set these rediculous. We were assisted by other countries which proves that we are not the only ones who feel that the Talib laws are unfair to its citizens.

It is said that what is viewed as wrong by one society, is not necessarily viewed as wrong by another. I think these rules should be viewed as wrong no matter what the society. It is sick that one must be beaten because they want to get out of their house and a male relitive did not feel like coming along. It is sick to be beaten because you want an education, or you want to speak your mind, or show your face. Sick. Why don't the men hide thier faces? Why do they get to be educated? Why do they get to come and go as they please? Why is it nine times out of ten the women come up with the short end of the stick?

January 30 Monthly Connection

Question number two of the "Wuthering Heights" Socratic seminar guide asks what the novel indicates about Heathcliff's origin and why is it important. The novel does not give any hint of Heathcliff's origin. This is very important to the novel because no definate explaination can be given involving his past for his actions. This raises an important question in itself: how much does the events of your past influence you decitions of your future?

You can clearly see the connections of past with future in celeberties. Some actors/ actresses/ singers who started out real young never had a chance to be a "real kid" and experience the things normal children experience, and therefore cannot function properly as an adult. Britney Spears is a prime example of this. She was thrust into the media's eye at such a young age that she later made some terrible choices. For example, the shaving of her head. Not normal.

I beleive the events of one's past are what make them who they are, and affects their future choices. With every experience someone has they learn from it either as a mistake or from a success. It's natural. It' what people do. You live and learn so to speak. If someone eats a raw egg and gets salmonila chances are they aren't going to eat a raw egg again because they lived the negative consequence of eating it, and have learned not to want to do it again.