Connections
My opinions about beauty haven’t really changed over the past weeks. I have only learned more about other thoughts and opinions on it. The thing I liked the most was the natural beauty! I think that anything could be considered beautiful, it just depends who is looking at what.
The obvious connection between the three readings is that they are all about beauty! All these reading sparked thoughts and ideas about the perception of beauty, artificial and natural. Both of these readings also brought controversy to a discussion. The writers of the articles we read, especially the religious article, seemed to have extreme views about beauty and what is beautiful.
I am ready to move to a new topic because I think we talked about beauty in general to death! I liked talking about the article that brought up “cali” and I also liked the natural beauty even though I didn’t really like the article.
I don’t think beauty was the ONLY thing the readings could have been addressing. I think that there were many underlying topics that could have been interchanged. For example, the last reading we read came from such a strict and strongly opinioned writer that the attitude he had could have been the main topic.
September 29th, 2011 at 6:14 pm
I totally agree with you on the natural beauty article. I thought it was refreshing to talk about something other than artificial beauty. Although I didn’t exactly enjoy the article, it was awesome to talk about other things that are beautiful and to hear others opinions on that.
September 29th, 2011 at 8:50 pm
I agree with what you said about natural beauty. “Anything could be considered beautiful, it just depends who is looking at what.” That is a very true statement! The last sentence of your blog could be right. It’s hard to say what his true topic was. I’m not sure whether he was focusing more on beauty or just the fact that he wanted us to believe what he was saying and nothing else. I hope we can find other ways of looking at beauty, other than just beauty that is seen!
October 3rd, 2011 at 3:28 am
I too agree that anything can be beautiful, depending on who’s looking at what. I would not be surprised if there was a personality quiz or exam based on that on the web. I am also ready to move on to another topic. Beauty can only be defined in so many ways and I believe we have covered them all!
October 3rd, 2011 at 5:00 am
I agree with your feelings toward underlying meanings in the reading. I think that because beauty is such a broad and general topic, there are more varied connections in the readings that we aren’t seeing.