Honors

This weeks article was on urban legends and how they affect society. It had lots of different urban legend stories which talked about how they taught kids and teenagers life lessons. There were stories about cooking babies, murdering babysitters children, “lover’s lanes” and hooks. These storyies all have major themes through out urban legend myths. Most of them have death, sexual content, and women. Most of the time the legend is happening to the women.

I think they were created to teach lessons. We have some very sick and demented stories which are intended to use fear in order to scare someone into behaving like there wanted to. I think this is a very good use of fear because everyone has it. This stories however are intended for a younger crowd not for adults. I have heard almost all of these stories before so non of them surprised me. The article also talks about how the Urban Legends are localized to where you live but the main idea or story is the same. I think that almost all places have ghost stories that are meant to scare and teach. I personally do not know if i believe in ghosts or not. I think that all of the stories are to nonfactual to either prove it or disprove it. I like to hear the ghost stories though because i like seeing everyone’s reactions to the stories.

This weeks article was about how beauty is in the body. It is about how picking a mate is somewhat instinctual of how your partner will look. Symmetry of the face and other features like the hip to breast to waist ratio all play a part in what we find attractive. It was about the trends over the years for what we have looked for in our partners. It does not have to be about how skinny you are though. This theme has been trending since the past couple decades. It talks about all the evidence that supports this theory of beauty depicting healthiness and good genes.

I do think this article is right in some aspects. Right now the media is pushing for a skinnier figure for both female and male alike. I think this is preposterous however because not all skinny people are good mates or have good genes. i believe the part about looking normal as attractive is a good thing. I would wish this trend would keep going. Though being beautiful may be a perk I do not believe it is what we do naturally. We do look for someone whom is healthy but I do not think this is what the human is naturally looking for. I think they should be looking for someone they can spend there life with. I think the Saying “Beauty is in the eyes of the beholder” should be more common then it is. I think that beauty does play a role in picking our spouse or mate but i do not think it should be the only thing we pick them for.

This weeks readings were two farewell addresses at two different school. The first one was about pessimism and how the military and the lawyers solve problems. The second article was about religion and how science works. He talks about Communism and how is son graduated form Harvard Medical School.

All in all these speeches jumped around a lot and were very hard to follow. They were funny but I struggled to see the main focus of the speeches. I thought the jumping around kept it interesting and would help the listener stay interested but i do not know if i am supposed to take, Go to church out of this or Lethal injection is good out of them. They were talking about very controversial issues of that time. Now a days some of it is not at hyped up as it is in the speeches. I liked the speeches but did not understand the point in either of them.