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I believe this the blog where I have to talk about something. So, I've decided to write about this art project. I took art 205 intro to drawing, and I forgot i hate art and am terrible. It's an easy class though and were doing this project on an artist. Knowing nothing about art, naturally, I googled "cool artists" and "really cool artists". I really couldn't find any that were really cool, so i typed in "ocean paintings" and finally found these cool paintings.




So yeah, I thought those were especially cool. It's nice to get a new and different perspective on something like art. He says his paintings are a "metaphorical" journey. Pretty cool.

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Women deserve to be treated equally to men. Women are treated unequally today because in the dawn of man strength was the most important physical attribute. Men had to hunt and attain food and protect himself and the family. This is not the case today though. We go to the store and anyone can use a gun. Women in the present day have no reason not to be considered equal to men, yet in many cases including in the show Firefly, women are looked down upon and considered weak by men.

Blog 14

This article talks about the episode "Hush". It was a mildly interesting article. "Sex, death, and politics- these are the topics I've hovered over and taken a stab." I feel like this quote has a lot to do with the Joss Wheldons style of writing. Politics has a lot to do with his television shows. The interactions with different people force many different situations to arise. In the article there was a reversal of roles, in that the princess saved instead of being saved.

blog 12

So I read "Grimm Realities" and thought it was okay. A quote I think can help interpret this article is "We both know there are real monsters". This article is about the tie in with fairy tales and Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Joss Wheldon knows what he is doing. He clearly is a scholar in literature. I thought it was very interesting how Joss incorporated these historic fairy tale references into the plot of various episodes. I found the descriptions of the actual fairy tales very facinating. It's cool how he descretely references classic fairy tales. It's interesting how the author mentions the theme of isolating children in fairy tales and in several Buffy episodes. In both the children are the only ones that encounter the real monsters. It's a very interesting article.

Blog 11

In the episode "Hush" from Buffy the Vampire Slayer, strange creatures come to town and try to steal peoples hearts. A significant part in this episode is when the "leader" guy of Buffy, the witch, and the other Buffy crew receives a sketch of the creatures invading the town. He is able to identify them with his vast knowledge of fairy tales. Buffy then goes on patrol and ends up destroying the voice box in a fierce battle with the creatures. She then comes face to face with another problem, Riley is battling these creatures too armed with some futuristic assault weapon. They later decide to have a talk. This scene shows that if you really dig someone it is way easier to be upfront and honest. They could have teamed up in the beginning and taken care of business in a much easier manner. This is totally applicable to the real world. Pete Rose really liked baseball but lied about betting on it for too long and now is forever banned. It's better to just be real all the time.

Why are men not taken as seriously as men? version 2.0.

Proposed in my two page analysis was the question: why aren't women taken as seriously as men? This is a very difficult question to boil down to one particular time or place. Throughout history it seems like in most cultures women have always been the second priority to men. Men have had the best jobs and highest positions in society. I suspect that this has very, very ancient roots. In the dawn of man kind strength was an extremely important attribute. Men needed to hunt to gather food, they needed to protect themselves and their family, when the trend from hunting and gathering switched to farming men had to plow the fields. Strength was key to survival. Since men are physically stronger this made them more prominent and more, in a sense, respected.(135) There are tribes and various cultures where women and sometimes especially mothers are the most respected members of the community, but it is definately not especially prominent throughout history. You would have to assume that there should be more places like this. There should be more cultures of this sort. There are so many people out there. All these people divided into their own cultures with different beliefs, a higher percentage of these should recognize women as the dominant beings.Just the odds of the whole situation, there's millions upon millions of people at any given moment throughout history and for a large, and very non-proportional percentage of the time men just end up dominating the civilization. Things these days are evening out somewhat, but honestly would anyone think it would take this long for both genders to be treated equally. Not to mention were not even completely equal currently.

Why are women not taken as seriously as men?