News for Corn Avoiders - Corn Allergy & Intolerance: Corn Allergy or Corn Intolerance?
Allergy sufferers beware! Today I found out the hard way that Diet Mt. Dew has been reformulated and now has SUCRALOSE. Also known as SPLENDA and is really a corn sugar called DEXTROSE. My gift was itching and a rash followed by a headache. Just an FYI!
Tuesday, April 24, 2012
Friday, December 7, 2007
What Really Ails America
I loved this essay!!! It is so good and so true!
I wish more people, myself included, would get it together enough to stand up and fight without backing down. I would love to write something with this much passion and intensity.
I loved the word choices, and the comparison to other countries. It is not at all suprising to me to learn that other countries are not looking at us for a moral compass. This essay truly shows why.
I wish more people, myself included, would get it together enough to stand up and fight without backing down. I would love to write something with this much passion and intensity.
I loved the word choices, and the comparison to other countries. It is not at all suprising to me to learn that other countries are not looking at us for a moral compass. This essay truly shows why.
The Meanings of Words
I could not agree more with Naylor about language being subjective. We use words according to how we want them to be interpreted and how we have interpreted and interacted with them in the past.
I cannot remember the first time I heard the word n****r, but I do recall when I came to the understanding what that meant and how offensive it was. I was in seventh grade, and had my first biracial friend. My father, being the redneck he is, asked my mother if the dad was the "n" word or the mom. My mother told him that he was under no circumstances to ever say that in front of me again, seeing how she did not want me to repeat it. I being the curious kid that I was looked it up in the dictionary and when its definition didn't satisfy me, I asked my 17 year old sister who gladly filled me in. I was appauled that my father could feel that way about another person for no reason except the color of their skin.
It is so interesting that that word is acceptable in African American communities, but so not acceptable for caucasions to say.
I cannot remember the first time I heard the word n****r, but I do recall when I came to the understanding what that meant and how offensive it was. I was in seventh grade, and had my first biracial friend. My father, being the redneck he is, asked my mother if the dad was the "n" word or the mom. My mother told him that he was under no circumstances to ever say that in front of me again, seeing how she did not want me to repeat it. I being the curious kid that I was looked it up in the dictionary and when its definition didn't satisfy me, I asked my 17 year old sister who gladly filled me in. I was appauled that my father could feel that way about another person for no reason except the color of their skin.
It is so interesting that that word is acceptable in African American communities, but so not acceptable for caucasions to say.
Whose Cannon is it Anyway?
I was disappointed because I was hopeful that it would be about THE Cannon, as in the Bible.
Overall I did not like this essay at all. I hated the first sentence. I thought that Gates used too scholarly of language. I also could not figure out who Gates thought his intended audience was.
He threw in poorly placed, and poorly backed up statistics along with red herring stories that diverted from the intentions of the essay. This was just so not my favorite essay.
Overall I did not like this essay at all. I hated the first sentence. I thought that Gates used too scholarly of language. I also could not figure out who Gates thought his intended audience was.
He threw in poorly placed, and poorly backed up statistics along with red herring stories that diverted from the intentions of the essay. This was just so not my favorite essay.
Thursday, December 6, 2007
P.S.
Dr. Henson,
I also wanted to let you know that the rest of my posts are back at the beginning of this plog, and a few of them (maybe 3) occur in comments on other blogs.
The End.
I also wanted to let you know that the rest of my posts are back at the beginning of this plog, and a few of them (maybe 3) occur in comments on other blogs.
The End.
The Men We Carry in Our Minds
This essay is about the whole "the grass is greener on the other side" problem. We all have the stereotypical "man" and "woman" in our minds. It is not our fault--experience creates this. If I have had certain experiences with men, I am going to assume that that is how men are. The same goes with women. It's the same way that many racial stereotypes are perpetuated--through assumptions and misunderstandings.
I think the best thing we can do is realize our own ignorance. I too, do not have a great relationship with my dad, and this has hurt my spiritual life in the past. Treating God as if he is my father doesn't appeal to me. I don't know how to even begin to make that kind of relationship work. But God is the consummate father, and I do not need to judge him by human standards--I just need to let him love me.
Just as I cannot judge God on basis of my father, neither can I judge other men on basis of my father. Same with women and my mother, dogs by my dogs, etc.
I think the best thing we can do is realize our own ignorance. I too, do not have a great relationship with my dad, and this has hurt my spiritual life in the past. Treating God as if he is my father doesn't appeal to me. I don't know how to even begin to make that kind of relationship work. But God is the consummate father, and I do not need to judge him by human standards--I just need to let him love me.
Just as I cannot judge God on basis of my father, neither can I judge other men on basis of my father. Same with women and my mother, dogs by my dogs, etc.
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