So, That's how I ended up buying my first car for $650. I was pumped when I first got my license! I wanted to drive so bad! I got into my Peugeot and headed off down the street, only to get about 2 blocks away and brake down. this was the beginning of my journey with the Peugeot.
It's funny how many flaws you can over-look when you really love something, and that car had sooooo many flaws. The back door didn't open, the cruise control was broken, when you turned it on it never turned off. The sun-roof leaked, the child window locks were stuck on, the trunk was rusting and leaky. The spare tire had to ride in the trunk because the thing that held it up was broken. The windshield wipers broke multiple times, actually, the whole car broke multiple times! But none of this mattered because I was the Peugeot driver!! Every part of the Peugeot was endearing to me.
One day, after getting my car back from the shop, again. I was heading off to my senior pictures and BAMMMMMM hit from behind and BAMMMMMM into the car infront. "How's my car?" I asked as I was loaded into the ambulance. "I'm affraid it didn't make it." After putting all my love into my Peugeot, it had returned the love by saving my life. Thank God old cars were made of tons of sturdy metal and big solid rubber bumpers.
]]>So, That's how I ended up buying my first car for $650. I was pumped when I first got my license! I wanted to drive so bad! I got into my Peugeot and headed off down the street, only to get about 2 blocks away and brake down. this was the beginning of my journey with the Peugeot.
It's funny how many flaws you can over-look when you really love something, and that car had sooooo many flaws. The back door didn't open, the cruise control was broken, when you turned it on it never turned off. The sun-roof leaked, the child window locks were stuck on, the trunk was rusting and leaky. The spare tire had to ride in the trunk because the thing that held it up was broken. The windshield wipers broke multiple times, actually, the whole car broke multiple times! But none of this mattered because I was the Peugeot driver!! Every part of the Peugeot was endearing to me.
One day, after getting my car back from the shop, again. I was heading off to my senior pictures and BAMMMMMM hit from behind and BAMMMMMM into the car infront. "How's my car?" I asked as I was loaded into the ambulance. "I'm affraid it didn't make it." After putting all my love into my Peugeot, it had returned the love by saving my life. Thank God old cars were made of tons of sturdy metal and big solid rubber bumpers.
]]>Redness, rose-bud, blood, Rouge.
"Roses are her cheeks,
and a rose her mouth"
Purplish paint to touch herself up, a cold and sour disposition. Lean mouthed, flat nose, blubber lip, shriveled mouth, shrewish, decay, spoil at the mouth. As far as always as approaches a temporary gloss, destroys any grace, disgusts a grizzy, dangers a , disguises a, decolorizes, dissipation.
]]>Redness, rose-bud, blood, Rouge.
"Roses are her cheeks,
and a rose her mouth"
Purplish paint to touch herself up, a cold and sour disposition. Lean mouthed, flat nose, blubber lip, shriveled mouth, shrewish, decay, spoil at the mouth. As far as always as approaches a temporary gloss, destroys any grace, disgusts a grizzy, dangers a , disguises a, decolorizes, dissipation.
]]>In I walk, carrying baby and diaper bag. I sit at the empty table.
Baby fusses.
Me: Are you hungeee? Do you want some numb numbs?
Older couple glance over. Middle aged woman watches intently.
I hold baby up, middle aged woman very non-discreetly checks for a ring.
I reach into my diaper bag and pull out a blanket that I lay over my chest and begin to feed the baby.
Older couple looks shocked! The woman leans over and whispers to the man. They both berry their faces in their reading. Man coughs, shuffle paper, woman fidgets.
Baby begins farting. Loudly. I think it's sort of cute and funny. Middle aged woman thinks it's funny. Older couple do not!
Older couple looks totally offended and they get up to leave.
I finish feeding and pull the baby up.
Baby laughs and smiles at the woman, she smiles and talks to the baby.
Woman: Hi Sweetie. Aren't you a happy girl!
I turn
Me: Are you being friendly?
Woman: How old is she?
Me: 5 months
Woman: Out for a day with mommy? or will your husband be joining you soon?
Me: Oh, it's just us. I'm single.
Woman: Oh
Long silence
Woman: Is this your first?
Me: Yep, Thank God. I can't imagine having two already.
Woman: Do you mind me asking how old you are?
Me: (laughing) How old do you think I am?
Woman: Oh I can't tell those sorts of things. I'd guess 17?
Me: I'm 21
Woman: (sounds totally relieved) Oh (lets out a breath) What a cute sweater, she has on. Where did you get it?
Me: It was a hand-me-down.
]]>In I walk, carrying baby and diaper bag. I sit at the empty table.
Baby fusses.
Me: Are you hungeee? Do you want some numb numbs?
Older couple glance over. Middle aged woman watches intently.
I hold baby up, middle aged woman very non-discreetly checks for a ring.
I reach into my diaper bag and pull out a blanket that I lay over my chest and begin to feed the baby.
Older couple looks shocked! The woman leans over and whispers to the man. They both berry their faces in their reading. Man coughs, shuffle paper, woman fidgets.
Baby begins farting. Loudly. I think it's sort of cute and funny. Middle aged woman thinks it's funny. Older couple do not!
Older couple looks totally offended and they get up to leave.
I finish feeding and pull the baby up.
Baby laughs and smiles at the woman, she smiles and talks to the baby.
Woman: Hi Sweetie. Aren't you a happy girl!
I turn
Me: Are you being friendly?
Woman: How old is she?
Me: 5 months
Woman: Out for a day with mommy? or will your husband be joining you soon?
Me: Oh, it's just us. I'm single.
Woman: Oh
Long silence
Woman: Is this your first?
Me: Yep, Thank God. I can't imagine having two already.
Woman: Do you mind me asking how old you are?
Me: (laughing) How old do you think I am?
Woman: Oh I can't tell those sorts of things. I'd guess 17?
Me: I'm 21
Woman: (sounds totally relieved) Oh (lets out a breath) What a cute sweater, she has on. Where did you get it?
Me: It was a hand-me-down.
Woman: Well she looks adorable, what a pretty girl in purple.
Me: Thanks.
Woman: What's her name?
Me: Theo
Woman: excuse me?
Me: Theo
Woman: I've never heard that for a girl. Is it short for something?
Me: Well he's a boy.
Woman: (shocked) Oh!! Sorry!! (she obviously feels bad) I just thought.. because of the purple sweater.
Me: Oh it's ok, I let him wear all colors.
Woman: oh...
Long silent pause
I pull a text book out of the diaper bag
Woman: Oh (again looks totally relieved) are you in school?
Me: yes
Woman: What are you studying?
Me: Well right now we're talking about sex.
Woman looks majorly uncomfortable
Me: I go to Evergreen
Woman: Oooooh...
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You: Preferably not up tight or overly analytical. A bit of a dreamer. Someone who wants to have fun but still get the work done. Encouraging and supportive, likes to share ideas, and wants help. Wants to get out there and explore new things and meet new people.
]]>You: Preferably not up tight or overly analytical. A bit of a dreamer. Someone who wants to have fun but still get the work done. Encouraging and supportive, likes to share ideas, and wants help. Wants to get out there and explore new things and meet new people.
]]>Fashioning the Body
October 8, 2007
Concept Rhyming Essay #1
Power has many different meanings, but is mainly understood to be an intangible force that influences and controls. It makes one think of authority, strength, and dominance. Foucault takes a unique view on power as the invisible pressure behind society and the way all individuals act. He explores the depth of the influential powers in all of life. Who or what has the power? What makes power? How can we play with power? Foucault uses the word “power” and morphs it into many different meanings and contexts. He uses it to explain innermost thoughts and actions and the way every part of society plays against each other to manipulate and form our existence and influence all that we do.
While we think of power almost as an imaginary entity, Foucault talks about power as if it were alive and had personality. He says on page 44 of The History of Sexuality:
]]>Fashioning the Body
October 8, 2007
Concept Rhyming Essay #1
Power has many different meanings, but is mainly understood to be an intangible force that influences and controls. It makes one think of authority, strength, and dominance. Foucault takes a unique view on power as the invisible pressure behind society and the way all individuals act. He explores the depth of the influential powers in all of life. Who or what has the power? What makes power? How can we play with power? Foucault uses the word “power” and morphs it into many different meanings and contexts. He uses it to explain innermost thoughts and actions and the way every part of society plays against each other to manipulate and form our existence and influence all that we do.
While we think of power almost as an imaginary entity, Foucault talks about power as if it were alive and had personality. He says on page 44 of The History of Sexuality:
“The power which thus took charge of sexuality, set about contacting bodies, caressing them with its eyes, intensifying areas, electrifying surfaces, dramatizing troubled moments.”
Foucault uses visual language to show power as an ever-present force in life. He sees power not only as a mental force, but as a physical one, often following it with a physical verb. He tries to explain to the reader how power affects every part of life. He says that power is so influential that it acts as a material force, and not only persuades us, but pushes us into action.
Another way Foucault explores power is through what he calls “power relations”. He sees the person who has power over another as being a great pressure in their lives. They can impact and change that person’s mind, resulting in a change of their entire body. He also explains how powers can have relations with other powers. There is never a time when Foucault sees an ultimate power. Instead he acknowledges power shifts and changes to form newly realized power and Foucault’s favorite, power struggles. For instance, Foucault writes about the power a parent or educator has over a child’s sexuality because they influence the child’s thoughts and actions. But, he also realizes that the child possesses his own power because his sexuality causes the parent to worry. This cause and effect is a play of power, a power relation.
Though Foucault does not see power as being ultimate, he does view power as having other concrete characteristics. Often he refers to the “nature of power”. One of the traits he finds in power is that of repression. Power enjoys suppressing pleasure. It feeds on the need to have complete control, usually of the cruel kind, over anything it can.
“…it is the nature of power too be repressive, and to be especially careful in repressing useless energies, the intensity of pleasures, and irregular modes of behavior.” Pg 9Foucault uses this callous view of power to explain why sexuality and anything that is viewed as abnormal, is a cause of guilt within our society. To put it frankly, power wants us all to feel depressed and ashamed.
Beside suppression, Foucault sees power as having a nature of knowledge. Often he groups the two together to become one unit of “knowledge-power.” When someone possesses knowledge they have an influence over someone who does not. We often look to someone with more knowledge for guidance, which in turn, gives them power over us. They have the power to share their knowledge or to keep it from us. The same relationship applies if the person has the knowledge of something we want to keep secret. They now hold the power because they can choose whether or not to divulge their knowledge of us. In this sense, power embodies knowledge and the two become reliant on each other and inseparable. Foucault uses this unit of knowledge-power to explain the ways we interact, and the power relations of everyday society.
Foucault says that learning is a way of gaining more knowledge. Because knowledge is power, when you gain new knowledge you gain more power. The knowledge one already has helps them to learn, so knowledge is powerful in gaining more power.
The views of power that Foucault holds create a complex web that would not be the normal interpretation of the word. To most, power is simply power, nothing in-depth and to be explored. We are all aware of power within our lives, but most people do not stop to think much about it. The way Foucault sees power as mainly negative, he seems to focus more on the victimization of power rather then the benefits that could come with power.
In our society it is normal to seek power. But Foucault would probably see the seeking of power as an influence of power itself. Society views power as positive so people seek it. Instead of gaining power, Foucault encourages us to escape power. The only form of power he seems to think acceptable is the power of knowledge.
Reading Foucault completely changes the meaning of power. The way he uses the word and his multiple interpretations makes us view power in a whole new way. He effectively uses the word to explain in depth the way our society functions through a play of knowledge, pleasure, and discourse that is controlled by and that controls power. Foucault sees everything as hypocrisy, so there is no real way to explain the views in or own words without sounding hypocritical ourself, especially since everything we do is affected by society’s power.
“Briefly, my aim is to examine the case of a society which has been loudly castigating itself for its hypocrisy for more than a century, which speaks verbosely of its own silence, takes great pains to relate in detail all the things it does not say, denounces the powers it excises, and promises to liberate itself from the very laws that have made it function.” Pg 8
]]>A Form about how the Form is Formed.
Directions
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3. Write the form itself. You must use boxes or lines and make sure that it is completely obvious where to write answers to form questions. Number the questions. Most of the time it is ideal to add letters from the alphabet to your numbers (42a, 42b, 42c) Include examples.
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Directions
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3. Write the form itself. You must use boxes or lines and make sure that it is completely obvious where to write answers to form questions. Number the questions. Most of the time it is ideal to add letters from the alphabet to your numbers (42a, 42b, 42c) Include examples.
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From the outside A dorm is not much to look at. Like many buildings on campus it has a 70's style, tall, boxie, cement, with roof that's a lovely shade of rust. Every floor has a balcony. There was not much activity around the dorms. We saw two guys walking by, both appeared drowsy and bored. There are many bikes locked up outside the front doors. When first entering the building, our attention was drawn toward the stair way towards the basement. The walls are covered in a mural and there is a public posting board. There were people wondering around at the bottom of the stairs with green T-shirts that said "RAD service" on the back. Many of them carried keys and rubber gloves. We took note of the fire escape sign by the elevator. It indicated that a person should not use an elevator during a fire and should take the stairs instead. We wondered what someone in a wheel chair should do. Inside the elevator we noticed that the lights had "Evergreen" carved into them. We could not go above the second floor. The second floor's hallway went around in a loop with offices off to the side. The building appears very old, because the varies tubes are exposed on the ceiling. The walls have bulletin boards and announcements. We noticed some graffiti on the wall next to the elevator, a 4 and a backwards N. Why would someone make graffiti like that?
One thing that we took special note of was the evacuation procedure, which seemed to be written for people with apsolutely no common sense: 1. Alert all occupants in your room, or vicinity. 2. Close doors when leaving room. 3. Check Exits to make sure that they are available. 4. If possible Do not use elevators for evacuation. 5. Make check of occupants when outside fire area.
]]>From the outside A dorm is not much to look at. Like many buildings on campus it has a 70's style, tall, boxie, cement, with roof that's a lovely shade of rust. Every floor has a balcony. There was not much activity around the dorms. We saw two guys walking by, both appeared drowsy and bored. There are many bikes locked up outside the front doors. When first entering the building, our attention was drawn toward the stair way towards the basement. The walls are covered in a mural and there is a public posting board. There were people wondering around at the bottom of the stairs with green T-shirts that said "RAD service" on the back. Many of them carried keys and rubber gloves. We took note of the fire escape sign by the elevator. It indicated that a person should not use an elevator during a fire and should take the stairs instead. We wondered what someone in a wheel chair should do. Inside the elevator we noticed that the lights had "Evergreen" carved into them. We could not go above the second floor. The second floor's hallway went around in a loop with offices off to the side. The building appears very old, because the varies tubes are exposed on the ceiling. The walls have bulletin boards and announcements. We noticed some graffiti on the wall next to the elevator, a 4 and a backwards N. Why would someone make graffiti like that?
One thing that we took special note of was the evacuation procedure, which seemed to be written for people with apsolutely no common sense: 1. Alert all occupants in your room, or vicinity. 2. Close doors when leaving room. 3. Check Exits to make sure that they are available. 4. If possible Do not use elevators for evacuation. 5. Make check of occupants when outside fire area.
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