kathie lee mi 201 blog

In today’s day and age, reality TV seems to glorify every type of lifestyle. From crazy housewives to rich kids in Beverly Hills, wild lives seem to be glamorous and thrilling.   Show such as Teen Mom and 16 and Pregnant on MTV highlight the lives of teenage mothers. Although the shows touch on the topic of the struggles of being a teen mom and its consequences, it seems as if the end result of these shows are rewarding. The girls starring on the shows earn millions and are often featured on the covers of magazines which bring them publicity, endorsement deals, and open doors to opportunities in the entertainment business. Even though the shows do focus on a girl’s hardships of motherhood, being cut off by some of her friends, and the new responsibilities she must face, MTV chooses to direct most of the attention to what will bring in high ratings; a girl fighting with the " dead-beat baby daddy", her going out with her friends, and buying cute clothes for her b...

America is supposedly a melting pot or a mixed salad. Whatever you would like to call it, this country is an assortment of different cultures and it is what makes it so great. But white people are always stereotyped as “true Americans” while Taiwanese-Americans, Korean-Americans, Chinese-Americans, Japanese-Americans, Indian-Americans, etc. are all labeled “Asian”, despite the fact that they are all natural born citizens of the United States. African-Americans are labeled as blacks and Mexican-Americans, Brazilian-Americans, etc. are all Latinos. A question that is nearly always asked is, “why is it that the word 'American' automatically gives off the connotation of white people?” It is as if white people are the only ones who have the privilege to be solely called “American”. Society has ingrained into our minds that an “All-American girl” is a blonde haired, blue eyed girl. Hopefully one day when the word “All-American girl” is said, people will think of a diverse group of y...

Searching through "The Glass Castle" twice for traces of fire and hunger, we focused on motifs this week. “I lived in a world that at any moment could erupt into fire. It was the sort of knowledge that kept you on your toes” (Walls 34). Through the novel, the motif fire is laced into aspects of her life. Sitting at my laptop, racking my brain for ideas of what to blog about, I have a video of the marching band halftime performance on replay in another tab which reminded me of something that happened earlier today. I was texting my friends about how much we love the show this year and how the peace, love and music symbols are incorporated into so many aspects of the show and that was when I realized the peace sign was the glaringly obvious motif of our show that no one had identified as a motif. Remembering this, I suddenly had an urge to begin blogging. One of my favorite lyrics of the song “Chasing Cars” is, “Would you lie with me and just forget the world” (Snow Patro...