kathie lee mi 201 blog

What we love will ruin us. We love our cellphones and we love the internet. We love the power it gives us. With them, we have the ability to learn Calculus from YouTube, get all the answers to our homework from Yahoo Answers, and talk to a loved one in Madagascar through FaceTime.            Cellphones were created to make our lives easier. I have an app called Moments that tracks the amount of time you spend on your phone. Over one of the days from spring break, it said I used my phone for 783 minutes. That is 13.05 hours. 13 hours of my life that I will never get back. Was it really worth it? Probably not. I most likely racked up so many hours because I binge watched Gossip Girl on Netflix and aimlessly scrolled through Twitter 7623 times. To be on my phone for 13 hours really isn’t as hard as it seems. I had promised myself that I would use spring break to study for my ACT but instead I wasted my time. In today’s modern age, we are ...

On page 125 of Spiegelman’s Maus, Vladek and Anja are walking in the streets, trying to find a place to go. Vladek and Anja continue to find a safe place to stay, but the inevitability of their fate is depicted in the illustration. The reader is looking at the two walking through the streets from a bird’s eye view. This allows them to see that the road is in the shape of a swastika. The words “where to go” are bolded and yet there is the swastika to convey that there really is no place for the couple to go without being in danger. Since the path they are on is made of a swastika, it shows that no matter where they decide to travel, they cannot escape their future- that they will walk into the Nazi’s trap sooner or later. Vladek is able to escape his impending death numerous times; however, he does end up at a concentration camp in the end. If he had not decided to attempt to escape into a different part of Europe, he would have never been sent to Auschwitz. His cousin and his fam...

(beware: this is slightly dramatic and 100% embarrassing) On Wednesday March 25 th , 2015 a tragedy happened. Zayn Malik, 1/5 of One Direction, quit the band. If you look at the occurrence from different perspectives, it can be good or bad. MOSTLY BAD. Zayn’s perspective: For the this is my room lol past 5 years, he has been forced to act like a perfect, clean-cut boy. He is supposed to be a great role model for middle school girls and has to deal with millions of obsessed under-aged girls who claim that their ovaries explode every time he shoots them a smoldering glare. He’s in a boyband that (used to) wear matching outfits, sings bubblegum pop, and is under a contract that prohibits him from lashing out. He has the stereotypical bad boy persona because he wears black, has tons of tattoos, and smokes. BUT THE PERKS WAYYYYY OUTWEIGHT THE CONS BECAUSE HE HAS EARNED MILLIONS OF DOLLARS, ACQUIRED WORLD FAME, ACHIEVED A POP STAR STATUS, TRAVELLED THE WORLD, AND CAN BASICA...

Lobsters used to be considered on the same spectrum as rats. RATS. People refused to eat them and inmates were only allowed to eat them once a week. Now, lobsters are a high-class food so that makes me wonder, who decided “oh lobsters are going to be a delicacy now and all restaurants are going to serve them!” This also leads me to think, who is it that chooses what the next “big thing” or the next “big trend” is going to be?? Or maybe the right question I should be asking is who is it that is dumb enough to follow? As a society, we care too much about trying to fit in with what the newest fashion is. Currently, that would be the bohemian look. Most of the men and women who consider their style “bohemian” think that they’re really hipster and unique because they attend music festivals and live by the philosophy of hippies. But the thing is, if everyone thinks they’re hipster, then everyone is the same. This is just like the pink flamingos. According to the third most po...

The words and actions of a child’s parents can impact the way a child chooses to live his or her life. In Richard’s case, his mother’s abandonment causes him to become a neglected little boy who leads a generally unhappy life. Throughout the movie, many of us exclaimed “this kid is going to be traumatized” after we watched him witness his married mother kiss his neighbor and as we watched his mother drop him off before she decided to stay at the hotel. In the end, it was Laura’s final decision of leaving that makes us wonder if she hadn’t abandoned him, would he have turned out normal? Was it her leaving that left his traumatized or was it all of her actions? We also get to watch Richard’s father tell him that his motivation to stay alive during the war was because he wanted to return home and wed his mother. Richard takes after his father and lives for the same reason. He tells Clarissa he only stays alive because of her. Like his father, he associates love with life. Love i...

Out of all the characters, Rezia is by far my favorite. She leads a fairly innocent and regular life, and all she wants is a loving husband and a cute little baby. She was just an Italian girl living and enjoying life with her family. creepy picture of Virginia Woolf In Milan, she felt that her life was perfect. Rezia was “gay [and] frivolous, with those little artist’s fingers” (Woolf 87). She was surrounded by her family and she had met such a charming man that she admired. She likes the fact that he is quiet and she respected Englishmen. She probably felt like she was on top of the world; she was immersed in love (even if she didn’t know that Septimus didn’t love her). Tangent: Seriously, what the heck Septimus, it isn’t cool to play with people’s feelings. You shouldn’t marry someone just for the heck of it. She gave up her entire life just to marry you and moved to a foreign country while you’re off thinking about how Shakespeare said love is repulsive.   Anyways, in ...

From left to right, Emma, Elizabeth, me  Mrs. Dalloway allows readers to realize how many thoughts race through the head of every ordinary human in just a single day. While we get to experience her day with her, we find it strange that “a little squeak of the hinges” (3) reminds her of air from a morning when she was 18. Additionally, when “the floor creaked” and “she just hear[d] the click of the handle release” (32), Clarissa is reminded of her summer at Bourton and her relationship with Sally Seton. However, after analyzing her thought process in class, I understood how often this occurred in our daily lives.        My friend Emma is currently in the midst of searching for a college roommate. After weeks of talking to obscure strangers, she came across one that said she attends a church camp every summer called FaHoLo (faith, hope, love). This one word was able to spiral into four summers of memories for Emma. In the middle of Michigan is a Christi...

     The moth is such an insignificant creature in this enormous world; however, Woolf believes that no matter how small a creature, it is still a complex being that embraces power. It looks out at the world through a window and “[flies] from one corner of his compartment, and after waiting there…to the other,” trying to escape his depressing life and into the one he wishes to be a part of (Woolf 696). The moth is like ordinary people in the world. They look out of their own lives or in the moth’s case a window and wish to be a part of a different life. The butterflies that are able to gaily fly around are like celebrities who are able to live the lives they wish lavishly.            No matter how important a creature seems when it is alive; all individuals have the same impending fate. Death. Death does not wait or bypass anyone, no matter how rich, poor, beautiful, or ugly a being. The butterfly may be able to live a happier life...

Society often overlooks the good in the world. The topics that are broadcasted most often in the news are deaths, rapes, murders, and crimes. We forget about all the random acts of kindness being performed every day and the humanitarians who are trying to make the world a better place. Victor’s father “never got into any serious trouble, somehow avoided rape, and got out of prison just in time to hitchhike to Woodstock to watch Jimi Hendrix play ‘The Star-Spangled Banner” (Alexie 26). Sherman Alexie talks about the father’s faults in a colloquial mannerism by going from discussing one of the worst crimes humanly possible to the largest peace gathering concert of the century.  Alexie quickly directs the readers’ attention so they will not dwell on the felonies of his father but rather on passion the father has towards “The Star-Spangled Banner”. Alexie wants the readers to focus on the good parts of Victor’s father opposed to his mistakes; he does not want readers to define Victor’...

     When I first read (the enjoyable reading, not the analysis reading) Champion of the World by Maya Angelou, I quickly understood the energy and excitement her community felt when Joe Louis was competing. Joe Louis represented the black race as a whole, just like how Jeremy Lin represents the Taiwanese community. Soon after Jeremy’s overnight fame, he became an icon to Asians. He was the first of his generation to become a celebrity basketball player. I can relate to the “apprehensive mood [that is] shot with gaiety” because that perfectly describes the atmosphere of the room every time I watched him play (Angelou 88). My family would have parties with our friends solely to watch Jeremy and the New York Knicks compete against other teams. We would all gather in the family room and intensely yell and scream at the TV for two hours, pretending as if he could hear us rooting for him. However, it was not just my family and our friends that supported him; it was an entire...