Girl Scouts and Society?

Going out and selling cookies would help young girls to interact with different types of people. The girls would meet nice people, weird people, mean people, etc. Meeting those people would introduce them to the various types of personalities in the world. Furthermore, doing this would help to develope social skills with adults and the possibility of rejection. It is important to learn these things in order to live in society. Society has a plethora of personalities, some you'd like and some you wouldn't. That is why it is good for girl scouts to go out and interact with some of these personalities.

Deconstruction

So I deconstructed love with my mom. She said 'I love you' to my dad and I jumped in and asked her what that meant to her. She told me that she had grown to care about my dad unconditionally over the years and differently than anyone else. I asked her what caring was and she said it was a feeling she felt in her heart. But then I asked her how she knew that that feeling was love. She was really confused. She told me she just knew and had learned what that feeling meant over the years she has been married. I kept asking about how she could know what that feeling really was and she got frustrated with me and made me stop, haha/

Authors

I think that the accountablility varies with context. "Racism is man's gravest threat to man - the maximum of hatred for a minimum of reason.” Every man has his own views but you can right anything you want. In other words, you could write a view that is completely opposite from yours in order to get a point across and argue against it. On the other hand,"He lives the poetry that he cannot write. The others write the poetry that they dare not realise.” If the author is not using the view to argue against the hate or racism and writes it in an agreeing tone than he/she is writing his view. That makes me wonder, can an author even write without being bias? A lot of times you can recognize someone's bias in what they do or say or in this case write.








http://thinkexist.com/quotations/racism/
http://thinkexist.com/quotations/writers/

Who Decides?

I think that when someone creates something with the intention of it to be something meaningful then that is what art is. "Color is my day-long obsession, joy and torment"(Claude Monet). If you create something from within and it isn't just a sudden impulse with no feeling or meaning behind it then you can call it true art. When someone throws a blue drop of paint onto a canvas just to be able to say 'I made art,' it is not art. "...There are not only more people collecting, there are more people collecting for the wrong reasons, basically as the latest get rich quick scheme. They buy art like lottery tickets"(Mary Boone). I think that some people today like to say anything and everything is art in order to gain something for themselves: art is a God given gift. I don't think its who decides what art is but how we decide how we decide what art is. Art is not a pointless project you do for social credit or money but an expression of emotion.

http://www.artquotes.net/quotesartists.htm

Words and Meaning

I think that the breakdown of words and meaning lies in the inadequate system of language. It is hard for us to explain everything ith merely words. For example, our imperfect human words cannot make someone know the feeling of love or sadness. A person cannot know in their mind a specific feeling. That is why people use their hands while they talk or facial expressions or just plain body language to transfer what they are trying to say. Reality is much more than imperfect words. So pretty much, our language is not a good enough way to explain THINGS in reality.

hyperreality!

Hyperreality has almost put a mask on the reality of love, particularly for girls. Most girls grow up watching a plethera of love movies and/or disney movies. These movies show a knight in shinning armer who pops in one day and takes the girl and they both live happily ever after and thats that. For instance, "You'll love me at once."(1) Most girls grow up thinking that love will just come one day with out any struggles or hardships. Like in the previous quote from Sleeping Beauty, young girls might believe that it comes that easy. Furthermore, "You'll love me at once, the way you did once upon a dream."(2) What they might come to realize is that there are hardships and bumps along the road and not just a perfect relationship that is handed to you. Sleeping Beauty is not the only disney movie that portrays this but pretty much every single one. In Cinderella, her literal knight in shiney armer comes and saves her one day and they fall in love that same day. Ultimately, although this is the common idea of love among these young girls, I'm pretty sure that they grow out of it.

Sources: 1 and 2 http://www.aquamarine.nu/lyrics/disney/sleepingbeauty.php

Metafiction

Um i dont know the blog very well but i think this is what im supposed to be answering...
The last part is metafiction because he is talking about the plot within the story or the story within the story which is metafiction