lunes, 17 de noviembre de 2008

Lack of Acceptance among Human Beings

People have organized or structured a world where the difference is not well coming. This means that, our planet is not a place for ugliness, defect, and abnormal things. In addition, in the past and until today people have tried to build a perfect world with wonderful patterns. However, this strict and intolerant thought has not been achieved. Because it is impossible that things or people can be perfect there are many factors which make us imperfect human beings. However, people still do not understand that. For instance, there is a book named Frankenstein that presents a creature who is rejecting from society. Because of his deformed body shape. This same issue happened in our real life where people do not accept malformed body shape. And they look for many ways to show their intolerance to those human beings through their attitude or words.

When people meet someone who is different from them, they immediately avoid that person. But why, what happened in human beings’ minds that they reject something or someone who has different features, skin, weigh, thoughts etc. Moreover, in each society there are some patterns which define what things should be accepted by citizens. For example, appropriate behaviour, typical body shape, etc. In the case of the last one issue, it is crucial for everyone to develop two eyes, one mouth, two hands, and two legs. This group of features makes someone normal inside our western culture. However, what does normal mean? According to a dictionary that word refers to “An established norm, rule or principle; conformed to a type standard or regular form; performing the proper functions; not abnormal, regular; natural; analogical”. Nevertheless, that pattern is not always repeated for every people. For example, many times children are born whit features are not similar as ordinary children. As a consequence, it is obvious that abnormal children’s opportunities will be less than for the ones who follow the traditional pattern, only because those human beings do not fulfil society models. However, not accomplishing those prototypes is a good argument to reject a person. In addition, if someone carries out a survey asking people this question I think that many of them would answer “NO.” Therefore, is it that true? I am not saying that all of them are a liar but I believed that an important number of people would change their opinion. Actually, it is difficult to break our mental models because of citizens have grown up with this lack of acceptance. A good example of this case is the famous book named Frankenstein. This story tells us the invention of a creature whose creator left him in view of his ugly aspect. With respect of that, I am inclined to believe that Mary Shelley has created this novel with the propose of teaching us how people used to behave to someone who was completely different to them. For example, when the creature’s figure was exposed to people’s eyes, their reaction was so aggressive that the monster should hide him self numerous times. The same happens to people who suffer from a strange illness like Elephantiasis (this kind of disease produces an abnormal growth of some parts of human beings’ body). Look at their abnormal shape causes a strong impact to people’s eyes that they prefer to avoid and erase that image from their brains.
On the other hand, people also have created several ways in order to remember abnormal people that they are not well welcome to this world. In other words, people have invented a specific vocabulary which describes things that not following the common social model such as, monster, creature, horrible, stranger, ugly etc.
These words are used by people in order to show them selves disgusting to someone or something strange. For instance, if we look up monster in a dictionary we will find:

Monster in stories means, an imaginary or ancient creature that is large, ugly, and frightening. The second meaning of this word is cruel person: someone who is very cruel and evil. In the case of creature this refers to an imaginary animal or person or one that is very strange and frightening. Afterwards, this short explanation of these utterances, I think that it is relevant to ask ourselves the lack of tolerance that we have developed during our long life.

In conclusion, I am convinced that we should accept people regardless of the fact that they are abnormal, ugly, black, or white. They are human beings and they deserve to be respected. Apart from that, I believe that this change can be achieved through a new education system where everyone has the opportunity to see that the normal concept is only a way that people created in the past in order to handle human beings. In addition, anyone fulfils that concept in a hundred percent because anyone is normal. If everyone understood that, maybe the word discrimination would not exist among us.

miércoles, 12 de noviembre de 2008

rough draft

When people meet someone who is different to them, immediately they avoid that person. But why, what happen in human beings’ mind that they reject something or someone who has different features, skin, weigh, thoughts etc. moreover, in each society there are some patterns which define what things should be accepted by citizens. For example, appropriate behaviour, normal body shape, etc. in the case of the last one issue it is crucial for everyone to develop two eyes, one mouth, two hands, and two legs. This group of characteristics makes someone normal inside our west culture. However, what does normal means according to a dictionary that word refers “an established norm, rule or principle; conformed to a type standard or regular form; performing the proper functions; not abnormal, regular; natural; analogical”. That concept not only refers to our behaviour also close the human beings’ body shape. Nevertheless, that pattern not always is repeated for very people. For example, many times children are born whose features are not similar as ordinary children. As a consequence, it is obvious that abnormal children’s opportunities will be less than for whom follow the established pattern, only because those human beings do not fulfil with society models. However, do not fulfil with society patterns it is a good argument for rejecting a person? In addition, if someone made a survey asking people this question I think that many of them would answer “NO.” Therefore, is it that true? I am not saying that all of them are a liar but I believed that an important number of people would change their opinion with the respect of that question. Actually, it is difficult to break our mental models because of people have grown up with this lack of acceptance. A good example of this case is the famous book named Frankenstein. This story tells us the invention of a creature whose creator left him in view of his ugly aspect. With respect of that, I am inclined to believed that Mary Shelley has created this novel with the propose of teaching us how people used to behave with someone who was completely different to them

rough draft

When people meet someone who is different to them, immediately they avoid that person. But why, what happen in human beings’ mind that they reject something or someone who has different features, skin, weigh, thoughts etc. moreover, in each society there are some patterns which define what things should be accepted by citizens. For example, appropriate behaviour, normal body shape, etc. in the case of the last one issue it is crucial for everyone to develop two eyes, one mouth, two hands, and two legs. This group of characteristics makes someone normal inside our west culture. However, what does normal means according to a dictionary that word refers “an established norm, rule or principle; conformed to a type standard or regular form; performing the proper functions; not abnormal, regular; natural; analogical”. That concept not only refers to our behaviour also close the human beings’ body shape. Nevertheless, that pattern not always is repeated for very people. For example, many times children are born whose features are not similar as ordinary children. As a consequence, it is obvious that abnormal children’s opportunities will be less than for whom follow the established pattern, only because those human beings do not fulfil with society models. However, do not fulfil with society patterns it is a good argument for rejecting a person? In addition, if someone made a survey asking people this question I think that many of them would answer “NO.” Therefore, is it that true? I am not saying that all of them are a liar but I believed that an important number of people would change their opinion with the respect of that question. Actually, it is difficult to break our mental models because of people have grown up with this lack of acceptance. A good example of this case is the famous book named Frankenstein. This story tells us the invention of a creature whose creator left him in view of his ugly aspect. With respect of that, I am inclined to believed that Mary Shelley has created this novel with the propose of teaching us how people used to behave with someone who was completely different to them

domingo, 2 de noviembre de 2008

comment about September 1, 1939 and In No Man's Land

This poem explain us how wars can destroyed the human beings' brain. Also those conflicts make that people drive crazy. In addition, Inside people's hearts start to grow sadness and at the same time they do not know what it is the correct way to face the world. Apart from that, their behaviour change and their reaction begin to be similar at the dictators who believe that wars and punishment are the best way to resolve problems. In my opinion the consequence of these conflicts is that innocent people are damaged and the dictator are happy in their house watching how innocent people are fighting for dreams who do not belong to them . For example, the poem called In No Man's Land, focuses on the soldiers bodys who are under the ground who fought for something which soon will be forgot. And the only thing that will stay from them under the ground will be their bones.

sábado, 25 de octubre de 2008

A room of one's own

Many years ago women were discriminate by men. Because they believed that women and men should not have the same rights. I understood in Virginia Woolf’s essay that women had the same men’s capacity. However, they had not had the chance to show their creativity. At the same time, in her essay I could notice that Woolf was exhausted and concerned about men’s book. In their work they only showed the same topic which was “men’s superiority.” That issue made Woolf called women began to create their own books. Finally, on chapter 6 which her principal thesis is, “human beings inside their minds developed a female and male sides. In addition, they should use both sides if they want to achieve a good written. She explained that it is the only way to have an interesting novel or poetry because in that work we will find the union of different perspectives so that complement makes the work more real and authentic

lunes, 20 de octubre de 2008

new post about Odour of Chrysanthemus

About this story I would like to say that it has many contemporary issues such as: alcoholism, loneliness, poverty, social pressure etc. During many years these issues have been presented in our society. At the same time, they have destroyed many people's life because human beings have not known how to face these problems. In addition, Elizabeth who is the main character in Odour of Chrysanthemus story, she had a deep pain because her husband had alcohol problems. She also had two children and every time they needed her attention. For that reason, she had not much time in thinking about her relationship or about herself. In my opinion, in many families we can find that problem. Where woman spend all their time concerning about their children, the home's chores, the job etc. With all of these problems women forget the real meaning of being alive. A good example of this is when Elizabeth's husband died. In that moment, she started to pay attention to her husband’s features and she could appreciate the beautiful he was. When I read that part of the story I felt very bad. Because people should loose someone or something in order to realize the important that person was for them. In conclusion, the pressure of life makes people lost their happiness like this story which poverty and alcoholism made Elizabeth and her husband forget their love.

new post about Frankenstein

When I read this book and some articles about the author, immediately I understood that the writer invented this creature because in several moments she felt as a monster. For instance, Frankenstein could not know what loved mean because in the first day when he born his inventor abandoned him. Mary Shalley had a similar destination as him because her mother died when she born. Another pattern between them is, Frankenstein began to length his knowledge and he understood people's behavior. This issue also allowed Frankenstein to comprehend why people did not love him. When Mary was a child an important period of her life she dedicated to find out new things through readings. Those books gave to her the capacity to comprehend many issues. For example, she realized that society can destroy human beings' dreams. In conclusion, knowledge sometimes can be very harmful. For that reason, we should ask our self some questions as; should be the knowledge limit? Should we know everything about life? Or it is better to know some things in order to be happier in this world