Know what you mean, mean what you say

People are often saying things that don't mean and call it "a figure of speech". But what if someone doesn't understand that figure and take the statement literally. What if someone really believes they are so hungry, they can eat a horse? Dow that make that person stupid or a good listener? The whole point is you never know how someone may take what you say. There is no guarantee that people will understand the analogies that you have or what you are trying to say the you think your saying it. That is why the clearness of terms on writing is so important. I think that it is irresponsible to hoist word or passages to the public that seemingly had credibility but it was poorly worded to lead someone in the wrong direction. Or you may run the mistake of offending someone else. That last thing you want is to offend someone else's views and opinions. Hence, we must watch what we write and how we write it. The way people see your writing can also be the way people see you. 

What's the word up

Language is considered valid if it can be understood. If it makes since to people and other know what your talking about. But if that is the definition, then as long as someone can understand stand you, anything you say can be a language right? No? Well who gets to decide that? Who gets to choose rather or not something is language? Every culture has it own dialect that make there way of speaking so unique. If can be widely understood by those of the same area or background but that is what makes languages so unique, because it can change, thing can be added, things can be taken away, and at any given time a new form of speaking can form. A great example of one word that shapes a language of a whole generation

My reflection

This English class is like none other than I have been in before and I am thankful for that. I have been opened up to new genres of writing that I feel is a better fit to my own personal style as opposed to what had been instilled in me in the past. In traditional classes of creative writing, there was no opportunity to be creative. It was Alway so structured in telling you that this is the only way to write. Granted, I was good at it but it was boring and I felt so limited to what I could and felt it was wrong to do anything else. I like that we were encouraged to explore our muses. We were encouraged to accept all the changes that come along with the writing process because it is our OWN process.  Overall I think these new view on the world of writing will serve me well in the future of any other writhing situation that I may find myself in. 

CSW

The By far, my favorite part or presentation of the CSW was the Raven presentation. I like the empowering message that it had and that it stood for. I also enjoyed the ironic since that there was a med-west media expo the same weekend as her presentation. But really what struck me about that most was, being a fellow cos-player and a person who enjoys going to convention,

I see a lot of girls mimicking their favorite women and shero'a on the screen. A lot of those characters represent strong women who own themselves and their sexually that no man would f$&k around with; so it is evident to see why women would want to dress up on those outfits and put themselves in "the same shoes" as these powerful person. Unfortunately in the real world men or in some cases women are not conditioned like the people in the program to fear or to respect these people and only see them as a symbol of pleasure. I have seen this happen, I have experienced this first hand. And I firmly believe that an outfit is in noway, shape, or from a welcome mat for someone to me or anyone else. 

The only thing that I would critique the presentation on is that I wish it would have also addressed women who do go to these conventions and proceed to dress up in these costume with the wanting of "attention" in that way and acts as such . Those who do that puts everyone else at a dangerous disadvantage because it gives a predator grounds to feel like what he/she is doing is okay. I feel very strongly about this subject and I am thankf for this presentation for discussing this topic. 

Self Understanding

     Right now I am read something called " A Guide to Self Understanding". This is meant to be some sort of "help book" to victims who are having a hard time dealing with the actions that were committed against them. The book itself is great, it has a lot of information to offer people particularly those who are having mental troubles with dealing wit a traumatic experience. It teaches about looking into ones own actions to see what they having been doing differently prior to what they have been or how they were before the incident. It also goes as far as to mention so the biological  issues associated with trauma.  This technique is one of the many that are offered in the book to assist people and while it is a great option, I find certain things wrong with it. First and foremost, how can you say or be sure that all the biological traumas can be the same for every person who is sealing with any type of situation. To me it is almost the same as saying that if one child  jumps off a roof and breaks his leg and another child who falls of his bike and scraps his knee, both should be given a Band-Aid and kiss form mama to make it feel better. It is possible that what I am saying now might be totally contradicting what I said earlier about this being helpful but I honestly feel like if that entire section was omitted then it would be much better. Or may be if the author were to explain in greater detail about the biology of trauma.


What is considered to be the biology of trauma? Where does the limits start? What gets to be put in the category of the "biology of trauma"? How do we decide who has it and who doesn't?


If these sorts of questions could get answered then maybe it would be better.

The Problem

The problem that I am seeing with PTSD with sexual assault / abuse / rape survivors is that no matter what is done to help the victim move on and try to get over this situation, we don’t or can’t say how to deal with each person because this is not a one size fits all glove. Everyone has a different way of dealing with their emotions or their mental states that makes it difficult to treat each individual.

What we know is that unfortunately everyone can not be successfully helped form the current treatments that are currently available

What we don’t know is what is the right way to reach everyone who is dealing with a this horrific reality and how they help them the most effective way to help. Or if it is possible  at all help them at this point in time.


So what do we do to help? How do we fix this for these people who have been torn apart, be able to put their lives together? 

Coming soon will be the latest of the late updates of the psychology world and all of its new aspects as it relates to the field.

Wray Herbert

So this man Wray Herbert has been putting out some really interesting things lately. Being that I have only been following his blogs for a few days but he has posted a few things that have sparked my interest. His blog is called "We're Only Human" and one of my personal favorite post is entitled " Is Obesity A Self-Fulfilling Prophesy?". This particular post goes on that give a scenario about a perfectly proportional person who looks in the mirror and sees a fat person. He goes to say that even the moves health of person can take what they see in the mirror ( less than perfection) to be absolutely horrible. This behavior is mostly common in teenagers with the help of pop culture and the "now" role models. I, even being as independent of a thinker as I am, am incline to agree with some of his ideas.   

Martin or Michael

Martin Luther King Jr

As I look around I see all these tributes to Martin Luther King Jr. I see the photos hung around of him at the 'Million Man March" and of Dr. King giving his famous "I Have A Dream" speech. Although I am happy to se everyone so aware of this wonderful civil rights leader, I can't help but to wonder how much is everyone becoming aware of? as I said before I see him around in the photos and I see people reciting his famous "I Have A Dream" speech and that is all fine and dandy but what else? We call this week a tribute but what are we really paying tribute to? I'll tell you. We are glorifying the same story over and over again, the same information is just being recycled to a point that makes Dr. King seem like a fairy tale character while who he really was and what he really has done is getting lost in translation. So I vote that we start to educate ourselves and one another on more than just "I Have A Dream". Starting with this, Martin Luther King was Born Michael. He changed his name in his ate teens after a fried of his fathers' told him that he had a the voice and speaking talents of  a Martin.   



The cave

You never know what you know until you know it.