Week 5- Jennifer Hudson's Relatives Killed

The article I read was about the deaths of Jennifer Hudson's mom, brother, and nephew. It was said that Jennifer's nephew, Julian, had been reported missing since Friday morning, and was later found dead in an white SUV. Along with Julian, Jennifer's mother and brother were found shot to death in Ms. Donerson's (Jennifer's mom) home. Many of the details of this case have not been released to the public yet, which could be a good thing. This event is most definitely tragic for Jennifer, and many others. I too think this is terrible, because from what every one who knew the Hudson family, said that they were all wholesome, polite, and hard working people. Personally I feel that people who lead lives like the Hudson's don't deserve such a gruesome ending to their lives, unfortunately that isn't always the case. The fact that most of the details of this case haven't been released is a good thing because then the public doesn't have as much to talk about. The public has already blown this story up and told as much as they possibly can, but for the sake of The Hudson family, keeping most of the detail secret would be in their best interest so that the media can say what's wanted and then move on. The reason I choose this article is because now a days it seems like murders are happening all the time. Most of the people killed in these murders did nothing to deserve this fate, and these murders just cause problems and grief for the families and friends of the deceased. This obviously isn't the most important issue in our country right now, but it still has importance and needs to be discussed so that we can find a solution.

Blumenthal, Mitchell L. "2 Relatives of Jennifer Hudson Reported Slain". New York Times News Paper. October 24, 2008.

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Week 4- Nick and Norahs Infinite Playlist

The film review that I read was about the movie Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist. This movie is about a teenage boy, Nick, who is depressed about the loss of his girlfriend, Tris. He tries to win her back by making her music mixes, but instead of Tris listening to the mixes, she throws them away. After weeks of trying to win Tris back, Nick’s band mates force him to come play their gig on a Friday night. On that same night a band Where's Fluffy is also playing a concert, which is why Norah and her friend Caroline are in New York City. Norah attends Nicks band’s (has no official name) concert, and while trying to make Tris jealous, Norah and Nick share an extremely long awkward kiss. They then spend an adventurous night together battling obstacles while trying to find Where’s Fluffy. The author of the review I read, Roger Ebert, portrayed this movie ask dumb, boring, and lacking plot. He then goes on to criticize the acting of both Nick (Michael Cera) and Norah (Kat Dennings) as stupid. I however completely disagree with this review. I too saw the movie, and although I am a teenage girl who loves romantic comedies, I truly enjoyed this movie. The plot was interesting and had many unsuspecting twists. While watching this movie I never once became bored and wanted to stay and watch. I felt that this movie was very well made and the acting was superb. Nick and Norah have amazing chemistry, and I couldn't imagine any others playing the rolls of Nick and Norah. I would recommend every teenage girl to go see this film.

Ebert, Roger. "Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist". Chicago Sun-Times. Film

Review. October 2, 2008.

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Week 3- Bill Murrays Devistating Divorce

The second I saw this title I was extremely intrigued by the devastating news. This story is about the terrible breakup of Bill Murray and his wife Jennifer Butler Murray. Jennifer filed for divorce during may of 2008, and in the papers she accused Bill of being an alcoholic and being addicted to marijuana. This is such an unfortunate divorce because they were married for 11 years, and personally I felt they were perfect for each other. Yet the great thing is that instead of Bill being depressed for a long time, he's engaging him self in his new movie, The City of Ember. I feel that the allegations made by Jennifer were preposterous. Ever since I saw the amazing move Meatballs Bill was one of my favorite actors/comedians. He has been an amazing man, and has graced us with many great movies and episodes of SNL. I'm truly saddened to hear about this divorce. Although I am a Bill Murray fan, I also felt the need to blog about this article due to the augmentation of divorces in our society. I have many friends who's parents are divorced; sometimes it's good and sometimes it's not. I feel this is an issue in today's society because either people aren't taking enough time to consider their love, or yet just evidence that marriage is a hard thing. I picked this article because it involved a current issues, and is a big deal for Bill Murray fans. This connects to Siddhartha because in chapter 7, Samsara, Siddhartha must fix whats wrong with his life (right intention) so that he can proceed in the eight fold path, and this is the same as what Jennifer is doing. Unfortunately Jennifer felt that for her to proceed happily with her life, it didn't involve Bill so she fixed her problem.


"Bill Murray Looks for Renewal After Devastating Divorce". CNN News. News article October 9,
2008.

Week 2- Answer to Ms. Froehlich's question

1. Should Homer be considered an early feminist or an old-fashioned sexist? 

On one hand Athena is a powerful, resourceful and respected character.  On the other hand, Penelope is the  stereotypical wife, waiting at home working on household chores while Odysseus sails the globe and has a lady in ever port.

Now a days women have almost as many rights that men do, and equality is much more popular.  During the time of the Odyssey many women were forced to stay at home and do house hold chores, be forced in to slavery, not being able to fight in the wars, and have no effect on if their loved ones get home or not.  I would most definitely consider Homer to be and old-fashioned sexist.   

Many thought that the typical woman stays at home and does all the household chores, this idea is portrayed by many women in the Odyssey including Penelope.  Penelope stays at home, cleans and cooks all day long. I would consider this to be sexism because its the stereotypical view on women that many men had back in the old days, and now. Most men didn't think that women can do what they can because of what the past has taught us, so in Homers days that role for women was typical.  Even though he was just going along with what everyone else thought, he was still a sexist in the sense that he didn't believe Penelope or any other women could amount to the work that the men did. During the Odyssey women not only had to stay and home, they were often forced into slavery when others attacked the city.  Unfortunately today women are still sometimes taken advantage of, but it is now frowned upon because women have the right to say no.  Yet in the Odyssey when women were forced into slavery none of the other people had a problem with it. Penelope along with many other women were forced to work for and pleasure the men who "controlled" them.  The fact that Homer wrote about this numerous times and didn't hint at anything immoral with this, completely portrays him as a sexist. Not only were women taken advantage of, but they were never given the chance to prove that they could do more with their lives.  There were and are women who are just as smart as men and many times even wiser than men. In the Odyssey women were never given the chance to fight, and prove that they could.  Homer wrote that some women, such as Athena, were able to fight.  Yet Athena was a goddess, and there were definitely many women that if given the chance, would fight to defend their home and family. Homer shows his sexism by portraying many of the women in this poem as week and unable to defend themselves.  Due to this lack of ability to fight the women of this tale were unable to help their loved one, husbands and sons, return safely from war.  Now a days we have many women fighting over seas to protect our country, but in the times of the Odyssey it was never even talked about.  Again Homer was just writing about the truth of what society was like, but that still doesn't justify his sexism.  If Homer was in fact not a sexist he would have possibly hinted or even directly wrote about a strong, wise, and driven woman who made a difference in society. Instead he just wrote about hundreds of men.  After reading the Odyssey there's no doubt in my mind that Homer was a sexist.