So I have a really hard time about watching a consistent show, because honestly, I hardly watch t.v. I like the show House, but don't know when it comes on and I know someone else is going to write about it and I also like Lost, but again, don't know when it comes on. Hopefully I can find something. I do like My Wife and Kids, which is what I watched tonight.
Meet the Kyles: Micheal (dad), Jay (mom), and their children Junior, Claire, and Kady. I just really enjoy they way they portray a family. They are all so sassy, loving, and funny. And you know it's going to be funny with Damon Wayans as the head of the house. I mean, come on, he's hilarious. Anyway, this episode was about Micheal and Jay, getting fed up with the two eldest, Junior and Claire, fighting with each other day and night. They fight about everything, from who gets the juice in the morning, to who's the "stupidest" and so on and so on. Dad finally gets fed up with his bickering children after they fightt over a wallet they find outside, and decides to hold a court session.
Junior was given Kady and her "boyfriend," Franklin as his lawyers, while Claire was given her mother. The witnesses were Junior's girlfriend, Vanessa, and Claire's boyfriend, Tony. Now Franklin and Kady can't be more than 7 or 8 and it was just comical seeing them play actually pretty decent lawyers. Especially Franklin, who knew alot of the court words and whatnot. Lots of cuteness. Anyway, in the end, Micheal sets it straight saying Claire and Junior worked as a team to get that wallet and so should do that more often. He alsoclaims the money from the wallet, but tells the family and significant others that he will treat them to a nice meal.
I thought it was a really cute episode and like I said, I love the homey and loving feel, although sometimes a bit sarcastic, that their family gives off. However, I was wondering about the wallet. It didn't have any ID in it at all? Wouldn't you take it the police station to report it...? I would think that would be the right thing to do. I personally wouldn't feel comfortable taking someone else's money, just because it happened to be by my house. But maybe that's just me.
Wednesday, January 24, 2007
Friday, January 19, 2007
Closure
I read the comic essay last week on accident and reading it a second time gave me a better understanding. Like the "guy" said, closure is in all of our lives and happens every single day. Much of the time we don't even realize we are closing something.
I love psychology so this for me was pretty fascinating, because closure is what our mind does automatically when something is incomplete. A good example, I thought, was when the word CLOSURE was copied vertically about six or seven times and excluding the top version, all the rest were broken and disconnected, but because it resembled the word, your mind just fills in the blanks to complete the word. Another good example for me was the supposed murder plot. There was a man running away from another man with an ax raised and ready to swing. In the next frame, we see the top of the city and the night sky with the cry, "EEYAAA," or something of that nature. I hadn't even realized that I had created a scene of the man with the ax cutting off the other's head as he bellowed "eeyaa." But then the author said that was because of closure, it really got me thinking. I asked myself why I hadn't thought of any other scenarios, the ax could have hit the other man in any place or simply missed, or maybe hadn't even been swung at all, but until he explained why I did that, the scenario I made was the only way he could have died. Pretty crazy stuff, eh?
I hope I worded that fine haha, and you're not all asking yourselves what the hell I was trying to talk about ^_~
I love psychology so this for me was pretty fascinating, because closure is what our mind does automatically when something is incomplete. A good example, I thought, was when the word CLOSURE was copied vertically about six or seven times and excluding the top version, all the rest were broken and disconnected, but because it resembled the word, your mind just fills in the blanks to complete the word. Another good example for me was the supposed murder plot. There was a man running away from another man with an ax raised and ready to swing. In the next frame, we see the top of the city and the night sky with the cry, "EEYAAA," or something of that nature. I hadn't even realized that I had created a scene of the man with the ax cutting off the other's head as he bellowed "eeyaa." But then the author said that was because of closure, it really got me thinking. I asked myself why I hadn't thought of any other scenarios, the ax could have hit the other man in any place or simply missed, or maybe hadn't even been swung at all, but until he explained why I did that, the scenario I made was the only way he could have died. Pretty crazy stuff, eh?
I hope I worded that fine haha, and you're not all asking yourselves what the hell I was trying to talk about ^_~
Thursday, January 18, 2007
Bad Parenting
Okay, so I just watched Dr. Phil, and I have to say that it still amazes me how unobservant and imperceptive people can be. Now I don't watch T.V. much, and for the past couple days I've been trying to figure out a show to watch for this assignment and it has been driving me up the wall. Perhaps next week I'll start watching House again, but I digress. I've watched a few episodes of Dr. Phil and usually they don't strike me as particularly riveting. This episode, however, was about women who, despite words of caution from family, choose the wrong sort of man to marry. I'm only going to talk about the first one, because it meant more to me. The second one was about a woman who only married men in jail...but this one, I think, will shock quite a few.
A woman is married to a man who is not at all fit to take care of a family. He has kicked her out of the house on several occasions and she has left with her three children on her own a few times as well. Don't ask me why she kept coming back...anyways, not only has the husband plead guilty for animal abuse, he plead guilty of child abuse and neglect as well. Their youngest son was playing with lighter fluid one night and caught on fire. The father put a blanket around him, put out the fire and put him to bed. The child's school found the burns a couple days later and sent him to the hospital. He had first, second, and third degree burns...needless to say, all three children were taken away and the mother's parents were given full custody.
As I was watching this, I really couldn't believe what I was listening too. The mother and father were both such stupid people. They kept denying everything and when Dr. Phil had legal documents against the father, he was like oh, yeah. And everything they said kept coming back to, "well my wife's mother just doesn't want me with her and everything she says about me is ludicrous." I wanted to be on that stage and give him a good slap. Dr. Phil repeatedly told the audience of your inability to take care of children and all you can do is point the finger at your mother-in-law? His wife was even stupider. Her mom was saying that her daughter is so smart and she could do so much better, but through the show I came to the conclusion that she doesn't know what the hell she's talking about either. Her own mother is sacrificing all her time and money to raise 3 children and she said that her mom only does it for the money, that all her parents ever think about is money. Um, no, they only get $260 from them a month...now I don't know about you, but I don't think that's enough to raise three children with. It just made me cringe, because Dr. Phil caught them with every lie and the wife really made me sick how she was basically silent the whole time and only opened her mouth to bad talk her mom and to say how great a dad her husband is.
You know, to me, a good mother cherishes the welfare of her children above all else and that they should get the best that that mother can give them. I know that woman knows her husband is an inadequate father, so listening to her really made me wonder how much she values her children.
I agreed whole-heartedly with what Dr. Phil told the father. He told him that he needs to stop insulting the people taking care of his children and stop asking when he can have them back, but he needs to ask what is wrong with him that he needs to change.
This is just one of many cases of abuse and neglect in the world. It really gets to me when I hear of things like this and the parents still insist that they are the best things for who's supposed to be the most precious thing to them. They're supposed to take very good care of and protect the people and things you hold dear, even if from them.
A woman is married to a man who is not at all fit to take care of a family. He has kicked her out of the house on several occasions and she has left with her three children on her own a few times as well. Don't ask me why she kept coming back...anyways, not only has the husband plead guilty for animal abuse, he plead guilty of child abuse and neglect as well. Their youngest son was playing with lighter fluid one night and caught on fire. The father put a blanket around him, put out the fire and put him to bed. The child's school found the burns a couple days later and sent him to the hospital. He had first, second, and third degree burns...needless to say, all three children were taken away and the mother's parents were given full custody.
As I was watching this, I really couldn't believe what I was listening too. The mother and father were both such stupid people. They kept denying everything and when Dr. Phil had legal documents against the father, he was like oh, yeah. And everything they said kept coming back to, "well my wife's mother just doesn't want me with her and everything she says about me is ludicrous." I wanted to be on that stage and give him a good slap. Dr. Phil repeatedly told the audience of your inability to take care of children and all you can do is point the finger at your mother-in-law? His wife was even stupider. Her mom was saying that her daughter is so smart and she could do so much better, but through the show I came to the conclusion that she doesn't know what the hell she's talking about either. Her own mother is sacrificing all her time and money to raise 3 children and she said that her mom only does it for the money, that all her parents ever think about is money. Um, no, they only get $260 from them a month...now I don't know about you, but I don't think that's enough to raise three children with. It just made me cringe, because Dr. Phil caught them with every lie and the wife really made me sick how she was basically silent the whole time and only opened her mouth to bad talk her mom and to say how great a dad her husband is.
You know, to me, a good mother cherishes the welfare of her children above all else and that they should get the best that that mother can give them. I know that woman knows her husband is an inadequate father, so listening to her really made me wonder how much she values her children.
I agreed whole-heartedly with what Dr. Phil told the father. He told him that he needs to stop insulting the people taking care of his children and stop asking when he can have them back, but he needs to ask what is wrong with him that he needs to change.
This is just one of many cases of abuse and neglect in the world. It really gets to me when I hear of things like this and the parents still insist that they are the best things for who's supposed to be the most precious thing to them. They're supposed to take very good care of and protect the people and things you hold dear, even if from them.
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