Putting on a show for others

One of the questions we were left with at the end of class on Tuesday was one that has always struck me. Is everything you do a type of performance?

To me, I would have to say 80% of the time, yes and 20% no. Usually for class, I try to most importantly perform to the best of my ability for the teacher and then because I want my classmates also to think I am somewhat intelligent. Like someone else mentioned in class, our papers for our teachers are performances in a way, too. How we dress and present ourselves in class is another type of thing we do that shows that everything is a performance. If a student is attentive and shows respect towards others and the teacher, she will portray a much better image than one that is sleeping and shows no class participation.

Out of the classroom and in social environments, I would agree that that is its own performance as well. If your just sitting in a corner all alone and not socializing it does not give off the same type of vibe as if you were up and about talking amongst others.

With parents or siblings, there is always competition. Brothers and sisters, or sisters and sisters or brothers and brothers are always wanting to do better than the other. There is most of the time a want from children to perform to their best of their abilities to impress their parents. Sometimes this is not the case, but also if the child is lazy or just unmotivated that would be a type of performance as well. They are showing their parents they do not care about the particular thing.

So when asked the question is everything you do type of performance, I would have to agree. Do any of you ever have to compete or put on a performance for your parents? or teachers? or siblings?

This Blessed House

I thought this story was really interesting. I thought the actual read was good, but I couldn't understand some of the personalities of the characters. The thing that I thought was the most important was the vinegar. I thought although it was found in the pantry at first, I feel like it was an important metaphor. I feel that it was not only put there for the cooking aspect, but I feel like something in the couples live might have been missing and the vinegar symbolizes it a little bit. I'm anxious to go to class because I want to get some of my questions cleared up about the story, which might help me analyze this metaphor, but I do not think the vinegar was just there as a cooking ingredient. Does anyone agree or disagree with this statement?? I'm not too sure if this was right, but I took a guess.

Sports and Othello

After watching the movie "O", we discussed the how the producers chose the sport of basketball instead of any other sport. I was really intrigued with this discussion because I really love sports. I thought that one other sport that could have been played throughout this movie that would have brought out all of the same qualities would be football. With football, you have somewhat of the racism aspect but also some of the aspects with the "star player."

Even though I was very involved as a child and teenager in sports, I never really stood back and looked around to see what was happening besides the actual sport being played. Sometimes, the "star player" gets all the glory, while the person with the assist does more work than the them. But no one on the team realizes that expect the person that assisted the "star player".

Throughout my childhood and teenage years I played golf. Golf to most people is an individual sport, but in highschool it turns to a team sport. The top four scores are always counted and then compared with another teams to see who won. Although this was basketball like in the movie, "O", I still tried to compare golf with it. I compared it a little because sometimes our high school team had one star player, who always got the lowest score. The coach would always praise her for all her hardwork, even though everyone else put in the honest effort just like she did. And all of our scores also counted towards our Regional Championship Title. In some ways, other girls on the team felt left out, while the girl who got all the media press and praise never felt that way, at least to the outside world.

Has anyone ever been involved in a sport other than basketball or football that they tried to relate this movie to it? I know it was kind of difficult to, and maybe I didn't do it the right way, but I tried.