American Beauty

Thesis: The color red in American Beauty represents the life of Kevin Spacey's character, Lester Burnham.

Reason One: When Lester's wife is cutting red roses at the beginning of the movie, he talks about their unhappiness together, so it's as if she is ruining their lives together.

Reason Two: The red rose pedals are represented as life when Lester sees Angela. He can't directly get to her, because it is only a fantasy, but his fantasies have become life for him, and they are what have changed his life to get motivation to start working out.

Reason Three: When Burnham's life starts to change because of hi fantasies about Angela, he buy a bright red hot rod car that he has always wanted. This represents another change in his life that will cause a bigger distance with his fight.

Conclusion: The color red in American Beauty represents the life of Kevin Spacey's character, Lester Burnham.

Dark Places by Steve Dismukes Outline

Question: Who are the two main characters?

Thesis: I think the main characters are best friends and they are on a journey together to fight evil werewolves.

Reason One: The main characters are best friends, because the first main character told the second main character that he can take on the werewolves himself and the first main character asks the other guy to go upstairs so he doesn't get hurt. (Expand)

Reason Two: They are on a journey together, because they are both wearing knight uniforms, as if they knew they were about to fight evil werewolves. (Expand)

Reason Three: The two main characters are fighting evil werewolves because the beasts look exactly like evil werewolves. (Expand)

Conclusion: Thesis and add something (thought?)

Consumption and Pollution

Will we all eventually live on top of a giant landfill? Will we all eventually die of some sort of cancer? Will 'old age' eventually not be a cause of death? We, as humans, strive for more-clothes, television, pleasing images, food, and entertainment. Our bodies are never good enough. Young girls, mostly, are reading and looking through magazines like Seventeen, Cosmopolitan, and Elle. Young girls' are feeling terrible about themselves, thinking they are ugly, fat, and pale because of these 'beautiful' girls in magazines. We need to stop this! You should not have to look a certain way to be an advertisement. Different looking people attract to differrent people. Everyone has a different type. Let's stop with pollution, wanting too much, and beauty magazines. Listen to The Sunscreen Song by Baz Luhrmann.

My New Tattoo

On Thursday of last week, I got a new tattoo. This is a beautiful one to m and it means so much to me, just as my other two do. It is in the middle of the top of my back. It is my first colored tattoo and it is a balancing scale. Above the scale, in cursive, it says "An Attempt to Tip the Scales," which is a lyric that means a lot to me. I don't like to tell about the meanings behind my tattoos, and I don't like when people tell me theirs. I like tattoos to be for me. They're on my body and they are personal to me. Everyone can see them and I will tell what they mean in general, but I won't tell why I have them specifically or what they mean to me. I love my new tattoo, though. It is a black, burnt orange, and a dark brown. The colors came out perfectly and this Vitamin E cream for the tattoo works wonders, too. I am so happy with it, I want another one now!

Chalk Up That Memoir

Today was a sort of work day in class. I worked on my memoir, which is chalking up pretty well in my opinion. I'm having a really difficult time giving my main characters good descriptions. I have a couple of them down, but one of them is completely bombed. I also want to change my opening and closing paragraphs, but I don't know if I will. I like them and I don't know if they should be changed, but they sound pretty cliche to me. I also want to add to the second to last paragraph, as I leave Vince's houses. I feel as though it should be more intense. So, I also have genre transformations to do. I'm going to go get on that now.

TV ASIA

Right now my roommate, Michelle, and I are watching TV ASIA. There is this show on that is the funniest thing I have ever seen. It is a soap opera and extremely dramatic. The background music make this the cheesiest show ever and the acting is horrible. The camera angles are in your face and quickly paced. Some parts of the show are in slow motion. They are talking in a different language, so I don't know exactly what they are saying, but I get the just of what is going on. Sister rivalries and some sort of love story. I think one of the sister's boyfriends is going to war or something of that sort and he is trying to fight a bad guy. I am confused. All I know is that this show is really entertaining to be immature while watching it.