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Expencive clothing( FC)

            Is it worth it to by expensive clothing? Prior to answering this question let’s not focus on our want but our needs.  Take the time to understand how clothing is made and how much is money is actually spent on the expensive clothing we were verses how much we spend on them. Wearing cloths is a basic human characteristic from back in the earlier time period of wearing animal skin until discovering cotton and other different types of fibers.

           

            What you wear tells a lot about you as an individual. In our society we tend to judge people based on what they wear this can be proven by a study made by sociologist Ben C. Fletcher. He carried out a research with over 300 adults (men and women). They looked at images of a man and a woman for just 3 seconds before making 'snap judgments' about them. In some of the pictures the man wore a made-to-measure suit. In others he wore a very similar off-the-peg suit bought on the high street. The differences in the suits were very minor they had controlled color and fabric, as well as making sure the face of the model was pixilated so that there could be no hidden messages in the facial expressions. The result of this research showed that after 3 seconds of viewing each picture they decided that the man with the made-to-measure had a review of having more confidence, successful, flexible, and a higher earner than when he wore a high street suit mind you this was the same model in both suits.

            Most of the cloths that we wear today are made from cotton. The cloths that were made in early times wear actually handmade but today since technology advanced. We are able to make more things at once and respond to supply in demand faster. People wear cloths depending on what region they live in what we as New Yorker's think is in style and trendy is played out and made fun of somewhere else and vice versa. ”The process starts by harvesting mature cottons. Then the mature balls are placed in machine which blows the ball away from the cotton and leaving only the fibers resembling puffy cotton balls. It is then placed in cotton gin to clean and remove the seeds from it. In the past, the cotton was spun on the spinning wheel that was operated using foot pedal. But in the recent years, the process is done using electrical power. It is important for the yarn to be carded before placing the cotton to the loom. It is where the cotton is stretched across the drum, brushing any impurities before lying flat on the loom.” (“How is it made?”)

draft for Ms. Hegemen's essay ( p )

The title of the play is “much Ado about Nothing “Which was created by Williams Shakespeare. The play was first played (performed) by the cord chamberlain’s men at barrages’ “The theatre”. The name of the director is Christian Amato. The place we attended to watch this performance was 115 Mac Dougal street New York, NY 10012. We attended this trip March 5^th the production company is called TC&CO. I had past experiences on Shakespeare performances from reading Macbeth and another book which I cannot recall the name to. I was able to make a comparison between the plays and how the general idea of the stories has a resemblance yet some differences. I am also reading another play called “Hamlet”.

Macbeth was basically about a king being killed off his thrown by a brother and the mother and the brother become lovers and it is now up to the son whom the ghost of the lost king reveals himself to avenge the death of his father and this is the same genre and theme in Hamlet sop it’s kind of boring. I really enjoyed the dramatic scenes in Macbeth, the suspense , floating knifes in mid air and all that good stuff was very interesting and made a non Shakespeare reader such as myself able to enjoy and understand it. Hamlet in my perspective is too straight forward and boring, because I expecting the father to haunt his brother or something but instead he left all the revenge in the hands of his frail son and said he was going back to hell. It is not fair to me that the king after being killed still has to taste the heat in flames.

            The play “Much Ado about Nothing” is pretty different from all the other Shakespeare experiences I had. This didn’t have any spooky thinks about it was pretty modern and caught my attention. The drama and suspense of it all had me at the edge of my set. It was sometimes very difficult to understand what they were saying because I am not accustomed to the Shakespeare verbal ways. I feel that it would have been better if they had proper English subtitles that let the audiences that were lost know what’s going on in the play. Since it was hard for people in my class to understand and I had the advantage of sitting next to my teacher and ask questions when I was lost caused them to fall lose interest fall asleep or become very disrespectful.

            Being that the whole setting, plot and them of the story was different from the rest caught my attention. I appreciate the fact of them changing things up instead of a having basic literal murder being done and all that extra stuff. They faked a death made him realize his faults. They showed a little bit of everything some betrayal, pain, agony, comedy. It was really good and I’m glad I had an interpreter when I got lost.  The first impression I had of the place when I first walked in was that it was an amateur place. Due to the small squished seats. The stage was too close to the crowd so it didn’t really give us that Broadway experience. The furniture on the stage seemed pretty cheap. In fact everything about the place was cheap even the costumes.  In my opinion if the place was larger and the stage was higher than the seats we would have no choice but, to pay attention. On top of all that if we were able to get Proper English subtitle everything would've gone perfectly.

            But all in all the play was good. The actors/ actresses were terrific. Even though we were on our worst behavior they kept it professional and continue doing what they came to do and complained at the end. I found it a little disrespectful though when one of them told us to stay in school.  

Flowers in the Attic ( SSR)

                                  A flower in the attic is a movie that I watched in Ms. Sawchucks class. This movie was really depressing and choking to me. This movie is basically about a modern family which includes a mother, father, two daughter, and two sons. You would generally think that they are a regular happy family. The mother is a stay at home mom and the father go's to different business trips but as he returns the family has a routine of hiding and surprising the father. Of course the oldest girl was the father’s favorite child and the mother seemed a little jealous of her. The father would always bring extra things for the daughter and even gave a ring he once bought for the mother to the daughter since she never wore it. One day it was around the time the dad usually came home so everyone hide behind the couch and waited for him to open the door but only this time it was police officers at the door. They came to inform the family that the father had been involved in a terrible care accident and died instantly. Since the father was the only source of income and the family didn’t want to lose their house that they grew up in, they had no choice but to sell everything they owned but that still wasn't enough. The mother had no choice but, to pack their bags and move in with her mother, the kid’s grandmother. The kid’s grandmother was a devil she was against the marriage of the father and her daughter that's why her daughter ran away but now that she was back she had to act as if all the kids never existed. So they looked the kids in the attic of a mansion where no one knew the existed and no one could hear them. The mother wanted to inherit everything she was missing out on so she was okay with the idea of pretending that her kids didn't exist. She would bring them food and put rat poisoning in it to kill them off one by one. Then after a while they weren't dying quick enough for her she decided to starve them the youngest one was getting sick the quickest so the oldest male had to feed him his blood. That still couldn't keep the poor boy alive and he eventually died. After his death the mother decided to get married but, the kids had a different thing planned for her on her wedding day they popped up and started bad mouthing her in front of everyone and she disowned them until she tripped backwards and got hung.