Friendships!

Sorry to miss class today gang (3/29) But see you Thursday! Soon we will discuss friendship in class! For this blog, please identify the prototype of a friend to you, that is: Name a person specifically who represents to you what friendship means/should be. Tell us why this person is special. Do Wood's observations on friendship apply to your example?

Let's Talk about Emotional Intelligence: Chpt 7...

Chapter 7 delves into emotions! Cognitive labeling expains how there is pressure to react to emotional situations a certain way. However, this "certain way" the generalized other says we SHOULD react may not fit our own personal and highly individualized emotional experience. Think about this: Is there ever happiness or joy at a funeral? Is there ever fear at a birthday party? What about divorce, graduation, promotions and more life events! I mean think of all the greeting cards you WON'T find at Target! Like: " Sorry you'll see your family even less, but congratulations on the promotion at work!"
 For this post:
1.)  name a highly emotional event or situation we all may confront in life.
2.) State the likely (generalized other's) emotional response and then an unlikely, or out of the ordinary, less expected and more personal response due to unique circumstances. Use emotional intelligence in your response.
3.) Suggest a new greeting card for just such an event! (Be sensitive please).

I will go first: Pregnancy: The expected response is excitement or joy, lots of tearful phone calls. Alternative response: Sadness or fear if this was not planned or fear and anxiety if there are problems with health. I believe society puts alot of pressure on us in the event of pregnancy, to be happy, light hearted and blissful. This is a limiting set of emotional possibilities/in reality, so much more is often going on. I have never seen a Hallmark card that says: "sorry you have to start worrying about saving up for college" for a Mom-to-be!"

STUDY GUIDE Midterm EXAM-aganza! woo-hoo--"Tests are fun!"--Alex

Study this to rule the school on March 17th! Wear green dawg'!

Consider Submitting your "Who Am I" paper here! Extra Credit (5 to 25 points!)

NOW UPDATED!!! UP TO 40 POINTS FOR ACCEPTED PUBLICATIONS!!! DON"T MISS OUT!!!
Are you a writer? A visual artist? Please consider contributing your creative work to the fifth annual edition of Cosumnes River College’s literary publication. We are committed to publishing emerging and established writers, including Cosumnes River College students, faculty, staff, and the rest of the world.

We want your: short stories; essays, including autobiographical narrative, criticism, interviews;
mini-essays (250 words) on the theme: carpe diem; poems; art: photographs, drawings, etc. Also, please include a fifty-word bio with your submission.

Please forward your contributions to: crc-ljsubmit@crc.losrios.edu
Include no more than five poems or photos per entry; limit your short stories + essays to two contributions per year. Please send MS Word attachments for writing + jpeg files for the art. For the Spring 11 issue, e-mail crc-ljsubmit@crc.losrios.edu by March 18th.

Please post a question or idea below! Or share your favorite line of song lyrics/poem you shared in the paper if you want to! Double blog credit this week for you HARD WORKING RESEARCHERS who made it to the library! I a proud of you!!!

Gender Bender

We will discuss some of the cultural and gender oriented details of the Film Stage Beauty this week and take a short quiz to prepare for the midterm -- During the 17th century masculine attire included skirts, long wigs and pointed shoes, at least in England! It's funny how women couldn't perform onstage because that was inappropriate, but men often went around looking like what today, we'd consider feminine....Communication theorist Judith Butler claims that "gender" in and of itself, is a 'performance'--think of an actor you admire from TV or Film.....are they masculine or feminine? Gay or straight? Respect diversity in your answer, and describe what aspects of the performer you chose make their gender obvious: In short, how do they "perform" masculinity or femininity? When you think about Kinneson in Stage Beauty, what traits was he trained to highlight and to hide to portray a female on the stage? Why do you  think fans of celebrities get confused between a stars' ACT or public persona and their real, normal, everyday life?