Vision of the Students today

I agree with the post of "A vision of students today". I do think that education has evolved and that standard classrooms and chalkboards are pointless. According to studies even with a high level of education students today are not guaranteed the experience and know how to get the job after graduation. I find class to be pointless and boring. As a future educator myself I already have in mind a more innovated form of teaching planned to actually get the students hands on experience so that not only are they more interested but also more involved. I find that actual trips, visuals and hands on get more excitement and remembrance.

Lincoln Library

I never knew there were so many in depth accounts for art. I thought art was art, you saw it displayed or performed but I did not really think that they kept records. That was actually a high point for me. I have always been interested in art via dance or drawing, ceramics, painting, sketching, etc; but you know parents don't find artist to be a suitable career so I deflected but the interest is still viable. The library brought back those old feelings and once again peaked my interest. The only down side was that I was not able to fully see everything. It was a nice experience.

The Uncanny and The Shadow

The connection between these two readings is the familiarity but yet uncomfortableness of ourselves. We all have this uncanny shadow looming over us that we try to deny. It is an outside characteristic to the kind of person we think ourselves to be so we do whatever we can to exclude it but it never really goes away. In actuality if you look at it our shadow is our true selves that we don't want to see. I know I'm uncomfortable at times in my own skin because deep down I know there is another part of me that I don't want known.

Simone

Simone was the perfect mirror image of our crazy, celebrity and beauty obsessed Hollywood world. Our now is very all technology and I fear a little too obsessed with it and how far it has gone and will continue to go until it completely takes us over. Seriously, How soon before we have our own Simone if we haven't already.
Western/American culture is blind to a pretty face. Look at the part where Viktor was trying to discredit Simone so he made her disgustingly trashy, drunk, druggie, she was vile and they still loved her. It 's like the Britney Spears and Lindsay Lohan situation both changed from America's sweethearts to hard partying, out of control drunks, going through breakdowns and still we keep them on this pedestal for people to idolize.
The psychology of people who live in this culture are sick and sad. They would rather glamorize and implore this fantastical lifestyle then to acknowledge the real world. The "American Dream" has changed from substance and stability to one of superficial and monetary value. This new dream is not very practical and ideal but one that people are willing to sacrifice everything for.