Explaining Quotes

quote:The number one benefit of information technology is that it empowers people to do what they want to do. It lets people be creative. It lets people be productive. It lets people learn things they didn't think they could learn before, and so in a sense it is all about potential.(Steve Ballmer)

explanation: Ballmer suggests that technology not only empowers people to do what they want to do, but also lets people be creative, productive and learn more things than before, which contributes to stimulating people’s potential as well as promoting education.

It support my thesis.

It expands my thesis and riches my essay’s content.

Response to “Insights from a Cinderella Story”

First, the author claim that some movies are so rich with symbolism and then mentioned a movie Ever After-A Cinderella Story. She takes a different view to read Cinderella again, in her stepmother shoes, giving many interesting and fresh information and thoughts. She reminds us, stepmother is in a tough situation as a single mother with a household to run, and three girls to raise while Cinderella still hardly deserves the fall from the good life she had with her father.Then, the author thinks and explores more deeply that she suggests the Cinderella Story shows us how it feels when the shelter of childhood ends. When this warm and safe shelter ends, we are supposed to grow and take more responsibilities than before. Hence, “There are always step-sisters within--inner critics ready to find fault with everything we do. It is easy to project this--so that we imagine that others think badly of us. Dealing with the mean step-sister voice within is a struggle for most people.”

Response to "Why the Marriage Need Never Get Old"

  Just as the author said, "as long as marriage and love and relationships have high stakes for us emotionally, they have the potential to offer rich subject material for novelists, no matter how flimsy or comparatively uninteresting contemporary relationships seem on their surface." I agree with her opinion that love is an eternal theme for art.

  At the beginning, author mentioned an English professor's argue, “In the days when success in life had depended on marriage, and marriage had depended on money, novelists had a subject to write about. The great epics sang of war, the novel of marriage. Sexual equality, good for women, had been bad for the novel. And divorce had undone it completely. What would it matter whom Emma [Bovary] married if she could file for separation later?”His argue seems quite reasonable at first. However, after several read and thinking, it becomes laughable.The contemporary social conditions can never become the excuse for contemporary novel's ordinary, for art art is the deposit of life.

Response to “RuPaul, Big Freedia, and the Mainstreaming of Gender Performance”

Response to “RuPaul, Big Freedia, and the Mainstreaming of Gender Performance”

 RuPaul is a brave person who dare to challenge artificial production “gender” and to break stereotypes. Pursuing her own heart and voice, she ignores worldly prejudice and shows her beauty in drag dance incisively and vividly. Almost no one would believe that incredible woman is a man by physiological after watching her performance because she is even beautiful than many true women. Unlike some men or women who would like to hide their real thoughts and voice, accepting “gender model” compliantly, RuPaul chooses a totally different way. Facing others’ doubt and taunt, she never shake to budge from her opinion.
  When babies were born, they have been decided to become what a person already. Without their own identities, they are limited to a cage called “gender” and they are expected to have proper behaviors just like assembly line products with signs of woman and man. However, everyone has his or her own identity which can not be constrained and copied.

Response to Cinderella and Feminism

When I was a little girl, my major reading material was fairy tale. Not only me, almost every children will start their reading of fairy tale with cute pictures. However, I did not connect these fairy tales to feminism then. I accepted the figure of man and woman naturally as my first rough gender identification. “Cinderella is the perfect example of a beautiful, quiet, nurturing, and subordinate woman that girls relate to.” The image of Cinderella prompts the exception of female and male; Girl will form a kind of subconscious mind that limit herself to become a Cinderella type girl while boy will dream to marry a girl with good qualities like Cinderella. These two consciousness may not exist very long, but do have a huge influence to children as their first rough gender identification. Just as writer wrote in article, “little girls who identify with Cinderella will wait for their prince charming to fulfill their life and accept subordination and domesticity as their nature role.”