Blog 39 - paranormal activity 2 !

So I watched Paranormal Activity 2, like half an hour ago. It was pretty scary, I just think like it wasn't super scary because it's not like based off of a true story. It would be extremely different if any part of that was actually based on a true occurrence. But some of that stuff is possible i guess, since the Haunting in Connecticut was based off of a true story and is very similar. And, the exorcism of emily rose. That's scary stuff. What i really want to know is if ouiji boards are real. I mean, like i've heard people's stories about how they've used ouiji boards and tried to do tumbler talking and they say it works, and stuff actually happens. But seriously, it sounds so out of this world, but I kind of believe it. I mean I guess its possible. I haven't actually seen the first one so i'm watching that right now with my roomies, and its already starting to connect to the second one. It makes more sense now. The movie that i thought was really scary was the exorcism of emily rose, that was based off of a true story and its terrifying. So its halloween, and i think i've eaten more candy today than i have all year. Not really but seriously, i've eaten so much candy. Gym for sure tomorrow! The weekend has been super fun, i love halloween. I just love dressing up, its so much fun! When our costumes first came in me and one of my roomates put them on and we seriously could have worn them the whole day, I really didn't want to take it off. Childish, i know, but i love halloween!

Blog 37 - ANYTHING!

So we can blog about anything today. I think i'll blog about esmeralda because thats who I am for halloween. Did you know Esmeralda isn't actually a gypsy, she was actually born as an illegitimate child to a lady and a man, and the lady was shunned so Esmeralda, born Agnes, brought her joy. Then, all of a sudden gypsies captured her and took her away. In her place, they left the hunchback, quazimodo. This isn't in line with the Disney version but it is one version. So, she is captured by gypsies and raised as a gypsy. Then in the disney version she has her goat and her tambourine, and she becomes friends with the hunchback and the hunchback falls in love with her, but she actually ends up with prince charming who sweeps her off her feet towards the end of the movie. I think it would be fun to have a goat to go with my costume. Well, not a real goat but a stuffed goat would be cute. I would probabbly lose it but it would be fun while it lasted. In math today the guys said I should go to a petting zoo and find a goat, yah very good idea. Or a tambourine, I think it would be fun to have a tambourine. I really wish I could have found a jasmine costume, I think that would have been more fun. Jasmine is pretty much my favorite disney princess. We were so obsessed with that song that my friend burned it onto a CD that we played in the car. It was great, I seriously love that song so much. Anyways, thats all. I love halloween! Talk to ya later.

Blog 36 - Personal and Hypthetical

My topic is about how sometimes when both parents are busy, or if a child is raised by a single parents, they oftentimes bring themselves up. They become very independent because they raise themselves. Then, after they go through raising themselves, if they have a younger sibling, they raise the sibling too. After the hardship they had gone through they feel it is their duty to help their sibling. A personal anecdote to this is that when I was younger, in like 6th grade, one of my friends was a lot like this. She lived down the street from me, and she was pretty much my best friend at the time. Her mom and dad both worked at GE and worked full hours, whereas my mom worked shorter hours and came home around the time we were back from school. She was extremely independent which wasn't surprising because her parents had been like this for a long time. Then, she had her younger brother and she practically brought him up. She picked him up from his bus, made sure he ate, tutored him, took him places, she did everything for him and I would always remember my mother being like, if only you did half that stuff for your younger sister. Me and my sister were just like, most of the time friends who fought sometimes, there was no responsibility I ever had for my sister. So it was always weird to me. A hypothetical situation would be if I was in that position. Lets say I had parents that worked full time, and I had two younger siblings. I can't even fathom what my life would be like. I already felt like I had little time in highschool, now throw in two kids I have responsibility for, that would be unimaginable.

Blog 35 - Commonplace article

Today I read an article on commonplace about obesity being rampant, and definitely being a avoidable cause of death. You hear about obesity being on the rise constantly, enough that popular channels often play the commercial about getting an hour of activity every day. Its just sad how much food has changed. Its morphed to get worse and worse with high fructose corn syrup, and the worst, trans fat. Its not just fat, its killer fat. It clogs your arteries, i'm pretty sure it should be outlawed. Its not okay for your body by and means but its found even in the break and bake pillsbury cookies. I feel like obesity isn't all the fault of the obese person. Oftentimes children don't have good role models and so fall into obesity. Parents who are often not present don't watch the nutrition on their child, and so let them fall into a habit of going out and getting food constantly. Never getting to eat healthy home cooked meals, the kids know no better and end up eating badly. Then when they begin to gain weight, the parents worry. It's too late then, losing weight its a lot harder than gaining it, and cutting down your food intake by 99% isn't going to help you lose weight fast. I thought it was really interesting that the article pointed out that the CDC is spending 150 billion dollars just on premature diseases caused by obesity. We're paying for the fact that we aren't eating healthy and living healthy lifestyles! I thought it was a very interesting article.

Blog 34 - Commonplace Activity

So today we continuously just wrote topics that came to head for our commonplace papers. I wrote continuously and ended up with a two and a half page list of 44 different topics. I started to read over them again and I really liked a lot of them, and now i'm having a hard time picking my favorite one. My last one was the one that caught my attention first. It was: Often there are teenagers who, noticing that their parents are often not around, become a "parent" to their younger sibling. They, as a teen who often had no parents around, grew up very independently and now feel the need to baby their younger sibling after what they went through to raise themselves. I liked this topic, but I also had one that was: With the parents that are rarely around, how do the relationships between a rich parent and their child differ from a lower-income parent and their child. Though both parents are rarely present whether working a dead end minimum wage job, or always off on business trips, does the socioeconomic states of these families affect their relationships? I'm probabbly going to use the one about the independent child bringing up the sibling. I just don't see how parents are okay with that, putting such a big responsibility on their child. And how that affects the relationship between the eldest child and the parents. If not that I might write a satire that says parents shouldn't even bother talking to their teens, that the relationship is best when no one talks or communicates. So its between these three, but most likely the first one.

Blog 33 - chem 201H is like death in class form.

So, i've blogged about 201H before, but i'm gonna have to do it again. And it will be whiney so sorry ahead of time. Today, I took a midterm that I've been studying for since last Sunday. Yes, pretty much an entire week, minus 2 days of the weekend. I've been studying a couple hours every day, thats a lot of total hours. Never in my life have I ever studied close to that many hours for anything, at all, ever. Usually I study, meaning look at stuff and ya know, kinda study, the night before. There may have been one test I ever studied for, for more that one night, but thats probabbly it. So yah, this was a lot of studying. I thought about the importance of the midterm, being an honors molecular genetics major, honors chemistry is kind of important, especially since I want to go to medical school. Having studied everything and looked over everything, I went into the midterm fairly confidently, and walked out dumbfounded. I really, seriously think that was the hardest test I have ever taken in my entire life. I have never studied this hard for a test and then felt like I completely failed it. I feel like this is a big transition in my life, I feel like i've hit a learning block in my life, I don't even know how to react to the test. I walked out speechless, I don't know how to feel. If I could have anything in the world right now it would be to go back to that last friday we had to drop a class without a W, and I would drop this class. It's a physical chemistry course, and i'm a visual, right here, step by step, organized information and answers kind of learner. This is all theoretical, unvisualizable, conceptual stuff that I now feel like i'll never be able to understand. I just don't know what to do about this class anymore.

Blog 32 - ENFP (continued)

I’ve been thinking about pediatrics, specifically becoming a pediatric internist, so just being the classic pediatrician that works at a hospital, or maybe a private practice and sees kids all day. I know everyone always says, hey you’ll get sick of them, they cry, have icky cuts and runny noses and they’ll tell you their tummy hurts and ear itches expect you to diagnose their illness from that…and they go on and on. But from babysitting, doing physics fest for AP Physics, and after taking the personality test, I feel like I can have fun working with children for long periods of time.

I love bio, we watched a video about epigenetics and it really caught my attention. Chem is pretty fun too, I HATE PHYSICS. And then we took the tests and surveys and it definitely told me research in a lab for long hours wouldn’t cut it for lifelong satisfaction job-wise. Probably not even for a few years. And working in a lab never really sounded fun. So even though I love epigenetics, it may have to just be a spread out research project, because I think I really was right about pediatrics.

This personality test was pretty interesting. I have brown parents and so every time I mention health care people mumble, or atleast think, her parents are probably making her. Whenever I talk to them they always tell me to do what makes me happy, and be sure not to look at salaries. Since I’ve wanted to go into medicine, which came after my year or so of interest in biomedical engineering (that interest ended after AP Physics and other little things), I’ve always been a little worried that somehow my parents had something to do with it, even though they’ve never really said anything. Maybe not even that, but just the stereotype that all Indian/Sri Lankan’s go into the medical field or engineering has bothered me because though a lot of people do get pushed in, many don’t. After thinking about it I truly believe thats what I really want to do, only because I want to do it. I feel like there are no ulterior influences in this decision.

Blog 31 - ENFP.

So today I took one of those 4 letter personality tests and it turns out that i'm an ENFP.

After I took the test and everyone was talking about their four letter personalities, I said hey, I’m an ENFP. And everyone was like oh yeah? What a total and complete surprise,  I never ever would have guessed…fairly sarcastically. So, I mean I guess it makes sense. I knew I was more optimistic than pessimistic, and I hated and had low analytical thinking abilities, but I wasn’t totally sure if I was an E or I, and, actually I wasn’t really sure about any of the letters. The test really cleared up what an introvert and an extrovert were for me. Now I get why my friends easily dismissed this, since they already knew it. I really am an extrovert. I’m the one that cries in front of everyone and tells everyone what I’m feeling, no matter how long I’ve known them. I can tell anyone anything that’s going on with my life easily, and I love talking about feelings. I really have nothing I ever hide, or don’t talk about.

And the other letters made sense later too, considering the things I think about when I’m on the treadmill or in the car. And, wow, being flaky? I know that’s just one thing and pointing that out to prove I’m an ENFP would be like saying hey, I sneezed, I probably have mono. But wow, that fits me completely. I’m flaky and fickle about everything; things, purchases, ideas, relationships, etc.

It was cool to see a paragraph on a website able to pinpoint my traits. Flaky is just one, there were so many others that fit perfectly.

They like to be admired by other people, they are easily intrigued and distracted,  distracted by new acquaintances often forgetting old ones; so dead on.

So now that I kind of had more confidence in my view of my personality, I couldn’t decide if my career decision was right.

Blog 29 - My paper.

So I have the outline for my paper and everything down. I know how I want my paper to go, I know what I want to be on it and how I want it to flow, but what I dont understand how to write is the intro. I just don't know how I want the introduction worded yet. I'm usually good at introductions, its the only part of a paper I have done for a while, but in this case I can't do the introduction. This paper is a lot different from the papers I usually write. So this is what I have so far for my paper, introduction-wise:

Buffy is a sixteen years old. She is the typical teenage girl: she is a cheerleader, she has looks on her side, and she is quite outgoing. She has two great best friends, she does average in school, and of course she just wants to fit in and be loved.

Sadly, Buffy can’t easily fit in, or embrace her extroverted characteristics and have fun with her friends often. She is the chosen one: A vampire slayer. The citizens of her city are at risk of death unless Buffy is constantly training, learning, and patrolling for vampires and other deadly creatures.

I know I need to add more to that to make it an introduction, like, i'm not done writing it yet, but I really don't know how I want to introduce my paper: how I want it to be opened. I also don't know how much description I should really put into my introduction without overdoing it and making it unnecessary and overly wordy.

Blog 28 - Nutella.

College has seriously shown me how truly amazing Nutella is. So at home, I would get one of the little jars of Nutella every once in a while, and make the occasional peanut butter and nutella sandwich. It would sit around in the pantry forever, and rarely get used. Then college came around, and my mom decided to stick a jar of nutella in with all the other munchies she had bought. I really wasn't like a nutella fiend or anything but I guess she thought it was healthy, so she got me a jar. So I had it, and sadly I had no bread, and I guess the fact that I thought I couldn't eat it made me want it more. So me and my roomies went grocery shopping and got bread, we made peanut butter and nutella sandwhiches, and I rediscovered the amazing-ness of Nutella. So after we ran out of bread, my roomate was like Hey! try it with wheat thins, it tastes so good. I try it, and yes, it was delish. From there we started dipping ritz crackers into the jar, after I ran out of ritz crackers we started to use plain Sunchips. EVERYTHING goes with Nutella, its just an amazing jar of goodness. The next time my parents came up to see me I had a long list of stuff for them to bring up, including nutella. I now have one of the giant costco jars of nutella and i'm almost out of that. It's really sad that CVS doesn't have nutella. Like, of all things not to have, Nutella? Really? It goes with anything and everything, you can even just eat it out of the jar. Its like peanut butter but better. Being in college has made me realize how amazing Nutella really is.

Blog 27 - HALLOWEEN IS SO SOON !

So, I know there really is more than a week for Halloween but I'M SO FREAKING EXCITED because I finally ordered my costume, and decided what I'm going to be! So now i'm all set and I just have to wait for it to get here, and wait for Halloween to come around. Halloween is a great holiday. You dress up, party, eat lots of candy, its just wonderful. It's like everyones excuse to go all out and be their favorite characters, and of course every girls excuse to look totally slutty because its halloween and it's just okay. We're all pretty excited. Me and my roomies put up a spiderweb and a spider on our door, we have pumpkin lights, AND a little jack o lantern full of candy. Yes, we're awesome and we love Halloween. Another thing i'm seriously excited for is next quarter! Winter quarter will be great. I have 3 classes, that's it. And then, on tuesdays and thursdays I don't even start until 12:30, which is pretty normal but i didn't have that luxury first quarter so now it's super exciting. And of course, i'll be done with Chem 201H. And instead of Chem, i'll take Bio, and french! I'm seriously just waiting for next quarter. Hmm what else, I got lots of my ringtones back, I made a bunch of them today and it's just great. I'm really just so happy I got the schedual I wanted, it worked out, and hopefully I don't try swapping classes because my scheduals perfect right now.

Blog 26 !

Today I was watching the Eminem video again, the one where he's on letterman and he has his 10 pieces of advice for kids. I seriously love Eminem. Like, not only is he a beyond amazing rapper, he's hilarious and super passionate when he raps. So tomorrow I start scheduling, and I still don't know what classes I want to take. 201H, see last blog, is super hard, so I decided heck no for 202H. AND THEN someone told me 202H is a lot easier, so after you go through hell, the next quarter is nicer. Well, I'm pre-med and I want to take Bio 115H, and i'm definitely not taking honors chemistry at the same time, no matter how easy people say it is. So, I just wasted my time killing myself over 201H this quarter? So should I just hold off on Bio and take chemistry right now? Haha, yah no one can really answer these questions except me, i'm just ranting right now. But really, whats more important? and then I can't just take two classes, so should I take Psych 100H or something? I seriously hate scheduling so much, I just wish it was Friday. Friday's and Saturday's are just amazing days, and Wednesday afternoons are pretty cool too because you've finally gotten through half the week. But ranking best days of the week would definitely go Friday, Saturday, then Wednesday.  I mean maybe Sunday, but Wednesday's closer to Friday, so I think Wednesday wins. Sunday's just sad, its the end of the weekend and back to the school week. Sunday's just kinda suck.

Blog 25 :)

Today was lovely, I came back to school with 5 times the stuff I left with, and then studied for chem until 3am. PF changs in the middle was nice, but seriously, chem until 3 am. And this isn't like distracted, facebook a little bit and other things study, this is hardcore study. Today is like a new day, never in my life have I ever studied for that many hours straight, for anything. Ever. I usually don't even study, but this, this is ridiculous. Chem 201H is a deathly class, unless you love chem, and physics (I love chem but I hate physics so this is death) don't take it. I learned something about my learning method today. In grade school they would always ask what kind of a learner you are, visual or whatever. And then, how like structured and organized the things you learn need to be for you. I realized i'm one of those people that needs to be able to visualize stuff, and know stuff building from the extreme basic to completely understand it. Neither of these really applies to 201H. Its very theoretical stuff that kind of just skips over the basics, that you can't really visualize because its been altered dimension-wise so you can understand it? I don't know if that made any sense, but pretty much, my learning style is the opposite of the class. Fabulous. Hmm but I really do love chem when it isnt about quantum mechanics and the deBroglie's equations. I love inorganic chemistry,  but this PChem stuff is just not fun. I'm learning a lot, but i don't know if i want to be learning this. I'm definitely thinking very hard about not taking 202H, but we'll see I guess. If you've read this far in this blog that's awesome :) thanks for listening to my ramble!

Blog 24

So this day has been pretty fabulous. I got a working phone! This is my first weekend home, and i've realized theres a lot of things you appreciate a lotttt more after a couple weeks of college. First, having a big, comfy bed that you dont have to climb a cramped ladder to get into. Being able to drive. I've missed my car like no other. It's so nice to just think, hey umm I want to go shopping. Hey! I have my car, I can get in and drive to the mall! Or, hmm, I kinda want a bag of raisinets. Hey, i'll just drive over to Krogers and pick one up. No walking or bussing involved. Oh, then theres doing dishes. Its really nice getting your dishes washed for you in a dishwasher vs scrubing at them in a tiny sink at school. But whatever, college is still fabulous, despite those things. hmm what else. I feel like oatmeal is extremely underappreciated. Its one of those, eww really? kinda foods. People kind of just dismiss it, and eat it strictly for health purposes most of the time, but seriously? I like oatmeal. Well not regular oatmeal, just the maple brown sugar kind. Regular oatmeal is kind of gross, but maple brown sugar? Delicious. It smells delicious, and tastes good, and its great for you! Kinda like, grapes! Theyre delicious and healthy. You could eat them all day, like instead of grabbing in a bowl and downing chips, get some grapes. Or some baby carrots! My old highschool has a baby carrot vending machine? and it was on SNL? ridiculous, but good, thats super healthy. But yah thats all, ttyl!

Blog 23 - ANYTHING?

Wow, i'm like extremely freaking excited that I can just talk about anything, for 250 words. ANYTHING. No Buffy, yay! Well, I'm just going to ramble about whatever comes to mind. Today, instead of doing homework, I decided to go to Easton with my friends and buy stuff. We all had the same thing in mind, another pair of yoga pants. Victoria's secret yoga pants are not only super cute, each with their own personalities. Whether it be the retro floral ones, bedazzled glam ones, or cheetah print ones, they're extremely comfy. Diamonds? Whatever, I mean diamonds are great, but a girls like, hmm, best friend number two? should be yoga pants. You know what else is a girls bff? Their cell phone. Monday I broke my cell phone, at like 5am I get a text and instead of grasping my phone I push it off my lofted bed to its death on the cold hard floor. I've done this multiple times, actually, but this time it decided it was done with my torture. I woke up, and was definitely ready to cry on the spot. Not only was my phone gone, so was the alarm I set for my 8:30 lab. Should I just stay up till then and pass out at my lab or set a wimpy alarm i'll probably sleep through on my iPod? It was just a terrible morning. But anyways, people take their phones for granted, but seriously, if you're reading this right now, look at your lovely phone that is in one piece and smile that you have it. All your contacts, pictures and fabulous ringtones all in one lovely phone! You really don't realize what you have until its gone :)

Blog 22 - Thesis exercise

Today in class we worked on our thesis, how to write it and perfect it and support it. A thesis is an argument, not just a statement, so we worked on making sure our theses were arguments and not just statements or observations, that our theses were arguable. We also learned how to support it with information, from the show and real world. The thesis I wrote is: The show Buffy the Vampire shows the metaphor of the relationship between teens and their parents. Buffy the Vampire is an average teenager, she goes to highschool, wants to have friends and be liked, and hides things from her mother. For most teens, their escapades to frat houses and house parties are these secrets, on the other hand, Buffy's big secret is that she is a vampire slayer. This is her secret vs. the typical high schooler's secrets. Buffy's relationship with her parents is strained, they cannot connect to her as well as they think they should be able too, they are lied to by her, they feel distant; these are the typical charecteristics of a teen-parent relationship. Typical teens have all of these problems, they're just not all vampire slayers though. For example one night Buffy skips the high school dance and her mother is sad about it, and probabbly cannot understand why she does this. This is similar to the real life situation of rebellious highschoolers who skip their dances. Or, when her father drops her off back at home and shows that he compensated for his inability to connect to her by buying her lots of material things. These and many other reasons are why the parent/teen relationship is like Buffy and her parents relationship.

Blog 21 - Quote Integration

We did quote integration in class, and this is another example of one of the paragraphs I integrated a quotation into. This paragraph talks about the insecurity teenagers have to feel because of peers who put them down or do other various unthoughtful things: Teens problems can be caused by a wide array of things: "Peer pressure, friendship, loneliness, dating, abusive boyfriends, betrayal, the generation gap, sex, drugs, rock 'n' roll" are a few of the many causes of teen issues (Rosen 1). In the episode “Halloween,” Cordelia is in the bathroom with Buffy and Willow, and as she puts on another coat of lipstick and powder she talks down to Buffy and her looks. It makes Buffy extremely conscious about her, and her chances with the boy Angel who Cordelia is now trying to steal. Teenagers are often self-conscious for many reasons. They are given labels, often unfavorable labels, which can make them more self conscious. Buffy is naturally a beautiful girl, but with slaying vampires she doesn’t have much time to be manicured from head to toe. So despite her looks, she is conscious, only because of the few words Cordelia says. This is metaphorically similar to the many reasons teenagers are self conscious about their appearance. When we worked on quotation integration we focused on making sure we didn't put the quotation at the beginning or end of a paragraph. We also talked about how at the end of the sentence we need to put in a parenthetical citation, with the author and the page number.

Blog 20 - Quote Integration

We did an exercise in class where we learned to integrate quotes into paragraphs, but in a scholarly way, aka not letting the quote introduce or end a paragraph. My paper is largely about how Buffy is representative of adolesence and the lives of teens, and their relationships with their parents. This was a paragraph with one of my quotes: In the episode called Inca Mummy Girl Buffy decides not to go to the high school dance that everyone is going to. This often happens in high school, and usually teens do not tell their parents why they don’t want to attend a dance. They muddle it up and spend the night sulking in their room, or they’re in a rebellious stage where high school dances seem lame. In Buffy’s case she is skipping out on the dance because she has more important slaying matters to deal with, yet another metaphor to the teenager parent disconnect. Parents don’t always understand why their children have to fall into a label of jock, punk, prom queen or such. Teens see it as important, and its true that “what happens in those years does matter almost as much as it seems to at the time.” Teens realize it matters at the time and parents dismiss it as something teens will grow out of. Buffy portrays this living of the label very well with her character. She is labeled as an pretty outcast and that's what she is, someone who is noticed but avoided, and she'll continue to be affected by her label, she continues to be a slayer.

Blog 19 - Article

This is the article I read for this blog: http://www.prospect.org/cs/articles?article=can_buffys_brilliance_last
The article agrees that Buffy is much different than other classic high school setting shows. It considers it a good successor to Catcher in the Rye. Saying that is saying a lot. I really hope that doesn't offend JD Salinger. Anyways, it's saying that this show really does have a deeper meaning than the seemingly superficial monster killing and typical high school drama. It also talks about the portrayal of Buffy. She is seemingly a typical cheerleader with a funny name, but, as the article says, she has all the traits every girl wants. Teenage girls want to feel needed, like they have a purpose, a talent that is useful in the world. Then they feel that they are significant, and so feel important, and more confident. The article also argues that Buffy the Vampire tries to play down sex. By showing that kisses in the show are usually kisses of death, it makes kissing look bad. Then, Buffy carrying the motto, don't do it if it doesn't feel good promotes the prevention of teens experimenting before they really want to do anything. It also talked about the fact that it showed that, since there were many male vampires, like in the episode called reptile boy, if a girl lets her guard down for a little while, she could end up dying via vampire bite, which is metaphorical to bad decisions on the part of teenagers. The article also talked for a little bit about where the show goes towards the final seasons, which I haven't watched any of yet, and it seems to be going downhill. The author worries that it will have a fate like many other series which end up failing towards the end.

Blog 18 - Article

The article I used: http://articles.latimes.com/2003/may/20/entertainment/et-rosen20
This article really helped me, it supported my thesis a lot. It supported the fact that its a large metaphor of the lives of teenagers. I was talking about the perils of teenagers that are represented in this show, their insecurity caused by those around them, like when cordelia down-talked Buffy in the bathroom. Or even when Willow is shadowed fairly often by Buffy. Or the parental issues that teenagers run into because of helicopter parents, or the inability to relate to them; the rift between teenagers and their parents. It spoke of the view that  her battling of "the demons" was much like a teenagers daily battles with classic teen issues such as drugs, sex, and others. The article also talked about how Buffy filled the void of female hero's. Most super heroes are male: Spiderman, Batman, man, man, man. Buffy, for a change, is a girl, a blonde cheerleader who sacrifices her social life to save the world daily. This is much of a change from a man that lets spiderwebs out of his wrist. It also spoke about the wide variety of age groups who watch the show. People ranging from teenagers, to age thirty, even to age sixty truly enjoy watching the show. It attracts a wide variety of viewers. It talked about how popular the show became among teens, enough for a frat's drinking game to be based off of visible bra straps, which was something Buffy was often spotted with. He made the show sad, but very funny at the same time.

Buffy Article 1 - A religious approach

Article I read: http://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2002/septemberweb-only/9-16-31.0.html
This article took a Christian view on the show, and it was torn. An "evangelical church father" wanted to watch it, he actually liked the show and promoted it. He does, of course watch it secretly though. What evangelical father wants people to know that they watch a show about a pretty teenage vampire slayer? Right, but he does have a guilty liking for the show. Though, as they say, it isn't as popular as many very mainstream shows, it is fairly popular. People bought stuff that was affiliated with the show. What was interesting about this article is when they talked about the number of teens and twenty year olds that enjoy watching the show. They talk about the popularity of the show among that age group. It makes a lot of sense though. The show is very relatable to teens since Buffy has the angst with her parents, or atleast seemingly since most of it is because of her slaying occupation, but other than that she does deal with many classic teenage issues. She is self conscious because of comments from people like cordelia, and she wants to have fun and have a normal social life. Of course, as we can all see from the Twilight and Vampire Diaries hype, the idea of vampires and mythical creatures is very eye catching to teens. Of course, the general christian view of the show is very low, they strongly dissaprove of the watching of the show which poses questions. Though the show may be about unreal, terrible creatures, it always has good overall messages in the shows. Like knowing who your real friends are, and helping one another.

I decided to do my paper on the Halloween episode of Buffy the Vampire, and I have a couple ideas about what I want to do my focus on. I considered Buffy and Angel, and make a thesis about them. They have a lot of tension between them and they finally want to start dating and its just dangerous. There are so many problems that come with complicated relationships like this. Their lives are in danger when they are dating, but I guess its good because he cares more than enough about her and she is very attracted to him too. The next best option would be Xander but she is very into Angel. Their relationship is kind of a necessary but risky relationship. I guess the paper could also be on like, the perils and trials of love. They seem to be perfect for one another, theres the quirky exciting girl and the very laid back calm guy. Of course, since things seem great, their ability to actually become a couple has to be thwarted and ruined all the time, they can't just be a happy couple. Other than that I could write about the common theme of how things aren't always what they seem. Every episode they are duped by a person, or in this one, costumes. They never really stop getting confused by other people that they don't know. Lastly, I could also write about Giles. He goes with the lesson that sometimes the people you cannot stand the most are the ones that end up saving you and know whats best for you. He knows what she's missing out on in her teen years but he knows how to save her life and make sure she does what she's meant to do for the world.

Buffy, Halloween !

At last, Buffy and Angel are dating! They finally agree to date after overcoming their tension about how dangerous a relationship could be, they finally agree with their impulse feelings. But of course, this is much to good to be true. How could everything just work out? Buffy gets held up at the pumpkin patch by a vampire, and Cordelia gets to Angel! Things can just never be perfect, like, everything cannot just be going well. So she continues to hit on Angel and tell off Buffy, little does she know Buffy and Angel's history. Cordelia once again makes a fool of herself, she does this a lot. Like the last episode, she gets them into a vampire/creature frat, and then believes that laughing loudly and obnoxiously will get her boys. Buffy is bothered by the crappy first date with Angel, and wants to find a way to surely win him over. She finds a very cute costume, as an 18th century noble woman hoping that will get him and then they find that the costumes are enchanted! They become the costumes that they are wearing. The relationship between her and Angel is very stressed, every force of nature continuously goes against them being together, but they find Ethan and the spell is reversed. They finally kiss at the end and so we know that they have finally made it. Angel reassures Buffy that women in the past were dull and boring and he really is looking for something fun and thrilling/exciting, and they kiss and we finally see their beginning together.

Buffy and Reptile Boy?

They start off with watching a hindi movie, everyones pretty content, Buffy the most, since there's nothing to be killed and they can just have a lazy evening. And then it cuts to a girl outrunning many hooded guys; Buffy spoke too soon. The TV was showing a lady in love singing into her phone, I wonder if that has anything to do with the episode? I'm starting to really see how bitter Buffy could be if she wanted to. She is gorgeous and smart and funny and could have an amazing time in high school with her friends, and of course she cant because she has slaying to do. It really showed when she met the fraternity boy who was smart and genuinely interested in her, and of course she had to practice self defense and had to leave her conversation with him, and not go to the party she was invited to by him. She really is missing out a lot  with her high school social life. It is shown that Buffy is missing out on her social life with that encounter, but then we find out that the fraternity is very dark, because it shows a brother that is joining and it isn't very sunny or bright. They prey on high school girls, since they're usually oblivious and want to date college boys. There is a lot of tension between Buffy and Angel, and she really likes him, but he's extremely old and it kind of reminds me of a Twilight type thing. Xander really cares about Buffy and shows up to look after her, but i think the frat boy has it covered, until you see that he is under someone bigger, the leader of their frat? They serve a bigger person. She really does need Xander, because the frat boys leave them to doom. It teaches a lesson about true friends and dangerous strangers. Also Angel really does have strong feelings for Buffy's safety, he is very upset as soon as he knows Buffy is in danger. Of course, Buffy ends up at the party where the problem is. It's another lesson, lying always backfires. Angel seems to be coming around, a romance seems to be starting between them !

Buffy, Inca Girl Mummy.

It starts out with Buffy telling herself she doesn't always use violence, haha, yes she does. The boy doing something wrong bothers Buffy and her friends, and Buffy goes to use violence and then Willow tries a talking approach. They then see a sacrificed princess who was turned into mummy, with a curse. As soon as they show her they play dramatic music, and of course she's the creature of the episode. Buffy has her little upset about not being able to do normal things, and then the episode goes on. A boy trying to steal a plate gets choked by the cursed mummy and that solidifies that the creature is the wrapped up princess, but what is she going to do, and what does she want? She causes the boy to become wrapped up and turn into a mummy, and now Buffy and friends have to track down the mummifying killer. Even though the show usually centers around vampires and creatures that need to be taken care of, the makers like to throw in the occasional high school student's  dilemma or issue. The mummy princess becomes a person and ends up living with Buffy, of all people. She's under her nose. Now the mummy's killed the bodyguard, so she doesn't have to go back at all. She figures it out and they drive, while this is happening a boy in the band at the dance notices Willow! This is a classic moral of the story type moment, she's nice and doesn't freak out with the guy she likes is with someone else, and now a boy wants her! Anyways, she's kissed Xander, of course it was bound to happen. Somehow he always gets caught in the danger, like he did with the Mantis substitute teacher. But they get out, the mummy becomes mummified and breaks, and we are shown that Xander does love Willow, as a friend and will put her before girls.