Five Soldiers in Suicide Bomber

In this article, I read about how five soldiers died from two suicide bombers. They weren't conniving for they were walking by foot straight toward the base. The first bomber set off and the second followed after right at the military checkpoint. I don't see why anyone would atrophy their life for something that would never come true. It is said that if they blow themselves up, then they will get 72 virgins in heaven. Having 72 virgins wouldn't be capacious, it would be hard to breathe, a bunch of people around you all the time, no privacy whatsoever, and no time for you and just on of them since they would always be around. And if that is the case, then heaven would be crowded and it would be bad for the claustrophobic people up there. I guess being a suicide bomber is the pinnacle their so called career.

The Waiting Room

We have recently been reading a play called The Waiting Room written by Lisa Loomer. The play is about different women and their take on life. The main character Victoria, is an english victorian women who loves to read but is not allowed to during the century she lives in. Wanda, a modern jersey girl who has a thing for her breasts. Forgiveness from Heaven is a eighteenth century chinese women who has bound feet and can seem naive at certain points. Together these women deal with problem with their bodies like hysteria, toes falling off, and cancer. The key messages of this play are mainly found in then ending when Wanda is telling Forgiveness a fairytale she made up. The key message was to just be yourself, your beautiful in your own way, and be happy with what you look like because we all have flaws.

I think what Lisa Loomer was trying to portray about today's society is that we all try so hard to be perfect but there is no such thing as bieng perfect. In the media we see so many things as bieng beautiful or what defines beauty. But in truth the real beauty is bieng ourselves, nothing more and nothing less. I find it disgusting to see someone so skinny because their easily influenced by magazines and television. Sure at times I feel like I'm not that pretty or I'm a little overweight since people on t.v. or super skinny and in shape. But when I think about it, I start to highlight the positive things about myself so I'm not so influenced by the media.

Going back to the play, When I think of Ken and Larry, I feel like in the start they weren't as important as the other characters but when it came to their first real dialogue, I felt as is if I knew why they were there. It's hard to explain why they were there really, I feel as if Iknow why but when I start to think about it more i realize that I don't know why they're there. It maybe to the fact that each time I think that I know, my mind drifts off and I seem to forget what I was going to say about them.

The reason Lisa concluded her play like she did was to probably show that it feels good to let go of something that you kept bottled up for the sake of other's happiness other than your own.