Technology Overthrow

        Electronics are taking over the world. Students use them everywhere they go. Teachers don't appreciate it when kids text someone in another class while they are being taught. Using cell phones are fun! You can google any answer that you need at anytime and you can even correct the teacher and have them get mad. Why wouldn't you want to be able to text your friends at anytime? I mean come on, we need to know what's going on at all times of the day.

       Texting between classes makes everyone come closer together as we bump into each other and almost fall down the stairs and make a miniature bowling alley out of it. And we love the food stains we get when we text and eat. The awesome smears of chocolate and pastry on it. When kids hang out with friends at lunch they couldn't possibly talk to each other at the same table in person, so they text and ask to pass something or to tell someone something they don't want to say straight to their face.

      Listening to music in class when your teacher is talking. And ask to listen when there is a test taking place. What do you mean I might have all the answers on my ipod/phone so I can't listen to it? That's just silly, I'm not that smart! My phone does all my work for me! Taking a phone away from a student in class and watching their face as they feel as if they are a crack addict and just had their drug taken away. Rocking back and forth in their seat as they anxiously wait for it to return to their hands. Their thumbs keep twitching, trying to text the air.

     You can talk to people you never would have talked to before. Talking to them over text about anything but you don't talk to them in person because you aren't capable of having a proper conversation without having a phone in front of your face. Even some teachers that have cell phones use them during class or even the substitutes that are brought in. I don't need to teach this class anymore, I'll just use my phone and ignore them when they need help. Students have learned to cope with using their cell phones during class. It is such a hard task to hide them from the teachers and almost getting caught causing an adrenaline rush. Just an incredible experience that we get to go through EVERY day.

Expectations

Every little girl grows up wanting what society calls her “Prince Charming.” That is what she grows up expecting to get, no one speaks of the expectations. In the short poem ‘Puce Fairy Book” she describes her opinion on how men have high expectations for women. June Callwood writes an article called “Forget Prince Charming” expressing her thoughts to her granddaughters about “Prince Charming.”

‘Puce Fairy Book’ is Alice Major’s way of expressing how there is such high expectations for relationships if there is “no rings on her fingers” and “braids of hair like rope” and of course the classic “crystal slipper.” Major feels insecurity because “[her] hair would never grow long enough.” She wants to find her version of a Prince but it appears to be more difficult than she expected. Major's opinion is that no prince charming truly exists, we just settle with what we think we want and stick with it.


June Callwood expresses her point of view in "Forget Prince Charming" to her granddaughters who are of marriageable age. She tells them, " they cannot expect perfection" because " no human relationship is friction-free." She feels as though "Prince Charming... is a frequently narcissistic dope." Callwood's impression of Prince Charming is made very clear in this article.


These two different pieces of work describing Prince Charming are very similar to each other. Alice Major would most likely agree with what June Callwood has told her granddaughters for advice. Major would think that the words exchanged would express everything perfectly and would give similar advice to others. These two women would get along well.