Tom Cruise and Brook Shields are Annoying.

So i just read Keith Alexander's paper on , What the Arguement between Tom Cruise and Brook Sheilds Demonstrated about the Media and I have mixed feelings. He had a decent arguement saying that the media was making diagnoseson on "postpardum depression," and it was interesting how he was relating the situation to Gilman's The Yellow Wallpaper. However, I guess that the arguement jus wasn't, in my opinion, interesting; and therefore it made the paper difficult to read and I found myself pretty much questioning everything that was said. I personally didn't care for the paper; I suppose it's just the matter of, " I don't care about Tom Cruise's and Brook Sheilds' opinions on " postpardum depression." Although Sheild's apparently suffers from the condition, neither her or Tom Cruise are experts on the subject and neither are the writters for what ever "media" forms Keith is refering to. Therefore, I could personally careless. .... : /

An Absence of Human Touch

After reading Brittany Thomas' paper about the, Relative Absence of Human Touch in "The Yellow Wallpaper," I feel like she's really got something here. She's stating that massage therapy was a part of Gilman's personal rest cure therapy, and that it draws question to why she did not include this in her story, The Yellow Wallpaper. I would have to admit that this is not something that I really took into consideration so it was an interesting paper to read. She did good research on the rest cure, which was good and overall it gave me a slightly better understanding of the story. However, Im not completely sold on her arguements. She was saying that S. Weir Mitchell exposed massage therapy as a part of his rest cure therapy, and was saying that he thought it was," a tonic of extraordinary value." But it confused me when she was saying that he wouldn't perform massage therapy himself. I felt like it wasn't a very strong arguement on his behalf saying that it was valuable but never doing it to see the other reactions of different rest cure patients. Because of this I guess it sort of made me devalue her arguement.

A Different John Faints

After reading Katie Johnson's paper on, The Meaning of the Husband's Fainting in "The Yellow Wallpaper, I actually have to agree with her interpretation. I liked her arguement, how his fainting was a sign of his loss of identity; rather than signs of him being femine. Her arguement was one that hadn't really been explored and that impressed me nd I also liked the way she compared her idea to the different interpretations of so many other people. It made for a really strong arguement, and I would have to say that i agree with her. The only part that I didn't like about her paper was mainly that once she stated her idea, she continuely repeated herself when trying to prove her point. She had good arguements but I felt like it was an effort to lengthen the paper by repeating the idea after each example that she gives for the arguement. But I did like the paper and it was