"Guanajuato's mummies are a window on the past" written by Ken Ellingwood was an exciting story on the mummies in the Museo de las Momias. this story elicidates on how these people who have been dead for over 30 years, have information to tell us about the history of the people of Guanajuatos. Some of the corpse were from miners and the led to the discovery of how bad the mines are and how they should be fixed. They served multiply purposes and need not to be looked at as just another dead body. These mumies have been used as transplant donors for China,Greese and even the United States. Tone:informative

Full Frontal Feminism Final

The final section of Full Frontal Feminism by Jessica Valenti covers things related to beauty, politics,academics and spreading the word about feminism. Valenti confronts the fact that women think they need surgeries to look beautiful and how society plays on that believe. She also uses her personal experience of wanting a nose job at a young age because she was told her nose made her ugly,to show that women only get those surgeries to fill voids placed in their life by negative comments. Valenti goes on to talk about eating disorders,she says" Eating disorders have the highest death rate of any mental illness,"and this is cause by society enforced beauty standards.Valenti explains how politics only have 15 percent women in Congress, 14 percent in the Senate, and 15 percent in the House of Representatives. Valenti tells how women politics have impacted the world and how they have made women's rights even better. Valenti brakes down the different ism's of society:racism,sexism and classism. She tells how women experience this three things more than anyone else and how women of minority experience them even worse.Valenti ends the book with how women can do little things like educate themselves about sex, don't believe in stereotypes or double standards,be proud of themselves, know their reproductive rights and never deal with a violent spouse to help put an end to all the things feminist struggle with. she also goes on to ask her reader to spread the word about feminism and the great effect of it.

TONE: Informing and Humorous

Question 1: After finishing the book do you agree or disagree with Valenti's believes about feminism? Why or Why not?

Question 2: Did Valenti's use of satire diminish the stereotypes placed upon feminism?

Full Frontal Feminism Chunk 3

Continuing with the next part of Full Frontal Feminism by Jessica Valenti she covers topics like weddings,marriage, baby's and a couple of other interesting topics.Valenti emphasizes on the fact that women are deceived to believe that they should spend most her their live looking for love and their knight in shinning armor. Valenti uses common things like love stories to show how they express women as hopeless individuals that need to be saved. Valenti shows that women spend more money then they have to have weddings like the story they read as kids. Valenti also covers the fact that men make more money then women. Even when a women and men have the same job the men are paid more. Valenti later goes on to talk about the stereotype that men aren't aloud to cry. She uses witty statement to show how dumb the stereotype is and how men should be able to cry when every they feel like it with out people questioning their manhood.

Tone:Satirical


Question 1: Why are women shown as such helpless people in common children stories?

Question 2: Do you think that Valenti's personal experiences are why she seems to have such a dislike for the topics in the book?

Full Frontal Feminism chunk 2

"Full Frontal Feminism" by Jessica Valenti is a satirical novel that focuses on the negative and positive lights shed toward feminist. She elucidates the stereotypes people place upon feminist and explains how everyone has some feminist characteristics. She uses facts and statistics that say women should be a certain way then shows how those same statistics contradict themselves. Valenti uses person experiences and facts to show her reader how culture,religion and society;are teaching them not to make their own decisions but to fall into the decisions their parent, role models,and leaders want them to make. Question1: Would Valenti's use of satire be offencive to those organizations she covered? Question2: How do the stereotypes Valenti covered relate to those people that don't consider themselves feminist?