In fear of ever being exposed for something that could ever put me in a negative light, or just completely humiliate me, I usually try to keep scandal to minimum in my life. Even though the amount of limelight I’m in working at Starbucks can be excruciating, it cannot even compare to the amount of media attention is being focused on the likes of Jesse James and Tiger Woods.
Both men, who are either famous in their own right, or are famous for being married to someone who is famous, made poor decisions with 22 women collectively. With this all brought to light, two questions arise. One, why would they think that what they were doing would never be brought to light and two, why do we care?
My answer to the first question is that when a man believes in something enough nothing can stop him, or so he thinks. I think these men truly believed that people thoroughly enjoyed having sex with them for reasons outside of their stature and really believed no one would ever find out because people always keep their mouth shut like they promise.
My answer to the second is much shorter. People are stupid! People get wrapped in the drama that revolves around unknown people’s lives because they are celebrities. For some reason it is so important for us to crucify them in order to make them seem more human, or for us to seem much smarter than them. We let it go as far as to allow major news outlets waste their space with celebrity trash as the prominent source of news. We need to let it go!
At first, I was really confused about why you were trying to keep "sandal" out of your life. A single shoe? And what does your choice of footware have to do with Jesse James and Tiger Woods? Then I realized it was a typo.
ReplyDeleteFor a guy who does so well at catching errors on AP style quizzes, you sure dropped the ball here. This essay is littered with 'em.
You need to proofread this. When you're done, put "revised" in the header -- I'll revisit it and grade it then.
I totally agree with "we need to let it go!"
ReplyDeleteThis is better, much cleaner ... but it could still use some tightening up. For example, you could get rid of "in order to" -- "to" is sufficient.
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