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Homophobic Lyrics in Rap Songs Kevin Cao 2-7-14

In the rap song by Brother Ali, it makes lots of references to gay people in a negative way. The use of language against #|the gay community isn't going to help his career. Language is very important in lyrics. Right now, many people don't agree with rappers that are homophobic and put their opinion in their music. It influences people who listen to to that artist and they will discriminate against gay people. Most rappers that are accused of being homophobic in their music are actually okay with gay people. But lyrics are very critical in what you are conveying to your audience.

[|Eminem Responds to Homophobic Accusation]

Sexual Apparel in our Society Kevin Cao 2-21-14

Sexual clothing and toys have been produced in this society and is not a big surprise. Marvel started manufacturing sexist #|shirts that have been angered people. The males' shirt depicts a superhero and says, "Be a Hero." The #|female shirt depicts multiple heroes and says, "I Need a Here." These shirts express to kids that males are the heros and females are the defenseless. In the article, "A Line Between Sweet and Skimpy", it explains the situation about female teenagers wishing to wear seuxual clothing while the parents want them to be attractive without having to wear skimpy clothes. Teenager girls are making many excuses to their parents for why they should be allowed to wear their clothes. Parents believe that if girls keep wearing these types of clothing, it will hurt them later on in life. Based on these articles, people can assume that our society's male population can be overpowered by female's clothing. It can be assumed that males are depicted as the dominant species and females are inferior. It is seen that we spend a lot of time focusing on clothing and how to cover females up.

Epic Role Models: Kevin Cao 3-14-14

The ideal character traits for role models today are respect for themselves and other people, responsibility, honesty, bravery, and generosity. I believe that Bill Gates is a hero that should be used as a role model for other people. He is responsible when it comes to his company and very generous when it comes to charity.

When it comes to characteristic we #|prize in our society today, men and women share many of those characteristics. Both men and women should respect themselves and others. They should not sell themselves out to companies for money and fame. Men and women should be who they want to be; not be who other people want them to be. At the same time though, they need to serve a positive example for others around them. In the article, it seems like Miley Cyrus isn't trying to be herself, but trying to be what the music companies want her to be. Jennifer Lawrence believes that people should be who they want to be and should, "find who they are."

Reflection on the Project: Kevin Cao 5-12-14

This project was to advertise a mayoral candidate given by the teacher. To advertise our candidate, you were expected to use multiple advertising techniques. To advertise, I used lots of rhetorical questions. I also used repetition and and glamorous words to attract voters. There were many methods of advertising that we used. We created a poster, using a logo, a speech, and a #|direct mailer.

The most challenging part of this project was understanding the #|directions without being told specifically. After lots of research, we found out how to do specific parts of the project (direct mailer, speech, poster). Creating the actual products were very easy. Something my group should have done better was have a better understanding of my candidate. There were many questions that my group wasn't prepared for. Although a huge learning experience in this project was to take it head on without much instructions on how to accomplish this activity, I believe that this project's quality and precision would improve with a bit more instructions.

I learned many propaganda techniques from this project. Using propaganda techniques such as bandwagon, testimonial, transfer, name-calling, glittering generalities, etc, will help me with lots of advertising activities that might be assigned during this class. Using these techniques could also help me if I were to take a marketing class of some sort in the future. Propaganda is used throughout the world for advertising a company's products. Propaganda would help me immensely if I were to pursue some kinda of marketing jobs of that sort.