Daniela

02/07/14 ====I think it's important to think about the words we use everyday. We don't realize how powerful our words can be and how they may hurt someone. We don't always mean what we say but people take things differently and you don't know how someone is going to take it.====

"I'm not homophobic. I just think 'ft' hits and hurts people. It hits. And 'gay' just means you're stupid. I don't know, we don't think about it, we're just kids. We don't think about that s--t. But I don't hate gay people. I don't want anyone to think I'm homophobic."

====This was one of the things that [|Brother Ali] quoted from Tyler. Tyler used the word "Ft" and also said that "gay" means you're stupid. This obviously hurts those who are gay, and it will make them feel bad because of who they are. Just because you don't think about what you say and just because you're just kid doesn't mean that others wont be affected by your choice of words.====

==== Its very important for musicians to take into consideration the words they throw out for the world to hear. Everyone listens to music and all those that do take differently some take it to the heart others don't even understand the meaning therefore we should be careful with what we say. ====

02/21/14

The first article "clothing for boys... and girls" talks about how some clothing brands like the "Avengers" clothing like is sexist towards girls. The article talks about two specific shirts, the boys shirt says "Be a Hero" while the girls says "I need a Hero." Marvel is saying that only boys can be heroes and that girls need someone to save them. The second article "What Wear Where" talks about girls dressing inappropriately for their age, and how we dress too provocative.

From these two articles we can see that society is still sexist. Women are not allowed to dress the way the want because of what men and others will think of them.

02/28/14

I belive that characteristic that we should prize in our society for women is courage. Courage is one of the most important charecteristics because without it you will be afraid to do anything in life. I think that Miley Cyrus is very courageous because she does what she wants and does not care about what others think about her. She does not allow anyone to bring her down and because of that she was able to become a succesful artist. I do agree with Sinead O'connor that women should not sell their bodies

3/14/14

I personally really like Miley Cyrus. I think she receives a lot of judment from everyone and i admire the way she deals with it. She is critized for everything she does no matter what it is, and i think it's unfair for people to judge her because of what she sings about, or wears, or what prompts she uses at concerts. Yes we all know drugs are bad and we shouldn't do them, and yes she does sing about drugs but why dont other artists get judged for it? why just her? is it because she used to be a disney star? People say she's trying to get rid of her "Hannah Montana" days but honestly people change and she's alomost 22 years old people would've judged her if she had kept that image anyway so why become what you are right? I don't agree with the way she portrays herself because she does come off a little too sexual but it's not a reason to hate her. She shows us that we should be who want to be and not care about what others have to say about us.

5-12-14 The campaign project was a project given to our English 1 class. We worked in groups and our task was to create a campaign for our candidate. We had five other candidates running against our own and we had to make sure ours would win the election for city Mayor. For our candidate Ivy Hammond we used a couple of propaganda techniques including