NatCar

[] 2/7/14

In the world today Gays and Gay rights are talked about a lot in songs. Either the singers don't care about Gays or they talk really bad about them. I don't think it is wrong or right. If you want to talk about them you can and if you don't then that's fine too. This one article was about how of someone who thinks that that it is wrong to be gay and if he thinks this right then he should be able to speak freely about it. "He believes that "pretending like its okay to be gay" is an affront to decent humanity". The writer of the song thinks that they should be able to speak freely about this idea. "The table of the kid who's gay and growing up in a family who've shown him that they would never embrace him." All of these quotes came from the article. "The intersection of homophobia and hip hop"

2/21/14 In the two articles about clothing choices it displayed what our society looks like today. The first article was about [|sexist avenger t-shirts], It showed two different styles of t-shirts produced from Marvel, one which was made specifically for boys and another for girls. The boys shirt said ' Be a Hero" and the girls shirt said " I Need a Hero" making it seem like boys are more independent than girls. I feel that girls are more independent than boys and society makes woman look like we need a man. I don't like how woman feel ugly or insecure if they don't have a boyfriend.

The second article is from a Fathers point of view. He talks about his experience with his daughters clothes and this is a problem now-a-days. I think the media displaying new styles of clothing targeted to younger girls is just make the think she needs a man in her life even though she doesn't. "Though a girl's fashion should never be limited from her, I think it's important to set boundaries" he says.

After reading the two of these articles it showed me that society just wants us to do things so they can make money. Society puts out media just to see the reaction of the people to produce new things. The first time risky fashion was introduced to young girls, society knew it was either going to go up or down. Society wouldn't put out the things out but they like drama. It is never ending cycle.

2/28/14

Today in the world people rely so much on a role model. Sometimes I think people have the wrong interception of a hero. A hero or role model should be a solider or police officer someone that works hard and fights for the country. Then a hero is in the eye of a beholder. A party girl in college would probably consider Miley Cyrus a hero or if they did bad things such a drugs or something then Miley Cyrus would be a hero. Another way to look at it is Miley Cyrus could be a role model because she is a girl that followed her dream and doesn't matter what other people think. In Sinead O'Connors she is telling Miley Cyrus how showing her self Is not being feminist. Miley believes she is being a feminist by not giving a crap, but in reality, she's treating her body as a sex object and is not promoting feminism but is promoting her sexuality, which is basicly the opposite of what feminist promote.

In the article [|Miley Cyrus calls herself a feminist], she says that "I wish I could be who I am without the fame", which contradicts everything she claims to support/believe in.

3/14/14 freewrite

I'm so excited! This spring break I'm going to be riding plane for the very first time! My family is going to hawaii (oahu island)!! The plane ride is 16 hours. The only thing bad about this is that my plane leaves at 6:15 in the morning. We have to switch planes to which i heard was going to not be fun. Once with get there we are going to go check into our hotel. Our hotel is Hilton Hawaiian Village Waikiki beach Resort. We got this hotel right on the beach so when we wake up we will see the sun rise. Its going to be so pretty! We have our w\hole week planned out we are going to shopping, we are taking a surfing class there, we are taking a tour of the island, we would hangout in the pool hot tub and beach. We are going to ride jet skis and we are going to tan a lot!! We leave Saturday and then we come back next Friday. I can't wait!

5/12/14 -In this project we were split into groups of 4 or 5. In those groups we got a candidate that we had to propose to become the mayor of the town. We made a commercial, a mail piece, and a newspaper ad. We used a lot of propaganda techniques such as the plain folks and bandwagon. The goal was to drag in as many voters as possible using the techniques. We also had to elimate competition by using some scandals to our advantages. We also explained are goals for mayor. Our group used plain folks, glittering generalities and name calling in the election. We used a scandal against Stodgers, compared ourselves to all our voters and made our group better than everyone else. -The most challenging part of this project was choosing our means of advertising without going over our price limit, defending ourselves against the scandal and questions thrown out at us.(also choosing a name for the campaign was hard.) It would be better if It were more organized such as giving us a hard copy rubric on the first day we got the project. It would have been better if during the town hall meeting, it was more in order and everyone had a chance to talk, so the representatives wouldn't get cut off in the middle of every sentence. I think the representatives should have had more than two minutes to talk when they were giving there speeches. -In the future, if I ever need advertise, prove a point or get someone on my side, i know how to do so. The propaganda techniques are very useful in arguments. In other classes whenever we do voting or any project like this one, i know what to do and how to lead my group. I can use my propaganda techniques to help me win whatever project or assignment for that week. This project taught me a lot and I really enjoyed it.