Jocelyn

02-02-14 It is very crucial that musicians and entertainers are careful of the words they say because it can have the ability to hurt someone. Social media is one of the easiest and quickest way to offend people. In Brother Ali's article he mentioned that in Tyler the Creators album // Goblin // he uses the word fa,,ot but he didnt mean it towards gay people he says in the article "I'm not homophobic. I just think fa,,ot' hits and hurts people." "...But i dont hate gay people. I don't want anyone to think i'm homophobic". Therefore, musicians have to understand that their choice of words can affect people in certain ways.

02-21-13 The first article was about how clothes can be sexist. For example the Avengers t-shirts for girls were sexist, on the shirt it had "I need a hero" indicating that girls are incapable of being independent and taking care of themselves. The second article was about how girl clothing has changed. 29.4% of items has specialized characteristics and that provocative clothing had doubled since 1971.

What we can learn from society based on clothing options in these articles are that clothing companies have been more sexist to girls. Also how we need to learn how to dress for our age and for ourselves not just because everyone else if wearing it doesn't mean you have to either. We can also learn or guess how a person is or acts by what they wear.

02-28-13 I believe that women should stand up for themselves and how they shouldn't be anyone they don't want to be. In the first article with Miley she says that she inspires people to be good and treat others well also that she going to be what she wants and do what she wants. Women should also respect their bodies and not sell them out like how Sinead O'Connor said in the second article. I agree with her because unless you want too do it go ahead but don't get naked if someones is making you do it for your money. Characteristics that men should have are being loyal, honest, classy and respectful.

03-14-14 I personally like Miley Cyrus, she is one of my favorite artist. People judge her way to much because of how she dresses and the things she does or what she says in her songs. One of the reasons she is my favorite artist is because she doesn't care what others think of her if shes doing what makes her happy. I don't think she should be judged if shes half naked because men can dress half naked and people wouldn't say anything but when it comes to a girl doing it everyone thinks shes a bad person. So what if she cuses and talks about drugs others do it and she get so must hate torwards that and others don't. Just because she was Hannah Montana and she was "innocent" =doesn't mean that was actually her it was just a character she played on Disney, it didn't mean that that was who miley was. Miley does what she wants and doesn't care what others think of her cause she loves who she actually is.

05-12-14 The campaign project was a group project for our English 1 class. There were about six candidates in all and in our groups we had a candidate that we had to create campaign advertisements because they were running for mayor. Ivy Hammond was the candidate for our group. The propaganda techniques such as bandwagon, plain folks, glittering generalities, exaggeration and more are some examples that all the groups could've used to persuade everyone to vote for our candidates. My group used exaggeration to get people to vote for ivy.

What i found most challenging was using all of these propaganda techniques, which ones to use,and how to incorporate them into this project. The things I liked in this project was that we got to work in groups because we learn how to work with everyone and also learn how to collaborate with others. As well as working with others I also liked how we got to work independently from the teacher we didn't get like direct instructions.

This project showed me many techniques I could use in school. Like I said before not having rely toI much on the teacher could help because it can increase confidence on what you are working on. You can also use this outside of school, when you start working you have to do most things on your own as well. The things we did in this project can help me in future situations.