Mathew

- is it crucial to be critical of the words we say and the words we hear?
If so, why? And if not, why not?

I think it is important to be critical about the words we say because we don't really know who and how certain people could be offend by specific words. This is especially important in public where you might use the word "gay", the f word, or the N word to one of your friends in which they are not affected by those where as if another random person overhears those type of words, they may take an offense about. Also people who get offend may be affected in a negative way in which they may ask themselves "What is wrong with me?" or "Is it bad to be what I am?" So overall it is very important to be critical about words because they can really affect people in a negative way.

What we can learn about society from the clothing options explored in each of the articles.
In the first article reports and reporters are basically calling Marvel the comic company sexist to girls. The is said because people are noticing what Marvel sells on their t shirts for both genders and how the depict women. On the male t shirt it says "Be a Hero" and on the female shirt it says " I Need a Hero" implying that women can't take care of themselves. In the second article it talks about the battle of parents against their daughters when it comes to what they wear. It also says how children's clothings, specifically girls clothing, is becoming very sexua and very showing of girls' bodies.

I think we can learn a lot from how a society dresses. In our society fron the clothing options we chose you can learn about how we express abd present ourselves. You can also learn that in our society its all about having a good body so u can show it off. In the articles read people can learn how girls maybe depicted indominant compared to males. Finally from the article you can learn how women, teenage girls, and little girls' clothing have become more revealing of the body.

Read the two articles with opposing view points and then decide for yourself what characteristics we should prize in our society for women and for men.

People have many opinions about Miley Cyrus. From the article in which Miley Cyrus is a feminist, she talks about good characteristics about expressing her true self and not letting anybody holding you back. Miley also talks about how she doesnt care how people may view her image and how other people shouldn't put you down in a negative way. In the second article it brings argues how Miley is promoting sex and sexuality to her fans in which most of her fans are teenagers. The article also says how people such as music industries dont really care about Cyrus as a person they just care about her image and how much money the can make out of her.


 * 1) I personally think that the characteristics that should be prized in our society between men and women should be respect, kindness, and helping to one another. I also thinkt that another characteristic that people should have is selflessness and caring of other people.

Freewrite

Today I really dont know what to write about so I will just talk about our English class. I like my English class because you (Alicia Whitley) involve fun in our curriculum of learning. I also like English class because we really dont receive a lot of homework and busy work,and all the work we actually do pertains to what we are learning about. So thank you Mrs. Whitley for make English I a fun filled class.

Finally my favorite dinner dish is chicken alferado made with ftesh seasoned chicken and a really good tasting sauce. It also has to have Italian season on top and I really dont care what type of pasta is used when making chicken alferado.

In Class Discussions

In class just before I left we were talking about the show Gossip Girl abd how the show has very unrealistic concepts. Some of these concepts were parents encouraging their teenage sons and daughtets into doing shots with them. Another example is when a rapist rapes one of the characters and the girl who got raped didnt decide to call the police or tell anyone that at the party she was at the the guy who just raped her is a rapist. We also talked about the lack of minority characters in the show Gossip Girl and how most minority characters have very few scenes and lines.

Reflection On Project When assigned the project our English I teacher gave our group of 5 people, a person with their bio and we had to make a campaign for them because they were running for mayor. We were also given our opponents' bios to see what they believe and what they wanna accomplish as mayor. Finally we were given a situation or problem in which our candidate did(such as they smoked weed, or they were in a gang). Our candidate's problem was that he had sex with a minor, and we had to make an excuse about the situation if addressed by other opponents. While making the campaign for our candidate our group had to create a speech, profile mailers, posters explaining what he/she would do as mayor, issue pieces, and other document that will help spread the message about the person that you are campaigning. Finally on the day the project was due, there was a townhall meeting and,a person from each group would be a representative for their candidate. Everyone else who weren't reps were given personality cards and were to act as towns people. The representatives would read their speech and when everybody was done, the towns people asked their questions and voted for their mayor.

The type of propaganda that my group used was mostly "Glitter Generalities". We used this type of propaganda when we came up with our slogan "Dane the Mane- For the Future of Tomorrow.

Overall the most challenging part of this project was getting other audience members to vote for you. Also another hard part was when we our group had to come up with a solution to our candidates situation. I think this was difficult because, in my eyes, I believe we were given the worst problem which was have sex with a minor. The easiest part of the project was creating and coming up with ideas to put on the posters and other advertisements for our campaign. Something that could have been done differently is our audience choice. Instead of making the rest of the english class who are still biased about their campaign that they worked hard on, we should present to a different english class.

I may use the presentation techniques that I have developed from this project for the remainder of English I and future class to come.From this project I have also learn how to debate and present good arguments which I can use when I may have a verbal dispute with friends, parents, or other teachers.