Kaitlyn

5/12/14 In this project you are given a candidate for mayor that has issues with their past and you have to make them look good. On the last day you have a political debate against the other candidates. Then everyone votes as a certain age, gender, and race. Our group used the plain folks propaganda by making it known that our candidate was a Cop and a Veteran. We made our storyboard about him wanting to get the bad guys of the streets just like everyone else.

The hardest part of this project was trying to cover up the candidate's bad past because it can't be undone! Who is going to vote for a Sex Offender? I think this project could be improved by each group getting a question sheet with big political arguments out there such as Gay Marriage, and Obama Care. So going into the debate each groups representative will know where the candidate stands on the issues. Also I wish there was a way to make impregnating a girl while she is in High School then leaving, sound good to voters.

I can use propaganda to help make my persuasive essays sound more convincing. In a business management class propaganda would be helpful because you need to have some way to communicate to people that you are better than anyone elses company competing with you. I am going to need to explain to a college one day why they should pick me out of hundreds of students to go to their University. Propaganda techniques would certainly come in handy then.

3/16 Free Write Well I kind of waited till the last second to write this and have no idea what to write because I have been at topsail all weekend. Sounds fun right? Wrong! We are currently renovating a house there so hopefully after this summer we can sell it. Well this weekend we were having tile put down. It was my dads friend Joey and his friend Cowboy doing it. Well only after they put down the tile did they realize they had half the tile one size, and the other half a different size! How does someone putting down tile for 40 years not notice that? When Joey wasn't putting down tile he was telling me how he was going to move down to Costa Rica where his girlfriend lives. He showed a picture of her and said she was 22. Joey is 62. Thats a 40 year age difference! I was kind of shocked until I figured out that he had been married 7 times before. He is obviously being scammed by that girl because she keeps asking him to send money. Dad said as long as he thinks he's in love thats all that matters. I guess he could be right. So thats basically how my weekend went.

2/28 Miley Cyrus I read all 3 articles and I believe the second one, Sinead O'Connor's letter to Miley perfectly described Miley's situation and is exactly what Miley needs to hear. I think most people believe that Miley Cyrus does not have characteristics that we as a society should prize. But what I think Miley was trying to say in the first article is, yeah I may do all these bad things but I am standing up for women and I am brave. Personal I don't buy it I 100% agree with Sinead, that people are brainwashing her into thinking thats what she wants. Then she brainwashes her fans into thinking that what she is doing is to empower people and that she is brave. For example she is saying shes a feminist and she empowers women. But my question is how? Just because you run around naked and twerk on people you are empowering or a feminist. If she could backup her statements and go more in depth on her reasons maybe I would understand her. When Miley says in article one**"I wish I could be who I am without the fame. If everyone would still buy my records and if everything would go to No.1 in 30 seconds or whatever… that'd be great."** T o me that sounds like a cry for help, that Miley doesn't want to do this stuff, she is forced into it. Like Jennifer Lawrence said " young sex sells", and I think it's sad that people buy it. So finally I think that Miley Cyrus does not have characteristics we should prize as a society because I believe Miley was and is letting herself be prostituted, and has no dignity, self respect, or courage. By courage I mean courage to stand up to the people manipulating her, not getting on stage and twerking in front of millions of people courage. Therefore I think she is a terrible role model for men and women.

In my opinion I don't think it's that big of a deal that they say things like the F word. Because I don't think rappers really think about it in a offensive way towards gay people. Also I don't listen to rap music but some of it that I have heard I have found that they just throw words out there that can be offensive. I think if someone is offended by a song it's simple, don't listen to it. He says in paragraph 2 that he himself has used it in his songs. so why is he judging other people? I don't think that this guy has the right to say that "homophobia is a social disease". Everyone is allowed to have their own opinions and it is not his place to say that just because someone does not support him and his lifestyle that they are wrong and diseased. So in my opinion there are so many offensive phrases in rap music, why is that word any different? Why is it more important? I feel like all those words have no power unless you give it to them.