Gabriel

2/7/2014  Current #|event

Yes it is crucial to be critical of the words we say and the words we hear. You cannot make fun/play jokes on a homosexual person, because they didn't choose that , that's how they are. You can really hurt someone with the words that comes out of your mouth. Nowadays people committing suicide is way more common than in the old days. You should not judge someone because of the way they are, they can't change it even if they tried, even if they wanted too. It also is crucial to be critical of the words we hear because, if you are letting someone make fun of people for the way they are, for me you are as guilty as the person that made a joke about it. Tyler the Creator says this when he says "I'm not homophobic. I just think 'faggot' 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."

2/21/2014

What they are saying in the "sexist avengers" article is about sexist views and it shows 2 #|shirts and you know one is for for girls and the other one is for boys, (from a difference in the statement "be a hero" and " i need a hero") They are basically saying that its ridiculous that the manufactures are producing sexist shirts. With there developments they are basically saying girls can't take care of themselves. In the "line between sweet and skimpy" article, they are talking about the poor clothing]] choices/style girls have today. They are basically saying that what you wear, tells a lot about yourself, and girls nowadays have no respect for themselves when wearing clothing that shows a lot of their body.

From articles we can learn what our society is going through and from these articles it is teaching us about how girls are dressing and the respect involved with dressing. Before i #|read the article "sexist avengers" i did not really realize how bad the manufactures of #|clothes were being sexist. By having a girls t-shirt saying "i need a hero" is basically saying i need someone to take care of me, because i can't take care of myself. In the other hand having a boys t-shirt saying "be a hero" is basically telling society that boys are the hero and they should carry girls on their backs. The "line between sweet and skimpy" article told me a lot that i didn't really pay attention too. As a guy i love the way girls are dressing nowadays but it really bothers me that actually thinking about it, the clothing girls wear makes them look like they have no self respect.

2/28/2014

I think we as a society should prize]] these characteristics for #|men, and they are a man should be strong, wise, intelligent, and respectful. For women on the other hand i think we should prize them as being independent, sweet, courageous, and respectful, but in my opinion we shouldn't really be setting up different characteristic traits just because its a he or she. In the end we are all human beings and we should all be the same. If we set up many different character traits is basically saying we need different traits for different races, and no that's racist, and i thought we are trying to eliminate racism? Miley said "I'm loud and funny, and not typically beautiful," and in our society we see that as being a man's character traits and those characteristics are coming from a female.

3/14/2014- Free write

I am going to be writing about how people sometimes can be ignorant. For example here in the United States people classify all tan people as being Hispanics, or everyone that has squinted eyes they are classified as Asians. Well i am in the tan to hispanic category. I am originally from Brazil and i came to the US in 6th grade. Everyone thinks i am Hispanic just because my skin is darker then normal. I feel really offended by that because i am not Hispanic. People come up to me and say do you speak Brazilian or Spanish ? That just shows how ignorant people can be because people that are from Brazil obviously speak Portuguese.

5/12/14

The project we did last week was about an election for city mayor. In this project we worked in groups and we had to advertise for a mayor who is campaigning for the city. Sadly my group did not win the election with "Dane Himesh" however my group and I had good propaganda techniques, for example we used "Name calling", and we used "Bandwagon".

The most challenging part of this project was definitely getting our group ready and prepared to start working. In the beginning we wasted a lot of time but after a while we got it together. This was also influenced because we did not have a set of directions ready for us. The project over all went well, but there was things that i should have done differently to try to win next time. One thing i should have done better is have an excuse ready to why my candidate did what he did. I didn't have to really answer the town hall on some things, since in real elections the candidate never really answers them.

I feel like this project will really help me in the future. With this project i learned some propaganda techniques, also i learned how to advertise a person/idea. In the future of this class this project helped me by learning to stay on task and work with people. I also learned a series of different propaganda styles i really only knew one. This project will help me in other classes because i will know better to follow instructions and truly read everything that is given to help with the project. Outside of high school this project will help me because whenever i need to vote for the presidency election i will know what to look for in a candidate and really think about the bad things that go along with that individual.