Caleb

2/7/14

Yes word choice is very critical. The reason i say this is because you don't how this word will affect some one. For instance if you call someone "gay" it could have no effect on them considering the word "gay" gets tossed around hundreds of times daily. Yet if you called someone "gay" and they had a problem with this word they could take it the wrong way and get very upset over a simple three letter word. So you must be very careful with what you say and who you say it to. To one person a word could just be simply a word but to others that word could devastate them. So simply be careful in your word choices in what you say.

2/21/14

The first article is talking about how it is sexist that there are boy super hero shirts that say "be a hero" yet the girl super hero shirts say "i need a hero". Yes i agree with the article about how there should be girls shirts saying there a hero and they should have girl super heroes on them, yet again the people do have a choice of what shirt they want to buy. I do think they should make a girls super hero shirt like the guys saying that they are a hero but in till then we just have to not buy either shirts. The second article is in a fathers perspective and he is talking about how his daughters are wearing these inappropriate clothes. yes i agree with the guy that many companies are making inappropriate clothes and all of these young girls are showing off way to much than they should be. yet most parents have complete control over what their kids wear so if you don't buy it the majority of the time they wont have it. What we can learn about society from clothing is the companies will make what the kids want, and the kids want the clothes that are "in style". whatever is in style the kids will wear and if that means clothes that are showing off girls bodies then they will wear it. On the other hand i think the companies need to stop making sexist clothing and start making girls and boys clothes equal. if they can not handle this we the people need to stop buying from these companies in till they start making cloths that makes girls and boy equal.

5/12/14

For our project last week we had to create a campaign for a mayor named Dane Himesh. My group had me and 4 other students in it had to go against other classmates who were running against us. We had to come up with ideas to advertise and convince other people to vote for us. We used propaganda techniques like name calling and bandwagons in our speech. These techniques helped us to get more votes. During this project i think the most difficult part of it was getting it started because we didn't have a specific set of directions. Once we got started though we had no problems completing our goal. I think the more difficult part of the project was having to get everyone in our group to stay on task but other than that it was fine. Overall i think the project was pretty easy but in the future i think it would help kids if the teacher came to each group right from the beginning to explain more in detail about the project because most of my groups time was wasted at the beginning, other than that i enjoyed this project. In the future i could use these propaganda techniques in argumentative essays and speeches, i think these techniques are what help you win arguments. For other classes i could use these techniques while going against other students and writing papers to persuade the teacher. i can use these techniques outside of school while writing a paper to convince people to buy something maybe for sales or i could even be representing someone for politics and use propaganda to get more votes for the candidate. overall i think this project helped me learn how to convince people in other ways than i normally do and i think that this knowledge will help me in the future.