Annika

5.12.14 Project Reflection The project we did taught us how to persuade and be argumentative toward people. We were told to campaign for someone (a made up person) and try to help them win an election. We had to persuade people that your candidate for mayor is the best. For Olivia hood we used the persuading technique or the propaganda technique that we used for her was the plain folks technique. This is where you show that the person you're advertising is just like you, no different from the average person. The most challenging thing about this project is that you had to make it so people would want to vote for you. You had to do things that the average person today you know would like. And for us we showed that Olivia was just like the average person so it worked. But it was hard to portray her that way, I think it was for everyone else too because everyone else knew about the scandals that everyone did. For this project mostly everything was pretty simple except i think we could've used a little more direction on where to go with it. A little more time would've been helpful to because feel like everyone was scrambling around to finish at least one thing on Friday. The techniques for this project can help me in the future of this class and in life for arguing with people. It also showed me the ways people actually use propaganda techniques in real life situations in a hands on way.

2.28.14

The hero archetypes we have today are kind of fitting for the society we are in. That of course doesn't make them right but it is what they are, Jennifer Lawrence is quoted with saying,  'For some disgusting reason, young sex sells.' In today's society 'hero' archetypes are people who are good role models and people who fit into societies image. People like miley Cyrus can be good role models for the reason she doesn't really care what other people say about her and how shes trying to be more independent. That is right to help society but the things shes doing to be independent is wrong. She says  "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," but she is famous and because of who she in society it is bad for her to be acting the way she has been. Society is weird in the way that they always want people to be different and try to stand out but than when people stride to change and be different it isn't right and its considered wrong. Good things for societies heros to hve are character traits like honesty, patriotism, and courageous. Jennifer Lawrence says  she makes "conscious decisions" to be a role model when it comes to her younger audiences because influencing younger people is also something really hard to live up to which is why society has been picking on miley cyrus, because she was a disney star (hannah montana). Society is messed up in that way.

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2-7-14 Today people spit words out of the mouth like its nothing not paying attention to what they're saying or how it can seriously effect others. It is crucial to be extremely conscious of what we say because of how badly it can effect other people. Most people play off what people say with a simple "I don't care" or "whatever" but if people repeatedly keep saying it to them it can start going to peoples heads and really screw them up in the long run. So if a rapper or singer starts saying things about a certain racial group or even someone who's different then them a lot of people can hear the song and it can really make them feel bad about themselves like maybe they're doing something wrong. The rapper Brother Ali is an example of this because he used homophobic words in one of his songs.When he wrote or sang those songs he wasn't really thinking about how it could have affected the people who listened to them especially how people could disregard him when hes out in public for songs he could have sang years ago. He also says he never thought he was talking about gay people even though he may have been to some people. This is what he says " I wasn't talking directly about gay people -- at least I didn't think I was. I was referring to weak rappers, or the neighbor I ended up scrapping with when I tried to talk to him about putting hands on his girlfriend. What I was too ignorant, and probably too careless, to understand was that using that word was co-signing the narrative that being gay means a person is weak and doesn't deserve respect.  " He states that Tyler especially can be very hypocritical of some things he says or tweets compared to some of the very homophobic things he says in his songs. He also states that kids and teens are in a world where they have probably never heard these words used in this type of context and that it shouldn't be introduced to them in this way. He says "   What seems undebatable to me is that as people who have never been on the life and death end of those terms, we don't get to decide when they're "okay" for us to use." Which is true there is never really a right time to use those words especially in a context where everyone can repeat them and look at them over and over again. Foul words should not be used in songs by people who really do not understand what they're saying or how people can take it the wrong way.

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