Haseena

2/7

I think it is very important and crucial that we take into consideration what we say and hear because we listen to music so much and relate to it that we could start to believe things that you need to put more thought in, or start to hear certain things and think they aren't as important because of how much they are thrown around. Also, thinking about what you say and putting thought behind it makes it more meaningful. For example, the word "gay" gets thrown around mostly in a negative way, but does that mean you think being gay is bad? This could also offend someone when you didn't mean to. Even if you don't view being gay as bad if you say that, people can get that image. The meaning of words like this have been "watered down" so much that they aren't given a second thought when used and it takes value away from what you're saying. [|Huffington Post]

2/21

The first article, about the Marvel shirts, was telling people how it comes across sexist having the male shirt saying "be a geo" and the female shirt saying "I Need a hero". The people who wrote this article were trying to get the message across that the company shouldn't make the different gender shirts say different things because that is sexist. They second article addressed how clothes for young girls are becoming more and more skimpier and how that should be addressed. These articles show that society is sexist. We have not changed but from the past, but that doesn't mean it should not be addressed. When it comes to the Marvel shirts, I don't think there is anything wrong with the "be a hero" shirt because it is motivating children to do just that, be a hero, but they should consider the fact that girls can wear the same shirt. Your gender has nothing to do with being a hero. The "I need a hero shirt" I do agree is sexist, but considering how society is, most boys wouldn't wear a shirt saying that. Sexism may be a factor but also the company not wanting to lose money. In the end society has been sexist for a very long time, but is that necessarily negative? Women have their rights and clothing, in my opinion is a fair compromise. Nobody is stopping women from wearing mens clothing if they feel that strongly about it. [|Marvel Shirts][|New York Times]

2/28

People in our society need to realize that judging other people does not get you far in life. Men and women in our society should be honest and true to themselves. Society has created all these "correct' and "right" ways to act but if everybody minded their own business there wouldn't be any problems. People get constantly criticized and it doesn't help anything. Miley Cyrus for example, does what she claims is what she wants and thats a problem for most, but why should it be? Young girls and boys are told, just be yourself but then when they are and its not what they think is right thats suddenly wrong. I don't believe that it okay. Everybody should just be themselves.

3/14

Miley Cyrus in my opinion is a good person. She may not make choices in your eyes that are not good but thats all in personal opinion. She does what she wants to do so it should not be any problem to you, especially if that's what the world is constantly telling you to do. She also receives so much criticism and continues to do what she wants that it is something to admire. SO many artists "crack" under the pressure of being judged so much they would not last so long. Do you think she would have kept doing what she was doing if she didn't want it and it came with this much hurt and criticism?

5/12

The campaign project was a group project where a candidate running for mayor asked you to be a campaign manager and help them win the election. We were asked to use different propaganda techniques to the best of our ability to ensure that our candidate got elected. Our group ended up using plain folks, trying to have our candidate relate to the voters, and glittering generality to make our candidate sound positive.

The most challenging part of this project was the lack of direction. We were not given specifics on what to do or exactly what was expected so in fear of doing something wrong there was much hesitation. Although there was a lack of guidance in the beginning working in a group helped a lot. There was more than one brain at work and it had the project turn out much better. Looking back on the project I would have most likely tried to less hesitant and more confident in my work. This, I feel would have made the project a bit more creative because I would not have been scared of going outside of the parameters of the project.

Even though this project seemed very hard at times and like the teachers was just being lazy I now realize in the end it gave me more confidence in my work. In other classes as well as this class in the future I will not have to rely as much on teacher direction. This will become helpful in college when the professor does not give much direction and I will have to fend for myself in trying to complete the assignment. Overall this uncomplicated project turned out to be a huge part in helping me in future situations.