Blog Post 10-18-10

https://www.adbusters.org/files/images/absolutehangover_1.jpg
This shows us how drinking can cause us hangover like the feeling of a bad headache and the feeling of regret. the more drinking one does, the more he or she feels addicted to alcohol. The more that happens, the more likely that someone will use alcohol more when they feel down to give them a good feeling. This can cause them to commmit sucide
https://www.adbusters.org/files/images/nike_1.jpg
This ad shows us how workers overseas who make our shoes get very little pay to make people look cool. Its sad too cause when one buys their nike shoes to feel confident about him or herself, the workers overseas are suffering. When they ask for a raise they are replaced with somebody else.

10/7 Homework

In today’s age of technology, the possibility for companies to place ads in our life are limitless. Advertisements can be found on the streets we walk on, the 500 feet billboards that are placed about every 5 blocks and the media we use on a daily basis. Our internet-enabled cell phones, television and computers can and has spammed us with advertisements for about the last 8 years of our lives. Every website I go to now these days is filled with 3 or more ads. It gets annoying to the point where I have to install and ad-blocker to block all these stupid ads.
To get to the question; how does media/consumerism effect who I am as a person and how does it affect my habits? Media affects me in many ways. One way how media shapes me is how I perceive the world. When news reports comes in about killings, shootings, robberies and all this crazy stuff people do these days makes me really watch out what is going around me when I walk in the city. One may never what can happen these days. Another thing I learned from media is how gender is stereotyped in this society. Media and advertisements bring out the stereotypical woman and man. For men, media depicts these people as muscular, handsome, badass and is dressed in the most “fanciest” clothes. This makes the public believe that if a man doesn’t have most of these qualities that are considered not a “man” or just a wimpy man. This is bad because not all men can be that stereotypical man or don’t want to be. However, if they choose not to be then they will get made fun of by society, which no one wants. With women, the media also has a stereotype for them. Women are stereotyped as people who are always skinny; looks pretty, perfect figure and are just eye candy. However, for me personally, women are just more than eye candy to me. I feel women can be smarter than men and at times they can be as strong mentally and physically than guys. It somewhat sickens me that some of my girl-friends believe that they are not skinny enough, not “beautiful” enough or they have a fat (Insert body part). However, they are fine the way they are because it should matter what is on the inside and not the outside. As a society we have lost that and I believe that it is an horrible lost for us.
For shopping habits, I believe that media hasn’t effect me in what my habits are or what I buy. At most times I know what I am buying at stores. If I go to foot locker I know I need to buy a shoe, however I buy the ones that look “nice” to me and that are cheap at the same time. I never buy the ones that are the most “popular” or the newest shoes out there. I know what my habits are and nothing can really change that.

Free Write 10-7-10

I keeping ticking. My leg keeps going around in a circles. after it passes a 90 degree angle i completely feel like my leg will break off. The time goes on and on. I feel like sometimes I want it to speed time up but I cant. Its physically and mental impossible. If i speed time up, people looking at me will be confused and walking around in complete chaos and confusion. Physically i cant do that because I need an human to make time go faster.

Interview with Paulie Lee (LOL)

How many sources of media do you encounter everyday
2
would a friend be worried if you didnt' txt back?
no
Are YOU addicted?
hellllll naaaawwww
How many times of day do you text in a day?
6 or 7
How long are you the computer on any given day?
1 or 2 hours
Do you think you could live withot media devices.
yeah
Do you we take advtange over the stuff we need/what we want.
not really
Do you see this as an epic pandemic.
yeah, for other people

Freewrite 10-4-10

Its funny. Its funny, how in grade school, teachers push the idea of "its okay to be yourself". But its really not. Look at it, in society we shun the people who are "different", "awkward" or "weird". If we(society) find something wrong with them they are just not normal and cant be apart of the niceness of what our society can be.

Tyler Clementi seemed to be a nice kid. He seemed "normal". But he wasn't in some people's mind. Tyler was taken advatnaged of by his roommate allegedly "hacked" his webcam and recorded him with another guy. This was outrageous of him to do, and thought it would be really funny. But its honestly not, this breaks the rules of one privacy.

I wish i knew Tyler Clementi, maybe he needed someone to help him after this. Maybe he could have used a friend to listen and tell him it was ok, and this is just a dark point in his journey to somewhere better.