I will synthesis The Arab Image by Jack Shaheen and The Movie Crash.
The Text The Arab Image discusses the ability of hollywood to portray different races and religions as whatever they want in this particular case Arabs as Terrorists and Nutjobs. The text also discusses racial stereotypes. In the Movie Crash racial stereotypes are portryaed in real life and describes where and how differnt events take place in LA. Both discuss the idea of racial steryotypes and hate crimes.
Thursday, February 28, 2008
Sunday, February 24, 2008
Joy Synthesis
"JOY is another word for happiness. When people have no troubles and can spend their time laughing and smiling, like the baby in the picture above".-Andrea
What is Joy? What is it that make us feel Joy? I think that Joy is the ability to be happy and have fun. To be able to find happiness in everything and exploit it for everyone and everything. Your personal happiness in an excited state.-Graham
Joy Synthesis
Joy is when people spend their time always laughing and smiling discovering happiness in everything and exploiting the happiness for the benefit of everyone.
What is Joy? What is it that make us feel Joy? I think that Joy is the ability to be happy and have fun. To be able to find happiness in everything and exploit it for everyone and everything. Your personal happiness in an excited state.-Graham
Joy Synthesis
Joy is when people spend their time always laughing and smiling discovering happiness in everything and exploiting the happiness for the benefit of everyone.
Thursday, February 21, 2008
Joy
What is Joy? What is it that make us feel Joy? I think that Joy is the ability to be happy and have fun. To be able to find happiness in everything and exploit it for everyone and everything. Your personal happiness in an excited state.
Sunday, February 17, 2008
Plato's "Allegory of the Cave"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ckwiweDMgeQ
The link above is to a somewhat modern day allegory of the cave by Plato. In the video above it is called the allegory of the garage. The person inside is in a garage playing video games and that is all he knows. The video games offer the only view of the world he sees. Video games are an alternative to the real life but seem life like. For example games like Grand Theft Auto you are a character running gangs in a large city except when you die you come back to life. Many kids these days take video games as a real life thing and if you die or your friend dies they come back. Things do not work this way in the real world. In the video eventually the character gets tired of the video games and his mind wanders thus he discovers the outside world. When the character discovers the real world he ventures outside and discovers many things. When he ventures back to the garage or cave he looks at what he thought was the real world and realizes it was only a lie and stays in the real world. This depiction of an alternate reality of video games applies to today’s kids and lives. It is a modern day illusion of life for kids it is almost scary at what video games do to today’s kids. We need to get outside and see the real world and stop watching TV and playing video games and wanting to have an alternative reality.
The link above is to a somewhat modern day allegory of the cave by Plato. In the video above it is called the allegory of the garage. The person inside is in a garage playing video games and that is all he knows. The video games offer the only view of the world he sees. Video games are an alternative to the real life but seem life like. For example games like Grand Theft Auto you are a character running gangs in a large city except when you die you come back to life. Many kids these days take video games as a real life thing and if you die or your friend dies they come back. Things do not work this way in the real world. In the video eventually the character gets tired of the video games and his mind wanders thus he discovers the outside world. When the character discovers the real world he ventures outside and discovers many things. When he ventures back to the garage or cave he looks at what he thought was the real world and realizes it was only a lie and stays in the real world. This depiction of an alternate reality of video games applies to today’s kids and lives. It is a modern day illusion of life for kids it is almost scary at what video games do to today’s kids. We need to get outside and see the real world and stop watching TV and playing video games and wanting to have an alternative reality.
Sunday, February 10, 2008
Gender Roles
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DgOVwoC72e8
The above link is to a 1955 film on women in the United States and their roles in society. It starts as a girl selecting her High School classes for next semester and what she wants to take. She then asks a teacher what the class Home Economics is and what she will learn. The Teacher then states that a woman is supposed to be a Homemaker and the tasks that a Homemaker will do. Which being the woman will include tasks such as making clothes, food preparation and nutrition, money management, raising children, and protecting the family relationship and wellbeing.
The teacher also states that women who take Home Economics in High School are more likely to find college more interesting. As well as be able to take more advanced classes in Home Economics in College. A woman with a college degree in Home Economics can get a job as a school teacher, social worker, or work on cooking shows.
The video states that men are to design houses, pick colors for the house, and manage money. The video is a very stereotypical of men and women’s roles in the household during 1955. Women are to stay at home and clean the house, cook, raise children etc… while the men go to work and make money and support the family while the women build and raise the family. This was the standard in the 1950’s today the standard has changed some women are taking more corporate jobs and getting educations in different things other than Home Economics. Women are doing jobs that were once reserved for men.
The above link is to a 1955 film on women in the United States and their roles in society. It starts as a girl selecting her High School classes for next semester and what she wants to take. She then asks a teacher what the class Home Economics is and what she will learn. The Teacher then states that a woman is supposed to be a Homemaker and the tasks that a Homemaker will do. Which being the woman will include tasks such as making clothes, food preparation and nutrition, money management, raising children, and protecting the family relationship and wellbeing.
The teacher also states that women who take Home Economics in High School are more likely to find college more interesting. As well as be able to take more advanced classes in Home Economics in College. A woman with a college degree in Home Economics can get a job as a school teacher, social worker, or work on cooking shows.
The video states that men are to design houses, pick colors for the house, and manage money. The video is a very stereotypical of men and women’s roles in the household during 1955. Women are to stay at home and clean the house, cook, raise children etc… while the men go to work and make money and support the family while the women build and raise the family. This was the standard in the 1950’s today the standard has changed some women are taking more corporate jobs and getting educations in different things other than Home Economics. Women are doing jobs that were once reserved for men.
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