To be completely honest about this topic, my answers can go both ways i have realized that yes media has a way of getting our attention but so what!!!!!! We as people don't have to watch it and yes their is the other side that this is so much bullshit and they are trying to send us messages in the world today that we know we really don't need and don't want. So why are we wasting time answering this question.
THE BAD
When I first get home my television shows like, gossip girl, One tree hill, and The hills and all the fame and money that they have makes me want it too. These are the things i run to because they entertain me and keep me wanting to know more about people's lives.
Other views for example is my grandparents talk about what goes on in the world and most people live in fear because of what the gov. talks about and warn me that there are crazy people and I should be at home at a certain time.
THE GOOD
My views of the corporate messages of one of the greatest fashion shows of all time, the Victoria Secret, portrays a message that not to eat little or lose a lot of weight but to have a lot of confidence in what ever it is that makes you happy. I believe this because most models talk about the struggles and the hardships of being a model. But that is what makes them strong at doing what they do! Sometimes having this big dream makes people question what they do
Another example would be Oprah, she has alot of fame and glory but it doesn't mean she is still the same person who came from the same places that most people come from. Money doesn't change a persons feelings it helps those feelings of charity benefits and fundraisers help them in need. Not only is it with models but also with singer and writers for books, yes they have a lot of pressure to live up to. Still they love what they do so, is portrays that working hard helps you achieve your goals.
Friday, December 5, 2008
Tuesday, December 2, 2008
The Wal-Mart crisis and BLACK FRIDAY!
This is what the American life has come to! Most of the people have forgotten what is important to them around the time where people get off and are suppose to enjoy the holidays. If the bosses or princiblies of our schools knew that this is what we do on our days off for the holidays, they would think that we don't deserve what the other people get. Black Friday was a time after the holidays to shop for Christmas, not to hurt people for the stuff that will be less then important in two to three months. Alot of this stuff that people want is not what they really need. During that time of black friday, I didnt shop at all, i stayed at home with friends and family and did what the normal people do during the hoildays. I tried to see after wards the damages of what people have done to the stores. I did want to shop at one point after this bad hoilday was over, but I knew that my feelings will still be there if i was to shop after being in the car accedent over thanksgiving break.My analysis of what people do after the hoildays is how the really feel upset and actually have the will power to take all this energy to shop for sales. The feeling of finding a sale is like the analysis of following the yellow brick road, you think your being different from everyone else choosing green but being different is like being the same like everyone else to shop for the sales and the people that save their money and shop in the stores like normal people. It gives you a sense of pride that you have shopped with out spending all this money but in reality u spend more money then you was suppose to spend. The cheap filling to other people brings back memories as a child and hit hurt some people to shop at those outlites. The feelings and emotions of someone and something is caused by the childhood or a moment in someones life where it effected them for a longtime.
The Wal-Mart Crisis
This feeling of someone being trampled over, or abused or hurt by anyway is harsh to deal with. With the feeling of a friend or loved one gone is something that hurts to emotions in some type of way. I think that this man should of been there with cops or some type of higer power there. This just shows how people really are at heart if it doesnt consinder them or anything. American people are suppose to be gratefull of how they have all these oppertunties of America. I feel that we spoil our selfs with stuff we dont need and thats why we are so cought up on ourselfs and not helping others. Peoples pirorties are all over the place i think depending on who you are it depends. I can'tjudge someone or something that i dont know, but based on the actions the people did nothing but run to find stuff that they want but dont need.
Monday, December 1, 2008
Thanksgiving to Me:
Thanksgiving this year was really upsetting to me. With me having alot of stress and problems in my life i try to take things one day at a time. Thanksgiving this made up hoilday that people are suppose to come together and be happy/ grateful for what they have. For many years i have celebrate this holiday and tried to understanding the meaning of the hoilday.
My family to me isnt family because it doesnt fit this idealic family. With the father and mother married and the kids and the dog. I used to be ashamed to say my mother was a single parent and had three kids and no husband. Learning how to deal with the past and putting everything like the mistakes and the past history behind you. Is what makes you feel great about yourself. So why should that all be sad at thanksgiving just happy for family. The difference between the two is knowing that one doesn't connected to other. Trying to figure out how to deal with not living up to the rules of Thanksgiving Traditions of how your family is different. This thanksgiving my mother was in a car acident and then was in a coma. It was vey hard to tell my brother and sister that this would be very differnt for the rest of year. Now that she is out, I have alot of responsiblites on me that are very important to me.
So after all this, that has happened do i stop being thankful that im not dead she is not dead. That things could have deffinatly have been worse and so i tried to have a little faith because after all that is what the hoildays are about right! Forgiving thoughs who do wrong to us, giving to others and showing that we care, being loyal to friends and loved ones. I have tried to not have gulit taken over and let me be parallizAed and brake me down. So living life and doing the best i can is all that i can give to others like my teachers, my friends and of coursed loved ones.
HAPPY HOILDAYS
My family to me isnt family because it doesnt fit this idealic family. With the father and mother married and the kids and the dog. I used to be ashamed to say my mother was a single parent and had three kids and no husband. Learning how to deal with the past and putting everything like the mistakes and the past history behind you. Is what makes you feel great about yourself. So why should that all be sad at thanksgiving just happy for family. The difference between the two is knowing that one doesn't connected to other. Trying to figure out how to deal with not living up to the rules of Thanksgiving Traditions of how your family is different. This thanksgiving my mother was in a car acident and then was in a coma. It was vey hard to tell my brother and sister that this would be very differnt for the rest of year. Now that she is out, I have alot of responsiblites on me that are very important to me.
So after all this, that has happened do i stop being thankful that im not dead she is not dead. That things could have deffinatly have been worse and so i tried to have a little faith because after all that is what the hoildays are about right! Forgiving thoughs who do wrong to us, giving to others and showing that we care, being loyal to friends and loved ones. I have tried to not have gulit taken over and let me be parallizAed and brake me down. So living life and doing the best i can is all that i can give to others like my teachers, my friends and of coursed loved ones.
HAPPY HOILDAYS
The Elections
The veiws of the election really dont have any effect on me in any way. Yes the president is black or African American. I should be proud of him because he repersent the United States of America and I am an American! But to be a certain age (16 years old) and dont have any say on what goes on in America. Yes, I know my history and how people fought for women to have right to vote. But for some reason i dont care, that man in the white house doesnt help me finsh school or help me when my mother needs money. Doesnt mean that the world is suppose to stop moving around or doing our things normally things that we do everyday.
I think that our country needs to wake up from this "American Dream" of how the world is all together and has this new president to make all this bad things go away. Just puttin alot of pressure dosent help a man it brakes a man. This new president of the United states doesn't help learn who i am, or help me in anyway.
TO ME I THINK THIS PRESIDENT THING IS STUPID AND HAS NO POINT!!!
I think that our country needs to wake up from this "American Dream" of how the world is all together and has this new president to make all this bad things go away. Just puttin alot of pressure dosent help a man it brakes a man. This new president of the United states doesn't help learn who i am, or help me in anyway.
TO ME I THINK THIS PRESIDENT THING IS STUPID AND HAS NO POINT!!!
Tuesday, November 18, 2008
The Firt Draft of people's veiws of a good and meaningful life!
The way other people live. How do we explain that, i don't live with him or her. If anything anwering this question is very diffulcult. I took the time out to ask people form different places around my school and ask them what do they do in there spare time?, What do you do for a living and Who are you going to vote for and why? Manly I have gotten the door man, Cronstruction works(2), Lady in the pizza shop, Duane Read impolyee. Each time i ask these question the same answer was responed. The answer was constant, Family, Friends and most important finding the right person to make life more meaningful.
I realized that YOU! Yourself come from people, thinking that this world is new and everyone and everything in it can either make you susecced in life or make you poor. When growing up every family is different, so why are all our vaules the same.
As for me, all I know is that I know nothing.
I realized that YOU! Yourself come from people, thinking that this world is new and everyone and everything in it can either make you susecced in life or make you poor. When growing up every family is different, so why are all our vaules the same.
As for me, all I know is that I know nothing.
Friday, October 10, 2008
Assingment #3
Paris Oliver
B2
October 10, 2008
Americans, always say that money, and family and friends are everything. How do we know when were right or wrong. What is the word mean? Do we use it to make an expression of some type of feeling that cannot be expressed? The assignment that was asking from a teacher was: What do the people around you say about living meaningfully? The 1st time I ask that question to my mother and the response I got was “her children, her family and basically her being able to live without her mother.” That’s when I realized that this American Dream that everyone should have a family and the white picket fence is just and idea that people have.
So how do expect people to give me more detail on their life and their meaning of life? By asking more question, for example what is love? What are the most important aspects of your life? What is wisdom? What if some of those aspects of you life where missing would you be their? Trying to get the people to give you more information was extremely hard. The secound time I came with more questions as to what to say and how to say it.
B2
October 10, 2008
Americans, always say that money, and family and friends are everything. How do we know when were right or wrong. What is the word mean? Do we use it to make an expression of some type of feeling that cannot be expressed? The assignment that was asking from a teacher was: What do the people around you say about living meaningfully? The 1st time I ask that question to my mother and the response I got was “her children, her family and basically her being able to live without her mother.” That’s when I realized that this American Dream that everyone should have a family and the white picket fence is just and idea that people have.
So how do expect people to give me more detail on their life and their meaning of life? By asking more question, for example what is love? What are the most important aspects of your life? What is wisdom? What if some of those aspects of you life where missing would you be their? Trying to get the people to give you more information was extremely hard. The secound time I came with more questions as to what to say and how to say it.
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