The topic I would like to talk about today is about celebrities and how social media affects child development. Why should celebrities get to have literally "get-out-of-jail-free" cards. If a celebrity gets pulled over for DUI and is sent to court they get a light reprimand while regular people lose their licenses. Its unfair how if a celebrity gets caught with drugs they only spend a small amount of time in Jail while regular people spend years in Jail.
What kind of message does this show kids? That its ok to drink and drive, do drugs, party and give no respect to authority. Our world today is spiraling out of control because of this. I think that if celebrities are caught doing something against the law they should have to pay the consequences like any other person would have to, not get a break just because they have to make a film in the next three months. I believe if kids wont stop partying and doing all of these things as long as "society" shows that it is ok to do them.
Kids are very impressionable and watch a lot of TV now growing up, but TV is not the only place kids see celebrities doing these terrible things. Celebrities cover tabloids of magazines and news papers. There are billboards in every city with pictures of barely clothed women and men that give kids inappropriate thoughts. Society needs to clean up the streets of our cities and the minds of our children, and hopefully move on.
Wednesday, February 26, 2014
Thursday, February 20, 2014
Text response 3
This blog is about the article Andrew Sullivan wrote about society being dead as people retreat into their iWorld. Sullivan goes to explain in his article about how people everywhere are losing the ability to communicate with other people, because they spend all of their time in their phones, iPods, macs, and tablets. Sullivan admits that he himself is one of these mindless zombies, instead of acting like other writers who rant about what other people do and acting like they themselves are perfect.
Sullivan is very observant in his article by including the "white wires" tid bit, and talking about how people look and act when they have their headphones in. When people are like this they have an expressionless face and could have no idea whats going on around them. I believe that Sullivan has a good sense of what the world is like right now. People get way to engrossed in their technology they lose the art of communication and interacting with others. The world as we know it is vastly spiraling out of control with this. Kids grades in school are going down because thy bury their faces in games and their phones, little kids at the age of 6 have iPhones! I did not get my first phone till I was 15. If you take a minute to watch the people around you in a room at school or in the work place or even out on the streets while your driving, you will see most people on their phones or game tablets. All in all i think that Andrew Sullivan has a good point and wrote this article speaking the truth.
Sullivan is very observant in his article by including the "white wires" tid bit, and talking about how people look and act when they have their headphones in. When people are like this they have an expressionless face and could have no idea whats going on around them. I believe that Sullivan has a good sense of what the world is like right now. People get way to engrossed in their technology they lose the art of communication and interacting with others. The world as we know it is vastly spiraling out of control with this. Kids grades in school are going down because thy bury their faces in games and their phones, little kids at the age of 6 have iPhones! I did not get my first phone till I was 15. If you take a minute to watch the people around you in a room at school or in the work place or even out on the streets while your driving, you will see most people on their phones or game tablets. All in all i think that Andrew Sullivan has a good point and wrote this article speaking the truth.
Monday, February 10, 2014
Free Choice 2
Im writing my blog about the TV show Duck Dynasty and how the family refused to make anymore episodes because the A&E network wanted to suspend one of the lead characters, Phil Robertson, indefinitely who gave his stance on homosexuality.
A&E wanted to suspend Phil and not allow him to make any episodes for a period time because of his comment on homosexuality based on his religious belief. The family took a stance for what they believed in and backed up Phil by refusing to make anymore episodes. This stance cause a great disturbance with viewers and caused the ratings for A&E to go down, because people loved the show. A&E eventually got rid of the suspension on Phil and let him come back. I think the whole thing was ridiculous because people should be able to give their opinions on anything whether it be bad or good. We have the freedom of speech and their are a lot of other shows on TV that give opinions and stuff like that and there are no consequences for them. Everyone has a view on something in the world, whether it be on homosexuality or religious beliefs. I have no particular view on the subject. I think people should be able to say what they want and give their opinion.
A&E wanted to suspend Phil and not allow him to make any episodes for a period time because of his comment on homosexuality based on his religious belief. The family took a stance for what they believed in and backed up Phil by refusing to make anymore episodes. This stance cause a great disturbance with viewers and caused the ratings for A&E to go down, because people loved the show. A&E eventually got rid of the suspension on Phil and let him come back. I think the whole thing was ridiculous because people should be able to give their opinions on anything whether it be bad or good. We have the freedom of speech and their are a lot of other shows on TV that give opinions and stuff like that and there are no consequences for them. Everyone has a view on something in the world, whether it be on homosexuality or religious beliefs. I have no particular view on the subject. I think people should be able to say what they want and give their opinion.
Tuesday, February 4, 2014
Text Response 1
The article I chose to cover was "PowerPoint: Killer App?" by Ruth Marcus. This article asks whether PowerPoints make information dull, whether it makes it harder for people to understand what is being discussed. They also go as far to blame PowerPoint in the explosion of the space shuttle the Columbia. I agree to an extent on the point the author is giving, but I am also against what she is saying.
I believe that power points can be boring and hard to understand, but you can fix that. You can draw your audiences attention into the presentation by not crowding a bunch of words on their in small print and making the background and more compliant with the coloring of the words. The author states that people blame PowerPoint for the explosion of the shuttle because analysts could not absorb everything on the powerpoint in regard to the shuttle. The problem was that there were tiles on the wings of the shuttle that could pose some problems, but were not detected due to the overload amount of information on the slides.
The author is correct in stating that PowerPoints can be boring and explaining that you can't get the full understanding and feel of what is being discussed. The author used and example in her article about Abraham Lincoln's speech, the Gettysburg Address. The author phrased the most popular parts of the speech, and when reading how the speech would have been prepared on a slide did not have the same impact as it would, when having it preached to you from someone of authority.
All in all I believe the author makes valid points in her argument and I agree with them to a degree. PowerPoints can cause some strife but its all in how you use it. Microsoft cannot be blamed for something like the space shuttles crash because what caused it was not covered well in a slide. That is the person who designed the slides problem and the engineers issues.
I believe that power points can be boring and hard to understand, but you can fix that. You can draw your audiences attention into the presentation by not crowding a bunch of words on their in small print and making the background and more compliant with the coloring of the words. The author states that people blame PowerPoint for the explosion of the shuttle because analysts could not absorb everything on the powerpoint in regard to the shuttle. The problem was that there were tiles on the wings of the shuttle that could pose some problems, but were not detected due to the overload amount of information on the slides.
The author is correct in stating that PowerPoints can be boring and explaining that you can't get the full understanding and feel of what is being discussed. The author used and example in her article about Abraham Lincoln's speech, the Gettysburg Address. The author phrased the most popular parts of the speech, and when reading how the speech would have been prepared on a slide did not have the same impact as it would, when having it preached to you from someone of authority.
All in all I believe the author makes valid points in her argument and I agree with them to a degree. PowerPoints can cause some strife but its all in how you use it. Microsoft cannot be blamed for something like the space shuttles crash because what caused it was not covered well in a slide. That is the person who designed the slides problem and the engineers issues.
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