blog number four.

The media has a great amount of impact on how women view men, how men view women, how women view women, and how men view men. It is quite astounding that the majority of people have not learned how to think for themselves, instead they keep relying on the media to tell them what to say, what to do, and how to act.
From my personal experiences, I am supposed to view women as "not good enough" for anything. They are supposed to stay in the kitchen, cook the food, clean the house, and make babies. I am supposed to view men as "bread winners" and that they should do all the manual labor. It seems as though men are supposed to compete against each other to win the hearts of their surrounding peers, they have to fight to be king of the hill.
I find it ludicrous for people to stay inside the lines of what media has drawn. I, myself, hate to be part of the stereotypical side of media. I have never accelled at cooking, I hate to clean (who doesn't, though?), and I am definitely not one to dress up for many occassions. What does this make me? Am I not good enough for anyone to choose me to "bring home to mother"?
I honestly think that if people cannot take each other for who they are, and use their talents to better this world, then our world is doomed. If we cannot band together and work together, we will never be able to get along, and that will cause the the world, as a society, to collapse due to too many stereotypes and lack of communication due to judgements.

blog number three.

A television show that I tend to watch most often is NCIS. This is basically CSI:, only connected with the Navy and other government officials. This show displays many American core values, if not all of the ones listed on our worksheet.

Achievement and Success: The people in the show work hard at their investigative careers to try to "put the bad guys in jail".

Activity and Work: They continually keep working at their job until everything is completed. They never give a "half-assed" job.

Efficiency: The people in the show work as a group to get the detective work done sooner and more quickly.

Progress: They use the most up-to-date technology to get the work done.

Individualism: Each character on the show has their own unique personality, such as Ducky, the man who disects the dead bodies, and Abbey, the lady who works with the fingerprints and computer work.

blog number two.

After viewing the video, it has become more clear to me how much advertising there is within one person's life. With the Super Bowl just being held yesterday, advertisement was more for entertainment, whereas most days it is simply advertisement. Just as it is for the Super Bowl, for children these days the labels on each product send more subliminal messages than anything else. It's ridiculous that people of today's society are so submursed in the ads that they only go for the brand names when they go shopping. You can get the same thing, for a cheaper price, somewhere else. Half the time, when you buy a product, all you are paying for is the label. The children of today are going to grow up, not knowing how to think for themselves, not understanding how to compare products and seeing which one has the better deal. They are only going to care about who has what, and when can I get it. The problems are already starting to develop, especially in young children because if they cannot have what everyone else has, then they will start to cry.

I think society, as a whole, needs to come together and figure out a way to end this problem. It may not be as important of an issue as other problems in the world, such as war and economics, but it is still one that needs to be sorted out, in order to help the people of tomorrow.