The way we perceive the world has to do with our culture and the media. I feel that what we see on TV or ads influence the way we think or believe. I’m not saying the media should take the full fault since we are our own person, but it does manipulate us.
In class we discussed how the media puts out certain topics for us to be concern with or what we should talk about at the time. For example, when the media made a huge deal on the tragic of Hurricane Katrina, people were so sad that they started to volunteer and helped out the victims of Hurricane Katrina. As soon, as the media stopped talking about it people started to forget about it as well. Even to this day, the Hurricane Katrina victims still don'tt have a lot of their belongings and homes. The point of this example is to explain that the media does help influence on how we see the world.
Tuesday, March 24, 2009
Essay Mills
When reading the Essay Mills article, I was not surprised at all. There are lazy people out there that are willing to do whatever it takes to get an assignment done even if it risks jeopardizing their future. The company that writes papers and sells it to whoever wants to purchase it is appalling to me. Can’t they get in trouble for doing this? But then again, they are not the ones plagiarizing, the students are.
In my marketing class, a student had mention how his roommate last semester handed in his friend’s paper to a professor thinking he/she would not realized it wasn’t his. Well, the theory of the roommate was wrong; the professor remembered the previous paper of his friend. Both students were kicked out of the University of Whitewater for plagiarizing. Students who plagiarize do not realize people have ways on finding out if papers are being plagiarized or not. In the long run they are not hurting anyone else except themselves.
In my marketing class, a student had mention how his roommate last semester handed in his friend’s paper to a professor thinking he/she would not realized it wasn’t his. Well, the theory of the roommate was wrong; the professor remembered the previous paper of his friend. Both students were kicked out of the University of Whitewater for plagiarizing. Students who plagiarize do not realize people have ways on finding out if papers are being plagiarized or not. In the long run they are not hurting anyone else except themselves.
Thursday, March 12, 2009
Beauty
“The square-jawed man can get any female he desires and thus would not stay around as a parent; the less square-jawed man gets the promise of sex and care in return of sticking around to help with the kids!”
I found this statement to be funny, maybe most girls see square-jawed men desirable, but this is absolutely incorrect for me. When it comes to defining beauty in other cultures and in the United States, we all have different viewpoints of the word beauty. In our society, an ideal woman is tall, slender, long hair, perfect white teeth, and has a nice skin complexion. When you look at movies or ads you normally see these types of women representing the media.
Women here are pressured everyday to fix or change something about their looks. Make-up and plastic surgeries are the two things that most women feel they need in order to look like the models seen on TV or ads. In some cultures, some may find American women to be ridiculous and that they do too much to try and look beautiful. For example in my Vietnamese culture, women there do not like tanning, they find it to be dirty looking. They also find women with a lot of make-up trashy. A Vietnamese woman is all about the natural look with a light skin complexion as opposed to a tan one. So depending on where you’re from or what your culture is, everyone will have a different perspective on the word beauty.
I found this statement to be funny, maybe most girls see square-jawed men desirable, but this is absolutely incorrect for me. When it comes to defining beauty in other cultures and in the United States, we all have different viewpoints of the word beauty. In our society, an ideal woman is tall, slender, long hair, perfect white teeth, and has a nice skin complexion. When you look at movies or ads you normally see these types of women representing the media.
Women here are pressured everyday to fix or change something about their looks. Make-up and plastic surgeries are the two things that most women feel they need in order to look like the models seen on TV or ads. In some cultures, some may find American women to be ridiculous and that they do too much to try and look beautiful. For example in my Vietnamese culture, women there do not like tanning, they find it to be dirty looking. They also find women with a lot of make-up trashy. A Vietnamese woman is all about the natural look with a light skin complexion as opposed to a tan one. So depending on where you’re from or what your culture is, everyone will have a different perspective on the word beauty.
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