When seeing this image, “Wow” was my first reaction. By observing it, I got really aggravated knowing at the fact that there are still ignorant people out there. People need to realize the world we live in today is not the same like back in the 1800s or early 1900s. The comic misrepresented our president very badly!
The Chimp Cartoon has no positive messages and is very offensive to look at. By showing a monkey that supposedly resembles African Americans who’s being gunned down by two Caucasian police officers is very disturbing. I feel that this image resembles President Obama who has the power of our country and the “White Males” mission is to take him down! The person who created this comic should be punch in the face!!!! He needs to get over at the fact that Obama Barack, who’s not white, is the president of the United States! No matter how much of a positive impact President Obama has done for our country, people will still make racial remarks or are out to attack him.
I find President Obama to be very inspiring. He always has his head up even if vulgar and racial remarks are being made about him. He stands strong by ignoring them and doing whatever it takes to better our country.
Monday, February 23, 2009
Monday, February 2, 2009
Modernization, Modernism, and Post Modernism
The social evolutionism theories talks about the idea of modernization dealing with the evolutionary model. It explains how each culture was evolved from barbarism reaching to its levels of growth and people. The citizens living in the modern states are considered to be wealthier and more authoritative as well as having a higher standard of living. The proponents of modernization perspective view the Western society to be very modern. To them it doesn’t matter if people have the same standard of living as the Western society, they will always see it as an inferior.
Modernism deals with a variety of cultural movements involving in the changes of Western culture in the late 19th and early 20th century. Modernism is the testing and destruction of a human understanding and experience of life. It also plays role in the movements in art, architecture, songs, writing, and etc.
"After the modernist movement" is the understanding of the word postmodernism. The word modern is associated with something dealing in the present. Therefore, the movements of modernism and the postmodernism reaction are known to be set of perspectives which are cultural and logical facts.
Modernism deals with a variety of cultural movements involving in the changes of Western culture in the late 19th and early 20th century. Modernism is the testing and destruction of a human understanding and experience of life. It also plays role in the movements in art, architecture, songs, writing, and etc.
"After the modernist movement" is the understanding of the word postmodernism. The word modern is associated with something dealing in the present. Therefore, the movements of modernism and the postmodernism reaction are known to be set of perspectives which are cultural and logical facts.
Wednesday, January 28, 2009
Special Gift From Kenya to America
"The Maasai, a community that holds cattle sacred, is broadly unfamiliar to residents of Manhattan. And cows may not mean a lot to many ordinary Americans. But it is the ultimate gift one can get from this community. "
With the society that we live in today, I feel that we as Americans do not appreciate the life we have here and the things given to us. When comparing to other countries, we are lucky to live in a country that has many opportunities to help us make it in this world. When the Maasai community gave us cows, most of us may find it to be ludicrous since we see cows as a provider for milk and meat, but we need to look at it in a different perspective. To the Maasai community it means so much more than just an animal you eat. We should be appreciative and thankful for receiving the gift from Kenya, at least we know we have their support. No one is making Kenya sympathize or hand us gifts, they are doing it because they want to show the Americans that they care and are sorry for our losses. I just feel our society is unappreciative and it’s all about money, looks, and luxurious things. It’s sad to say that our country is kind of "F up."
With the society that we live in today, I feel that we as Americans do not appreciate the life we have here and the things given to us. When comparing to other countries, we are lucky to live in a country that has many opportunities to help us make it in this world. When the Maasai community gave us cows, most of us may find it to be ludicrous since we see cows as a provider for milk and meat, but we need to look at it in a different perspective. To the Maasai community it means so much more than just an animal you eat. We should be appreciative and thankful for receiving the gift from Kenya, at least we know we have their support. No one is making Kenya sympathize or hand us gifts, they are doing it because they want to show the Americans that they care and are sorry for our losses. I just feel our society is unappreciative and it’s all about money, looks, and luxurious things. It’s sad to say that our country is kind of "F up."
Monday, January 26, 2009
Two Communicaton Model
In chapter one it talks about the two types of communication models the transmission model and the cultural model. Out of the two models the transmission model seems to be the easiest to comprehend. The source, message, and receiver are the three basic ideas in the transmission model. With these three sources it can be used in any form of communication.
The cultural model is more in depth compare to the transmission model. The cultural model deals with communicating among different kind of ethnicities, beliefs, genders, and etc. When people have diverse backgrounds and are communicating with each other, it may be hard for both crowds to understand the main point of the message. For example, if the sender is trying to get their message across to the receiver and he/she do not comprehend. The sender might have to try and reword it in order for the receiver to see eye-to-eye with the them.
The cultural model is more in depth compare to the transmission model. The cultural model deals with communicating among different kind of ethnicities, beliefs, genders, and etc. When people have diverse backgrounds and are communicating with each other, it may be hard for both crowds to understand the main point of the message. For example, if the sender is trying to get their message across to the receiver and he/she do not comprehend. The sender might have to try and reword it in order for the receiver to see eye-to-eye with the them.
Saturday, January 24, 2009
Representation & The Media
When watching Stuart Hall’s “Representation and the Media” video clip, I got confused at first. I tried to focus in on what his explanation about the representation meant to him, but I got distracted with the flying videos in the background. It distracted me to the point where I had to re watch the video again. Finally after watching it for the second time, I had a better understanding of what the word representation meant to me.
The word representation is a presentation to the mind of a picture or an idea. It explains the signs that stand in for and take the place of. In a way representation is a form or a tool for the media. It stands among the true and the viewer because of its ability to be imitative or reproduced.
In Hall’s video he talks about the politics of representation approach or the channels through which meaning production occurs. He believes that objects, people, and so on do not have true meanings and that the meanings are just shaped by human beings in addition to our society being part of the reason as well.
The word representation is a presentation to the mind of a picture or an idea. It explains the signs that stand in for and take the place of. In a way representation is a form or a tool for the media. It stands among the true and the viewer because of its ability to be imitative or reproduced.
In Hall’s video he talks about the politics of representation approach or the channels through which meaning production occurs. He believes that objects, people, and so on do not have true meanings and that the meanings are just shaped by human beings in addition to our society being part of the reason as well.
Thursday, January 22, 2009
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