Thursday, April 28, 2011

BLOG 12

Relating back to the movie Gattaca, Vincent was an abnormal child who was categorized as a less than suitable given his genetic make up. He was an underclass human who was only useful for menial jobs, such as cleaning bathrooms. Growing up he believed that his brother antwon was better and different from him and antwon kept putting that in his head to bring him down. Vincent dreamed was to travel to the stars. But having the identity of himself was going to stop that dream. His brother antwon would always tell him he would never make it up there. Vincent wanted to prove everyone wrong. He became Jerome Morrow who is able to go into space but cannot because he can’t walk. Through out the movie Vincent uses Jerome DNA to be able to be scheduled to go into space. But then once again his brother try to destroy that dream and accuses antwon for commenting a murder. Towards the end Vincent realizes that he is better then his brother when his brother needs to be rescue after swimming out too far.
The views of anna offer the man on the moon the goal of the American’s to be the first to say they were the first to put the people on the moon and that they were better than there others. The madness was them believing that it was a god giving talent and that it was the right thing to do. Relating to real life god creates everyone differently. Some are born normal and some are born with special dieses that cause them not to be able to communicate or to be as active as the other person.

Wednesday, April 27, 2011

Blog 9 media research paper

Samantha McCarthy
Professor Louis A. Lucca
Media and Society (H130)
April 21, 2011


Over the years, Media sociologists have claimed that children who grew up watching television constantly were more likely to interact with crimes and violence as they got older no matter what the television show they were watching. I agree with the media sociologist half and half because I myself grew up watching Cartoons and family shows which could sometimes be violent but I grew up to be a very decent young lady. I guess what I am trying to say is that it all depends on the child itself. Children tend to behave and follow things or people that they see on television. If it is someone they admire or is a role model to them, which ever road that role model decide to take whether it’s good or bad the children would not think twice about what they are doing, they would just follow them. Sometimes the television could be one of the most dangerous things in your house. Watching television can cause you to lose contraction on everything else that is going on around you, especially towards children. For example if a child is watching a show that they like and danger is around them by the time they noticed something is wrong it could be too late to stop it. Television can cause people to get distracted.
On March 13, 1946 a queen’s resident name Kitty Genovese was murdered outside her home in knew gardens. Thirty-seven people witness the murder but didn’t take an affect. They were so distracted by either the television or thought it was none of there
Business. They watched the stalker stab the women in three separate attacks .Each time that he returned he would sough her out and then stab her again. Meanwhile not one person made an effort to telephone the police while it was occurring until afterwards one person made an attempt after she was dead. ("Murder of Kitty Genovese." Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia. Web. 22 Apr. 2011. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_Kitty_Genovese. Web.
In today’s world people are very noisy and if they see and accident there willing to hold up traffic and watch. If someone is being attack on the street more than one person would eagerly call the police. That is to show you the time change difference from the early years of television to the present. Let’s go back some decades where the television was first acknowledge and how it expanded over the years to have an effect on people. Between the years of 1940 when television was first commercialized in the U.S. to the present time developed, explored and change rapidly. In the 1940s it was initially by RCA which NBC who had owned and CBS. Towards the end of the 1930s several broadcast systems had developed. To provide basis TV across the country the National television system Committee standardized on 525 line broadcast. The television process had a cease movement when World War 2 had begun, but the pioneers had returned to the air waves when the war ended. Afterwards the concentrating was on the east and west coast and a few stations were operating at the end of the decade. By 1955 the United States was one of the most major mass media. Most Americans households had at least one television set. But majority of them had more than one. Some could even only afford the black and white models. But by that time a few of the programs were running with color until the mid-1960s. The television network of the United States as a whole was the largest and most syndicated. "Television in the United States." Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia. 18 Apr. 2011. Web. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Television_in_the_United_States. Web.
The United States had the first regularly scheduled television service on July 2, 1928. Most of the early TV programs were just images of radio shows. In the year of the 50’s they were able to justify TV from movies and radio stations. For example the talk show “The Jack Paar show and the TV show “I love Lucy“. Different stations across the world were producing their own local programs which contained simple advertisement game shows and shows for the children to watch. A few of the Local shows often became popular and profitable but was only about selling product promotion and other conflict that guided them to closely vanishing by the 1970s. "Television in the United States." Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia. 18 Apr. 2011. Web. 23 Apr. 2011. Web.
By the 1970s, there were about 700 uhf and vhf television’s stations. Today there is just 1,300.During the 1970s TV stations and network ranked $3.6 billion in ad revenues and as of today we are over 60 billion.Televison programming made a big impact on American and world culture. People critics the 1950s as the golden age of the televison.the TV set were starting to get prices and are catching the viewer’s attention. Producer of television program had a feeling that Broadway plays were attracting ad audience segment that they decide to move the play to television studios. The more television people had in there households the more the programs varied.
Game shows started to become more popular during the 50s.At the same time many of the genes that people were familiar with today started to expand. For example spoah opera, game shows, kids cartoons, the news and the sports channel. On November 22 ,1963 when the president Kennedy was assassinated several American rush to the TV set to hear the news.it was such a tragedy that the network devoted all there airtime days after days to cover the funeral and the aftermath. Americans left church early to come home and watch the Sunday morning news when they heard Jack Ruby had killed assassin Lee Harvey Oswald. The Fourth most popular show on television during the 1960s was the “Andy Griffith show” from the 1960 to 1967 it remained on the top ten until it became number one. GENZEL, Bill. "Television during the 1950s and 1960s." The Wessels Living History Farm, the Story of Agricultural Innovation. 2007. 24 Apr. 2011 Web.


According Levitt dubner every year a child was exposed to televiso with their first
Fifteen there was four percent increase in the amount of people arrested for property crime years later in life and it also increased the violent crime arrest. In today’s record the children who had extra television exposure since birth effected them the most.at the age four kids were watching cartoons and family shows, so at that time it was difficult to blame the problems later on, on the televison.some children growing up was on lock down, so majority of the things they learned to do was based on what they watched on television. For example my older sister wasn’t the kind of kid to always go outside to play with other kids. She loves to read and study her school work. When she did watch TV it was always something educational. She learned to cook by watching the cooking channel every day. When she wasn’t that she would be getting educated by watching the News. Television back in the day played the babysitters in the child’s childhood. Parents would sit there child in front of the television and go take care of the business. They knew the child would get distracted by the TV and wouldn’t notice that they were even gone. I came to realize that the bad fruits will be the ones to be criminals later on.
Levitt, Steven D., and Stephen J. Dubner. Superfreakonomics: Global Cooling, Patriotic Prostitutes, and Why Suicide Bombers Should Buy Life Insurance. New York: William Morrow, 2009. Print.
According to Steven D.Levitt there was a shark difference in crime trends between the cities in the United States who received signal in the mid 1940 compared to the people who had no television until decades later. Before television violent crime was extremely high in the cites who had TV earlier than the cites who had earlier than the cites who received signal late. An experiment was done were they compared the children who was born in the same cities in the 1950 and 1955. The city who had TV in 1954 compared to a age group who didn’t have TV for four years of their life to who didn’t have it there entire time. Levitt, Steven D. Superfreakonics Lp. Print


Television can play a good and bad side. It could be some type of entertainment and educational. It could have that effect on children where it opens there mind giving them the idea to have a wild imagination, to learn about several other cultures and to see ideas they wouldn’t see in their own society. Television programs with positive role models can inform the viewers to make positive choice in their lifestyle. At the same time kids could learn things on television that aren’t appreciate for them to learn. TV can influence kid’s behavior and their families in negative ways. Parents should decide how much and what their kids watch. TV could affect the way a child sleeps, the weight they can gain, there GPA in school and the way there behavior in general.

Before fox’s came about in October 1986, ABC, CBC and NBC were the biggest nationwide broadcasting. Today we have more choices of programs because of cable and satellite. We recently increase ease and perilous to watch our shows in reruns, recording them on our DVR, shifting the time by fast forwarding through the commercials and from the internet. Which decrease the amount of people who would watch the shows on a single broadcast? The mass media of the internet has attracted the TV watchers usually sit in front of the TV for hours. Some of these networks ran similar schedules. Most during the weekdays, after the local news. Then followed by a morning show like the weather, interviews and NBC’s today.

American television was so successful that it influence television network to show similar show in their country. As of today some of these shows still come on the air and people enjoy watching them. Reality television was the longest to exist in the United States. They are now starting to place ordinary people in talent contest, dance competition an any other unusual circumstances. Your usually American soap opera has been going for over 6ix decades. Ever since I was born or maybe even before that I have grew up watching my mother get all excited about her soaps. She doesn’t miss a day. If she feels like she will not make it to a TV in time before it comes on, She will make sure she tape it so when she comes home she can watch it. The way my mother feels about her soap is the way I feel about my show “The Game” on BET... The Game is like a black soap opera every time it ends it leaves you wondering what going to happen next or who will be leaving the show. Any time I miss an episode of the game I would go online to watch it on their website. I use the internet as my secondary source. If everyone was to miss the game when it came on a single broadcast everyone would just got on the internet to watch it and The television would start to loose there viewers. Out of the current seven soap opera five has been running for over forty years and is still alive. Your popular children’s television programs have moved to cable television with successful results. For instance sponge bob square pants, wizards of warly place, I Carly and several other kids and family programs. The problem is will these kids start to put their school work as a secondary choice instead of the main probity.
Based on my research these shows are influencing the viewers on what they should do and from what they should not do. Anytime they are about to do something that they wouldn’t want their audience to do. They tell them “please don’t try this at home”. But being a kid they would go ahead and do it anyways. Children aren’t trying to act rude or smart but it all about growing up and knowing your Nose and Yes’s. Yes it okay to watch this television show as long as you finish your homework. Maybe if the parents set some rules along with allowing their child to watch TV maybe the percent all over the world is different in the crime rate.
After watching years of television the viewer’s probably look at the TV as a secondary source. When they turn on the TV to hear the news. Some things are live and facts but other news can just be what they see and are basing it on. Today’s viewers look at the television as a distraction and to find out what is going on all over the world. If someone didn’t die then the news are forces on someone getting married and the aftermath? The media revolves around the television, the internet, newspapers, magazines’ and billboards and people in today’s society is so influence by the media ,not just children and television.

GENZEL, Bill. "Television during the 1950s and 1960s." The Wessels Living History Farm, the Story of Agricultural Innovation. 2007. 24 Apr. 2011 Web.

("Murder of Kitty Genovese." Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia. Web. 22 Apr. 2011. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_Kitty_Genovese. Web.

"Television in the United States." Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia. 18 Apr. 2011. Web. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Television_in_the_United_States. Web

Levitt, Steven D., and Stephen J. Dubner. Superfreakonomics: Global Cooling, Patriotic Prostitutes, and Why Suicide Bombers Should Buy Life Insurance. New York: William Morrow, 2009. Print

Levitt, Steven D. Superfreakonics Lp. Print

Tuesday, April 26, 2011

Blog 11

My other is people who cannot imagine having anything in common with at all in life. Gostic people are just so werid looking to be and I just look at them different from everyone else. They wear the all back which reminds me f ome kind of darkness, evil and cold hearted. They ear these chaing on them which reminds me of like a jail prisoner and I wouldn’t want to know why anone will tring to mock that image. Gotic people look like if there up to no good.what make me feel oppsite to them is the fact that I hate wear black and I am a very joyful and I ama very happy person. Gotic people wear tonge rings and percing all over there body in different areas.
In high school I teract with with a young lady who look at life from a way point of view then I did. Anytime I made a opinion she always aruge back and sted her opinion. Me and her is the total oppsite I love to shop and sepnd unessary money and she like to save her money. Anytime I picked up something that wasn’t under $40 she would say is that even worth it and judge the clothing. I hated that and fromt hat day I never toke her shopping with me again. I care about the way I present myself and she didn’t. I could spend 1 hour in front the morrior fixing my hair and she would just wake up and come to school. I feel like that is very dirty and not be lady like. Every young lady should spend time taking care of there body .

Thursday, April 14, 2011

Blog 10

During the course I have learn several things when it comes to the English language and they way people look at things. The most interesting thing I learned was the difference between and illusion and reality. Everyday we wake up get dress and go about our business that called reality something you do on an everyday basis. Illusion is something we hear people talk about and imagine, we see it our dreams and wish we could be whoever it is or do whatever it’s doing. For example when you say something or ask your parents a question that out or ordinary they always say “you need a reality check.” We have covered mythology in the matrix and knowledge in Oedipus the king but in certain text I am still a little confused on the way the world act towards it. I have learned several things about the meaning ignorance in this course. Depending the situation something its important not to know the truth because it can better you off or the other person. But knowing the truth can maybe change your life or excite someone else’s.

As seen in my blog from the first day to now I think my writing as become better but isn’t as perfect yet. Each time that I write it becomes longer and longer. My thought start to expand more, I use more of my imaginations, and personal point of view. My strengthens when it comes to writing is making up my own topic, writing my own ideas and just free writing.my weakness is when my professor give us a topic to write about and we have to relate to something else or to explain more on the topic. I find it hard to start off. My major problem is where do I start from and how to put my ideas together. Sometimes when I know what I want to write about I am so excited and I start to just go on and on without analyzing my words. Using the blog instead of writing on paper has helped me to express my self more instead of using the proper English language I just wrote whatever comes to mind and just write. Writing on the blog didn’t help to expand my vocabulary because I look at it as Facebook. You have a topic and then you just post a comment on what you think it’s about.

My strongest piece of writing will have to be this blog because it’s about you and myself cant go wrong writing about your self. My weakness blog was writing about my childhood when I use to believe in fairy tales and unrealistic things. It was hard for me to right about stuff like that because my parents and family always kept everything a buck with me. I knew there was no such thing or person called Santa and when I tooth fell out I would just give it to my other to keep .my childhood as bases on reality. I had the mind of a teenager, I knew write from wrong and what to believe to what not to believe.

Tuesday, April 12, 2011

Blog 8

In the Matrix and Oedipus the King covered the image of ignorance. Neo was ingoring the image of the real world compared to the matrix. Going through life hearing about it but not actually believing what he was told. When he saw the matrix for the first time . he couldn’t believe his eyes this all white room.Oedipus the king grew up not knowing he was adopted. Blind about who his real parents were, never even knew what they looked like. The teriresisas told him he will kill his father and marry his wife. He didn’t want that to happen so because he didn’t know he was adopted he went after the other king and queens who was his real parents . Trying to prevent the danger wheres it not and end up hurting yourself or someone else. He killed his real father and he couldn’t believe it was him because he was upset and it wasn’t done purposely. In the matrix chispers said that ignorance was a bliss and that he rather live in a world of lies. Sometimes not knowing the truth and better you off in life. Knowing the truth can hurt you and someone else at the same time even if it not your intenstions. In Oedipus jocasta wanted to forget about everything that happpen and just move on with life and happeniness but then turned around and killed herself.

Thursday, April 7, 2011

Blog #7 Annotated Bibliography/ Outline..

The affect television has on people in today socitey or in the Past.

Sources

Articles of stories that has happen in real life,wheather it was in the past or current where tc has affected young adults educations as they were growing up.Did they watch too much uneducated telvision show that had nothing to do with there school work and in effect cause them to do very badly in school.

Books explain alot they help you out when it comes to reserch projects.What was the history of televison.When,where,how, and why was it invented.what made it so popular over the years? what afeects did it cause to adults and children that had a telvision.how did it expanded over the years and where is it going today.

Video can help someone understand your arugement that you are trying to prove. Maybe reading books and articles are just arent enough. a image could even do more. seeing where tv has started and where its going.whether its playing a good part or sometimes can have a bad affect in people lives today. Images are always good it gives you a visual of what your trying to explain to someone who has no idead what your arugment is about.

Internet is helpful but at times but can also be to broad. the italic website inside other links can be helpful to the project.It can answer all our questions about telvision.if i am not able to meet with someone who knows alot the image television has made towards society a simple interview can be done threw emails to someone that familar with the topic.



Outline

Television image has had a great amount of affect on today's society over the past years towards adult and children.

1. where did television all start from?
2. who was the first to have one?
3. televion has made several changes to poeple life in society
4. Unapporaite televison shows can be harmful to children who watch them
5. televsion has change the way of how people think and look at life.
6.