Media's Inpact on Women's Body Image

This is in response to an essay on the media's impact on women's body image written by Yoosen Alice Ham. The advisertiser of today are using sexualized images of women along with other things to capture the attention of potential customers. The images show pictures of supermodels with super-impossible standards of perfection that women and young girls try to depict. As we know the advertising of modern day emphasizes on the sexually empowered, independent women, but at the same time puts much pressure on the women and children who are using these "flawless" women as a standard of what a women should look like. This method of self-imaging through advertisment takes away from the ad's true purpose, to sell a product. Why cant we just make advertisments without exploiting or degrading women? Many women feel that if they don't keep up with the media's depiction of the perfect body image they are a social outcast when it shouldn't be that way. What women need to do is to wake up and realize that Most of these women we see in these ad's have been touched up, so they are not really "perfect" themselves.

Nu Shortcuts in School R 2 Much 4 Teachers

This blog is in response to an essay entitled "Nu Shortcuts in School R 2 Much 4 Teachers. Many students are texting, and emailing just as much as they write in school. The language and spelling in non-formal writing is appearing more and more on school assignments. Students need to turn off the texting form of writing and to know that the shortcut form of writing is not acceptable in a professional setting. Many students don't understand that they are hurting themselves by killing their grades with these shortcuts. This not only effects the students but it effects the teachers as well. Teachers are struggling to get their students to stop using this lingo and get back to what we all know as proper english and writing. It's amazing how much something as simple as a text or email can affect our way of writing. If things keep going the way that the are this might become a bigger problem than expected. It could effect a students' way of spelling permanently. Not knowing how to spell is just like not knowing how to read. Knowing how to do the two correctly is part of the key to success. You cant get as far as you could in life without those skills.

Take This Job and Love It

This blog is in reponse to a essay called "Take This Job and Love It". This essay was about four myths about low-paying jobs. The first myth was that "low paying jobs are a dead-end". Low paying jobs are not always dead-end. It might lack in the monetary department but you learn some attributes that are necessary to succeed such as strong work ethic and character. Myth number two was that "low paying jobs destory confidence". I believe this is not true. I had a low paying job out of high school but I was proud of it because it was mine. It actually gave me the confidence to know that if could be great at this job I can do any job I please. The third myth was that "entry-level employees need the guidance only job-training programs can give." This statement is partially correct. Some entry-level employees do need trainning before the can preform the job at hand but some people just have a "natural talent" for certain things. Myth number four states that "employers look for ways to exploit their low-paid workers". With this one, it goes both ways. Monetary status is a form of authority in American society. Some employers feel because they are making more money the can have the ones beneath them do the "dirty work" so to speak. On the other hand some employers feel like they wouldn't have their employees do any job that they would not do.  For the most part these myths depend on the person not really on whether the job is low paying or not but then again you do have those times where money and authority paves your way in the workplace.

Cosmetic Surgery

This blog is in response to essay by Cindy Jackson. Beauty is more than skin deep, that's a true statement anywhere but America. How one feels about ones self-image is one of the most leading causes to poor self-esteem. Many women spend half their lives to look like what they believe or what society believe to be the standards of image. What people need to focus on is how they look and feel to themselves. Why spend life trying to keep up to societies standards of image, beauty is more than skin deep. No one should alter themselves unless medically necessary. We should keep in mind there is someone for everyone, even the "ugly" too.

Beer Comericals: "A Manual on Masculinity"

This is in response to an essay called Beer Commercials: "A Manual on Masculinity" created by Lance Strate.  Most all beer commercials rely on sterotypes of what the typical "man" should be to target their predominantly male audience. This is why you will never see any gay men, sensitive men, poets, or scholars in such beer advertising. You can almost say that this 30 sec "educational flim" is a guide to masculinity. Beer commercials are promoting the myths of not only masculinity, but femininity. Even worse they are viewed by children which may view them as answers to adulthood and they have an impact on social learning and attitude formation. Even though beer commercials may be fun to watch they are harmful to us as adults and to our children. We must think do we really want our children learning from these commercial and do we ourselves want to live up to these "standards" that they protray...?