Blog # 4
These ads are sending messages warning children about being obesity in the young age. By using those familiar toys such as Barbie, Superman, these ads could get lots of attention from young viewers. However, there are two side effects in those ads. First, warning about obesity in young age by not being active can put lots of pressure on the people about being thin, or super thin like Barbie. Factors such as: fashion, movie stars, models play a huge role in influencing people about being thin. These things could possibly brain-wash young generation about the ideal body type like Susan Bordo quoted in her article that being fat is considered worse than being handicapped. This is so wrong. Second, theses ads could be considered as offensive to obese people throughout the world. People do not want to become obese. Most of them inherited it from the gene. The rest of them could relate to overeating, stress, or life crisis at some point in life. People criticize others about being thin as skeleton but they also criticize normal healthy person as “fat.” I believe as long as people love and respect each other more, appearance would not matter at all. So, give us a break!
Tuesday, February 24, 2009
Friday, February 20, 2009
Blog # 3
In the video link, “All I need” by Radiohead we had watched in class, the images and the song present an argument about two different worlds which collide with each others. One world is described as the life of our young generation grows up with a bright future and all of the luxury means of lifestyle. On the other hand, the other world is a horrible place where child labor is being exploited to make the country rich with the young generation has no future at all. In the end, the hard works that the child labor did were being used by the child in the developed countries.
I have found this video, it's kind of interesting to see the similarities between these countries even though they are apart from each others for centuries.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RAba_1vW1mY
I have found this video, it's kind of interesting to see the similarities between these countries even though they are apart from each others for centuries.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RAba_1vW1mY
Sunday, February 8, 2009
Peer Review Essay # 2
Essay # 2 draft
Television Should Not Interfere With Family Quality
As new technologies grow more and more, television has almost reached its highest level in technologies. With the price of television getting so cheap, every family own more than one television set in the household. The more television the family has, the more distant the family members grow apart in relationship. After reading the essay, Television: The Plug-In Drug by Marie Winn, I definitely agree with her point of view about watch television. We should not let the television takes up all of our precious family time together; we have to decide for ourselves which is more important in our lives, the high techs or the relationship.
When the television first came out, everyone was expecting to see the change in a good way such as reuniting family together to watch television. However, no one would be able to foresee about the trend of our children spend time watching the TV. Children were consumed by the media causing the lacking of parenting concern. People believed that “television always enters a pattern if influences that already exist.” However, for Winn, she saw it a different way.
“Television did not merely influence the child; it deeply influenced that ‘pattern of influences.’”
Nowadays, people all use television as one of the information machine to deliver messages to each others. It has contributed the world. People were sucked into it.
The first point Winn made was about the quality of life in the effect of the television. Truly, television keeps family together but it greatly destroys the family special bond. That bond “depends to a great extent on what a family does, what special rituals, games, recurrent jokes, familiar songs, and shared activities.” It seems like we all accept the fact that television is an absolute necessary habit which we can not let go. Now it becomes a drug that we are so addictive to it. Also in this section, Winn mentioned about how the adult’s needs are more fulfilled than the children’s needs by watching television. “The kids were effectively shunted away and rendered untroublesome, while their parents enjoyed a life as undemanding as that of nay childless couple.” Winn believed that the demand of the young children should be taken in consideration instead of the adult's because that is “the future which the family depends.” Quality of life has become the demand of selfish people. Life in a household has become like a caretaking institution.
Winn also talked about how family rituals were affected by watching TV. Well, those rituals such as mealtime, bed time, and holiday time can’t survive without the interfering of the present of television. During mealtime, the TV would be turned on. The kids might be watching cartoon or the adult may just watch the news or favorite shows. Bed time is leading by letting the children watch the last show of their age. Holiday time can be shared by watching TV about a game, a movie, etc. Families have “been reduced to such a sameness.” We hardly find anymore of those rituals and they are becoming uncommon to all of us.
Television Should Not Interfere With Family Quality
As new technologies grow more and more, television has almost reached its highest level in technologies. With the price of television getting so cheap, every family own more than one television set in the household. The more television the family has, the more distant the family members grow apart in relationship. After reading the essay, Television: The Plug-In Drug by Marie Winn, I definitely agree with her point of view about watch television. We should not let the television takes up all of our precious family time together; we have to decide for ourselves which is more important in our lives, the high techs or the relationship.
When the television first came out, everyone was expecting to see the change in a good way such as reuniting family together to watch television. However, no one would be able to foresee about the trend of our children spend time watching the TV. Children were consumed by the media causing the lacking of parenting concern. People believed that “television always enters a pattern if influences that already exist.” However, for Winn, she saw it a different way.
“Television did not merely influence the child; it deeply influenced that ‘pattern of influences.’”
Nowadays, people all use television as one of the information machine to deliver messages to each others. It has contributed the world. People were sucked into it.
The first point Winn made was about the quality of life in the effect of the television. Truly, television keeps family together but it greatly destroys the family special bond. That bond “depends to a great extent on what a family does, what special rituals, games, recurrent jokes, familiar songs, and shared activities.” It seems like we all accept the fact that television is an absolute necessary habit which we can not let go. Now it becomes a drug that we are so addictive to it. Also in this section, Winn mentioned about how the adult’s needs are more fulfilled than the children’s needs by watching television. “The kids were effectively shunted away and rendered untroublesome, while their parents enjoyed a life as undemanding as that of nay childless couple.” Winn believed that the demand of the young children should be taken in consideration instead of the adult's because that is “the future which the family depends.” Quality of life has become the demand of selfish people. Life in a household has become like a caretaking institution.
Winn also talked about how family rituals were affected by watching TV. Well, those rituals such as mealtime, bed time, and holiday time can’t survive without the interfering of the present of television. During mealtime, the TV would be turned on. The kids might be watching cartoon or the adult may just watch the news or favorite shows. Bed time is leading by letting the children watch the last show of their age. Holiday time can be shared by watching TV about a game, a movie, etc. Families have “been reduced to such a sameness.” We hardly find anymore of those rituals and they are becoming uncommon to all of us.
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