Racism

Why is racism such a big deal? What happend to the quote all man should be created equal. I believe that is a quote from the Constitution. Sadly, not everyone is created completely equal. Even though, African Americans have the right to vote, and various other freedoms that they have. In fact, in this article, I like how she proves that if you are white you have an advantage. The author, said that White people, have white privelage. Simply, these White race is at an advantage then those of other races. In my opionion there is still White people out there that think that they are better then African Americans. I totally think that is wrong, and stupid, because I love my African Amercian brothers and sisters, just like I love my white brothers and sisters. I believe that when we stop judging people and start acting like a Christian nation, or with Christian values. Then there would not be any reason for racism. In my opionion, how can a white man or a white woman, be a true Christian, if they dislike there brother, and that is what they are doing. God, created every race in this world, and no matter if they are black, Chinesse, Japanesse, or any other skin tone. We should love them, just because, they were created by God.

Readings

When going through the readings, there was some interesting points that each one of the authors of the articels or stories that they wrote. Now something that stuck out in my mind on image, which was on pages198-205, Craig Frazier, makes a wonderful point. His poster "America, Open for Business" has a really good purpose. The purpose of the poster was to prove a point about America after September 11th 2001. He was trying to create a sense of community, meaning that we have to move on no matter what the circumstances are. I admit, when I first saw the poster, without reading, I would have thought that it meant that America likes to shop, Now I know what the true meaning of it is.

Now on pages 210-223, Michael F. Jacobson, and Laurie Anne Mazur, wrote an article titled The Iron Maiden: How Advertising portrays women. This article basically talks about how images in magazines pursue people mostly women to be something that they can't possibly be. Now, if the truth was known, the average woman might be in size 8 to 12 jeans. Not, the size of, 0, 1, 2, and 3, as is depicted in the media. Typically, women that are that small, are lucky, but the models that are skinny, are misleading these women making them think that they are ugly. When, in fact, most of the women are average size. That is why there is an increased rate of eating disorders in the United States. People need to realize that "beauty is only skin deep", make-up, clothing, and any other accesory out there doesn't make them as pretty as they think.

Also, reading the Gaze-Gender Roles in Advertising, the topic after the Iron Maiden, we are asked to examine the collection of images that are provied on the pages that follow. By looking at these images, of the different people in these pictures. Basically this article, was telling us how to look deep in the images and pay close attention, to what they are wearing, or what action they are performing.

"Piracy"

How illegal is file sharing? Until I read “Piracy” by Lawrence Lessig. I, myself, didn’t understand how illegal it is! I was stunned at the statistics that Lessig presented to me about how much file sharing is going on in the world. He stated that there are 43 million citizens that use sharing networks. (Unfortunately, this number is not surprising, since we are living in a culture, that everybody wants everything at the moment. File sharing makes it easy, because it available to them on the computer.)

When I was in high school, I had Lime wire on my computer; I shared about 20 or 30 songs on there. After reading this article, it made me realize that those 20 or 30 songs that I shared, that I actually made the people that recorded these songs, lose probably a couple hundred dollars. Now I don’t use Lime wire, instead I purchase my songs off of iTunes for 99 cents a song. Since I have been using iTunes compared to Lime wire, I feel much better, because I like to pay for my stuff! I as a person, wouldn't want someone to take something of mine, without paying for it. So why should I rip them off, by taking a song from them. Especially, after they have put some time in effort in doing what they are doing. Isn't it common courtesy to pay for it.