Week 13 Number 1

Before me research paper was peer reviewed today, I thought that one of my strengths was that I had some good information down on my paper. I also had already started to put information into my double entire journal which had made it easier to write it. These things that I had put in my journal I put in my paper too, so this made it easier on myself later on when I had to do the double entry journal to turn in. One of my weaknesses would be that I did not really read over my paper so there were some grammatical errors. I also did not uses enough sources, and I think that I should have brought it more back to how each thing that I talked about related back to the media, rather than just stating facts. My essay also did not have a picture for my first draft.

Week 12 Response

In Five Gadgets That Were Killed by the Cell phone, is an article that talks about interesting things that are included in it. Originally cell phones were used to call back and forth, that is all that they did. In today’s society cell phones do so much more. They are able to plan out your day, have a camera, a phone, an MP3 player, and more. Today there are phones that can connect you to the internet in seconds. Phones can do virtually anything and who knows where it is going to end. People are connected to their cell phone so much that some cannot even function without them. There are even 8 year olds who have cell phones. The thing is why is it nessisary for a young child who cannot even be left alone need a cell phone. I think that this is only a way to allow children grow up faster. Parents can monitor what their child is doing to an extent but giving them this opportunity in the first place is only letting them feel as if they are older and more mature than they really are. There is no reversing this either, you cannot just take away the phone when the kid does something back and expect them to go back to how they were before. Cell phones are taking over the world today, it used to be rare to have a cell phone, but now if you meet someone without a cell phone it is amazing. This article is something that shows how dependent the world can become on just one thing, and it is only a matter of time before there is something that we become dependent on and are no longer able to produce it.

http://blog.wired.com/gadgets/2008/11/five-gadget-whi.html?npu=1&mbid=yhp

Week 12... 1 AND 2

All round the world today the media is influencing body image and how people see themselves. The way that the human is portrayed is something that not only affects women but men as well. Many people do not realize how influential these television shows, magazines, and models can be. The way in which the everyday person is affected can be anywhere from nothing, to depression, to starvation leading to hurting their bodies, and in some cases death. Reasons for which body image in the media is causes a negative effect on the world are the depression, eating disorders, and a uniform looking county.

I wanted to just give an overview of some of the information that I was going to be talking about. I think that I touched base on everything that I was going to talk about. My thesis was at the end of my introduction paragraph.

Week 11 Number 2

One naysayer that I have thought about that would come up in my paper would be that the media isn’t at fault for the eating disorders. Some would say that not every body image is portrayed in the idea that it is perfect and everyone should be thin in order to be beautiful. I agree with this, that yes not every person that is put in the media is the “perfect” body type, but at the same time I don’t think that the media is putting images out there of girls that are thought of as what the youth want to be. It seems to me that nearly every magazine you flip through shows skinny and happy people. They make it seem that you can only be happy when your skinny which I don’t agree with at all. I think that this doesn’t affect my thesis in a bad way if anything I would say it supports it.

Week 11 Number 1

The ways in which body image is portrayed in the media is one of the major causes of eating disorders among young teems today.

Week 10 Assignment 1

The topic for my second paper that my group members and I have decided on is Alcohol use among teens. The drinking age is the main point of the paper; should it be lowered, or should there even be one at all? The three argumentative sides that we have come up with are how teens really choose to drink in order to rebel. The second point would be that Europe, a country with no legal drinking age, really doesn’t have many issues with drinking. This isn’t a problem for these foreign countries because teens have grown up with alcohol, and are accustomed to it. Our third point would be the naysayer, which is that there is new research proving that it can cause physical damage. For the paper each member of the group is going to take one of the points and write about their point. We are then going to come together as a group and put it together with each others input. Putting the paper all together will avoid my major concern of restating something someone has already said.

Week 10

Since I became a full time college student time management isn’t really an issue that I have faced. I feel as though I often times have too much time on my hands, which is what causes issues. In high school I had so many things going on in my life. My average day would start at 8 and end around 9 or 10. I had to balance school during the day, and then I would have cheer, work, homework, hang out with friends/ boyfriend, and then go to bed. I didn’t really have any time to do much at all. I was so involved in school that I was always there and if I wasn’t I would likely be found at work, which was like my home away from home. I think that high school really taught me how to deal with time management because it was something that just had to be done. One of the biggest issues that I find here is that I have to much time and not enough to do. One of the major reasons I want to go back home next year is to work. I feel like I have to much time on my hands which becomes a handicap for me. I have a tendency to put things off thinking that I can just do it later and then come to find I am running out of time. I end up just writing a paper the night before rather than just doing it in the first place, and getting it out of the way. I think that I am doing ok when it comes to school here and time management. I think that the only problem I have is that I have too much time and not enough to do.