blog/RJ Week11

      What can be more propagandized than the political parties, it can be assured that during the political running of the 2008 elections everyone and everything was propagandized. Many artists would help the candidates in the running. Television, radio, magazines, newspapers, commercials... and many more than can be named, and what do all these medias have in common? Well they would help promote the upcoming candidates. The year 2008 was when many different topics and electronics began to be propagandized. Like the iPod touches and all the new phones, like the iPhones. Political campaigns had never been so propagandized until that year, perhaps it helped out because voters were more aware, and they were particularly young voters which is what is needed during elections; young well informed voters.
     As we all may be well informed of the most recent ridiculous news of Donald /trump attempting to run for President for the 2012 elections, there are quite very many articles covering this story. According to an article written by the Los Angeles Times called "Trump's flirtation with presidential bid gains traction", he mentioned that he would be able to get lower gas prices faster than Obama, because supposedly Obama has been wasting time in the basketball courts. He really knows how to promote himself he has all the tools to do so, and therefore does it to the best of his ability.
    He might be able to know how to promote his campaign and all, but he honestly does not have political savviness. How would he know, how to manage a whole country, he might be a very successful man in what he does with real estate and investing, but would he be prepared to take this country out of its whole. Would he be capable of provide jobs, Medi-care, and most importantly what about all the budget cuts that are affecting students. It's looking harder and harder to have a career when so many classes and teachers are being cut. If he can find a way to incorporate that into his propagandizing for the running of Presidency and he is able to keep his word, perhaps people would most likely vote for him.

Blog/RJ Week10

Throughout the years, I have been keeping up with what's going on in the world, and I have newspapers, and TV news to thank for, such events like the Twin Towers that made an enormous impact on not only the United States, but also other countries. I remember that day as a clear as if it were water, I was 11 years old at that time and I was on vacation. I remember every channel had news about the twin towers some information was hyped and some was more realistic, it was on newspapers and though I never read about it, I could always count on the television to have updates for me. The same situation happened when Hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans, it was devastating watching the news and seeing how flooded it was, a place that was once full of houses and life was now a flooded place in which many people had to flee to different states, some came to California, others went to Texas. Watching those images on television was something so sad, but yet the updates were full of hope. The fact that there is such a thing as news reports helps the world be more compassionate of others, of the difficulties they go through. Lets take a more recent disaster, like the Earthquake/Tsunami that happened a couple of months ago in Japan, if we did not have news reports we would definitely we uninformed of such a tragedy, but because we do, we have the heart and compassion to help those in need. Right away the U.S. helped them by donating money or canned foods.
I like to turn to the internet and CNN for more information, because I feel that they have the right information and I can rely on the fact that their reports will not be hyped. One always looks for the truth unfortunately some news reports on television will hype the report to get more ratings. I like to compare and contrast some of the information to see which is hyped and which is not, which one seems to be more realistic.

Blog/RJ Week9

    Every time I listen to rap music, I find myself listening closely to the lyrics, yet to find out that some of the lyrical words are quite racial towards certain ethnicities, other rap songs tend to have an opinion of those that are not as lucky as them, because they made it big in the music industry and they have all the fame at the moment. It does contribute for people to use certain words that are not appropriate, a behavior towards others that is inappropriate. Some of these rappers might use inappropriate language, they might use language that could be sexist, racist, and so on and so forth, but many young people look up to these rappers, some take the lyrics to heart, I them posting up these lyrics on facebook and twitter. Some of these young people even live there lives based off of some of the lyrics.
   I'm not trying to "bash" on men or anything, but television shows women as a sex symbol often times and honestly it's degrading to other women out in the world, because men often times think that because they see these beautiful women on television and movies, that they will probably find a woman like that out in the world, though what they haven't thoroughly though of is that perhaps these women on tv and movies have to look the way they look to get ratings, because sexy women on tv is what gets ratings. For example December 2010, I don't know if anyone remembers the Victoria Secret runaway show, it was a Christmas special. Well that day all guys were going crazy for that special and even girls, but what was the reason for all the madness? Well first of all there were beautiful model women that wore very little clothing, they were in lingerie so obviously it would attract attention by a lot of men. But I think, I need to get to the point here. Men are often times sexist because of what they watch on television and of the image that is given towards women. When we all know that women can be intelligent, brilliant, and independent.
  

Blog/RJ Week8

Both happiness and self-respect are important, but with I believe that with self- respect, happiness comes along. So in this case self-respect is more important, if we look up the definition to the word self-respect we get "pride and confidence in oneself; a feeling that one is behaving with honor and dignity" with that being said, not only will it bring happiness along, but the people surrounding us will express how proud they are, when listening to such words, one feels a sudden joy that can't be obtained by anything else in the world. Self-respect takes an individual longer than plain out happiness, lets give a more relatable example, lets just say that in a corporate setting where there are a various amount of people that are competing for the better position, one person can work with honor and dignity, he or she will never do anything that will harm his or her reputation, this person is hardworking and ethical, also very intelligent, this person is a "catch" for that position in this corporate "world", meanwhile there's that one person that seems to be "happy" and does all the work that is needed to be done, but doesn't go any further than that, this person does a well job, is attractive, and has his way with words. Who do we think is going to get the job? The person that has self-respect or the one with "happiness", what matters most in such a world like the one corporate is? We hope to believe that the person that's obviously more prepared, the person that is the overachiever will obtain the job, because he or she gained that self-respect. By doing what's honorable and dignifying, this person will always do what's right for the job and will never jeopardize any relationships with outside companies or investors.  Sometimes in society the attractive person will be chosen over the person that has more to give, c' est la vie.