Paraphrase-
According to the article there is an increase in the amount of people that are making donations on the behalf of others (NY Times, 2006).
Summarize- More people around Christmas time are making donations to charity organizations on the behalf of others. The significant increase in donations to charities around Christmas has prompted the group, Oxfam America to start an online giving website, that allows people to make donations on the behalf of others, as a gift, on the internet. This website since it's creation has made over $400,000 (Ny Times, 2006).
Direct Quote- “Heifer International, which provides livestock to needy families worldwide, took in $1.25 million in gift donations on Dec. 23 and Dec. 24 last year” (NY Times, 2006).
Ideas for class debate
Topic: Christmas Brings Family Together
According to the United States Bureau of Transportation
According to the United States Bureau of Transportation
Monday, December 22, 2003 - During the Christmas/New Year's travel period, long-distance travel grows as much as 23 percent compared to the rest of the year, according to a new National Household Travel Survey (NHTS) report from the U.S. Department of Transportation's Bureau of Transportation Statistics (BTS).
During the 2001 Christmas-New Year's season, travelers made 16.5 million daily one-way long-distance trips, compared to 13.3 million daily during the rest of the year.
Forty-three percent of Christmas/New Year's long-distance trips are for visits to family, while visits make up only 24 percent of long-distance travel during the remainder of the year.
Sunday, February 24, 2008
Research Questions
How do television shows that promote cosmetic surgery affect how society views cosmetic procedures?
How do television shows that promote cosmetic surgery affect the self-esteem of young girls and women?
Does society view cosmetic surgery as an easy route of escape from emotional hardships?
How does cosmetic surgery enhance our culture's idea of the perfect body?
How do television shows that promote cosmetic surgery affect the self-esteem of young girls and women?
Does society view cosmetic surgery as an easy route of escape from emotional hardships?
How does cosmetic surgery enhance our culture's idea of the perfect body?
Thesis Statement CC
Thesis-
The television program "Extreme Makeover" has made our culture view cosmetic surgery as an easy way to achieve an idealized "perfection" and a way to eliminate emotional suffering.
-It's not a very good thesis, I'm working on it!-
The television program "Extreme Makeover" has made our culture view cosmetic surgery as an easy way to achieve an idealized "perfection" and a way to eliminate emotional suffering.
-It's not a very good thesis, I'm working on it!-
Napoleon Dynamite
SVR
1. To what extent is the character playing a particular role and how do you know? In what ways are they buying into cultural expectations and in what way are they resisting them?
I believe that Kip is playing the role of a person that is searching for true love. One big expectation of our culture is to find love and get married. Kip plays into that role by searching for the love of his life. By the end of the movie he falls in love with Lafawnda. When he meets her, he decides that he wants to marry her. Kip is a short, dorky white guy and Lafawnda is a tall, African American women. There are people in the world that would not expect a guy like Kip to fall and love and marry a woman like Lafawnda. That is how he is resisting his role, because he is looking past skin color and marrying the woman he loves for who she is. That is something that is not a cultural expectation for many people in this world.
2. Who is the most self-actualized character in the movie? Why?
I believe that Pedro is the most self-actualized character in the movie. In the movie he had just enrolled in a new school, yet he had enough confidence to run for class president against a very popular girl. Most people that have just moved to a new town would probably not feel confident enough to do that. When the school dance came along, Pedro decided that he wanted to have a date and he believed in himself enough to be able to ask Summer, the most popular girl in school, and Deb. Even when Summer turned him down, he didn't let that get to him. He knows his full potential, knows what he wants out of life and knows how to get it.
1. To what extent is the character playing a particular role and how do you know? In what ways are they buying into cultural expectations and in what way are they resisting them?
I believe that Kip is playing the role of a person that is searching for true love. One big expectation of our culture is to find love and get married. Kip plays into that role by searching for the love of his life. By the end of the movie he falls in love with Lafawnda. When he meets her, he decides that he wants to marry her. Kip is a short, dorky white guy and Lafawnda is a tall, African American women. There are people in the world that would not expect a guy like Kip to fall and love and marry a woman like Lafawnda. That is how he is resisting his role, because he is looking past skin color and marrying the woman he loves for who she is. That is something that is not a cultural expectation for many people in this world.
2. Who is the most self-actualized character in the movie? Why?
I believe that Pedro is the most self-actualized character in the movie. In the movie he had just enrolled in a new school, yet he had enough confidence to run for class president against a very popular girl. Most people that have just moved to a new town would probably not feel confident enough to do that. When the school dance came along, Pedro decided that he wanted to have a date and he believed in himself enough to be able to ask Summer, the most popular girl in school, and Deb. Even when Summer turned him down, he didn't let that get to him. He knows his full potential, knows what he wants out of life and knows how to get it.
Monday, February 18, 2008
Topic For Paper!
I have chosen to write about how the media negatively effects the body images of women.
Monday, February 11, 2008
Thesis Statement!
Claim: Cultural blindness will always exist in society and affect everyone as long as we all have differences in perception and people that are unwilling to understand or accept the differences of beliefs of those around them.
Reason: Members of society gain perceptions of the world through the beliefs and values that their families have instilled in them from birth. Every family has a different system of beliefs and values that makes their world perceptions unique.
Qualifying Statement: Although cultural blindness will always exist in society, there are ways in which you can learn to accept and embrace the differences of members in society.
Reason: Members of society gain perceptions of the world through the beliefs and values that their families have instilled in them from birth. Every family has a different system of beliefs and values that makes their world perceptions unique.
Qualifying Statement: Although cultural blindness will always exist in society, there are ways in which you can learn to accept and embrace the differences of members in society.
Tuesday, February 5, 2008
My Experience With Cultural Blindness
I come from a small town in Southern Ohio. My town is the kind of town where many men still have the belief from the Stone Age, that a woman's place is in the home and that is all a woman is good for. There are a lot of men in my hometown that think that women can't excel academically and be an athlete. Those are beliefs that I have tried to prove wrong my entire life. At my high school one of the things that girls were expected to do was to become a cheerleader. I was never interested in cheer leading, I was always interested in playing sports such as basketball, soccer, and softball. From fourth grade until I graduated I played softball and basketball. I also played soccer from my freshman year through senior year. There would always be guys in my class that would tease me and say that "girls are inadequate at sports" and it's pointless for us to play sports because we would never be successful. Those types of comments would upset me and just fuel my determination to keep working hard and prove them wrong. I would also get teased for studying so much for school, and always having the highest grades in my classes.
When I played soccer the girls had to practice with the boys because our teams were so small. The boys would always complain about having to practice with us because we were considered "wimps" and they didn't think we could keep up with them. I proved a lot of guys wrong at soccer practices because I could always keep up and there were several times when I outran, or knocked down some of the biggest guys on the team. They were so embarrassed that I, a girl, could beat them and even take them down to the ground. There were quite a few guys that were scared to go up against me on defense because I could be so aggressive. I really surprised a lot of them because they didn't think that a girl could be so brutal at sports. I gained a lot of respect with the guys at my school for being able to keep up with them and show that women shouldn't be considered inadequate at sports.
Even though most of the teams I played on in high school weren't the best teams in the league, I still had some successes playing for them. My junior and senior year I made the Southern Hills League All-Star team for soccer. Senior year my school nominated me to be their representative for the Wendy's Heisman which was a great honor. Also I received an award from the Ohio Athletic Association for my perfect grade point average. Those awards made me feel proud to be a woman and helped shut up the guys that teased me throughout school that a woman couldn't possibly accomplish those things. I was also ranked number one in my senior class. I showed a lot of men and also women that a woman can succeed academically and athletically. I like to think that I am an inspiration to younger girls back home that face some of the same adversity that I faced in school.
When I played soccer the girls had to practice with the boys because our teams were so small. The boys would always complain about having to practice with us because we were considered "wimps" and they didn't think we could keep up with them. I proved a lot of guys wrong at soccer practices because I could always keep up and there were several times when I outran, or knocked down some of the biggest guys on the team. They were so embarrassed that I, a girl, could beat them and even take them down to the ground. There were quite a few guys that were scared to go up against me on defense because I could be so aggressive. I really surprised a lot of them because they didn't think that a girl could be so brutal at sports. I gained a lot of respect with the guys at my school for being able to keep up with them and show that women shouldn't be considered inadequate at sports.
Even though most of the teams I played on in high school weren't the best teams in the league, I still had some successes playing for them. My junior and senior year I made the Southern Hills League All-Star team for soccer. Senior year my school nominated me to be their representative for the Wendy's Heisman which was a great honor. Also I received an award from the Ohio Athletic Association for my perfect grade point average. Those awards made me feel proud to be a woman and helped shut up the guys that teased me throughout school that a woman couldn't possibly accomplish those things. I was also ranked number one in my senior class. I showed a lot of men and also women that a woman can succeed academically and athletically. I like to think that I am an inspiration to younger girls back home that face some of the same adversity that I faced in school.