Final Blog!!

This was the most informative Literature classes I have ever had, the only this that angered me was that it seemed a little repetitive. For instance, I can’t explain how much we discussed plentitude and conformity entirely too much. I also wished spend less time on some subjects and even the discussion time out and talked about some of the other literature more. However, the group discussions helped me to gain a critical eye. Others opinions and views would help me to understand and think about the literature differently. It was interesting to hear how someone’s thoughts were completely different from yours. Especially the novel Culture Jam made me realize that the economy has a huge impact on today’s society. Also I looked at aspects that I would have never thought of before. For example, are some things just good for us to know or learn and are we the laziest/dumbest generation. Second skins as showed me a different side of the virtual world and how obsessive people could get. Also I analyzed the fact that the addiction was unhealthy mentally and physically. Each piece of literature educated me and taught me to go beyond the text and seek out the message that was trying to be sent. Overall I enjoyed that class and was educated with various amounts of information. It was a pleasure to have this course for my general education reguirement.

craving violence and drama

Why do we like drama and violence? Where did the sense of craving originate? Simply because violence and drama have been altered in to more of an entertainment? Humans have a sense and nature of aggressive and through observation there natural acts in a way can be fulfilled without physical retaliation. Media has been a huge impact on this aspect, because they have altered drama and violence for entertainment purposes. For instance, we laugh at shows that present people getting mentally and physically abused or hurt. For example, shows like jackass, ridiculous, tosh.o and america’s funniest home videos. These shows provide entertainment by laughing at people’s pain. This sense of craving has been established more the decades ago. Many years ago Indians tribes have even done rituals of human’s sacrifices and other disturbing things. Just like in Lottery how they had a tradition of stoning random people and everyone would watch. Why do we like these type of shows; we attracted to these shows because of media providing stimuli’s. This stimulus is presented to humans by graphics and actions that keep us alert and “on the edge”. This once again brings up the subject of plentitude; we want to be entertained even more with better violence and drama. Sometimes I feel this sense of craving gets to and extreme point that is absurd. For example, the Saw movies are disgustingly disturbing that someone was this twisted to thinking of the movies plots. The hunger games portray a future idea of the extent that craving violence and drama could get to.  What has to world become to and what will happen because of the continuous craving?

Jackass

"reality" Why?

I know everyone was is thinking that everyone is going to be doing a blog on Jersey Shore, but this is practically the only reality shore I watch the most! Considering the fact that the show is on ALL the time even on the days it doesn't premier. The show has marathons of multiple shows during the afternoon. My response to the show is that I am satisfied in being entertained I find the show providing comedy and enjoyed watching the show. Why do I enjoy watching people drink, have sex. Physical and socially abused others? This is because in today’s society these aspects have become social norms. Instead of taboos, or things that are not alright for people to do in the society. This is mainly because we are constantly subjected to once considered “terrible issues” and developed into social norms because of society has got aware of these issues and it doesn’t concern their involvement and harm them in anyways. My role of the view is to understand what it is like to drink at day hook up with random people, or practically the life the famous. You “live” the life of the characters of the reality show that make you to believe you are experience their real life when in “reality” the majority of the show is fake and altered. What makes this show alluring is the constant drama everyone is interested in drama because of the entertainment that as developed from that influence reality TV has impacted our thoughts. Why do we think these preposterous things are ok and we are just “use” to watching or hearing about this? For instance, CSI and other shows that portray reality have made us less empathic about crimes that are tragedies. When did all of this become “ok” or when did we decide to look past things that should be considered taboos? Also a subject that goes with this is a lesson we learned in sociology. We learned in sociology of how people are stereotypical. For instance, women are judged based on their looks. Why is that? When did this become a social norm to dye hair, do make up, and exercise to become extremely fit or skinny? Reality TV works because we choose to watch it because we actually believe what the display is “reality”. According to Snooki and the Jersey cast its “ok” to drink as work, drink and drive, and hook up with random people. Also funniest home video’s we sit back and laugh uncontrollable at people getting hurt. But the real question is why? What made us alter “taboo’s” to develop into social norms? Why are unethical things not considered forbidden? There are so many why questions to this subject.

Big brother = internet

"Big Brother" is everywhere. It controls various aspects and how the characters act, think and feel. Big brother is constantly looking to to what people are doing and nothings private. This is a oppression of control. The way Winston is controled is like todays society being control thoughout technology and influnces though technology.The economy is mentally influencing out thought as well. The main character is under the Party’s oppressive political control.They psychologically manipulate and even physical control to keep maintaining its power.

This "big brother" is relavent to facebook and myspace and any social network because all your infomation is not private! Nothing on the internet is private on the internet like personal information credit card numbers etc. The internet is our todays big brother finding everything about everyone.

Love me for me, or don't love me!

I honestly would not live a  live a life of solitude in the secluded woods! Also to be honest I wouldn't nee to find myself because I like who I am. Life lessons have helped me devolp into who I am today, so I would say iI know myself. Another aspect is that I don't think i would be able to handle not using technology. Not only is technology for enjoyment but its a way of life. My life is evolved around technology, for work, school, contacting... etc. In order to remain sane I need human envolvment. Being disconnected could actually create many anxiety issues for me. I am actaully pretty satisfied with the way I live and don't need to live in solutude to change anything. Why should  I worry about experiencing solitude when I live only one life I might as well enjoy it. There are connections between Thoreau, Emerson, Lasn, and Anderson's texts and I feel that they believe that you have no interation with technology or anything in order to be "you"! Why do they have the right to tell people what they can and can not do.I am satisfied with my life and I love who I am.

individually intelligent!

I personal think Mark Baurelien is very judgmental! What does he mean by dumb? How does he classify dumb? Everyone is smart in their own different ways! Every year there is a dumb generation I believe, so he is stereotyping the present generation.
Aspects of what is to be considereed "smart" can be determined through environment. For instance, some people might be street smart opposed to book smart due to their lives atmosphere. Also we may not know as much about some of the education he was exposed to but we do distinguish other varieties of education. 
Technology has been an influence as Bauerlein calls "go-go-go digital age" but I don't feel it is disastrous as he declares. In some ways he is correct that we don't use technology for complete education. But as his statement says "social life is powerful temptation".  But this is our way of connecting with people.
I feel technology doesn’t influence everyone like he thinks, there are still intelligent people  I know and it has to do with nature and nurture (how your raised and your genetics). Also I believe children are getting even smarter in this generation because learning is becoming fun! For instance, Dora the explorer teaches children Spanish and is interesting to them.
Intelligence is measured in multiple perspectives just because people do now EVERYTHING doesn't mean they are not intelligent; it just means that some things are not interesting to them so they don't bother to learn the material. For example, I hate math so therefore I am terrible in math and it simple doesn’t interest me. But on the other hand I find anatomy interesting and excel in the subject.
He states that we want to find the easy way out, the environment we are subjected to show us that we can find ways to make things easy to please us and achieve things easy more and more. By being shown these things teaches us through performing model or repeating the behavior we are shown.
If he thinks our generation is lazy where did it come from, who taught us to be that way? We learn from others behaviors. If they wonder why we don't know some stuff it is because we were never taught to retain info, or that it is necessary to know certain things in order to be considered "smart".
I feel as if he is saying you’re only smart if we know everything, and it is rare to do so considering not everyone is a genus!

Very educational episode!

fake

Authentic: not false or copied; genuine; real 

In Culture Jams he ponders about the subject of whether our authenticity has become fractured into a "multitude" of identities. Are we really who we say we are? What really is being individual? Do we really know who we are? Why do we act the way we do?
 So many questions could be asked referring this subject. There seems to be various aspects of fake, from our environment to personalities.

Is the environment we live in fake?
It seems Classical conditioning of the environment that surrounds us seems to impact out behavior and personalities. This is stated in Culture Jams is started that people are trained. An example he uses is that we are laugh on queue when a board lights up at a studio. Why do we do the things we do? It is simple because nurture from our culture has shown us to do so. He says we are like a cult and I simply agree. We may be seeking to be individual be we do and act the same. We act accordingly with prevailing social standards as well as practices. Our society has adapted a sense of conformity. We are unknown to the source of how to behave on our own and to where originated. However, it was learned somewhere and we are hardly understand how to be our own person. The way people act is not in any way authentic because it seems that ever one behavior is adapted from the way others due (everyone is copycats).
Are our personalities considered fake?
Another subject that may be considered fake because of today’s technology is their personalities. Everyone as their own personality and some may be authentic so don't take this as everyone is being fake! For instance, my personality is real because I am saying some people fit this profile!  Since are environment seems to be fake so does some personalities. "Multiple" identities are provided from online time games and social networks! Are people really who they are? For instance people seem to be fake because they are seeking aspiration they can’t achieve in reality. For instance, in virtual games they can have fake personality of being outgoing when in reality they are shy. Like in the movie second skins people went in “synthetic worlds” to try and achieve this desires. You don’t know who people are in the internet giving them fake identities!

Is anything authentic anymore?
It seems to be rare more and more in todays society!
Where is originality!

(fake identity) -Superbad

"Typical" blog # 2

"What is typical" How do we define that words typical and how is the defination determined. The a various ways of being typical considering the variety of veiws of different people. Typical:Of the nature of or serving as a type or representative specimen conforming to a particular type. Also,characteristic or distinctive: He has the mannerisms typical of his class. These are both defination found in the dictionary under the word typical.The word seems to adapt at the world changes. For instance, in the 70's in was "typical for hippies to be around. But it is not typical for hippies to be around in the 2000's now is it? What I believe that supports "typical" is populartity. What is poular amongist the average population, once popularity is deteremined then typical can be discribed. But who do things become popular? Also what infulences that popularity decision? Adveritizing through multimedia is supportive to populartiy. Through the computer, magizes, billboards, newspapers, etc. you see advertisements are products everywhere. 

" we gone from living in a nautral world to living in a manufactured one".

" This detachment from the nature may not seem like much of a problem, but it is. in fact , it's a disaster."

-Kalle Lasn

The enviroment is full of consumers craving the next big thing! I find finds saying " I'm board with the iphone 4 I need the iphone 5," and they just purcased this phone not to long ago. Adversitement has a way of reaching out to consumers in  order to make there product popular. I bet you know one would but a perfume if they new it was tested on dogs or anyother example similar.  Adversiments are to grab attention of consumers and tell them what they want to hear. This mental pollution is, "nonchalantly absorbing massive daily doses of it without a second thought," stated by Kalle Lasn.
This concept of "typical" is discussed in various wasys and established that advertisments are the structure of popularity.As for in Kadosh's poem Ameria, It's Gotta Be the Cheese states, "an immaculately wrapped unbelieveably orange package of American Pasteurized Processed Cheese Food. my interetation is America has taken advantage of the resources that are avaliable today, " wraped up in new things".
The source of all this toxins of advertisements is the economic system, which is willing to do anything that is benifical  to their system. Whever if its lieing or any other stratigies in order to make products popular.
This way popular demand overcomes and influences the society. Once this popular demand is found the "typical" aspect is established.

Did you ever stop and wonder would this world would be like with out advertisments?
If we didn't have a variety of clotinge or popular clothing what would be all wear?
Theses "what if's could go on forever. I honestly admit I where the popular clothe and use the popular cell phone, I definatly label myself as "typical".

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"I was not typical. Whatever typical or normal is, I was somehow separated and different." -John C. Hawkes

Hope Martz
I live in the country where  I enjoy off roading or fourwheeling! I have many hobbies that consist of singing, listing to music, going to concerts, playing sports when i get the chance and just having fun with family and friends. I am attending Shippensburg University as a psychology major and I would love to work with children, I would like to focus on autistic children. I babysit ALOT because I do not mind being around children I enjoy working with them. I was just currently empolyed at ChildTime in Carlisle where I will be working with children. I am  an original blonde and will always be a blonde at heart because I can be very goofy at times. I am very outgoing and love to be happy and make others smile!