I can tell you coming into this class I didn't think I was going to learn anything. But I was wrong to think that. I would tell anyone that asks me about taking this class what its about, and what they will  learn? I learned the two differences of happiness. Natural happiness is when you get what you want when you want it, and synthetic is man made to make you happy. Another thing I would tell them is. I learned that reality TV is not really "reality". The producers go through and pick out clips that they think are interesting and only show those on TV. The viewers watching only see the people acting in certain ways which then gives the people being shown a certain trait or way they act. I would tell them that you read a lot of different readings about different stuff but they are short and easy to get. Above all this is an easy class and an easy grade if you do the readings and show up to class everyday. All the material is interesting and the way it is taught is awesome.

sim happy # 12

in this post we have to talk about the sim character chuck klosterman creates and explain what type of happiness he has synthetic or natural. Now remember synthetic happiness is when you get when you don't get what you want. Natural happiness is what you get when you get what you've wanted. I    I would say that chuck is giving sim chuck synthetic happiness by buying him all the stuff that real chuck thinks he wants and that will make him happy and it doesn't. From the reading he does this all the way up to the end where he talks about pushing the free will button and sim chuck does what ever he wants eats takes a shower and sleeps for 14 hours straight in his sleep machine. When real chuck pushed that button he was then giving sim chuck natural happiness by not being his god or the one calling the shots.

Post #11 item of GEN. X

Im going to talk about reality tv and its affects it has on the millennial generation. Media plays a big role on my generation. If you think about tv shows and how they are classified or how they are broken down. They represent certain groups of people that are just like the show (i.e. the characters and the way they act). People of this generation are represented by tv shows like teen mom, real world. People of my generation grew up with reality tv at its highest if you think about American Idol it started when I was about 7 and is still being watched today. Reality tv isn't just about all the stupid drama or underage kids having babies. Its a way for people to watch and observe or experience something that they will probably never get to in there life and I think that this plays a big roll in the millennial's generation

Post #10 reality tv show farmers and blondes

I would make a tv show where u take a bunch of hillbilly rednecks and a group of ditzy blonde girls and put them together in a house for a month as roommates. I don't think that I would have to try to create drama I think that as soon as they are put together there will be tension and fights rght off the get go. If you think about the personalities farmers are more laid back when it comes to how clean things can be or when it comes back to putting things back where they came from. If you think of a ditzy blonde they ask a lot stupid questions, and do NOT!!! like getting dirty or and or clean freaks. I think that this kind of show would be kinda both a comedy and a drama all at the same time.

Masculinity #9

Masculinity is all around for young boys growing up you are pressured into doing sports and or things that are considered to be manly. One thing that is a big thing would be sports if boys don't want to play a sport that is manly or any sport for that matter they are considered to be unmanly and are subjected to name calling. Another way masculinity plays a big toll in todays culture is if you think back a couple post we had to pick two slides that dehumanized women and made men look like the dominant sex. Being considered manly is all around us even in the work force if you don't do anything that you have to work with your hands your doing a girls job lol. Another thing that young boys or teens see as a way to make your self manly is to join the military they think that just by joining that you can become a man over night lol. I can tell you first hand being in the military that there are a lot of boys that do this.

MEAN WORLD SYNDROME POST #8

We watched a video in class about that the scholar George Gerbner explains the term Mean World Syndrome. We had to choose three topics that he talked about and explain them. The first one I picked is the fall out. He explains this as what makes people have higher crime punishments to make fear from the people go away. In other words being more harsh like police or the courts with someone who commits a crime will make them stop by putting fear in them to not want to do it and face the consequence. The second term I picked that George explains is the Mean People term. He explains this as being how different ethnic groups are displayed on television or in movies, to be more violent or more dangerous and it puts fear in others eyes. The last term I want to talk about is the term Mean World Syndrome its self. He explains this as people seeing bad things happening to people on television or movies and intern makes people walk around on edge and in fear of being victimized.

post 7 Football High

We watched a video in class called "football High". I' am going to write about two subjects and the countermeasures football programs have in place to lower these types of injury's. The first one being heat strokes are heat exhaustion. In the video we watched it talked about two boys both having a heat stroke and being rushed to the hospital. With one boy the school had a trainer that new what to do in this situation, and the other school just had coaches that really didn't know what to do. Schools are having trainers present for practices and for games incase of something like this happening or injury's. The second one I'm going to talk about is concussions that players get from taking big hits to the head. They are trying to improve the football helmets that the players wear buy putting high tech impact gels and padding inside to protect form hits that are damaging to the head and brain.