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.

post 6

I 'am going to write about how women are degraded and used as objects to sell things. watching television or reading magazines I never really paid attention to how women were being used to sell things or how they were being dehumanized and their bodies turned into objects to sell something. This type of advertising can be found every where. I see it every where I look now, its hard not to see women in this role, and men being showing as the dominant sex.

college porn star

Today I'm blogging about a college porn star that was criticized and threaten because of the decision to do porn. The main thing I'm going to talk about is how when all of her peers found out who it was they acted out in ways they shouldn't have and had no reason to. They talked about how she was harassed and threatened and how they put her address and where to find her all over the internet. That is wrong in so many ways all she was doing was porn to attend her dream school and be able to afford to pay for her 60 thousand dollar tuition fee. Another thing I want to talk about is when she is being interviewed on the television show the View and they talk about what she said when she feels empowered and has never felt more like a woman before. They keep asking her why she does it, well why do they care she doing it to pay for college end of story. She has told everyone that she enjoys and doesn't have to worry about paying for her education they way she is getting treated kind of reminds me of the old saying "don't judge a book by its cover". Just because she does porn does not make her a slut or a whore and they called he all of those names and some with out knowing her.