In this blog, I will interpretation two documentaries I watched Miss Representation and the mask you live in. The focus in Miss representation is the miss representation of women in media and in general. While the focus of The Mask you Live in is how men are to be taught to think a certain way. Both these films make me feel annoyed, and it’s because it’s the way I was grown up. Both my sister and I were taught from a young age that you could be anything you want to be.
There are no stereotypes to go after, and there are no trends to follow. It also annoys me how the three most damaging words to a boy are “Be a man.” That’s complete crap, how can that damage a boy’s psyche. When I was little, I played with my sister’s barbies, did my dad tell me to “man up” no. Did it affect my psyche playing with girls’ toys no, did affect me playing sports no, did it affect me being able to do man work outside no? Hell, all my decisions playing sports weren’t because I needed to feel more like a man! I wanted to go out and try to play it. I did that with hockey, and I did that with golf, I did that with soccer. The film makes me think that these kids need therapy. And maybe if girls and men could say screw the media and not care what the Kardashian put out or whatever some famous person did and try to be just like them. This film also made me think that kids these days aren’t going to their parents enough. Nor are the parents being parents and telling them to be yourself. In my opinion, if you’re a teenager and you want to be like Kim Kardashian or some sports star you got some serious problems in your head. There is no reason for you to be thinking you want to be the next Kardashian; instead, you should focus on being yourself. My last thought is there isn’t enough parenting going on in today's world. I see it all the time at work, parents today don’t have the time for their kids, they would rather stick them in front of a screen and go off to work. And you wonder why your child wants to be the next Kardashian or feeling insecure it’s because there craving for attention for their parents. T here is some stuff to change in this world. I agree that the media has created these perfect women and I think the press should dumb it down. I think we should also stop praising celebrities thinking they're the greatest when in reality they're nothing more than a person. In conclusion, my thoughts on these two documentaries and how they made me think are annoyed that some people feel like this, and how some teenagers should go to therapy because they are keeping all these emotions inside of them
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Reading these texts Our Discourse Community Values, what is Literacy, and We are Many show a theme for writers Identity, and what goes on in our classroom. We are all different writer and have different ways of writing. That’s what makes our classroom unique the ability to have so many different writers and traits in one classroom.
When I read, we are Many I was able to connected the fact that the person who is telling this story is going back in time to reflect on something. This is something we did in class with our Memoirs we were able to go back in time and draw the raw emotions that we felt that day. In the poem Pablo Neruda writes “But when I call upon my dashing beliefs out comes the same old lazy self.” That connects to shitty rough drafts and all of us in our classroom make shitty rough drafts. In calls we talked about Shitty rough drafts. Shitty rough draft is wen we just get ideas out on paper. It doesn’t have to be perfect with amazing edits. It’s just our discourse community getting our thoughts down and then we go back and edited it. When reading our discourse community values, we see a lot of what we have been taught in the classroom and a lot of what we wright as well. Writers identity is something that we’ve been talking about since day one in our class. We have been talking about shaping writer’s identity and how to change your writer’s identity. We also got to clarify ourselves in Blog number one the Proust questionnaire. We got to tell ourselves and our audience who we are, what we do what we like and what are our greatest fears. And through the year with our writing we have shown our audience different emotions, or different ways of writing. It’s a way to connect to the audience and the people who are leaving comments on our blogs. The last piece I read was what is Literacy, one of the points in this writing was “any discourse concerns its self with certain objects and puts forward certain objects viewpoints and values” At the start of the year we brought in our objects to represent something. Those objects that we brought in represent a viewpoint in our life and it showed where we were at certain parts in our life. And making us write about it showed the certain emotions that we felt while holding that objects. We all felt different things from happiness to sadness, making us write about showed us a discourse community and how we came together to write and read aloud our writing. In conclusion these three texts that I read show a discourse community. And show our discourse community in our classroom, from shitty rough drafts, to growing as writers and letting our audience see a side of ourselves, we wouldn’t show. And lastly certain things that make us feel a certain way. A discourse community means these things when you talk about our class. |
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