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Tuesday, November 30, 2010

Extra Credit

The officer was stripped of his badge and dismissed as a officer from the police force.

Racist- the belief that all members of each race possess characteristics orabilities specific to that race, esp. so as to distinguish it as inferior orsuperior to another race or races.

This article is about how the media was slow to report incidences of white hatred towards Obama.
How can a Iowa man compare Obama to Hitler? That does not make sense Obama is not a tyrant the way Hitler was, Obama is a honorable leader.

The real issue at hand is not necessarily health care reform but instead trying to discredit Obama as a capable leader due to his race. I honestly feel that these racisct people need to take it easy and learn that race does not detrimen who a person is and what the person stands for.

I think people who are racists are un-educated and need to be shown how people are not evil or bad because of the color of their skin.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=631Fw2TBBeU

Tuesday, November 16, 2010

Final Blog "Is Hate Speech in the Media Directly Affecting Our Culture?""

Hate: to feel intense or passionate dislike for something or someone.

Ok so we know what hate is, we also know what it feels like to passionately dislike something or someone. Now looking deeper into hate in America can "Hate Speech" in the media directly affect out culture? In the book Taking Sides, by Alexander Hanson this question is addressed. Hate speech is "meant to convey the deliberate bias toward and discrimination against persons that could be incited because of the form of hate speech" (256). Hanson gathered two different opinions Yes and No. The Yes argument written by scholar Henry Giroux addresses the question to how our society has become so mean spirited he also tries to explain why.

The No argument gathers Georgie Ann Weatherby and Brian Scoggins research of web pages that have a hate message hidden beneath the general context. Hanson compares both of these views and both have valid points, however there is not enough information to make a general consumption that Hate speech in the media affects our entire culture.

However I believe hate speech to have some impact on our culture, for example the rap or more ghetto cultures do get a major influence from singers and artists trying to show who is the top man or women by evil acts such as beating on a person. Hate speech is also derived from this. Hate speech in the media does effect our culture but by how much we will never know.

Monday, November 15, 2010

Interim draft of research project write-up 11/18

Travis Conte

Patricia Andrews

Media, Politics & Society

November 4, 2010

Research Project

Is Obama a good leader?

Introduction

The beauty of a democracy is how people are free to share their honest opinions, thus always trying to improve society. Since the recession President Barrack Obama has been loved and hated by millions and millions of people. If one loves him or hates him this is not the goal of this research project. The goal of this research project is to determine the students of Notre Dame de Namur University’s view on America since President Obama has been elected to office and if he has positively effected the country. This is a quantitative experiment which will leave us the results not of opinion but of true beliefs of the students. Since the inauguration of President Obama do you feel America has improved? Has Obama improved America? This evidence will hopefully lead us to truly view if the president is looked at as a great leader in America.

Hypothesis

Since I have heard of Obama I have heard many things about him people love him, they hate him, and everything in between. I feel that even though we live on a democratic side of the country, we at NDNU are lucky to be small yet have so many different views of the president from all around the world. It is like doing a small survey of the entire country however just on smaller level. The hope of this survey will be to determine if Obama as a leader has positively effected this country. I feel that Obama will be looked at as a positive leader overall.

Survey Description

When writing the survey questions I thought it would be best that the names of the students were left out to protect the students. When conducting the survey I used the good old fashioned method of walking. I will ask six questions and of these questions I feel that this will help determine if President Obama is a good leader in NDNU’s students opinions. I will only be conducting this experiment with undergrad students at Notre Dame de Namur University. I will conducting 25 survey’s from each grade level, so in total 100 students. This will give me 20% of the students and a good balanced survey results. Pervious before the survey I will determine what grade they are in to make sure I hit my goal of 25 students from each grade.

BEGINNING OF SURVEY

I WILL Explain: My name is Travis Conte and I am conducting a survey that will help determine NDNU undergrad perspective of President Obama as a leader. I would like to ask you a couple simple questions which all answers will remain anonymous. May I ask you a few questions?

Questions:

Where did you move from to come and study NDNU?

In State
Out of State
Out of Country

Do you like President Barrack Obama?

To which political party do you belong too?

Republican
Democrat
Other ___________________

Do you feel that the President’s “Universal Health Plan” is good for society?

Do you feel that Obama’s “Bailout Plan” is good for society?

Do you feel that President’s decision to remove are armed forces from overseas is good for society?

Next I need to gather data and then present it in a essay type presentation which will include graphs and also the raw data. all of the data will be analyzed.

Graphs-to be made

charts-to be made

analysis of data to be recorded in the conclusion

Blog 14 Does Media represent a realistic image of Arabs?

Does media represent a realistic image of Arabs? There are really only two answers to this question Yes or No. In the book Taking Sides by Alexander Hanson, describes both of the issues summaries.

The Yes view describes how most of the Arab bloggers are challenged by stereotypes. The Yes view also deems the media to put a negative spin on the image of Arabic people. Now the opposite view written by Jack Shaheen, "He discusses how Hollywood's images influence politicians and citizens and contribute to public opinion.

I believe that the media does not represent a realistic image of Arabs. Although I might not agree with all of the views of their culture I do not think they are all terrorists. People are people and I do feel that media distorts the image of them as regular people. Media does not down play or distort the image of Hindus or Buddhists or Christians as much as they distort the image of Arabs. I have come to realize even though I do not agree with all of their life style they are people and I should not lump them together as a general person or society because they are individuals who all hold different view points and feelings. So NO media does not present a realistic image of Arabs.

Tuesday, November 9, 2010

Blog 13 "Does Media Cause Individuals to Develop Negative Body Images?"

Does Media Cause Individuals to Develop Negative Body Images? I think Yes. Media definitely does effect peoples opinion on how a body should look. It is in our nature to want to look good for the opposite sex, I feel like the media enhances perfect sexuality. The book is not exactly clear on what they think is yes and what they think is no. I feel like advertising wants to sell you a dream of what could be and not what is reality. Media enhances peoples opinions on what beauty is but is not the only factor so I guess I can agree with both opinions of the book.

Thursday, November 4, 2010

RESEARCH PROJECT