Love

Is love just a made up notion?  In my opinion love at first sight is a made up notion and most love isn't real because people fall in and out of love all the time but to me love should be everlasting.  Like a parents love for their child. Parents may not always like their children but they always love them.  The word LOVE is thrown around so much now a day, dating a girl for 3 weeks you say you love her, date a boy for a month you say you love him.  I don't think love is that easy or uncomplicated.  People say that falling in love with your best friend is the bast thing that can happen because they know you and you know them so completely.  Now what does media have to do with this?  Music, television shows, movies, advertisements, everything now has something to do with love.  Wither it is a love triangle in a TV show, or some cheesy video to go with a love song, or a movie where one minute they are saying love you to one person and then moved on to the next.  I think that media is clouding the worlds idea of love.

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Ruining Your Children...

I was flipping through channels the other day on my television and ended up putting on Toddlers in Tiaras for background noise while I did my homework. I ended up not doing much of my homework but found myself watching this show which is actually quite horrible. One mom was putting her daughter in a raw meat bathing suit while another was trying to find her daughter. The mother didn't comment once about worrying that her daughter was hurt or in trouble only the fact that she was going to miss her call time. The daughter later commented that she just wanted to play like a normal little kid but her mom wouldn't let her because she might mess up her hair. What has the world come to that mothers will give their screaming 3 year old a spray tan or pluck her 6 year old's eye brows? It isn't right the moms are all saying that this is what their child wants but a screaming child says something different. They are just raising a whole new generation of prises.

Wrong Impression?

"Someone should sue Disney for making little girls believe that there is always a prince and everything ends happily ever after" my older sister said this to me one day and it got me thinking because in a way it is true.  Not everything turns out happily ever after. You won't always find the prince, and most times things aren't a happily ever after endings. Divorce rates go up every year does that seem like a happy ending to you? Disney makes things seem so cut and dry, meet the prince, fall in love, get married, and then you will live happily ever after but in reality you don't always get that. In real life you get fighting and arguments, single parents, orphaned children, or the worst children who weren't wanted but kept and are now being abused.  That is the real world not all sunshine and rainbows.  Even in the happy marriage there is still disagreements and arguments. The only Disney movie I have seen that has a couple fight is Mulan 2 and that is it. So yes I agree with my sister in the aspects that Disney needs to change some things but I think she was a little dramatic when she said that they need to be sued.

Not just for you...

From the mouth of babes

When I was little I played with my dolls, barbies, play food, wore dresses, everything was pink. You know why? Because that is what people and the media said that I should be doing. Girls wore pink and played with girl toys (dolls, more dolls, dress up). Boys wore blue and played with boy toys (trucks, cars, toy hammers). What is that teaching our kids? Now a day I will tell you that it doesn't matter if she wants to play with a car or he

wants to play with a doll maybe he will be a better father later for it but back then I would have told you exactly what people told me. I can't play with that it's a boy's toy. I got over that around the age of 6 when I was in kindergarden and all through

grade school. I got made fun of for playing soccer at recess with the boys, and playing in the mud, but I didn't really care that much about it they could tease me if they wanted to but they were missing out on the fun. I still see it today though except for now it is more that it is ok for a girl to act like a boy and play with trucks andcars, wear jeans and t-shirts, have their hair short but it still ins't ok for a boy to play with dolls and wear pink. Why is that?

Glee episode "Choke"

This week on Glee, (Yes Mr. Oconnor I do watch Glee) they did part of their episode on violence against women.  I think how they started it out was horrific because they had a few of the characters JOKING around about it. It did get a little better though with the teachers addressing the students about it and that it was wrong.  The teachers had them do an assignment to come up with a musical number that empowers women.  I was shocked at the first song that they chose to do which was “Cell Block Tango”.  This again was addressed by the teachers but I still don’t think it was ok to take this so lightly at points.  The episode later went into more of the reality of the situation of a women being abused by a spouse.  It tried to convey how it is not okay ever for it to happen and how hard it is to actually leave the situation.  They closed the episode with the song “Shake It Out” which I think was a good choice but still does not make up for the fact that in the beginning they took the topic very lightly and used a song about women killing their husbands for popping bubble gum. 

Shake it out

Cell Block Tango

Advertisements, ruling our lives?

Consumers are in charge but the persuaders are the ones who make us feel that way they make us feel important because they are listening to us but all they want is to know what products are going to sell.  As long as we are thinking about our selves we are better consumers. What do "I" want? That is the ultimate question of which the producers want to know because as long as they have that information they are golden in the sales industries.  Your question; "How will they know what I buy or what I want if I don't tell them?" Your answer is Acxiom. Acxiom knows and discovers what we do what are hobbies are what we buy where we are and when and they also know our names, what car we drive, our phone numbers, and where we live they are that one thing that is always watching you. So my question is they prying to far into our private lives? And why aren't we more afraid that they know so much about us? 

Music Now and Then

Now

·         Justin Bieber

·         Rebecca Black

·         Jana Kramer

·         Kate Voegele

Then

·         Elvis Presley

·         Michel Jackson

·         The Animals

·         Pink Floyd

We went from the classics from the king of rock (Elvis Presley) to the annoying voices of Rebecca Black and Justin Bieber. Now most people aren't worried about if the music is good or even decent today it is who is popular. If they are considered "popular" the they are listened to by everyone.  Music used to be show what someone was feeling, it ment something to someone in the world but now as long as you have a catchy phrase such as "Call me Maybe" and you look good on a magazine or album cover then you are in. To me music is everything, a single song can change my mood in an instant; and for those kids out there like me they enjoy the lyrics and the beat of artist like Kate Voegele, Bryan Greenberg, Charlene Kaye, Jana Kramer, Angels and Airwaves, Patsy Cline, and Gavin DeGraw. I was lucky growing up because my mom made sure that I was very musically rounded so I have a different appreciation for music than most people do. I just hope others are that lucky.