Media Culture

Thesis-In order to become a more cultured society we need to change the way we use technology.

1. With the internet everything is so accessible, so we spend so much time worried about what everyone else is doing instead of thinking about ourselves.

2. The internet allows us to create even more shallow relationships than before because you don't spend as much time developing quality relationships.

3. More people vote for relatively insignificant talent competitions than for elections.

100 people

For the most part I agreed with most of the things that were said in the excerpts from 100 people who are screwing up America. When he talked about celebrities being liberals, I totally agreed with him because they often claim to be so open minded but they won't consider the conservative point of view. People who are liberal try so hard to be liberal that they don't see the good things from the conservative point of view as well as the overall good things in America.
The other point that I really liked in this was when he talked about college campuses, and how many of them try really hard to stay diverse. My high school did something really similar to this, and on paper it was a really diverse group of people, but based on opinions and ideas it wasn't diverse at all. Everyone was extremely liberal and had complaints about nearly everything going on in America, but this is the country that we're all pretty blessed to live in. People complain all the time that whatever group is degraded or oppressed, but there is almost no way that if this group was totally oppressed that they could say that. If things are so bad they should go to another country where they really have no opportunities. Many liberals are so set on not offending people that they forget that we have freedom of speech. It does bother me quite a bit when people say its okay for one group to say something its okay, but if another group says the same thing it is wrong. I'm in no way saying that conservatives are right 100 percent of the time, but so many people make these comparisons that I wonder what they would think if these comparisons were more accurate than they are now.

Peer Review

Surprisingly the peer review today was pretty helpful, I really liked that we were talking more about the topics, and the basics of the paper instead of the grammar and sentence structure details. That was really helpful because I was able to make sure the reader understood my voice, and the basic message that I’m trying to convey. I’m usually able to find grammar mistakes and things of that nature on my own, so I usually found peer review pretty pointless. The feedback helped me because it showed me that I could change my message but not directly saying but instead show how my opinion changed throughout the story. Since we all wrote about totally different things it was also good to see how someone else put a story together that had a message.

If I were a boy?

I think about this a lot, how would life be different if I were a guy? Would I still have my personality, and my opinions if I grew up as a guy?If I still had my parents, and my general life but I were a guy things would probably be pretty different. I mean besides the obvious like I wouldn't be obsessed with Grey's Anatomy and instead would care about how awesome my fantasy football team is, I don't know how different I would be. I mean from the outside there are so many things that are different, but a lot of the more important things I would probably be pretty similar. The thing is, I could say maybe I would understand why guys do this or that, but I'm not sure if thats really so true. There are a lot of girls that do the same things as guys, so its probably more of a people not understand other people thing than a girls not understanding guys thing. Guys always say that girls are very catty, but a lot of times guys can act the same way they just don't take things as personally as girls. Thats probably the number one thing I would want to understand, how guys can hate another guy so they get in a fight with them and five minutes later they get along with them.

When we were describing the different traits of the opposite sex I thought it was interesting how we only used the negative words to describe each other. A lot of the negative words can be spun in a more positive way. Messy can just be people having different priorities. Jealousy can be someone caring and worrying too much.

The Notebook, love or a lie?

Well I’m a girl, so of course I’ve seen the movie, I always wanted to read the book since books are usually better than the movies anyway. I just never got around to it, but this passage made me want to read that book again. Well besides how good I thought it was, it made me think about the future, and wonder if people actually think love is enough. He talks about how he knows he won’t be remembered for long, but its ok because he loved another person and that makes it all ok. I always wonder how people can say something like this, maybe I’m just a negative person, but I just don’t understand how people can be happy based on love. Maybe love makes someone happy, but I don’t understand how a person can feel like their life is complete only on love. The other thing I wondered about was how he was so hopeful about things working out for once with his wife. I don’t understand how someone can stay so hopeful in a situation like that. For me, I see the worst in the future so its kind of bizarre to me how people can have so much hope in that type of situation.

Sports, Why do we care?

Why do we care about professional sports so much?? We all complain about how overpaid athletes are, and that they don’t deserve it, then of course there is the debate about what team is better, why the Yankees suck because they buy championships, how awesome Peyton Manning is, or whatever athletic conversation. This used to confuse me so much, but then I started to feel the same way, well my brothers are kinda stereotypical guys, the ones who are obsessed with sports. This would drive me crazy, I never wanted to watch baseball and would just look at the guys, this led to me getting a crush on a new player. Once I had a personal interest in it, I wanted to understand it more, going to a Yankees-Redsox game with this interest made me notice the drunks and crazies a little bit less. It was there for me to make me love the Yankees and even though I don’t really hate anything or anyone, the Boston Redsox are pretty high up there on my dislikes. I remember exactly why I became such a big fan but it isn’t one memory since I’ve been a fan, it’s a group of them, a group of memories of pride and happiness.

About Me

So, I’m Julia Buckley, I’m from Staten Island, NY which has gotten me so many questions whenever I meet someone new. Every single time they ask what are you doing here? Or something like that. I just really don’t like the people from New York, most of them are pretty rude and think that they are so much smarter than everyone else. So whenever I’m with people I avoid the where are you from topic, but my new friends love to tell other people or start laughing whenever someone asks. I don’t think I have much of an accent though, but people keep asking me how I say words, then tell me I say them wrong. Since I’m from New York and grew up in the 90s it seems like it only makes sense for me to be a huge Yankees fan. Usually I take jokes about things pretty well, but not usually about the Yankees, I can get defensive about them because I hear the same things about them all the time, so it gets kind of old. I didn’t used to care about them so much but over the past two years I’ve started to understand baseball more and really love them now.