week 11

Media today holds a lot of power that few people realize. Media has shaped how women and men act and how they are viewed. Women have to be thin, beautiful, sexy,and much much more in the eyes of people, media has formed these views. Media has created "beautiful women" by taking women putting makeup on them to look pretty, but that isn't enough, they also photo shop the picture to make things look thinner or pop more. This makes beauty that people expect unobtainable. Makeup products attempt to fix these problems presented by media, and with the common message of if you don't look like a model then something is wrong with you and you need to fix it. When women are bombarded by these images of what beauty should be and hey don't measure up their self esteem can be crushed.

week 10

i think religion is one of the biggest agent "s". religion has created laws with little to no discussion, thow shall not kill has become a major law in the world that if someone is killed they receive severe punishment sometimes even death themselves. thow shall not steal has also become a major law with die consequences for those who break that law. myself am not a religious person,but i still need to follow the rules that religion has created because they have passed beyond ideals and into laws. i only know they 10 commandments, not other religions ideals but mot religious ideals have affected our society.

week 9

the video on sal's blog was really able to help prove the point in class that society shapes who we are, and that if you don't have a society when growing up like Genie then you really cant function well. baby's are so helpless when they are little, and if they don't receive attention, they can never know the basics of life, like how to walk,talk,eat,etc. i know that my parents affect me every day both consciously and subconsciously. the things we learn as a baby teach us what we know today, if you parents tell you not to touch the stove you probably wont and you still wouldn't today. we also learn life lessons from our parents. without the basic teaching of our parents and society at a young age we really cant function later in our lives.

week 8

dependency is a odd concept, as Morrie says we are dependent on people when we are born and when we die, but in the middle we are even more dependent on others. For some reason when we grow up we think being dependent on others is a taboo thing. For instance some people when they lose their job they refuse to get unemployment gov. payments. I think the main reason we think dependency is taboo is because as amricans we believe we can acomplish anything, and we don't need others help to acomplish our goals. American values like pride and individualism make us think that dependency is an awful thing.

week 7

Time is a very different cultural idea. In our minds when we say a time we mean that exact time. Where in different cultures you can show up 30min to 1 hour later and that would be acceptable. without a strict time schedule most American would think our way of life would collapse, but in other countries that's just how they see things. if you are going to apply for a job and you show up 10 minutes late who most likely wont get that job. But in different cultures that would be considered on time, as we have learned in class it's very hard to look at our own culture (our own fishbowl) from inside of it, but when we are pulled away from our culture we can look at it differently and see how odd our "normal" culture is.