Every one has a family, whether it’s a family that you like or not it’s your family. Childhood isn’t something that for me is exactly the best. My family is about as dysfunctional as possible. I don’t know my biological father. Alls I know is he was abusive and drunk half the time. My mother ran away from him and tied the knot with my step-dad, the only father I know. He was a drinker and every time we camped something dramatic happened. He had anger problems which I then learned from. That’s the way I knew how to deal with things. My two older sisters are about as different as black and white. My youngest oldest sister was the hell raiser of the family. She got caught up in drugs and the police slowly began to be some of my friends. I knew them by their first names. I had a house where you didn’t feel welcomed and instead of letting your guard down you would put even more barriers up. This made me believe that in order to survive its all about your self. Deep down I wasn’t a person who wanted to shove anyone away. I had a heart yearning to be helpful and caring, but everything I grew up with told me not to. The experiences from being hit to being duct taped made me think that showing emotions and feelings made you weak. As time went on and things surrounded me, it got to a point where it was too much to carry. I broke down. I cried for hours and really did some soul searching. The next morning I changed. I woke up making a decision for the rest of my life. I decided that no matter what people say or do that I was going to be me. The person that I knew deep down inside was the person I was supposed to be. It was hard to change and be who I am, but slowly it was easier for me to be me. I wanted to care for other people and the experiences of my past helped me to be able to empathize with just about anything that anyone went through. As I look through the things that have just recently happened, my parents are going through a divorce right now, I see that no matter what has happened since that day I decided to be myself and not care what others thought, I have been happy. I have good close friends and no matter how crappy things get, I know that alls I can do is be me and go through life accepting the things I can and cannot change. The moment I was myself was the moment that I finally understood, it was then that I could believe.
Blog War volume Two chap Two
after being defeated by thir blog, i second blog decided to join forces with thrid blog…after all if u cant beat them join them! i was gaining my megabytes back when thrid blog told me of a new blog…FOURTH BLOG!!!! we trained many days to prepare for this fight…the day we were going to attack i came down with a bad freeze..i would be delayed due to internet connections…when i finally arrived at the battle area ( facebook.com) i saw the utter destruction made by thrid and fourht blog….i was walking aroumd the downed site when i saw thrid blog only nanobytes away from death…i second blog quickly came over and gave third blog a spam blocker…within minutes third blog regaines enought megabytes to be able to walk away….that day i swore to avenge my fallen comrade….but this fourth blog was big….and dangerous…i would have to call upon the ancient ways of the first master of the blogs to be able to beat this man….now our journey to find first blog!!!
end of Chapter 2
Fallacies
1. Brett: do you see that computer over there?
Tyler: Ya, what about it?
Brett: I’m gonna get it soon!
Tyler:How? did you get some early christmas money or what?
Brett: No. but you know how i have been giving out money to people?
Tyler: ya so?
Brett: well i’ve been giving money to people for like 3 years and im due man! im due!!!
2. In an airplane a belt buckle is broken. the plane crashes and csi discovers that the missing piece in the broken belt buckle caused the airplane to go out of balance.
3. a poll was taken by the milton skate park and 65% of the people said they skated, therefore 65% of milton citizens skate.
Jr. Paper
Tyler Richards
12/11/08
AP period 2
Big buff guys and thin beautiful blonde haired women are shoved in our faces in
America. We can’t walk down the sidewalk without seeing ads for guys to get bigger and women to get thinner. The media has affected the way we view ourselves to make us feel that without having the “perfect body” we are fat and insecure.
What is the “perfect body”? According to the media it’s men with chiseled abs, rock solid pecs and huge biceps and women with blonde hair, size 2 waists with double D breasts. For the men and women out there that have never achieved that status, how do they think about themselves? Women are becoming more and more caught up in their physical attributes then being happy. And they are taking drastic measures to ensure that they achieve the “perfect body”.
“Cultures that use to regard bulk as a sign of wealth and success are now succumbing to narrow western standard of beauty, and that in turn is heading to incidences of eating disorders in regions where anorexia and bulimia have never been seen before” (Distorted Images). In South Africa women view the west as the epitome of beautiful to the point where “black women still use harmful skin bleaching creams in the belief that whiter is prettier” (Distorted Images). We have created this idea that this is what we look like to the point that we have affected people globally, that “smart, fat, raucously funny girls aren’t valued—only pretty ones that look like models in the fashion mags”(The Big Picture). Places where bigger was prettier and people were accepted the way they were have now changed into these places that now view that in order to be beautiful you have to be thin. Anne Becker took a journey to Fiji in 1995 when Fiji announced that they were going to introduce television and western programs. Upon visiting Fiji again Becker noticed that the perception that tall, sturdy and large was replaced with thin and tall. (Distorted Images) Nearly 29 percent of the women now had eating disorders and more than 80 percent said that watching TV affected the way they viewed their bodies (Distorted Images).
Another big way that media has reached the public about achieving the “perfect body” is through their toy sales. Women have their Barbie and men have their G.I. Joe doll. Believe it or not boys have it just as bad as girls do when it comes to eating disorders and dangerous habits. The G.I. Joe doll has made men look at themselves and want to become like that doll to the point that they are willing to do anything to achieve it. The media, however, has proportionately made this doll into an unachievable goal. In proportion to the doll, we would have to be bigger than Mr. Olympias, and “each new G.I. Joe doll has been more muscular and sharply defined or “cut” than the model before” (Drugs, Sports, Body Image and G.I. Joe) this makes the males workout more and give up food to try and look like the dolls that media has put in their face. “Dr. Pope said the doll might be planting in boys minds a template of a humans body that cannot be attained without engaging in obsessive behaviors to build muscle and strip off fat, and then augmenting those efforts through the consumption of drugs like human growth hormone and anabolic steroids, which are synthetic versions of the male hormone, testosterone.” Men become more addicted to try and find the easy fixes and to try and make themselves into something that no one can become. 18 percent of high school athletes have used steroids which are about twice the amount from 1988. (Drugs, Sports, Body Image and G.I. Joe) Surveys have shown that these athletes would gladly give up some years in the future to win a gold medal or break a world record. (Drugs, Sports, Body Image and G.I. Joe) Even though these men are using steroids and other enhancers to try and get bigger, they are only hurting themselves. It is proven that most of these steroids only give off the perception of being bigger and don’t actually make you stronger. ”Dr. Bhasin said, a pound of muscle gained through exercise is stronger than a pound of muscle gained through the gift of testosterone.”(Drugs, Sports, Body Image and G.I. Joe) The media tends to focus on advertisements and ads that promote weight lifting, body building or muscles toning (Enhancing Male Body Image) so why so much pressure to become this cut ripped person?
Nowadays in modern society it is not enough to just be who you are. You have to be unique, but in a good “hot “way. Men see these fit guys on TV and they see how women responded to it and of course want to be that to get the girls. This has caused men to have muscle dysmorphia, where men see themselves as small and frail even if they are the biggest guy in the gym( Disordered Eating and Body Image Disturbances May Be Underreported in Male Athletes). These kinds of disorders are common. Even anorexia and bulimia are too, but society’s outtake is different from male to female. There are such things as “thin” guys but when girls get small they are “anorexic”. So society has a major role on why people do what they do. They are pressured into becoming or doing something to please someone else and not themselves. A woman named Diane Mason said “I was concentrating on how others pictured me and not how I pictured myself.” (The Big Picture) the media has done a good job on feeding us that we have to look this way to be happy that it’s not uncommon to see or know people just like Diane Mason who struggled with being overweight.
A woman named Zahra Dhanani struggled with the same things. At seven years old her mom put her on her first diet. By 17 she vomited and used laxatives to keep her weight in control. “ I couldn’t look in the mirror without feeling revulsion” (Distorted Images) she feared that it was because of the color of her skin, however many other ethnic minorities have tried to fit into western culture by doing the same things. South Asians who tried to fit in with mainstream America reported that “31 percent weren’t comfortable with their body shape and size. 58 percent compared their appearance with others, including models—and 40 percent wanted to look like [the models].” (Distorted Images) but Dhanani soon realized that being big wasn’t a bad thing. In the 19th century “the larger a man’s wife, the more he was seen as a good provider” (Distorted Images) she soon realized to accept who she was and that she was never going to reach 100 lbs. not everyone was created to be thin. Not having self confidence plays a huge role in the way you view yourself.
“When you have no role models to counteract the messages that fat is repulsive, it’s hard to realize that you are a lovable human being.” (Distorted Images) there have been many things now to try and accept being big, like big models. A magazine called Big Beautiful Woman embraces the idea that big woman can be beautiful. The people are trying to turn around the idea that thin is in and are accepted all walks of life.
So look around today and you can’t help but see that the media is shoving the idea of the “perfect body” into our faces by the production of toys, through TV and magazines, and trying to persuade cultures that thin is in. Anywhere you go you can see the media’s input on society. From the men that can’t get big enough or the women that think size three is unacceptable. From the guys who are anorexic to the girls that are bulimic, these things are ruining society and shaping the world of tomorrow. However, men and women are taking the necessary steps to stop this out of control downfall of society by including big women and accepting all sizes of people. The toy companies are now thinking “about releasing a more realistic Barbie doll with thicker waist and smaller bust. How about a G.I. “love handles” Joe?”(Drugs, Sports, Body Image and G.I. Joe) Society is coming along to accept these new realistic things. It’s changed our outlook and has made us more determined to change the media. So hop on the train and get ready for a wild ride!
Works Cited
American College of Sports Medicine, comp. “Disordered Eating and Body Image Disturbances May Be Unerreported in Male Athletes.” The Language of Composition : Reading, Writing, Rhetoric. By Renee H. Shea, Lawrence Scanlon and Robin Dissin Aufses. Boston: Bedford/Saint Martin’s, 2007. 489-90.
Angier, Natalie. “Drugs, Sports, Body Image and G.I. Joe.” The Language of Composition : Reading, Writing, Rhetoric. By Renee H. Shea, Lawrence Scanlon and Robin Dissin Aufses. Boston: Bedford/Saint Martin’s, 2007. 486-88.
Diane Baker Mason. “The big picture. ” Chatelaine 1 Aug. 2002: 79-80+. Platinum Full Text Periodicals. ProQuest. Fife High School Library, Tacoma, WA. 11 Dec. 2008 <http://www.proquest.com/>
National Eating Disorders Association, comp. “Enhancing Male Body Image.” The Language of Composition : Reading, Writing, Rhetoric. By Renee H. Shea, Lawrence Scanlon and Robin Dissin Aufses. Boston: Bedford/Saint Martin’s, 2007. 491-92.
Susan McClelland. “Distorted images. ” Maclean’s 14 Aug. 2000: 41. Platinum Full Text Periodicals. ProQuest. Fife High School Library, Tacoma, WA. 11 Dec. 2008 <http://www.proquest.com/>
Junior Research paper
Big buff guys and thin beautiful blonde haired women are shoved in our faces in
America. We can’t walk down the sidewalk without seeing ads for guys to get bigger and women to get thinner. The media has affected the way we view ourselves to make us feel that without having the “perfect body” we are fat and insecure.
What is the “perfect body”? According to the media its men with chiseled abs, rock solid pecs and huge biceps and women with blonde hair size 2 waists with double D breasts. For the men and women out there that have never achieved that status, how do they think about themselves? Women are becoming more and more caught up in their physical attributes then being happy. And they are taking drastic measures to ensure that they achieve the “perfect body”.
“Cultures that use to regard bulk as a sign of wealth and success are now succumbing to narrow western standard of beauty, and that in turn is heading to incidences of eating disorders in regions where anorexia and bulimia have never been seen before” (distorted images) in south Africa women view the west as the epitome of beautiful to the point where “black women still use harmful skin bleaching creams in the belief that whiter is prettier.” (D.I.) We have created this idea that this is what we look like to the point that we have affected people globally, that “smart, fat, raucously funny girls aren’t valued—only pretty ones that look like models in the fashion mags.”(The big picture) Places where bigger was prettier and people were accepted they way they were have now changed into these places that now view that in order to be beautiful you have to be thin. Anne Becker took a journey to fiji in 1995 when Fiji announced that they were going to introduce television and western programs. Upon visiting fiji again Becker noticed that the perception that tall, sturdy and large were replaced with thin and tall. (D.I.) Nearly 29 percent of the women now had eating disorders and more than 80 percent said that watching TV affected the way they viewed their bodies. (D.I.).
Another big way that media has reached the public about achieving the “perfect body” is through their toy sales. Women have their Barbie and men have their G.I. Joe doll. Believe it or not boys have it just as bad as girls do when it comes to eating disorders and dangerous habits. The G.I. Joe doll has made men look at themselves and want to become like that doll to the point that they are willing to do anything to achieve it. The media, however, has proportionately made this doll into an unachievable goal. In proportion to the doll, we would have to be bigger then Mr. Olympias, and “each new G.I. Joe doll has been more muscular and sharply defined or “cut” than the model before” (drugs, sports, body image and G.I. Joe) this makes the males workout more and give up food to try and look like the dolls that media has put in their face. “Dr. Pope said the doll might be planting in boys minds a template fr a humans body that cannot be attained without engaging in obsessive behaviors to build muscle and strip off fat, and then augmenting those efforts through the consumption of drugs like human growth hormone and anabolic steroids, which are synthetic versions of the male hormone, testosterone.” Men become more addicted to try and find the easy fixes and to try and make themselves into something that no one can become. !8 percent of high school athletes have used steroids which are about twice the amount of 1988. (D.S.B.I.J.) surveys have shown that these athletes would gladly give up some years in the future to win a gold medal or break a world record.( D.S.B.I.J.) Even though these men are using steroids and other enhancers to try and get bigger, they are only hurting themselves. It is proven that most of these steroids only give off the perception of being bigger and don’t actually make you stronger. ”Dr. Bhasin said, a pound of muscle gained through exercise is stringer then a pound of muscle gained through the gift of testosterone.”(D.S.B.I.J) The media tends to focus on advertisements and ads hat promote weight lifting, body building or muscle toning (enhancing male body image) so why so much pressure to become this cut ripped person?
Nowadays in modern society it is not enough to just be who you are. You have to be unique, but in a good “hot “way. Men see these fit guys on tv and they see how women responded to it and of course want to be that to get the girls. This has caused men to have muscle dysmorphia, where men see themselves as small and frail even if they are the biggest guy in the gym( disordered eating and body image disturbances may be underreported in male athletes). These kinds of disorders are common. Even anorexia and bulimia are too, but society’s outtake is different from male to female. There are such things as “thin” guys but when girls get small they are “anorexic”. So society has a major role on why people do what they do. They are pressured into becoming or doing something to please someone else and not themselves. A woman named Diane Mason said “I was concentrating on how others pictured me and not how I pictured myself.” (The big picture) the media has done a good job on feeding us that we have to look this way to be happy that it’s not uncommon to see or know people just like Diane Mason who struggled with being overweight.
A woman named Zahra Dhanani struggled with the same things. At seven years old her mom put her on her first diet. By 17 she vomited and used laxatives to keep her weight in control. “ I couldn’t look in the mirror without feeling revulsion” (D.I.) she feared that it was because of the color of her skin, however many other ethnic minorities have tried to fit into western culture by doing the same things. South Asians who tried to fit in with mainstream America reported that “31 percent weren’t comfortable with their body shape and size. 58 percent compared their appearance with others, including models—and 40 percent wanted to look like them.” (D.I.) but Dhanani soon realized that being big wasn’t a bad thing. In the 19th century “the larger a mans wife, the more he was seen as a god provider” D.I. she soon realized to accept who she was and that she was never going to reach 100 lbs. not everyone was created to be thin. Not having self confidence plays a huge role in they way you view yourself.
“ when you have no role models to counteract the messages that fat is repulsive, its hard to realize that you are a lovable human being.” D.I.
Total Confusion!!
ok so i totally checked this thing out on the womens brain thing and could only find 7…so i dont know if im just lame or what but i guess i’ll jus do thoses….except they arent really quotes if u want to get technical…they are citations….
1 “Some have felt…….”-basically she is saying that God created women for a reason and if they were as stupid as men treated them then science could look at them the way they are.
2 “Women displayed their….”-women are smart and talented yet society wouldnt let them be. they crushed their hopes of becoming accepted and at one point was almost denied human intelligence.
3 ” We might ask…..”-this one just bashes women all together. it explains how the women are dumb and its due to their inferior physical size.
4 ” The man who fights…”- reasons with why men are smarter which is due to the the fact that they have to protect and hunt and pay money to support the family where all the women has to do is cook which doesnt take as much brain power.
5 “In the most intelligent….”- says that women are closer in brain size to gorilla then that of mens. that women are just like gorillas with two heads. they are a site to see.
6 “A desire to give them…”- when women start becoming more like men and leave the house and have careers, thats when society will go crazy and families will be ruined.
7 ” the limits of variation…”- uh this ones kinda hard but i think it said something like that women have more potential then what men think and some will be persecuted for stepping outside the box but in the end it will bring victory for their voice to be heard.
Question’s on Women’s Brains
1). They think that The women are going to have smaller brains because of the fact that woman are generally smaller then man
3). Gould questions Broca’s scientific method in paragraph 9. he says, “Brain weight decreases with age, and Broca’s women were, on average, considerably older than his men. Brain weight increases with height, and his average man was almost half a foot taller than his average woman.” this shows that Broca wasnt giving adequate information when he did these tests..he weaves these together to make his point that there was error in his method which then discredits the information.
6). they are used to show that Broca’s info was wrong and to show that his information is useless due to the fact of his errors in data and consistency. he does this to show that there is very little if any differenc in male and female brain mass.
7). he uses this to show that this misinformation wasnt directed just at the women. all the minorities were targeted as well.
9). in the last two paragraphs he brings both positions together by saying that both are ” irrelavent and highly injurious” he then concludes with a cool little exerpt fomr the middlemarch which was written by a femal to get his point across.
Essay in English
Tyler Richards
11/12/08
AP English
Look around today and you’ll see nothing but electronics and some sort of entertainment flying by you. Life is free, life is anything you want. The U.S has become a place where the upcoming generations have been given so much information that it’s hard to distinguish what is good information and what’s useless. We think that we will be spoon fed the right information, but now there’s so much information that we can’t identify what is good and what is bad. Alduos Huxley, the author of Brave New World, feels that this will ruin us. He feared that “the truth would be drowned in a sea of irrelevance.” There’s so much information accessible now that it’s near impossible to understand the complexity of the situation. T.V. has become one of the leading contenders in this distraction of propaganda.
Look at society today. We get so focused and engrossed in TV that when people try to pry us out of our own little world we get upset. Sports bars are perfect examples of this violent behavior that protrudes after being snapped out of our trance. In an interview with Kalle Lasn, editor in chief of adbusters.org and patriarch of TV turn off week, he tells us how violent people really get. “…Occasionally we had to hightail it out of there really fast because there was going to be a fight.” A fight? Over TV? This was the very thing that Huxley was talking about. We become so sucked into our TV we either become very passive or very aggressive. Both are bad, and both will come to ruin our society.
What is your idea of family time? Sitting around the TV has now become far more enticing to a family then it use to in past generations. This doesn’t let them fully experience some key aspects of life. TV now advertises everything for us so we don’t have to go out and shop and see the real thing. TV makes us passive. We spend an average of 9 years of our lives watching TV (Trubey 777). It doesn’t let us want to work hard. In the time that we watch TV we could be doing things that actually matter in our lives, like getting a PhD or becoming the next Donald Trump. The TV ads lure us in to buy those things instead of saving it for more useful things. The travel channel is an excellent example of this. They tour the world for you so that way you can just relax at home and not have to do anything. This lets us become more dependent on TV and less dependent on ourselves. It creates the attitude of bad work ethic and in a sense, dumbs us down. It gives us the illusion that we can see everything out there through the comfort of our homes. We create these almost virtual worlds to experience things instead of going out to the actual real world and experiencing it. Everything out there is just a phone call away. Shopping is becoming less and less needed because of the advertisements. This takes away our initiative to want to go out and buy things. By allowing us to buy over the phone or on TV it’s taking away the necessary drive that’s needed to survive in everyday work life. By taking away this drive it’s stripping us of our ability to think and decide things for ourselves. Think about it. TV is telling us what to buy, what is new, and what to think, eat and anything else that we need. We have lost our choice in things. We are becoming overrun by useless information that just distracts us from what we need to be focused on. The author of Brave New World Revisited, Alduos Huxley quotes that the civil libertarians and rationalists “failed to take into account mans almost infinite appetite for distractions.” And TV is the main source for these distractions! Our video games and movies use a TV, and they suck us into a virtual world that’s not needed to be able to survive and live in our lives today. The effects of TV, however, are very radical. Either you become passive or get very aggressive.
TV violence has fueled our young teens and adults to do and say things that they otherwise wouldn’t have said or done. They make us violent and far more aggressive than what we normally would have been. Professor George Gerbner and Professor Todd Gitlin were filmed in a debate in 1997 that was posted on the web site Hot Wired and Professor Gerbner states that “the more violence [people] watch, the more dangerous they think the world is.” If people think the world is more dangerous aren’t they going to be a little more on edge or prepared to fight against the violence? Won’t this create a hostile environment? Isn’t this the subject that Huxley was so passionate about? This creates a sense of fear that drives us to stay inside. We think to ourselves that if the world is more dangerous now then the safety of our homes is the best place to be. After all we can communicate to the outside world through the TV. More acts of violence are happening because of the violence we see on the TV. It lets us think certain things are ok, when they aren’t. This feeds our minds to create certain opinions and harbors thoughts that we otherwise wouldn’t have if we never saw that TV show or that Episode on TV.
Look at society today. All we see around us is entertainment. TV’s lend the biggest helping hand to this great argument circling around our country. TV leads to hours spent wastefully, not fulfilling anything in that time. Whether it comes from endless hours of soap operas or crime scene investigations, its taking us out of this world and letting us sit and be entertained. This allows the passivity to seep through and slowly constrict us into its unrelentless grip. We become so distracted by these things we lose sight on what we need o be focused on and end up not caring or just living our lives. It also leads to violence. More uproars’ are appearing around because of TV’s being switched off, and people trying to pry them away from the TV screens. This thing, this entertainment, is slowly taking us away from the focus of our lives and engulfing us with distractions. The one thing we love will ruin us.
Question Three
(Bunker and I both were hangin out when we did this…i just didnt blog it…my bad)
I feel that it is asking us to choose a side of either Orwell who thinks that we should read more and feels the more we hate the worse we will become. On the other hand you have Huxley who feels the opposite, he feels people should watch TV and he feels the more we love the worse of a person we will become. With that it wants us to decide if Postman is right or wrong about how TV has made a positive or negative impact.
entering the conversation
Ashley and I looked for a long time….. and we cant figure this stupid thing out!!! where is this conversation thing at???
