I actually thought this was the best Midterm Project ever. I learned a lot and I got to look at things in many different perspectives. The way I watch TV now will always be different because I'm always going to think about how are things portrayed and what is the TV show trying to say. When I read articles now, I'm always going to read between the lines and notice things and try to find out where is the other missing information or how is this article written and now when I go into restaurants, not only McDonald's, I will pay attention to who is taking my order and who has the manager pin on. Now whenever I go somewhere, or hear things, I'm always going to try and hear if things are stereotypical or what is the person talking actually trying to say?
Now I'm just left wonder what is my cultural space in my physical place, what do I actually say and if people around me and things are do fit in a stereotypical block. Now everything around me has to be defined. Thanks Ms.Parham, my brain will be working double overtime now.
Wednesday, January 15, 2014
McDonald Workers ; Midterm Blog 3
Personally, I don't eat often at McDonald's often, or would I advise anyone else too, but on the rare occasion when I do eat out at McDonald's, the only meal I get is chicken nuggets and french fries. Every time I go to McDonald's and it's never the same location in a row, I always notice three things about it; 1) There are always Spanish and Black people working there. 2) The supervisor or head manager is White in most occasions and 3) The fries get more and more salty. Cultural space in a physical place relates to the employees ethnicity's that work at McDonald's. Spanish and Black people get along well together and are comfortable in their cultural space, while they often work at the same areas being the physical place.
The Founders of McDonald's were Richard and Maurice McDonald and Ray Kroc who was the corporation founder, they are all white. Meanwhile, the President and Chief Executive Office of McDonald's is Don Thompson a black man. That does contradict with the stereotype but there's always exceptions right? Anyways, if you were to ask any random person who do they mostly see working at McDonald's what do you think they'll say? I asked my mom and she said Spanish people. I asked my boyfriend and he said Spanish or Black. I asked my brother and he said desperate people. Hahaha! Well.. SO WHAT? What does that have to do with anything???
Would you ever work at McDonald's? For me that would be a no. Now what if I rephrased the question, would you work at McDonald's if you were Spanish or Black, couldn't get a higher class job, had a family to feed and needed to the money? For me now I would say yes! Naturally the stereotype is that Spanish and Black people often don't have the degree or qualifications to end up in a high corporate job and need money now to feed their children and pay their bills. Therefore, they always ends up at a low class job, such as McDonald's. The McDonald's on Westport Ave in Norwalk has Spanish and Black people working there as I observed and they are between 25 and 38. The McDonald's on Connecticut Ave in Norwalk has Spanish and Black people working there also, but they do also have 2 White employees. All of their employees are between the age of 18 and 35. The McDonald's on Main Ave in Norwalk has Spanish and Black people working there with a couple of White people also, their ages vary between 18 and 46. As I have observed the stereotype is quite correct, most people that work at lower class jobs are Spanish and Black but that's also because Spanish and Black people do represent the lower class.
The stereotype and the cultural space in a psychical place was defined. You never really notice things until you have too. Black and Spanish most likely will always work under the White man. I don't want that to sound racist or come out the wrong way but its a common realization. Realize the place of work, the type of work and who is there working.
The Founders of McDonald's were Richard and Maurice McDonald and Ray Kroc who was the corporation founder, they are all white. Meanwhile, the President and Chief Executive Office of McDonald's is Don Thompson a black man. That does contradict with the stereotype but there's always exceptions right? Anyways, if you were to ask any random person who do they mostly see working at McDonald's what do you think they'll say? I asked my mom and she said Spanish people. I asked my boyfriend and he said Spanish or Black. I asked my brother and he said desperate people. Hahaha! Well.. SO WHAT? What does that have to do with anything???
Would you ever work at McDonald's? For me that would be a no. Now what if I rephrased the question, would you work at McDonald's if you were Spanish or Black, couldn't get a higher class job, had a family to feed and needed to the money? For me now I would say yes! Naturally the stereotype is that Spanish and Black people often don't have the degree or qualifications to end up in a high corporate job and need money now to feed their children and pay their bills. Therefore, they always ends up at a low class job, such as McDonald's. The McDonald's on Westport Ave in Norwalk has Spanish and Black people working there as I observed and they are between 25 and 38. The McDonald's on Connecticut Ave in Norwalk has Spanish and Black people working there also, but they do also have 2 White employees. All of their employees are between the age of 18 and 35. The McDonald's on Main Ave in Norwalk has Spanish and Black people working there with a couple of White people also, their ages vary between 18 and 46. As I have observed the stereotype is quite correct, most people that work at lower class jobs are Spanish and Black but that's also because Spanish and Black people do represent the lower class.
The stereotype and the cultural space in a psychical place was defined. You never really notice things until you have too. Black and Spanish most likely will always work under the White man. I don't want that to sound racist or come out the wrong way but its a common realization. Realize the place of work, the type of work and who is there working.
How do you write an Article? ; Midterm Blog2
For homework the other day for Honors Civics I had find to write about a current event. I searched on CNN and read about 3-5 articles to see which one I liked and I noticed something about each and every article that I read... each article that had a specific topic whether its arguing for or against a topic, never has anything good about that topic or a rebuttal. If the article is slamming someone, it never has a rebuttal to make their article juicier, it just has all the bad things and if the article is about an argument, it never has a counter argument to make its argument better... why is that?
The article I used to write my current event was about same sex marriage being banned in Oklahoma. All the points were based on how the federal judge said that not banning same sex marriage was going against "Plan A" that said for only men and women to be married, or the thoughts from the couples who had been struggling to get this ruling passed and words from citizens and other facts about the supreme courts. Most of the same sex couples arguments just specified on how they have been waiting and hoping that their states will recognize them as a married couple and they pointed out how once again justice wasn't served because the federal law only pays attention to a certain amount of people. That seems more like a argument against the ban, which they are allowed to have, but where are the comments from the same sex couples and other citizens about the good about same sex marriages?
Throughout the article, nothing was ever mentioned about the rights of people, or equality or the fact that same sex marriages wouldn't be harming anyone. Where was the counter argument? The article added the fact that Oklahoma was split into two parts; people that were against same sex marriage and people that were for it, but why were they not for it? Why did Oklahoma have such precise sides? Where was the person in the middle? Maybe my writing skills were chiming in a little too much and I started to realize.. articles don't add in counter arguments or rebuttals because articles are just suppose to stick to the topic of slamming someone, otherwise known has putting them down. In articles about celebrities doing drugs, they never mention that they might also do community service or that they have a good driving record and in this article about same sex marriage nothing was mentioned about the good about it, or the right for equality. Even though this ban had to be brought up to the supreme court and federal court and to all these important people, where was that one judge that actually wanted the ban to be broken or where was the actual fight? That's what all articles lack, a good part, a counter argument, a rebuttal.. make me pick a side, make me want to fight for a topic, but instead, all I'm left with is seeing all the bad that covers up all of the other good.
Monday, January 13, 2014
Amazing World of Gumball Plot twist, Role Reversal; Midterm Blog1
The Amazing World of Gumball is an average cartoon about a animals and other fictional characters who plays roles an average kids in school and also as a family of 5. As regular American cartoons display now, the father role always has dominance. The father has a job while the mother stays home or the father makes more money than the mother does, either way the father always is more dominant.
However, in this cartoon, the mother who is a blue cat, has a job, buys all the groceries, makes dinner after long hours at work, take care of all the kids problems with school and homework and has time between hours to get her sons of sticky situations. For example, in many episodes she is seen coming home from work and asking if the kids homework is done and telling them that dinner will be ready soon ad her husband sits on the couch. In other episodes, while she is at work she had the time to help Gumball and Darwin return an overdue DVD, even though she was very furious with them, playing the mom role, she also played the protector and problem solver. Usually,if boys do have problems they would prefer to go to their dad, yet their mom is always the one to call for rescue. Not to mention that her and Gumball are the same exact animal and they are blue, but they are different genders. Is Cartoon Network portraying the mother as a feisty manly cat or is that just a coincidence? hm....
While that being only one aspect of the plot twist in this cartoon, the father who is a pink rabbit as well as the daughter, is a stay at home dad that does nothing but sit at home on the couch, watching TV, eating and sleeping. It's quite ironic though how he wears a white work shirt, with a tie and khaki pants with no job. He is often looked at as having very weak and feminist in ways. In one episode he tried to keep from his family that he spent almost 3 million dollars on something a business was offering which is now the reason that their mother as to buy very cheap things. In that episode it showed how small their bread was compared to a regular size and how a mp3 player was actually a calculator that had taped headphones on it. In another episode the father was taking muscle pills that weren't working for him but as soon at Gumball and Darwin tried it they became huge, even Anais the 4 year old daughter had some and she also became huge. The role of the dad, actually doesn't make him a dad at all. The lesson that he is supposed to teach is kids arent lessons at all since he adds on to the drama and mischievous pranks going on in the house. Now like I mentioned before with the mother, Nicole and Gumball the son being the same color and animal; is that also a coincidence that the Father Richard and the daughter Anais are the same rabbit animal and the same pink color.
Gender role is obviously reversed between mother and father as you can see above, but it also reversed in the role of the children. Gumball and Darwin (bestfriends, brothers by adoption and cat and goldfish) are both 12 and go to Middle School. Their younger sister Anais is only 4, yet she also attends Middle School with them and outsmarts them in every aspect. In multiple episodes, their mother always puts Gumball in charge, however that always seems to fail because Anais is the one who always figures out what to do and how it should be done. She talks as if she is 16 and outwits everyone. So, why is she 4 years old? Yeah, in some episodes she plays the role of a little girl and carries around a teddy bear but in many ways than others she always play the upper hand. Once again, the role is reversed gender wise, between the Anais the daughter and Nicole the mother, because they both outwit the male character, being the same animal as the males are.
The last bottling thing I must touch on is the fact that a cat and a goldfish are bestfriends. Cat eat goldfish, they will never get along in the human world. Also, Darwin the goldfish is always getting Gumball out of stupid situations even though he does lack intelligence sometimes. The fact that two enemies in the real world are friends and that the goldfish seems to be smarter than the cat is totally mind blowing and fictional in so many ways. BUT, biggest plot twist ever.... Darwin the goldfish was originally a pet for Gumball the cat and instead of dying he grew legs and they adopted him!!! The goldfish was a pet, a pet! How does that even make sense? Instead of Gumball eating the fish, he become his brother! Also, why is Gumball the only fictional game? Wouldn't you name your pet goldfish Gumball instead of Darwin??!
Role Reversal and mind gaming Plot Twist is added again in this cartoon. I've watched this show ever since it came it since it was the only cartoon besides Spongebob that I actually liked and now that I'm watching it from a different lens of perspective, everything is so much more mind bottling and OMG! since I've actually been paying attention. Never knew I could TV like that let alone, a show on Cartoon Network
However, in this cartoon, the mother who is a blue cat, has a job, buys all the groceries, makes dinner after long hours at work, take care of all the kids problems with school and homework and has time between hours to get her sons of sticky situations. For example, in many episodes she is seen coming home from work and asking if the kids homework is done and telling them that dinner will be ready soon ad her husband sits on the couch. In other episodes, while she is at work she had the time to help Gumball and Darwin return an overdue DVD, even though she was very furious with them, playing the mom role, she also played the protector and problem solver. Usually,if boys do have problems they would prefer to go to their dad, yet their mom is always the one to call for rescue. Not to mention that her and Gumball are the same exact animal and they are blue, but they are different genders. Is Cartoon Network portraying the mother as a feisty manly cat or is that just a coincidence? hm....
While that being only one aspect of the plot twist in this cartoon, the father who is a pink rabbit as well as the daughter, is a stay at home dad that does nothing but sit at home on the couch, watching TV, eating and sleeping. It's quite ironic though how he wears a white work shirt, with a tie and khaki pants with no job. He is often looked at as having very weak and feminist in ways. In one episode he tried to keep from his family that he spent almost 3 million dollars on something a business was offering which is now the reason that their mother as to buy very cheap things. In that episode it showed how small their bread was compared to a regular size and how a mp3 player was actually a calculator that had taped headphones on it. In another episode the father was taking muscle pills that weren't working for him but as soon at Gumball and Darwin tried it they became huge, even Anais the 4 year old daughter had some and she also became huge. The role of the dad, actually doesn't make him a dad at all. The lesson that he is supposed to teach is kids arent lessons at all since he adds on to the drama and mischievous pranks going on in the house. Now like I mentioned before with the mother, Nicole and Gumball the son being the same color and animal; is that also a coincidence that the Father Richard and the daughter Anais are the same rabbit animal and the same pink color.
Gender role is obviously reversed between mother and father as you can see above, but it also reversed in the role of the children. Gumball and Darwin (bestfriends, brothers by adoption and cat and goldfish) are both 12 and go to Middle School. Their younger sister Anais is only 4, yet she also attends Middle School with them and outsmarts them in every aspect. In multiple episodes, their mother always puts Gumball in charge, however that always seems to fail because Anais is the one who always figures out what to do and how it should be done. She talks as if she is 16 and outwits everyone. So, why is she 4 years old? Yeah, in some episodes she plays the role of a little girl and carries around a teddy bear but in many ways than others she always play the upper hand. Once again, the role is reversed gender wise, between the Anais the daughter and Nicole the mother, because they both outwit the male character, being the same animal as the males are.
The last bottling thing I must touch on is the fact that a cat and a goldfish are bestfriends. Cat eat goldfish, they will never get along in the human world. Also, Darwin the goldfish is always getting Gumball out of stupid situations even though he does lack intelligence sometimes. The fact that two enemies in the real world are friends and that the goldfish seems to be smarter than the cat is totally mind blowing and fictional in so many ways. BUT, biggest plot twist ever.... Darwin the goldfish was originally a pet for Gumball the cat and instead of dying he grew legs and they adopted him!!! The goldfish was a pet, a pet! How does that even make sense? Instead of Gumball eating the fish, he become his brother! Also, why is Gumball the only fictional game? Wouldn't you name your pet goldfish Gumball instead of Darwin??!
Role Reversal and mind gaming Plot Twist is added again in this cartoon. I've watched this show ever since it came it since it was the only cartoon besides Spongebob that I actually liked and now that I'm watching it from a different lens of perspective, everything is so much more mind bottling and OMG! since I've actually been paying attention. Never knew I could TV like that let alone, a show on Cartoon Network
Own It
I guess you can say you can "own" things in many different ways. You can own a look, own a book or phone, own an animal or in cases I'd rather not speak about, you can own a person .
If you asked me what it means to own something I would say owning something like a phone or a book or thing means that its yours, you have possession over it, you OWN it. I own a computer, I own a bed and I own tons of shoes. I also own my dog or a pet because it is given to me, so I am the responsible owner. In other aspects if you own something like a look, I would say owning a look means it looks really good on you, or you make that certain look fabulous. For example; if you dye your hair pink with blue streaks, it may not look good on some people but if it looks good on you then you OWN it, you make it look good. Lets take Miley Cyrus; she has short edgy blonde hair. She owns that look because it looks really nice on her and her face fits it, she owns it! Now if that was me, I wouldnt be able to own that look because my head is rather big and blonde isnt really my color. However I must say, the color pink; I OWN that color, I look really amazing in that color if I do say myself, so I own that color in a look wise.
If you physically own something, like a person, then you have power and control over them. For instance, roughly between the 1640's and the 1860's, white people owned slaves, which means they bought them, controlled them and have power and say on everything that they did. Or, figuratively men who are controlling can say that they own their wife, referring to having control over them and labeling them as yours. Owning your wife I would say is a mental thing for men, because nowadays no one really owns a person, so there is many different ways owning can lead too.
Personally, as my mom says, you only own the things you pay for and if you havent paid for them or earned them, then it isnt physically yours.
If you asked me what it means to own something I would say owning something like a phone or a book or thing means that its yours, you have possession over it, you OWN it. I own a computer, I own a bed and I own tons of shoes. I also own my dog or a pet because it is given to me, so I am the responsible owner. In other aspects if you own something like a look, I would say owning a look means it looks really good on you, or you make that certain look fabulous. For example; if you dye your hair pink with blue streaks, it may not look good on some people but if it looks good on you then you OWN it, you make it look good. Lets take Miley Cyrus; she has short edgy blonde hair. She owns that look because it looks really nice on her and her face fits it, she owns it! Now if that was me, I wouldnt be able to own that look because my head is rather big and blonde isnt really my color. However I must say, the color pink; I OWN that color, I look really amazing in that color if I do say myself, so I own that color in a look wise.
If you physically own something, like a person, then you have power and control over them. For instance, roughly between the 1640's and the 1860's, white people owned slaves, which means they bought them, controlled them and have power and say on everything that they did. Or, figuratively men who are controlling can say that they own their wife, referring to having control over them and labeling them as yours. Owning your wife I would say is a mental thing for men, because nowadays no one really owns a person, so there is many different ways owning can lead too.
Personally, as my mom says, you only own the things you pay for and if you havent paid for them or earned them, then it isnt physically yours.
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