Archive for month: September, 2015

Before we began this class I never really thought that media had such an impact on the stereotypes we create.  I thought that it was more what we learned through our parents or are peers, but even those people had to hear it from somewhere, right? I found this stereotype article very interesting. At first I was worried that it was going to be attacking certain races  and trying to show all the ways they have been oppressed. Instead it gave examples of things such as school subjects and how teachers are taught to show students all the ways that they can be generalized into specific categories.  I also liked how this article didn’t say that generalizations or labels were necessarily a bad thing but rather they can be very beneficial if they are used in the correct manner. I liked the light switch  sample of generalization  that was used at the beginning of the article. I never really looked at it in that way before.  We do often think that just because we know one person from a specific “group” that means we know everyone associated within that group. There were numerous points made on stereotyping throughout this article that I thought were very provoking. For example the stereotype that all Italians were involved in some type of crime  (due to the depictions from “The Godfather” ) were quite prevalent in society for a while.  It’s funny how you don’t even realize that you are creating these labels just from watching a movie. I would like to think that media doesn’t have that much power over me cognitively but it’s quite scary to see that it actually does. Overall, I thought that this article made many good points and defiantly changed my view on just how much we stereotype.

Social issues are a big problem that affect everyone in the world, including university students. Every year us as the world try to solve these problems and how we can fix them. But every time we fix one or try to another problem comes up or another problem just keeps getting worse. Three social issues i am going to write about are Homelessness, Drug trafficking, and School money.

Homelessness has always been a social problem but now I see that there is more homelessness then years ago. I think homelessness is a problem because people start losing their jobs, people gamble, addictions and some just decide not to do anything. When I little I use to go to L.A a lot well I still do with my grandma and we use to walk these streets to get where ever we had to go. I would see tons and tons of people that were homeless in the streets. It would scare me and make me sad because I didn’t know how people can be so homeless or without a job. but when I started getting older i realized because some were addicted or just got laid off from a job. But to me I think they can move on from that and find more jobs. Theres basically jobs anywhere even if its not in your major as a college students jobs are pretty much easy to find. of course no one wants a hard job everyone wants the easy way to get money but if someone really wanted to get a job they go and find one.

Another Social issue is drug trafficking . Drugs  has also always been a major issue this is also a problem in colleges. Its really scary knowing this is happening in the world because we worry about the safety of our loved ones if they get involved in either of those types of issues. Some of the issues are the legalization of marijuana in states if it should be legal or not.  That way they can reduce drug trafficking, violence and even HIV thats if your using needles and sharing them.  Many colleges have had suffered consequence from drug overdosing in their student body.  We need to protect all of ourselves from this because their are dangers to drugs.

The third social issue is school money. School tuition and fees are a big problem for college students because we don’t have enough money to pay for schools. Every year I believe they raise the price for school tuition and it just keeps getting expensive from books, to parking permits and to housing where ever you live. Most students do qualify for finical aid some don’t. Some have to work jobs and try to get all the help they can. Some have to get loans and hope in the future that they can pay it off so they don’t go broke from owing all the money back to the government.