Blog 2 Louie Galang

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Well, after reading the article, it feels like that some of the thins I’ve noticed about my childhood and the retroactive observations I’ve made looking at the things my brother watches had been somehow proven right. That generalizations do exist from the very beginning, and can be a very slippery slope towards stereotypes. The generalizations come from lots of places, and not just the media. I think my parents had a minor hand in the act of instilling some of these generalizations, even some negative stereotypes, not just the media he consumes. I’ve also been the general product of many of the outside forms of generalization teaching, where I had to learn “Fear” and “Distrust” over various generalized people, cultures, and subcultures. Yet with the exposure to these same factors, I changed “Fear” and “Distrust to “Curiosity” and “Understanding”. I had never experienced black culture until my stepfather came into my life, and showed me so much more than the southern caricatures provided by the media, and that he learned  much about the Filipino culture, being a part of my family as he is now. Then with my brother, who is of both cultures, he will be playing on a different field than I am, who is of mostly one culture. He will have a much wider representation in the media now, along with a much more diverse future ahead. With that come new and different generalizations that I would want to help him understand, before the stereotypes form.

Discussion 2

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Happy Saturday!

I just started working on my notes for the quiz Monday and it got me thinking about the readings we had this week.

I’m really enjoying the Sternheimer book; she takes some interesting perspectives, most that I wouldn’t have. I liked her discussion on the meaning of childhood and how it changes from generation to generation. Her idea that “popular culture often challenges adult control” (p.27) was funny to me. I don’t know how true that is, unless her idea of an adult is someone without access to media. Both of my parents are pretty up to date with the going ons in pop culture. They don’t necessarily care or find it interesting, but they do follow it. I guess this statement made me wonder who she thinks is actually consuming media.As Sternheimer asked us to define childhood, I would really like for her to define what an adult actually is.

However, I did like her point that “Perceptions of childhood now reflect adult anxieties about information technology, a shifting economy, a multiethnic population, and an unknown future,” (p. 37). I think every subsequent generation will cause the former generation concern if only because the future truly is unknown and the developments that come with it are up in the air. Are you concerned about the future generations based on the state of the media?

The Cortes article was also interesting. I always thought that generalization and stereotype were interchangeable, but clearly there is a difference. As a future teacher, I would like to incorporate media into my classroom and the readings we have had have helped form an idea of how to do so. I liked that Cortes emphasizes not to give students an assignment where they have to find stereotypes because they will have no idea what to look for (p. 159). It’s really important, I think even in our class right now, that we have a full understanding of what we are saying and what we are looking for. This way, we can have a better understanding of media stereotypes and be able to look for these stereotypes much more accurately. Did you guys agree with the idea that we can’t automatically go looking for stereotypes if we don’t know the correct definition and the difference between a stereotype and a generalization?

-Maddie

Stereotypes

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When it comes to stereotypes, I feel that the majority of people do it. I might even do it myself without even realizing it or meaning to. This article mentioned that we don’t need to stop categorizing or generalizing people or things. At first I considered categorizing and stereotypes two different things, but once I began reading the article, I kind of began seeing some similarities. But I believe that those two words have different means and are used differently.

The article talks about categorizing and generalizing as a way to distinguish certain things, which is true. For example, we categorize male and female and we can even group them depending on age, but when it comes to stereotype, people usually go based of what they know and the actions or appearance of people. For example, someone might look at someone and based off the way they’re dressed, they can assume something and mentally categorize that person, and that’s where stereotyping begins.

Transcatheter aortic valve replacement

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Recently I had the experience of caring for patients on a hospital’s telemetry floor. One of my patients had just received a transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR), sometimes referred to as transcatheter aortic valve implantation (TAVI). The TAVR procedure is a new cardiac procedure being performed at the hospital. TAVR procedures have been performed in Europe since 2007, but were only approved by the FDA in the United States in 2011 (Buntz, 2012). A transcatheter aortic valve replacement is used as an alternative to traditional aortic valve surgery in patients with aortic stenosis who, either because of age or comorbidities, are not candidates for traditional cardiac surgery (Khatri et al., 2013). The TAVR procedure does not require a sternotomy, but instead threads a balloon catheter with the replacement valve through the femoral artery (transfemoral approach) and into position (American Heart Association, 2015).

The research efforts of Khatri et al. (2013) investigate the adverse effects associated with transcather aortic valve replacement and attempt to identify if certain approaches (transarterial or transsapical) or types of valves (CoreValve or Sapien valve) have different adverse effects. From their research Khatri et al. (2013) concluded that heart block, vascular complications, and acute renal failure were the most common side effects of the TAVR procedure. The CoreValve was more often associated with heart block but less likely to cause vascular complications (Khatri et al., 2013). In addition, the transapical approach has lower thirty day survival rates than the transfemoral approach (Khatri et al., 2013). The study highlights the fact that most patients receiving the TAVR transapically had significant peripheral vascular disease and therefore greater comorbidities than those who’s vasculature was adequate for the transfemoral approach (Khatri et al., 2013). Further research is needed to assist physicians in making decisions about the best valve types and approach to use when preforming the TAVR procedure.

References

American Heart Association. (2015). What is TAVR? In Heart valve problems and disease. Retrieved from http://www.heart.org

Buntz, B. (2012). TAVR: Still the next big thing in cardiology? Medical Device and Diagnostic Industry. Retrieved from http://mddionline.com/article/tavr-still-next-big-thing-cardiology

Khatri, P., Webb, J., Rodes-Cabau, J., Fremes, S., Ruel, M., Lau, K., … Ko, D. (2013). Adverse effects associated with transcatheter aortic valve implantation: A meta-analysis of contemporary studies. American College of Physicians, 158, 35-46.

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September 21st

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“Struggling with Stereotypes: Users and Abuses of a Critical Concept”

This article was an interesting read to me for multiple reasons. In this article the author starts with explaining how certain words “can lose their power through overuse”. I thought to myself how true this is in everyday life. So many people say slang words or joking insults without really even knowing the meaning of the word to begin with. However the word is said so often so it seems socially acceptable. The main topic of this article was to dissect the meanings and issues revolved around generalization and stereotyping. This article surprised me in the way that it was not at all trying to say that these two topics need to be erased or looked at as a problem and nothing more. In fact the author flat out disagrees with the idea of getting rid of labels and generalizations. The author is more concerned with the public being able to make educated decisions when looking and interpreting at the world. The article gave great detail how the media is a huge factor to generalization, as the creators don’t believe they are stereotyping, when they essentially are creating a “group stereotype”. Meaning an individual could cause a label for the whole of a group of people when that is simply not the case at all, since everyone is different. The author also did a good job at not just blaming schools for the negative sides of generalization and stereotyping, instead he spoke about the difficulty of explaining such topics as they have grey overlapping areas. Another part of the article I found very interesting was when it talked about how group knowledge needs to be open to change. It sounds easier than it actually is, because people don’t like to change, if they have a particular view since they were little then they are pretty set in that thought process for the future. Labels, generalization, stereotyping etc. are a part of our world that will never go away. However if more people where open to looking at change, not necessarily accepting it but understanding it, I think it would make a difference. The article also concluded that when studying these concepts in the media it is important to look at patterns to understand just how the media causes “group generalization”.

Trends in Human Population in the Cook Islands

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In looking at larger scale trends in environmental quality, we have pulled together population data over time across the Cook Islands. This is the overall trend (summing across all 15 of the islands that comprise the Cook Islands): Here is a bit more complicated graph wherein an island representing each of the temporal patterns we […]

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Go away Sterotypes

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Personally when it comes to  Race stereotypes I greatly become angry and frustrated about how the word becomes so closed minded.Honestly I detest stereotypes, personally I don’t believe they have a reason for being around.  When the article says that “We need to stop categorizing and generalizing people” it’s the sad truth that we as a society are to focus on putting  labels on anything. Thnik about it, you have tv movies displaying the jocks as brainless people (for example think of glee, they preseve Noah Puckerman’s character as a stupid football player who liked to sleep with Cheerleaders. Or take the Nerds of the big bang theroy, the show allows people to think smart people are loners that may or may not find someone to accept them.) But in all honestly this article has officially kind of gave me a new look on it. I do believe we need to stop stereotyping, but in this article I can see why we need to look at it in a different light, mainly that this could change for other people if we teach them to see that being open to others and their ideas will prevent stereotyping. Our open minds can bring us to a better place than generalizing and creating problems for other people.

 

Do We Still Believe in Civil Rights?

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On March 15, 1965 a man from Giant Oaks California by the name of James J. Sloan wrote a letter the Congressman Harold T. “Bizz” Johnson urging support of the Civil Rights Bill. Which entailed for the most part the abolishment of the prerequisites required to vote, as well as the discrimination against minority groups when voting.

FullSizeRender (3)Mr. Sloan then progresses throughout his letter and continues to give support of federal troops in the south or “whatever means taken to guarantee the safety of individuals of whatever color.”  In bring this statement up he was referring to Bloody Sunday which had taken place in Selma, Alabama. Bloody Sunday is the name referred to the events that took place on March 7th where over six hundred SNCC and SCLC activist marched to support The Civil Rights Act. Where they were held to a stop by the Alabama State troopers a demanded to turn back. Once they had refused they policemen then open fired with teargas and beaten with billy clubs, leaving over fifty people were hospitalized.

The letter then precedes to urge the congressmen to pass the bill explaining it is the right thing to do and it would extend America. How simple this may all sound It is not the only thing I had stumbled upon. After going though simply one other folder I found a completely different radical view than what Mr. Sloan had expressed.

No more than three years later another letter was composed by Eugene P. Bayliss on the date of March 20th nearly exactly three years later from the first letter. The tone of everything changed, the two new big bills were the Civil Rights Act of 1968 and Title VIII.  Both the Civil Rights Act of 1968 also known as the Fair Housing Act and Title VIII were laws that prohibited discrimination concerning the sale, rental, and financing of housing.

Bayliss throughout the letter is completely against the passage of both these act FullSizeRender (4)and actually  insults America and trashes African American remodels. She even questions exactly whose Civil Rights the government is fighting for stating “Whose Civil Rights…the phony civil rights of the Stokely Carmichaels, Rap Browns, and Martin ‘Lucifer’ Kings.” She urges the denial of this “un-American bill”

What is startling to me is that the general public of California in 1965 had been pro-civil rights and had wanted the African American citizens to be able to vote, but in a short time span the citizens would be totally against Title VIII. It leaves a total unanswered and real question of is discrimination an segregation really over even after fifty years or is it only others thinking on the behalf of their own good?