week 9

Megan La Bianca

List the three changes mentioned in the article.

1A. Faculty are speaking up more about students who worry them. That’s accelerating a trend of more demand for mental health services that was already under way before the Virginia Tech shootings.

1B. Changes are being made to privacy policies. In Virginia, a measure signed into law Wednesday by Gov. tim Kaine requires colleges to bring parents into the loop when dependent students may be a danger to themselves or others.

1C. The big change since the Virginia Tech shootings, legal experts say, is colleges have shed some of their fear of violating the federal Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act.

2. Do you agree or disagree with the changes that are mentioned?
I agree with the changed being mentioned, I feel faculty needs to speak up about students, because I feel most of the issues these young adults face is school related. I also strongly agree bout privacy policies parents should always be in the loop when it comes to there children, they know them the most and they can help control the outcome.

31. What is the problem that many faculty members realized?

Faculty members realized, that the law applies only to educational records, not observations of classroom behavior, or that it contains numerous exceptions.

week 8

Megan La Bianca

1. What is the topic of the article?

The article is about, university/ college shootings in the United States.

2. What is the main idea of the article?

The main idea of the article is, we need tighter security in college/ university campuses.

3. What supporting details does the author use to support the main idea?

The author uses facts and examples to support there main idea, such as Virginia tech, where 32 people were killed by a student who then killed himself. The Texas at Austin University when Charles Whitman killed 16 people from the observation deck of a clock tower before he was gunned down, and the unforgettable 1999 Columbine High School shooting. Experts have found that, tighter security in the after math of the violence isn’t always effective. “people tend not to take security seriously until an incident happens, and then we find they are hyper vigilant. But, after a few days or months, they go back to their everyday ways.” “ we have a lot of boys and young men who don’t know how to deal with their feelings of rage or depression or being broken-heated or any of the other kinds of normal emotions.” The fact is no matter how secure we make are campuses, shooters will always find a way to get to people.

4. List three characteristics that can be early warning signs of a student's potential to become violent

1. social isolation
2. low self worth
3. doesn’t take criticism well

5.What security measures have you noticed on this campus? Do you think these measures are worthwhile?? Why or why not?? On campus, I have noticed, emergency phones, identification cards, security cameras and security vehicles. I feel these security measures are important in which, student id helps with always knowing if someone goes for does not go to our school, but I feel we can take it a step further like my high school in Northport, when we had to swipe id cards in order to get into the building so, the school knows when and where we are at all times so incase a incident god for bid happened here they would be able to narrow down the person with time and place. I also feel security cameras help in visually seeing someone, and how people are reacting to such matters. And I feel safe knowing the security drives around all the time so if anything ever did happen I know there around. I feel these matters are very important and should be all stepped up in order to preserve are safety.

week 7

Megan La Bianca

Today natural beauty is distorted by Photoshop, today we can easily hide the acne, the wrinkles, and the baggie eyes. We can change everything about someone with a few quick clicks of a button. Today there is no such thing as natural beauty, because the media is selling to us, that we need these beauty products to look and feel young and pretty. Really when we look in the magazines, look up at the build boards, were not seeing the “big picture”, we don’t see how this is not natural beauty, this is hours of make up and hair work, hours of Photoshop, touching up every inch. The media paints over what we think is natural and we get frustrated when we wish we could be that beautiful when really no one is, its all an illusion.

Did you change your original views from Week Six?

No my views are still the same, women are being portrayed as people there not, being all touched up with make up and hours of editing, women everyday look at these women and are getting the wrong message, everyday women fight with them self in the mirror, they wish they had this, and looked like that, but really no one does because the media has painted a picture of what we “want to see” not what we really see.

Did it make you think differently about what we see in the media and what reality is?

Yes, we don’t see the big picture like I said before, we think were seeing this naturally beautiful women, but in reality, there being warped and rearranged in Photoshop and other editing programs. We wish we could be so naturally pretty and skinny and this and that but really no one is, the media shows us what we want to see, not what is really there.

week 6

Megan La Bianca

1. I expect this article to portray how the media is affecting what we see as beautiful.
2. I read women’s health a lot and they always have a very tone women on the front cover but she’s not skin and bone. I feel there portraying women to lose weight but be tone and built so it can be misleading, as it could show women to be skinny and women will feel pressure to lose weight but also build muscle so they don’t look like walking skeletons.

What is the main idea of the article

The main idea of the article is the media is painting a picture of what we should see as normal, skinny, lots of make up, expensive jewelry. Its telling women that there not good enough as they are so by buying these diet, and make up products they will be more suitable in are society. Sexy sells today every beer commercial has the beautiful, skinny girl advertising there drink, because most men drink beer so you put women and beer together men will sure buy the beer. Today losing weight is a epidemic there’s over a million diet and fitness commercials a year and women are being mislead because they feel that if they lose this weight everything will be better they’ll get the guys, the money, the better life, but really there just making the diet industry richer and richer. Today being skinny is a fashion statement and if your not skinny your not “in”.

What reason is given in the reading to explain the images of women in the media?

The reasons that women are all over the media, is sexy sells. Products are pushing sex and sexy in all there products. Advertisers are pushing how we feel every day we want to feel loved and beautiful so by drinking this drink, by wearing these clothes we will fulfill are need to satisfy are curiosity and are need to fit in. Magazines are telling us what we want to know, they make money one are weakness, everyone struggles with there weight so we want to fix it and the magazines and advertisers know how to sell there products by showing us what we will gain from buying there products. Today “advertising rules the marketplace” and thin is in! Today women are going to higher and higher lengths to fit in and if that means changing who they are they’ll do it, because like the article says being thin means having it all, the perfect marriage, loving children and great sex with a rewarding career. The media is showing us what we want and that’s why we buy it, we fall for there tricks.

Why did the researchers generate a computer model of Barbie-doll proportions?

Researchers generated a computer model of Barbie doll proportions to show the disturbing fact that media images of a female beauty are unattainable. They showed how her proportions showed her back was too weak to support the weight of her upper body, and that her body would be too narrow to contain more than half of her liver and a few centimeters of bowel. They showed this to explain that so many women want this body, but is it worth it? Because with a body like that women can suffer from devastating health consequences.

women should be portrayed in the media, as all different shapes and sizes, in the article it states that, an Australian magazine recently included a picture of a heavy –set model on its cover, it latter received a truckload of letters stating it should be taking off. But why? Shouldn’t we portray all shapes sizes and colors? Because in real life that what we are. To me I feel people don’t want to see what’s true, the want to live in there own little world that everything can change over night by buying diet pills and expensive make up. But really in the end are they happy? We have been so heavily influenced that skinny is the only way to be happy that we go through higher lengths to have it. We should portray all women because there all different kinds of women out there.