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NY Legalizes Gay Marriage
So NY finally legalized gay marriage and I am sure thousands of people all over the state and country are thrilled and jumping uncontrollably right now. I honestly hadn’t realized just how far this gay marriage issue goes until I watched that movie in class, and had to see that poor police officer and that poor farmer from the south have to endure unimaginable hardships because the law makes it so difficult if not nearly impossibly for gay couples to get what is rightfully theirs, and something that a straight couple would not even have to ask for, it would just be automatically handed to them. I don’t know how I feel about gay marriage. I mean this is America and everyone has the right to be treated equal, and to pursuit happiness, that is one of the founding principles of this country. I have nothing against homosexual people, they don’t bother me and I don’t bother them and I don’t see why anyone else should bother them. The heart wants what it wants, and who are you to tell anyone otherwise. As far as marriage goes, I don’t know, it’s not that I’m against it, its just a little hard for me to be able to fully wrap my mind around it. Its just since the beginning of time its been Adam and Eve, since I was born I have been conditioned to think by family, friends, and society in general that marriage is between a man and a woman. I’m a very open minded person, and If I’m having trouble grasping this concept, then I can imagine how much trouble other people must be having.NY Gay Marriage
Broken Dreams – Guest Workers Tricked Into Slavery
America, the land where dreams come true. People from all over the world dream of coming to this country, we are the land of the free and the home of the brave, and everyone in most inferior countries holds us on a pedestal. This country was built by immigrants and that still applies today. Immigrants do all of the jobs that need to be done, by they are so dirty, difficult and miniscule that most normal Americans wouldn’t feel comfortable doing them, and that is where immigrants come into play. As we saw today in Maid in America many women from other countries mainly, Latin, Eastern European and Asian are brought to America for various work, may it be cleaning, child care, or factory work. They don’t make a ton of money, but even they admit that as little as they make here, it is still a much larger amount then they would be making in their home countries. Unfortunately where there is a potential for large profits, and weak people in vulnerable and desperate positions, there will always be someone right there to take advantage of them, their trusting nature, and mainly their desperation. The situation usually goes something like this; they take a woman from a small poor village and promise her some kind of lucrative factory or restaurant work in a more industrialized country. Once they bring her over they say she owes them thousands of dollars in fees and basically hold her in bondage until she pays. A lot of the time they will force the women into some form of either domestic or sexual slavery, working long hours in dangerous conditions for very little or absolutely no pay. The clip I am including is an example of one of these scenarios. Lies and Deceit!
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Smoking Ads Aimed At Kids – Downside of Child Marketing
We have been watching a lot of videos and reading a lot of material regarding marketers targeting children. We heard a lot of different voices and opinions, but the general tone of the conversation in my opinion was that companies go overboard and take advantage of children, and also put parents in a very vulnerable and somewhat defenseless position, because they cannot always afford every item on the child’s list. The dolls with the very provocative outfits, the girls in the movies and the girls in the songs, talking about and acting out very serious adult sexual situations all have affects on little girls in a negative manner. We’ve all seen the eleven year old girl walking down the street in a mini – skirt tank top and high heels, completely inappropriate attire for a anyone let alone a prepubescent girl. Also all the movies and video games with all the violent images of shootings, stabbings, murders desensitize kids to violence, and condition kids (mainly boys) to think that that is how they are supposed to act and make them more predisposed to being violent themselves. It doesn’t end there, companies even go as far as marketing lethal products like tobacco to children. They will put cartoon characters on the cigarette displays, and associate characters that the kids are familiar with, with tobacco. They call this building brand loyalty. These kids don’t stand a chance, and then people wonder why they are smoking at twelve years old, because this crap has been pumped into their brain since they weren’t even old enough to understand what was being done to them. The clip I am showing is an extreme, but its really not as far fetched as people may think. 2 year old smokes 2 packs a day
Hazards of Child Consumerism
In a marketing class I was taking, I learned about the term “clutter”. According to Wikipedia.com clutter means,
“the large volume of advertising messages that the average consumer is exposed to on a daily basis. This phenomenon results from a marketplace that is overcrowded with products leading to huge competition for customers.”
Think about the enormous amounts of marketing and advertising campaigns that you are bombarded with on a daily basis, it’s truly mind boggling, everywhere you go there are product placements. After reading Lisa Jacobson’s article on child consumers, I realized what a large role they place in this as well. Although the articles study only goes until 1940, its concept still applies today more so then ever, with the internet, with television, and all the magazines and books that children look through. Children have a much harder time distinguishing between their wants and needs, so if we see ten advertisements we may want all of them, but realize that we only need / can afford a few of them, children on the other hand feel that they would need all ten products. In the article Lisa talks about class distinction, and how children in the lower classes cannot get everything they want, which can lead events that are discussed in this clip: Children Consumers. It also talks about the problems that products can create between parent and child, when the child does not receive everything they desire, and begins to question/disobey their parent’s authority. It’s a slippery rope, because you cannot hide them from all of the advertisements, if you buy them everything they seek, they will become spoiled and wont learn the value of a hard dollar. On the other hand if you don’t it might create problems in your relationship. How do you find a viable compromise?
Donor Insemination, a Difficult Decision.
I wasn’t really familiar with the topic of DI until taking this course and reading Katrina Hargreaves article on it. I came across some interesting clips, and also found out there was a major Hollywood film starring, Mark Ruffalo and Julianne Moore about this topic that was released just last year (2010), here is a preview:Film Preview.
The film is about a lesbian couple who choose to use DI to have children, when the children get old enough they decide to get in touch with the man who donated the sperm, technically their biological father and inform him that they are his children. The more time the children want to spend with the man, the more jealous their “mothers” become. Of course in Hollywood you can always expect the happy ending, everyone will get along and they will become one happy family, but that is not how it always turns out in real life.
Whether to tell the child about their biological parents is a very difficult decision. A lot of factors have to be taken into account, the psychological ramifications of such information, the biological parents interests or lack their of in the child’s life, the possible strain that telling the child will put into your relationship with them, and things of that nature. So many things can go wrong, the list is endless, this is why some couples feel it is better to just leave the child in the dark and have them continue to think that you are his birth parents, to avoid any confusion and the avalanche of emotions that come along with dropping such heavy information on the child. Personally I feel they have a right to know, but every couple has a right to approach it whichever way they deem fit.
