Week 6: Television

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k7Ua5xC3phM

Length: 1:29
Description: A video about the history of the invention of modern television and who the real inventor was and how he was beat out by a bigger company.
Chapter 9: Television
Question: Who was the real father of television and what did he spend his time defending?
Answer: Farsnworth, his patents

Week 5: Movies or Recordings

My favorite movie of 2009 was "Up." I first saw it at the movie theaters with my best friend. I liked it because it made me feel like a kid again, and the old man learned a valuable lesson from a child. He went on a great adventure that he had been waiting for his whole life, and he realized that it was not what he thought it would be and the rest of his past was what was important. It is animated and a really cute film!

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1049413/

Week 4: Magazines

The name of my proposed new magazine is "The Right Figure." It is a workout magazine that let's you work at your own pace and helps you come up with your own personal plan to get the body you want. It is not like other workout magazines because unlike it's competitors such as Shape, it does not make you feel bad about your weight or body type by showing pictures of models doing workouts. Instead, it shows many different women and their stories about how they got the bodies and health that they wanted. This magazine targets women and is mostly for the female body and female health problems. There will be 3 big feature articles that will tell the stories of regular women who improved their health and body types by forming plans that fit their schedules. There will also be one article from a doctor's point of view that emphasizes the importance of a healthy looking body inside and out. In addition to these 4, another article will discuss different ways to plan out your workout around your busy schedule. Five advertisers in the magazine would include, Bebe Sport clothing, Organic cracker providers, The Right Stuff and 24 hour fitness gym facilities and Whole Foods Market. The premier issue cover would be full of color and feature some of the stories and advertisements on the inside. It would have the title at the top and many woman of different ethnic backgrounds, different ages, and different body types on the cover as well.

Week 3: Books

I've read a lot of books in my lifetime, but if I had to choose the three most influential, they would be the following: Tuesday's With Morrie, Romeo & Juliet, and The Color Purple. First off, Tuesday's with Morrie influenced me to live life in the now and make the most out of life. The young man in the story was consumed by his job and money and was therefore wasting away his life and pushing away his loved ones. The old man, Morrie taught him valuable lessons about life and I learned a lot as well. The second book, Romeo & Juliet was influential to me because it was the greatest love story I have every read. It tells the tale of two lovers who were truly in love. The last story, The Color Purple, was about black people before the civil rights movement and it was important to me because it showed the impact that racism has on victims and also how hard things were for them in the old days.

http://www.amazon.com/Tuesdays-Morrie-Young-Greatest-Lesson/dp/076790592X/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1255388104&sr=1-1

http://www.amazon.com/Romeo-Juliet-William-Shakespeare/dp/1449517382/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1255390186&sr=1-1

http://www.amazon.com/Color-Purple-Musical-Tie/dp/0156031825/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1255390066&sr=8-1

Week 2: Media Impact

For my media research project, I would like to test out the idea that drug use in the media has a large impact on children in today's society. I would test out the social learning theory by talking to 2 groups of children at different ages and seeing how they view drug use. I predict that kids will see drugs as normal and unharmful because they see it so much in the media. I believe that socialization also plays a role in how children view norms of society.