Entry 11 Future Bloggers

Blogging in the future

Kind of weird the semester is over and we are at the end of our blogging assignment. I feel like to be successful at your task you must just get in and do it. Do your research to make your topics credible. Ask for help if you truly don't understand, and play around with Blogger it has a lot of cool stuff to mess with. Dont mess with it too much though I messed around and can't fix things the way it was when I changed it. Ooops. But be creative you are the author and only you can make it portray to the readers the message you are trying to get across. So when you blog try not to make it all about personal opinion but have your own input on the subject matter. It couldnt hurt to have it all in together to make a good blog. I hope this helps and the best of luck to you and stay with it future students. Wow, that sounds weird. Ill be older by the time you read this, that's crazy right. 

Entry #10 Great Teachers Make a Difference

Teacher make a difference

In the past I have had teachers who seemed to be a great choice for the subject matter. Sometimes, or most of the time they are chosen at random. The point is I enjoyed my last semester with my Eng 102 teacher at GCC. But teachers can make or break a course. I am sure everyone has a teacher who they liked and who they didn't. Or if you  failed a course you blamed it on the teacher, or if you passed it was because you put in the work. Funny how that works sometimes. But I feel like if you do your research; like there is a website that rates teachers but I never used it. Can't recall the name I'm sure you can all google it. But signing off, I hope you can reflect and learn from my experience and choose a great teacher to help you succeed. 

#9 Power of media

Music Media Should Be as the Presidential Election

Music is a strong media for influencing society and culture. Though people in the older days spoke about revolution and organizing to rebel against politics and bring community issues an important topic. Music though has a different purpose now and days. However, hip hop was a culture of Bboys/Bgirls, DJ’s, graffiti, and MC’s (Chang, Jeff) they all went hand and hand, while promoting a positive image. Music videos were break dancers were in the background went to women in the video to be more visually pleasing. I myself was influenced with the new “gangster rap era”. Everyone wanted to do what they saw on television. While neglecting some key elements why hip hop was created, to bring together the community and shed light on artistic talent from oppression in the poverty stricken neighborhoods. I just feel like the rappers that are main stream forget about the aesthetics of true hip hop and don’t pay homage (Chang). The real issues that should be discussed are social economic hardships that are increasing at an alarming rate. Sullivan would agree that in an article he wrote that “These Issues threaten to destroy the infrastructure (Sullivan). A generation gap if you will, of the new and old school way things worked during the civil rights movement. 

Source: “The Effect of Country Music on Suicide” from Social Forces, Vol. 71, No. 1. (Sep., 1992), pp. 211-218.