dont ask dont tell

I was a little confused about don't ask, don't tell when we started talking about it, but reading this article put it all in perspective for me. They asked a lot of good questions why  they shouldnt repeal and it did all make sense, however, i do not agree with the policy. It just discriminates against another type of people for no reason. I understand that there are reasons why it would be harder for gay people to enter the military, but i feel if it is a person who feels strongly about wanting to be a part of te military and help protect our country that should be all that matters. This person wants to put themselves on the line in order to help their country, it should not matter what their sexual orientation is just as it does not matter their racial orientation. I do know that it will be hard at first and things will be weird, but thats just how life is with change but we get use to it and we cant ever get use to this idea if we dont accept it and start it.

globalization

My thoughts of globalization were just that it was happening whether it be good or bad it is here and there isnt much we can do about it. After the first video we watched, i really thought about what the one man said abuot losing individuality and uniqueness, but i still feel that there isnt much we can do to change what is going on in our world, at least not yet.

I'm not quite sure how I feel about Americanization, I feel like it is a good thing that people are learning of things from our world and other worlds and applying them to each other, but i still feel like people may lose themselves when they do things like this. As long as they can keep these interests, but still have their own cultures and be themselves, i do not feel like it has to be a bad thing.

McDonaldization is basically a term to let people understand how fast food restaurants are dominating american society and the world. There are McDonalds and other types of fast food places everywhere from here to Africa to China. The reason this is not good is because it is targeting too many young children and is one of the causes of childhood obesity.

Pessimistic Hyperglobalizers are the kind of people who argue that we are not coming together as a whole world and reflecting everyone cultures except merely becoming more and more Americanized and moving toward popular western cultures.

Optimistic Hyperglobalizers they agree with the people above but believe that it is a good thing instead. They believe that this can bring good outcomes and other worlds and cultures can learn good things from America.

multigenre component

For my SAP i think i am  going to make a movie  maker (or that cool xtranormal thing) and a poster. For my poster, I want to show and and explain my experiment. Show the pictures, questionnnaire, and data from my participants. For the movie maker, I want to show more pictures of the media and the way its affecting women and also maybe have a few statistics and quotes from my articles in there along with different songs that women singers have made in order to show their point and to not follow and fall to that. I think those 2 will be really helpful to explain my social action plan and paper.

Discussion 6

1. The 3 racial differences that the author mentioned were racialization of state policy, economic detour, and racial inequality.
2. They interviewed white and black families to find out if about different wealth disparities.
3. The authors found that the main theme was
4. The authors states that for us to close the racial gap in terms of wealth we need to directly address the situations of African Americans. We should also promote asset opportunities for those at the bottom of the class system  regardless of ethnicity.
5.  My story in coming to college, is that is has been harder than i expected in many ways. There was the money in which i still have multiple loans in order to keep me here

classism discussion- social class questionnaire

I read a social questionnaire about one of my classmates, Kit, and the of the words she used most was lower middle class. She described that she feels she lives in a lower middle class but everything is okay with that. Her family has enough money to get by but not enough to feel secure and get other things that she wanted. She also felt that her family was hardworking and that what made was hard to hear about her class was hearing that they were worrying about money. However, she feels that she also still knows many people who may be lower in class than her and their lives are very different. She stated "their parents are divorced so the mom has to live on her welfare and also college is not something they care about as much as my family." They just have very different values and even though she is not in the highest class she is still happy with what she has.

article data & results

The participants were 94 female students from the age of 19-24.
The data section begins by explaining how many participants there are and explaining their BMI and the difference between high self-discrepant women and compared to low self-discrepant women.
It is organized in many ways. They have 3 different tables help showing results and also they break it into sections of different concerns. They give us the means and standard deviations of each of the experimental and control groups.
The themes are showing that the media does somewhat affect how women perceive themselves.
They use the p-value, and the means and SD in order to prove whether or not their study is statistically significant.
What stands out the most for me is that they are doing an experiemt which is what I see a lot in my major and also what I am doing for my data collection. Mine will not be as difficult as theres but I feel that mine will still get my point across.
I would give them an A. It was very thought out and they had all the information they needed written in an intelligent way.

Comparing 2 different articles

Focus, participants, how is data collected, & comment on use of data

data collection

I have made my questionnaires for my experiment and have set up this sunday as a time to do it. I will be doing an experiment with 10 people afterwards i am going to take a look at their scores and then individually interview 2-3 of them. My experiment is going to consist of 5 statements with different type of saying like "I am okay with my body" and then having them rate their self esteem then they are going to watch a slide show of beautiful women from magazines and tv shows. Then they will do a similiar questionnaire after to see if their scores go down.

Psychology Jobs

For my major there are many different jobs available on this website. Many times with a Psychology major however you need to get further education as well. My plan is to get my Masters degree after I graduate in Guidance and Counseling and become a High School Guidance Counselor. I have also been wondering about developmental psychology though because I do love working with children. This way, I am still in the education type field but a higher level than just a teacher at an elementary or secondary education level.

Educational Equality

1. I feel that the statement is problematic because she is saynig that just because people are blind, then they are not  normal. I feel that she needs to start thinking that she is normal in order to not be thinking that way against herself. She needs to see herself as a normal person, yeah there might be a flaw with her but everybody has flaws.
2. I feel that Sally Frenchs tone is kind of angry, and negative. She is talking about how nobody will stick up for blind people and how not a lot is accessible for them. This may definitely be true but I still feel that she could be positive about it and maybe talk more about ways to fix it instead of just how bad it is.
3. There were different reasons that minorities would be more likely to be placed in special education classes. One was that most students that are immigrants do not know the language well enough and they do not have time to talk to them individually this way they put them in these classes where will have more one on one time, however they may be learning less than they actually know. Also, these students may come from poorer families and are behind in school so are placed in these classes even though they do not necesarily have disability.
4.With IDEA and ADA, they saw better ways to get involved in students lives who do have disabilties. With IDEA, they make up a clear schedule and ways to track the student make sure they arent falling behind and making sure they get the help they need; whether it be extra test time, certain technology, and many others. With these ideas, we are starting to work harder on this situation but it still will take time.

Sample CVs

I thought that these Cover Letters and Resumes were pretty good. I thought that the strengths of these would be is that they include all the information necessary. For the cover letters, they showed knowledge of the companies that they also included their strengths and why they would be good for these specific jobs. However, in the 2nd cover letter, I felt that she included a paragraph was not necesarily needed for this application. For the resumes, I feel that one weakness, I would say would be that the first one is too long. A resume should only be about a. page, it is a quick way for employers to get to know a candidate and they don't want to be reading a story about the person. Also the first one did not contain much about the activities the student was involved in or about his skills either. All in all, I think they would need some work and some are better than others but defintely a good start for people who havent made one before

Interview Questions

Questions after slide show
1. Age
2. Gender
3.Did you feel the pictures made you feel worse about yourself?
4. Which picture made you feel most inferior?
5. This is a way the media is affecting women, do you know any others?
6. How do you think we can stop it and make women and people more aware?

Shitty First Drafts

—Read: Shitty First Drafts and write a short blog response about your reflections on the article.  What intrigued you in her article? Write your next steps in revising your “shitty first drafts” of your social action research components.

I thought her article was really catchy and entertaining. She reeled you in and helped you understand that everyone has a bad first draft but thats the whole point of writing. To keep re-writing and fixing it and making it even better. I really need to dig into my drafts and see what all my peer reviews and teacher reviews have said and revise it to their likings but also re-read it and revise to what I think will make it better.

Discussion #4

—According to Gregory Herek, what are the consequences of anti-gay prejudice ?

- the consequences of anti-gay prejudice would be having same-sex friendships. Men who have very strong attitudes towards homosexual males tend to not have friendships with them compared to males who are tolerant of it

—How does Herek define “Secondary victimization”?

- Herek defined secondary victimization as increased discrimination when others learn about someone's sexual orientation as a consequence of victimization.

—Burns find out that sexuality is not always a private matter. What did Burns find out about staying silent about one’s sexuality? Why is it necessary for some students to be open and vocal about who they are?

- He saw that a lot of students stayed quiet for multiple reasons; not to be made fun of, so their parents wouldn't know, so they wouldn't be treated differently. However, many other students wanted to stay true to they are, do as they please and let people know that they are proud of who they are.

—Lim-Him discusses  two forms of oppression: racism and homophobia. What is the intersection of race and sexuality according to the author? 

In class interviews

I interviewed Paige to learn about what her future academic plans are. With my interview, I found out that she is majoring in Nursing; she is not in the program right now, but hoping for the best. Right when she graduates, she has two plans. She would either like to take time to travel to show that she has that experience or she would like to get a job right away. Paige stated, "I would probably live at home and work nearby for the first few years," this way she would have an income coming in and then could then move out on her own. She really likes the pediatric area of nursing, but is afraid that it would make her sad to have to see children in pain or dying; she definitely knows that she does not want to work in the ER area. All in all, she is hoping that when she graduated she can find a nice job with benefits, close to home, good hours and everything else that would make it a pleasant working environment.

Methodology

Methods

Participants & Materials

My study included the interviews of ten women. These women were all undergraduated at Illinois State University, and ranged from the ages of 19-21. I asked each of these women to sit down and rate their feelings of self esteem on a scale of 1-5 from 1= very bad about myself to 5= very good about myself. They rated their feelings, then sat down to continue on to view a powerpoint of a few pictures. These pictures included sexy women in alcohol ads, and also atheltic type ads with women in sports bras with thin bodies. After they viewed these ads, they were then asked to rate themselves again.

Finding your own voice

I would define "voice" as the way I say and do things. Everything that I am saying is coming straight from my mind and soul and I really feel and believe in what I'm saying. I feel that this is discovered just by sitting down and writing a paper, or sending a text message or an email. When you sit down and write something, anything, you are using your own voice. I feel that Lamott means we need to overcome our fears and  just write to help us learn. By going through the door, we are unlocking new mysteries, new events, and something that will help us grow in our writing experience. I really like that quote, I feel as if it is a good way to get people to think to try new things and get their life started.

Asian's lesbian's Struggle

1. A visible minority is someone that right away we can see and already place them in a group. When we see an asian women, we already know that she is asian and place her in that group right away. An invisible minority is a little different; it is when someone is a minority but we may not be able to tell right away. It could be someone who looks mainly white, but maybe when they speak we undestand that they are not. Or maybe someone of a different sexual orientation, we can not tell that by looking at them but maybe when we get to know them we figure that out.
2. Sticking to your own kind means that you hang around/ are with people of your own race, gender, sexual orientation. It doesn't matter which "kind" you mean, but  just that you hang with those type of people and no others. Some people stick to their own kind because they feel comfortable with people like them, they believe they won't judge them and they will always befriend them. Also, sometimes people are left with no choice because people don't want to hang with them except their own kind, or their famiilies are against them hanging with other "kinds".
3. Her main struggle is her internalized racism, she is against her own culture and does not want to be iffiliated with anyone of her asian heritage. She overcomes it when she meets other people of her culture and other people who tell her how empowering it is to embrace their cultures.
4.This may sound bad, but I do not really feel that I need to tone down any aspect of my identity. I am an average white female living in a suburban area. I don't have much of an accent or anything to really take me out of the crowd.

Discussion #2

I feel that Paige and I did a very good job on our discussion. We worked hard and worked together as well. We split up the project, and each did an article and also worked together on the 2nd article. We each found a visual to help our project and we each thought of good question which we thought would really help our disucssion and help our class to speak up. I feel that this was a very strong discussion, and we pulled it off very well. I chose this discussion because it is very close to my SAP paper and I think that it is similar to what Paige is writing too.

"Adopting the Principle of Pro-feminism"

I feel that there are some things i do by perpetuating sexism. I feel that when me and my friends go out and get all dressed up, we are perpetuating sexism. We wear tight clothing, put on a lot of make up, and go out to impress boys or other people with how we look. Also, I feel that Halloween is a big holiday where girls perpetuate sexism. They go out in scandulous outfits that they think is okay to wear just because it's halloween, except these are very sexist outfits and showing off girls bodies. There are many more things just like this out there. I feel that we need to figure out a way to overcome these, however, I do not feel that this will happen until without time. Right now, we are at an age where we do not look at sexism as much as we should.

American Dream

Kevin Jenning's dream basically was to be accepted. All of his life, he was told he had to act one way and be one way, and it was never what he truly wanted. His mother wanted a good life for him so he spent all his time trying to do what she wanted him too and be a good person, but he never got to do what he wanted to do or be his true self. It took him a long period of time to realize that he needs to come to understanding with himself and be true to himself in order to live the  american dream. My favorite part in the story was when he asked multiple questions abuots racism and life. He asked "why if someone cheated someone out of money they were referred to as jews?", and "why was my brother ostracized when he fell in love with and later married a black woman?" I thought that was a very strong part of this article, because it wasn't just about him it was about life and the racism that comes with it. He made it to show people that everyone should be able to have their "American Dream".

I like the quote about real freedom that Kevin Jennings wrote on second to last page. I felt it was strong and it really spoke to me as a reader. He is telling people something they need to hear and they need to realize that if they don't take that advice, they may never get to feel this real freedom and be happy and open with who they are.

Discussion #1

The articles we had to read for this discussion I think all put their own thought into it differently. They all focused on different things with the same underlining topic. My favorite of all of them was the American Dream one. I thought that this one showed the most heart and did not just talk about racism over African Americans but used examples of all kinds. The one that we are discussing in our blogs however, i was not that big of a fan of. I understand what they were trying to do, I just feel them telling us we need to look back and change things doesn't mean people are going to.

Get Info: Theres so many ways to get information about racism. You can just talk to people, read books, read articles, and just by living life you are getting information and learning about racism. It happens everyday, so people are learning just by living their lives.
Do Something: I would start by realizing what my prejudices are and conquering them before I can do anything else.
Listen: I think I need to start by listening to my friends and family about what they feel about racism and prejudice and then listen to people who feel passionate about racism and the people who have the feel that they have the most prejudice about them.
Talk: I want to talk to everyone about this situation. I want to start with people of all kinds of racism and who feels the effects of racism.
Back to past: I feel that if people can look to the past at all of the racism there was which was even worse  than today they could see how horrible it was and maybe that could hopefully inspire a change they would want to take on.
Find heroes and sheroes: Heroes could be anyone someone knows that overcame racism and prejudice and also someone that wants to teach and help others all about how they overcame it and how others can too.

Paraphrasing

Many times while writing a paper, students excessively use quotations direct from their sources. When it comes time to finish the final paper, students should try to stay away from using it too much and use other ways of using their sources in their paper. (Lester, 46-47).

Child Trafficking in Cambodia

I thought this paper was really interesting. I have always known about child trafficking but I haven't ever read much about it until this and it really opened my eyes. I thought that her introduction was definitely one of her strengths, she used a story of a young girl and a lot of statistics that I think would keep readers interested and want to read more. I feel that this whole paper was very well written and very interesting to read, she used a lot of sources to help back her up on her statement on how it needs to be stopped. I find it just disgusting that there are people out there like that and I feel that this is definitely something that people should be informed of. I feel like this could be made into an action paper, if she decided to go around campus and talk to students about this and their ideas on how to help. i feel like she may even run into a lot of people who don't know that this is going on or at least realize how high the numbers are. I feel that if she could talk to people on campus and then maybe get an organization started, she could really start something.

Reflections on Breaking the Code activity

The breaking the code activity was really interesting and helped me to look at research articles in a different way. It helped me to break down articles and really find the most important parts of the research paper to help me with my own research paper. I feel that next time I am skimming through an article I am going to think about the questions we talked about today in class and use my knowledge from this activity to help me if I am ever stuck while skimming or reading my research articles.

Exercise 3.4

This excerpt is about different types of music and whether they have value or not. Musicologists and sociologists differ on whether serious vs popular music do certain things. It argues about whether popular music is only good for certain theories against serious music which could be non-sociological. Different music has different purpose and this research just questions what they do and whether it is good, bad, or for any reason at all.

research question & search terms

Q: How does the media negatively affect women?

Search Terms: media, women, effects, body image
media affecting women, negative effects from media, media and body image, influences from media

Articles

http://www.questia.com/googleScholar.qst;jsessionid=MGnXX32K7DPWT0kqjpDr9l7snBFlzLQQ0Q2JWQ1sC38nSBhvPpJy!-1971862025!2001564008?docId=96471160


http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/eat.10005/abstract

http://www.sciencedirect.com/science?_ob=ArticleURL&_udi=B75DB-4F1GRD9-1&_user=564876&_coverDate=03%2F31%2F2005&_rdoc=1&_fmt=high&_orig=search&_origin=search&_sort=d&_docanchor=&view=c&_searchStrId=1453592943&_rerunOrigin=scholar.google&_acct=C000028718&_version=1&_urlVersion=0&_userid=564876&md5=cb21173050a75372faff5341785a0e64&searchtype=a

Search Milner "media affecting body image" - didn't work anymore but before good article/experiment about thin pictures and regular pictures and snacks afterwards!

Exercise 1.5

1. How does media affect women?

2.What type of media affect women the most?
What ways are they affecting them? Is it helping or hurting women? -anorexia, excessive dieting/exercise, surgeries
Is it affecting women more today than past generations?
Is there certain types (race, body, etc.) media affects the most? Is there certain types media uses most?

**How is the media affecting women and body image?
-Media affects by lowering their self esteem, their choice is snacks (diet vs. regular), can start eating disorders, excessive/ crash dieting, surgeries, depression

Social Diversity

A lot of people participate in social diversity every day. To me this means the different factors that change our society.  Factors such as age religion, race,sexual orientation, skin color, etc . It is also related to multiculturalism, which is defined by embracing many cultures and ethnicities and bringing them to one. The importance of social diversity in my life is just being with people and learning about them and their cultures, because knowing this helps our world to come together. I think this goes along with all sorts of different issues of social diversity that are important in everyday life. In my life, the most important are gender class, race, and ethnicity. I feel that these all effect things we do daily and something you are always thinking about or seeing.

                I think there are a lot of different influences in my life that helped me learn about social diversity and multiculturalism. The two biggest influences would have to be my family and my education. My family helped so much because they are the biggest place where I can learn about my culture and my heritage because I get all of this from them. Also school is a huge place to learn about all of this because we are learning every day about different things even such as this one. Last year in school, I took a class that focused all about multiculturalism in literature. It helped me to see different ways people live their lives and how they are with their families and friends.

                There are many social issues out there today that could be interesting to investigate this semester. I am interested in many but one that sticks out for this assignment is women's rights. I feel that it is an important topic because I am a woman and all of these rights effect me in my daily life. With out a lot of these rights we have today things would be a lot different for me and I would not be where I am today. Also, there are many more things to change these days and women need to speak up and stand out. A lot of these issues are related to my major because my major is psychology and it all depends on different issues and researching different things.

Exercise 1.1

Step 1:
Places- Spain, Italy, Ireland, Schaumburg, Illinois State, Woodfield Mall, U.S. Cellular field

Jobs- Guidance counselor, teacher, accountant, actress, singer, songwriter, doctor, nurse

Trends-  facebook, drinking games, P90X, Twitter, skirts, Uggs, iPhones, jersey shore

Things- College, sororities, tv, laptops, facebook, McDonalds, straightener, make up, pictures

Technologies-TV, virtual reality, cellphones, iPhone, droid, internet, wireless internet, computers

People- friends, Snooki, Drake, Eminem, Gerard Butler, Jennifer Aniston, Beatles

Controversies-  homosexual marriage (prop8) abortion, euthanasia, oil spill

History- Wars, Kennedys, John Lennon assassination, holocaust, vietnam

Habits-biting nails, gum chewing, smoking, facebooking, watching tv, eating late night

Hobbies-reading, watching tv, scrap booking, playing sports, reading novels, shopping

Step 2: Abortion

Research can help a lot about this issue; however, it is also a complicated issue. Many people feel strongly on both sides of this issue so even though you can learn a lot about it through research, it also depends if you're taking a side on it.

Step 3

Is abortion right?

Should it be legal?

Do people feel they are actually killing the baby or is it not thee yet?

Is there a religion problem with this?

Are there other better options?

Exercise 2

"It's hard not to admire these traits that give the birds such biological success, and yet somehow these evolutionary gifts seem unfair and unearned." This quote seemed to be a very strong statement to me. I feel that it kind of is a thesis of this paper as a whole. It talks about the both sides people see and think of these birds. When I write a research essay it is usually not as informal as I felt this one was. I know that it still cited a lot of information, but other parts I felt seemed a little informal. It was unlike in many ways because it had a lot of personal experience in it and also used the word "I" a lot. I feel it may challenge a few assumptions but it also still worked as a new and interesting way to do a research paper. I did not relate a lot to the essay but I did learn some new things; I did not know that the poop from pigeons could ruin marble and other things with the acid in it.

8/26

- Reading and writing are very important in my life in many ways such as academically, personally and profesionally. Everyday we are reading and writing things whether we realize or not. I am not a fan of writing papers but I do understand that I am writing every day whether it be right now in class or while texting a friend. Reading however is a passion of mine outside of class. I work at a library at home and I love it because I get to pick up new books everyday, they can be informative or cook books or even cheesey romantic novels. I am always writing and reading everyday and it's a very good skill that we should all be happy to have.

-I feel the most difficult par of academic writing is gettin started and then fully writing out the paper. Once I start a paper, I can go on forever; however, it does not mean I am writing it well. I tend to ramble off, and then stop and start a whole new paragraph. I think I need to improve on re-reading my papers and making sure that it flows and I'm not just writing about nothing.

-I read all types of genres, whether it's novels or just reading a text message. I think that reading in different settings helps you to understand more. When you are reading a novel, you can see all the form and grammar that they put into it and when you are texting or face-booking you are free to do as you want without having to think about spelling and grammar. I think that there is a huge connection with writing and reading for me in many ways. After you read a text or message, you have to write back. After you read about a good book you write the name down to share with others, it all collaborates in many ways.

-I don't believe I have many assumptions about research. I have done research papers many times, it's just the fact of actually researching that is hard for me. I have difficulties thinking of my topic and then when I do have a topic I like it takes me forever to find good articles and information about it. My assumptions for this course is that like all research papers it will be difficult and take a while, but since it is broken into sections of getting the paper done, it will make it a lot easier.

-I am not sure yet what I want to research about in this course. I think they are many good issues out there that can be found and help motivate me to write a great paper. One topic I have  been thinking about is image of young women and how media affects it. I have also been thinking just young children growing up in these times in general. Everything is happening faster for kids and I feel they don't get to be kids much longer. They are becoming more sexually active sooner and also pursuing alcohol and drugs a lot quicker. With a major such as psychology a lot of these ideas relate because psychologists research multiple ideas like these daily.

-Depending what I choose for my paper, I feel I will definitely be using library research but I also want to interview or make a video about these issues. I feel that way I get input out of real people and not just from a paper or computer. I feel that in order to take on a social action issue, we need to be social with it and get the ideas out into the real world.

Exercise 1

The 5 statements I chose were :
-It's okay to say things that might disagree with the instructor
-You can use your own experience and observations as evidence
-Form matters more than content
-You're mostly writing for the instructor
-You're always suppose to make an argument

I feel that some of the statements I checked are true and others are not. I do think you can say things that the instructor disagrees with because everyone has their own opinions and just because someone disagrees doesn't mean it's wrong. I also think that you can use your own experience and observations as evidence is true. I don't think you should only rely on it but it is nice to use your own experience to help draw people so they know that you know what you're talking about. The others however I do not agree with. Different papers have different meanings and reasons for why they were written. The last 3 bullet points take away all originality of any paper that someone would write.

For the 2nd step, I chose the statement: 'No matter how difficult they are, most problems have one solution that is better than the others.'

I am on the fence with this one because I feel it really makes you think. I think that there are many different solutions for problems and just because one may seem the best is not always true. Sometimes the best solutions are when you take bits and pieces from many solutions to make the best one.

First Entry

My name is Maggie Norton and I am a Junior. My major is Psychology and I have a minor in Spanish. After undergrad, I plan to get my Master's in Guidance and Counseling. I am planning to become a High School Guidance Counselor. I am in a sorority here on campus. It is called Zeta Tau Alpha, it has been a lot of fun so far and I have learned a lot by being in different positions. I was social chair, secretary, and right now I am the fundraising chair. I also plan on being more involved in other activities and clubs as well. I want to join a honors fraternity and also join the Student Psychology Association. I am from Schaumburg, Il. It is in the northwest suburbs of Chicago. If you have ever heard about it, you probably know Woodfield Mall. It is one of the top ten malls in America or something. I am very fun, loud, and outgoing and excited to start a new semester!

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Hi maggie!