The Visionary Woman
How she spread her "ambition" amongst others
Awareness
What does it mean to be media literate? In my opinion I think it is the ability to understand how mass media works, how they are organized, and how to use them wisely. I think it means to be aware of the media around us and to be able to analyze the messages that they throw at us. It’s to be able to sit down and watch an advertisement and to really break down what is really being said. The term media literate means understanding and being able to comprehend the media. Media is many forms of communication, including newspapers, magazines, and billboards, radio, television, CD’s, video games, and computer games A media literate person can understand the basic usage of various media, and enjoys their use in a voluntarily way. Media literate people are in control of his or her media experiences. It is amazing how the media has become such a major part of our culture and the influence it has on the population. I have also realized that we are bombarded with media so understanding it is the key to understanding our own society and the values within. Its necessary for people to be media literate because it helps us protect ourselves from pressures from advertising and other media forms of pressures. It helps build communication skills, encourages people to consider multiple interpretations of media messages, and improve media use habits. The purpose of media literacy is to empower young people to understand the mass media and how it works so that they can be in control of this important aspect of their own lives.
Individuality
The make up of Media Literacy
Ponder upon the world
Analysis of "Now we strike"
DANGEROUS EPIDEMIC BREAKING OUT
Alysha Noorani, Staff Reporter
Wed March 12 2014
UNITED STATES - A startling epidemic has broken out amongst numerous teenagers around the United States called “Senioritis.” Recent studies found that senioritis is the most common disease found in high school students. One identifying feature about this disease is that it is caught amongst only seniors in their last year of high school, hence the name “senioritis.”
This disease has gone viral and is dangerous. Scientist predict that there is a small chance it won’t be caught by any seniors. Doctors advise parents to keep a look out for any of the following symptoms that may show a terrible case of the crippling disease: Lack of motivation, laziness, excessive sleep in class, outstanding absences, suffering grades, lack of study habits, and repetitive tardiness. Doctor Patel states “If conditions have gone to the extreme such has profuse vomiting, sleeping until noon, lack of hygiene, no motivation to get dressed in the morning or even incessant parent nagging, please bring your child to the hospital at once to be treated.Studies say the first case of senioritis was discovered in 1957. Most students were unaware they were caught with the disease until almost the end of the school year, when it was too late.
Cindy Crocker states, “Most people don’t realize how serious this disease really is and unknowingly don’t see their family physicians. We have seen many seniors being taken to the hospital due to outrageous "sleep comas". Please see your doctors!” Teachers encourage students to receive help and ask parents to encourage their children to push themselves and get through the year. Doctors currently are trying to find a cure but seem notice the disease mysteriously disappear after graduation. Please call the senioritis 24-hour hotline at 1(800) HELPMECAUSEIMASTUPIDSENIOR if you are seeking help.
Passion for Teaching Children
1984 Theme song
Keep your eye open
"Keep your eyes open" lyrics
Everybody's waiting
Everybody's watching
Even when you're sleeping
Keep your ey-eyes open
The tricky thing
Is yesterday we were just children
Playing soldiers
Just pretending
Dreaming dreams with happy endings
In backyards, winning battles with our wooden swords
But now we've stepped into a cruel world
Where everybody stands and keeps score
Keep your eyes open
Everybody's waiting for you to breakdown
Everybody's watching to see the fallout
Even when you're sleeping, sleeping
Keep your ey-eyes open
Keep your ey-eyes open
Keep your ey-eyes open
So here you are, two steps ahead and staying on guard
Every lesson forms a new scar
They never thought you'd make it this far
But turn around (turn around), oh they've surrounded you
It's a showdown (showdown) and nobody comes to save you now
But you've got something they don't
Yeah you've got something they don't
You've just gotta keep your eyes open
Everybody's waiting for you to breakdown
Everybody's watching to see the fallout
Even when you're sleeping, sleeping
Keep your ey-eyes open
Keep your ey-eyes open
Keep your ey-eyes
Keep your feet ready
Heartbeat steady
Keep your eyes open
Keep your aim locked
The night goes dark
Keep your eyes open
(Keep your eyes open [4x])
Everybody's waiting for you to breakdown
Everybody's watching to see the fallout
Even when you're sleeping, sleeping
Keep your ey-eyes open
Keep your ey-eyes open
Keep your ey-eyes open
Keep your ey-eyes open
Keep your ey-eyes open
Reflection Of this Year
My prodigious impression of this Class
I walked in on the first day of this semester expecting to be sitting in a Senior British Language Arts class. I was immediately caught by surprise when I heard the class was changed to “Media Literacy”. The student’s reactions were habitual but I was actually exuding with curiosity. What is “Media Literacy” exactly? My mind whispered with questions. After our first assignment, I finally realized what this class is truly about; Perspective. It’s your outlook onto the world. Once I realized this I was ecstatic! I was finally taking a class where I could express my TRUE opinion on the world, not what I was “suppose” to say, not what I was expected to say in my essays, but what I truly thought and my pure opinions. This class taught me to look beyond ordinary and look outside of the box. We are given a sensible topic and expected to go outside of our comfort levels and think beyond the galaxy. After three years of reading books that had no correlation to the “real world”, I finally came across 1984. This book was quite frustrating at first because it required extensive thought to understand what was happening in the book. After reading half way through the book you would catch me sitting on the tip of my chair to see what was going to happen next. A lot of student were just plain confused and found the book “stupid”, but I thought the book was intriguing. It showed courage, curiosity, fear, strength, love, and hate. I was very confused at first due to the numerous paradoxes throughout the book but once you went beyond the average mind you saw the beauty of the book which is crucial to learn at this age. I think reading 1984 is perfect before graduating and going off to college. It teaches us the reality of the world and life. It teaches us the trance most people are in and make you open your eyes to your surroundings. I recommend continuing this book so students can learn the many astonishing lesson of the book. I loved this class because ALL of the assignments have an ACTUAL meaning. I always hear kids say “why do we have to do this assignment it doesn’t even help us in real life?” and I’m relieved to say that I have finally been in one class where every assignment has a “real life” connotation behind it.