It’s Just a Game

    I remember the first game console we had at home, it was the Nitendo64 and I think I was eleven years old. For my 3 brothers and me this was something new and fun, I remember playing every day the first two weeks because we were in vacations. Then the third week my parents gave us times and days to play because they did not like that we spend all our time playing videogames. Every game was cartoons and Mario was popular. When it came to the games I remember there was not a lot of violence or it was just maybe that my parents would get us the appropriate games for our age. My parents would protect us for the game that weren’t appropriate for us and all so did not let us get consumed by the games. I am happy that they taught us how to balance our time and the video games are not important, because like everything the game consoles have changed and have become a something so addictive and brutal. Now we see all this war games that are affecting many lives, well at list the lives of dose people that can’t really see the games are not their reality. I know that all games are not bad; I just can’t understand why there are people, kids that are so consumed to this. I have known so many friends that have started playing a game and they don’t let go of the remote control and when they don’t its only to eat and us the restroom. Can some you tell me why people that happens? It’s just a game. I have also seen how people get all work up about everything; the games have made people, and aggressive. All the popular games are the ones war and there is a way that young kid juts a hold of them and that. We see little 10 year old kids having crazy tantrums out of small situations.  This is something that some parents are not taking care of and that is why we see more anger in young children and teens. We need to inform them that there are just games.                         

 

 

I know who I am

     I am a Latina born and raised in the USA, and have seen and heard the stereotypes that have been out there. I believed that stereotypes are wrong and one of the biggest reasons is because they have a way of limiting people, especially in Hollywood. Today I opened The Corsair and there was an article title Asian stereotyping still abundant in Hollywood, and that made me think of all the other people affected, by the way that their ethnicity, sex, and religion is being shown on TV, movies, and all other media. I mention that Hollywood is one of the way people are restrained, and that was because of the way that minorities are only cast to do the roles that are typecast. This why people only have one way of seeing the Latinos, Asians, African American, Muslims, and many others. Certain actor are being tied to the parts in movie the makes them only play stereotypes. Not letting others see that they can be more than just the typecast, and this is not only affecting the actors it affects the writers. As writers they need to sell their product, and sometime not having the typecast or even having the minority succeeded can hurt their product. As a Latina I grow up watching how the media portrayed Latinos. We see that in Hollywood their always given Latinos the roles of the maid, nanny, the gardener, or the gangster and hardly any doctors, architect, artist, or lawyers. In reality there is a lot of Latinos with good education and careers. I do think that stereotypes have an effect on people, but as long as you know who you are stereotypes can’t tell you who to be and how to act.               

Show Us What is Right and Wrong

      Are all women is born with motherly instincts? Ever sense I was a little girl I remember everyone saying that about women, but it’s something that I don’t really see. Don’t get me wrong there are a lot of woman that are nurturing and loving but I don’t believe that every woman has it or is born with it. I have seen many woman raising kids and how they are with their children, and sometimes I wonders why some women are mothers and other can be the perfect mom and can’t have children. I am happy to say that I was raised by a woman that has that nurturing loving motherly instinct, and I can truly say she was born with it. Ever sense she was a little she helped her older sisters with their kids, and till this day she has been there for her family. I was raised with a sister and tree brothers and I can say that she has been there for all of us she has been the best mother. My mother and father have been there making sure that we grow up with what we need but not spoiling us, they have made us work for what we want. As parents they have work together to protect us and showing us that they say and do is for our own good. I remember wanting to do things, go out with friends, or even buy something and they where there telling us yes or no and showed us what is right and wrong. Now that we are adults, we know how important it is to protect are children, and why they stopped us from doing a few things. I talk about thins because of that news about the mother that injected he daughter with botoxs, and how this is not something that a real loving mom would do to their child. How can someone put their child in a situation that may hurt. Parents are the ones that need to put limits on the thing that their kids want and stop them from harm, why did this mom not think of the harm she has put her daughter.              

That was Then and This is Now

     Strong, fighter, aggressive and independent that is what describes a woman now in days, and I say that because in the pass women whore shown as fragile and sometimes dependent to a man. Its 2011and we can see that is no longer seen like that. Before on TV there was one view of a woman, and that was the stay at home mom, and the housewife. In the past the most important thing in a woman’s life had to be her family and the household and nothing other than that.  A Woman’s education had to include the housewife tasks. That was then and it was something that was shown on TV and the media. The in the 60’s we started to see a bit of a change, more women working but even then there was a bit of stereotype and a division between family and having a career. I believe that the media has a way to influence people to think one way and this has happen with women, in the past they only show that a woman can’t have a job and have a family. The women that did have a job they were shown as cooled, stoic, a bit less feminine,  and only care for their work. Now media shows that women can have both but they don’t stop with some of the label. Media shows that a woman that works is good and that it’s no longer bad to have a career. The negative of that is that know if we see stay at home moms people think that a woman is lazy or being oppress. That independent equals not needing anyone, that woman can do everything without any emotional help.  That just because a woman has a job she can’t have emotion or even ask anyone for help one in a while, because shows weakens. All the Stereotypes that there is about women is what makes woman work hard to overcome all of them and try to do everything them self.       

Do your cleaning

     Man and woman we are totally different but would like to be treated equal, and now in days we can say that something have changed, even the household tasks. In the 60’s women were the ones that clean, cook, and take care of the children, but now is 2011 and can see that we have come a long way. Now we see how guys are more involved in the house chores. This week I was reading the Corsair and in the lifestyle section there is a column call He Said She Said. This is a column where people can send relationship questions, and this week question was “How can I show my girlfriend that helping out with household chores isn’t the same as submission? She says she loves me but refuses to do anything that she thinks is “domesticated.”” This question and article was something that has had me thinking of how is true we as women we are not maids, and we are not going to put up we men thinking that because we are in a relationship with them we need to do chores. As women we do need to stand up when we see unfairness, we can’t be lazy either. We can’t expect to have a relationship where we are not going to help out, and the key word is help. I like how this article proved the point and recalls us that we want equality, and that splitting the household tasks it’s not an act of domestication. If one is in a relationship we have to learn compromise, and cleaning is one of those things. If it takes washing and picking up a litter it’s ok that will not make us a maid.  

A fairy tale in England

  The world is only hours away from Kate Middleton and Prince William’s royal wedding, this has been a major topic of the month and as the days come close people’s curiosity grows. The journey to this fairy tale wedding has had the biggest coverage by the media. We have been on the prince and his fiancée every move, trying to get as much information as possible. There are many people that are excited to see this wedding and others believe that the media in the U.S is spending too much time on it. This event is one of the grates moment in England and the world has a chance to see it live when it happens, here in the U.S. we have more the twenty TV stations covering the this news. We see everything that is happening and is making everyone curious. On the news we hear their prediction on the invitation list; online when opening Yahoo we see that the royal wedding has most of the news, and radios spend time talking about some of the details. I think that it’s nice that we get to hear about it but I don’t find it necessary to have this entire media trying to get look at every little thing making this wedding possible or trying to in a way gossiping and one example of it is one of the article on yahoo. The article’s name is five things to watch for at the royal weddingby Mike KrumboltzFri. One or two of the things the article talks about I think is irrelevant or not necessary to talk, but that’s just my judgment , so here is the link so u can read it and u can also see other articles, videos, and even the wedding.  

http://royalwedding.yahoo.com/blogs/five-things-to-watch-for-at-the-royal-wedding-6018

May be catchy at times but several have a purpose

     Music has been something that universal, we all have a connection to a song and we all have been touched by the rhythm. Music transports us to different places and it provides us with different emotion. We have songs that convey a feeling of love, rage, sad and happy feelings, and there are others that are intended for us to open are eyes. To help people see that there is something going on and we need to acknowledge it or even take a stand and revolutionize the situation. Most of this song have come out in a time of struggles and have motivated some to make that change. The 60’s was when we see many artists that use music to do this. One of the well know artist was Bob Dylan how had a way of to express his feelings trough lyrics. One of the songs that we hear the most and make us sees that we are doing things that are affecting who we are becoming and we need to change that for the better, not for the worst is The Times they are a Changin .  This song tells us that we need to admit who we are and it’s up to us to see if we are willing to change that. We need to move fast because we can’t postpone things because they may just get worse.  That may end up with repentance, because we are the tickers of our future and we need to remember that what we do our children are watching and learning. Dylan’s music was made to make the people look at them self’s and the ones around us and he was just one of many artists at that time. As time passes we hardly have artists that produce music that move like the music from the past. I know that I can think of tree songs that have had and impacts on the country.  Two are “Not Ready to Make Nice” by Dixie chicks and “Dear Mr. President” by Pink, this are song showing there feeling and opinions to the president at the time George W. Bush. These songs are asking a president for a change, because he had taken steps that not everyone was happy with. The third one is “Where is the Love” by the Back eye Peas, there song is for everyone, letting us know that we need to respect one another. “Where is the Love” is a song that is telling that we are family and as one we most stand. Music is an art that can create many emotion,s and is also a way to express you feeling with words and rhythm.         

             a link to “Dear Mr. Prsidente” by Pink

  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4eRApNHSRRk