Intertextuality

Intertextuality is mostly just something referencing something else or like a copy. I see it in mostly movies and television. I've seen intertextuality in the movie Watchmen and in the television show Lost. In Watchmen, there is a character names Owlman, he has a strong resemblance to Batman. Their looks look very much the same. Both characters are more isolated from society too.


In Lost, there is a room that brainwashes people. It also looks close to how they would brainwash delinquents in Clockwork Orange. Both brainwash people by strapping them to a chair and making them watch a video that brainwashes you into thinking differently.

Looking Back on the Semester

The one part of the semester that I still think about is how we center ourselves around the thought of love. We always want this fake love. I always see that and that unit stays in my head, also with the ads. There are so many ads that are sexualizing women and making them look like objects and nothing more. I look at ads more now to see how bad they are. I also look back at my favorite movies to see how they have influenced me in how I think about love. With that unit, I have seen where Hollywood has influenced me and where ads have made me have a low self-esteem.

Masculinity and Violence

In our culture boys are raised to be manly. This is done through violence in television. Cartoons for boys show that to be a man is to be very manly, strong, and violent. I see this as a partial negative. To be a man is not fully just being strong and being able to hold your own. The good part is showing that you can protect the people that are important to you. But the bad part of that is showing that to be a man, you can't show emotions. There needs to be showings of how violence doesn't solve everything, it can make things worse.

With the APA, American Psychological Association, they want violence to be limited on television. Wtih the ACLU, American Civil Liberties Union, they don't want violence to be limited on television. The APA would be helping with what I am saying. But they would limit too much. I don't want it to be so limited that there is nothing on television that can be categorized as action. But with the ACLU, I don't want little kids to see a mass murder in their cartoons. I don't want violence to be the main attraction to cartoons. I believe there should be a happy medium to violence in cartoons. I want boys to grow up that to be manly is to be open, strong, but sensitive. I want them to be a protector but also with take help from others. I want them to grow up to respect others.

Football and the Dangers

The game of football is a strategic game but it comes with my consequences. This game gets the description of a battle. Because this game is a battle of war, there are casualties. First to talk about the injuries. The most frequent injury that occurs is concussions. A concussion is a blow to the head. You can lose consciousness and also lose some of your memory. In the game of football, this is from blocking with your head or trying to tackle with your head. This causes brain damage. With more brain damage, it can cause dementia and other long term damage, like CTE. CTE is chronic traumatic encephalopathy. CTE is caused from head trauma and the effects can cause suicide. 

To this, I think it's nuts! Is there any other way to play this sport to make it safer to the players? Can there be better rules and regulations to protects the players? I would think there is a better way to play this sport so you don't have to use your head. Helmets are only meant to keep the head from getting a skull fracture, helmets should help from causing a concussion too. 

From watching "Football High", we were informed about two high school football players, named Will James and Tyler Davenport. Both football players had heat stroke from practicing in the heat. Both were rushed to the hospital. Both boys were put into comas. Because of the damage, Will James had kidney failure. With recovering, he had to go through kidney dialysis. Tyler did not recover and passed away.Because both boys were in Arkansas, the state is not required to have a personal trainer on the field for football. That is one reason Will James had a better chance of survival. Also because, they took him inside to the locker rooms. With Tyler Davenport

I wish these stories were false. It's always hard to hear about this. I can't believe how safety is not taken seriously enough to keep these players safe and healthy. I know when I was in marching band, we had a good handful of adults there and also the section leaders, me being one too, we had a card with all the signs of a heat stroke and more. We also knew what to do in those situations too. In the video, the players didn't really knew what was gong on with those players.

Expectations of Love

From Klosterman, we have high expectations for love. We fall in love with these high expectations for love from the influences from Hollywood. I know that for me, Hollywood gave me the high expectation of love too. I have the thought of my love life should be perfect, with a gorgeous husband that looks and acts just like Tom Hiddleston. And our life will be perfect.

For me, from his movie called Deep Blue Sea, he plays a woman's lover. He plays a man that you want but you really shouldn't be with. In real life, he's the perfect gentleman. From seeing him, every woman who knows him, they adore and love him. Because he is a perfect gentleman, every one has these expectations of that is what a man to be and no woman will find a perfect gentleman like him.

Another expectation from Hollywood has given us that we always have a soul mate and if we lose that person, there is always another soul mate. Also, that we will fall in love with our best guy friend. In many romantic comedies, you marry your best friend; 13 Going on 30. In dramatic romantic movies, you find your soul mate, break up, and then make up and be together forever happy; The Notebook.

Kilbourne and Ads

From this ad for Calvin Klein Jeans, from Jean Kilbourne's video called "Killing us softly", this ad would have been shown. This shows how women are just something that men can just use and abuse. The woman in this ad is being ganged up by three men. This shows that rape culture has become more popular in our culture, but this isn't showing rape is bad. This ad is showing rape as it's a natural thing now and it's harmful. I feel that if there is going to be an ad for rape, it should show a man and a woman as a victim and how it's wrong.
This ad doesn't even show the product like an ad should. It doesn't show much of the clothing that the models are wearing. It mostly shows a woman that is a horrible position and has a scared expression on. This ad, to me, is a bad influence. It shows that a beautiful woman can be held against her will and me used.

Sexiness in our culture

There is sex everywhere now in our culture. You can't really get away from it. In today's culture, sex is very important. In today's worlds, it can sell anything. In commercials it's used to sell fragrances, clothes, cars, television, and much more other things. Sex is popular because even from people hating it, they are still bringing attention to it. This gets other peoples' attention to the material and the sex. There positive and negative aspects with having sex more popular in our culture. The positives are that there is more knowledge about how to have safe sex and consequences of unsafe sex, STD s, the topic of sex is more open to talk about, and helps the economy, because sex sells. The negatives of sex being so popular is; unwanted pregnancies, over exposed in media, and diseases. I am glad that there is some sex now in our entertainment because then the world will become more open with their minds that there is love for everyone and it is not a crime. The bad part about this though too, is that people will disagree and start to shame others with different beliefs. There will most always be sex in our culture and it will be popular.