People these days think that fame is an important thing. It can control how people can act. They get the fame from creating a virtual self. A virtual self can create a new life or your personality. People in real life may be unsatisfied with how their lives are and want to escape reality, through facebook or avatars. 91% of facebook users go back on facebook because its so addictive. “traffic on facebook has grown 272% in the past year…”
People want to escape reality. They do this because they are not satisfactory with how they want to live. “An avatar becomes ones digital self…”. Avatars can create a “new” you. “ A 27-year-old wife and mother Becky Glasure, who complains of never having being taken seriously.” She didn’t want to be ignored so she created an avatar and escaped reality to the virtual world.
Not all humans are created equal. They wish to all have perfect bodies like the ones that are being advertised. This can make people sad and self-concious of who they are, creating depression. To escape that depression they want to escape to the virtual world. “ there is ample repititon, even among them. For one, quite a number of avatars are just younger, thinner and prettier versions of their creators.”
Social networking sites these days are so popular that millions of people around the world use it. It’s also a recent trend and the government doesn’t have much control over it. It’s a good thing because you can see a long lost friend over facebook. “for students of the generation who have grown up “online” it is easy to take for granted the virtual society we live in.” What the quote is saying is that the kids that were born onto the computer, they don’t understand the risks we live in.
This only shows that danger can lurk anywhere in the internet. There are predators everywhere. Predators aren’t only random strangers, they could be someone you know. “20 students were suspended last month from TeWinkle Middle School for two days for participating in a Myspace group where one student allegedly threatened to kill another…” This quote shows how much thust peopleput onto the mainstream social networking sites, they escape reality to facebook or myspace and share their stories. Not only that , but people these days post many things that might regret. Most not very effective to their goal, but still enough to haunt them.
Wednesday, February 9, 2011
Wednesday, February 2, 2011
Winter Break
During my winter break, I was supposed to study my SAT book. I made plans and everything on what to study and when. So in the end, i ended up not studying the whole winter break, so i wasted precious studying time. I also planned on doing all my homework for the first week, but in the end i procrastinated till yesterday, Sunday. So i didnt sleep at all. Other than homework and studying i ended up having a very relaxing break. Me and my family celabrated me and my brothers birthday's. So i ended up eating allot over the break as well. I would have at least gained five pounds, but thankfully as an athlete i have to keep myself in shape. I train for the up coming L.A. marathon, i also had track and field practice to attend also. So i guess during the break i was fit.
My brother moved out to live with my mom. So i had two rooms all to myself, the rooms are both connected to each other so i can just walk through. I moved everything into the bigger room. The big room included three desks, one for studying, one for playing, and one for the computer. The room also has a nice leather sofa and a huge bunk bed. In the smaller room I transformed it into a workout room. Its the smaller room but i guess its still a big room. I spent over 5five hundread dollars on the new work out room.
My brother moved out to live with my mom. So i had two rooms all to myself, the rooms are both connected to each other so i can just walk through. I moved everything into the bigger room. The big room included three desks, one for studying, one for playing, and one for the computer. The room also has a nice leather sofa and a huge bunk bed. In the smaller room I transformed it into a workout room. Its the smaller room but i guess its still a big room. I spent over 5five hundread dollars on the new work out room.
The Crucible
In the late 1940-50’s the United States found themselves living in the midst of mass hysteria. Hundreds of lives were devastated during the time of Senator Joseph McCarthy. In McCarthy’s time he created the time of devastation. He created mass hysteria causing many Americans to lose their families, reputations shattered for many decades, and also ruining their careers. Mass Hysteria has been used in political rhetorical and popular literature as vivid cautionary tales about isolationism, religious extreamism, false accusation, lapses in due process of law, and government intrusion or individual liberties. This can only show the horrendous power of mass hysteria.
In the story The Crucible there was Mass Hysteria in Serbia, where they believed in witchcraft and eventually led to Mass Hysteria. “… the Salem folk believed that the virgin forests was the devils last preserve, his home base and the citadel of his final stand.” This quote shows that they believed strongly in their religion. Only to show that whatever they believe in strongly they will eventually believe it. A Puritan belief of the 17th century is that the devil and other demons live in the forest, and that witchcraft is performed there as well, Its because they believed so strongly in the devils forest, led them to lead to Mass Hysteria. The false accusations would only lead to, and caused panic and eventually unneeded deaths.
The Crucible was based on the witch trials in Salem. The trials were against the girls who did the witchcraft in the forest. Which led to Mass Hysteria. The way the girls would follow each other, like they pretend to be bewitched, which spreads. The girls acted as if they were possessed by the devil. They used that as an advantage to show that they were the only ones to see the devils. By doing that it was either to join them or to be seen as a witch. It also plays a role of sexism showing that only the females would be possessed and not any man. A quote from the book shows “ …the witch hunt was not however, a mere representation . It was also, and as importantly, a long overdue opportunity for everyone so inclined to express publicity his guilt and sins, under the cover of accusations against the victims.” So what the text is saying, is that the people had to uncover their own misdoings to show that they or whoever they wanted to protect were not a witch. This wasn’t mass hysteria itself, but it was cause and effect, which led to that.
A real life example of Mass Hysteria in action would be when Joseph McCarthy had created the “red scare”. McCarthy did something like the witch trials. The term McCarthyism was created from Joseph McCarthy. He would use his power and knowledge to scare and make accusations to people without the proper evidence. He had the people scared to do what he wanted them to do. Instead of witchcraft he would use “communism”.
The “red scare” strongly supported anti- communism. The first red scare was between 1919- 1920 which lasted about a year. It was to the workers (socialists). It was on revolution and political radicalism, this was a case of Mass Hysteria that would change Church, home, marriage, civility, and the American way of life. The second red scare was between 1947- 1957 which lasted about 10 years. The second scare was on the national and foreign communists influencing society or infiltrating the federal government or both.
The developments in The Crucible and the real life actions of Joseph McCarthy both ended up creating Mass Hysteria and ended up killing people without reason. Both the, Salem witch trials and the red scare both were the starting point of McCarthyism. The women from the crucible would be accused without reason and be sent to execution, the same thing with the red scare, you would be executed if you were under the suspicion of being a communist. In the end Mass Hysteria can lead to many thing, and that would be what the countless people had felt, the cause and effects of Mass Hysteria and McCarthyism itself.
In the story The Crucible there was Mass Hysteria in Serbia, where they believed in witchcraft and eventually led to Mass Hysteria. “… the Salem folk believed that the virgin forests was the devils last preserve, his home base and the citadel of his final stand.” This quote shows that they believed strongly in their religion. Only to show that whatever they believe in strongly they will eventually believe it. A Puritan belief of the 17th century is that the devil and other demons live in the forest, and that witchcraft is performed there as well, Its because they believed so strongly in the devils forest, led them to lead to Mass Hysteria. The false accusations would only lead to, and caused panic and eventually unneeded deaths.
The Crucible was based on the witch trials in Salem. The trials were against the girls who did the witchcraft in the forest. Which led to Mass Hysteria. The way the girls would follow each other, like they pretend to be bewitched, which spreads. The girls acted as if they were possessed by the devil. They used that as an advantage to show that they were the only ones to see the devils. By doing that it was either to join them or to be seen as a witch. It also plays a role of sexism showing that only the females would be possessed and not any man. A quote from the book shows “ …the witch hunt was not however, a mere representation . It was also, and as importantly, a long overdue opportunity for everyone so inclined to express publicity his guilt and sins, under the cover of accusations against the victims.” So what the text is saying, is that the people had to uncover their own misdoings to show that they or whoever they wanted to protect were not a witch. This wasn’t mass hysteria itself, but it was cause and effect, which led to that.
A real life example of Mass Hysteria in action would be when Joseph McCarthy had created the “red scare”. McCarthy did something like the witch trials. The term McCarthyism was created from Joseph McCarthy. He would use his power and knowledge to scare and make accusations to people without the proper evidence. He had the people scared to do what he wanted them to do. Instead of witchcraft he would use “communism”.
The “red scare” strongly supported anti- communism. The first red scare was between 1919- 1920 which lasted about a year. It was to the workers (socialists). It was on revolution and political radicalism, this was a case of Mass Hysteria that would change Church, home, marriage, civility, and the American way of life. The second red scare was between 1947- 1957 which lasted about 10 years. The second scare was on the national and foreign communists influencing society or infiltrating the federal government or both.
The developments in The Crucible and the real life actions of Joseph McCarthy both ended up creating Mass Hysteria and ended up killing people without reason. Both the, Salem witch trials and the red scare both were the starting point of McCarthyism. The women from the crucible would be accused without reason and be sent to execution, the same thing with the red scare, you would be executed if you were under the suspicion of being a communist. In the end Mass Hysteria can lead to many thing, and that would be what the countless people had felt, the cause and effects of Mass Hysteria and McCarthyism itself.
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