#26 Fast Food

I eat fast food with my friends. Usually we go to McDonalds before our youth group. I don't eat it everyday but it's often. I don't really think about damaging myself when I eat fast food, but I probably should. My family never eats fast food, but we do go out for dinner a lot because my dads company pays for it. In the future I will probably eat the same amount I do now because it delicious.

#25 Celebrities And The Paparazi

I think they deserve some privacy, but when you choose to be famuos then you give up those rights. But if it's something like a famous celebrity is at a restaurant then it doesnt really matter and the paparazi people shouldn't make such a big deal of it. I feel bad for the celebrities who are out doing something and then something happens and the paparazis capture it and then they make a big story of it thats not true.

#24 Stuff That's Hard To Sell To Teens

My group chose the HD wrap around sun glasses. It will be hard to sell to teens because they are just rediculous and completly unnessicary to be completly black out from any light. If you get a lot of people wearing them then you could probably sell them. And, we showed the other things that it can do, other than blocking the sun, like shielding you from lazer pointers and flashlights.

#23 Cool

My deffinition of cool is something that everyone is doing, saying or wearing. What is cool now might not be cool is the near or far future, and what is cool is always changing. An example of something that is cool right now is short-shorts. I don't wear them for several reasons, but a lot of people do.

#22 Teens Are Like Africa

I think the mook and midriff image is still very present even though it was created several years ago. It's deffinitely changed a bit though. It's more present on Jersey Shore than anywhere else. All the guys all really  muscular and all the girls wear skimpy clothes. Even though that show is fake, they definitely shows the  mook and midriff image quite well. It's kind of creepy that "the man" crafts what we, for the most part, wear and do. I don't think that we realise how much we are constructed by "the man", but it's hard to escape it, and if you don't participate you ultimately arn't "cool".

#21 Amercian Teen

American Teen deffinetly shows what it's generally like to be a teenager these days. Every school has cliques and you, to the most part, fit into a clique. It could be nerds, popular, jocks, rebels, etc. IDCI deffinetly has cliques but it's not like some schools where you can only talk to certain people. American Teen shows the drama and peer pressure many teens face during their time in high school. What it didn't show were any fights, which is something many schools have. But, that could be because they only focused on a small group of kids.

#20 Public Figures And Offensive Tweets

I think it was a little extreme for Damian to lose his job. He should know to keep his comments to himself because a lot of people are probably reading what he says. But, if I had to make the decision about Damian's career at Sportsnet I probably would have let him go too. His comments could make the company get a bad reputation and lose views, which ultimatly leads to the loss of money, and as we all know, money is everything. His situation is very similar to the Dixie Chicks. Since they all don't have a good career anymore and arn't really doing anything with their time anyways they could get together and talk about how stupid they were with their words.

#19 Viloent Video Games

Yes I play violent video games. I like to play Call Of Duty, Halo, and Grand theft Auto. Violent video games are deffinetly a danger for people. Once you start to see people being killed you become desensitized to the whole idea of murder. It's not a big deal for you anymore. I think that once your a teenager you should be able to play violent video games. But, you have to recognize that they are bad. Children should never be exposed to violence even if it's just a video game. I think that the makers of these violent video games should have a limit on how violent they are. That wouldn't be hard to do, but they could be pressured by the consumers for more violence. You couldn't really control who gets to access the video games because there are so many ways to get ahold of them.

#18 The Dixie Chicks vs George Bush

I think that the Dixie Chicks were wrong about saying that. It wasn't really nessecary for them to publicly talk about their opinion. Yes, we have freedom of speech, but when you say things that could be contoversial, you have to know that it's not going to end well. They did end up being right about the whole situation but their music sales went down dramatically, and that doesn't seem worth it to me. They destroyed their career in a few seconds. It showed us that you have to be careful about what you say. We also learned that people can freak out about what people say.

#17 News Print To TV

My group chose the story about Mesha Barton and how she plans on staying out of the spotlight. We chose it becuase most celebrities try as hard as they can to stay popular. We decided to have Mesha (played by Sarah Debackere) be very calm and relaxed. The poparatzi (played by Kelsie Irwin and Melissa Wilde) came rushing up to her and tried to get to become overwhelmed. Mesha calmly gave them the book she was reading and walked away.

#16 Ellen

I didn't know about Ellen's past television apearances. I think she has deffinetly contributed to the change in society about the views and opions on gay and lesbian people. Her new show Ellen is very popular even though everyone knows she is gay. I respect her for being able to overcome the homophobia so many people have. There will always be conflict about this issue but Ellen is deffinetly showing people that she is still a good and normal person even though she is gay.

#15 Codes And Conventions

My favorite is every detail is thought about carefully for everything. I think that a lot of us forget about that one. The clothing that people wear in movies is carefully thought about. When you actually mindfully critique a media product and look for the little details that were put in place, you can finally see how we mindlessly consume. Before taking this class I didn't really think about what I was mindlessly comsuming and now I mindfully critque every media product.  Example, listening to the lyrics of a song and seeing what they actually say.