Band Topic

Glaber Response

In your responses 150 words those two other students’ initial posts, comment regarding the other students’ reflections.  Feel free to quote a small portion (1-3 sentences) of the student’s post and comment on that.  You are welcome to address external sources, as long as they are credible, and you must cite them as per MLA formatting.  It is also a good idea to ask your fellow students questions to lead to further communication on the discussion boards.

David

A place where you could be popular, where you could be liked, and connect with everyone all over the world; a Cyber world. In today’s society social media is the pinnacle of communication. If you don’t have a social media account, you are considered an outcast, and or society tells you that you are missing out on the real world. But, ironically the more you are connected to social media, the more disconnected you are with the real world. Society has made it known that to be more likable on Facebook and Instagram gains you popularity, and therefore your whole entire outlook on life of even fitting in , is based on the likes you get on social media. 

Understandable that it does connect you with friends and family. but i feel that because you are being more concerned with connecting with them that you ignore whats around you. Your immediate family, we tend to neglect. One of the saddest views i seen going to a dinner, was witnessing a couple on their date, and the whole time they were sitting across from each other, they were on their phone; not only on it, but they were glued to it. No conversation was flowing, not one word was even said. It was very sad because we had dinner for about one hour, and not even a peep. I recall that the only thing they talked about, was a pic on social media. Also, when their food got to the table they made sure they took a picture of it and post it up. Even after that, it took them another 10 or so minutes just post it up and get the perfect picture to share online with their friends and family. 

We neglect the immediate for the satisfaction of connecting with the ones that aren’t even around. Yet, we magnify how we love our family.

Brandon Villaganas

Top of Form

Total views: 9 (Your views: 1)Facebook is something that I have been aware of since elementary school. Girls in my classes would take the same pictures together and tag each other. When high school came along, more people were on Facebook and older kids in my classes would be logged into their Facebook accounts on their laptops. Teachers warned us about Facebook, specifically, about losing our identity and to be watchful of cyber-bullying. This led me to have a Facebook account in name only because it was extra credit for my 10th grade English class and my teacher wanted the entire class to friend him. Facebook and it’s other incarnations disconnect people from one another and lead to a false presentation that does not entirely represent a person’s true self.

Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat, and Twitter all operate on the premise that the account holder is posting, recording, tweeting out their thoughts in an effort to share some bit of themselves, but this is false. There is as Sorkin claims an “inventing [of] new identities, performing for each other” (Sorkin). There is no interaction on social networks, because no one really knows who is on the other side of the account. There may be a ‘catfish’ online posting false photos of their false life. In addition, Gabler asserts how social media “underscores how much traditional friendship . . . has become an anachronism and how much being “friended” is an ironic term” (qtd. in Maasik 317). Thus, rather than cultivating new friendships or connecting with old friends by hanging out, people create personas of the type of person they want to present to the world. Instead, people can watch television friendships that “[provides] us with those nonstop fantasies of friendship” (qtd. in Maasik, 317). Here, media gives us images of family and friends interacting together, not online, but it makes me wonder how many people are on their phones while watching television. While the media outlets provide us with images of who we should be and what we should buy or wear, the truth is that we have to find a way to connect with one another in our own real lives.

Dean Response

In your responses 150 words those two other students’ initial posts, comment regarding the other students’ reflections.  Feel free to quote a small portion (1-3 sentences) of the student’s post and comment on that.  You are welcome to address external sources, as long as they are credible, and you must cite them as per MLA formatting.  It is also a good idea to ask your fellow students questions to lead to further communication on the discussion boards.

 David

The family Clamplette’s are moving into their new mansion in Beverly Hills. Although they have the expensive house and luxuries, they are bringing their culture with them. As in they are still acting like themselves; uneducated, not knowing a different lifestyle outside of their home, closed in from humanity, and survival of the fittest. Jethro (Pa’s nephew) finds new discoveries like a flamingo. And grandma wants to be the one to cook it for dinner, since there are no possum’s around. Jethro is attending Oxfford University and Ms. Hathaway (the secretary) asks to know more about him because she takes it he’s the intelligent one of the family. she is thinking is the actual univerisity, but when she meets him, he mentions that he is in 5th grade. She then proceeds to meeting the rest of the family and to her surprise, they are all incompetent and arent intelligent, she doesn’t want to put up with them. She actually thinks the family is one that works there, not lives there. She confuses Pa’ for the gardener, since it was what Pa’ that got started on the gardening tools, wanting to help out. The banker (that is the neighbor next door) reminds Ms Hathaway that they are The Clampette’s and to treat them fairly. I think Dean’s claim on hillbillie’s did a great representation of what they are like. Personally, i have family in Lexington, Kentucky and i got to encounter a hillbilly for the first time there. Yes, they have the mullets, yes he had the speech, but i didn’t want to jump off the bat in the way he was, like the way he handled himself because i didnt get a chance to get to know him, but i was curious. From the outside, yes it is basically everything this episode described. This representation is sad, but true. Reality is that society does tend to stereotype by physical or the way we carry ourselves. Basically “first impressions are everything”. Like the Clampette’s, there are families out there that don’t get a second chance into speaking up.

Brandon

After watching the episode of The Beverly Hillbillies, the program exploits negative stereotypes of the hillbilly as simple caricatures. The Clampett family is portrayed as uneducated, unworldly, and backwards. A laugh track is in place to let the audience know that it is okay to laugh at the family. The extended family is also not your typical WASP unit of mother, father, two kids and a lovable dog. The family consists of Grandma, Jed, daughter Elly May, nephew Jethro and a hound. In this episode, the family has just moved to a Beverly Hills mansion and immediately their backwardness is demonstrated. In a series of misunderstandings, Jethro tells Pa that there is another house on the second floor and Pa replies that he should come downstairs because the second floor may belong to someone else. Though the show is making fun of the family, they are not portrayed as evil or mean. On the contrary, the family is portrayed as simple, innocent, and caring. We learn that Pa raised Elly May as a boy because his wife died and he did not know what else to do. The simple task of moving from one house to another takes on enormous comical surprises because it seems like the Clampett’s are moving to a place that is completely foreign to them. Seen in this light, audiences can feel good about themselves because they are in on the joke. The audience of the show can laugh at the deliberate misunderstandings between educated urban professionals played by the bank president and his secretary. While the show’s portrayal of the family is a farce, the negative stereotypes of grandma hating Yankees and being unable to recognize a fridge, stove, or running water is exploitive. The Clampett’s did not have the respect of the secretary who first believed the Clampett’s were hired help. When she is fired from her job for her error, she immediately appropriates hillbilly language. It is Jed who stands up for her, because though he is a simpleton, money still equates to power. As Michelle Dean asserts that shows featuring the hillbilly “reassure us that our struggle is worth it” (qtd. in Maasik 286). Even though the audience may not have the 25 million dollars that the Clampett’s have, they do possess common sense and knowledge of the way life really works that the Clampett’s lack.

Chapter 9 Band Topic

George Clinton and Parliament utilized business and artistic concepts from both James Brown and glam rock acts. How did this provide a unique approach to funk music? Are they influential to later acts? Are they still influential?Bottom of Form

efd0bb87-2a70-47

false

PUBLISHED

The post Band Topic appeared first on Essay Mine.

Welcome to originalessaywriters.com, our friendly and experienced essay writers are available 24/7 to complete all your assignments. We offer high-quality academic essays written from scratch to guarantee top grades to all students. All our papers are 100% plagiarism-free and come with a plagiarism report, upon request

Tell Us “Write My Essay for Me” and Relax! You will get an original essay well before your submission deadline.