Sunday, January 31, 2010

Black Bart

My opinion is about black Bart is that, black people created him so that they could have something to relate to, when you watch simpsons, what you see is the ideal white family,but they neglect the fact that other races like blacks would find a character like Bart interesting, so in sence the producers of the show are aiming to certain group of people, however when the blacks find Bart intruiging, they create him in way that they would be able to relate to him, by drawing him a certain way, writing things that he would say if he were black , and they indeed buy them.infact we find this in alot in popular culture, where we create different versions of a character to fit a certain group, like barbie, during slavery there was no black barbie, it was after blacks were free that they started making black barbies. blacks have always been the minority and still today they are trying to adjust to a society where they once had no power, so that they can make the environment suitable for them.

Wednesday, January 27, 2010

READING AND WRITING ABOUT TELEVISION

okay, so i was reading chapter 2 of the "world is a text" on how we pay for our television and i didn't know that there were three different ways of how we pay for television.apparently we buy the television sets, then we buy the cable and finally through advertising. i found that to be really interesting, so in other words by advertising a commercial and you sitting there watching it, your paying your time to TV. Advertisers choose which program they want their commercial to be shown on. the producers of the TV shows use elements of literally interpretations to get customers,like using different lenses, where they use someone else's point of view to sell the product, in other words, they create these TV shows and advertisements aiming at certain type of people, by putting themselves in the viewer's shoes, they create what the viewers might be interested in , depending on the age, size, and type.

Wednesday, January 13, 2010

what is my name?

my name is Imelda, well to be honest, i dont really know how my parents how came up with my name, although i have an aunt who i share the same name with, and i happen to like her alot. i remember my mom telling me a story about her staying with my aunt when she was pregnant with me, and how helpful she was during that time. she told me that, she was the nicest person that she had ever met, sweet, friendly, and dedicated. and in my guess she named me Imelda because she wanted to be more like her, because of the qualities that she carried.she probably thought that if she named me after her, i would grow up to be like her, a sweet, friendly and dedicated child.

i like my name, because its unique and at the end of the day it doesn't really matter where my name came from, all that matters is that i like it. am sure when my parents named me, they had a good reason to why they had chose name Imelda out of all the other names.