...As Generations Evolve, So Does Our Media In today’s day in age we are constantly flooded with information and news that is being almost shoved at us from all different angles. From radio, newspapers, television, magazines and the Internet we are always engaged in some sort of media. As technology has progressed we have also been able to access news and information anywhere in the world. With our tablets, laptops, and smartphones media is at the tips of our fingers and always available for us, which is much different then how it used to be. From the censorship of the media to the constant use of new media, the differences from the media in America’s history and today’s are vast. Every generation has to adjust to the media type that is current for their time, however with the constant progression of technology we are affected by the content of the media as well and the delivery system. Conferring with someone from an older generation helps fully understand how the media has changed and the different perspectives about it. My mother, Ellen Ferretti, was born on July 15, 1956 and grew up in Fort Lee, New Jersey, right across river from New York City. Even though she was born in the 50’s she still has a reference of information about the media during her childhood and teen years. Growing up she recalled always having newspapers, magazines, and the radio as a source of media. Her parents read the newspaper as a source of information and current events, locally...
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...One mom asks the question who is this man living in our home. Implying that her son is a totally different person than from who he once was. Rather that may be spend less time with her and more with his girlfriend to not needing her help for things anymore. Old spice claims to welcome sons to manhood by giving them the smell of a man. Taking the perspective of the mom and showing what mothers generally go through when discovering the change in their sons. The mother begins to reminisce of her memories throughout the beginning stages of her sons’ life. She sings the same lyrics as the dad does with a different meaning behind them about her son becoming a man. Mom claims that Old Spice has “sprayed a man of our boy” saying that him using Old Spice is his start to manhood. As a mom she goes through the stalker stage of missing her “little boy” always wanting to know what he is doing. The fact that he doesn’t need his toys anymore hurts her so she has a yard sale. During one portion of the ad the mom is shown hugging the dad with long outreached arms towards the family’s portrait touching her sons face with sadness on her face. The mom feels as though she has Old Spice to blame for the attraction of girls to her son. She wants to be the only woman involved in her sons life, but she cannot control it due to Old Spice products attracting girls. No matter how...
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...Although still being investigated, many researchers claim that peripartum depression also increases the prevalence of behavioral and cognitive disorders in the child.5,6,7 Furthermore, there are decreased mother-child interactions, increased negative mother-child interactions, insecure attachments, antisocial behaviors, temper tantrums, substantial separation anxiety, and changes in sleep patterns.5, 6, 7 Insecure attachments can also cause breastfeeding difficulties, causing the mother to feel even more guilt than before, as she cannot provide adequately for her child. If peripartum depression begins during pregnancy, there is an increased risk of low birth weight as well.5,6,7 All of these effects revolve around one basic fact: the new mother does not have adequate support, resources, or education to decrease the prevalence of peripartum...
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...States but there are still around 850,000 teenagers who get pregnant each year. This yearly rate is still double the amount of Canada, and triples the amount of Spain (The National Campaign to Prevent Teen and Unplanned Pregnancy, 2012). In efforts to educate teenage girls, the US cable television network, MTV, created two television series: 16 and Pregnant and Teen Mom. During 16 and Pregnant each episode followed a different teen throughout her pregnancy up to a few weeks after giving birth. Teen Mom followed some of the original mothers from 16 and Pregnant during the first few years of their child’s life. The intentions of these shows were sincere when first created but have developed into a mockery of their original message. Throughout the seasons of Teen Mom, the focus has become less about education, and more about ratings. MTV began to advertise each episode for the wild activities of the mothers rather than the struggles of being a teenage mother in today’s society. By advertising the mistakes each mother makes in gossip magazines, the wrong message is being sent to young viewers. Shows like Teen Mom and 16 and Pregnant are now glamorizing teenage pregnancy and are in turn promoting pregnancy instead of educating viewers about the risks of having sex and the consequences that follow with bad decisions in sexual relationships. “In one study, those who watched the highest levels of sexual content on television (in the 90th percentile of the...
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...COM 362 Teen Pregnancy Outline General Purpose: To inform Specific Purpose: To inform my audience on the background information, communication, and possible resolutions regarding the teen pregnancy conflict in America. Central Idea: The issue of teen pregnancy is a growing problem in our society. This conflict is associated with the lack of education and restriction on teen pregnancies and abortions. I. Introduction A recent article from Parents Magazine stated that, “a new study by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has found that one-third of teenage mothers didn’t use birth control because they didn’t think they could get pregnant” (Rossi, 2012). Researchers found that moms often thought they couldn’t get pregnant the first time they had sex or at a specific time of the month. With the amount of glorified pregnancies and sexual content in the media today we really need to take time to analyze this conflict. (Parents Magazine) II. Orienting Material I would like to talk to you today about the conflict of teen pregnancy. I will provide you with background information on the teen pregnancy along with what is currently happening with the conflict. By analyzing the desired out comes and communication strategies of the opposing sides we can take the steps towards resolving these conflicts. Credibility My credibly on the topic comes from my research and personal experience. I was drawn to this topic because I had a lot of friends in...
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...seen increase in the past five years growing from 8,088,005 to 9,176,736 participants [ (FNS USDA, 2011) ]. Many families that participate in the WIC program are military families in the U.S. military, I find it sad that the families who sacrifice for our freedom are stretched so thin that they need programs such as WIC. Many families use all of their coupons given to them to purchase food however many have found that the foods are sometimes what they don’t need, many wish they had more variety of fruits and vegetables instead of cereal, juice and peanut butter. Many families can’t use all the items they receive because their families don’t like what they are able to get or they don’t know what to use it for. A cookbook that allows moms to use the ingredients that they normally would not know what to do with would be in demand and would help from wasting the food that is provided for the family. The cookbook can be a hobby or release if you will because it will include other facts and ideas as well. This is something that can bring a lot of families and women together. Situational Analysis Cookbooks are something that will always be very viable in the...
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...Brittanie Edgel Professor Tawa ENGL 1010-12 22 October 2014 “Little Girls or Little Women?” Young girls are becoming increasingly involved in this worlds highly sexual environment. More and more are being captured at young ages by marketing and advertising, glamorizing fashion and new fads. Once discovering her three year old daughter, Coaimhe, becoming more concerned about beautifying herself and living like a young female adult, Author of “Little Girls or Little Women? The Disney Princess Effect”, Stephanie Hanes, Publicises how girls at young ages are becoming too involved in today’s highly sexualized environment and by investing in makeup, clothing, accessories and new hair do’s to make them look “sexy”, when in reality it’s far too inappropriate for their age group. Girls are being blinded by society’s standards for how the female body should look. They want that “sexy babe” look just like all the beautiful models they see in media and on advertisements. But many are falling into eating disorders and becoming very sick trying to do so. They become so caught up in becoming skinny that they’ll start to harm their bodies to reach their impossible goal. In an article titled...
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...Discuss your short and long-term goals. Are some of them related? Which are priorities? All my life I’ve created a list of goals to accomplish. Whether it would be for the next day, or the next week, I made an effort to complete those goals to the best of my abilities. As I grow closer to the adult age, I find myself creating goals that correlate to my future, and the relations between my goals for the rest of the school year and my life goals are intertwined. Looking back at my past goals, I realized how simple they were, with no real direction to completing them. They listed as “go to college” or “get a good job”. Nowadays, my goals are a lot more driven; my passions of service and helping others are interrelated with them. One of my short term goals is to begin a fundraiser for a homeless shelter with my Rotary Interact Club. Being the president of the club, I feel excited by the power I have over contributing projects in this group. My goal is to make the Rotary Interact Club the most successful it has ever been at West Salem High School. For the three years that I have been in the Rotary Interact Club, the amount of projects were slim, as were the amount of members. The club was lucky if it had ten members in a meeting in the past. This year, I am proud to say that the members have nearly doubled; the club now has a total of 21 members. The amount of contribution is higher than it has ever been, and the club has volunteered at over 4 organizations that deal with the...
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...1: Article on the internet entitled “Do helicopter moms do more damage than good?”, 2005. College administrators say that parents are becoming more involved in their kids’ lives, maybe too involved. Robyn Lewis, mother of two sons away on college at the age of 18 and 21, does everything for her kids. She checks their bank accounts and proofreads their papers, she even drives two hours twice a month, only to clean the eldest’ dorm, do his laundry and wash his dishes. Her sons see her as a secretary-mom and they love her for it. But according to Helen Johnson, a consultant on parental relations for top universities, this kind of over-protective behaviour is the wrong way to go about it. The students are becoming more depended, due to an excessive over-parenting, the so called “Helicopter-moms.” The message being sent to the youth is that they aren’t capable of doing anything for themselves. 2: Outline of the attitudes expressed in the texts: ”Do helicopter moms do more harm than good? article on the internet, 2005 “A mother steps back from the pull of over-parenting,” article by Bethany Young Hardy, 2010 “Over-parenting is the course of our time,” article by Johann Hari, The Independent, 2008 The waters are divided on how to raise our kids in the society of today and how much involvement there should be from us as parents. The three texts discuss the topic over-parenting and to what extend it effects our children. Bethany Young Hardy, mother to Kian at three, used to participate...
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...| Argumentative Analysis | Teenage Pregnancy | | Alisha Hunter | Core 201 | | In 2009, the first season of 16 and pregnant aired (a show to prevent teen pregnancy) and right after, it leads to a follow up of several spin-off shows of Teen Mom (after life of the girls on 16 and pregnant and where they are with their kids). After the first episodes of 16 and Pregnant and Teen mom many more seasons began to come out; four episodes of 16 and pregnant in 2009, 2010, 2011 and 2012 and then leading to three seasons of Teen Mom (Teen Mom 2 and Teen Mom 3). Shortly after the shows aired it was said that girls were getting pregnant on purpose just to be on the new television show. The newly show for pregnant girls isn’t helping girls prevent pregnancy. But more of leading girls on to become pregnant just to be a star get their 15 minutes of fame. Is the show really coming off as educational and realistic or are the shows making the girls make bad decisions. It all started with Maci, Farrah, Amber and Catelynn on the first season of 16 and Pregnant. The show was made to be educational and prevent teen pregnancies, to show young girls and boys about the real struggles of being a teen parent, showing the real struggles of parenting. It went into great and deep detail of the everyday lives of the girls. The show started off as a good educational show but then lead into more drama than just teen pregnancy. Catelynn had more than just issues with dealing with her adoption...
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...A Raisin in the Sun is a book about a struggling African American family in the 1960s. Even though after all the trouble they have gone through they still achieved the American dream. This family lives in a small house and wanted a better life. The old man of the Family is Walter Lee he supports the family by working as a chauffeur. He is not happy with his low paying job. The reason for it is because his mom and her daughter both sleeps in the same room and travis his youngster sleeps on the couch. Walter lee thinks the solution to the money problem can be solved, by investing in a liquor store. He was thinking of investing the money in the liquor store with Willy. On the other hand his mom wanted wanted the money going into a house in...
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...Lunch Money, Textbooks, School Bag…Baby? In today’s society, teenage pregnancy is becoming more and more of an epidemic that society should be concerned about. In most cases, this is all a result of parents not taking the necessary time to sit their child down and actually educate them on the harsh realities of what can happen if they decide to act upon their sexual drives and behaviors. Therefore they ended up finding out the hard way, and have to go through the daily struggles of being a teen mom. If we can prevent these girls from having unprotected sex before they have found the one that they are going to marry, it seems as if most if not all of these problems will be solved or at least in some way decrease drastically. Teenage pregnancy is everywhere. You see it on television programs such as MTV’s popular series 16 and Pregnant, movies such as the classic Juno, while you’re out on the streets, or even within your own family. Usually this picture of a teen mom is painted of them being alone, struggling to make ends meet, and the father of the child is rarely or not present in the child’s life whatsoever. This is a saddening thing to think of, but unfortunately it is true. These young girls do not seem to understand what they are getting themselves into when they decide that they want to engage in unprotected and premarital sex. They feel as if they are ready for what is to come with the pleasures of indulging in this act, but only when they have no choice but to raise...
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...Promotional Message Marketing Research and Promotional Message After conducting research on working moms, there were a lot of facts that were revealed about their consumer needs, perceptions, and attitudes within this group. The workforce is on the rise with mothers today. This is also becoming the trend globally. The market has to be ready to have the things that working mothers are using and doing on a daily basis. "Research suggests that women make the vast majority of household purchase decisions" (DeSimone, 2011). Companies have now become aware of the working moms in the workforce, and they are advertising many products towards them. In today's society, the consumer needs of working moms are much different than that of the average consumer in the workforce. Because a working mom is the driving force in any home, she is the one that the family depends on for many things. "That means meals as well. Stouffer realizes this and have created meals where parents can sit down and eat dinner with their children with the let's fix dinner meal plan" (Wong, 2010). As a working mom, there will be times that they will not be able to prepare meals and Stouffer's realize this and has created several meals to market that idea. "The company spent seventy-one million dollars in advertising its products" (Wong, 2010). Another need that working moms may have, and many do is the convenience to breastfeed or pump. If women are nursing their baby, they need to be able to...
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...Message PSY/322 Marketing Research and Promotional Message After conducting research on working moms, there were a lot of facts that were revealed about their consumer needs, perceptions, and attitudes within this group. The work force is on the rise with working mother’s today. This is also becoming the trend globally. The market has to be ready to have the things that working mothers are using and doing on daily basis. “Research suggests that women make the vast majority of household purchase decisions (DeSimone, K, 2011).” Companies have now become aware of the working moms in the workforce and they are advertising many products towards them. In today’s society the consumer needs of working moms is much different than that of the average consumer in the workforce. Due to the fact that a working mom is the driving force in any home she is the one that the family depends on for many things. That means meals as well. Stouffer’s realize this and have created meals where parents can sit down and eat dinner with their children with the Let’s fix dinner” meal plan (Wong, E., 2010). As a working mom there will be times that they will not be able to prepare meals and Stouffer’s realize this and has created several meals to market that idea. The company spent seventy-one million dollars in advertising its products (Wong, E., 2010). Another need that working moms may have and many do is the convenience to breast feed or pump. If women are nursing their baby they need...
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...girl like me. I could wear beautiful gowns, prance around in tiaras and tell people what to do. What’s not to love? Sadly, that dream came to abrupt halt when my mom found it necessary to inform me that I was mistaken, that the odds of me becoming an actual princess were quite miniscule. Luckily, children are resilient and I recovered from this heartbreak quite quickly. Through growth and maturity, I soon set my sites on higher aspirations and announced that I would be one of the following: a doctor, a lawyer, a fashion designer or a hybrid of all three. To most, that list of possible career paths might seem all over the place with very little, if anything, in common. However, most people would be wrong. All three potential careers were positions of leadership, of being in charge, something that appeals to me as much today as it did when I was five years old, dreaming of being a princess. Working in retail was never part of my long-term career goals until I attended the University of Montevallo. In fact, the idea of working in retail past the age of twenty-two sounded almost painful. Working on weekends and on holidays? Who would subject themselves to such torture? Yet, at the age of twenty I found myself enrolling in Montevallo’s Retail Merchandising and Business program with a smile on face. The prospect of becoming a buyer was almost too good to be true and I quickly envisioned myself styling the masses in the clothing that I had specifically selected for them. I would happily...
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