Evaluation

I think that the class went well. I really liked doing the 5 page paper before the 15 page so we had a head start. I would not change that at all. I enjoyed the class. I didn’t feel like I was being pounded into the ground with information. I also like how much you were willing to read are papers. That helped a lot.

Music

            When I was writing my paper I found a really good book that talked about music education. This book was written by Bennett, Finn and Cribb. I really liked this passage from this book. “Experiencing wonderful examples of art and music links students with the past. It teaches them about the traditions and culture that have shaped our society, and helps them appreciate others people’s cultural heritages.” I never thought of the fact that music would be connected to culture. It is good for people to be accepting of one another and understand other people’s roots. People can’t understand other people if they don’t know their roots or heritage. This world is full of hatred and laughter towards people and they don’t even understand the people they are laughing at. Different music of different cultures tells a person a lot a culture. If it has words it is easy to see the persons take on life. If someone were to listen to American music they would realize that in this country we focus on love and relationships. It is obvious to me by looking and listening to music.

Reality TV

Reality tv show are so fake. They are become unoriginal as well. Most of them are the same thing over again but some of them are just mean. There are some that use pain and scare tactics to get people. They are funny but if you stop and think about it, it is sad people even go out for them. One of the biggest ones I can think of of the top of my head is wipeout. That show is a series of obstacle courses that people have to run and leap over things. I lot of times people land in really bad positions. I would think that a lot of people in that show would be hurt forever or have a back problem the rest of there lives. I understand why people watch them and think they are funny but why would people be on them. In my sociology class this semester I learned that there was a study that they did that proved that people act different when they know they are being watched, so no reality tv show is going to be how the people would normally act on in real life anyway. It is all going to be fake and staged.

Baseball

I think it is sad how much sports players are getting paid. Right now I am watching all of the baseball player’s sign on their contracts. One that everyone has been looking out for is Albert Pujols. Pujols is probably one of the best players to play the game of baseball. The contract that he just signed is 254 Million dollars for 10 years. There are several different problems with that. One is he is going to be 32 soon so he will not be able to playing for that much longer and be as good as he is. There is no way. Another is he is going to be make close to 70,000 dollars a day. 365 days a year. Not just while he is playing during the baseball season. That is way to much money for one man to be making. This is just one of the many people that are getting paid to be playing a classic kids game. This shows a big problem with America. An old time classic to go to a ball game is becoming unaffordable with a soda in a bottle costing five dollars and twenty five cent. It is becoming to the point no one can enjoy it any more.

Movies

I think movies need to be limited to the number of movies they can have on the same series. They have so many Saws I am lost on what number they are at. The one movies with so many sequels is Harry Potter. I have enjoyed those a lot. I think it is because people got to watch kids grow up. It is not just tons of people getting killed all the time. There needs to be a variety in movies like a variable that changes. For example, age to keep it interesting. A lot of times movies are just repeating themselves over and over again. It is nothing new and that loses my interest. I like change in my movie. Movies in general are starting to repeat ideas too. I also think that some classics should not be redone over and over again. Some classics should not be made with new people. To me, some of the actors and actresses that in the movies are the characters that the movie should have. I cannot see new people in their place and it ruins it for me. Movies should be left alone. That is why the movies are called classics.

T.V.

            On television, all the shows are getting so repetitive. I love shows like CSI but now that there is CSI: Miami, New York and more it is so repetitive. I still watch some of them but it is almost too much. Eventually people are going to run out of ideas on what to do. There cant be that many way to kill somebody. I think a show needs to stop once none of the original people are on the show. CSI: Las Vegas, which is the original one, lost the main guy and now there are losing the girl too. They had one head guy for a year and are now on another one. It is getting old to watch and hard to keep up with. Watchers get connected to the people. It is hard to do that when you can’t keep the same person on the show. People need to have a connection to be interested. Movies and TV both have to play to emotions of people, if they don’t, they won’t get viewers. It is plain and simple. People watch things to feel something and get connected. That is what people live their life for.

The Help

I went and saw the Help. It was a good movie. My favorite part about it was the shit pie. A maid named Minny got fired because she used the toilet to go to the bathroom in a white person’s house. The owner named Ms. Hilly of the house didn’t want black people using her toilet. Minny came back after she had been fired acting like she wanted her job back. She brought what she said was a chocolate pie. Minny told Ms. Hilly to eat a piece and decide if she wanted her back. Ms. Hilly ask what she but in the pie that made it so good. Ms. Hilly’s mom went to eat a piece and the maid liked her so she told her not to because it was Ms. Hilly’s special pie. Ms. Hilly told the maid to cut her mom a piece. In return Minny said eat my shit. The women questioned her for saying those words to her. Minny get kept repeating it. Finally she said you are eating my shit and Ms. Hilly ran to the bathroom. It was a really funny scene in that movie. It was a really good movie and it showed me just how bad the racism was. I knew it was bad but had never really seen a movie with it.