Native American Stereotypes

http://www.preschooleducation.com/art40.shtml

anti-semetic clip

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AsfRWlq3FzA

Racist Stereotype

http://uk.gizmodo.com/2006/07/06/sony_defends_racist_ad.html

Sino- Phobic Advertising

http://www.manaa.org/adidas/index.html

http://www.archives.nysed.gov/projects/legacies/cdchinese/doc3.shtml

Need for Affiliation ad

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4NVbFoj3aTQ

MLA Citations

Works Cited
Ethridge, Roe. "Artist Interview: Roe Ethridge." Seeing and Writing 2. Jan.2003.
<http://www.bedfordstmartins.com/seeingandwriting2e/interviews/interview1.html>
Hornby, Nick. "Richard Billingham." Seeing & Writing 3. Eds. Donald McQuade and Christine McQuade. New York: Bedford/St. Martin’s, 2006. 618-623.




*I know it's supposed to be a hanging indent, but it doesn't work on the blog as you are well aware.

Who's Mimi?

From the very fact that I chose to use an alias on Blogger and on Facebook, I think everyone can get a sense of how I feel about creating an online persona. I never felt comfortable creating a profile on MySpace or Facebook and after this semester is over, I am most probably going to delete my profile on Facebook. I am not by nature a private person, but there is a difference between telling people you meet different details about yourself and writing details about yourself that anyone in the whole entire world can see. And even if they don't speak English, they can probably have it translated into their vernacular. I know that anyone who has an internet connection can read what I write, and I know that some people from this class will be reading what I write, and therefore I do write differently than if my writing was for the professor's eyes only. Being part of a global community is alittle bit if an awesome feeling. it's overwhelming to think that you can be effected or have an effect on someone who doesn't even live in your community. This is all new to me and is alittle out of my comfort zone, but this is tremendous power.

Are humans animals?

I never saw one minute of Stanley Kubrick's "2001: A Space Odyssey", until this assignment. When I read the follow up question connecting technology, violence and what it means to be "human", I imagined a 1968 view of what warfare would be like in the year 2001. When a group of monkeys came on the scene, I was completely taken aback. Was Stanley Kubrick trying to depict humans as a species of monkeys? I know that according to the theory of evolution, humans are supposed to have evoloved from monkeys, however I firmly believe that humans are not related to monkeys, or to any animal. We may be categorized as mammels, but we are not animals. We have the ability to think, analyze, conceptualize, ask questions. All animals have are instincts to survive. Humans have feelings, animals don't.
The monkeys in the movie couldn't ask question or try to understand what this unfamiliar object was in their midst. All they could do was scream and make sure it would do them no harm. All they have is the instinct of survival. Humans would not only want to make sure it would do them no harm, but also try to understand how they can utilize it for their benefit.
Humans also use new technology for violence. People are always trying to figure out the newest way to kill the most people the most effective way. Technology definitely has an effect on violence nd the expression of violence, but the way Stanley Kubrick tried to connect technology and violence to what it means to be "human", I don't agree with. I don't think humans can be compared to monkeys. I honestly don't understand what Kubrick was trying to depict with the monkey who was banging with bones, but all the monkey was doing was making a mess.