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Monday, October 25, 2010

Social Awareness Project. Media and News Immersion

Day 1: Shoot Out at Bedford- Stuyvesant salon: Off duty cop shot gun out of crook's hand to thwart robbery. By Oren Yaniv,John Lauinger and Helen Kennedy.

       This article is about a cop who stopped a robber from robbing the salon by shootingthe gun out of his hand. They also say that one of Officer Ferris Jones's bullet hit the the lock on the door and locked the door. It was the first time the officer had shot her gun in 20 years. The officer was about to get her hair done in the salon when the robber burst in. I think that this kind of shows how the world is just evil in a way. This is showing how it is just natural for a person to think of or doing a bad thing before they think of doing a good thing. Crime is just  natural part of the world.

Day 2: Time is runing out for U.S troops in Afghanistan, countdown to Obama's July 2011 withdrawl begins. By James Gordon Meek

       This article is about how the troops in Afghanistan are kind of going down. They don't have much time left. What kind of stuck out to me in this article was how they said time is running out. What struck me about this was how important this time is compared to other times. Time could be running out while your taking a quiz in math class and your like oh that's not that big. Then there is the time on a bomb where you'll see time is running out and you panic. Panic is also something that came to my mind when I read this. Everybody panics some for different reasons. But the panic of one could affect a whole block, and city.

Day 3Canadian Omar Khadr, held at Guantanamo Bay, pleads guilty to avoid war crime trials. By The associated press.

       This article is about a boy accused of killing an american soldier, pleaded guilty to killing the officer to avoid war crime trials. What came to me when I read this was how kids are kind of naieve. I know that sounds weird but I think they're kind of taking advantage of him bein a child, and thinking he is so unedcated to know anythihing and they are trying to take over.

Day 4 Ice Cream ad in Britain pulled for two male priests about to "Kiss Passionately". By Philp Caulfield
  
       I think that this shows the issue of Acceptance vs. Tolerance. Because just because the people are gay they pulle the ad from going on air. This also shows social pressure because it's kind of saying that priests aren't supposed to be doing that. So it shows both of them.

Day 5 Worst tattoo ever?  Amateur pranks friend by giving him obscene ink instead of Yin- Yang he asked for. By Meena Hartenstein

        This article is about a an australian guy who is a tattoo artist that played a prank on his friend by tattooing a "male body part" onto his back instead of the thing he asked for. At first the guy didn't want to get a tattoo but then said yes after the australian friend persisted. I think this shows Social Pressure because the guy was under pressure to do something he didn't want to do, but then caved to please his friend.

       During this whole proccess, I found out how to use the "socials" better and actually understand them. I thought that doing this blog thing every night for this assignment was hard and it was kind of tedious. Only because every night of this  whole week, me and my siblings had track from 5 to 7, then right after that without going home we went to church. We came home everynight at about 11. After coming home that time then having to eat and shower then do this homework had affects on me during school.

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