Essay
Parable of the caves.
In comparision to Socrates' description of the the caves, I think I am beyond being chained because I realize of many thing being shown in the media are not accurate representations of the world, specifically stories about politics and the way women are portrayed.
I realized that I am no longer in the caves about how politics is portray in the news. Often in the news, reporters tell stories of what they want you to know, telling you their versions of the facts. Reporters tell their stories to get you more ratings and encourage more viewers to look at their shows. Another way reports influence their viewers they get power and fame by giving their version of the truth, for example, when our new President was running for office he had one of the most popular host of television shows, Oprah Winfrey, who supported him, saying possitive things about him encouraging viewers to vote for him. The viewers voted for Obama because they believe in her (Oprah), however no one know if everything that was said about him was true or not. The media is casting the shadow around us.
In the media women are portrayed mostly skinny, blond and beautiful, but in reality there are various kind of women, brunette, redhead, blonde, coloured, full-sized and plus-sized. Rarely would you find a story of a plus-sized woman in the media. It's not just food which make people of various sizes, rest, movement, diet and genetics all play a part in determining our phisical health. I am not a big sugar fan and agree that highly processed food are empty calories. However, it's the lack of movement and sleep, along with large portions, that cause the weight gain in most people.
The prison-house world of sight maybe finally be lifted.
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ReplyDeleteHi Leena:
ReplyDeleteBelow you will find my response for this blog series. This is not a grade, nor is it intended to be read as an evaluation of your performance in this class so far. The evaluation of the blog series may be found in Blackboard in the gradebook for this class and the grade is derived from a totally dofferent method as described in the syllabus. What you will see below is a response to your overall writing as of this blog series. The categories are from the CAT-W evaluation rubric (what the evaluator’s use). The comments below are intended to be both descriptive (what I see) and prescriptive (what you need to work on). I will be speaking with you personally about your current strengths and weakness during class. Please feel free to ask as many questions as you like about the following in class, during office hours, or in our FB groups.
Critical Response to Writing Task and Text: For this category, I look to see if you summarized effectively thereby demonstrating that you understood the reading/text, that you are actively engaging with the ideas of the text and responding in some way to them. For this category, you are fine but could still use some improvemement.
Development of Writer’s Ideas: This category responds to how well you use reasons to support your claim, how well you use evidence to support your reasons, and how well the reasons work together as a whole. For this category you need more work, particularly in your use of detail?
Structure of the Response: Is it an argument essay? Does it work well as a whole? This category is concerned with the overall structure of your writing--can I see that you had a plan and executed it well.
Sentences, Word Choice, Grammar, Usage, Mechanics: Is your wriitng clear and easy to read? That is what this category is all about. What issues need to be addressed now to improve the overall effect of your writing?
Overall: From this blog series I can see that you have the basics dwon from the first few weeks. You are summarizing the texts, identifying main ideas, responding to them, and you are writing “essays” when asked. Now we will work on argument format for essays and development. You are exactly where you need to be at this point in the class so let us focus on more development now. Keep up the good work!