The Fast and the Furious

In class we dicussed and made a list of  movies that are related in some way to our generation. I choose the movie, "The Fast and the Furious", because we are into cars and how they look. We want a good looking car and of course one that is fast. Also in the movie they show house parties and drinking, which definetly is a part of our generation. They also listen to music throughout the movie especailly rap and hip hop. Its been a movie that has had many made after the first because people are so into them because they can relate to the movie.

Reality TV

In class we read an article over reality TV, we talked alot about The Real World which is a particular reality show that has been around for years. The first question we addressed was, "What is Reality TV?", it presents unscripted dramatic or humorous situations, and that there mostly ordinary people rather that professional actors who actually get paid more than people who are'nt.The Real World modifies and is highly influenced, usually in exotic locations and abnormal situations. There are three things that appeal to people most; connection, fantasy, drama. We also learned how repetitive The Real World is. Its pretty predictable, we know theres going to be a group of strangers who get put into a house and have to live together with lots of alcohol and argue. 

Hip-Hop

In the reading in class over hip-hop I found it very true about the ways people view the music. It has evolved over time into a medium misogyny, materilism and murder. For example, in the album produced by 50 cent called "The Massacre", it to me seemed like revenge or murder towards somebody. We talked in class about the top three most terms people use for hip-hop listeners like young, aggressive, which I can see why people have choose that because most people that listen to it are young and they think violence is related so they come up with the word aggressive to describe it. People also, feel a gang-related vibe and or drugs. The qoute from the reading on p.157 says, " The most poisonous one defines middle-class normalcy and achievement as 'white' while embracing violence, illiteracy and drug dealin as authentically 'black'. I think that is what alot of people would describe it as.

Billy Sim

In class when we went over the reading "Billy Sim", I found it to be very interesting because I could agree completely with Chuck's main points. Some of the great points he said, was about how there is no main objective goal in the game, you simply make a character nothing more nothing less. I think peeople feel its a way to escape reality by making a character that looks like them and lives how they do. Also, how buying all of the material objects makes people happy and even the characters in the game. Personally, I've played the sims when I was younger and when I read what Chuck had said in the reading, It is definetly true.