Tuesday, February 14, 2012

I'm a criminal and so are you


The article “I’m a criminal and do are you” is about a woman named Michelle Alexander expressing the idea that criminals are looked down upon by people even though those people are also criminals.  Allow me to explain in the article she expresses that everyone has committed a crime at least once.  Even though they have they look down on people who have been caught.  She believes that they think they have the right for the simple fact that they haven’t been caught.  I the article she says, “ I am a criminal.  Coming to terms with this aspect of my identity has helped me see more clearly – with blinders of – the ways in which I have been encouraged not to feel any connection to “them,” those labeled criminals.  I see now that “they” are me and I am them.  This sentence expresses the whole article, this sentence even though it doesn’t say it is expressing that it is unfair for them, they did the time so why can’t they get the benefits of the outside world.  Like, being able to get a job, being able to vote, etc because if being a criminal was the case no one should have the rights that they do. 

I absolutely agree with this article because everyone at least once have committed a crime that they may or may not have gotten away with but we shouldn’t let that define us even after we get out of prison.  I strongly believe that everyone should take a look at this article and take a second look on things. 

Friday, February 10, 2012

Photoshopped or Not? A Tool to Tell


There is an article from the New York Times called, “Photoshopped or Not? A Tool to Tell” the article was about weather young girls would be influenced to be bulimic because magazine pictures were enhanced.  The article said, “Dr. Farid and Eric Kee, a Ph.D. student in computer science at Dartmouth, are proposing a software tool for measuring how much fashion and beauty photos have been altered, a 1-to-5 scale that distinguishes the infinitesimal from the fantastic.”  Also, the article talks about how super-skinny overly perfect images of women encourage eating disorders and low self-esteem because the strive to be just as perfect as those pictures.  This was also said I the article, “Readers aren’t fooled if you really sculpt the images,” Ms. Seymour said. “If you’re a good editor, you don’t go too far these days. If you give someone a face-lift,” she said, adding, “you’re a fool” I agree with this I don’t thing if it was that serious of a problem people would go above and beyond.  I think that to label the pictures is a horrible thing and it’s embarrassing to the person in the picture.  I think that all girls/boys should understand the difference between real and fake and there is no way to explain how a twenty-something year old woman is skinnier than a thirteen-year-old girl.  Don’t be discouraged by these pictures and don’t be stupid when it comes to understanding how perfect you are.  Those pictures don’t define who you are and you should already know they were enhanced.

Monday, February 6, 2012

In china, human costs are built into an ipad



In class we read an article from the New York Times called "In China, Human Costs Are Built Into an Ipad.”  The article is about worker conditions in the overseas areas (china) from the article you can tell the conditions are harsh.  The article also talks about an explosion at the company and the factory not really doing anything about it.  The title is very confusing to some but if you actually read the article you will see human costs are peoples lives.  The article also talks about safety problems; the problems are the aluminum dust and the ventilations not working.  The people stand all day, and work for so many hours, and hardly get paid anything.  They are told to spray the devices screens with poison then they whip the poison off.  They protection they wear is hardly protecting them.  Most people were injured from the explosion others were killed.  The company told the media so many times they will do something about this but they never do.  The same thing happened only weeks later. 

In my opinion this is sad but this won’t stop people from buying apple.  They are bribing the injured with paying for high medical care and agreement with laws.  People like Ms. White of Harvard says there won’t be an actual change unless the costumers do something about it.  I totally 1hundred percent agree the people have to do something about it to make the company change there ways.  What if it was your family.