the Counter Argument Post #3

Although I believe that the media is one of the greatest influnces on young teens, there are people that believe the media is hardly to blame at all.This is a highly debatable topic.When doing my researsh I found alot the media being blamed for eating disorders in teens, i also found some on why the media is not to be blamed. Most researsh for this topic is done by polls and suveys. In a poll taken on irishhealth.com only 40 percent of people think that the media and fashion industry are to blame for the rise in eating disorders among young people. (condom) There is evidence in early literature to suggest that eating disorders have been around ever since we became conscious of our bodies. We can say that ever since human beings came across their reflections, many have felt the need to look good and maintain a good figure.

The people from inside the media industry have their own angle on things. The counter argument puts forward by them is that the media does not create imagery; instead replicates existing trends in society and presents them in packaged format to the viewers. ("Is the media to blame?") Being exposed to images of ultra-think models does not have a lasting effect on teenage girls according to a US survey ("models not to blame")

Wiether we like it not the media seems to be obsessed with the idea that being slim/skinny is the way to be. Everywhere you look you see a thin model or actress. How do people think that the media dont affect us? Young girls are so valunrable and seeing thin-ness everywhere puts the image in there head that you have to be like that. it's not very often that you seen oversized people on t.v. or in magzines. People need to get more comfortable with there bodies. It's great to see new stars such as Jordan Sparks and America Ferrera. Consumer's try to live to models standards. But the models try to live to the consumers standards. Thin sells. "Perfect" doesn't exist naturally. That's why even models and movie stars are airbrushed within an inch of their lives in magazines. That's why plastic surgery is so popular. "Perfect" sells. It also paints an unrealistic picture of the human body. ("blame the media")






"Blame the media for teen eating disorders?." May 1, 2008 .
"Models "not to blame for eating dsorders"." Monday Aug. 23 1999 May 1, 2008 .

Contione my research on political coruption

While back in Mr Malley's class room doing research again i came across a website [The Quaker Economist] which is when Cobb stated "The patronage system of government, in which jobs at all levels of government are awarded by the president as political favors, started under Andrew Jackson in 1829." That then creates an problem were the people with the important jobs might not no what there doing but they got the job because they helped the person in office get there so they were owed a favor.[Cobb] The Pendleton Act was then created to prevent jobs to be given to Friends or people you owe favors, and it will let you get the job based on merit alone not who you know or what you know. The Hatch Act which was first created in 1939 and was amended many times after prevented the use of public funds for political campaigns.

While doing my research i figured i should use an example that we would all know about so i decied to use bill clinton. William Jefferson "Bill" Clinton was actualy named William Jefferson Blythe III born on August 19 1946, he was the third youngest president and commited his first or at least the first sex scandal that we know about. During the time of 1995 and 1996. This incident raised questions of clintons judgement. That makes me wonder about our choices as Americans if our president is having sex scandals and causing drama how can he complete his duties.

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"Bill Clinton." Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia 06 05 2008 .

Cobb, Loren. "Corruption in America." The Quaker Economist 15727 05 2007 28 04 2008 .

i-search post #2

When I first started this search I found it quite difficult to find any information but as I keep looking I came across some really important and useful info. The reason it is difficult is because there hasn't been much change it the players equipment but its been in the goaltenders equipment.
If you ask most young people about hockey they will tell you about the most recent things about it. But if you ask most older people they will tell you something completely different. The will tell you stuff like when the players in the NHL wore next to nothing as protection. They would tell you to "Pop in a video of the Bobby Orr era and see what the goalies wore. If they donned anything at all, it was a thin, plastic face shield. Yes, those were the days of broken noses, lost teeth, and countless lacerations or worse! to the head and body" (Prochnow). I can tell you that I have seen some of these videos and I can tell you that these guys were true players. They weren't afraid to get into the play and weren't afraid to get hurt. The fearlessness that these players like Bobby Orr and Gordy Howe had set some precidents for the players of todays National Hockey League. Im sure if you ask some of the players in the league today who some of the great players in hockey are im sure they will mention these two guys along with some of the other players that everyone knows best Wayne Gretzky and Mario Lemieux. Young kids that play hockey now look up to the players that have impacted the NHL today. They look up to Alexander Ovechkin, Sidney Crosby, Martin Brodeur and many others.








Prochnow, Bettina Young. "Injury prevention through protection." Hockeyplayer.com 12/199412/1994 22 5 2008 . (Prochnow )

Video Games and The Positive Effects

When video games and the real world become one, the human brain has collided the fantasy world and the real world and begins to lose contact with the real world. But all is not bad about that. Take for example the man who took his video game training from America's Army and used it to treat a injured person that was in a car accident. He was able to use the skills he learned from playing the game to help treat the injuries until paramedics came. Funny thing was that an actual certified U.S. Army soldier, with medical training, came to take over the video game players work he had already started.

Also other times really great things can come from losing contact from the real world. Take into example the study done in University of Rochester. People who played action video games for a few hours a day over the course of a month improved by about 20 percent in their ability to identify letters presented in clutter—a visual acuity test similar to ones used in regular ophthalmology clinics. This can be a very positive effects on people with bad vision like myself. I myself have been able to point things out from a far like people and locations while in a car. I can tell who is who just because of video games. If I have to snipe enemies in Call of Duty from a far as my men fight in the general area, I need to make sure I am not taking out my own men. This study has been proven, and I can back it up.

For those of you who are going into the medical field, video games are for you. In studies, it shows that playing video games can make a surgeon have less errors in the operation room. This can save lives and it is all due to video games. Research reports that, Researchers found that doctors who spent at least three hours a week playing video games made about 37 percent fewer mistakes in laparoscopic surgery and performed the task 27 percent faster than their counterparts who did not play video games. By that it makes a pretty dang good argument to make doctors have to play video games. This wold result in positive things for all of mankind.


Safer, Will. "Skills Learned in Video Game Help Man Treat Car Accident Victims." 18 01 2008 18 04 2008 .

Eating Disorders Due to media? Post #2.

Anorexia Nervosa, the growing disorder that is killing teens all over the world. BUT WHY? For my senior project I choose to see if, like I believe, the media has a impact on the increasing number of eating disorders in young women. This question has been on my mind for years now. The media makes up this "perfect image" that girls think they have to be in-order to be pretty. Only five percent of American females naurally posses the so called "perfect" body image portrayed in the media (Merritt).


Is it okay for the media to make up this "perfect" image? What one may call perfect another may not think that at all. While doing my research i"m seeing that this topic is very conserversal, and many people have different opinons on what the cauese for the disorder is. Eating Disorders are very complex and there are many reasons why a person develops them, however the media pressure definitley has something to do with it. (McCarthy) Although the belief that the media is not to be blamed for the soaring cases of eating disorders among teenagers, numerous studies show that it actually is. (Kuthe) The media constantly presents the idea that woman are extremly thin. Influeced by these slender, good-loooking people they see in ads, films and on TV programs, teenagers seem particuarly susceptiple to anorexia. Seeing under weight role models on the television establishes a false body image in their minds.(Merritt) While doing my resarch i noticed that there are many studies done that prove media has a big affect on young people. A recent study of 2,000 teen and pre-teen boys and girls found that 15 percent of girls and 8 percent of boys diet or workout in order to look like one of the celebrities they see on TV or in magazines (Merritt)






Thomas, Kuthe. "Eating Disorders." 2002 April 23, 2008 .
Bridin, McCarthy. "Media blamed for causing eating disorders." 3/15/2001 April 23, 2008 .

I search paper post 2

When i was starting my I search project i figured i should do it on a topic that I liked becuse if Ido it on a topic i dont like I wont put a good efort up. Iwould end up not doing any research and would half heartedly do the blog's. I want to become a politician so i figured something about politics would be good, then i had to figure out what about politics and how can i make it intersting for me. Then I decied to write about politcal corruption and all the recent scandals which is not an easy topic to do research on, yes you read articles in the paper and see on the news but ther are no statiscs or evidence to support why there is coruption there are only theries. Some forms of corruption would be drug trafiking, money laundering, bribery,extortion and, organized crime. That is just a short list of cooruption there are many more ways it can and will be done.

Yes all of political corruptin is wrong and yes we as americans have the right to know what our elected official are doing on our time and tax dollars. But once back on there own time and money they should be treated like regular people but thats just my opinion. For example if they get caught drug trafficking with there own money they should be arrested and jailed, then in the paper and news say the was a major drug bust involving so and so. The topic of them being politician is irrelavent they should not be forced to reason unless proven guilty and jailed. Like I wassaying earlier there are no statiscs but many politicians do it just not on a huge level.




"Political corruption." Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia 18 04 2008 .

Addiction To Video Games and Violence Connected

Video Games are addicting and things can happen to cause violent acts on other or themselves. People are getting to into the games. They are losing touch on reality and that is causing turmoil on the way people live life. Take for example the issue when a online game called Legend of Mir 3 was played. Report of a man named Qui Chengwei stabbed the the player he had won the game with, Zhu Caoyuan, to death over a online trade of a virtual weapon. Qui was mad that the trade of his virtual sword was done by Zhu for some money. (Haines )

There are other connections to Video Games and real world violence that is not violent but creepy that it happens. In a way the violent act of two parents leaving their child unattended for four hours to play World of Warcraft, only to have it die at home alone. The man who stayed in a Cafe for 50 hours playing a MMORPG suddenly died in his chair and collapsed to the floor. For a Young Teenage Boy who took his life after his mother said he was addicted to the video games Everquest. The teenage committed suicide because of what his mom said. These were all not violent but violent in nature. In every last one someone died due to video game addiction. Lives were lost due to the carelessness and neglect of these people. All of that could have been avoided if they all realized they were addicted to video games. They should have looked for help with there addictions. (Kuefler )

The fact that all of these stories that linked video games and the real world together is a point that people are committing acts of violence against others. The question is if there is a true link to the act committed by these people and the world of video games and violence related to those video games whether they are violent shooters or action based racing games.
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Haines, Lester. "On-line gamer stabbed over 'stolen' cybersword." 04 01 2005 18 04 2008 .

Kuefler, "Game Influence." 08 08 2007 19 04 2008 .

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Does the media really affect teen girl?

Is the media the cause for the growing number of teenage girls with eating disorders?

Growing up weight was never an issue to me. It never mattered what size i wore or if my friends were bigger or smaller than me. Not until i was in eighth grade did i start to notice or worry about weight. It's than that i started seeing that all that stars on t.v. were super skinny and all the read in magazines is about diets and what actress lost the most weight this week.
Eating disorders than became a topic I became very interested in. Although there is many reasons why people have an eating disorder, I believe that the media now has a very big impact on the body image of young girls and their self-esteem. I'm interested to see that others think about this and if it's true. The number of girls with the disorder is greatly increasing, with one out of every ten girls with the eating disorder dead because of this, I think we need to find the cause and put a stop to it before more girl's die

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Political corruption a major problem

Political corruption why is it such a major problem in the world today? There reason i got into this topic would be because you hear about it all the time in the media, I also wanted to become a politician and hearing about all the scandals makes me think i can do a much better job than many of todays politicians. Recently there has ben many scandals whic to my belief were not in portant to the public and should not of been on the news such as the Elliot Sptitzer issue with his prostitutes that is more of a personal problem between him and his family not him and the world. Many people cheat on there wifes and do not make the news about it, it upsets me to hear about all of the people we trust with law making and our funds are with non trustable people.

Video Game Violence and The Real World

Games and the Real World - Before the Research


Video games are the best way to past time. They are fun, challenging, and full of action or adventure. I love to play video games and it helps past the time whether its the Knights and Fantasy game of Runescape or the Fight for Humanity of Gear of War. Both are very fun to play but have a lot of violence in them. Runescape is a hack and slash turn based MMORPG that involves quest, minigames, and fighting. Gears of War is the most violent blood and gore game out there. with body parts all over the place it's a great shooter. Its a great game to play and awesome to tear up the enemy. But the violence is so crazy in this game and I like it.

Kids and Teens have have been portraying violent acts against other people including their own parents. Reports have been in the news of Shootings, Car Jacking, Fights, and a bunch of other violent acts seen in video games. There are blocks to stop young gamers from playing violent games on the consoles. But that doesn't seem to be enough.

Are Video Games Violence and the Real World violence some how connected? If so are there any ways of stopping or lowering those violent acts? Is there a point where Reality and Fantasy become one in a persons mind? Are there more violent games coming out now then before? These are the questions I would like to find out.

Improvement in hockey equipment : Before the search

I became interested in this topic because I am into sports and hockey is the sport that I follow the most and I also play it as well. There are somethings about hockey that I have noticed that have changed. These changes are in the equipment. It has become more lighter and it seems to be more protective then the equipment in the past. When I went to get new equipment I noticed that everything was a lot lighter than my old stuff. The only thing that i could think of was is it as safe as my old equipment because it was also thinner. When I asked the work at the store about it he told me that the equipment was still as safe as the older equipment. He also mentioned that it is made of a lighter material that is just as strong and durable.

Has hockey improved as a result of equipment evolution? Have players become more skilled with these improvements? Have the goalies job become easier with the evolution in there padding? Does all this equipment evolution make the game more competitive? Will there be any major improvements in equipment soon?

Living With Schizophrenia

Before I knew...

When I was younger I spent most of my time with my grandparents. I never knew there was anything wrong. But the one thing I knew was what my mom always told me. She said to me "it was hard for me growing up; my mother spent most of my childhood in a mental hospital." At the time I didn't really know why she was in there. Later on my mom started telling me different sorts of stories. She told me that she would talk to things like the wall and have conversations with herself as if someone was there. One time my mom told me that my grandma tried running away because someone in her room told her to. That she would go into all sorts of mood swings. Yelling at people and getting mad for no reason. My grandma believed in things such as witchcraft. I think she was afraid of it. She would always have statues of Jesus and crucifies around the house and light religious type candles. I never thought that those things around the house meant anything. She told me she was in that hospital because she was bi-polar and had schizophrenia.

I don't know a lot about schizophrenia. I grew up around it without even realizing it. The only thing I do know about schizophrenia is that basically someone is having all sorts of mood swings. Being all happy one moment and the next all mad and in a pissy mood. Basically changing their mood in the snap of the fingers.

People who have schizophrenia must be strong. But what I want to know is how someone with schizophrenia leads a normal life? What causes someone to have to live with it? How does it affect that person who has it, their family, friends, and anyone around them?