(NOTE: THIS IS ONLY FOR ENGLISH I, 1st PERIOD. WE DIDN'T GET TO VOCABULARY IN 7th PERIOD.)
1. Read and complete the exercises on pages 20-27 of The Art of Styling Sentences (TASS).
2. In a comment, briefly respond to the following question. In your comment, use at least 3 words from the Week 4 vocabulary list and one example of Pattern 4 or 4a from TASS.
Prompt: How do you think the media affects our belief systems? Are we capable of having a belief system outside our cultural paradigms? Why or why not?
I think the media does and also doesn't affect our belief system. It effects us in its own meticulous ways. We see something on T.V. and it seems perfunctory that we see the same things almost everyday. I think we are capable of having belief systems outside our cultural beliefs. For example, you can believe that God is real or that the world should strive for world peace, but the media doesn't necessarily have to represent that. The media may try to stymie personal beliefs and put their beliefs in front of our own. However, I think it doesn't really matter what culture you are influenced by, you can have your own beliefs.
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ReplyDeleteI think the media is the influence behind most people's ideas. In my opinion, the creation of new ideas is obsolete. I think that everyone's ideas are influenced by the media or the people around them, and they are not capable of having a belief system outside their cultural paradigm. I do not think that the media demonstrates a positive influence on many people either. Most of the T.V. commercials, billboards, magazines, and other parts of media show pejorative advertisements. In addition, I feel like all the forms of media try to be ribald. This is why I do think that the media affects our beliefs because they influence people at a younger age when they are acquiring their morals, values and ideas.
ReplyDeleteNowadays, thinking for ourselves is almost obsolete. The media almost makes us act perfunctory, to lazy to come up with our idea on our own. Media is constantly being expressed towards us through television, computers, and radios. Why spend the time to decide our own beliefs when we can just ruminate upon a convincing commercial and agree with that? I do not think we are capable of having a belief system outside our cultural paradigms since media is constantly surrounding us and telling us what to think, making it harder and harder to develop ideas different from what the media tell us.
ReplyDeleteI think that the media, whether we like it or not, is a huge part of our cultural paradigms. The things we put on TV are reflections (albeit exaggerated reflections) of our opinions, way of life, culture. For example, if one watches enough of the ribald shows that are on television, ones paradigm will shift. It is possible to have a belief system that is outside of the cultural paradigm, but exposure to enough of the cultural paradigm can cause one to ocillate between opinions. Personal belief systems that oppose the cultural belief system are not obsolete: they are just not as common.
ReplyDeleteWe can have a belief system with out the media but in or society it is almost perfunctory to believe what you hear on the radio or see on the T.V. When you get older and ruminate back on the past you see that you shouldn't listen to the electronics but, to our parents and adult figures in our lives. The only difference is that some beliefs are tacit but everybody knows them and follows them with little to no background knowledge of them. In the end I think that you can have belief system not influenced by the media but, it will be hard making your beliefs even stonger
ReplyDeleteI do think the media has an influence on our belief systems. For example, one often believes something because they "saw it on the internet", just assuming it was true. This is just like when the character Luke, from the T.V. show "Modern Family", said, "I saw it on the internet so it must be true!" Yes, we are capable of having our own belief system; but, it is very hard to do because our pragmatic culture follows the facts and usually does not think outside the box. Also, the media is notorious for saying pejorative comments about celebrities that are sometimes not even true. However, if it is true, then it can really alter how someone views that person, usually in a negative way. (since the media likes to point out all of the juicy gossip.) When the media releases news about celebrities, it is never a mishap, it is always intentional. However, we are capable of having our own individual beliefs that the media does not influence because the media does not influence everything.
ReplyDeleteAfter ruminating on the question at hand, I have come to the conclusion that the media affects our belief systems in many ways. If we see something accepted on TV, we are more likely to think it is ok and if something is shown on air, we think it must be normal and when things are said on TV, we are inclined to believe them. I think if we really tried, we would be capable of having a belief system outside our cultural paradigms, but our lassitude ways prevent us from even trying to achieve this. I don't mean this pejoratively, but we are pretty lazy.
ReplyDeleteThe influence of the media is a juggernaut, an unstoppable string of trends, a nonstop list of what we should do, how we should look, what we should wear. Of course it is possible to have a belief system outside of our cultural system. If all of the obsolete material beliefs and video games and fashion trends were removed from our own belief systems we would all have individual beliefs. This is a simple matter we need only forget the common and advertised beliefs that are shown by the media.The media has altered the individuality of the beliefs of every culture, but only because it was accepted and allowed to happen.
ReplyDeleteI think that people let the media influence their beliefs when they are going about their life in a perfunctory way, complacent with what the media tells them, never questioning, never ruminating, never analyzing. Our cultural paradigms can only influence what you believe if you choose to let it; if you are not firm in your beliefs, the biased media could make you oscillate on an issue to no end. Magazines are filled with bone-thin models, news channels must pick the left or right wing, and you often can't listen to our go to any "intellectual" movie or television show without feeling like someone is trying to stuff an opinion down your throat. It is a tacit agreement among intelligent people, in my opinion, to form their beliefs outside of what the media does or doesn't do. However, it may be impossible to escape the never-ending force of the media's imposed opinions, even for non-ignorant people.
ReplyDeleteI believe that media has affected our belief system by stymieing people from formulating their own believes. People can no longer ruminate on their own thoughts and formulate their own beliefs; we end up taking our beliefs from various forms of media. One way I believe that the media does this is by forcing us to take in the strait facts and numbers to form a pragmatic belief that has none of our personal morals in it. This can lead us to think we have beliefs that are false and commercialized and not our own. An example of this is how people have generally all the same beliefs about beauty. People currently all belief that you have to be skinny, but this is just recently because of the media. This belief of the public has been changed by the all of the commercials and advertisements showing how skinny girls are pretty. This is just an example of how the media can change our beliefs, which is what I believe.
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