Presentations

The presentations that we have been doing in class have really opened up my eyes to things that I’ve never even thought about. The Twilight, True Blood, Buffy the Vampire Slayer presentation made me think about the gender roles that we see and how they really have changed throughout the years. The guys, who did the presentations on TV shows such as Family Guy, really surprised me; I thought most guys thought family guy was like gold. They were showing that it enforces negative perceptions on how to live your life. The television guy who used the Marxist approach really intrigued me, I myself have a television in my apartment but I don’t even have it hooked up to TV channels, just a DVD player. On average I watch two movies per weekend and during the week my television set just collects dust. His statistics are really believable and yet unbelievable at the same time. 99% of homes have TV’s, and 49% of kids don’t have their television monitored.

Also throughout while watching these I noticed that the presentations a lot of time is focusing on just how superficial our society has become. Also that we need to be more perceptive on how we are exposed to such lewd advertisements, television shows, and even music; it really is sad how our society is. After we turned in our papers I kept thinking of really good ideas that would have or could have been better than the topic I used, I had to write them down to keep in mind for a later class perhaps.