The media has an unrealistic image of what a woman should look like. Having all commercials, videos and beauty magazine feature thin celebrities only make women believe that that’s what they should want to look like to become beautiful. With thinspiration videos inspiring women through dieting pills and negative approaches, there need to be another method. For example: One thinspiration video found on youtube played I will sacrifice as the backround song. The song encouraged women to sacrifice everything they love to be the way they want even if it takes hurting themselves. It said “sacrifice life”. It’s encouraging women to do anything they need to do to lose weight. In the beginning of the video, it was an image of cupcakes and different snacks, mostly fattening foods. The video also showed pictures of highly respected women such as Halle Berry and Angeline Jolie. These women are role models to most young girls. This particular scene implies that you don’t want to be fat but be thin just like your role model and the women you see on television. Encouraging women to change their body image to look like an unrealistic image of what the media portrays as “beauty”.

Also celebrities are portrayed as having perfect attributes that many young girls idolize. Fashion magazines, videos, dieting commercials are just a few sources for this issue. These particular sources advertise popular “thin” celebrities to promote their ideas. For example: there are millions of thinspiration video’s to view online. In particular, some youtube thinspiration videos have a negative approach towards inspiring women to become thin or the “ideal” body size. These are videos that inspire women to want to become thin by any means necessary. Its one’s own choice to want to become thin and stay healthy but it’s a problem when your not healthy trying to make yourself thinner. Thinspiration videos have a negative effect on women and are not a good source for support. Some thinspiration videos accomplish the goal of inspiring women to become thin in a healthy productive way but some distort the reality.

After reading the comments about how women are percieved I decided to do a little reasearch before i responded to the blogs. I found that nost women listen to the media andis influenced by the stupidist tings such as youtube videos. What is your idea of being beautiful? Is it having the lightest or darkest complexion? Or thin thighs versus thicker thighs? Have you ever stopped and thought that being beautiful doesn’t define who you are. According to dictionary.com, body images is an intellectual and idealized image of what ones body is or should be like that is sometimes misconceived in such mental disorders such as anorexia nervosa. Young girls particularly have issues within themselves concerning their body weight and images. Often it results to being obsessed with being the ‘ideal’ size and later causing mental disorders. In a society where young teenagers are faced with body and image issues daily, the media presenting certain content is the primary source for this issue. Young girls are constantly being told that they must be a certain weight to be attractive. This is mostly influenced by media videos and beauty magazines.

I think that we could coexist if we as humans were not selfish in some of our ways. We are much different from other countries and cultures as Americans and because we have so many luxuries that many people in other countries dont they consider Americans to be spoiled. America uses alot of oil and fuel which they get from other countries. I dont know if we can coexist with others because no matter how much you may try there will be violence somewhere between someone over anything. It would be nice to see everyone live in peace and harmony, is it possible? maybe, will it happen? most likely it never will. The ignorance of man can sometimes be a downfall, we all judge others and other races day by day.

When some people think of welfare they think of people being poor. Welfare is initially designed to help the less fortunate. The people on welfare don't feel inferior to those that are not receiving public assistance. I do know from personal experience that it helps with health coverage, school supplies, monthly food and also provides stability for those who need the extra push. Without welfare I feel that alot of people will be struggling and our homeless rates would go up. Even our crime rates because some will resort to robbing others to feed themselves and there families.
Providing public assistance for those in need was a good intervention to keep people on track. Public assistance helps families all over the country. Best of all they provide meals for babies and guarantees health coverage for the young mothers. Welfare is not a pitty charity for the less fortunate but a successful program that help people eat and stay off the streets. I give my full support to this program and hope that its able to stick around.
Welfare is not the worst thing in the world if you give it a try. Its the reputation that society gives it.

I believe that "white guilt" is just another way for some people to make it easier to forgive for the past. After all the history stories and books I have read. I have read enough to argue both sides an clearly we ALL know that's African Americans can point the finger. I also believe that "we as the people" need to learn to forgive and think about those who pave the way for us. Those who tried to make a better world and land for us.

I have learned to forgive for the past. Not because I think that history can't never be justified and I'm giving up but because I rather talk about the activist who used two entirely different methods to strive towards making the world "One". With this i mention several activist: Malcolm X and Martiin Luther King. Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr. both fought for social change between the black and white society. If you’re not sure of what method to use for social change, here are two previous activists that used opposite methods to achieve their goals. They spent their lifetime pursuing the goal of equality for African Americans and destroying the social barriers between them.

Though the two activist’s fought for the same cause, they ultimately used different methods of achieving their dreams and accomplishing their missions. The forces that shaped them gave them very different views on achieving equality but the vision was the same.

Both men had inspirational voices and demanded a change. As two strong males striving for the same mission, neither of them gave up by choice. Malcolm as a child experienced racism in the North while Martin experienced racism in the South. X and King were determined to make both the South, and the North a more suitable place. During their mission to improve the rights of African Americans Malcolm X and Martin Luther King were assassinated by someone who obviously thought that their methods were inferior. Malcolm and Martin believed it was up to the African Americans to change the negative perception others placed upon them, and the harsh way others treated them due to being the “outside race”.
I guess you can figure where I stand on the "white guilt" issue. We will never see the future if we cannot get through the past.

I feel that discrimination starts because people dont build relationships and trust one another. Most people dont know how to trust because they have been hurt so then anything outside the box is discriminated against. I feel that trust is the key and communication will come.
Trust is not about being deceived taking advantaged of or being tormented in anyway. It relies on being trust worthy. “Few things help an individual more to place responsibility upon him and to let him know that you trust him,” (Booker T. Washington). It’s understandable that most people place their trust in friends. However, sometimes even our closest friend may define trust in a different way than you do. By creating a survey and distributing it to peers, I came to find that some think, “trust is to be able to rely on another.” For instance, my friend Karen and I have known each other for more than 8 years, after knowing each other and hanging out you would think we would be more compatible and see things the same but it was the opposite. I told Karen about my mother being on drugs and I told her to keep it between me and her. Two days later I found out that she had been bad talking my family and telling everyone around the neighborhood. From that moment I realized that I no longer had positive expectations of Karen and our friendship nor could I trust her because of her behavior. It was also said that “Trusting people is to be able to share anything with that person.” Whether you are placing trust in your family or friends, no one wants to end up feeling deceived.
The phenomenon of trust has been explored in various venues; economics, social psychology, and political sciences. Trust is a peculiar resource; it is built rather than depleted by use.” For example, everyone inherently trusts their family, believing that family is not misleading to one another. However when something happens and a family member betrays trust, or you discover that you cannot trust someone in your family, it may be the result of trust never had been built into the family structure at all. For example, my brother and I both received money on our birthdays. This particular year I got more money than he did and I asked him to put my money up for me so I would not spend it. Well, he held it and when I asked for it back he said he put in under his mattress. Of course, I went to look and it was not there. He said someone else took it but never bothered to offer it back to me. A while later my mother discovered that he had a gambling problem. Just because he was my oldest brother I thought it was more than enough reason to trust him but I was wrong It was just a logical way of expressing feelings. Trust comes from experiences and behaviors, not family expectations.
You may be deceived if you trust too much but you will live in torment if you don’t trust enough.” For example, as a lonely freshman in a new high school, I did not have many friends. I decided to involve myself in after school programs to meet people. Because I love to write poetry I gave my English teacher my writing to revise. I thought that he was someone I could trust until one day when I fell asleep in his class and he waited until after all the students were gone to wake me up. He tried to molest me. I trusted him too much, and as a result, I was deceived. But if I never trusted him at all, my poetry would never have been revised or complemented.
Theorists have developed a “theoretical perspective” on trust which argues that some people tend to trust more than others. “It’s an expectancy that functions to the degree of how trust has been honored and that individual’s history of prior social interactions. When reflecting back on my previous experience, realizing I could not trust my own teacher, someone who all students should be able to confide in, time has made me understand that my social encounters changed who and how I define trust. It has made me less eager to interact in class or even with people I’ve known for a long time. I had a block on my heart from that day on, and I was skeptical. Trust should make you feel a sense of closeness and ability to live up to positive expectations towards one another.
As William Shakespeare once said “Love all, Trust a few.” The fact that it can be hard at times to trust individuals should not be an excuse never to trust again. But, it should lead to being careful about where you place your trust in future situations. Trusting is confiding in someone over time. Not through betrayal but the willingness of the person’s actions.

I feel like all of us will have a long lists if people gave us the chance to say what we really believe. Since i have always held what I felt back. After seeing the above video, i realized that I have alot of issues. The first that I would like to address would be inequality of education among minorites. As a student growing up attending an inner-city Philadelphia school, I realized that education was not valued to the same degree as in the suburban areas. The inequality of education is a problem in areas with large minority populations and the solutions to this problem are the school budget, the qualifications of teachers and also the schools teaching Curriculum.
Every child is usually taught to take advantage of education because although the opportunity to learn is there it will not be handed to them. Unfortunately, it is not always equal. There are differences in test scores in suburban schools and public schools” and this is often reflected on how minorities are rated by the colleges.The quality of education each school offers students varies a great deal also. It has been stated that “often it is not the fault of the students, nor is it the fault of the teachers, but it is the lack of money provided to support the system.
Also it is the poor curriculum and often the lack of qualifications for some teachers. If all schools have one purpose, one goal, and a body of students that wants to attend and learn, then they should all share one mission and be taught in the same way. Inner-city schools are treated differently than those of better economic areas. However, the importance is not to identify the problems, but instead lies in finding solutions. My own experience is that some teachers are only in front of the class for a paycheck, not for the best interest of the students. Many have no passion to teach. If we had better teachers to teach the curriculum, and offered tutoring after class hours, the test scores should go up and students everywhere would gain the education they deserve.

Inner city students deserve the same education rights as students at suburban schools. Having a more fair budget, better curriculum and better qualified teachers in inner city schools would really help inner city students excel and motivate them to want to achieve greater things than are expected of them. Allowing students to understand that no matter where they are from they can become somebody great is the most important lesson of all for schools to teach.

I think Sam raised a could argument from the video. I believe that gays should have the same marriage rights as heterosexual people.Why should government treat homosexuals different from heterosexuals? Is there really a difference between homosexual relations and heterosexual relations? Society creates controversy between different sexualities. Government laws that deny homosexuals equal rights make it harder for homosexuals to be happy. Homosexuals are questioned regarding their sexual practices, marriage, adoption, and often told all the reasons why it is wrong. But shouldn’t a society that prides itself on treating all of its citizens equally understand that homosexuals deserve to be married and not questioned about their life choices?
The arguments over same sex marriages should not gain support of the state. The states’ job is to promote the rights of its citizens, not favor one kind of popular morality or opinion. There are many rights denied to gay couples, including access to a spouse’s medical, life and disability insurance. Unmarried heterosexual couples can choose to have those rights because they have the option of being legally married, but homosexuals do not. Keeping gay marriage illegal violates the “Due Process Clause of the Fifth Amendment“. It discriminates because it makes one’s ability to marry dependent on one’s sexual preference. There is no constitutional basis for denying any gay couple the right to marriage.
Some people say that homosexual relationships are not biologically natural because they cannot produce children. They also argue that since they cannot produce kids allowing gays to marry will degrade the already struggling institution of marriage. Others say that gay people should have a way of defining their partnership legally, but that it should be separate from the institution of heterosexual marriage.
After watching the video, you realize how much gay marriages is important.It has been written that, “The states refusal to extend the privilege of legal merger to same sex couples and the insistence that we remain separate and individuated individuals, that gets figured as the injury of the denial of same sex marriage (Franke).” Same sex marriages is not only an issue within the gay community but also a reflection on politics. The government is influenced by social and religious aspects concerning homosexuality. Being gay is said to be morally wrong but being happy is considered perfectly right. But times have changed since the 1600s when citizens have to protest for rights because everything was related to God. Today there are gay churches all around the world. According to many people it is a sin to be a homosexual. But it is also a sin to commit adultery before marriage. Should heterosexual people who commit adultery before marriage also not be allowed to get married? Some politicians have come to realize that homosexual marriages aren’t all bad. Both Vermont and Connecticut have enacted civil union laws for same sex couples. The Commonwealth of Massachusetts now allows both same and different sex couples to marry. In the past year, courts have found “Unconstitutional the exclusion of same sex couples from the institution of marriage in New York and California”( Franke). In Europe Spain allows same sex couples to marry.

This issue is both personal and public because of the world’s “so called” march toward freedom. It should be considered morally right because America is the land of the free for all, not the heterosexual land where the gays are still fighting for freedom. One must understand that to happy is to be yourself and live by what brings you true meaning. If the world cannot except homosexual marriage as a way of life just as heterosexual marriage is then the fight needs to continue for both justice and happiness.

As a young adult I realized that racism will always get the best of America if we let it. I look at racism in a whole different way. As a young child we learned what not to do to be called "races" but we never was taught how to deal with it if it came our way. After watching the video above, I realize that racism still exist in the most prevalent places. i would have never thought to go to a soccer game and see fans or anyone bash someone of there own hometown the way it was shown. I believe that some people and places are ignorant to the change for the better.

After being face with different situations in my own life, racism does impact the way you feel around certain people, that you feel are different. I believe racism will always change and be covered up to some degree. There will never be a time when we say racism does not exist!. I feel that its one preference to be that way. I just don't understand how that can be when the president of the united states is an African American male with inherently dark skin. I would think that some would think twice before making a races comment or doing anything races towards others. I generally understand that times are different and some people want to keep a head on their culture but its a pure distinction between ignorance and prevalence here in America. I feel what happend at the stadium was very uncalled for and disrespectful. Not only did the people disrespect themselves but there culture. When standing up for something you believe is right whether its races or not, its a certain way to do things. I think what most people don't realize is that not only will they be judged but Europe is now judged by many. Honestly, until I read and saw the articles about the soccer game, i was interested in going this summer after graduation. I have decided against going there now. I personally don't believe in bashing others cultures. I was brought up in a hostile environment, learning about racism and all the things that happend in the past as far as slavery was not easy. We as society learned to become wiser and better with decisions and giving others chances so I would never want to look back to those devastating time again. Its moment like the European soccer game that make people like me change there views. Maybe if I didn't want to make a better life for my children or family in the future I would act the same way, instead I see the drastic changes that America has went threw to make the lives of others better. As a country I feel that most should be embarrassed by the video and should want to change it with no hesitation.

Hopefully not only did the fans and people who engaged in this ignorance learn what they have done but the people who were outside looking in should definitely appreciate the difference in most countries reaction to race. To appreciate, I mean understand and accept all ignorance and learn to be different. Learning about different racism acts around the world does not surprise me even now in 2010 with Barack Obama being our president.