Question for Research Essay

This is the question I want to focus on for my paper. What is the NEGATIVE effect of the media on personal and economical America?

The Effect of the Media on Society/ 50 Questions

1. What is media?
2. Why do we need the media?
3. Could we do without the media?
4.Is the media evil?
5. Is the media good?
6.Why are we so reliant on the media?
7.How many people have died by the media?
8.Does the media create addicts?
9.Does the media overpower our thinking?
10. Is the media crazy?
11. Are we crazy?
12. Do they tell us what to buy?
13. will media ever change?
14.Does the media grab our emotions?
15. Does the media tell us the whole story?
16. Does the media make us sick?
17. Does the media give us confidence?
18. Who started the media?
19. Is the media ugly?
20. Is the media beautiful?
21. Does the media focus on the negative?
22. Does the media help world hunger?
23. Does the media cause suicide?
24. Does the media solve crimes?
25. Does the media prevent suicide?
26. Is the media accountable?
27. Do we blame the media?
28. Did the media hurt the economy?
29. Did the media get President Obama elected?
30. Did the media neglect John Mcain?
31. Is the media professional?
32. Does the media care about us?
33. Does the media give us knowledge?
34. Does the media fry brain cells?
35. Does the media help us raise our children?
36. Does the media make us wealthy/
37. Is the media bad for the environment?
38. Does the media make smiles brighter?
39. Does the media feed us when we're hungry?
40. Does the media teach right from wrong?
41. Does the media cause cancer?
42. Wat is the purpose of the media?
43. Do we question the media?
44. Do we trust the media?
45. Does the media bring us together?
46. Does the media prevent pregnancy?
47. Is the media safe?
48. Do we fuel the media?
49. Is the media hopeful?
50. How long has the media been around?

Grammar Post

I found a website that shows how to make subjects and verbs agree. Enjoy! http://owl.english.purdue.edu/handouts/esl/eslsubverbEX1.html

Framing Class

This Story Framing Class, Vicarious Living and Conspicuous Consumption has a lot of truth to it. First off I know from personal experience that watching a lot of t.v. paticularly reality shows can make you want to go out and buy things to bring you closer to the lifestyle of the celebrity that was portrayed in the program. The media will do anything they can to keep the interest of the public. They completely ruin peoples lives by intruding in their personal lives, and by encouraging crazy ass people to chase these celebrities like a ravenous animal after its prey.

Lets be serious!! nobody deserves to have all of their personal life out on display for no good reason other than a few assholes want to make a quick buck. These idiots wouldn't need to invade these peoples lives if the media didn't constantly toot the rich life is better horn. I personally am sick of this and wish that people would knock their shit off and let people lead their own lives and stay the hell out.

The media does a bang up job at making the middle working class look like complete idiots that drool over the rich lifestyle. The truth is that we all do it at some point in our lives which is sad to admit but its the truth. I think Diana Kendall did an awesome job at breaking down the framing of different classes, and I would be interested to read another story by this author.

Serving in Florida

This story "Serving in Florida" by Barbara Ehrenreich is an all to common account of the working conditions of a lot of American people. This to me is a stern warning of the things you will have to face without proper education or specific talent/ training. This story gets you very emotionally involved by describing the overall conditions of the people and the surroundings that she dealt with on a daily basis. I thought it was interesting that she basically did this as an experiment. She moved into a trailer park and the whole nine yards. I t grabbed me that she dealt with it and even worked two jobs, that is crazy. Really I think that this should really hit the high school age kids the hardest, because they are getting ready to be thrown out into the real world. This can be a chilling reminder that the world is not a bowl of cherries and higher education is something to be cherished and not taken for granted.

Word Confusion

Some people struggle with words that sound the same but have a different meaning. Words like, hear, and here. Accept and except. This is a common mistake that people make, but I found a website that defines the difference.http://www.unm.edu/~hookster/Homynyms%20and%20Other%20Similar%20Words.pdf. This website has a long list of words that get confused and the difference between them.