Two ways a woman can get hurt: Advertising and Violence by Jean Kilbourne

I agree with this article because a lot of what the nation is facing in violence and pornography stems from advertisments and women being used as objects rather than as equals to men. I didn't like the story because of all the graphic images and I don't think a lot of people like them, it makes me wonder sometimes why we put up with it and why somebody doesn't come out and say its wrong.

I wonder what would happen if some advertising agency did adds against pornography and undermining womens sanctity. I wonder if would change anything.

Killer Culture by David Kupelian

I really liked this article because Kupelian stated a lot of similarities between the different societies of the past and ours now, and how we are going down the same road they are. I also liked the fact that he said the we need to focus on the families and the great programs like the Boy Scouts and churches that strengthen moral and the family.

People also need to realize that if they don't teach their kids then society will and the product will be what we see as druggies and people with no stability.

Framing Class, Vicarious Living, and Conspicuous Consumption by Diana Kendall

Kendall in this article states all of the things that are wrong with the media in America. I agree with her because she states that the media has a big impact on the different classes in America.

I liked her article because she shared the impact that media has on people. How alot of people try to look like their rich and go excessively into debt. Also she said that if the media were to focus more on issues that really effect us as a nation then many more people would be more interested in them and than maybe we would get better politicians, and policies, but for now people mostly care about who is going to be the next Idol

Money by Dana Gioia

This poem is very interesting because it shows all the different ways that money is used. It shows the difference between how the people throughout the ages used money and how many nicknames it has.

I liked it also because it shows the difference between how rich people and poor people see money. Its different word structure really helped to understand the poem and see the authors meaning.

Grammar Post

When to use exclamation points. Sometimes called the exlamation mark it is used at the end of a sentence or interjection to show strong emotion or emphasis.

Some examples are:

Exclamatory sentence; The rain didn't stop for four days!

Command; Be back by 10:30 or else!

Interjection; Wow!

These three different sentences use the exclamation mark/point to show the power of the sentence.

Serving in Florida by Barbara Ehrenreich

Serving in Florida by Brabara Ehrenreich is a very interesting story because it kind of hits home to me. She starts off her story by saying if anyone ever thought about dropping out of college and just working mineal jobs to get by please read this first. As I started to read I felt like I had seen the vision that she was trying to show now.

I grew up in a farming community just a half an hour away from St. George, Utah. There I learned that if I wanted to I could stay in that little farming community all my life and work on the farm, but my parents taught me that I needed an education, or else I would be fighting someone else that could work for a lot less, for the same jobs.

I had always worked on the farm and realized that in order for me to fully be happy with who I was I needed to stretch myself and become something besides a manual laborer. That is why I am in college now, and thats why I will continue to jump through all the hoops to get my degrees.

When to Capitalize

Since I was having a little trouble the other day with capitalization I decided to do a post on it. I found this list online and it goes into a lot of detail about when to capitalize and when not to. I hope it helps anybody else like it did me.

1 The first word of every sentence.
2 The first-person singular pronoun, I.
3 The first, last, and important words in a title. (The concept "important words" usually does not include articles, short prepositions (which means you might want to capitalize "towards" or "between," say), the "to" of an infinitive, and coordinating conjunctions. This is not true in APA
4 Reference lists (where we capitalize only the first word), nor is it necessarily true for titles in other languages. Also, on book jackets, aesthetic considerations will sometimes override the rules.)
5 Proper nouns
6 Specific persons and things: George W. Bush, the White House, General Motors Corporation.
7 Specific geographical locations: Hartford, Connecticut, Africa, Forest Park Zoo, Lake Erie, the Northeast, the Southend. However, we do not capitalize compass directions or locations that aren't being used as names: the north side of the city; we're leaving the Northwest and heading south this winter. When we combine proper nouns, we capitalize attributive words when they precede place-names, as in Lakes Erie and Ontario, but the opposite happens when the order is reversed: the Appalachian and Adirondack mountains. When a term is used descriptively, as opposed to being an actual part of a proper noun, do not capitalize it, as in "The California deserts do not get as hot as the Sahara Desert."
8 Names of celestial bodies: Mars, Saturn, the Milky Way. Do not, howver, capitalize earth, moon, sun, except when those names appear in a context in which other (capitalized) celestial bodies are mentioned. "I like it here on earth," but "It is further from Earth to Mars than it is from Mercury to the Sun.
9 Names of newspapers and journals. Do not, however, capitalize the word the, even when it is part of the newspaper's title: the Hartford Courant.
10 Days of the week, months, holidays. Do not, however, capitalize the names of seasons (spring, summer, fall, autumn, winter). "Next winter, we're traveling south; by spring, we'll be back up north."
11 Historical events: World War I, the Renaissance, the Crusades.
12 Races, nationalities, languages: Swedes, Swedish, African American, Jewish, French, Native American. (Most writers do not capitalize whites, blacks.)
13 Names of religions and religious terms: God, Christ, Allah, Buddha, Christianity, Christians, Judaism, Jews, Islam, Muslims.
14 Names of courses: Economics, Biology 101. (However, we would write: "I'm taking courses in biology and earth science this summer.")
15 Brand names: Tide, Maytag, Chevrolet.
16 Names of relationships only when they are a part of or a substitute for a person's name. (Often this means that when there is a modifier, such as a possessive pronoun, in front of such a word, we do not capitalize it.)
17 Let's go visit Grandmother today. Let's go visit my grandmother today.
I remember Uncle Arthur. I remember my Uncle Arthur. My uncle is unforgettable.
18 This also means that we don't normally capitalize the name of a "vocative" or term of endearment:
Can you get the paper for me, hon?
Drop the gun, sweetie. I didn't mean it.