Winning

Two and a Half men is a modern day tv show that has been through a lot of changes over the past year. The most recent change is Charlie Sheen being kicked off of the show because of drug abuse and assaulting a hooker. Two and a Half Men has been one of the most highly rated comedies over the past decade and now the main character is gone. This is an issue because Charlie Sheen played the main character of the show Charlie Harper, hedonistic jingle writer. The show displays the life of an american family, a father, his son, and the father’s brother. They deal with modern day issues that a lot of other people could deal with.

Two and a Half men takes place in a Malibu Beach-Front house with Charlie Harper a jingle writer, his brother, Alan Harper. Alan is a chiropractor and has a son Angus Jones, he is said to be an underachiever that asks his dad and uncle for help. Charlie is always getting into relationships and getting out of them while his brother, Alan, who is not so fortunate. They fit the stereotype of being the modern day American family. This work shows that America has many issues in our households but in the end we get over them. It says that American Society runs off of each other and how if we all deal with issues that could be similar.

To me, Two and a Half Men is showing the American Ideology that people go through problems and real life situations together. Sometimes these issues are represented as funny on the show but that is because it is a Comedy. Some quotes are: “She/He's not coming back.” – Charlie Sheen and “Wanna stick 'em somewhere?” – Alan Cryer.

Sources

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Two_and_a_half_men#Cast_and_characters

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0369179/quotes

Drake, Find your Love??

Luis Rodriguez

Mr. Shawn

AMST History, Period 1

21 September 2011

My dominant ideology im doing is love. Im doing a song and its by Drake (Aubery Drake Graham). My song ill be introducing is “Find Your Love”. It is relevant because everyone around the world has love. Love is all over the world and it is used every single day. Some controversy is said because in some of Drake’s music there is a lot of hate towards girls that didn’t love him and refers to them as heartbreakers. Theres a lot of controversy about whether or not a music artist should stick to a side of either loving a woman or either hating one.

“Find your love” was released on April, 28, 2010 in the album “Thank Me Later”. Drake is a very popular artist especially for teenagers. He has been selling discs and discs, and his passion is music. He tends to talk about girls in a negative way. His music sometimes says it all about how he feels.

Controversy has been said about this song because in all his other music he talks about forgetting the girl and wishing she never exsisted. For example in this song he uses these lyrics “I better find your lovin’, I better find your heart, I bet if I give all my lovin’, nothin’s  gonna tear us apart”. He means it as he wont stop until he has the love of the woman that he wants. While in the song “Marvins Room” he says this “Forget that nigga that you love so bad
I know you still think about the times we had
I say forget that nigga that you think you found
And since you picked up I know he’s not around”

Read more: http://www.killerhiphop.com/drake-marvins-room-lyrics/#ixzz1ZTQr5xVg

So as you can see theres controversy whether he loves woman or not.

http://www.killerhiphop.com/drake-marvins-room-lyrics/

http://www.directlyrics.com/drake-find-your-love-lyrics.html

Lil Wayne "Best Rapper Alive"

Edgar Unzueta
Mr. Shawn
AMST History, Period 1
21 September 2011
Dwayne Michael Carter Jr. , as referred “Lil Wayne”, one of the most popular artist in the music industry today. Every song he comes up with seems to be very popular and relevant to teenagers. A lot of teenagers listen to his music. I’m doing the song “How To Love” that came out in the 2011 in the album “Carter 4”. In a way this song is causing a little controversy with society and the way women look. That causes to make all his other songs very difficult to understand. He always talks about having sex and using women in his music and in this one song “How To Love” he expresses how women should love themselves. The stereotype in Wayne is that in a way all African Americans are “bad”.
Lil Wayne is a very talented rap artist. He started ever since the age of 7, released his first album at the age of 12. He was sent to jail for the possession of guns and drugs. He got out of jail and that’s when he released this song in the album Carter 4. This song became a very hit song on the radio and internet.
This song is very popular and it is dedicated towards women that have insecurity problems. Wayne is trying to say that a girl should love herself no matter what. For example in this song he says “When you was just a young’un you’re looks but so precious
But now your grown up
So fly its like a blessing but you can’t have a man look at you for 5 seconds
Without you being insecure
You never credit yourself so when you got older
It’s seems like you came back 10 times over
Now you’re sitting here in this damn corner”
Looking through all your thoughts and looking over your shoulder” He is trying to say that Women shouldn’t feel bad and love themselves for who they are. That they shouldn’t feel insecure no matter what they look like. And that we should love ourselves always. But some people would argue that side of Wayne because the fact of the rest of his music. For example in the song “How to Hate” also released in the Carter 4, he says, “And I don't love them girls
But don't mess up with Wayne cause when it "Waynes" it pours
No really, I'm on my "forget that girl" stuff
You used to be the stuff, but now you ain't stuff, girl
I had a red bone, but she be tripping though
All that crap is for the birds, she was pigeon toed
She used to always say, forget my niggas
And when I went to jail, she did my niggas
Well, I guess I'm single for the night
And you can sit right on my middle finger for the night
And if I sound mad, then you caught me
But this stuff explains that you're the one that taught me, how to hate a girl” As you can see he pushes away the girl and tells her to forget him and to move on because he already moved on. Another example in the same song, “Coconut Ciroc
Forgive and forget, girl I already forgot
I'm over the girl, and she over the top
They say love is the key, somebody changed the lock
Well, and I wish I never met ya
And I heard you're doing you, and you heard I'm doing better
And all I had to do was put two and two together
But that just makes four, but not four-ever, damn
So much for being the perfect couple
I put in overtime, I was working doubles
I wish you the best, good luck boo
Weezy F, for forget you” So he talks about the girl as she hurt him so he is expressing himself as he already forgot her. So as you can see people would argue with that.
EXPLICT CONTENT: http://www.elyricsworld.com/how_to_love_lyrics_lil_wayne.html
http://rapgenius.com/Lil-wayne-how-to-hate-lyrics

Young Gully- Cry

So i decided to do it on one of my favorite east bay rappers called Young Gully. I chose his song called "Cry" because he raps about all the struggles he has been through and also everything he raps about is real and is really happening right now in the ghetto like Oakland. His songs show how people just like us are struggling to survive in the ghetto and do what they have to do make money, like sell drugs or other things, even if it means dieing for it because they do not know better and were raised in that type of environment.

Even though no one really knows who Young Gully is because he is a underground rapper and not like those mainstream singers. He actually raps about what has happened in his life and what he is going through. Also he is very lyrical, but does not get enough credit, because of where he is from and how he represents himself, but like I said, most of those people have no choice but do what they have to do to survive. Put yourself in their shoes and see if you can walk a mile in them.

Life It's Always A Struggle & Just For Hustler's!

“Day by day” by C-Locs it’s an important video because its shows the dominant ideology of how a man is important to a family. This song came out on 2011, this video is also discussing our society and how he survives “struggling” in these hard times, so he can feed his family and pay for other things and that faith its important to live day by day. This work is part of a broader trend that has building for a period of time especially when our society drop and jobs were running out. In some part this shows that a man should be strong and that he needs to bring money to the house so his family can survive. It also showing that by been a “ gangster” as people say, that he is not good to society but what they don't know is that he has family to look after, and in order to survive he needs to struggle and do anything to make it day by day and don't end in prison or dead like his homies. This work shows that America see a certain people as no good and kind of push them out of society just because of what they use or what they look like and the things they do or have done, it just stereotyping them without knowing them. It says that in society people should be "productive and good without any errors", but for gangsters their life's are not always good but full of problems, just risking everything day after day.

Well "Day By Day" will speak by itself once you listen to it, it will show how people struggle for their families and that they are not always safe, always having faith to make it to the next day. But i will explain a little about the author. C-locs is from San Jose and he is a gangster that raps about what he has been through not like other rappers that rap fake things that they haven't lived and became famous by it. And during an interview he mentions that society stereotypes them and talks that they make music that can be heard on mtv or any tv show even the radio but it sucks that they are mexicans and that's a downfall because the media spit so much sh*t, about the gangs and the way they work. And that people feed that to the media that they don't want music on the radio or on tv because it shows what they are all about and if they do, its going to spread. That's whats stopping rappers to really getting out there.

"For all them raining days and all the drama there is a better tomorrow, keep your head up homie don't let them get you down". He is saying that everything is not always bad just keep your head up and don't let people get you down. "My only mission from the heart try to make it in this rap thang, is so my kids don't have to struggle is this dirty game". That he needs to do music in order to get money so his kids wouldn't suffer. In the chorus this lyrics "And before they found me sleep i pray the lord my soul you'll keep" its saying that before he dies he prays his soul is with his family like him to look after them even tough he is dead. Finally this shows the american ideology of man "For my family i got to maintain strong, yeah its hard but i got to bring my family through", that he needs to be strong to get his family up and to struggle so they will have a good life.

GTL Lifestyle (The Jersey Shore)

The Jersey Shore series seen on MTV is important in pop culture because they show the life of partying, fighting, relationship problems and working. Now days a lot of people in America are dealing with those four things, so they can somewhat relate to this show. The Jersey Shore first came out almost two years ago on December 3, 2009. This show has been building over the years, they’ve made four seasons already in different areas of the world. The Jersey Shore is a reality TV series that shows you how Italian people from New Jersey live their life. This show very well supports the stereotype in society because they show the lifestyle of a “Guido” and “Guidette” which is an Italian person who wears tight clothing, mostly likely from the East Coast like New York or New Jersey.

The Jersey Shore is about eight random strangers being brought into a summer house in Seaside Heights, New Jersey. The Jersey Shore series brought together Angelina, Ronnie, Vinny, Mike “The Situation”, Jenny “J Woww”, Nicole “Snooki”, Samantha “ Sammi Sweetheart” and Pauly D. The first two seasons Angelina was in the house and for the 3rd & 4th season Angelina was off the show and there was a new roommate to the show named Denna. Their life during the summer mainly revolved around drinking, partying, working, relationships and the drama that comes in and out of the show. In the end they’re all brought together like one big family. The guys on the show go by a saying they call “GTL” which stands for Gym, Tanning, Laundry because that’s what most of them do. The show is very entertaining and funny to watch because of all the crazy things they do.

Throughout the show Ronnie and Sam have been dating on and off. It caused a lot of tension and drama in the house because they would argue all the time, so the other roommates in the house would get into it since they’re trying to help Ronnie and Sammie out. Towards the end of season two in Miami there was a lot of drama going on between Sammi, Jenny and Nicole because Jenny and Nicole wrote an anonymous letter to Sammi about Ronnie and what he’s done as in cheating and doing stuff behind her back. The other roommates eventually found out that it was Jenny and Nicole who wrote the note, Sammi felt betrayed by them because they were best friends in the house until this happened. The drama was left in Miami and the starting of the third season the drama continued between the girls leading to a fight between Sammi and Jenny.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jersey_Shore_(TV_series)

A Day to Remember

A Day to remember just came out with a new album “what separates me from you.” The second song on the album and one of my favorite song by them is “all I want.” He sings about people giving him shit for doing what he wants to do. Also about helping people that feels alone. People think they know what’s best and tell him what to do and what’s best. He just wants to do what makes him happy. People always do what someone says whether or not they want to. He’s saying he’s done with all that. He says “know the words I speak are the thoughts I think out loud” he’s not hiding anything.

Jeremy from a “day to remember” wrote this great song about what he wants and not mindlessly obeying every one. “While everyone around me says my last days are looming overhead.” He still goes despite what they say. He felt alone because everyone turned on him. It defiantly goes against the grain of society. “When I comes down to it you don’t need anyone c’mon” now a day’s everyone thinks you need friends and family. He can do it alone like a boss.

What's Your Teenage Dream?

‘Teenage Dream’, a song released on July 23, 2010 from Katy Perry is relevant because despite that it came out last year, the song is played everywhere on the radio. It still is popular today and you can hear it mainly everywhere like the radio or in parties. This song reflecting the ideology of teenagers spending their youth to the fullest before they turn into adults.

‘Teenage Dream’, like the title of the song, is about the dreams of teenage and their teenage life. In this song, Katy Perry is talking about her love life when she is a teenage. Before she met her boyfriend, her life is alright but with not much fun. But all those things changes after she met the one that brought her to the real life of teenage and make her life complete. She wants her life to be complete and has no regrets. Her boyfriend makes her feels like she's living in a teenage dream, which all the things are perfect and wonderful. She said that when he looks at her, her heart stops and she can't believe all these things happening because they are so great. She wants to do all the things she wants to do and doesn't need to be regret later on because she already did what she wants to do.

I think 'Teenage Dream' brings out the ideology of teenager's life which teenager should have a happy and perfect life, like how Katy Perry is in the song. But now, most of the teenagers don't have a perfect life like Katy. Most of their life are stressful and full of problems because of school, family or relationship problems. Although many of the teenagers are in a relationship, but i don't think their relationships are like Katy Perry's. So i think this song wants to show all the teenager how their life should be during teenage, happy and perfect!

Here's the mv of Katy Perry's Teenage Dream:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=98WtmW-lfeE&ob=av2e

Don't Look at Me...

“Beautiful” sung by Christina Aguilera was recorded on December 24, 2002 and was officially written by Linda Perry who hadn’t shared it until a couple years after it was written. To Linda Perry it is a very dear and personal song to her. This piece of music discusses the beauty of people in general and by watching the music video you can feel the acceptance of all diversities. This song reached number one in many countries (Canada and the UK) and placed number two in the United States. The song also won a Grammy award and ranked fifty-four in rolling stones as top 100 songs of the decade. This song has a very great impact on people when it comes to having insecurities. “Beautiful” helps people realize that they’re not alone in the world and that everyone is looking for acceptance. Typical stereotypes are shown through out the video and it is reflecting the dominant ideology of beauty.

“Don’t look at me” mumbles Christina Aguilera at the beginning of the video. Insecurities from all kinds of people are shown through out the music video, such as an anorexic girl looking into a mirror still unsatisfied with her appearance. But what’s even more amazing is that the video also shows people getting over their insecurities and just being happy for who they are. For instance a gay couple makes out on a city bench while people stare and pass by on the busy sidewalk. The music video shows many different scenarios of people going through difficult obstacles just because they are being themselves. Even though these obstacles can cause people to have insecurities, at the end of the day they are really just happy to be who they truly are. The music video and song is trying to tell us that beauty has nothing to do with our appearances and or the importance of what we think others might believe beauty is. Beauty is someone who stays true to who they are, what they do and what they believe in.

The song “Beautiful” basically talks about the beauty of all types of people. It enforces that a person is beautiful in every single way (own way) this which makes them a unique individual. “I am beautiful in every single way, words can’t bring me down.” It also argues that people shouldn’t be brought down for being themselves. “ Words wont bring me down, so don’t you bring me down today.” Individuality is a beautiful thing. “We’re the song that’s out of tune, full of beautiful mistakes."

Song: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eAfyFTzZDMM&ob=av2e

Lyrics: http://www.metrolyrics.com/beautiful-lyrics-christina-aguilera.html

website: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beautiful_(Christina_Aguilera_song)

Alxea Vilkins

NCIS: Los Angeles

NCIS Los Angeles is an american series combining elements of the military drama and police procedural genres, which premiered on the CBS network on September 22, 2009. It is relevant to discuss it now because of our down economy and people choosing wrong paths in part of jealousy and anger. Where investigating team is finding the criminals who killed their friends or relative in place of jealousy. The work is simply parrt of a broader trend that has been building for a period of time. Other part of popular cultural which is part of this trend is it's helping us and protecting our freedom and rights. This work reflect ideology of particular society by, helping each other and protecting citizens life. Message of there work in an impact is trying to find the criminals and put them behind the bars. To tell them that by killing someone or threatening them will not help them shape the society in a better way. They need to get out of their dream world and help us make the society better and bring good ideology in our world.

at office of special project.

NCIS Los Angeles is a show based on investigating team finding the criminals. It is undercover surveillance at the office of special project (OSP). In the first episode while NCIS team is trying to take over the case FBI interrupts and tells them that they shouldn't do this and give the case to FBI because, NCIS is secret investigating team where no one knows about them. FBI thinks that they are just dressed up and trying to do something. when NCIS team got the case, one girl from FBI was there and she gave to them because she felt in love with one agent. later, FBI team fired her because, she gave the case to them. While she got fired NCIS hired her in their team. This show is basically on investigating crimes and solving miseries.

As i said, in the first episode of the first season, there was incident where a pilot died. In hat plane FBI team agent was there. When the NCIS team was called over while,the trans-passing people at the airport couldn't believe them. They thought NCIS was just a game so, they couldn't go but, however they did went to the plane from agent. They took over the case and solved the case of who killed the pilot and how he died.This helps our ideology by helping, protecting and communicating with other people.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NCIS:_Los_Angeles

http://tv.blinkx.com/show/ncis-los-angeles/wYTj5oC4nfp-AwyEa6ZgbuTfw_o#s1

It's in your DNA, you're gay!

Gay culture has been relevant since Socrates' time, Shakespeare’s time, and, of course, today.  Culture has gone from “So?” to “You’re putting WHAT, WHERE?” to “Pray the gay away” and “God hates NAGS”.  If you live in America today, you are sure to see a frown or smile when two men stand too close, or when two women past their grade-schooling years hold hands, depending on one’s geography.  Though this issue of rights hasn’t made as big of a stain on our history as racism (yet), it will continue to stand out until equality has been achieved.  

In 2003, Avenue Q went to Broadway.  It includes a song entitled “If You Were Gay”, a number where Nicky ensures his friend that he will be supportive if were he gay, but poor Rod just wants to be left alone to read.  Rod seems very displeased at Nicky’s choice of conversation, playing the closeted conservative roll, while Nicky plays the open friend.  While both characters are gay, they play different rolls and have almost polar reactions.  

Rod is obviously uncomfortable -- “Why should I care?  I don't care.” -- and even Nicky isn’t completely complacent about it, putting a “no homo” tag at the end of the chorus -- “But I’m not gay”.  Even though these characters are gay, they’re closeted, revealing the ugliness that is homophobia towards oneself and the idea that “it’s okay as long as it isn’t me”.  These two ideas that can be spotted throughout pop culture -- see: The Merchant of Venice, In and Out, Brokeback Mountain -- and can harm the psyche for both the individual and most who associate with them.  

Sources:
Song: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OUvLPTKODHE
Lyrics: http://www.stlyrics.com/lyrics/avenueq/ifyouweregay.htm
Avenue Q on TVTropes: http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/AvenueQ
Avenue Q on Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avenue_Q

Daft Sheen

Charlie Sheen is the most controversial actor in Hollywood to date with his unpredictable antics like the past interviews he has done. His big antic was him quitting Two and a Half Men after filming the final episode of Season 7, purportedly due to his rejection of CBS's offer of $1 million per episode as too low. He also attacked the creator of Two and a Half Men with verbal attacks. His antics in the “Good Morning America” and Today Show have caused a broad loud of fan base and caused many hits on YouTube. He was fired from the Dominant Ideology which is CBS and basically broke down with his crazy antics and saying he is “Winning”.

In the "Today Show" interview, Sheen said he was "special," and was tired of pretending that he wasn't. He also said that considering what he brings in for CBS, he is under paid. On "Good Morning America," Sheen, speaking to Andrea Canning, said he was on drugs. It's called Charlie Sheen. And it's not available, because if you tried it, your face would melt off. He said he was going to defend his life "violently, through violent hatred."He promised he would sue CBS for "tons" of money. "They're going to lose in a courtroom. So, I would recommend that they do an out-of-court settlement and fix this whole thing and pay the crew and get season nine back on board." He said his family needs the money to "fuel the magic."In part two, Sheen said his brain is incredible. “It fires in a way that is, I don’t know, maybe not from this particular terrestrial realm.” He also says he's not bi-polar, but rather, “bi-winning.” When asked about the last time he ingested drugs, he said he does not remember. He said the last time, he was banging "7-gram rocks [of cocaine]." When asked about possibly dying from drugs, he said "dying's for fools." He said he is not going to relapse, because he won't. He "blinked and he cured his brain," he added. Charlie Sheen said he was proud of giving people all those drugs and partying as he did. He said he was proud because he was exposing people to "magic."

In Charlie Sheen’s recent work he was a big shot, a womanizer, a dominant person. He was one of the most paid actors in the business and unintentually became a big drug addict and wild crazy person. He basically showed what happens when on drugs and saw the true colors of him. He said that he said that it was a while that he ingested drugs but you can see that he was on something when seen in the interview. Even though he is one of the craziest actors he means well and made a big spectacle in TV history.

Are lion's heart's Imunne to feeling "feelings"

Kid CuDi's "Heart of A Lion" represents the problems that come your way and you have to keep your head up and your heart strong and not give into the “dark forces”. It show’s common ideology in the way people believe that they over come and do better for them self. It is a up-beat rhythm that makes you feel empowered that will go toward an ideology of power and resistance. I believe what the cudster is saying is you mustn’t let the “dark forces” that effect you, effect you. They are best dealt with a powerful heart and will and don’t let “anything break me”. He keeps repeating “at the end of the day.” he is trying to say in my representation nothing is forever you will go on and life will continue, And it will be better. When the Kid says “Cleveland” the city he is from, he means a place your happy and safe a place you feel the best and most protected. He is showing common ideology in every single word of the song!

The way he show’s ideology is by giving a common goal of happiness and power. Kid CuDi isn’t just American ideology he is a worldwide force that relates with everyone by showing common problem’s that everyone has today. In Kid CuDi’s image it shows a person that grew up with many problems and now has overcome it “at the end of the day” he is a better man. He is a positive ideology to younger people, his influence is mostly positive to most. “please save a kid that needs some help and I can't see ahead of me so I move in stealth.” This is telling people that there will be problems and you might fall back not to be noticed, and it's alright to be the kid who is hiding. Most of the world doesn’t see anything wrong with Kid CuDi projecting marijuana, some might say they see it in a positive way, other than U.S.A because it is illegal to most by the government. Every one fallows his ideology, and they don’t even know it, his ideology of happiness and overcoming problems and staying strong and not letting current problems effecting you.

The message shown is one I support, and I have conflicting feelings. I like the way he relates to kid’s to help them threw their problems, and my conflicts are because I don’t understand his cause. He is a big part in Ideology that kids and adults act by most of the time just living it, trying to make you better is Kid CuDi’s ideology. He show’s this in all of his earlier songs. He is a big force in the music industry because of his original type of song’s that are a rare mixture of song, rhythm, beat, and rap. He will affect the world as long as his music gets to an ear.



http://www.elyricsworld.com/heart_of_a_lion_lyrics_kid_cudi.html

Ice Cube - Gangsta Rap Made Him Do It *EXPLICIT CONTENT*

Gangsta Rap Made Him Do It!

The song ‘Gangsta Rap Made Me Do It’ by Ice Cube , is relevant to pop culture because it discusses how now people are saying the word “n*gga” is a bad word and how weed is the “worst” drug. This song came out in 2008 and causes controversy to our government or society. Controversy because the word n*gga is mainly used by African Americans and todays society create consequences for those who utilize the word. The message in this song , I think , is how Ice Cube tries to “back-up” his race by saying how is the society going to tell me now that I can’t say n*gga , when back then the society was full of that word. Its a big impact because it goes out to all those African Americans that use the word n*gga and it also breaks prevalents among stereotypes. I think it reflects ideology because our society/government have been fighting war on drugs for a very long time , and especially now on the “drug” weed. Same with how the word n*gga has been fought about for a long amount of time in our society as well and here I assume Ice Cube is trying to reveal to society that , n*gga is not a bad word , any one can use it , and to not let society tell him other wise when back years ago , they constantly used the word.

What's this all about ?!

 I think Ice Cube made this song to contradict those who oppose “n*gga” and drugs such as weed are bad. When , in history , they didn’t do anything when cocaine was coming back. I also think , Ice Cube in this song is trying to reveal to those who don't understand , a realization that the word is not bad and how society tends to be hypocritcal/contradicts it self. Ice Cube brings up history , how when years ago they did the opposite of what they are doing now. I think what Ice Cube is trying to do now is show how crude the society was years ago , how contradicting society is now.

Sources and Quotes

“But aren't you the same cat that sat back when they brought cocaine back
How you muthadukas gonna tell me don't say that
You the ones that we learned it from I heard n*gga back in 1971”

What Ice Cube states in his song ; “you the ones where we learned it from. I heard n*gga back in 1971” By you , he is talking about every one who believes n*gga is a bad word , which is usually the elderly folk now. When , in that line , he’s saying they(African Americans) learned the word n*gga from the white society back in 1971 , so why can’t they use it now ? Also , at the same time this song also refers to drugs. “But arent you the same cat that sat back when they brought cocaine back?” Talking about how now , weed is all bad , illegal , nothing good for the youth. When , back in the days , when they brought cocaine back , nobody did anything about it. They just let it be and didn’t bother to fight back on the drug war .

If you really listen to the song and pay attention to the lyrics , it will surprise you.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5D6cjDmPaIA

Everyday I'm Tumblring

Tumblr was founded in 2007 by David Karp. This website was unknown for a couple of years. Months by months, people started creating a Tumblr as they discover it. Started on July 2010, Tumblr scored million unique visitors in the United Sates in July 2011 – up to 218% from July, 2010. It got really popular up until today. It’s a website where it allows you to post text, images, videos, links, quotes and audio to their tumbleblog. Users can follow other users , or you could choose to make your tumbeblog private. In honesty, I think it is just a broader trend going around on the website of Tumblr. This reflects the ideology by the stuff people posts.

Tumblr is a website where you see unique things posted that you rarely ever see in reality. You could also see interesting, or amusing things in your eyes. For example, there’s this one picture of a man planking on top of a whale, and on top of the tallest building. It’s crazy, isn’t it? Sometimes it’s like an advertisement going around. For example, like the upcoming iPhone 5. It’d show how it would see like, and how it works. There’s this one video of a yellow, bird dancing to the song “I Flip My Hair Back & Forth.” Pretty interesting. Also you would see beautiful, flawless, looking girls getting positive comments. You see all types of things on Tumblr.

I think Tumblr resist the dominant ideology of the society. For example, when you see a gorgeous, looking girl getting bunch of notes, and getting reblog with positive comments, it does bring your self-esteem down. Sometimes you really shouldn’t feel this way, because a girl in reality doesn’t look perfect like that. It’s insane, because some girls actually hurt themselves for not being like “those girls.” Girls just start to think negative stuff about themselves, and try their best to look like them. You see, they’re not being themselves for who they actually are.

One Day

 The song “one day”, by Matisyahu is important because it talks about not fighting in wars because it doesn’t matter who wins or loses its about just having peace.  This song resists the ideology of countries always in war and destroying places, making it unsafe for children and families.  It can reflect todays war like in Lybia or Afgahanastan because they are wars that we really don’t need to be in. They just cause more harm to us. This shows how America is always in a war for no reason. Well not always for no reason but reasons that we Americans can't figure out why we are in. For example Lybia.

His full name is Mathew Miller but his hebrew and stage name is Mtisyahu. He is 32 years old and the types of work or genres he mixes in are rock, reggae, and occasional beat boxing. Also some songs include hebrew chants. He wrote this to tell everyone that war is not the answer and even though it does happen good times will come back around soon. So he does have a negative feeling of wars but is positive about better times in the future and hopefully without war and where we all are safe. It was used in the Olympics as a peace song, which it is. Most of his songs are of peace and religous value due to his hebrew background.

 "All my life I've been waiting for I've been praying for, for the people to say that we don't wanna fight no more they'll be no more wars and our children will play". This is a great way to reflect his views that he is trying to put out with the song. Its a dream that he has and i believe he thinks that we should all have that dream to just be peaceful with eachother. It also reflects his religon when he says "ive been praying for" so it can hint that he is religous but also show its an important topic that should happen.

Giving Off

Giving Off

Adele’s song “Set fire to the rain” is relevant because she simply writes songs about her ex-boyfriend who broke her heart. Grabbing the attention to many girls who have had broken hearts. She has grown to be popular artist in this year. With many of her songs being heard everywhere and having people singing along. Her song represents the ideology of the American dream of having a perfect relationship. Of course she is going against the ideology showing what does happen and how relationships are hard to manage.

In her songs she briefly talks about how her relationship with the guy was once so perfect. Throughout the songs she then sings about the things that he started doing to push them apart. All the things that started going wrong to end their relationship. Even though she is hurt there are parts in the song where she shows she is still trying to get over it.

What I like most about the song is how she is showing her true feelings about everything she felt throughout their relationship. Her experience to get over what had happened and her journey in every song to forget and let go of what used to be. Adele is expressing and showing that the ideology of the American dream about having the perfect relationship doesn’t always work out. The down side of it all is shown in most of her song just like this one. Here are some examples of her songs to show different aspects of her song.

” But there's a side to you that I never knew, never knew
All the things you'd say, they were never true, never true
And the games you play, you would always win, always win.”

Here she shows where he started doing wrong breaking apart the relationship.

“When laying with you
I could stay there, close my eyes
Feel you here, forever
You and me together, nothing is better,”

Adele now shows how their relationship was before she started to figure out the person he really was and in this part shows how the apart American dream ideology is suppose to be. Adele is a young artist that is drawing the attention of many people around the world and making people fall in love with her songs.

7 pounds

Seven Pounds

7 Pound a 2008 film, directed by Gabriele Muccino and based on a script written by Grant Nieporte under Colombia picture this movie is important and relevant because it caused raise funds for food banks in Cleveland, Miami, Dallas, St. Louis, and Denver. Although critics didn't like it, it was a very successful film and it is rated 7.6 out of 10. This movie is different. "Do you consider yourself good? And how would you answer that question if I asked you the same...Emily" Well in this movie Ben (Will Smith) takes it to the extreme. He says that "In seven days god created the world... in seven seconds I shattered mine...Ben" Well you might be thinking how and why but before reading the rest take a second and ask yourself "If you consider you self a good person? "

Now the question is what the definition of good is. Well many societies and countries say that you have to be good but are good also respectful and caring. In this instance yes, this movie shows that America even with a great economy doesn’t have enough food, housing, and medical support for everyone. I mean according to the LifeSharers, a national network of organ donors the amount of people who needs organ has topped over 100,000.

In this movie Ben contacts several people who is in need of help and tries to help them some are easy but others he goes and kills himself to give others the chance of survival. The major reason is the death of 6 people in a car crash including his wife. Though out the movie he has night mare of that night. Not able to hope he decides to kill but before he calls an ambulance and tell them that he is committing suicide. He commits suicide by sitting in a tub filled with cold water, then he gets his pet jelly fish in the tub too. After being stung by the jelly fish he dies and donates his organs to the people he contacted.

In this movie Ben has giving his life always for others. This movie shows the most common ideology of caring. In so many ways I mean before he commits suicide he tries to get to know the people who will receive his organs most of them he was able to met at least once. But with Emily he goes beyond and really tries to understand the extend of her condition in a matter of fact he knows that Emily has a very slim chance of survival, because of a heart condition. Ben says “It is within his power to drastically change the circumstances.” and he is able to stick to his word.

Link

http://www.sonypictures.com/movies/sevenpounds/site/

http://youtu.be/8imspx8L6ys

http://youtu.be/IbPuTwo1bxs

Its all about facebook!

                                                   Its all about facebook!

Define Facebook.
Facebook is a social networking website launched in February 2004 that is operated and privately owned by Facebook, Inc., with more than 500 million active users.

Why is Facebook Important?
Facebook is important because it is one of the top social networking sites, quickly gaining on Myspace in terms of total users and traffic. Facebook presents a unique marketing opportunity for businesses through the creation of Facebook Business Pages. As more people explore social media, social networking sites have become some of the key online sources they use to learn more about products, organizations, artists and world events. Marketing on Facebook has a viral effect – information spreads through networks exponentially.

Facebook in my view is an ideology under liberty because it has helped everyone to say what they think about certain things. It has help us communicate easily with our friends and families. It has given us freedom of speech by letting us share our thoughts. I hope people use this for good causes and spread ideas that can help people.

No Magic Words

Darius Rucker’s song “I Got Nothing” came out May 15^th, 2011. In the song it talks about how a woman wants to leave and the man doesn’t want her to, but he doesn’t have any magic words to tell her to stop her from leaving. Other popular songs by him are “Don’t think I don’t think about it”. This song talks about how even stars hurt and how they think about the past, and it’s hard to leave someone that you love. This song is helping shape ideology because it talks about a fight that led to someone leaving, and it shows how Darius feels. A lot of people can relate to that, having someone leave them. It really stops and makes you think and wonder if you could have done anything or said anything to stop someone from leaving you in the past or the near future. This song to me breaks a stereotype about love and relationships, because they’re not all perfect like they make them out to be.

This song, “ I got nothing”, in the beginning talks about the setting of the song and how he’s stayed up all night apologizing to his wife. They knew what this fight was going to lead to, and they’ve been waiting for it for a long time. He wants to say something to change her mind, but he doesn’t know what to say. He was hoping maybe if he said something then it would buy him more time to think about what to tell her. He has nothing to say though, to stop her from leaving, and to stop him from hurting. All he does is pray to God, hoping to give him something to say as he watches her pack her bags. Then, take off her ring, slip it off. He wants to get down on his knees again with that ring, and tell her what she wants to her, but he just says he has nothing to stop her from really leaving. He says towards then end, “If you go I got nothing”. And then she leaves.

This song goes against the dominant ideology of love and relationships because; it talks about the heartbreak, and the hurting. Our country’s ideal love relationship is perfect, and happy. It never really talks about how the relationships end, if they do end. It doesn’t talk about all the hearts that are broken and the pain at night when you’re feeling lonely. They don’t tell you that when the word love comes along, I don’t know why. And that’s what this song talks about, how to handle someone leaving you, and that’s what you got to be ready for when you are ready to love.