Bootleg Culture

A really good example of intertextuality is when someone plagiarizes someone else’s work as their own.  You see more people doing this instead of doing the work themselves.  I think that most people take this seriously within schools and if someone is caught doing it them they get a punishment and for college you can even get kicked out.  This seems to almost be as common as people bootlegging movies or making mash ups as their own. 

A second example of intertextuality is when people copy movies onto DVD’s when they are not yet out on DVD (bootlegging).  I know multiple people who do this and they make these bootleg DVD’s and sell them to people for profit.  I do not see many people doing this as much but I know there are quite a few people who do this to make easy money.

Fake Love is Everywhere

The discussion about “This is Emo” really interested me because it made me realize how television really comes off as showing the “perfect relationship.”  When television and movies have couples, they make them seem like there is no fighting, everyone is happy, or there are no problems.  In reality, every couple fights, you’re not always going to be happy, and there will be problems.  This makes it hard for men and women to find the right guy or girl because they want the relationship that they see on television or in the movies.  Because of this, we have such high standards for what we want in a significant other that when we o become involved with someone that we are not happy or disappointed because it is not what we expected or it is not what he saw it to be. 

It is hard to find the perfect someone because no one is perfect.  There are high expectations for what people look for in a partner because of this thing called “fake love” which is what we see on television and in movies.  Television and movies make dating and marriage look so easy and perfect that we get disappointed when we actually do get involved and it is not what someone was hoping.  Finding a significant other has become so much more challenging for both men and women due to the television and movie influence of fake love.

Violence is in Our Culture

 Violence is very common with boys in our culture.  Violence is defined by using men as the main point and always showing men getting bigger and stronger.  This makes boys think that they need to be bigger and stronger to be more masculine to be a man.  Also, a lot of men are used in movies as being the more violent ones toward anyone or anything and this shows boys that this is what a man does and how they should act.  When in reality it is not how a man has to act but chooses to act.  It is hard for a boy to go around and not see men who are dominate; having a visual of how to act, has a big influence on a young boy because a lot of people learn by watching I think.

I can see this role as positive and negative because if someone sees a man being violent toward someone who is harming them, then it shows a boy how to protect themselves and not let someone harm them.  I can see this being negative in a way that television shows it because if boys get a lot of their information on how to be masculine from television, then it might show it in a wrong way.  Television shows make men look like the bad guys but in a boys mind, it might make them seem like the "badass" guy.

APA relates to my ideas because they say that the violence on television has an effect on children's mental health.  Therefore, saying that by children watching violence on television that it will cause them to become more violent.  I believe that this is true to a point.  Children learn from watching and yes, if a child is interested in violence, then they may be more likely to be violent and since the violent scenes on television are performed mostly by men, then younger boys look up to that.  My ideas also kind of relate to ACLU because I do not think that violence should be blocked from television because if children do not see it on television, they will most likely see it in the real word.  I strongly believe that a child is able to watch violence on television and not become violent; it also depends on how a parent(s) react to situations.

I grew up watching violence on television and never did anything extremely violent like what television shows.  I also was told when I was younger that being mean or violent was not nice and that it was the wrong thing to do.  My parents told me what was right and wrong instead of not saying anything to me.  I think that since there is so much violence on television that parents need to remind their children the right and wrong things to do to help them realize that you cannot do the things that they see on television.