Do you learn better with film or text? Why?

In my personal opinion i think both film and text are important. With text you get every detail and you are able to grasp the concept, however with film you get a better idea of the situation. With text you your able to read something and picture it in your head, it gives people the chance to have different perspectives of the situation but in film everyone sees things through the eyes of the director of the film and that is not good all the time. With film people are able to learn more details in less amount of time than to have to read  texts after texts, and articles that are really long. It really is up to the student and the way they learn best. Some students need texts to understand better, while others can learn just as good with film.

Hip Hop and its influences

Hip Hop has the potential to influence people's live in a positive way. Originally this is how hip hop used to be. There were many groups that sung about their lives and the hardships they were going through at the time. Little by little the lyrics to the songs startes changing and became more about degrading not only women but men; and also about killings, drugs, and violence. What is seen most in these hip hop and rap videos are women coming out half naked. Never in the videos are women portrayed as sophisticated individuals, but rather "hoes" or "bitches". To my surprie it seema as these acts have become more and more accepted by the public especially women. For example in the video we saw in class today, when the women were asked what they thought about the way women were portrayed in rap videos they seemed aloof about it and only said that since the songs were not directly towards them it did not affect them. I disagree with this, i think because the songsd are not directed to one specific female it makes all women look bad. I believe the way women are seen is not good and should be at least a little less, and with more respect to women. Young women these days do not need to see these videos and feel like they need to act a certain way, or dress a certain way to be accepted, or attracted.

Thoughts on Plagiarism

With all the new technology available it is easier to be able to plagiarize. Plagiarism can be done without the person actually realizing he or she did. In order to avoid this, the text or words should be summarized in order to make them your own. If in any case the authors words are very well written and would like to quote it, the proper citations should be done. The consequences for plagiarism are severe enough to get a student expelled from school. Therefore people should aviod plagiarism at all times. The author should recieve recognition for their hard work.