Good morning Mr Flaherty and class
Today Matthew and I will be analysing 2 different texts of how the media portrays us as teenagers in both positive and negative texts.
Negative text
5 teens rob gas station
The news article 5.T.R.G.S is a destructive representation towards teens as the language used in this piece advises that all teens are continuously ‘fleeing’, ‘screaming demands’, ‘pointing guns’ and ‘pinning’. These words harmfully represent youths in the usage of this article as it is making these types of words being well correlated to teenagers and not seeing the good side of them. Two of the words describing the teenagers are ‘pointing guns’. This leaves a gap of how did teenagers, just like you and I get guns? Is this how we want …show more content…
In this positive text I will be analysing a text about 2 boys who have heroically saved a young girl from a stranger. in this text there is a wide use of the positive words describing the teenagers were words like ‘hero’ and ‘zero intentions of giving up’. The two boys, Temar and his friend, both aged 15 were riding their bikes when a girl was abducted from her home, once they head of the news they were searching around the streets on their bikes. Once they came across the burgundy coloured van the put in a heroic effort by chasing it down for 15 minutes. Helped the girl back to her parents. They these boys have made the public realise that teenagers are actually very good young men and women and they are and they do good things to the public just like a ‘heroes’ as the community were describing them as, and people are probably starting to look up to teenagers for the good things that they do. This is meaning the public can live without stress of teenagers destroying their lives, and teenagers are actually helping them. This makes me wonder if the bad stereotype which we live in could be changed into a positive one by the media actually putting us in a good light of social
Today Matthew and I will be analysing 2 different texts of how the media portrays us as teenagers in both positive and negative texts.
Negative text
5 teens rob gas station
The news article 5.T.R.G.S is a destructive representation towards teens as the language used in this piece advises that all teens are continuously ‘fleeing’, ‘screaming demands’, ‘pointing guns’ and ‘pinning’. These words harmfully represent youths in the usage of this article as it is making these types of words being well correlated to teenagers and not seeing the good side of them. Two of the words describing the teenagers are ‘pointing guns’. This leaves a gap of how did teenagers, just like you and I get guns? Is this how we want …show more content…
In this positive text I will be analysing a text about 2 boys who have heroically saved a young girl from a stranger. in this text there is a wide use of the positive words describing the teenagers were words like ‘hero’ and ‘zero intentions of giving up’. The two boys, Temar and his friend, both aged 15 were riding their bikes when a girl was abducted from her home, once they head of the news they were searching around the streets on their bikes. Once they came across the burgundy coloured van the put in a heroic effort by chasing it down for 15 minutes. Helped the girl back to her parents. They these boys have made the public realise that teenagers are actually very good young men and women and they are and they do good things to the public just like a ‘heroes’ as the community were describing them as, and people are probably starting to look up to teenagers for the good things that they do. This is meaning the public can live without stress of teenagers destroying their lives, and teenagers are actually helping them. This makes me wonder if the bad stereotype which we live in could be changed into a positive one by the media actually putting us in a good light of social