Every day we log in to our social media platforms. It’s a ritual, even an obsession. We feel like we have to see what everyone else is doing. We are obsessed with the idea of seeing other people lives and what they are posting. Whether what we see is good or bad we usually have some type of reaction from it. Has social media and entertainment really benefitted us in any way?
We see the riots that happened in Ferguson and we all form our own opinion of it, but what real evidence do we have to support this besides what the media decides to show us. We see multiple stories of police brutality, and we automatically begin to have an ill opinion of cops. When it reality these incidents are only a small percent of what happens every day. Do we …show more content…
Queen Latifah and Samuel L. Jackson allow us to see the giant cracks in our society and culture. Jackson and Latifah are using their power in a productive way. In their essays “Who You Callin a Bitch” and “In Character”, they explore the intricate web that we call society. Most of us go through our daily lives without giving these things much thought, but I don’t know how much longer we can all go as a society with these divides between the cultures. Latifah and Jackson’s purposes are closely related. Latifah describes the importance of building each other up and the importance of seeing yourself as nothing less than a queen. Jackson touches on how hard it is to be an African American actor in the entertainment industry and why were are only entertained by the “bad” …show more content…
“A queen, a women with self-esteem, handles adversity with grace. Even when her world is crumbling around her, she never lets her crown fall” (35). These words can easily be incorporated into my daily life. I’ve never really seen myself as a queen because it seemed conceited, but now I see a whole different perspective on it.
One of the most important things that Jackson said in his piece was this, “As the fabric of our society changes in certain ways, the fabric of the cinematic world changes in the same ways” (455). We don’t quite realize the effects of what we watch. Sometimes we are so connected with something that it affects us emotionally. An example of this is 9/11 as certain people watched the twin towers fall, they immediately decided that they we going to enlist into the military. Media is used to get a reaction out of us. They wouldn’t be in business is we didn’t
We see the riots that happened in Ferguson and we all form our own opinion of it, but what real evidence do we have to support this besides what the media decides to show us. We see multiple stories of police brutality, and we automatically begin to have an ill opinion of cops. When it reality these incidents are only a small percent of what happens every day. Do we …show more content…
Queen Latifah and Samuel L. Jackson allow us to see the giant cracks in our society and culture. Jackson and Latifah are using their power in a productive way. In their essays “Who You Callin a Bitch” and “In Character”, they explore the intricate web that we call society. Most of us go through our daily lives without giving these things much thought, but I don’t know how much longer we can all go as a society with these divides between the cultures. Latifah and Jackson’s purposes are closely related. Latifah describes the importance of building each other up and the importance of seeing yourself as nothing less than a queen. Jackson touches on how hard it is to be an African American actor in the entertainment industry and why were are only entertained by the “bad” …show more content…
“A queen, a women with self-esteem, handles adversity with grace. Even when her world is crumbling around her, she never lets her crown fall” (35). These words can easily be incorporated into my daily life. I’ve never really seen myself as a queen because it seemed conceited, but now I see a whole different perspective on it.
One of the most important things that Jackson said in his piece was this, “As the fabric of our society changes in certain ways, the fabric of the cinematic world changes in the same ways” (455). We don’t quite realize the effects of what we watch. Sometimes we are so connected with something that it affects us emotionally. An example of this is 9/11 as certain people watched the twin towers fall, they immediately decided that they we going to enlist into the military. Media is used to get a reaction out of us. They wouldn’t be in business is we didn’t