Today's blog is about a very funny, witty commercial, that got it's point across without much dialog or interaction. The commercial fallows a little boy dressed up as Darth Vader desperately trying to use the Force. There is very little interaction between the different genders in this commercial but the characters of the mother and father still play a big role. It has always been normal for the father to go to work and the mother to stay home with the children. This is evident in this commercial. But is it an adequate representation of a 21st century family?, it is hard to say. Now a day's thing are much different. It is not like the old days were the father works from sun up to sun down and the wife stays home with the children. Based on data from 1998, both spouses were employed at least part time in 51 percent of married couples with children, compared with 33 percent in 1976., things are not like they used to be. But in the other hand many families still fallow this old school way of living, it is kind of like a tradition, and it is very apparent in this commercial with the mother making her son a sandwich and the father coming home from work.
Darth Vader is unforgettable character from a classic American movie. The Star Wars pictures are movies that are going to live on for many generations to come. Movies like that are rare. Although these movies are about thirty years old, they still play them on a regular basis on cable. They are memorabilia and clothing that you can still find in any mall, all over the United States. Not to mention that parents who are huge fans of the George Lucas movies, can't wait for their kids to get old enough so that they can watch the movies together. Star Wars is going to live on forever.
"The Miseduction of Hip Hop Discrimination in Education" is an essay written by Jamilah Evelyn, a staff reporter for a The Chronicle of Higher Education. It is an essay partly about a 22 year old college senior named Jason Hinmon, who has just transferred from Morehouse college in Atlanta to the University of Delaware. The essay speaks on some sensitive racial issues, about how young students dress as a result of the influence of Hip Hop music. Jason Hinmon experience his first day at the University of Delaware was not as he suspected. His professors, who where all predominantly white did not know how to deal with such a student, "They took one look at me and thought that I was some hip-hop hoodlum who wasn't interested in being a good student"(Evelyn,559). This could not have been a pleasant feeling for Jason or anyone in his position. He said, " I came to class and my professors didn't know how to deal with me"(Evelyn,559). This must have been a cultural shock for Jason being that he came from a university in Atlanta, where the population of students and professors are mostly African American. Dr. Thomas Earl Midgette, the director of the Institute for the Study of Minority Issues at historically Black North Carolina Central University is a big advocate on students form of dressing and behaving, and is against the influence of Hip Hop on young kids. Dr. Midgette thinks students sometimes waste their time on rap music when they should be paying attention to their school work. "You see students walking on campus reciting rap lyrics when they should be reciting something they'll need to know on their next test" says Dr. Midgette(Evelyn,559). He also has strong opinions on how they dress. He says "These rap artists influence the way the dress" he goes on "They look like hoochie mamas , not like they're coming to class"(Evelyn,559). These are all good points being that Dr. Midgett is 50 years old, and is way of thinking is more mature than the student he counsels. He states in this essay that when he was young he wore bell bottoms, I'm sure his parents didn't agree with his fashion sense then. I am 28 now, and although I love hip hop music since the beginning, I don't follow it how I used to when I was 22. I feel like I have out grown it. Also the fact that I cannot relate to much of the music plays a big role. I once dressed with my pant below my naval, and had on the baggy shirt to emulate my favorite rappers, but now that I am older and wiser I realize how stupid I must have looked showing my boxer to the world. My mother would always tell me, "Alan pick up your pants". So when it comes to who is write in this instant, it is impossible to say. Only advise that I can give a student like Jason Hinmon is listen to your elders, they are usually right.
