May 9th 2011

Today was the last day in the class. We took our final at seven tonight. We watched DodgeBall, and had to explain the American Dream that the movie was portraying and of course we had to tie in race,class, and gender. It was a easy writing assignment, we had to only write a page. I thought the assignment was easy as a whole because I love that movie so much. I felt the hardest part was tying in the race. I did not think that the movie dealt with the race factor a whole a lot. It was more we are perfect and you are not, everyone should kill their selves to look like us. They also down play the power of females in this movie too. I hit on that in my paper.Thank you this was a wonderful class!

May 2, 2011

Today we did not have class, instead we went to listen to Rebecca Skloot, the author of The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks. She is a lot more famous then I thought she was. Her book is going to be made into a movie produced by Oprah. Is was interesting listening to her stories that had been produced by hanging out with the family. It was really interesting to find out how long it took her to be accepted by some of the members. It is crazy to think that she still today has not gained all of the famlies trust. She was a very easy person to listen to speak. Her story was good. I thought that she was going to be boring and I dreaded going, but it was well worth it.

April 25

In class today we got out early. This was a first due to our teacher never lets us out early lol. We have one week until our paper is due. We have to type a twelve hundred word paper on the book, The Immortal life of Henrietta Lacks. We have to pick out one of the major themes whether it be race,class, or gender. We have to have two outside sources. This should not be a hard assignment. I find myself angry when i think of the things that happened during this time period of the so called "separate but equal." It was anything but that. She had to be admitted to the colored ward at the only hospital in Baltimore to accept African Americans. Only two weeks left of school its grind time.

April 18

I was not in class today due to my finger.I had to have my finger sewed back up. I got the assignment and it was to watch Bamboozled and answer the questions. This was an interesting movie be Spike Lee. I felt that white people were made to look like the bad people on how white people portray blacks in the media. I think it was a good assignment and it was interesting to see how it all panned out.

April 4th

Today in class we discussed and view d videos of comedians making jokes about races other than their own. The one video we watched was Gabriel Iglesis. He was making jokes that referred to the African American race. The problem that was brought up was the fact that he was Hispanic doing African American jokes. To many people that is not offensive, but to others this could be highly offensive. In his skit he played a joke on another comedian where he made a basket filled with stereotypical African American objects. So we broke up into groups and we were assigned a different race and we made a basket for that race. It was easy to see after going over the different objects of the baskets the amount of stereotypes that are portrayed with each race. i find these tings to be very funny, but i know when it is crossing the line.

March 28

Today in class we went to the computer lab to look for pictures that themed race, class, gender, or economic status. It was a fun assignment because it put us in groups and I love being in groups. It makes the work easier and more fun because I would rather work with friends then by myself. That is just what kind of person I am though. It was a fun project looking for pictures though. The internet is a crazy thing and people are not afraid to offend someone with their posting of these bizarre pictures. Even though there were some bad ones our group managed to find some funny ones to present in class.

March 7th

Today in class we took our midterm exam. I guess I was a little unprepared for this test because I was unaware of the style of the test. The test itself was not that bad because I did know the topics discussed in class. I did know and understand the topics. My favorite part of the test was when we got to watch an episode of NCIS. I've said this in other posts before but you do not realize how race, class and gender issues are portrayed in everyday television shows until you actually take time to look for this topics. I guess really you could do that part of the exam on any television show out there. This is the first time I have done anything like this on an exam but it fits the class and make me more aware of race, class and gender issues that are being discussed on everyday TV shows.