Most of the time when we hear the word Hero we imagine a strong guy, good looking and with a good moral. The media plays an important role in the community because through the media we know who that hero is. The media has a strong social and cultural impact upon society. This is predicated upon their ability to reach a wide audience with a strong and influential message. However, what is the message that the movie accidental hero portrays? The movie also shows how a low class man save many lives. Both character Bernie Laplante and John Bubber has different qualities but also they have something in common as well.
The media control what we see. The reporter Gale Gayley and her cameraman recorded a office man who jumped off the roof. When the man jumped, the reported asked her cameraman “did you got that?”. That scene shows one thing, the media only care to portray its message not matter the circumstances. The news reporters have the ambition to report the best news ever. Gayley, who was in the hospital after the plane crashed was told that a unknown character saved her life and the rest of the passengers'. Immediately the media entitled the issue as the angel of the flight 104 they name the angel to make an impact and to make a public reaction toward that incident. To be hero is not necessarily to be famous, I agree with Bubber when he said that a hero is a symbol of good personality that everyone has. That is true, it does not matter whether you are poor or reach or whether you belong to a low class society, if you help others [like Bubber does in the movie] then you are a hero.
The music plays a good role in the media. While Gayley was interviewing the survivors the instrumental music was heroic to manipulate the audience. For instance, when Bubber, a homeless decided to show up for the interview and he said that he showed up because the money the instrumental music was a little sad because he Bobber was homeless. The media is powerful, it can make you famous like Bubber in the movie Hero. On the other hand, Laplante a selfish man, he was the one who committed the heroic act [he saved fifty four passengers]did not received any credit at all. Why? Because the media focuses in good images like Bubber.
The media have the potential to control the readers, the viewers and the action. Nowadays we can see how the media portrays the message when something wrong happens and how they try to manipulate the viewers. I consider the media as a two edge sword, it can make you famous but also it can destroy you like the scene when Gayley was talking about the onion metaphor. The movie has a meaningful message; it shows the good qualities that human beings have [when Laplante saved a bunch of people]. The movie also portrays the role of the media and how journalists can make a person like bubber who was a homeless into a rich celebrity and the miserable life of the man who suicided when he jump from the building. That could happen in real life and that is why I consider the movie Hero a good movie .
Monday, November 1, 2010
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Teddy David David1
Professor: Louis A. Lucca
10/28/10
“Malcolm X and the media”
When we think of important milestones in media, we think of obvious choices like the first printing press by Johannes Gutenberg [1453], C.E books becoming the first mass medium or the first newspaper in the colonies [the second medium] or the telegraph [the third medium] Samuel F.B Morse. Yet for one to have an impact sometimes it is enough that they use the media already available to them in new ways, and Malcolm X was one of the characters that made an impact in terms of mass media evolution. What was that impact? Why was that impact considered as an important event? Back in the 1950s Malcolm X made an impact in all media such as television documentaries, radio stations, and newspapers.
First, let us talk about Malcolm's childhood. Malcolm was born in Omaha, Nebraska in 1925. His mother, Louis Norton Little was a homemaker occupied with the family's eight children. His father Earl Little was an outspoken Baptist minister and avid supporter of black nationalist leader Marcus Garvey. Malcolm was a smart guy in school. however, Malcolm wanted to become a lawyer but one of his teachers told him that "becoming a lawyer was no realistic goal for a nigger" [the biography of Malcolm X] and Malcolm lost interest, so he dropped out of school. Malcolm moved to Boston and then traveled to Harlem, New York where he committed crimes, then he moved back to Boston and there he was arrested and convicted on burglary charges [1946]; he was convicted to seven- years in prison. Malcolm took advantage of being in jail because he focused on educating himself. He read books and looked up the dictionary to change his vocabulary. During the period of self-enlightenment, Malcolm learned about the nation of Islam leader: Elijah Muhammad who taught that "white society worked to keep African Americans from empowering themselves and achieving political and economic
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success. Then, Malcolm was a devoted follower with the new surname "X"; he chose the "X" to signify his lost tribal name [biography of Malcolm X].
In 1959 two white policemen breaking up the street scuffle between some Negroes, ordered other Negro passers-by to “move on!” Among those Negroes, two were Muslims “brother Johnson Hinton and another brother of temple seven” [the biography of Malcolm X]. Johnson Hinton was attacked by the white policemen and his scalp was split open, then he was taken to the nearby precinct. When Malcolm saw Hinton he ordered an ambulance and the doctor says that a steel plate would have to be put into Hinton's skull “(after that operation, the nation of Islam helped him to sue, a jury awarded him over $70,000, the largest police brutality judgment that New York City has ever paid) [the autobiography of Malcolm X pp.270).
“In Harlem, the world's most heavily populated black ghetto, the Amsterdam news made the whole story headline news and for the first time the black man, woman, and child in the streets was discussing 'those Muslims'” [The autobiography of Malcolm X pp.270]. After the jury awarded Hinton over $70,000, black Muslims caught journalists attention.
In the same year 1959 the journalist Louis Lomax asked Malcolm whether the nation of Islam would cooperate in being filmed as a television documentary program for the Mike Wallace show. Elijah Muhammad gave his consent and a cameraman began recording Muhammad and some minister including Malcolm X. “Every Muslim happily anticipated that now, through the white man's powerful communications media, our brainwashed black brothers and sisters across the United States, and devils, too, were going to see, hear, and read Mr. Muhammad's teachings which cut back and forth like a two-edge sword” [the autobiography of Malcolm X pp. 272]. Through the white media communication, the nation of Islam was going to be watched for the first time ever.
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Black Muslims made their own efforts to employ the power of print. Malcolm X made an appointment to see editor James Hicks of the Amsterdam News. Hick said that he felt every voice in the community must be heard. Later, each week Amsterdam news carried a column that Malcolm X wrote. Then Muhammad agreed to write also a column for “that valuable Amsterdam News space” and Malcolm X's column was transferred to another black newspaper called “the Los Angeles Herald Dispatch”. Malcolm X always wanted to establish their own [black Muslims] newspaper, so what he did was, he went in the city where the Herald Dispatch was and he saw how newspaper was put together. “Every chance I had, I wrote some little news about interesting nation of Islam happenings. One day every month, I'd lock up in a room and assemble my material and pictures for a printer that I found” [the autobiography of Malcolm X pp. 273]. The newspaper established by Malcolm X Muhammad Speaks which by the end of the decade would have a national circulation and by the time was the most widely read black owned newspaper in the country [Muhammad Speaks a trailblazer in the newspaper industry].
The producer Mike Wallace in his television program, shows Malcolm X introducing Elijah Muhammad Wallace said that Malcolm X had good news for black man and bad news for the white man; according to the producer, the good news for black man was that “he was about to recapture his position as the ruler of the universe” and the bad news for white man was that “his long and weak reign will be over” [PBS the hate that hate produced]. After Muhammad's speech the journalist Louis Lomax interviewed Malcolm and he asked him if a white man can join the temple and Malcolm answered that none of them has ever joined and the reason that people think that Muhammad teaches hate -explained Malcolm- is because Muhammad gives warnings to the Muslims to be careful. Muhammad compares white man to a snake, the devil! Even those words made white reporters angry. “White reporters, anger in their voices would call us 'demagogues'” [the autobiography of Malcolm X]. The press edited
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Malcolm’s answer; in his autobiography Malcolm says “but I don't care what points I made in the interviews, it practically never got printed the way I said it. I was learning under fire how the press, when it wants to, can twist, and slant. If I had said 'Mary had a little lamb', what probably would have appeared was 'Malcolm X lampoons Mary'”. In other words, the media try to edit the interviews and probably change the information to produce a violent reaction from the audience.
In 1959 “the hate that hate produced” brought a public reaction; in his autobiography Malcolm X said that “In America for centuries it had been just fine as long as the victimized, brutalized and exploited black people had been grinning and begging and 'Yessa, Massa'”. The big national weekly news magazines advertised: “hate-teachers”, “violence seekers”. The hate that hate produced became a controversial issue in the media. The television documentary by Mike Wallace -for instance, he introduced the documentary by the title “the hate that hate produced” and then Wallace said that a group of Negroes were taking the street corner, church pulpits and sports arenas across the United States. Wallace showed several pictures of a Muslim school in Chicago where “children were taught to hate white man” and how their clothes differed from Americans’ and showed Malcolm X with one of the five Negro newspapers in America. Wallace called Muhammad “the preacher gasper of hate” and then he showed the recorded video when Muhammad says that “white man is the greatest liar on earth”. After that once Malcolm X came up with the title “the hate that hate produced” the media changed, it was in almost everywhere, in newspapers, television programs, and even in his autobiography. Malcolm X explained that in his personal opinion the title the “hate...Hate” was responsible for the reaction. Lots of people were shocked because of the television documentary title, the hate that hate produced “in late 1959, the television program was aired 'the hate that hate produced'-the title-was edited tightly into a kaleidoscope of 'shocker' images” [the autobiography of Malcolm X pp.273]. The video shows black Muslims on their own restaurants, and their parish school. In other words, Muslims
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became independent, they had their own store.
In both media, the white and black press, it was hot copy and articles. Life, Look, Newsweek and Times reported black Muslims. According to Malcolm X, some newspapers chains began to run a series of three, four or five “exposures” of the nation of Islam. In other words, the medium were making their own opinions about the nation of Islam. The media made the black Muslims famous, they were in everywhere, in television documentaries, magazines and newspapers that by 1950’s were read worldwide like the reader's digest, “the reader's digest with its worldwide circulation of twenty-four million copies in thirteen languages carried an article titled 'Mr. Muhammad Speaks'” [the autobiography of Malcolm X pp.280].
According to Malcolm, in his biography he says that the reason that both, white and black (those who were not a member of the nation of Islam) people were against Elijah Muhammad's teaching was that Muhammad wanted to separate the Muslims from the white society and Malcolm X agreed with Muhammad. In the radio station, Malcolm said that every time he mentioned “separation” people had a reaction because they associated “separation” with “segregation” and then Malcolm X proceed to explain the difference between those words [the autobiography of Malcolm X pp. 283].
After the television documentary “the hate that hate produced” [title] by Mike Wallace, Dr. C. Eric Lincoln published a book called the black Muslims in America. Bringing even more attention toward the nation of Islam “the press snatched at that name. 'Black Muslims' was in all the book reviews, which quoted from the book only what was critical of us, and generally praised Dr. Lincoln's writing” [the autobiography of Malcolm X pp.284]. Once again, the Muslims were in all Medias, television Documentaries, radio stations, newspapers, and even in books whose author was Dr. Lincoln. The book The black Muslims in America was published in 1960. The book context is all about sociological exploration such as the black movement that back in the 1950s and 1960s was the big
David6 issue “Dr. C. Eric Lincoln originally published The Black Muslims in America in 1960. His study is a classic for several reasons. To begin, it is the first scholarly sociological exploration of a black movement” [website research]. According to the website, “no other black movement had such a unifying power and synergy to command such national attention” [American Muslim Perspective].
Malcolm X had a huge influence in the media back in the 1950s and 1960s. Specially the newspaper he established covered a wide issue in terms of race, crime, and it had a political cartoon. An example would be the Muhammad Speaks newspaper published in September 15 1962. It had an article in page eleven called “MR MUHAMMAD SPEAKS Some Of This Earth That We Can Call Our Own!”. What does that mean? The article talks about slaves and what they should do once the owner set them free. “We, the members of the original Black Nation of the earth, who were once lost from our own kind, are supposed to be free” [Muhammad Speaks sept. 15, 1962]. I consider that the reason that there were many public reaction toward the newspaper, because of the title. For instance, the Muhammad Speaks newspaper volume 1, no. 3 has and article on page 4 that read “THE EVILS OF RACIALLY MIXED SEX RELATIONS” [Muhammad Speaks January 1962]. In the interview between Louis Lomax and Malcolm X, said that Muhammad taught them (the Muslims) that there was not a serpent in the Eden garden and added that “the bible was written in symbols, and the serpent is the symbol to hide the real identity of the one who actually was” [PBS the hate that hate produced]. Malcolm X considered the “white man” as “evil” and that was the reason that there were many controversies in all the media.
Malcolm X changed the media in terms of events. Malcolm X dared to say out loud that “white man is the devil” in the Hate that Hate Produced” documentary. The news media was looking for Malcolm X even from different country “the calls naturally were directed to me, New York City being the major news-media headquarters, and I was the New York minister of Mr. Muhammad. Calls me,
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long-distance from San Francisco to Maine... from even London, Stockholm, Paris” [the autobiography of Malcolm X pp.276]. The media followed Malcolm X from everywhere, even from Europe.
The media is powerful. It can manipulate social issues; it can make a person and even a group like the nation of Islam famous. Moreover, Malcolm X who committed crime during his childhood and went to prison the media did not pay attention to him. However once he established the Muhammad Speaks newspaper, he became famous. Why? Because the media is interested in the people who make the difference in society. For instance, once Malcolm X established the newspaper, the news-media wanted to interview him. Louis Lomax asked Malcolm x for permission to film his speeches becoming Malcolm an important public image and all because the media made it possible.
Nowadays we do have the privilege to choose any newspaper we please. For instance, there are not newspapers specifically for “black nor white”. A “white” man can read the New York Times and a “black” man as well. There are not restrictions in terms of media. For example, in television documentaries, and movies we can see people of different races. Malcolm utilized newspaper columns, radio, and television to communicate the nation of Islam's message across the United States; I consider that was the important role and contribution to the mass media.
X, Malcolm, The Autobiography of Malcolm X. June 1973. New York: The Random House , 1964. Print.
"The Hate That Hate Produced." our media channel of creativity. Web. 27 Oct 2010.
Muhammad, Askia. “the final call." Muhammad Speaks A Trailblazer in the newspaper industry. N.p., 03-10-2000. Web. 27 Oct 2010.
Lincoln, eric. "American Muslims perspective." the black Muslims in America. N.p. December, 2004. Web. 27 Oct 2010.
Professor: Louis A. Lucca
10/28/10
“Malcolm X and the media”
When we think of important milestones in media, we think of obvious choices like the first printing press by Johannes Gutenberg [1453], C.E books becoming the first mass medium or the first newspaper in the colonies [the second medium] or the telegraph [the third medium] Samuel F.B Morse. Yet for one to have an impact sometimes it is enough that they use the media already available to them in new ways, and Malcolm X was one of the characters that made an impact in terms of mass media evolution. What was that impact? Why was that impact considered as an important event? Back in the 1950s Malcolm X made an impact in all media such as television documentaries, radio stations, and newspapers.
First, let us talk about Malcolm's childhood. Malcolm was born in Omaha, Nebraska in 1925. His mother, Louis Norton Little was a homemaker occupied with the family's eight children. His father Earl Little was an outspoken Baptist minister and avid supporter of black nationalist leader Marcus Garvey. Malcolm was a smart guy in school. however, Malcolm wanted to become a lawyer but one of his teachers told him that "becoming a lawyer was no realistic goal for a nigger" [the biography of Malcolm X] and Malcolm lost interest, so he dropped out of school. Malcolm moved to Boston and then traveled to Harlem, New York where he committed crimes, then he moved back to Boston and there he was arrested and convicted on burglary charges [1946]; he was convicted to seven- years in prison. Malcolm took advantage of being in jail because he focused on educating himself. He read books and looked up the dictionary to change his vocabulary. During the period of self-enlightenment, Malcolm learned about the nation of Islam leader: Elijah Muhammad who taught that "white society worked to keep African Americans from empowering themselves and achieving political and economic
David2
success. Then, Malcolm was a devoted follower with the new surname "X"; he chose the "X" to signify his lost tribal name [biography of Malcolm X].
In 1959 two white policemen breaking up the street scuffle between some Negroes, ordered other Negro passers-by to “move on!” Among those Negroes, two were Muslims “brother Johnson Hinton and another brother of temple seven” [the biography of Malcolm X]. Johnson Hinton was attacked by the white policemen and his scalp was split open, then he was taken to the nearby precinct. When Malcolm saw Hinton he ordered an ambulance and the doctor says that a steel plate would have to be put into Hinton's skull “(after that operation, the nation of Islam helped him to sue, a jury awarded him over $70,000, the largest police brutality judgment that New York City has ever paid) [the autobiography of Malcolm X pp.270).
“In Harlem, the world's most heavily populated black ghetto, the Amsterdam news made the whole story headline news and for the first time the black man, woman, and child in the streets was discussing 'those Muslims'” [The autobiography of Malcolm X pp.270]. After the jury awarded Hinton over $70,000, black Muslims caught journalists attention.
In the same year 1959 the journalist Louis Lomax asked Malcolm whether the nation of Islam would cooperate in being filmed as a television documentary program for the Mike Wallace show. Elijah Muhammad gave his consent and a cameraman began recording Muhammad and some minister including Malcolm X. “Every Muslim happily anticipated that now, through the white man's powerful communications media, our brainwashed black brothers and sisters across the United States, and devils, too, were going to see, hear, and read Mr. Muhammad's teachings which cut back and forth like a two-edge sword” [the autobiography of Malcolm X pp. 272]. Through the white media communication, the nation of Islam was going to be watched for the first time ever.
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Black Muslims made their own efforts to employ the power of print. Malcolm X made an appointment to see editor James Hicks of the Amsterdam News. Hick said that he felt every voice in the community must be heard. Later, each week Amsterdam news carried a column that Malcolm X wrote. Then Muhammad agreed to write also a column for “that valuable Amsterdam News space” and Malcolm X's column was transferred to another black newspaper called “the Los Angeles Herald Dispatch”. Malcolm X always wanted to establish their own [black Muslims] newspaper, so what he did was, he went in the city where the Herald Dispatch was and he saw how newspaper was put together. “Every chance I had, I wrote some little news about interesting nation of Islam happenings. One day every month, I'd lock up in a room and assemble my material and pictures for a printer that I found” [the autobiography of Malcolm X pp. 273]. The newspaper established by Malcolm X Muhammad Speaks which by the end of the decade would have a national circulation and by the time was the most widely read black owned newspaper in the country [Muhammad Speaks a trailblazer in the newspaper industry].
The producer Mike Wallace in his television program, shows Malcolm X introducing Elijah Muhammad Wallace said that Malcolm X had good news for black man and bad news for the white man; according to the producer, the good news for black man was that “he was about to recapture his position as the ruler of the universe” and the bad news for white man was that “his long and weak reign will be over” [PBS the hate that hate produced]. After Muhammad's speech the journalist Louis Lomax interviewed Malcolm and he asked him if a white man can join the temple and Malcolm answered that none of them has ever joined and the reason that people think that Muhammad teaches hate -explained Malcolm- is because Muhammad gives warnings to the Muslims to be careful. Muhammad compares white man to a snake, the devil! Even those words made white reporters angry. “White reporters, anger in their voices would call us 'demagogues'” [the autobiography of Malcolm X]. The press edited
David4
Malcolm’s answer; in his autobiography Malcolm says “but I don't care what points I made in the interviews, it practically never got printed the way I said it. I was learning under fire how the press, when it wants to, can twist, and slant. If I had said 'Mary had a little lamb', what probably would have appeared was 'Malcolm X lampoons Mary'”. In other words, the media try to edit the interviews and probably change the information to produce a violent reaction from the audience.
In 1959 “the hate that hate produced” brought a public reaction; in his autobiography Malcolm X said that “In America for centuries it had been just fine as long as the victimized, brutalized and exploited black people had been grinning and begging and 'Yessa, Massa'”. The big national weekly news magazines advertised: “hate-teachers”, “violence seekers”. The hate that hate produced became a controversial issue in the media. The television documentary by Mike Wallace -for instance, he introduced the documentary by the title “the hate that hate produced” and then Wallace said that a group of Negroes were taking the street corner, church pulpits and sports arenas across the United States. Wallace showed several pictures of a Muslim school in Chicago where “children were taught to hate white man” and how their clothes differed from Americans’ and showed Malcolm X with one of the five Negro newspapers in America. Wallace called Muhammad “the preacher gasper of hate” and then he showed the recorded video when Muhammad says that “white man is the greatest liar on earth”. After that once Malcolm X came up with the title “the hate that hate produced” the media changed, it was in almost everywhere, in newspapers, television programs, and even in his autobiography. Malcolm X explained that in his personal opinion the title the “hate...Hate” was responsible for the reaction. Lots of people were shocked because of the television documentary title, the hate that hate produced “in late 1959, the television program was aired 'the hate that hate produced'-the title-was edited tightly into a kaleidoscope of 'shocker' images” [the autobiography of Malcolm X pp.273]. The video shows black Muslims on their own restaurants, and their parish school. In other words, Muslims
David5
became independent, they had their own store.
In both media, the white and black press, it was hot copy and articles. Life, Look, Newsweek and Times reported black Muslims. According to Malcolm X, some newspapers chains began to run a series of three, four or five “exposures” of the nation of Islam. In other words, the medium were making their own opinions about the nation of Islam. The media made the black Muslims famous, they were in everywhere, in television documentaries, magazines and newspapers that by 1950’s were read worldwide like the reader's digest, “the reader's digest with its worldwide circulation of twenty-four million copies in thirteen languages carried an article titled 'Mr. Muhammad Speaks'” [the autobiography of Malcolm X pp.280].
According to Malcolm, in his biography he says that the reason that both, white and black (those who were not a member of the nation of Islam) people were against Elijah Muhammad's teaching was that Muhammad wanted to separate the Muslims from the white society and Malcolm X agreed with Muhammad. In the radio station, Malcolm said that every time he mentioned “separation” people had a reaction because they associated “separation” with “segregation” and then Malcolm X proceed to explain the difference between those words [the autobiography of Malcolm X pp. 283].
After the television documentary “the hate that hate produced” [title] by Mike Wallace, Dr. C. Eric Lincoln published a book called the black Muslims in America. Bringing even more attention toward the nation of Islam “the press snatched at that name. 'Black Muslims' was in all the book reviews, which quoted from the book only what was critical of us, and generally praised Dr. Lincoln's writing” [the autobiography of Malcolm X pp.284]. Once again, the Muslims were in all Medias, television Documentaries, radio stations, newspapers, and even in books whose author was Dr. Lincoln. The book The black Muslims in America was published in 1960. The book context is all about sociological exploration such as the black movement that back in the 1950s and 1960s was the big
David6 issue “Dr. C. Eric Lincoln originally published The Black Muslims in America in 1960. His study is a classic for several reasons. To begin, it is the first scholarly sociological exploration of a black movement” [website research]. According to the website, “no other black movement had such a unifying power and synergy to command such national attention” [American Muslim Perspective].
Malcolm X had a huge influence in the media back in the 1950s and 1960s. Specially the newspaper he established covered a wide issue in terms of race, crime, and it had a political cartoon. An example would be the Muhammad Speaks newspaper published in September 15 1962. It had an article in page eleven called “MR MUHAMMAD SPEAKS Some Of This Earth That We Can Call Our Own!”. What does that mean? The article talks about slaves and what they should do once the owner set them free. “We, the members of the original Black Nation of the earth, who were once lost from our own kind, are supposed to be free” [Muhammad Speaks sept. 15, 1962]. I consider that the reason that there were many public reaction toward the newspaper, because of the title. For instance, the Muhammad Speaks newspaper volume 1, no. 3 has and article on page 4 that read “THE EVILS OF RACIALLY MIXED SEX RELATIONS” [Muhammad Speaks January 1962]. In the interview between Louis Lomax and Malcolm X, said that Muhammad taught them (the Muslims) that there was not a serpent in the Eden garden and added that “the bible was written in symbols, and the serpent is the symbol to hide the real identity of the one who actually was” [PBS the hate that hate produced]. Malcolm X considered the “white man” as “evil” and that was the reason that there were many controversies in all the media.
Malcolm X changed the media in terms of events. Malcolm X dared to say out loud that “white man is the devil” in the Hate that Hate Produced” documentary. The news media was looking for Malcolm X even from different country “the calls naturally were directed to me, New York City being the major news-media headquarters, and I was the New York minister of Mr. Muhammad. Calls me,
David7
long-distance from San Francisco to Maine... from even London, Stockholm, Paris” [the autobiography of Malcolm X pp.276]. The media followed Malcolm X from everywhere, even from Europe.
The media is powerful. It can manipulate social issues; it can make a person and even a group like the nation of Islam famous. Moreover, Malcolm X who committed crime during his childhood and went to prison the media did not pay attention to him. However once he established the Muhammad Speaks newspaper, he became famous. Why? Because the media is interested in the people who make the difference in society. For instance, once Malcolm X established the newspaper, the news-media wanted to interview him. Louis Lomax asked Malcolm x for permission to film his speeches becoming Malcolm an important public image and all because the media made it possible.
Nowadays we do have the privilege to choose any newspaper we please. For instance, there are not newspapers specifically for “black nor white”. A “white” man can read the New York Times and a “black” man as well. There are not restrictions in terms of media. For example, in television documentaries, and movies we can see people of different races. Malcolm utilized newspaper columns, radio, and television to communicate the nation of Islam's message across the United States; I consider that was the important role and contribution to the mass media.
X, Malcolm, The Autobiography of Malcolm X. June 1973. New York: The Random House , 1964. Print.
"The Hate That Hate Produced." our media channel of creativity. Web. 27 Oct 2010.
Muhammad, Askia. “the final call." Muhammad Speaks A Trailblazer in the newspaper industry. N.p., 03-10-2000. Web. 27 Oct 2010.
Lincoln, eric. "American Muslims perspective." the black Muslims in America. N.p. December, 2004. Web. 27 Oct 2010.
Wednesday, October 20, 2010
Blog 9
Most of the time when we hear the word “Hero” we imagine a strong guy, good looking and with a good moral. The media plays an important role in the community because through the media we know who that hero is. However, what is the message that the movie accidental hero portrays? The movie also shows how a low class man save many lives. Both character Bernie Laplante and John Bubber has different qualities but also they have something in common as well.
Bernie Laplante, an irresponsible father who do not even know his son age. The judge found him guilty of selling stolen goods, he belongs to a low class society. On his way home Laplante's car broke down in the middle of the street, it was raining and suddenly the plane crashed near him and he saved a bunch of people. On the other hand John Bubber, a homeless guy, thinks how he can help others. For instance, he asked Laplante to give the shoe to a person who has one leg. Both characters, Laplante and Bubber has different qualities.
I believe that Bubber has the heroic qualities even though he did not committed the act. He visits the hospitals to inspire children to live and he ask the people to help homeless. Those qualities make a person a “hero”, I agree when Bubber says that a hero is a symbol of good personality that everyone has. That is true, it does not matter whether you are poor or reach or whether you belong to a low class society, if you help others [like Bubber does in the movie] then you are a hero. Something I like about Bernie Laplante is that he does not care whether he receive the credit. For example, Laplante made a deal with Bubber, Laplante asked him to pretend to be the hero and help him economically because Bubber was rich. Laplante is a simple person who does not like to be a public image. To be a hero is not necessarily to be a good looking person or strong like superman. In the other hand, Laplante was totally different. Laplamte admited he is not a good person but at the end of the movie he advice his son to go to college. In other words, Laplante is not that ignorant.
The media plays an important role in the society. For instance, in the movie when the journalist asked the rescued passenger about the unknown person who saved them, they said that he was like an angel. Immediately the media entitled the issue as “the angel of flight 104” they name “the angel” to make an impact and to make a reaction toward that incident. The media also can be rude the way they tell the news. For instance, at the beginning of the movie a man jumped from a sixty feet high building and the journalist asked the cameraman “did you get that?”. In my opinion, the media is like a two edge sword, it can make a person a celebrity like Bubber and also can make a person miserable like the man how jumped from the roof of the building. That is why Laplante said to his son “you should no believe what you see on television not if you are smart”.
The movie hero has a meaningful message. The movie shows the good qualities that human beings have [ when Laplante saved a bunch of people]. The movie also portrays the role of the media and how journalists can make a person like bubber who was a homeless into a rich celebrity and the miserable life of the man who suicided when he jump from the building. That could happen in real life and that is why I consider the movie “hero” a good movie
Bernie Laplante, an irresponsible father who do not even know his son age. The judge found him guilty of selling stolen goods, he belongs to a low class society. On his way home Laplante's car broke down in the middle of the street, it was raining and suddenly the plane crashed near him and he saved a bunch of people. On the other hand John Bubber, a homeless guy, thinks how he can help others. For instance, he asked Laplante to give the shoe to a person who has one leg. Both characters, Laplante and Bubber has different qualities.
I believe that Bubber has the heroic qualities even though he did not committed the act. He visits the hospitals to inspire children to live and he ask the people to help homeless. Those qualities make a person a “hero”, I agree when Bubber says that a hero is a symbol of good personality that everyone has. That is true, it does not matter whether you are poor or reach or whether you belong to a low class society, if you help others [like Bubber does in the movie] then you are a hero. Something I like about Bernie Laplante is that he does not care whether he receive the credit. For example, Laplante made a deal with Bubber, Laplante asked him to pretend to be the hero and help him economically because Bubber was rich. Laplante is a simple person who does not like to be a public image. To be a hero is not necessarily to be a good looking person or strong like superman. In the other hand, Laplante was totally different. Laplamte admited he is not a good person but at the end of the movie he advice his son to go to college. In other words, Laplante is not that ignorant.
The media plays an important role in the society. For instance, in the movie when the journalist asked the rescued passenger about the unknown person who saved them, they said that he was like an angel. Immediately the media entitled the issue as “the angel of flight 104” they name “the angel” to make an impact and to make a reaction toward that incident. The media also can be rude the way they tell the news. For instance, at the beginning of the movie a man jumped from a sixty feet high building and the journalist asked the cameraman “did you get that?”. In my opinion, the media is like a two edge sword, it can make a person a celebrity like Bubber and also can make a person miserable like the man how jumped from the roof of the building. That is why Laplante said to his son “you should no believe what you see on television not if you are smart”.
The movie hero has a meaningful message. The movie shows the good qualities that human beings have [ when Laplante saved a bunch of people]. The movie also portrays the role of the media and how journalists can make a person like bubber who was a homeless into a rich celebrity and the miserable life of the man who suicided when he jump from the building. That could happen in real life and that is why I consider the movie “hero” a good movie
Tuesday, October 19, 2010
blog: 8
I would now like you to return to your blog 8 entry and discuss a situation when you have been seen as the other--when your sex, race, habits, tastes etc. have clearly made somebody react negatively toward you and turn you into "the other" for them. Discuss the experience in detail and what you thought about the person as well as about yourself after this experience.
I would have been seen as the other and my friends would have a negative reaction toward me I think my thoughts would be negative as well. For instance, if they do not like my behavior or they look at me with disapproving all the time that would make me feel bad. My thought would be negative toward that person.
I would have been seen as the other and my friends would have a negative reaction toward me I think my thoughts would be negative as well. For instance, if they do not like my behavior or they look at me with disapproving all the time that would make me feel bad. My thought would be negative toward that person.
Blog 8; "the other"
a) give a description of your "other."
my description of my "other" would be doing drugs. I do not imagine myself doing drugs.
b) explain what it is about it that makes you feel such opposition to it
what makes me feel such opposition to it is that some of my friends think that drugs is a "refuge", when they have problems they use drugs. the way I see it is that drugs destroys your body, and causes death. I do not agree with my friends that drugs is a "refuge".
c) discuss what has happened or would happen in situations where you have to interact with someone who belongs to "the other" as you define it. You should make sure that you do not write something offensive to members of that group, but at the same time if you keep good manners you should express your ideas openly
one day one of my friends invited me drug and I refuse the invitation. I do not like it but I do respect their view points toward drugs.
my description of my "other" would be doing drugs. I do not imagine myself doing drugs.
b) explain what it is about it that makes you feel such opposition to it
what makes me feel such opposition to it is that some of my friends think that drugs is a "refuge", when they have problems they use drugs. the way I see it is that drugs destroys your body, and causes death. I do not agree with my friends that drugs is a "refuge".
c) discuss what has happened or would happen in situations where you have to interact with someone who belongs to "the other" as you define it. You should make sure that you do not write something offensive to members of that group, but at the same time if you keep good manners you should express your ideas openly
one day one of my friends invited me drug and I refuse the invitation. I do not like it but I do respect their view points toward drugs.
Monday, October 18, 2010
blog 7 outline
Thesis: Back in the 1950s Malcolm X made an impact in all medias such as television documentaries, radio stations, and newspapers.
Topic sentence:
In television documentaries, for instance the producer Mike Wallace talks about how Black Muslims were becoming independent. In the documentary Elijah Muhammad was called “hate-teacher”.
"the hate that hate produced." ourmediachannelofcreativity. Web. 19 Oct 2010.
While Malcolm X was in the radio station, he explained the difference between “separation” and “segregation”. He stated that “separation” is something volunteer, for the good of both (which is what Muhammad was doing). Muhammad was trying to separate Black from White's control.
Little, Malcolm. "the autobiography of malcolm x". june 1973. new york: the random house publishing group, 1964. 283. Print.
In terms of newspapers, Malcolm's title “the hate that hate produce” caused a public reaction toward black Muslims. Therefore Malcolm says that “In America for centuries it had been just fine as long as the victimized, brutalized and exploited black people had been grinning and begging and 'Yessa, Massa'”.
X,malcolm. "the autobiography of malcolm x". june 1973. new york: the random house publishing group, 1964. 274. Print.
Topic sentence:
In television documentaries, for instance the producer Mike Wallace talks about how Black Muslims were becoming independent. In the documentary Elijah Muhammad was called “hate-teacher”.
"the hate that hate produced." ourmediachannelofcreativity. Web. 19 Oct 2010.
While Malcolm X was in the radio station, he explained the difference between “separation” and “segregation”. He stated that “separation” is something volunteer, for the good of both (which is what Muhammad was doing). Muhammad was trying to separate Black from White's control.
Little, Malcolm. "the autobiography of malcolm x". june 1973. new york: the random house publishing group, 1964. 283. Print.
In terms of newspapers, Malcolm's title “the hate that hate produce” caused a public reaction toward black Muslims. Therefore Malcolm says that “In America for centuries it had been just fine as long as the victimized, brutalized and exploited black people had been grinning and begging and 'Yessa, Massa'”.
X,malcolm. "the autobiography of malcolm x". june 1973. new york: the random house publishing group, 1964. 274. Print.
Monday, October 11, 2010
blog 6: hero [?]
Most of the time when we hear the word “Hero” we imagine a strong guy, good looking and with a good moral. The media plays an important role in the community because through the media we know who that hero is. However, The movie accidental hero shows how a low class man save many lives. Both character Bernie Laplante and John Bubber has different qualities but they have something in common at the same time.
Bernie Laplante, an irresponsible father who do not even know his son age. The judge found him guilty of selling stolen goods, he belongs to a low class society. On his way home Laplante's car broke down in the middle of the street, it was raining and suddenly the plane crashed near him and he saved a bunch of people. On of the passenger was a journalist who was saved by Laplante, while saving her, he took her purse. Once he helped the passenger he disappeared.
Laplante explained to John Bubber what happened last night. Bubber, a homeless who is only thinking how to be helpful to others noticed that Laplante had one shoe and asked him to give the shoe to a person who only has one leg. I believe that Bubber has the heroic qualities even though he did not committed the act. He visits the hospitals to inspire children to live and he ask the people to help homeless. Those qualities make a person a “hero”, I agree when Bubber said that a hero is a symbol of good personality that everyone has. That is true, it does not matter whether you are poor or reach or whether you belong to a low class society, if you help others [like Bubber does in the movie] then you are a hero. Something I like about Bernie Laplante is that he does not care whether he receive the credit because he save a bunch of people. Laplante is a simple person who does not like to be a public image.
Laplante, a uneducated person who does not care to “send you to hell” do not have a hero qualities, however, he saved a lot of people that were inside the plain that was about to be consumed by the fire. He was not good looking guy, he was not strong like “superman or spider-man” but the act that he committed made him a real hero. Bubber, a homeless guy who is very sensitive and always thinks about others has the hero qualities. The media makes Bubber famous. The way the media talks about Bubber causes a good public reaction. For example, when the journalist asked the rescued passenger about the unknown person who saved them, they said that he was like an angel. The media then called that hero “the angel of flight 104”. on the other hand, the media can be rude the way they tells the news, for instance when the guy jump from a sixty feet high, the journalist asked the cameraman “did you get that?”. The media is like a two edge sword, it can make a person famous and also can make a person miserable like the guy who killed himself.
Bernie Laplante, an irresponsible father who do not even know his son age. The judge found him guilty of selling stolen goods, he belongs to a low class society. On his way home Laplante's car broke down in the middle of the street, it was raining and suddenly the plane crashed near him and he saved a bunch of people. On of the passenger was a journalist who was saved by Laplante, while saving her, he took her purse. Once he helped the passenger he disappeared.
Laplante explained to John Bubber what happened last night. Bubber, a homeless who is only thinking how to be helpful to others noticed that Laplante had one shoe and asked him to give the shoe to a person who only has one leg. I believe that Bubber has the heroic qualities even though he did not committed the act. He visits the hospitals to inspire children to live and he ask the people to help homeless. Those qualities make a person a “hero”, I agree when Bubber said that a hero is a symbol of good personality that everyone has. That is true, it does not matter whether you are poor or reach or whether you belong to a low class society, if you help others [like Bubber does in the movie] then you are a hero. Something I like about Bernie Laplante is that he does not care whether he receive the credit because he save a bunch of people. Laplante is a simple person who does not like to be a public image.
Laplante, a uneducated person who does not care to “send you to hell” do not have a hero qualities, however, he saved a lot of people that were inside the plain that was about to be consumed by the fire. He was not good looking guy, he was not strong like “superman or spider-man” but the act that he committed made him a real hero. Bubber, a homeless guy who is very sensitive and always thinks about others has the hero qualities. The media makes Bubber famous. The way the media talks about Bubber causes a good public reaction. For example, when the journalist asked the rescued passenger about the unknown person who saved them, they said that he was like an angel. The media then called that hero “the angel of flight 104”. on the other hand, the media can be rude the way they tells the news, for instance when the guy jump from a sixty feet high, the journalist asked the cameraman “did you get that?”. The media is like a two edge sword, it can make a person famous and also can make a person miserable like the guy who killed himself.
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