Photoshop or Not? A Tool to Tell

today in class i read an article about pictures of famous celerbrities and people being heavliy photoshoped in popular fashion magazines and advertisements. in the article it states that the retouching can be slight - colors brightened , a stray hair put in place , a pimple healed. or it can be drastic - shedding 10 to 20 pounds off , increasing a few inches in hieght and erasing all wrinkles and blemishes , done using adobe`s photoshop software , the photo retoucher `s magic wand. furthermore the article is mostly about Dr.farid and Eric Kee , a Ph.D. student doing researching and proposing that it should offer proportions to show how much the photo has been altered. " such images , research suggests , contribute to eating to eating disorders and anxiety about body types, especially among young females".   the research pin pointed Mr. Seth Matlins a former talent agent and marketing  executive was said to be a big part of the self esteem act. Mr. Matlins said “ were not trying to demonize photoshop or prevent creative people from using it. But if a person`s image is drastically changed , there should be a reminder that what you`re seeing is about as true as what you saw in the Si-Fi movie “ Avatar”.

 I think that seeing pictures of favorite celebrities in fashion magazines that shows them with compelet perfection and no blemishes at all is just contributing to some teens and young females feeling low about their seleves since they look at them at see everything they don’t have. Such as perfect clear skin , perfect teeth , beautifuk smile , amazing hour glass body or a very curvy body like famous female raptress “Nicki Minaj”. as I stated before seeing pictures contributes to their low self esteem making the young female feel as though shes not beautiful or good enough to do anything. Thus an eating disorder occurs which either results in death or being very ill. I think that pictures should be labled if their photoshoped because be honest . so many singers and songs were created for people to feel better about their selves and making them feel beautiful. It’s a contradiction for magazines to state what is beautiful and what is not beautiful when their publishing heavily photoshoped pictures of their models. They should lable what is photoshoped and whats not to be honest to their cusmores.

 

In China , Human Cost Are Built Into an Ipad

On February 1st in class we read an article about factories in china exploding killing workers and injuring some people. The factories were miss-treating workers that assemble IPhones, IPads, and other Apple products. The safety of workers weren’t important. The article went to say that more troubling, the group is some suppliers disregard for workers health. According to the article it states those two years ago, 137 workers at an apple supplier in eastern china were injured after they were ordered to use a poisonous chemical to clean iPhone screens. The article also went on to state that within seven months last year two explosions at IPad factories, including in Chengdu, killed four people and injured 77, before those blasts , apple had alerted to hazardous conditions inside the Chengdu plant, according to a Chinese group that released the warning. Furthermore apple didn’t take the full on responsibility of the safety of their overseas manufactures workers in their factories.  According to the article apple isn’t the only big name companies  that are doing business like that. Big companies doing business like that such as Motorola, Nokia, Sony, Toshiba and others. These big manufactures are ignoring the health and safety of their workers in their factories overseas by suppliers improperly disposed of hazardous waste and falsified records, to avoid their consumers stop being their products knowing that their device from apple was made by someone who almost nearly lost their life or someone who was injured while making my IPhone or IPad and or even IPod.
I think that some big companies that are doing business like apple factories in china are wrong for what they`re doing. While making money their also endangering the lives of their workers each day when the workers are working on making these products as fast as they can produce with the hazardous chemicals they are around every day all day. If customers knew how they got their apple or other devices made overseas I think a small percentage would even protest about this and stop buying these products but the big percentage wouldn’t even take the time out to even be bothered or even care about it.

Cracking Teenagers 'Online Codes

i read an article in the New York Times by Pamela Paul. the article was about a 34 year old woman named Danah Boyd. the article went on to say that the woman named Dr.Boyd who is a senior research at Microsoft, an assistant professor at new york university and a fellow at the Berkman center for Internet society at Harvard.  Dr.Boyd studied in social media culture for teens.in the article she goes on to say that parents and school district, and schools worry about students and teenagers posting their relationship status, emotional state or feelings, cyber bullying , posting inappropriate images online. the article goes on to say that when teens go on social media sites. Dr.Boyd thinks that teens ability to explore and roam on their own has been destroyed by parents that worry too much. also "letting  your child out to bike around the neighborhood is seen as terrifying now, even though by all measures , life is safer for kids today". in the article she went on to say that "we need to give kids the freedom to explore and experience things online that might actually help them".
I personally think that some what Dr.Boyd is stating is true but however most parents have these worries because most teens and children aren't being raised in those days where there weren't a lot of worries about predators. rather than now when it depends on the neighborhood your raising your child in. the neighborhood could be the worst and could worry who would try to hurt my child. most parents try their best to shut teenagers inside the home and from the Internet rather their child outside enjoying the day and being youthful and gain experiences.

Mother arrested for allowing her 10 year old get tatted

an article on madamenoire.com  and yahoo.com video the article was about a mother in Georgia allowing her 10 year old son get a tattoo. the 10 year old boy showed up to school showing off his new body art to other student and the teachers alerted the police about the 10 year old boy tattoo. Chuntera Napier the mother of the ten year old allowed to get the tattoo out of memory of their lose for her older son back in 2010. the older brother had been killed by a teen driver. the ten year asked his mother could he get a tattoo saying Malik rest in peace with his Jersey number on his arm. the mother Napier admits to taking her 10 year old to the tattoo parlor. the mother also went on to say "i always thought it was legal to allow a minor to get a tattoo with the consent from their legal guardian but in 2010 the new law states "it shall be unlawful for any person to tattoo the body of any person to tattoo the body of any person under the age 18.
i think that any teen or child should be able to express them selves with body art. but i don't think that it should be against the law for anyone under 18 to get a tattoo. tattoos are work of body art they all have many different meanings. i believe what the mother of the 10 year old boy did wasn't very smart , she shouldn't had allowed the 10 year old to get a tattoo. she should had told her son , she would allowed him to get the tattoo once he turned 18 or well 17 or 16 just older than a young innocent age. the tattoo makes this little boy seem like his young addilesson innocent age of youth of his generation seem not so innocent.

Teaching Kids How to breakup Nicely Response

The article teaching kids how to breakup nicely by Benoit Lewis is about healthy breakups and whats not healthy. Break ups tend to happen on social media sites. The article stated that the high school had a  group meeting with high scholars. In the group discussion they debated on the fact breakups tend to end not healthy rather than a civilized way. In the article some of the breakups tend to happen on facebook , twitter , tumbler and more. Furthermore the in the article the adult facilitator who wore a blue “face it, don’t facebook it” in a reference to the apparently  troubling trend of young people breaking up with one another via social media. I think its very immature for teens to post that their single when their still friends with their ex. Also if you change your relationship status on social media sites such as facebook and more, your just upsetting the other person you just broke up with. Or even when teens defriend their exes or block them , delete their number. Another example in the article it stated healthy examples of celebrity breakups such as Cameron diaz , and Justin timberlake. the article also stated that one celebrity unhealthy breakup that the public witnessed was the famous rapper Kanye West and video vixen Amber Rose had a bad public split that which fans of Kanye  West were bashing the video vixen Amber . The famous rapper even wrote song lyrics which bashed Amber Rose. For instance in the article it stated a trend in high school , dating while in school. In the article one student stated “dating in school is for suckers , your just bring your peers into your relationship with the other person which always ends in stress or heartbreak”. Therefore , even dating in high school adds drama since young people tend to make each of their relationships end unhealthy and it becomes awkward being around the other person. i think breakups don't really end well for teens or even adults and even celebrities there is always going to be that civilized to end the relationship very civilized 

shocking death of dancing with the stars producer

An article from the website Philly.com that article stated that the producer of the famous show that millions watch on ABC at 8/7 Central eastern.  Richard Hopkins died on Saturday in Britain. the producer of the show has been producing the show for about many years . the British producer fought to bring dancing with the stars to the united states.  he died at the age of 47. he was struggling through an 8 month battle of cancer. 20-years of the show business  Richard Hopkins produced shows such as "Fear Factor", "Fame Academy in Britain, and worked on the show "Big Brother" . Before coming to the thought of developing and pitching , producing the idea of  "Strictly Come Dancing on the BBC. Later on he persuade to bring the popular dance contest to America. Richard ran the BBC version of 'Strictly Come Dancing " and the BBC division from 2003 till 2006. then shortly afterwards he started "Fever Media" its a joint business venture of the Sony music company and TV company.
  i think that this man will truly be missed by everyone who worked with him. dancing with the stars will never really be the same since the man who created this great show that millions watch every Monday through Wednesday at 8/7 Central to at least 10 pm at night.  the business venture managing director David Mortimer said "it was a privileged to be both business partner and  friend of Richard". Mr.Hopkins left behind three daughters and a wife. there has not yet been any funeral arrangements details just yet.

One Of the Biggest Stories of 2011 that agitated many Matt Gutman

One of the biggest stories of the year 2011 is the conviction of Casey Anthony. it was the biggest upset of the year.   the case was compared to the O.J Simpson case. the case took about 3 years to finally get a verdict. On July,5 , 2011 Casey was found Not guilty. Casey Anthony was reported to have resurfaced by relaesing video diaries of her self this past week. on abc news reported by Dan Kloeffler ,Matt Gutman, and Christina Ng. 

I think Casey Anthony and her mother deserve to put in jail for about 25 years to life for killing the Caylee Anthony. the small girl would be six years old  if she was still alive. the small girl life was taken from her when she was only three years old. During the trail the grandmother lies for Casey to cover the fact that Casey looked up chloroform on the family's computer. the mother lied for Casey because she didn't want her only daughter in jail. originally the mother was all against her daughter , telling detectives that her daughter car smelled like a dead body was in Casey car. Also that Anthony's mother was the one to even report that she hadn't seen Caylee in 31 days to police. i think Casey Anthony should have been court ordered to have her tubes tided so she couldn't reproduce another child and kill them. No one will ever really know what had happen to poor sweet Caylee but some people were in such disbelief they had created a memorial in the forest near the crime seen where her body remains were located. one day hopefully justice will be served and Caylee's murderer will be brought to light.