Response to Pgs. 500-524

Although the children in Figure 14.10 and the child in Figure 14.11 are raising money for the same cause, I believe the poster, which includes the different pictures of people suffering from the Haiti earthquake, that’s being used in the first figure is more effective than the bake sale poster.  The reason for my beliefs is because I am physically able to see how and why the many different victims in Haiti are suffering and need money to survive.  Also, since the pictures are from a newspaper, the article/picture headings help reveal the amount of people in need, which would make an impact on how much money I would give to help.  To answer one of the questions asked, I do feel it’s acceptable to use graphic representations of the affected countries and it’s residents, simply because a larger amount of people tend to give more to help out the needy.

            One’s position in the world does have an impact on how they may feel about identity, society, and culture.  For example, children living in poorer countries may feel that society as a whole is negative simply because of how they’re being treated or what they’re limited to do, see, and say in everyday life.  Also, since they aren’t exposed to other countries and different people, they aren’t able to experience different cultures, leading them to believe that everyone in the world is the same and has the same beliefs.

            A positive result of people living in poor countries is that they tend to be more appreciative of the little things in life.  They appreciate what’s given to them when being given to. They appreciate life (being alive) as a whole, unlike some Americans or residents of wealthy countries do.  We take things for granted and expect to live daily. Spoiled is what most people call it.  And I agree.

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Morality politics theory predicts that gay rights policy will reflect the influence of religious groups, party competition, and partisanship while interest group theory suggests that these policies will correspond with interest group resources, elite values, and past policy actions. Using multiple regressions on a 50-state data set and a county-level data set for gay rights initiatives in Oregon and Colorado, it was found that gay and lesbian politics are no different from those for other policy issues. When gay and lesbian rights are not salient, the pattern of politics resembles that of interest group politics. If individuals opposed to gay and lesbian rights are able to expand the scope of conflict, the pattern of politics conforms to morality politics.

Haider-Markel, Donald P., and Kenneth J. Meier. “The Politics of Gay and Lesbian Rights: Expanding the Scope of the Conflict.” The Journal of Politics. Vol. 58, No. 2. Cambridge University Press, May 1996. Journal. http://www.jstor.org/stable/2960229

This article uses responses from almost seven thousand blacks and forty-three thousand whites in 31 surveys conducted since 1973 to give more definitive answers on black-white attitudinal differences and their demographic roots. Despite their greater disapproval of homosexuality, blacks' opinions on sodomy laws, gay civil liberties, and employment discrimination are quite similar to whites' opinions, and African Americans are more likely to support laws prohibiting antigay discrimination.

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In this book, the author examines the connections, both formal and informal, that arose among gay employee networks in the early to mid 1990s, tracing the growth and development of this foundation up to the present day. The author focuses on two things: explaining the institutional and movement processes by which widely dispersed workplace activists became linked to one another; and highlighting the resources, structures, and strategies that arose from these same underorganized linkages.

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Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender (LGBT) Rights

                There are many reasons as to why LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual, & transgender) people should be granted the same rights as heterosexual people. In this paper, I will explain how LGBT people have been discriminated against worldwide. I will also provide examples of past court cases regarding the rights of LGBT people, and how they’ve changed the way a number of people view homosexuals as a group.

            I have found 5 different sources/journals from browsing the internet. One source, American Journal of Community Psychology, contains information regarding discrimination among LGBT people from a psychological perspective. Two journals, one being the Journal of Law and Policy, talk about laws relevant to same-sex relationships and “gay rights.” The other two provide examples of how heterosexuals feel about LGBT people and what opinions they have on the topic as a whole, and also some statistics. I do believe that I will need to find more resources that research the different views of people as far as conservatives, religious or even atheist people.

            Some problems I may encounter as I continue my research are arguments from people who believe that the Bible way is the right and only way, and that there’s no changing the way society is going to be. I would deal with this problem simply by including the different ideas said by different people and compare how effective they have been over the past few years.

Sources for Research Topic

1 - American Journal of Community Psychology-Oppression and Discrimination Among LGBT People and Communities: A Challenge for Community Psychology: Lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgendered (LGBT) people continue to experience various forms of oppression and discrimination in North America and throughout the world, despite the social, legal, and political advances that have been launched in an attempt to grant LGBT people basic human rights. Even though LGBT people and communities have been actively engaged in community organizing and social action efforts, research on LGBT issues has been noticabley absent within the field of psychology that is clearly focused on community research and action--Comunity Psycology. The psychological and social impact of oppression, rejection, discrimination, harassment, and violence on LGBT people is reviewed, and recent advances in the areas of LGBT health, public policy, and research are detailed. http://www.springerlink.com/content/l411067qmx8016tq/

2 - Outlaws & Inlaws: Your Guide to LGBT Rights, Same-sex Relationships and Canadian Law:

The purpose of this handbook is to provide information on how lesbian, gay, bisexual and trans-identified (LGBT) people, and those in same-sex relationships, are affected by the many recent legal and political changes across Canada. Numerous laws, for example, provide both rights and responsibilities to those in same-sex relationships. In recent years, these laws have been changing at a dramatic pace.http://books.google.com/books?hl=en&lr=&id=fAabfIHbDykC&oi=fnd&pg=PP7&dq=LGBT+rights&ots=tbysqA-oAw&sig=OrcjbIKOZKyO2K8H7QzrbkDF-TI#v=onepage&q&f=false

3 - Journal of Law and Policy: The Sex Discimination Argument In Gay Rights Cases: The argument that bars a sexual relationship between two women or two men discriminates on the basis of sex because either partner could have had the same relationship with a person of the opposite sex. Courts considering challenges to marriage laws concluded that marriage was defined to be only for male-female couples, and therefore even a state amendment couldn't undo the prohibition on same-sex marriage. Court cases involving employment discrimination went from discrimination against women or men to anti-gay discrimination. http://heinonline.org/HOL/Page?handle=hein.journals/jlawp9&div=35&g_sent=1&collection=journals

4 - Public Opinion Quarterly: Values, Political Knowledge, and Public Opinion about Gay Rights: This article examines how political knowledge has shaped the effects of traditional morality on American public opinion about gay rights. The results suggest that the extent to which political knowledge moderates a valu's effect on opinion can depend on whether public debate provides an unquestionable frame or competing frames for that vallue. In turn, one could frame the implications of this finding for democratic politics in more than one way. http://poq.oxfordjournals.org/content/67/2/173.full.pdf+html

5 - Canadian Journal of Political Science: Political Institutions and Lesbian and Gay Rights in the U.S. and Canada: This journal discusses LGBT studies and comparative politics. The author explains why Canadians have gone much farther and faster in extending gay rights than Americans, despite a more skilled and organized LGBT movement in the US. Canadians enjoy the full complement of rights and freedoms that gays and lesbians have sought during the past several decades. Little over half of the US population lives in places that grant basic civil rights protections to gays; most states ban same-sex marriage and only a handful permit marriage or a similar status. The US legalized homosexual conduct nationwide, but over 3 decades after Canadians did.

Research Topics

Topic 1: Cell Phones - How have cell phones changed us socially? We are constantly on our cell phones whether it's for work, school, or just pleasure. Yes they're helpful when we need to get on the web, listen to music, or just contact colleagues, friends, and family, but when we have to be forced to put them away in order to get other important work done, that's when we know they've become our number one problem in society today.





Topic 2: Gay Rights - Why can't GLB (gay, lesbian, bi) people have the same rights as heterosexual people? Homosexuals are rejected time after time in everyday life. They're rejected when applying for jobs, attending church, and when they want to get married, and by society as a whole daily. Heterosexuals view homos as a "different" and unacceptable race of human beings. Homosexuals may have different views on people and how the world operates, but in the end we're all humans and whether we're hetero or homo should not be the reason as to whether or not we're able to succeed in life.

Thesis on Picture

One of the many changes that have occurred over the past few years is the drinking age. Not the legal drinking age, but the ACTUAL drinking age. I believe this picture is saying that as time passes by, more and more under age teenagers are drinking, and also that the age is continually decreasing.

Which Image??

Fat is an Advertising Issue

After reading the required text, I was able to conclude that many products in the world, specifically DOVE products, in a way can negatively affect the human race, females to be exact.  Susie Orbach was brought in to help the DOVE employees confront questions that were relative to their advertisings of the company’s product in order to make the campaign effective.  These questions included: how does this marketing help women’s and girls’ self-esteem, how could it harm them, how can they spread good feelings about women’s bodies rather than promoting insecurity, and how can they give women a chance to enter into a new, contented relationship with their bodies?

Products are advertised in certain ways, such as in magazines and showing “perfect” bodies, in order for the company to get more sales, but the outcome of doing so is the fact that it’s promoting females to have unhealthy practices.  Along with using products, females want to look like the DOVE models that are in the product advertisements.  As a result, other companies, such as Revlon, were following DOVE with advertising their products in the same way.

                The unhealthy practices of young females have spread from the US to other parts of the world.  After doing research with Anne Becker, the Harvard psychiatrist and anthropologist, Orbach found out that 3 years after the introduction of TV into Fiji, 11.9% of adolescent girls were puking into the toilet bowl trying to change their Fijian build into one that resembled the images shown through their TVs.  Orbach states that after looking at magazines, young females’ self-esteem lowers significantly, proving that the advertisements are negatively affecting the human race all over, making us unhealthy people.

                A different way to go about advertising DOVE’s products with a healthier and positive effect could be to produce bold, startling, appealing images of women in all their elegant variety that would dent the visual field, so that women could appreciate themselves for their differences and uniqueness.

Thesis/Argument on Equality

My argument is that all people are equal.  There is a combination of young, old, black and white hands of different types of people.  The fact that they're all connected to eachother establishes their means of equality.  All hands are at equal size; none are more enhanced than others.  Appeals to logos because it is a fact that slavery and inequality have ended.

Strategies of Persuasion

The picture I chose is an ad for Gatorade.  The company uses all three strategies of persuasion: logos, pathos, and ethos.

Logos is used in this photo because it includes reasoning and facts.  Yes, Michael Jordan drinks Gatorade when he plays basketball.  Yes, Jordan can dunk like he is dunking in the picture.  They are trying to get the audience to imply that drinking Gatorade can make you play or dunk "like Mike."

Pathos isn't used as much in this picture as logos and ethos, but it is used to let the audience know that by drinking Gatorade and being able to dunk like Mike, you feel good about yourself and it increases one's self esteem.

The ethos in this photo is that Gatorade gives you the power to do anything you dream of doing, or be like anybody you ever dream of being like, since people dream of dunking like Mike, and Gatorade will make you do that according to this photo.

Persuasive Images

                There are many different styles of visual images the average person sees daily, whether they’re small, big, plain, exciting, bright, or dull.  Images can be found anywhere a people go such as in restaurants, at schools, in cities, in malls/shopping stores, on the web, television, or even in houses.  Some images only consist of letters, such as the Facebook symbol, while others consist of only numbers.  Although those types can be persuasive, they are less affective. The more persuasive images fall under the category of images that consists of pictures and multiple colors.  These are the different types of features that “catch one’s eyes” as they walk pass a poster or browse the internet.

                Images are also more persuasive when they are relevant or relate to their audience.  For example, a company wouldn’t put up signs or posters advertising their latest form of technology, such as an iPod or smart phone, in a daycare or nursery for toddlers, simply because children can’t read and have no interest in buying phones.  On the other hand, it’s normal to see a McDonald’s billboard along any highway.  It catches one’s eyes with the bright red and yellow colors, and Ronald McDonald is there to get the attention of young children.  This is an example of a “more affective” image.