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Tuesday, October 5, 2010
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Hurt: A lack of time with parents and other adults does not go unnoticed by adolescents. In facilitating a parent/youth event for community group in Seattle last fall, I asked students to compile a list of what they wanted adults to know about them. One of the most telling statements they recorded was how they perceived time with significant adults: "We spend no time with adults from junior high on-maybe fifteen minutes every other day is the best we ever get." It is as though adults don't understand that time spent with significant adults, especially parents, provides the most important environment for healthy adolescent development. But even in the best families, spending time together is a struggle. (52)
ReplyDeleteI was two when my dad walked out on me and my mom. Sure, I saw him a lot, but it hurt. I never saw him again after fourth grade. He stopped calling and writing. My mom remarried the summer after fifth grade. I hated him. In sixth grade I lost my virginity. I just wanted to be loved by a guy. I hated my life, but when I had sex I felt like I was cared about and loved. I slept with three guys. Then in seventh I started to do drugs and drink. I would go to parties and stay out late. My mom kicked my stepdad out, so I was happy. School started. I was smoking and drinking a little here and there. I didn't really feel loved or cared about. I felt dead inside. I picked up cutting. When I saw myself bleed, I just felt so alive. To feel the pain was the best feeling i could feel. My mom found out, so I stopped because I had to see a counselor. A few months later I stopped eating. I had to be perfect. I was the worst daughter. I had bad grades. I had a bad attitude. My dad wasn't around. I felt like I was worthless. I wasn't good enough for him. I feel like my life is worthless. I just want to die half the time. I want to feel like I'm worth something, love, and cared for. Where do I find that? (53)
There are at least two consequences of parental an adult abandonment. First, the adolescent journey is lengthened, because no one is available to help move the developmental process along. Second adolescents know that they are essentially on their own, for "aloneness is the enduring result of abandonment." (53)
The Subject is how the lack of adult's involvement in adolescent's development causes two main consequences, risky behaviors and low sense of self value.
The occasion is a scientist with a passion for youth interacting with students in a high school setting for an extended period of time gathering new facts and theories on the development of adolescents.
The audience is mainly adults who interact, work, or have adolescents in their care.
The purpose is to show the consequences for the guidance and care adults have failed to provide for the present day generation. It also is meant to grasp adults attention and show how rapid the progression of an adolescent lacking the proper care can fall.
The speaker is a mid to late age social scientist and father who has a great concern for the development of adolescents and desires to know share with other adults how the present day generation feels, thinks, and functions in today's society.
Odd Girl Out-Melissa Gahungu
ReplyDelete"As they try fiercely to be nice and stay in perfect relationships, girls are forced into a game of tug-of-war with their own aggression. At times girls' anger may break the surface of their niceness, while at others it may only linger below it, sending confusing messages to their peers. As a result, friends are often forced to second-guess themselves and each other. Over time, many grow to mistrust what others are feeling.
The sequestering of anger not only alters the forms in which aggression is expressed, but also how it is perceived. Anger may flash on and off with lightning speed, making the victim question what happened- or indeed whether anything happened at all. "As they try fiercely to be nice and stay in perfect relationships, girls are forced into a game of tug-of-war with their own aggression. At times girls' anger may break the surface of their niceness, while at others it mayh only linger below it, sending confusing messages to their peers. As a result, friends are often forced to second-guess themselves and each other. Over time, many frow to mistrust what others are feeling.
The sequestering of anger not only alters the forms in which aggression is expressd, but also how it is percieved. Andger may flash on and off with lightning speed, making the victim question what happened- or indeed whether anything happened at all.Did she just look at her when I said that? Was she joking? Did she roll her eyes? Not save the seat on purpose? Lie about her plans? Tell me that she'd invited me when she hadn't"(37).
Subject:The subject is the insecurities girls have with their friends
Occasion:This is an observation of girls struggle to not be cast out of their social group, so that parents will know why their child is acting so.
Audience: This text is directed towards parents dealing with girls who don't know how to react to this kind of bullying or parents of girl bullies.
Purpose: The reason the author made this book was to help all the girls and women who were, or are being bullied, to understand the reason. Also, to show them that they aren't the only ones who have ever been bullied.
Speaker: The voice telling the story is a grown woman who has lived her life always wanting to know why she was the one to be cast out or tormented for no reason.
Queen Bees and Wannabees-Rachel Reinard
ReplyDelete"Like so many girls, I was amazingly good at fooling myself? I'd convinced myself that I was in a mature relationship and I was in control of the situation. But more important, my boyfriend made me feel like I was the only one who understood him. I was the special one. It was like having a BFF I'd always wanted with all the other benefits that go with having a boyfriend. I was in complete denial that I could get into situations that were over my head, even when I had clear evidence to the contrary.
But looking back, I realized I already knew how to be in an abusive relationship by the time I met him- thanks to my friends. I believed I didn't have the right to complain when people who were supposed to care about me treated me badly. I had already learned it was more important to have the relationship than how I was treated within it. And last , when the relationship was at its worst and even I had to admit things were bad, I felt horribly ashamed and powerless to change my situation and that I couldn't go back to my friends for help" (16-17)
Subject- The author describes some of her own negative high school experiences.
Occasion- This is a memory that helps reader connect to the author personally and understand her perspective on teenagers behavior.
Audience-This text is directed towards teenagers and parents who read the book, so that they understand her perspective and experiences as a teenager. These experiences are what drove her to write a book and learn more about why teenage girls behave the way they do.
Purpose- This was written to connect the author to the reader and explain why teenage girls accept abuse from their friends and boys.
Speaker- The speaker is the author, Rosalind Wiseman, and she is a well educated, modern adult woman. She is upper class or upper middle class. She had a difficult and emotional adolescence. She believes that teenage girls accept abuse from others because within our own groups of friends we are constantly put down. If girls were nicer to each other, we would have more self respect.
Odd Girl Out
ReplyDelete"Relational aggression can include indirect aggression, in which the target is not directly confronted (such as the silent treatment), and some social aggression, which targets the victim's self-esteem or social status (such as rumor spreading). Among the most common forms of relational agression are 'do this or I won't be your friend anymore,' ganging up against a girl, the silent treatment, and nonverbal gesturing, or body language.
The lifeblood of relational aggression is relationship. As a result, most relational aggression occurs within intimate social or friendship networks. The closer the target to the perpetrator, the more cutting the loss. As one Linden freshman put it, 'Your friends know you and how to hurt you. They know what your real weaknesses are. They know exactly what to do to destroy someone's self-worth. They try to destroy you from the inside.' Such pointed meanness, an eighth grader explained to me, 'can stay with you for your entire life. It can define who you are'" (43).
Subject: The definition of relational agression and how girls use it against each other.
Occasion: The passage is an observation of how girls use relational agression and why they do it.
Audience: The passage is toward parents who want to know how and why girls bully each other.
Purpose: The purpose of the text is to tell girls that they are not the only ones who are being bullied and to understand the reasons why their friends might be doing it to them.
Speaker: The speaker is a woman in her twenties or thirties who had been bullied herself as a child and wants to know the reasons why her friends had done it.
Irene Kim
ReplyDeleteOdd Girl Out
"As girls mature, the prospect of being seen alone by others becomes just as daunting. They know that "perfect girls" have "perfect relationships." "Walking through a hall and feeling like everyone's looking at you is the worst," a Linden ninth grader told me. "people who are alone are pitied and no one wants to be pitied. They're secluded. Something's wrong with them. Being seen as a longer is one of our biggest fears." Driven by the fear of exclusion, girls cling to their friends like lifeboats on the shifting seas of school life, certain that to be alone is the worst horror imaginable.
Every child, boy or girl, desires acceptance and connection. Most boys would not prefer or even tolerate being alone. Yet as girls grow up, friendship becomes as important as air, and they describe the punishment of loneliness in dramatic terms. "I was so depressed," Sarah explained. "I sat in class with no friends. Everything i cared about completely crumbled." A fifth grader said of her solitude, 'it was like my heart was breaking'" (32).
SUBJECT: The true emotions of girls ranging from all different ages that go through the same problems whether it be internal or physical.
OCCASION: This passage is a description of young girls' problems but an observation through the eyes of the narrator.
AUDIENCE: I think that the audience can start from girls in middle school to adults who are now mothers.
PURPOSE: The purpose is to reassure people that they're not the only ones out there being bullied or hurt in any way. It shows and gives an explanation of reasons on why the things happening, may be happening to you.
SPEAKER: I think that the speaker is a mid twenties, to mid thirties who can relate to the kid's and the life stories they have for her to read. It seems like with her past experiences, as she's listening, she can relate to the girls.
Queen Bees & Wannabes
ReplyDelete"For some girls, popularity is magical. Popularity conveys an unmatched sense of power. Some girls think that if they can achieve it, all their problems will disappear. Some become obsessed and measure the popularity barometer daily, then issue constant weather reports. Others dismiss it, thinking the whole thing is ridiculous. Some are angry and deny they care, although they often actually do. Some feel so out of it they give up.
Imagine you're invisible, and walk with me into a classroom (feel fre to imagine any grade from third grade up) where I'm going to discuss cliques and popularity. This is what you'll see: thirty girls grouped together in clumps of usually four or five. They're sitting on chairs, or on each other's laps, doing other's hair, texting, reading, or sitting by themselves. Some are even studying. I start the class by asking the girls to close their eyes and answer by a show of hands how many of them have had a friend gossip about them, talk behind their back, force them to stop being friends with someone, or be exclusive. All hands immediately shoot up. I ask the girls to keep their hands up and open their eyes. They laugh. Then I have them close their eyes again and ask them to answer by a show of hands how many of them have gossiped, backstabbed, or been exclusive about a friend. Much more slowly, some bending from the elbow instead of extending their hand, all the hands go up. I tell them to keep their hands up and open their eyes. They look around. They laugh again, but nervously" (82).
Subject- The author describes a variety of feelings about popularity and how all girls gossip about each other.
Occasion- Rosalind Wiseman describes what happens when she asks if any of the girls have gossiped behind each other's back or if someone has gossiped behind their back.
Audience- The audience could be mothers and their daughters for both can imagine what it would be like to sit in that room. The daughters can realize that they are apart of the gossiping and the mothers can remember what it was like when they were in school and what is happening in their daughter's life now.
Purpose- The purpose is to show that popularity is seen differently to many people. Some strive for it and others do not. The deeper purpose though is to show that not only popular girls gossip; all girls gossip.
Speaker-The speaker is the author, Rosalind Wiseman. She is an educated, upper class woman who travels to different schools and talks to girls about how they act and should act towards each other and the many problems that they face. She relates their experiences through her own difficulties she went through as an adolescent, what her own children have gone through, and what she has seen.
Queen Bees and Wannabes-Rosalind Wiseman
ReplyDeleteTim Mauss
"No matter how good a parent you are, how popular your daughter is, or how great her friends are, she'll run into problems with popularity and cliques. For better or worse, it's the experiences she has in the clique that will teach her volumes about friendship, support, understanding, power, and privilege. On a daily basis, sh'll learn what kind of girl she has to be in order to be accepted by her group, and this will influence everything from her choice of boyfriend to the classes she takes, her after-school activities, her clothes, her hairstyles, the people she talks to , the people she doesn't talk to, her beliefs and values, and her overall sense of self. The common definition of a clique is an exclusive group of girls who are close friends. I see it a little differently. I see them as a platoon of soldier who have banded together to navigate the perils and insecurities of adolescence. There's a chain of command and they operate as one in their interactions with their environment." (19).
Subject: How cliques and social groups girls are a part of have an impact on their lives, both good and bad.
Occasion: The problem associated with teen girls and cliques, is an ever present issue in our society. The author uses this example to describe the problems faced by young people in modern times.
Audience: Parents of teenage girls. The passage provides insight for an outside figure; it enlightens someone who is not currently in this particular situation.
Purpose: The passage has been included in this book in order to comment on the problems with, and solutions for teenage girls' involvement in cliques.
Speaker: The speaker is in their late twenties, early thirties because she displays a certain level of experience dealing with these issues. However she must still be fairly young in order to relate to teenage girls.
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ReplyDeleteQueen Bees & Wannabes
ReplyDelete"Is it starting earlier?
I have been asked this question countless times by people who have already made up their mind about the answer. It's as if parents think there's something in the water that's making girls nastier. You may not like my answer. It's not in the water, it's in the mirror. Parents are buying into a culture that believes it's "cute" to buy trendy, sexy clothes or funny that an eight-year-old can lip-sync the latest Britney Spears or Katy Perry song. So funny that the adults then put it on YouTube for everyone to see. It has become a custom for moms and their prepubescent daughters to manicures and pedicures. When I was growing up, I went to the salon with my mom and it was a bonding experience- as i watched her get her hair done. But having a good time with her didn't depend on getting to do the same things she did.
So it's not that girls are being pushed to be meaner. It's that they are being pushed to be older (as opposed to more mature which would lend itself to increased sense of responsibility, etc.). Being mean is just a by-product. Adults are the ones who create and give young girls access to content that assumes they are already teens, or want to be. Cartoons are based on reality shows that depict girls are superficial and catty; toys and websites teach them to be famous and "celebrities" with all the accompanying clothes, jewelry, clothes, and entitled spoiled attitudes".
SUBJECT: In these paragraphs, the author, Rosalind Wiseman, explains that the problem of popularity and bullying starts at a younger age. She explains that this is an influence by the media, but mostly the parents.
OCCASION: This part is somewhat of a memory and an argument, but it is mostly an observation of girls over the years.
AUDIENCE: This text is directed toward parents who complain that their kids are growing up too fast. This shows them why their kids act the way they do.
PURPOSE: Wiseman's purpose is to show parents that girls are under the influence of the media starting at a young age, and the parents have a big part in this situation.
SPEAKER: The speaker is Rosalind Wiseman, who is an educator that goes to schools and teaches girls about bullying, cliques, and leadership.
Queen Bees & Wannabes
ReplyDelete"Is it starting earlier?
I have been asked this question countless times by people who have already made up their mind about the answer. It's as if parents think there's something in the water that's making girls nastier. You may not like my answer. It's not in the water, it's in the mirror. Parents are buying into a culture that believes it's "cute" to buy trendy, sexy clothes or funny that an eight-year-old can lip-sync the latest Britney Spears or Katy Perry song. So funny that the adults then put it on YouTube for everyone to see. It has become a custom for moms and their prepubescent daughters to manicures and pedicures. When I was growing up, I went to the salon with my mom and it was a bonding experience- as i watched her get her hair done. But having a good time with her didn't depend on getting to do the same things she did.
So it's not that girls are being pushed to be meaner. It's that they are being pushed to be older (as opposed to more mature which would lend itself to increased sense of responsibility, etc.). Being mean is just a by-product. Adults are the ones who create and give young girls access to content that assumes they are already teens, or want to be. Cartoons are based on reality shows that depict girls are superficial and catty; toys and websites teach them to be famous and "celebrities" with all the accompanying clothes, jewelry, clothes, and entitled spoiled attitudes".
SUBJECT: In these paragraphs, the author, Rosalind Wiseman, explains that the problem of popularity and bullying starts at a younger age. She explains that this is an influence by the media, but mostly the parents.
OCCASION: This part is somewhat of a memory and an argument, but it is mostly an observation of girls over the years.
AUDIENCE: This text is directed toward parents who complain that their kids are growing up too fast. This shows them why their kids act the way they do.
PURPOSE: Wiseman's purpose is to show parents that girls are under the influence of the media starting at a young age, and the parents have a big part in this situation.
SPEAKER: The speaker is Rosalind Wiseman, who is an educator that goes to schools and teaches girls about bullying, cliques, and leadership.
James Porter
ReplyDeleteHurt: Inside the World of Today’s Teenagers
“I wrote this book because I believe that adults understand very little of the inside life of the American teenager, especially the midadolescent. Now, after a few years of living with midadolescents and looking through the lens of their life experience, I am more convinced than ever that adults need to be more astute students of the kids we are mandated by society to nurture.
The book closes with a sampling of simple, relatively easy, but revolutionary suggestions for turning the tide on systemic abandonment. This is not a how-to book but rather a wake-up call to help every adult recognize and struggle with what our choices as adults have done to the children of society. The majority of this book deals with making the case for abandonment and what has occurred as a result. The solutions offered, then, are somewhat obvious. We as adults need to roll up our sleeves and reinvest in the lives of individual young people” (38).
Subject- The author explains the reasons why he wrote this book, what this book contains, and a brief summary of the damage adults have done to teenagers.
Occasion- The passage is an argument. The book takes place all over modern America and involves all levels of adolescents.
Audience- The text is directed toward parents of adolescents, people that work with adolescents, and adolescents themselves.
Purpose- The author’s reason for writing the text is to change the way that adults treat adolescents and to inform parents on ways to nurture their adolescent children.
Speaker- The author is Chap Clark who is an associate professor of youth, family, and culture at Fuller Theological Seminary. He is also a father of three adolescent children.
Born to Buy:
ReplyDelete"Our daughter, Sulakshana, was born in 1995. She afforded us firsthand experience of how deeply and pervasively commercialized childhood is gendered. With boys, parents worry about violent products and obsessions with video games. With girls, it's sexualized products and distorted body image. As our children grew, I watched the experience of childhood changing. Kids were coming under increasing pressures to succeed, as homework assignments became longer and performance expectations rose. Overscheduling became a norm in middle-class communities. Many children were growing materialistic, even spoiled. Television, video game, and computer time appeared to be rising, and in many communities, including ours, the streets were empty after school. One Saturday morning after a rare snowstorm, I was struck by the pristine snow and the pervasive quiet: all the kids were inside. I felt sad about their lack of autonomy and lost connection to the outdoors. I became determined to reclaim some of that for my kids and to protect them from commercial influences I was uneasy about"(Schor 12).
Subject: This paragraph is telling the reader about how the author notices and observes the changes that occur as the youth of today mature.
Occasion: This passage is a description of the worries that parents have towards their children.
Audience: The intended audience for this passage is for new parents and other adults.
Purpose: I believe that the purpose of this passage is to show the many ways that commercialization occurs within our youth. It also describes the change that has occurred among kids throughout the years.
Speaker: I believe that the speaker of this story is a middle-aged woman who has kids of her own.
Reviving Ophelia: Saving the Selves of Adolescent Girls
ReplyDeleteKenny Ahlstrom
"Something dramatic happens to girls in early adolescence. Just as planes and ships disappear mysteriously into the Bermuda Triangle, so do the selves of girls go down in droves. They crash and burn in a social and development Bermuda Triangle. In early adolescence, studies show that girls' IQ scores drop and their math and science scores plummet. They lose their resiliency and optimism and become less curious and inclined to take risks. They loose their assertiveness, energetic and 'tomboyish' personalities and become more deferential, self-critical and depressed. They report great unhappiness with their own bodies" (19).
Subject: The problems and trials teenage girls face they develop and how to deal with them.
Occasion: The author wishes to understand why so many girls come to her, as a psychiatrist, and have such serious problems at such a young age. She hopes to find the source of the problem and fix it and help all girls and moms everywhere by writing this books.
Audience: This book has been written to teenage girls who are experiencing adolescence and wish to endure it peacefully. This book also helps moms understand what is happening to her daughter and how the mother can help.
Purpose: To show how serious the problems young girls face today and how we can overcome those problems and comfort the female, teenage youth.
Speaker: The author is Mary Pipher who is credited with a Ph.D. in Psychology and has written numerous books about the female mind.
Hurt: Inside the World of Today’s Teenagers
ReplyDeleteRicky Valentine
"On the surface, the adolescent world appears to be relatively stable and healthy. Yet beneath the calm waters presented by positive empirical data there is turmoil that is difficult, painful, lonely, and even harmful to our young. Even among those who argue that adolescents are basically fine, virtually no one would question the need young people, and especially adolescents, have for adults who are available, care, and come to them without a hidden or self-centered agenda. The fact is that adolescents need adults to become adults, and when adults are not present and involved in their lives, they are forced to figure out how to survive on their own"(42-43).
Subject: How teenagers need adults who understand how they actually feel internally not externally, in order to grow and sprout into respectful adults themselves.
Audience: Parents, guardians and adults in general. These are the intended audience Clark chooses because they are the ones that are responsible for the average teenager and their actions play a major role in the development of the teen.
Purpose: The purpose Clark inserts this into the novel is for purpose of insight into the teenagers thoughts and feelings and bringing them into the realizations of adults. The author conveys this message in an imminent tone, with a sense that he has been educated in teen culture. The overall affect of this passage is a sympathy and understanding towards teens.
Speaker: The speaker and author of Hurt, is a middle-aged husband and father, who has a strong passion to speak and interpret the adolescent world into the adulthood.
Born To Buy
ReplyDeleteOne of the hottest trends in youth marketing is age compression the practice of taking products and marketing messages originally designed for older kids and targeting them to younger ones. Age compression includes offering teen products and genres, pitching gratuitous violence to the twelve and under crowd, cultivating brand preferences for items that were previously unbranded among younger kids, and developing creative alcohol and tobacco advertising that is not officially targeted to them but is widely seen and greatly loved by children. "By eight and nine they want N Sync", explained one tweening expert to me, and the days before that banned was eclipsed by Justin Timberlake, Pink, and others.
Age comprehension is a sprawling trend. It can be seen in the import of television programming specifically designed for one year olds, which occured ironically, with public broadcasting Teletubbies. It includes the marketing of designer clothes to kindergarteners and first graders. It's the deliberate targeting of R-rated movies to kids as young as age nine, a practice the major studious were called on the carpet for by the Clint Administration in two thousand. It's being driven by the recognition that many children nationwide are watching MTV and other teen and adult programming. One of my favorite MTV anecdotes comes from a third grade teacher in Weston Massachusetts, who reported that she started her social studies unit on Mexico by asking the class what they knew about the country. Six or seven raised their hand and answered, " Thats the place where MTV's Springbreak takes place!" For those who haven't seen it, the program glorifies heavy partying, what it calls " bootylicious girls," erotic dancing, wet T-shirt contest, and binge drinking.
Subject-The author was trying to explain how television does not sensor their programs and also how children watching television shows set up for older people tend to get into that habit.
Occasion- the occasion takes place all over the world and involves younger children and teens
Audience- the facts are toward parents to censor their televisions and to take more caution in the shows their children watch.
Purpose-The reason the author writes this is to try to influence and inform parents of the type of television that their children may be watching.
Speaker- The speaker is Juliet Schor who is the speaker and informant on all of these resources as an expert in family studies.
Reviving Ophelia Saving the Selves of Adolescent Girls
ReplyDelete"It's important for girls to be exposed to more women writers, but it's equally important to change the way women are portrayed in the media. Not many girls read Tolstoy today, but almost all watch television. On the screen they see women mainly depicted as half-clad and half-witted, often awaiting resuce by quick-thinking, fully clothed men. I ask girls to watch the way women are portayed on television. We'll talk about their observations and I'll ask 'What does this teach you about the role of women?'
She noticed that male voices carry more authority in commercials. Men are the doctors and scientists who give product endorsements. She observed that women's bodies sell products that have nothing directly to do with women--tires, tractors, liquor and guns." (42)
SUBJECT: The way that women are portrayed in the media is a poor influence on the young girls going through adolescence.
OCCASION: The story takes place in modern day and it is a critique of how the appearances of women on television should be changed to portray a better image.
AUDIENCE: The text is aimed towards mothers and adolsecent girls.
PURPOSE: The text is trying to open the eyes of mothers and daughters to realize the perception the media is giving as to what a woman should look and act like.
SPEAKER: The speaker is Mary Pipher, PH.D. the author of the book. Pipher believes that the way women are perceived is wrong and the up-coming generation should try to help fix the portrayal of women in the media.
Born to Buy
ReplyDeleteWhat's more, kids' opinions are solicited from the earliest ages. According to a consumer panel run by New York agency Griffin Bacal, 100 percent of the parents of the children aged two to five agreed that their children have a major influence on their food and snack purchases. For video and book choices, the rate of major influence was 80 percent, and for restaurants, clothes, and health and beauty products, it stood at 50 percent. The Roper Youth Report has found that among six and seven year olds, 30 percent choose their own grocery store food items, 15 percent choose their toys and games, and 33 percent make fast food and candy decisions. As kids age, their influence grows.
Food is an area where influence marketing and the decline of parental control has been most pronounced. Consider the case of Fruit Roll-ups, a phenomenally successful snack food represented by Saatchi and Saatchi's Kid Connection. When the product was introduced, the ads had both kid and mom appeal. For moms, they called attention to the fruit aspect of the snack. But over time, the agency realized that this "dual messaging" was unnecessary. As a former Saatchi employee explained to me: "For years we used to say 10 percent fruit juice. And finally we're just like, okay, forget it. Who are we kidding? . . . That was also a conscious effort to move toward direct kid marketing and not even worrying about Mom. Just take her out of the equation because the nag factor is so strong on something like that, that you can just take advantage of that." (24-25)
Subject- The author is showing the reader how manipulative the child buyer is. The passage is showing how children will buy what they want and they have a major influence on what foods the household purchases.
Occasion- The occasion is mainly in America and focuses on young children.
Audience- The passage is aimed toward parents of young children to understand how manipulative advertisers are.
Purpose- The purpose of the passage is to inform the parents of the techniques advertisers are using to manipulate.
Speaker- The speaker of the passage is Juliet Schor and and an employee who worked at Fruit Roll-up.
Hurt: Inside the World of Today’s Teenagers
ReplyDeleteJonathan Serrano
"Within the span of a few short decades, adolescence changed from a relatively brief two-to-three year period to a five-year process with two distinct stages: early and late adolescence. The details and reasons behind it are beyond the scope of this book, but somewhere in the late 1960s, a massive social upheaval occurred that altered the social landscape of all segments of American society. There are different labels for the changes that took place and several opposing theories regarding why it happened, but for the purpose of this study, I will simply affirm this was a watershed time for our culture in how it affected adolescence as a stage of the life span.
The most important issue regarding the adolescent landscape and task was the culture-wide social shift that took place during this time that influenced the young both directly and indirectly. The direct impact was related to how the systems, structures, organizations, and institutions that were designed to nurture and care for the young were affected by these changes. The indirect impact of these years was related to how the internal mechanisms associated with the developmental process affected the psyche and inner security of adolescents" (31)
Subject: Adolescents started changing after a social shift that started infesting their minds.
People who took care of them began to corrupt their minds with their new social understandings. Throughout time teenagers began to digest that social corruption and transformed into something new. Something that would change the way they act.
Occasion: This quote is a declaration and takes place amongst teenagers.
Audience: This was intended to people who take care of or interact with teenagers. They have the power to change how teens develop throughout time.
Purpose: The purpose of this quote is to inform adults that teenagers were corrupted because of them. They should do the best they can to lead us into the right paths and be careful with what they say and or teach us.
Speaker: Chap Clark is the author of this book and has three adolescent children. He is a great, dedicated man teaching others about adolescents and the things they go through.
Kaila Sells
ReplyDeleteReviving Ophelia Saving the Selves of Adolescent Girls
"Adolescents are travelers, far from home with no native land, neither children nor adults. They are jet-setters who fly from one country to another with amazing speed. Sometimes they are four years old, an hour later they are twenty-five. They don't really fit anywhere. There's a yearning for place, a search for solid ground.
Adolescence is a time of intense preoccupation with the self, which is growing and changing daily. Everything feels new. I remember the impulse to hit my mother when she woke me one morning for school. Even as I felt that rage, I was appalled by my weirdness. I remember going weak-kneed when certain boys walked by me in the halls. These moments took my breath away and left me wondering who I was becoming. I was as surprised by my reactions as I would have been by a stranger's"(52).
Subject: Adolescence is a time full of change and it is not easy for girls to go through.
Occasion: The author is a psychiatrist who sees many troubled young girls as patients. The book is a critique of the different cases she has seen. The book takes place in the 1990s in America.
Audience: The book is directed towards parents of adolescent girls or anyone who deals with adolescent girls.
Purpose: The author wants to explain to parents what their daughters are going through and how to deal with the new young women they are becoming. She wants to remind parents of what it was like to be an adolescent but also wants to emphasize how much different and harder it is for girls to go through adolescence today.
Speaker: The speaker is a middle-aged woman who is highly educated. Her name is Mary Pipher and she is the author of the book. She is a psychiatrist and has at least one daughter who has already been through adolescence. Her descriptions of how she deals with her patients suggest that she is a very rational person.
Semi Lee
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Odd Girl Out
"In bold, matter-of-fact voices, girls described themselves to me as disloyal, untrustworthy, and sneaky. They claimed girls use intimacy to manipulate and overpower others. They said girls are fake, using each other to move up the social hierarchy. They described girls as unforgiving and crafty, lying in wait for a moment of revenge that will catch the unwitting victim off guard and, with an almost savage eye-for-an-eye mentality, "make her feel the way I felt."
The girl's stories about their conflicts were casual and at times filled with self-hatred. In almost every group session I held, someone volunteered her wish to have been born a boy because boys can "fight and have it to be over with"(Simmons 16).
S- Girls are selfish and sometimes dishonest towards everyone to get what she wants. How girls are trying to make other girls feel like how she is feeling when they are in bad mood.
O - This story took place recently in the 21st century. It is an observation that the author, Simmons took while interviewing a bunch of girls.
A- It is targeted towards teens to young adults around the age of grade six to tenth.
P- The purpose of the story is to inform girls and parents how girls in their grade are being treated if they are being bullied. How girls are disloyal and foxy to make themselves have a better reputation and to embarrass you.
S - The speaker is the author who is talking about the girls she is interviewing. She was curious of what girls do when they are bullying other people.
Born to Buy
ReplyDelete"Parental time pressure and longer working hors have also driven this trend. time-starved house holds have become easy prey for marketers, whose research shows that parents who spend less time with their children will spend more money on them. 'Guilt Money', as they call it, came up in almost all my discussions about whay kids have so much influence now. research done by one of my students is consistent with this view. she found that parents who spent more hours working bought more discretionary items such as toys, videos, and books for their childrn. this effect is in addition to the fact that the additional income from working more also leads to more spending. by contrast, parents who spent more time with their children bought fewer of these items. the amount of extra spending was larger for mothers than fathers. and it was greater fo toys than for other items. in higher-income families, spending was even more sensitive to time spent with children. these results do not show that parental guilt is motivating purchases, but marketers' belief in th power of guilt, and their ability to exploit it, remains strong.
Time pressure operates in other ways as well. parents have less time to cajole kids to eat products they don't like or to return rejected purchases to stores. this is part of why 89 percent of parents of tweens report that they ask their children's opinions about products they are about to buy for them. kids are also technologically savvy and eargerly seek out consumer information. many parents now believe that their children know more about products and brands than they do, and they rely on that knowledge" (Schor 25).
Subject- The author is showing the reader how manipulative companies are these days and how they are willing to try and make the parents feel guilty over time spent with their children.
Occasion- The occasion is mainly in America and focuses on young children in today's society.
Audience- The passage is aimed toward parents to tell them just what companies are willing to do to get them to give their money to their kids to deal with lost time.
Purpose- The purpose of the passage is to inform the parents of the techniques advertisers are using to cause parents to feel guilty about not spending time with their kids so they just give them money to spend to make up for it.
Speaker- The speaker of the passage is Juliet Schor who is an employee that worked at the Fruit Roll-ups Company.
Reviving Ophelia
ReplyDelete"Girls have long been trained to be feminine at considerable cost to their humanity. They have long been evaluated on the basis of appereance and caught in myriad double minds: achieve, but not too much; be polite, but be yourself; be feminine and adult; be aware of our cultural heritage, but don't comment on the sexism. Another way to describe this femininity training is to call it false self-training. Girls are trained to be less than who they really are. They are trained to be what the culture wants of its young women, not what they themselves want to become.
America today is a girl-destroying place. Everywhere girls are encouraged to sacrifice their true selves. Their parents may fight to protect them, but their parents have limited power. Many girls lose contact with their true selves, and when they do, they become extraordinarily vulnerable to a culture that is all too happy to use them for its purposes" (Pipher 44).
Subject: Mary Pipher is trying to explain how girls get lost and confused while trying to live up to all of the expectations set up by society.
Occasion: Mary Pipher focuses only on girls going through the most difficult stage of their lives, adolecence.
Audience: I think that this book is directed for the parents of adolecent girls to try to make them understand what a hard time this is for their daughters.
Purpose: I think the purpose is to inform parents of teenage girls that this is a hard time and that every girl goes through this difficult stage in life and to try to convince them to be more understanding.
Speaker: Mary Pipher is the speaker who is a therapist who deals mostly with teenage girls and their problems.
Queen Bees and Wannabes
ReplyDelete"Girls are often their own and other girls' worst enemies and for some the rivalry defines their adolescence. I have watched time after time as a sweet, intelligent girl plots another girl's humiliating downfall. It's hard to admit, especially when the evildoer is your own child or one of her close friends" (20).
Subject- The passage is about a girls' adolescence and how popularity and friendships define them.
Occasion- The passage is likely a declaration of the ways and attitudes girls in their teen years.
Audience- The audience is the parents of these teenage girls.
Purpose- The author is trying to explain the actions of these teenagers' lives. This is used to give the parents' of these girls information about the change they are going through.
Speaker- Rosalind Wiseman is the speaker of the story.
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ReplyDelete"Girls have long been trained to be feminine at considerable cost to their humanity. They have long been evaluated on the basis of appearance and caught in myriad double binds: achieve, but not too much; be polite, but be yourself; be feminine and adult; be aware of our cultural heritage, but don’t comment on the sexism. Another way to describe this femininity training is to call it false self-training. Girls are trained to be less than who they really are. They are trained to be what the culture wants of its young women, not what they themselves want to become.
America today is a girl-destroying place. Everywhere girls are encouraged to sacrifice their true selves. Their parents may fight to protect them, but their parents have limited power. Many girls lose contact with their true selves, and when they do, they become extraordinarily vulnerable to a culture that is all too happy to use them for its purposes”(44).
Minh Nguyen
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Reviving Ophelia
“Even though Charlotte was from a small, sleepy town, she exemplifies the problems of girls in the 1990’s. She had an abusive, alcoholic father. Her mother divorced when Charlotte was young, and the family was poor and overburdened for many years. As a teenager, Charlotte is in all kinds of trouble- she drinks, smokes pot and cigarettes, diets and is flunking school. She has run away from home and she has been raped. She’s distanced from her parents and is alone except for an older, chemically addicted boyfriend. Especially with men, she’s docile and other-directed. She does what she thinks she should do in order to be accepted.” Page 48
Charlotte has made many choices that sacrifice her true self and support a false self. Her choices show in her face. There’s deadness to her demeanor that comes from inauthenticity, from giving away too much. Charlotte is evidence of a childhood lost. And what has replaced childhood glitters but is not gold. I hope the therapy can help her find herself.
Subject- The author writes about how their surroundings can affect the way a girl matures. If the girl is put under constant pressure and depression she may fall back to drugs and alcohol.
Occasion- This is a memory as well as an observation. The author recounts one of her past clients. She observes how her parents’ divorce added sadness to her life and how the pressure of fitting in was too much for her.
Audience- this text is directed towards teens and parents. It tells teens that drugs and alcohol are not the answer and just makes their life worse. It tells parents to try to give their children ideal happy environments to grow up in.
Purpose- The author writes this to tell parents to avoid divorces because it can impact the child in a negative way. It also tells them to watch their children so they do not get into drugs and alcohol.
Speaker- The author is the speaker. The speaker is an experienced child psychologist. She has dealt with teenagers many times in the past.
Assingment 2
I read a post on Quenn Bee’s and Wannabees on Rachel Reinards post
"Like so many girls, I was amazingly good at fooling myself? I'd convinced myself that I was in a mature relationship and I was in control of the situation. But more important, my boyfriend made me feel like I was the only one who understood him. I was the special one. It was like having a BFF I'd always wanted with all the other benefits that go with having a boyfriend. I was in complete denial that I could get into situations that were over my head, even when I had clear evidence to the contrary.
But looking back, I realized I already knew how to be in an abusive relationship by the time I met him- thanks to my friends. I believed I didn't have the right to complain when people who were supposed to care about me treated me badly. I had already learned it was more important to have the relationship than how I was treated within it. And last , when the relationship was at its worst and even I had to admit things were bad, I felt horribly ashamed and powerless to change my situation and that I couldn't go back to my friends for help" (16-17)
The author writes about a past relationship she had been in. She thought that she was in control of the situation and when the relationship could not get any worse, she had no one to look to. Words like fooling myself and convinced myself and looking back gives the passage a sense of regret . Both my book and Queen Bees and Wannabees evoke a sense of sympathy in their writing. They use personal experience to gather information.