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Comment on Care Bears vs. Transformers: Gender Stereotypes in Advertisements by Shaping Youth » Kids Summer Camps & Niche Gender Marketing: Why?

Shaping Youth » Kids Summer Camps & Niche Gender Marketing: Why? — Wed, 09 Jun 2010 02:00:04 +0000

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The Socjournal : Sociology and Society « La Criée : périodiques en ligne — Wed, 31 Mar 2010 05:04:48 +0000

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Comment on Giving up the grade by admin

admin — Wed, 24 Mar 2010 18:03:48 +0000

Maybe you’d like to write an article on critical pedagogy for us Tony! Or provide us with something from your own site which you have already written?

Comment on Giving up the grade by Tony Ward

Tony Ward — Tue, 23 Mar 2010 01:55:01 +0000

Hi,

My name is Tony Ward. I have just discovered your blog and thought that you might like to know about my website http://www.TonyWardEdu.com. It’s a free educational resource that contains more than a hundred freely downloadable PDFs on Critical Theory, Critical Pedagogy and Critical Praxis. There is no catch. Please feel free to visit, browse and download the material there as you wish, and please tell colleagues who might also find it useful. You may find particularly useful, the PDF on Evaluation and Grading (http://www.tonywardedu.com/content/view/374/40/)

Thanks
Tony Ward
(e) tonyward.transform@xtra.co.nz

Comment on Competition is as competition does by Happyelf

Happyelf — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 16:12:09 +0000

“Artists are a dime a dozen. Many apply but few make it to success”
And I wondered what was the final success of an artist? Is it fame? Is it financial compensation? If artists are a dime a dozen, I had better get myself to be the best of them all to get the attention. That is how i am going to win right?

It wasn’t until recently when I put down the will or desire or need to compete that I began to really open up in my creativity. I live in my work which means I am living in my moment of enjoyment just for enjoyment. Is my work good? I guess it would be if I am enjoying it.

Nice review Michael.

Comment on The cure for alchoholism by Jill

Jill — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 23:54:31 +0000

ANY suggestion other than AA is apperciated!!! I am not a religious person and resent a treatment that heavily relies on a superstitious belief for help and healing.

Comment on Care Bears vs. Transformers: Gender Stereotypes in Advertisements by admin

admin — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 02:02:01 +0000

Here’s an interesting article from Science Daily. Not about gender advertisement, but about children’s junk food advertising and its impact on childhood obesity.

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/02/100209095753.htm

Interesting reading.

Comment on Care Bears vs. Transformers: Gender Stereotypes in Advertisements by admin

admin — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 21:08:40 +0000

Name one positive effect of children’s advertising? The goal of advertising to children is to make them consumers, and to reinforce the sorts of behaviours that benefit corporations. Advertising teaches passive product choice, reinforces gender norms (and you need gender norms if your companies that sell gendered products are going to continue to survive), reinforces the “democracy=product choice” mantra of modern consumer societies, and contributes (in a massive way) to the problem of garbage and waste. In this context I highly recommend viewing the PBS film Affluenza, which talks a lot about the North America fetish for consumption, and the damage this is doing to our collective future.

Personally I don’t see any benefit at all to advertising to children, and in a lot of cases would consider it positively damaging to the health and well being of our children, as for example with the fast food industries proclivity to hook children into their toxic waste sodium and fat products at an early age.

But still, if anybody has any ideas on what might constitute “positive” children’s advertising, I would be curious to here them.

Comment on The cure for alchoholism by Happyelf

Happyelf — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 19:36:43 +0000

I am responding as an individual who has experienced life as an alcoholic (13 years), experienced life through AA and abstinence ( 13 1/2 years), experienced relapse, (6 months) and then experienced abstinence without AA (3 years). I began drinking at an early age of 14 and connected alcohol with socializing and interacting with peers being a shy person with low self esteem among other dysfunctional traits that developed in early childhood. Somewhere nearing 20 and through my early 20′s alcohol became the endorphin replacement, (although I wasn’t aware of it at the time). I ended up in recovery at 27 years old and also discovering I was soberly depressed. In AA we learned that there is some disconnect in the brain that alcoholics experience that normal drinkers do not which allows them to continue to drink when they have ‘had enough’. I also learned a fear of alcohol, that it had control over my body,( which I no longer believe), and that a reintroduction to alcohol could lead to death, prison or insanity. There are a number of other personal power binding ideas that AA promotes but I have come to believe through my personal experiences, leaves the individual stagnant and bored. For me, it seems that I could only go so far with AA and its 12 steps and then it became repetition. I stopped following the AA program and going to meetings and ended up relapsing a few years ago. The initial drinking episodes were social and controlled. I felt excited about going out to social settings where when I went abstinent I found myself as being bored. But then it became a tool for self medicating due to poor social relationships a few months later. This only leads me to believe that these books have something to offer in linking social experiences, personal mental health and alcohol use. I think a mentally healthy individual who may have had problems in the past with alcoholism might be able to drink socially again taking into account healthy environment, healthy body and healthy social connections. I am interested in reading them to see another perspective on alcoholism. Thanks Michael.

Comment on The cure for alchoholism by admin

admin — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 01:27:37 +0000

Thanks for the comment Rob. I have a question. In the books they claim quite high success rates. By blocking the ability of alcohol to release endorphins, and by paying attention to lifestyle, they attain very high success rates. How is this not a “cure.” If a certain conditions goes away after a certain treatment, can we not say that the condition has been cured?

Mike S.