Popular Culture Jaz

The article "What Teenagers are Learning from Online Porn" highlights some common misconceptions high school students have from watching porn online.  One misconception a girl had was that all women in porn felt pleasure. It said "But what she learned from porn had downsides too. Because she assumed women’s pleasure in porn was real, when she first had intercourse and didn’t have an orgasm, she figured that was just how it went." She believed she couldn't experience the "pleasure" women in porn experienced, because she didn't get the same results when she recreated porn. In the porn literacy class, the students learned that the porn stars are acting and probably feel pain. When she was a little older and more experienced she quit watching porn altogether because she didn't like looking at the women's' faces knowing they probably didn't feel good. She told the interviewer she had a new mission, which was to always orgasm during sex. ...

       I believe colleges should not pay their athletes. In the debate video "Should College Athletes be Paid?" Christine Brennan talks about the Title 9 law which states you have to treat men and women athletes the same. So if you pay one sport, you'll have to pay all of them. This is a strong argument because it is a law, and colleges would get in serious trouble if they broke it. A potential weakness in this argument is that colleges could easily cut sports, or pay their players a low wage.  Another point is that most colleges in America don't make profits from their athletics. According to the video, in 2012 only 23/228 division 1 schools made a profit from their sports. These are proven statistics, however this data is a little outdated.  Students are going to college to get an education, so education should be the main focus. If you start paying the students it will take the attention away from their school work. The weakness with this argument is tha...

The documentary "Football High" discusses the problems with high school football. Many of these problems involve the safety of the students playing. One specific issue is the amount of head injuries. Concussions aren't uncommon when playing football, especially in high school. The documentary discusses how helmets aren't created to prevent concussions, they're to prevent a crack in the skull. Scientist in the film talk about a disease called CTE, which is essentially when the brain starts to deteriorate due to being hit repeatedly over a period of time. A solution to this is to stop encouraging the athletes to be so violent while playing. One student says he used to use his head on purpose to hit his opponents. Another student says the coaches would tell them to play violently. If coaches instead taught them how to play without being violent, it would be less likely to get a concussion. However, the video explains that coaches do not get rewarded for keeping the s...

 The first advertisement I will write about is Pepsi Halloween. The ad is a picture of a Pepsi can with a Coca-Cola cape on, with the caption "we wish you a scary Halloween!". The original position is something you drink. Their reposition is that Coca-Cola is scary. This fits into the against the competition category. They're trying to show that their beverage is better, or less scary than their competitor. The second advertisement is the iPod Shuffle. It's a picture of Central Park with the path around the park mapped out using the wire of earbuds that are plugged into an iPod Shuffle. The original position is something that plays music. Their new position is that the iPod Shuffle can give you motivation to run. This fits into the unique attribute position category because it automatically shuffles your music to save you the trouble of picking what to listen to. I think it could also fit into the emotions, magic, and stories position because they're implying if y...