Katy Perry "Tired of Being Famous" : Who Should Stop Complaining About Fame?

     I've recently read this article, "Katy Perry 'Tired of Being Famous': Who Should Stop Complaining about Fame?" and it's explaining how Katy Perry feels about being famous. She said that when she meets her fans and they are cry she finds it disgusting. She thinks fame can compliment you and it can attack you as well. She says when her fans are crying she says “stop crying, there’s no reason for you to be crying”. And she also feels since she is famous there will be a lot of people that hate/criticize her music and she stays that she doesn’t care about that. It just makes her work harder.

     When I heard about this, it grabbed my attention and I to find out what was going on. I was interested to find out that there was at least one celebrity who had some humility left. She doesn’t understand why people cry over her. She’s just a person just like anyone else only difference is she has a contract and her voice is spectacular.  I agree with her when she questions why her fans cry for her. I mean they cry over her like she’s some kind of savior and I’m not talking about just Katy Perry fans I’m talking about all of these celebrities and their fans. All I know is if I meet a celebrity I like I’m not going to be crying over them. I’ll be just as cool as I am when I’m with my friends.

Philadelphia 4-year-old Shoots Himself

      

I've recently read this article by Maria Panaritis, a Philadelphia Inquirer Staff Writer called, and Philadelphia 4-year-old shoots himself. This article is about how a four year old shot himself in the chest with a gun he found under his mothers' pillow. The four year old did not die but was in critical condition. As far as police can tell it was accidental and no charges has been brought against the mother because she had a permit for the firearm.

Reading this article has made me think why his mother isn’t held accountable for her actions? Although she had the gun legally if she would have placed the gun in a difficult place to find so that her son wouldn't have got hurt. Although he is alive and recovering things could have been a lot worst and at the end of the day this woman could have lost her son because of her careless behavior.

When I read that was the only thing I could think of because I've never heard of anything like this it’s just mind blowing that this woman can just walk free. I believe that race had a lot to do with how they handled this because of the color skin she had they made sure everyone understood it was an accident but if her skin was a few shades darker she would have been said to be neglectful.

For Women Under 30, Most Births Occur Outside of Marriage

               I have recently read the article by Joan Deparle and Sabrina Tavernise called, “For Women under 30, Most Births Occur Outside of Marriage”. The main idea of this article is to inform people about women under 30 and how 41% of them in 2009 have children before marriage and they become single parents.

               But it wasn’t always like this. There was a time when people had to sustain from sex until marriage. And if they didn’t wait and the woman got pregnant you can bet they were getting married within a month. Nowadays people don’t think about repercussions/consequences they only think of how it feels in that moment. They don’t think not even once that the girl/woman will get pregnant. What’s worst there is 40% of the women who got pregnant in 2011 that ended with them raising their child on their own.

               As I read this it got me thinking about my sister who has a daughter and is pregnant with twins now and the father of her children moved to New York and she’s a single parent. But she still does what she has to do to provide for herself and her children. Which makes me believe being a single parent can be difficult but not undoable.

Trayvon Martins Death? Racism or Self-Defense?

On February 26th, 2012 seventeen year old Trayvon Martin was murdered by 28 year old George Zimmerman. After Zimmerman made a 911 phone call about a "suspicious kind" lurking around the area, Trayvon Martin was killed. When the 911 call was put on the internet there were claims that Zimmerman made races remarks towards the teen, "f***ing coons" he says. But he hasn't been arrested yet because he claims "it was in self-defense” even though he followed the young man after the authorities instructed him not to. Then the teen comes up dead and they don't find that a tad bit suspicious. And Zimmerman worries that if the police clarify that they did hear the races remark that this will be labeled as a hate crime and he was convicted for sure.

I believe that if the tables were turned it was Trayvon who killed Zimmerman it would have been a whole different story he would have been charged and found guilty no questions asked. And if Trayvon was such a threat why wasn't Zimmerman the one screaming for help? And if Zimmerman was so scared what in the world possessed him to follow him , if he looked so dangerous? Why didn't Trayvon shoot this man back ...... oh yes because he didn't have a gun. What was this man afraid Trayvon was going to throw a red skittle at him or make him drink some ice tea? Was he going to kill him with his iPhone? Make him deaf by blasting his Meek Millz too loud?

In China,Human Cost Are Built Into an Ipad

The article I’ve read from the New York Times “In China, Human Cost Are Built Into an iPad” has changed my entire outlook on the Apple Company . The main idea of this article is to inform people how hard workers work  in the process of assembling iPods, iPads and other Apple devices and accessories, work under harsh conditions, an unsafe working environment and lack of safety equipment. This article includes quotes from plant works and safety and health experts. One thing that I found remarkable was that employees would work 24 hour shifts and would stand all day until their legs swelled up. This is just a prime example how they were not treated with respect or any consideration.

As I stated before this article has changed my outlook on the Apple company. Before, I had this idea that Apple was a good company and that they were the best out there. And now I know they have to change the work environment that they provide to their workers or people may just boycott /protest their supplies when this news gets around. I believe this is an important topic because there is a lot of people buying Apple products and they might second think their choice when people find out about how they’re treating their works. If people began to protest and stand up against Apple I believe Apple will make their buildings safer and treat employees better.                                                                                                                           This article makes me think that many companies go to China and build factories because they know that Chinese people would work under those harsh conditions and they know that Americans won’t stand for that. If they fight for themselves and have to speak out against the way they have been treated I know they could make a difference.

I'm a Criminal and So Are You

As I read this article "I'm a criminal and so are you" it had me thinking on if what the author stated was really true. Michelle Alexander is the author of this article "I'm A Criminal and So Are You". Ms.Alexander has been researching on what we label criminals today as of March, 2012. She starts the article saying she had began telling people recently that she’s a criminal and when someone asks what she has been convicted of she says nothing. So people ask "Well, then why do you say you're a criminal?" she responds "Because I am a criminal, I say, just like you.”

             I think that how a person treats a criminal that has been convicted is ludicrous if their crime wasn’t serious like robbing a store or holding/selling of drugs.
Have you never heard the saying, “You do the crime, you do the time. If a criminal has done the time for their actions and has learned to not make the same mistake twice why shouldn’t they be treated like an ordinary person on the street?  Take for instance if a person has been in jail for petty theft and finally they’re released he goes and try to find a nice job at a hardware store or supermarket but does not get hired because of their criminal background. What do you expect them to do if you don’t give them a legitimate way of making a living they’ll have to do illegal things to get cash and other things they need to survive, think about it. Everyone deserves a second chance to demonstrate they are capable of change.

Photoshopped or Not ? A Tool to Tell

           The main idea of the article "Photoshopped or Not ? A Tool to Tell" is really just saying how scientist have came up with way of finding out whether or not photos have been altered and what has been altered. And most people believe if it is false advertisement to sell perfect models, convincing them they want be beautiful until they look a certain way even though they don’t even look like that. In this article they say with photoshop you can, “fix one thing, then another and pretty soon you end up with barbie” meaning if you edit too much soon you won’t look like yourself.

   I think that when you advertise these photos with beautiful, flawless models it sends a bad message to young ladies that lack necessary confidence. Not only are you telling them that if they buy a certain beauty poduct or outfit  and get their hair done a certain way they’ll be beauty when truth is the person they’re striving to become doesn’t even exist.This reminds of this movie I seen starring Monique and she was overweight and she tried so hard to be a stick figure like the models on posters and in magazines.


            Reading this article made me think about when I was at my old school and when we learned about propaganda they showed us a video of a model at her photoshoot and then showed all the editing they did on her photo to make it really “glamorous.”