Rape Culture - Mass Media

Reported rape cases have gone down dramatically from 1993 until now by over 50%! Does that mean that people just aren’t reporting rape cases because they are ashamed or is it because rape has gone down? In the United States rape occurs every minute and a half and there are over 237,368 rape cases a year and that is not including all the cases that go unreported. Rape is a big deal it demoralizes and belittles a person to the point often to where the victim commits suicide. People have gone very many years without telling anyone about being raped and it has caused them to fall into depression and even pull themselves out of social society completely. When people get raped they have a fear of getting raped again and have trust issues throughout their lives.

There are songs out today that make woman look and sound like a piece of meat and that a man pretty much can do anything with her he wants just because he is a man. The music videos and movies with women barley clothed and showing off what they got doesn’t help the case either. The music videos are bad today because it shows one guy with a bunch of different women and he grabs them and does pretty much whatever he wants with her. At least that is what it looks like, so many people get the wrong idea and think it’s okay but that’s the way the mass media groups want it to be perceived.

Me Project

                I think I have gotten most of my traits from my mother based on my hair color which is brown and my eye color which is blue. I think I got more aptitude from my dad because he was pretty good with pretty much anything. If you show me how to do something I will be able to do it and I will get tremendously better by just doing it a few times. Even though I’ve gotten most of my traits based on my mother I think I have gotten just as much from my father just not noticeable things.

                Having only two children in the family we were mostly treated the same but I think I got more of the achievement and responsible oriented than my sister. I don’t think the birth order really affected me because it was at an age where we were far enough apart that we didn’t like the same things or had mostly different interests. 

My dad was the one that influenced me more because he got me into hunting and fishing which I really thank him for. My dad had graduated high school and got an associate’s degree in body repair. I am going to follow more along the lines of my father because he was quite successful throughout his life. My mother on the other hand didn’t graduate high school and you can see quite well where that has gotten her. Maybe if my mom didn’t drop out of high school my sister might not have thought that it was alright to drop out. My dad encouraged us to go to church and that’s why we always went to Sunday school.

Both of my parents taught us to be polite and nice to people, by doing this we were looked up as being raised well. Everyone should be taught manners and skills to develop socially and that is what I am thankful for being taught. But on the other hand for the first twelve years both of my parents were alcoholics so that was a minus but I learned a lot of what to not being by hearing all of the losers in the bar tell me not to grow up like them.

So overall I think I am set above the rest because I am always having to work for what I want I barely get anything given to me and when I am given something I and very thankful.  

Family Order...

Does family order have any affect on how or what we will do for a job or how we live our lives. It is stated through facts that the oldest child is most likely out of all the children to become a teacher and why is that? The fact that the oldest becomes a teacher is pretty much saying that they like teaching because they might of taught their younger siblings or because they are leaders or role models for their younger siblings. The middle child is the one most left out but why is it that this should affect the way they live or why they do different things. I totally think that this happens because of the way a parent treats the child, the first child is always the most exciting and always important but then you see a parent with three or four children and see's them as trouble. The mother or father usually gives their love to the youngest when or if the other child is a few years older. I think that the sex of the child also has something to do with how much love they receive from a parent. If the mother is way more involved and has two children but is a lot more involved with the daughter than this could affect the boy because he might not feel like he is receiving enough attention.