Formal Paper #2.1 Equality

November 24, 2012

All who want to be concern

Dear anonymous audience:

Hello my name is Juan Panduro and I hope that anybody who is taking the time to read this is making the choice to listen because it’s important to try and understand the opinions of everyone else. It’s no secret that humanity has the tendency to treat others without the respect that they wish to have themselves and this is due to a number of reasons that don’t always seem to make sense. Similarly in some ways, women are not always treated fairy to what society says that is right or wrong because in the moment, people don’t always complied to what’s right. At the start of any society, their leaders make rules and patters to how and why people should live their lives accordingly but that doesn't mean that those rules will always be fair to everyone and that’s how inequality is created, by the flaws of men that still have prominent control over all of us. Up to these days, humanity likes to act like the more we posses of anything the better we are but sometimes that very idea destroys its boundaries and males us all believe that people lives and rights have a price.

 In our society we get our information from the news that people gather from all the regions of the world and normally we believe them but what happens when you read the media that people make especially for you? then we all just can’t seem to get enough of it. This method of luring the reader with media that connect to them is not new, many famous writers have used it to sell their ideas to the public but now a day’s its used to move and control nations due to the fact that they make a world where we all live on. Now a day’s many women face the truth that many of us don’t always pay attention to and its all to the fact that inequality is still present in our society and doesn't seem to disappear. In some places around the world it is a custom to pay women less money for doing the same job that men do while in the other nations like in Saudi Arabia they tend to force their women to cover their faces because no men outside the family may see them and if they do they are punished severely. There are more similar acts around the world but these two surprised me the most mostly because the people employers who hired women usually find excuses and loop holes to pay them less that the average man and for that they work twice as hard to follow the ladder in the world. Some of the society’s in the middle east tend to follow their extreme belief of women because it’s a custom that’s been followed for many generations and that is the biggest reason why its very difficult for women to move forward, their current society.

My family comes from rural town in Mexico and we all have different views on our equality around the family that contemplates how we treat each other. In my family we have the custom of letter the girls and women to choose what they want in life and we never disregard their dreams respectably. Despite our way of thinking, my family knows that is not always the case because life tends to work in mysteries ways for everybody and turn us in different directions. Sometimes in life we are handed out a choice that makes us give up what we work very hard to get and this goes out for everyone not just women and we never see it coming. My family knows that this and some women in my family have had to make important sacrifices in their lives to give and help others in the situation of our modern society. To the way that things are now, my family tries to keep a balance in their lives so that they keep doing what is most important to them and try to complete the what they believe to be their cause in life.

In our community we all see that nobody is completely innocent for something and that the equality doesn't always match the way we all treat each other. We like to think of ourselves as having a place to belong in our society and that they can never take that away from you but nobody thinks that sometimes those positions don’t always stand right in time. I’m saying that people don’t always react well to change and progress since because they are threatening to destroy the comfort zone that many people tend to make in their lives. These actions affect women because if we look back 100 years in our history, women weren't allowed to have the same education as men due to the common believe at the time. Now a day’s women have more freedom but they are secluded in different and more modern ways than 100 years ago. The media is very powerful and with it the wrong message about our society can spread tot eh point were many people start to believe that is normal to treat women with less respect just because a famous person can do it.

Caring about the topic of equality amongst women is important and honorable because if we start respecting people with intellect instead of emotion we would all be more open minded with the results that almost anybody wants. When a person does the right thing, they show an example that to others and prove to them and themselves that even against all odds equality is reachable within us all. Many writers such as Jean Kilbourne who is active in women movements have shown how today’s society presents negative facts about women and how its spread without a care in the world. The damage that can be cause for all this bad information takes long period of time to fix but Kilbourne wants to first open the eyes of the public to the reality that is the “MEDIA.”

Today it’s not very difficult to display information in the world, with the invention of the internet, phone and television people can simply read anything they want at the time of their choosing. However, this doesn't mean that it’s always going to be a good thing because humanity is very impressionable sometimes and leads having problems with some minorities in society. Men and women aren't always equal even if we are from the same species but that doesn't mean that we have to like it, the idea of inequality is always there but it’s up to people to decide what’s right for their society.

The United States is was founded as a free country but slavery and segregation were active for the majority of its infancy until the 20^th century were the freedom movements open the eyes of many Americans into seeing the cold truth. Now in the 21^st century segregation still exist but not as  before since many people forget that our new segregation is more devious that unfair. To all the distribution of advertisement by their industries, as Kilbourne has stated that in today’s world many women are portrayed more like porn stars and they are being push to do more odd jobs that intellectual carriers which benefits society. Other countries catch on to this allusive system of oppression and the problem only escalates in the world. What is normal today can be different in the future since our opinions change over time but to truly make a difference with the way the opinions we all posses, it clear that society needs to rethink their view of his citizens.

What we all view as normal doesn't always seem to be due to the fact that impression is everything with today’s advertisement industry which leads all of us in a state of insecurity. When the wrong impression is shows, people will most likely try to mimic it if the whole world tells them and in this case people world has become the media that’s we can’t seem to get away from.  It’s important to show other people that you aren't ruled buy what other people think of you judging only by outside appearance and be aware that there is a solution to every problem, it’s just that some problems required the attention of an entire nation to be fixed. All women in the world deserve equality because they are the ones who ensure the continuity of mankind for which we should all be thankful for. If we all treated women as equal as possible there can be more order in at least our society and many changes can be achieved over time. I am a man who jus wished to be normal in society, but it’s just not fair to see that people are mistreated because of their gender and see how much potential for the human race is wasted to the wind. If drastic actions are required for this, so be it but I would like to know that the message of equality for all is alive and well in the people who read this.

Sincerely:

Juan Panduro

Watsonville, CA 95019   

Annnotated bibliography

Kilbourne, Jean. Can't buy me love : How Advertisement Changers the Way we Think and Feel.

New York:

Simon and Schuster, 1999. Print

This book was publish in 1999 by Simon and Schuster Inc and it was written by Jean Kilbourne where she presents many topics that represent how women are treated and viewed as in the 21th century. One such topic in the book is called "Two way a woman can get hurt" were many facts and complains come to fruition with real examples that show just how shallow the advertisement industry can get. Many speculation do come to light as Kilbourne expresses her ideas as to how the portrayal of many people changes constantly and not in a very accurate manner. There' s many spectacles about what is our suppose place in society and how we should act in it too which leads many readers to think about their daily lives and see that some of this facts are well implanted in their lives. Men and children are being portrayed sexually as well, since the market for this field has increased rapidly and many people are beginning to think that it now the new normal. Now a days, many people believe that if its being depicted on the media it's normal but that's not the case anymore.

"General Assembly: Untied Nations." Department of Public Information, 11 October 2011. Web. 12 

Nov.2012 

The website describes how many of the Untied States and other nations tend to treat women differently for their own reasons. They dispute on how the equality is never the same despite if the country has laws that enforce the idea of equality and fairness among s its people. Many of the people in this United Nations meeting are supposed to make better examples of how they plan to treat and manage the problem of inequality among s their country and how will they change for the better. For the most part, the meeting left many questions that were left unanswered for and many people still wish for another meeting were their results are going to be public.

Formal Paper # 2

The first thing there is to know about the habits of equality among any society is that sometimes we don't always tend to honor it. This rule also applies to the many women who have been keep in the idea that men always have the last say in many societies. Apart from the constant view of ourselves with glorifying eyes at easy our mistakes, it takes more guts to describe what we really have in ourselves that to say we are normal the way we are. Many people can see this circumstances in plain site but sometimes they choose to let things be because they are afraid that other people will think less of them in their community. Many writers who choose to talk and investigate this cases do it with an open mind and their capable of bringing the facts ts right to our door steps but unfortunately we don't always listen right away.Its something of a moderate interest in human nature to simply pay attention on what we all view as important to us. Whats more questionable about any of this situations is how do we all just keep on thing that somebody will just come along and help himself into fixing the problem that nobody wants to pay attention to as their lives are busy enough. I believe that people have to honor the so called authority that we surround ourselves with at any occasion because it suppose to keep us safe from the people around us and from ourselves in many ways than one and to be more concern about keeping morality from fiction apart. What is more likely to happen in the fight between fairness for us all is that  no one really puts an effort unless they have something to gain or loose in their lives. As human beings, we tend to cling on the things that will give us something in return for better survival and better ways of living. In my effort to have an understanding of equality among s anybody, it difficult but at the same time interesting since I can take an entire lifetime of research and still no be able to figure anything out because in our human nature, we can't help it to be  very unpredictable. 

Ra# 3 From Fly girls to bitches and hoes

In the essay "From Fly-girls to Bitches and Hoes" by Joan Morgan, explores the reality and prejudice that many African american women are being portrayed as in the African American culture of the modern era. This article is one that tries to give a distinct message because it shows both sides to why and how women came to be represented in the hip hop industry and their opinion to this day. Music can have a verity of purposes and reasons to be created by many artist, in this case the hip hop genre expresses the life and ideas of many of their artist and they also describe many hardships that have been experienced in the past. The author herself states that hip hop is the way of expressing the many harsh experiences that have led them to express themselves in the manner tat we all see in this type of music and way of life.

The way women have been portrayed in any culture has been always up to them weather to say what is right and wrong to their way of thinking and the author of the essay describes the rap culture as a way to exploit their ideas and give a message of hate that people don't always understand that is wrong. Upon more of the reading, its clear that the hi hop genre wasn't always what it is today and only over time it transform into the popular music that many people wish to mimic despite having a very intriguing message of  values. The author herself is a fan of the music and she tries to comprehend why are women being portrayed by as less than human by the famous musicians such as Notorious B.I.G and Dr.Dre despite being the same color of skin. In all we are supposed to ask ourselves if the music that we like so much giving you the wrong message, why do we keep listening to it? and if t gives you the wrong idea on how to treat your fellow men aren't we just as guilty for not dong anything about it.

I do believe that the hip hop music has a lot to answer for how they have portrayed women over the course of their work but that gives me a reason to think that maybe all their music gives a window to what they believe in and what they have gone thought but our ways of thinking have to be clear in what we think is the right thing to in this situation. The speculation that people can make wit each other about any subject is just another way of life that many follow but the author of this essay wants to demonstrate a point in this manner because she belies that its the right thing to do for all the women in the world and add concern at the same time.