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     The first class in any seminar is particualrly dreadful to go to.  This is the class where the teachers inform you of reality.  After already being in class for a week, I felt perepared to enter another introduction class full of boredom, and the dreadful markings of the professors.  However, this was not the case.  I must admit at the beginning it was the typical review and ice breakers, but while going through the syllabus, I was intrigued.  This class does not seem like it is one in which the professor is concerned with memorization, theories, or any sort of the typical areas taught in university.  Instead, emphasis was placed greatly on your perceptions.  The learning process in this class appears to be focused on self realization rather than regurgitation of texts. 

     Personally,  I hope that this class will allow me to take something away from this experience other than the memorization of important definitions and terms.  I hope this will open my eyes to the way in which media helps portray certain images.  For example, today when I got home I was watching the hour and the lead singer of evenescence was on.  She was talking about her album an the host mentioned that the photography of her on the album showed a bit more skin than she normally shows.  She said she wanted to show a bit more skin but not a whole lot because ” the more skin you show the more people feel that you no longer write your own lyrics”.  The more I thought about this, the more I believed she was absolutly right.  In society, when we see scandelous women such as Paris Hilton, Brittney Spears, and Nichol Richie we see beautiful girls, but girls with no merit.  Who is not to say that they aren’t intellegent?  Who is to say that all this is not just an act, and that by acting like this they are generating immense revenue.  However, the media portrays them as “stupid and ditsy”.  But when we see someone such as Julia Roberts and Christina Agulara (now) are held in high regards and seen and portrayed as amazing smart people,who have made use of their talents.  Thererfore, I’ve began to notice how media plays an incredibly important role in our lives, and in our culture.