Doll face (How T.V corrupts us into being something were not)

    People are overly influenced by what they see on TV. It's as if we are there little robots as you see in the video and they are brainwashing our minds into thinking we want to be like that person. How far will you stretch yourself to be someone you're not?

In this video "Doll Face" it begins to give you this creepy feeling. Then a black and white TV appears. As they show the TV you see a metal box appears to be a jack in the box look alike. Then this mechanical robot pops out with a human face. As this face pops out she focuses on the TV. As she is watching this TV she sees how on the TV the person appears to have makeup. When she sees that she does the same thing and put's on makeup. It's basically herself in the TV and her images as a person. The images get in more detail and more human like, she gets angry because she feels ugly and wants to be like who she sees on TV. As we get more into the video at this point she is just experimenting but you also notice she is getting more skillful and changing her image with no questions asked. The TV moves more and more back which is showing the moral how far will you stretch yourself to be someone you're not. At the end of the video she was stretching herself so far just to be someone she is not to the point that she broke herself. That's when the TV came off and showed another TV watching the mechanical robot and TV. 

      People are overly influenced by what they see on TV. It's such a true statement because as you seen in the video the robot was just doing what she saw on the television. She was being brainwashed by what the media thinks she should look like. She was stretching herself to be someone she is not which led her to breaking herself. So ask yourself these questions Do you think you're influenced by media on TV? Do you feel you have to be somebody else to be accepted in this world even a different race?

500 Years Later

The video titled "500 years later" talks about the beginning of the slave trade from Africa to the European continent. This video talks about how religon was forced upon africans and now Christianity is the main religon amongst African Americans and others. They also talk about education and how "black history" is not taught in school and mostly college. 500 years ago africans were free. My opinon is valid because this video is showing the journey of african people. It is educational and posseses the problems but also the realistic solutions. The best part of this video for me is the way in which it doesn't portray or play into the stereotype of the "black victim" the sorry everything is against us victim. It puts back the responsibility for our people.

The Harlem Shake

This video titled "Harlem Reacts to the Harlem Shake" shows how people feel disrespected when people mock their culture in an ignorant way. Although they don't know what they are doing basically they are stealing from another culture. Culture appropreation means use of another culture but not in a good way. In this video they show people from harlem reacting to the outsiders who were trying to do the Harlem Shake. As they were watching the video they were offended because the outsiders disrespected the people in Harlem. They also are saying it is making them look bad and the people from Harlem also talked about the humping and how it is garbage. The origonal Harlem shake has art and meaning. Nobody had anything posotive to say, Lastly the videos made harlem look trashy. These people from Harlem feel disrespected because the outsiders don't come from Harlem. They also feel it's a mockery because the actual Harlem Shake has a sense of rhythm and others versions don't. They feel the outsiders are disrespecting Harlem "swag" which is a trend and style. They feel its another trend america can make money on. If you want to see what the real harlem shake looks like check out these videos "how to do the Harlem shake", and "the real harlem shake"