Today we were asked to get into groups and list ten important technologies that had a great cultural impact. If anything, choosing only ten was the hard part. Our group was outside for about two minutes and already threw out far more than ten inventions. The ones we ended up writing down were: light bulb, electricity, television, gun, microwave, wheel, telephone, computer, camera, alphabet, clock, and credit cards. The alphabet and printing press were among the popular picks, which makes sense. If it wasn’t for the alphabet and phonetic alphabet, all the other inventions could not be created.
I am SO glad Mark introduced me to Shameless magazine. As a female, I obviously care about how women are portrayed in the media. I read many female magazines, where I always find contradictions of all sorts. I will read an article about maintaining a healthy body image, and then flip to a fashion spread with frail, anorexic looking models. I’m currently looking for a copy of Shameless to call my own, but I was able to read some of their online articles already. I like their fresh and honest look on females in society, and how they write about issues that appeal to me. Its magazines like Shameless that people need to fight back at the common images the media depicts.
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