While on Twitter the other day I came across the Kim Kardashian, Kanye West, and Taylor Swift drama. While I was reading about what was happening, I was disgusted with the story. This story feels so unnecessary and over-dramatized. Many people have taken sides on the story, and I simply will not pick a side. I will not pick a side because I do not support all of the hate surrounding this story. I feel that this issue could have been resolved with simple apologies and private conversations between the people involved. Social media is a place for positivity,sharing memories, and fun not petty arguments and feuds. For once I would like to enter a social media app without seeing people insulting other people. I believe that in order for our society to advance we must start becoming nicer to each other. Many people preach about the importance of being kind to everyone but not many people are following that advice.
I feel the same on the issue of the feud between the celebrity drama. I feel this could track back to my conversation about the reactions to the current election by being aggressive. Since when did hurtful sayings and violence become the only way to settle problems these days? This feud on Twitter is a representative force to all of us for how we must stop resolving our problems in immature matters. It make me mad as a human being to see how other people think that a kind, civilized conversation wouldn't do the trick. Kanye and Kim West, and Taylor swift should learn to settle their problems in a civilized matter face to face. Social media is a place for displaying happy times in life for all to see, not a brutal open field to insult one another. Just talk it out, it may actually resolve something instead of fueling the fire.
ReplyDeleteHow irrelevant, that topic makes me cringe. Why do we all focus on news like this. When we could be focusing on important things such as the election, world wide issues or why common core isn't really that necessary. (Had to put that one out there). It just doesn't make any sense. Maybe Postman was right, things have changed and not in a good way. "...discourse in America was different from what it is now - generally coherent, serious and rational; and then how, under the governance of television, it has become shriveled and absurd." (pg.16)
ReplyDeleteHey, you brought Postman into the discussion. Nice.
DeleteAnd why do you kids hate on the Common Core standards all of the time? You're against reading and writing? We're gonna have to talk about this. I don't think you hate the standards. I think you hate the test.
DeleteI personally feel that this topic is actually relevant because it is a representation of something larger than itself. The celebrity feud is just representative force of how we as humans handle making a point or having a different opinion. We fight and argue like ten year olds. We throw shade and expect them be nice to us. Just like how liberals are reacting to the election with violence, these celebrities who have many fans should be an example. They shouldn't act like a ten year olds throwing shade.
DeleteIt's relevant because the news makes it relevant. A lot of us wouldn't have known about the drama if it wasn't for the news. The news eats this up because it's drama between very famous celebrities. Famous celebrities plus drama usually equal high amounts of views. More views means more money from advertisements.
DeleteAt the end of the day, the news cares about their views and money the most. Postman was right.
Ms. Fletcher: "Philosophy cannot exist without criticism[...]" (pg.12/ Amusing Ourselves to Death)Replacing philosophy with common core,I say that there is going to be a lot of criticism before Common Core reaches its point of perfection. Personally, I do not dislike all of the Common Core standards. In fact some of the changes that they've made to certain subjects were very useful. However, I have developed a strong hate for the math portion of it. As a struggling math student, I was forced to take what they call Integrated Math. It's completely different from Algebra 1 and that's what I disliked the most. We spent half of the year constructing triangles and finding perpendicular bisectors. Not only Algebra but Geometry as well. Which may or may not have confused some of the students. Rather than taking it all step by step, they mushed it all together, and taught it all at once. I understand that it was my fault that I was in the class but what about the rest of the students that are younger than me? They were never really able to get a good understanding of real Algebra.
DeleteThe issue of Common Core is not so much the practice itself but the people who dislike it and also have to implement it. As someone who has heard both the teaching and learning standpoints on Common Core, I understand the benefits of learning in the Common Core method. Teachers who openly complain about Common Core to their students (as I'm sure we've all had at least one) are not only unprofessional but are simply unwilling to change. They are so set on the way that they do things that they refuse to see another point of view.
DeleteCommon Core focuses on not just what needs to be learned but why and how. For math it means being able to explain how and/or why a process was used to solve a problem. This is helpful in creating a strong foundation on which higher skills can then be learned. Math compounds on itself so if you know how and why 2+2=4, then you can understand how and why 2(4^(1/2))=4.
For English, Common Core has helped students learn to write and read faster and better. My sister attends a school (a public school) in BUSD that has its students writing five paragraph essays by the first grade. Students as young as age four are learning to extract evidence from text. Common Core is getting us closer to the standards that other countries have set for learning because, let's face it, we are one of the slower countries when it comes to education.
I agree with how all the hate surrounding this topic between the celebrities' lives is so unnecessary but I am disagreeing with you on how social media is a place for positivity. Social media is a place where some people go to post about their lives, others post to start things, and there are the certain group of people who post to insult and cause drama. Sadly, most of social media thrives on drama to keep people interested and hooked on whatever is happening. You say you are not taking sides and you don't support the hate surrounding the topic but yet you are spreading more of this hate by taking the feud between these celebrities outside of social media and onto this blog(I'm not attacking you, I am confused because hate is still being spread by blogging about this subject when you made it clear that this argument could be solved without people involved in it, kinda like how we are blogging and in it right now). The only reason why this argument is getting so much attention, drama, and hate is because people are attracted to it. If we didn't pay any attention to it and ignored it, the drama and hype behind it would never be there like how it is right now. I know you didn't mean any harm by blogging about this and not taking any sides but little do you know it, you are just adding to the hype and drama train of this feud by taking it to this blog and showing it to more people who haven't seen or heard about the celebrity argument yet.
ReplyDeleteI also agree with what Vincent has said above. There could be many people unaware of this topic and you only brought more awareness to it by blogging it. Topics like these are a representation of how we would rather pay more attention to something with drama then rather something more serious and important happening in the world.
ReplyDeleteI do agree with your statement about how we should be nicer to our fellow man but I don't believe that social media is always a place for positively. Social media usually shows the lives of people and gives people a place to show there opinions. It's not always going to be nice since people do argue but then again that's how it is in real life.
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