Wednesday, November 27, 2013

Interactive Oral Presentation



Caption: Old cartoons were not as violent as nowadays's cartoons.




What have I learnt in class: There are a higher levels of physical agression in childrens programmes ,also that the children usually tended to copy the negative behaviour they see on the television.

 Supportive information for internet(1): 

(...)"assessing the mode of violent acts portrayed in Looney Tunes slapstick cartoons, the researchers found that in 1930s ,out of 317 violent acts ,312 or 98.42%  portrayed physical violence and five or 1.58% portrayed psychological violence. Next, in 1940s 500 or 93.11% out of 537 violent acts were physical violence,nine or 1.67% were verbal  violence,ten or 1.86%    were lethal violence and 18 or 3.55% were psychological violence."(...)



http://amic.org.sg/conference/AMIC2013/Full%20Papers/A4/RACIDON%20P.%20BERNARTE%20et.%20al.pdf


Supportive information for internet(2):

(...)" Kids who watch cartoons like  "Scooby Doo" are more likely to experience sleep disturbance than kids who watch "Curious George."(...)

(...)" Why the difference? Per the researchers, the difference relates to the amount of violence in the one set of shows versus the other. Old Scooby is actually quite violent, Curious George not so much. In “Bugs Bunny,” the characters are always slapping each other around. In “Dora the Explorer,” barely ever".(...)

 http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/when-the-media-is-the-parent/201306/cartoon-violence-and-children-s-sleep


Opinion: I think that old cartoons have the same violent level as nowadays(both have violent contents).

Important Ideas:

1)The principal reason that affects children be violent are the television programmes.

2)The violence in old cartoons is the same that the new cartoons, but in the new cartoons is more easy identify the violence than the old cartoons.

3)The most famous cartoon shows are violent or are a bad influence (The Simpsons , Looney Toones , Dragon Ball, etc).

Letter of complaint

26 November 2013

Cartoons Manager
Cartoon Violence
46 Bacon Avenue
New York


Dear Sir/Madame:

I am writing this letter to request a complain about the television show "The Roadrunner and The Coyote", because is too violent and agressive for childrens.

Last week, my young brother start watching "The Roadrunner and The Coyote" and I notice that he began to had anxiety and some serious behaviour problems causing fights with some kids ,also my brother have aggressives answers when someone make him angry, furthermore he began to annoy his friends make them look ridiculous.

I strongly suggest that you need to change the violent aspects in this cartoon show, if this solution it doesn't apply I will tell to my parents and my brother friends parents that "The Roadrunner and The Coyote" are a bad influence to childrens.

I look foward to recieve your solution.

Your sincerely

Juan Ignacio Salgado


Wednesday, November 6, 2013

Heart of Darkness Glogster Link

http://www.glogster.com/juanisalgado/poster-glog-by-juanisalgado/g-6kd065kd4luiuf5ml9520j5

Monday, November 4, 2013

Opinion Piece (Tattoos)

                                                      Ethnicity and Tattoos


          In my view the people who has tattoos doesn't need to be judged if his tattoo is a reference of his culture, way of thinking or art expressions.

          First if the boss or the superior doesn't want to hire a guy for his tattoo and that tattoo is part of their religion or culture ,will be a descrimination and a lack of respect for their culture , nevertheless this can be punished for the law and they will get in a big problem.

          A example of the idea who was mention before are rhe maori culture, that they tattoo their face and body for tell about a message of their knowledge, standing in their social life and the family genealogy, moreover they still doing this tattos for represent the ideas mention before and for the respect of their history.

          In addition , the tattoos at the old times , it mean that the guy was in jail or were a criminal , or even both , and the people from today keep that thinking in mind when now is just a way to express your beliefs , culture or/and for show your art.

          In conclussion a person does not have to be judged by a tattoo , because will probably mean something important for he or their culture , they need be judged by their personality.