Showing posts with label Zikria Fazly. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Zikria Fazly. Show all posts
Monday, November 26, 2012
Thursday, November 15, 2012
War Game
Firstly, the video we watched about War Game in class was very informative and I learned a lot about the relationships between game and war. There were some players who said that war doesn’t have anything to do with the game. I respect their perspective but I don’t agree with them because that is all cold wars are about. We are getting our revenge on a country through a specific game. Secondly I felt so sorry for the death of that brave guy (Pat Tillman) and I really think that he was and is the hero. He died for his country. But if we are being critical thinkers the embedded media lied to us about the death of Pat Tillman. Since he was shot by his friends the embedded media didn’t want to disclose the army’s secret. I didn’t believe in media before coming to the United States like 50% but now I don’t believe in media 90%. I will give you guys the reason why don’t I believe in media. As I mentioned before I am from Afghanistan and I have worked with the US army back in Afghanistan. Believe me whatever media is portraying about Afghanistan half of that is just a lie! There is a term in media which is “blood leads” which means the more the show war and blood in media the more audience they find. They don’t care about people’s feeling or anything else. The only thing they care about is more audience. For example: Afghanistan is a mountainous country like Colorado, media never shows Afghanistan’s beauty, what they show is only war!
Are Women Funny?
Women: Are They Funny?
Women: can they be funny all the time or just when the situation is required? Or is it just the men’s job to be funny? These are the questions that are attempted to be answered in these two articles written in Vanity Fair in January of 2007 and April of 2008. These two are very conflicting articles. One says that women aren’t supposed to be funny because it is the man’s job; while the other says that funnier women are being discovered because the demand for funny men exceeds the supply of funny men.
The article written in 2007 says that you will never hear a man say that his main squeeze makes everyone laugh. The man usually needs to feel dominant in the humor department; according to the article anyway. However, in my opinion, I disagree with that article. Women can be very funny. It’s not about the joke that someone makes that makes me laugh. It is about how much I know about that person and how much their personality is like mine. A lot of my female friends are extremely funny to me because they can laugh at their own words and they can make jokes at their own expense. I like being able to laugh with them about the stupid things that happen in their life. Women can be funny if they wear modest cloths which will prevent men from looking at their body. If they wear much tied cloths then men would usually look at their body rather than listening to their jokes.
Branding for Lile!
Get Ready to Shift the Paradigm on Your Corporate Branding and Marketing
When I was in Afghanistan two years ago I really didn’t know what a brand meant because no one cares about brand in Afghanistan. They just buy something fashionable or whatever looks good to them. Ever since I have come to the United States I have learned a lot about brands and wasted a lot of money on it too. I can tell you more than 10 brand’s names that I know and like and I even look for the brand names when I go to shopping. I remember we talked in class about branding that companies plan for 20 years in advance before making a brand. The companies first search the market, they want to know what is markets need and want then they plan to make something and name it a brand. I even read in another article, it mentioned that companies pay money to some certain student to wear their specific brand in school in order to make that brand popular. I was surprised how the companies hunt children buy their staff. Furthermore I tried to know more about branding, so I found a very funny and true video which is even telling the truth. I really liked this video. I started thinking about it more and more hours after seeing it. I liked the part 1:34 when they say “make the customers surrounded their identity”. When I heard this part it made me laugh and at the same time when I thought about it, it is true companies making their customers surrounded by their identity.
Is Facebook making us lonely?
Is Facebook making us lonely?
After reading the article in class about Facebook making us lonely, I was intrigued and wanted to see if I could find any more information on the topic. I was very surprised when I found several articles debating this issue. The more I read, the more I was able to see both sides of the argument. To be quite honest, I feel that you can argue this issue either way. Yes, Facebook is making us lonely, because of how much time we spend alone on the website instead of being out with actual friends. No, Facebook is making us happier and is giving us an easier way to communicate with friends to make plans.
If I had to form my own opinion I would say that Facebook is making us lonelier. Instead of going out and having fun in person with friends, we sit at home and try to see what our friends are doing and then wishing we were with them. We wanted to know about what was going one sooner so that we could be a part of the fun and not sitting at home all alone. Another reason I believe that Facebook is making us lonelier is because making plans with someone is not always concrete, especially through the internet. I have had many experiences where I make plans with friends through Facebook and then those plans fall through because either I or the other person has forgotten and made plans with someone else. Remembering what you are supposed to do with someone is hard enough without adding the internet into the mix. That just makes it easier for people to forget. I know a lot of people that plan out what they are doing that week in a planner and they don’t always add plans that they make from Facebook. Those plans are either forgotten or looked over because it’s not in the planner.
So in other words, I believe that Facebook is making us lonelier because being able to communicate easier with friends doesn’t always translate into actually seeing those people in person. I want to know that someone will be there in person if I am having a hard time; I don’t want them to listen to my problems though a social networking site.
What is cool?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Af3ZG47oT7I
What is cool?
As we all studied about Cool in class, there is not only a single definition of Cool. Cool is cultural constructed. Cool can be described as the culture accepts something to be cool. According to the video Cool is an “a judgment of the taste”. Cool is all about the confidence or being above the situation but also the definition of Cool changes by the period of the time. I totally agree with the point of view, being cool totally depends on a specific time period. For example, what was cool 20 years ago is not now cool in the United States. I come from Afghanistan and I can tell the difference between being cool in the United States and Afghanistan. As far as I know, in the United States young people would consider Cool something as being arrogant and aggressive in some ways and some people consider smoking to be cool as well. But in Afghanistan a Cool person is someone who respected the elders, who is shy, who is intelligent and so on. Being Cool differs from country to country. For example: as I said what was cool in Afghanistan is not cool in the United States. Furthermore, what is considered to be cool in the United States In may not be Cool china or what is being cool in china may not be Cool in Africa. So in short Cool is culturally constructed and we make something to be “cool”. So Cool is what we make to be Cool! And we basically give it a definition.
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