Kya's Media Blog

Topic 1: After taking a look a the list of banned books on the ALA list I saw many that I have read before but what caught my eye was The Great Gatsby and To Kill a Mockingbird. In my own personal opinion, these are both great books with interesting outcomes and morals to the story. In To Kill a Mockingbird the story revolves around a case that remained unsolved and showed the true injustice of our federal court system all due to the fact of the skin color of a human. Now we also have the Great Gatsby a great story that shows you reality behind many things and it proves to you that not everything and everyone is what you think. Keeping students away from books like these at a young age isn't the best option in my opinion, for if you analyze history and facts it is better to expose our children to these books, therefore they learn at a young age how the world works and how they can change it, which could potentially lead to reducing bullying in schools due to racial comments. Despi

Topic #4: The movie that I will be undergoing is Baywatch. This movie stands out to me because it has some of my favorite actors. The movie has action but also has a lot of funny humor that really stood out to me. The actors they chose really played their role good.  After doing research on Baywatch I discovered information I once didn't know. The Baywatch the starred Dwayne Johnson and Zac Efron was based off a series that was once on NBC. It had a similar story, pretty much lifeguards keeping their beach safe. The NBC series had 11 seasons. When they took actors for Baywatch the movie they had to each play the role of someone that was on that series. This is fascinating to me because I thought this Baywatch was an original that they just made up. Baywatch is a group of lifeguards proving they don't have to wear a police badge to solve crimes and keep their beach safe. They are much more than that. On the weekend box office, Baywatch was ranked 3rd with 23.1 million for the

Topic 1: My news sources consist of social media platforms most of all, but there is always a thought in the back of my head asking if the source is reliable. People can put a lot of false things and put inaccurate information in our heads. Another way is word of mouth and listening to the people around me and what they say. Most stuff that I am learning now about the world is in class. That is when I think its mostly a reliable source because I feel as if most of the time my teachers are unbiased. I am a busy person that doesn't have time to necessarily keep up with the news. Most of the time I see news information on social media and I know that its a fifty-fifty on being reliable and credible. I don't subscribe to or follow any political publications paywalls. I don't see why at this age and lifestyle I would. I think I would rate myself a two on this scale. In certain areas of news, I am more informed than others. I really only pay attention to sports and what I "n

Topic 1: After watching the documentary "RiP! A Remix Manifesto" I found that as much as we think we have the freedom to express we actually are limited. In the video, it states the music industry music producers and songwriters copyright their beats and symphonies. I'm not a singer or songwriter yet I could see how frustrating it could be for an upcoming artist to not be able to use a beat or lyric idea from the 1980s, even though they might be able to better their work. I don't know a lot about copyright, yet it confuses me because we are supposed to have freedom of speech and expression although most great ideas are copyrighted and cannot be used by other individuals. An instance that comes to mind is when the president of the United States Donald Trump used the phrase ”grab her by the pussy.” He used freedom of speech and political power to freely discriminate women with knowing there will be no consequences. He uses a social platform and there should be repercus

Topic #2: Television Show -"13 Reasons Why" Describe: The Tv show that I picked was 13 Reasons Why. I finished the second season that just came out on May 18th. I finished this season and the last time I watched was June 14th. This is a young adult fiction which typically targets 12-18 years of age. This surprises me due to how vivid and real the stuff they put on screen, which includes suicide, rape, deaths and much more. It does state that half that watch are all adults. I chose to go back and watch another episode to really pay attention and dissect their actions. I rewatched episode 11 of season 2. In this series, a girl committed suicide for numerous reasons, specifically 13. After she passed away she let out 13 tapes of the reasons why and gave it to people to pass it down the line of the people who were on the tapes. Which started complete chaos and months have gone by and still nothing has yet to return to normal. In the current episode that I am now on, they are goi

Topic 1: The FIFA Worldcup France team uses the sponsor, Adidas. throughout the world cup, Adidas sponsors will be commercialized and published in magazines and all over social media as well. They promote their attire by not only teams wearing their stuff but by commercializing how much better the person wearing their attire is during the Worldcup. This is a great example because France has advanced to the tournament and their main sponsor is Adidas. Adidas has a great way of promoting excellence because approx. 19.1 million viewers watch the world cup. This leads to the target audience of anyone who enjoys soccer and or is wanting to see their country succeed in the sport. This campaign is working because more and more athletes will wear Adidas due to the sponsor outcome of the world cup. You could also promote this product by knowing that teams that didn't succeed in the world cup also wore Adidas which could have led them to be more successful in another brand. Weiss, Richard.