Jeremy Garnett                                                                                                                           4/29/17

                                                                            Blog #2


The article i will be using as my artifact will be the number 12 poster on https://designschool.canva.com/blog/examples-of-propaganda/. When I looked at this propaganda poster, i immediately picked this poster because to me it represents unity when we stand together as one. I choose to use this article as an  artifact for my research paper because the story on my research paper represents how people discriminate towards other people based on the stereotypes that they hear about specific types of people. I would be comparing this artifact to the discrimination points on my research paper, which the discriminating points is based on non-unified people that discriminate towards other people of opposite ethnicities. The method i will be applying in my research paper will be ideological criticism. the Ideological criticism method points to the way civilizations views certain topics and challenges the status quo. Ideological criticism as well identifies the power dimensions and reveals hidden ideologies about how our society viewed racial equality in the past. In my research paper, i will be applying how ideological criticism plays a part in the artifact i'm using when it comes down to seeing how racial discrimination is carried out on to others in other countries because of the stereotypes that have been spread from the past to this very day. This  method is appropriate to me because since this method identifies power dimensions and reveals hidden ideologies abut how our society viewed racial equality in the past, i can compare it to the artifact i found tell how racial equality has changed and the racial discrimination stereotypes that takes place in other countries while the minority citizens end up receiving no justice for the harmful things that have happened to them. For example, the artifact i'm using captions describes how there are different color British citizens that have united together at the time of war but in the caption it also tells how they all disregard skin color and just worry about staying united as one at the time of war. I can use ideological criticism to show how racial equality has changed from that on to the time now. Through telling how ideological criticism was back then when viewing how people of different ethnicities, i will compare it to how ideological criticism is seen on the different racial views on minority people in the world today, especially in other countries and describe how it has changed from then and to now. Then i will describe how ideological criticism plays a big role in why the hatred of people in the world today continues to spread and why different people see different views on each other and other ethnicities of people in other countries, especially if their the opposite color of another race. Due to the hatred that still takes place today, it is harder for the world to come together and be a better place because of all the differences that races of people have towards one another.

Fake News Response

Jeremy Garnett                                                                                                             2/24/2017

                                                                      Blog 1

      My example of fake news come from an article called "Fake News Meets German Racism" which is about how women were being attacked on the New Year's Eve celebrations in Cologne by Arab and North African men. When the incident occurred, over one hundred complaints were filed by women. After the entire incident was over, there was reports that were given from a restaurant owner and one women but their whose motives for coming up with the allegations still remain unclear. The report that was filed said that the women in the celebrations were attacked by North African and Arab men, but then the entire country of Berlin shifted their attitudes towards black German citizens and other colored citizens that just reside in Berlin. A minority German citizen explains his experience while living in Berlin after the incident happened. After the incident happened, the minority German citizen said that he and his friends had experienced some terrifying moments. The first moment is when one of his friends got beaten up for trying to pick up his change that he dropped coming out of the car. While he was being striked, bystanders just stood by and let it happen. The next situation that happened was when he (the black German citizen who is telling the story) was insulted by two women who told him in a proudly way that they were racist. Then his female friend was pushed off her bike by an elderly women. Then to make matters worse, the teenage biracial son of a teacher was taunted by four Neo-Nazi kids who made Hitler quotes and left him with a fractured skull. The disgruntled fact about it all is that he was attacked in one of the safest neighborhoods in Prenzlauer Berg. This fake news article is mainly targeted to every audience there is because it's important for everyone in the world to know about how stereotypical the world is and how the media can easily cover up a situation with some other false information. Then, it's important for people to know about how minorities citizens in the world today not just in the United States but in other countries as well, are being treated wrongly and don't receive the least amount of justice for the violent things that happen to them. This fake news story does resonate with people differently because when talking about the situation in this article, people in the world today have different mindset (both good and bad) and some are going to take this in a way of saying that this is bad that minorities are being treated unfairly and wrongfully in other places. Others on the other hand, might feel as though minorities are getting what they deserve and don't need justice because of the actions that take place. Everyone in the world today has their own free will to do whatever they want, and believe whatever they want to hear, so at the end of it all it's going to resonate differently with different audiences, especially to those that discriminate against other races of people.

Jeremy Garnett                                                               12/3/16

                                                       
                                                       Mothers Against Drunk Driving


For my final project and blog, i'm going to discuss the organization that was called Mothers Against Drunk Driving, and their tactics and how the audience they're targeting to prevent and put an end to drunk driving from happening in the near future. Mothers against Drunk Driving is an organization, that was established by a woman named (Candace Lightner), who's daughter (Cari Lightner) was killed in a vicious hit-and-run accident by a drunk driver named (Clarence Busch). Clarence was arrested and indicted for the total amount of twenty one months but on house arrest and not a prison. Candace then took action and formed an organization called Mothers Against Drunk Driving, whose goals were to reduce drunk driving traffic fatalities and the organization has been highly effective in raising public disapproval of drunk driving. Candace Lightners organization started to become so known worldwide that the Mother Against Drunk Driving organization started to branch in different cities and state, then eventually world wide in general. the organization mainly targeted those that possessed a vehicle and like to party, those who possess alcohol in general, and those who like to drink and driver, but everyone was targeted in general. Mothers Against Drunk Driving set up PR campaigns to educate adults, teens, and just anyone in general who is unaware of the effects that alcohol has on the human body and the harm that it could cause. Throughout the years from 1980 to 2000, studies have shown the decline in drunk driving accidents around the world at a gradual rate. Mothers Against Drunk Driving also contributed in lowering the blood alcohol count from 0.1 to no higher than the maximum amount of 0.08. Lastly, in the year of 1985, Candace Lightner had parted ways with Mothers Against Drunk Driving for having some disagreements, but in 1995,she had worked for a lobbying firm in Washington D.C., on behalf of the American Beverage Institute, where she helped contribute to establishing the new blood alcohol count.

Jeremy Garnett                                                             12/3/16

                                       Ethical Violation

I believe there is an ethical violation when it comes down to employment discrimination. First hand, discrimination is when one is being prejudice to another because of one's race, religion, ethnicity, or sex. The title VII of the civil right act of 1964 specifically states that 'an employer cannot discriminate against an employee for race, age, gender, and lastly sexuality'. There is still discrimination in workplaces today because of such reasons such as lack of training, and favoritism towards one group of people and leaving the others out of the equation. According to the equal employment opportunity commission, (http://oureverydaylife.com/reasons-discrimination-continues-exist-workplace-3054.html), in 2012 there have been over 99,000 discrimination claims filled. I find this as an ethical violation because people in workplaces still portray specific behaviors towards others, whether they are good behaviors such as over-congratulating one based on something minor they have done. Then you have the bad behaviors that one portrays to another, which are getting into a physical fight with an employee because they late to work. This violates ethical standards because in workplaces today, authority higher than part-time and full-time employees clearly take advantage and abuse those who they feel as though is inferior than those who they think seems more upper echelon. For example, a boss may tell one of his or her employees that they can go home early, but might let the other employee stay at work longer because even though that employer might not tell them the real reason, but in all honesty they might not like the way that employee gets more attention from people for his or her skin color or religion.This is offensive because in workplaces today, employers would punish employees that aren't even violating the jobs policies, and are following their objectives for the job. In my opinion, this is an indication of one's character because as it says in the title VII of the civil rights act of 1964, discriminating against race, gender, age, or religion is prohibited in a workplace. In jobs today, the employer is informed of their rights as being an employer but still there is discrimination in jobs mainly because of those reasons, mainly because the employer chose to ignore that policy and make choices based on their emotions, which may not always be the best ways to make decisions. Employers discriminating in workplaces make matters worse because in today's economy, finding jobs aren't the easiest to do now, especially since jobs are closing quick because of their business sales, and an insufficient amount of employees a job isn't able to maintain. People now-a-days in the world do their most to be able to maintain a job or even a good job that pays very well at that, so for an employer to just take advantage of someone or show them an unfair side that an employer may not show others that are in their favor. When this happens people usually resign from their jobs, do something purposeful to get fired, will do something heinous to jeopardize the job and put them out of business for good.