AHA!

1.I got a kick out of the social learning theory ans socialization. once i read the paragraph i really got an understanding on where trends and other behaviors come from. in a way i knew how socialization works but never put it together. the social learning theory is incredibly true in which people learn from what they see on TV. the saying "monkey see monkey do" comes to mind when i hear about socialization.

2. Another AHA moment i had this quarter was learning about the movie industry. many controversies have surrounded the motion picture companies for years. one of the topics that seems to come up quite often is violence in movies. i really was shocked to see how motion pictures have be changed throughout the last hundred years.

3. The last interesting moment i had was learning about the "News". the news and media are the general populations main source of whats happening in our world. however the social media has a way of sometime "bend" the truth sometimes. thinking that the media has a way of telling us all the negative acts and putting negative spins on everything can be scary. we only know what the media tells us. if they report something bad about an individual then we the people dislike that person. the media is very powerful. do not always believe what you hear!

Controversy on the big screen

I m pretty sure we have all seen the hilarous and lol comedy "The Hangover: part II". as most agree it just might be the funniest movie of the summer, and year. raking in nearly 137 million over the first weekend, and 500 million globally, the sequel shattered records and is now the highest grossing comedy of all time! aside from the record breaking weekend, the production company for the movie is now facing some set backs. Warner bros is facing copyright-infringement allegations over Mike Tyson's famous tatto that the character "stu" mysterioulsy wakes up with in the movie. Victor Whitmill, the tattoo artist who inked the tribal pattern on Tyson's face, sued Warner Brothers last month over the movie studio's use of his tattoo design, which is copied onto actor Ed Helms' face in the film and is used on movie posters and other promotional items. My question, "Are tatoos eligible for copyright protection". However, if parties are unable to resolve the issue, "stu's" face might look a little different when the movie is released to DVD in december.
http://musiclawseminar.com/2011/05/04/mike-tysons-facial-tattoo-infringed-by-hangover-2/

Proganda in advertisments

advertisement is propaganda.
http://www.ninjavspenguin.com/blog/tag/barack-obama/

this ad is a portrait of president barack obama. this is a very popular photo. it is seen on shirts in merchandise stores and was especially used during his rockstar campaign. since then it has become very famous.
this shirt/portrait uses many key propaganda techniques. it uses appeal to authority, euphoria, flag waving, and has a slogan. this picture of Mr. Obama is an overall patriotic one. with the red, white and blue backround to symbolize our great country and the slogan of "Progress" across the bottom had amercians cheering.