How media shapes your gender and some previous DTE work

How media shapes your gender

Media is dangerous but amazing at the same time. It shapes how we see our world and how we are raised, it allows someone from Australia and someone in America to communicate as if they were right next to each other. It conveys messages, sometimes fake sometimes true. These messages can shape peoples beliefs and ideas, an example is how the general amount of media depicts Males and Females. This applies to all genders no matter what you identify as however it mostly affects the two sexes, this, of course, is Male and Female. A quick example is some of the more recent feminism. Feminism is what gave women equality in many of the country's we see today, however, quite a few people now have taken it into man shaming. This man shamming is created to make men feel bad about their gender, it stereotypes every single man born and paints them as evil oppressors that seek only to use people to get their own way. However this, of course, is not true, yes sure there are men that do that but there are also many women that do it as well. The point is that this media is designed to inflict harm to the male population and it does this by convincing women that men are bad causes these people to lash out at men. It also makes males that take in this media to look down on themselves and their gender, therefore, it shapes their views and how they are a person. 

For our project in DTE, we used the site Digital Bytes. On this site, we could choose a topic, then watch a video that generalises it and then looks at a question asked and answer it with our thoughts. Then we watched another video based on if we wanted to look at how women are affected by media or how men are. Then we answered some more questions with our thoughts. I chose the men side so I will cover that more than the Women side of this topic. However that is not to say that Women don't have it as bad as Men since in my opinion, both sides share the same amount of hardship from media shaping their gender, however, it happens to both of them with some differences and similarities.

So to start it off I watched the Gender and Media video. You can access it by clicking on this sentence. Next, I answered one of the questions given about the video. "What was the biggest takeaway from the video?" The biggest takeaway, in my opinion, is the fact that this is happening to this extent. That so much of our behaviour these days is from these gender stereotypes and that every day there are teens that are giving in to what the media says about them shaping their personality and thoughts of themselves. Girls are told that they should look good, this causes females to have so much more thoughts of their looks worrying if someone thinks they are ugly and this leads to many seeing themselves as ugly and in many cases getting into depressed moods. It's made even worse by people that have anxiety disorders or depression. Guys are taught that you should look for looks in a female, however, they are also taught to not show emotions such as depression and worry-fulness, that they are supposed to always be the strong person and dominant. However, one point I do disagree with in the videos is a bit of what they say. This subject is a bit of an older topic but it still shows just not in the exact way they say. Small things like Household violence cases favouring females and new stereotypes have arisen while some are no longer a thing. One point I really disagree with is them talking about movie and video game violence as a research project has proven it to not do that. 

The last activity was to look at what an ideal man is like to the media. An Ideal man shown in the media is strong, good looking and all of that stuff. However, in real life, you will find that this is barely anyone it is mostly celebrities that make out that they are like this as it helps them get more views and fans.


Here is some of my previous work around this topic.
 https://infograph.venngage.com/ps/isCds6Xe8Yo/being-cybersmart is an infographic about cyber smart
https://infograph.venngage.com/ps/rfVPTtNF57Q/how-to-customize-your-infographic-template is a infographic on ergonomics

Looking at bones and muscles as well as a bit about blood cells while using a cows leg

Looking at bones and muscles as well as a bit about blood cells

My class has just recently started the Medical Science part of the Scipad and with this is multiple experiments/investigations on dead animals or other things. The first one we had the luxury of doing was a cow leg. With this cow leg, our aim was to witness how muscles push. The thing with muscles is they will only ever push never pull which is why you have multiple muscles of the opposite sides in your body. Such as your arm and legs. For example when you put your arm in an L shape your tricep relaxes but your bicep contracts to push it out, the opposite happens when you bring your arm back down.

A bit about muscles

In the cow leg, you can see a bunch of flesh around the knee and the rest stripped this is because this was sent to butcher first, however, the main stuff we are looking at is there since people don't generally eat them. We used the top bone to control the muscles so for example when we pulled down the bone the bottom muscle near the knee would contract while the top one relaxes, you can see this in the small movement of the knee. There is also a white circle on it that would come in and go out depending on the movement of the leg, this is the knee cap. You can see this on the top right of the fleshy bit of the knee. On the opposite side of the knee cap, you can also find a small socket bit where some of the bone would come into when pulling the leg down.

Muscle Cramp

A muscle cramp is a common thing that affects people. It is caused by many different things. For example, overuse of the muscle, pregnancy because of losing of minerals in the body, exposure to cold temperature, diseases that affect muscles, positioning your legs in awkward ways, sitting for too long, standing still for too long, dehydration and certain medicines/drugs. As you can see muscle cramps can generally happen with underuse/overuse as well as a lack of water and minerals. When the muscle doesn't have what it depends on or not used in the right amount it will cramp.


A muscle cramp is when the muscle painfully contracts by itself, this causes pain in the body at the location and generally lasts several seconds to a few minutes. It only happens to muscles we can control so mostly legs and arms. Scientists have labelled cramps into different forms such as the true cramp. A true cramp is when a muscle of generally a group of muscles is triggered to cramp by the nerve system. These are the most common cramp triggered by stuff like massive injury, rest and dehydration and body fluid changes as well as low mineral count in your body. Tenaty is another type of cramp where all nerve systems are activated. This type of cramp will generally cause your muscles around the mouth to tingle and go numb, it can cause spasm in your hands and wrists. This is triggered by low blood calcium, low magnesium, muscle stimulation and hyperactivity. They sometimes can be extremely similar to true cramps because they have some of the same causes.

How do bones/joints work

How do bones work? Well, basically bones can't move so it needs some type of thing to give the force required to move it. If we didn't have muscles we would be lifeless, muscles open our mouths, our body depends on these muscles to survive. Muscles are connected to the bones through what's called a tendon. A tendon is a flexible stretchy piece of flesh in your body, it is needed to be this way since if it wasn't the tendon would just break when the muscle contracted. The tendon is required so that most muscles are kept in place and in some cases around your body they connect special muscles such as your eye to the rest of your body allowing you to use this body part. Now going back to just bones, to form stuff like your leg and arm two bones will connect and create a joint. Without joints, our skeletons would fall apart and without multiple bones, for stuff like the leg, we wouldn't have the flexibility we have.


If we had one bone in our leg we would not be able to move half of it while keeping the other halve the same. We can do this with our legs and arms because of our elbows/knees which are joints. Bones can't really move against each other as well which would cause them to break and wear away so the joints also provide a solution to that! First of all, ligaments connect the two bones, to stop the bones wearing away the ends of the bones have cartilage which reduces friction between the bones and acts as a shock absorbent. It is kept slippery and lubricated so it doesn't wear away as well by the synovial fluid which is produced by a synovial membrane. This is the structure of a joint and allows the movement and flexibility we have.

Osteoporosis

Ever wondered why old people have so brittle bones and commonly can break a bone just by falling? This is because the cartilage wears away possibly because of a lack of fluid or other reasons, because of this the bone then wear away with no cartilage to s/top them and eventually the bones get extremely weak causing this to happen. This problem can also occur in younger people because of the same reasons old people just have it more commonly because of living so long. Below is a video of us cutting through the bone.

Bone Growth

When you are born you have tiny bones, you don't have the type of bones you would have as an adult. Overtime bones will fuse together as well as growing. As you age cartilage grows bigger and that cartilage then forms into a bone with calcium, later on, this process is called ossification. During this process, hundreds of calcium layers and phosphate salts gather on the cartilage. After a while, this will cause the cartilage cells to die. Once this is done blood cells will grow into tiny pockets in this area, these blood cells will help by containing a unique cell called osteoblasts. Osteoblasts help carry additional calcium and produce a substance called collagen fibres. This fibre provides strength and cushioning, it is found all around our body with a lot in the skin and around tendons/joints.



These osteoblasts also produce cortical bones that will surround the cartilage. This bone is found throughout the body around organs it supports the whole body and is responsible for storing and releasing certain chemical elements. After a while, a cell called osteoclasts will end up in a developing bone. This cell will use an acid called Hydrolytic enzymes and other acids to dissolve a small bone part to make room for more bone marrow. This is repeated until most of the cartilage in your body has dissolved and all your bones have grown which generally happens around the age of 20. A topic relating to this is what happens when your bone breaks?


Well, how does a bone break anyway? A bone generally breaks when to much force is applied to it such as a heavy object falling onto your arm. This applies a lot of pressure onto your arm and if it is heavy enough and fell far enough your bone will most likely break. When a bone breaks it will attempt to heal itself for this to happen it must be positioned in a certain way, this is why you are given casts. The body will create blood clots around the broken bone and shortly after the bone will start to create small threads. These threads will eventually combine through the same method that a bone grows.

A bit about blood cells and bone marrow

Inside the bone you can find the bone marrow, there are two types of bone marrow. There are however two types of bone marrow and two stem cells. The Hemopoietic stem cell produces blood cells whereas the Stromal stem cell produces fat cartilage and bone. The two types of bone marrow are yellow while the other is red.


You start your life with only red bone marrow however you will gain yellow bone marrow based on fat. Although as you get older you WILL start to gain more yellow bone marrow. Red marrow focuses completely on blood cell production so in the case of massive blood lose the body will convert yellow marrow into red marrow to aid in stopping death. The red bone marrow will produce white blood cells, red blood cells and platelets. White blood cells are responsible for defending you from infection in your blood, they are produced in a higher concentration when someone is fighting off a disease/infection and are there killed off after defeating an infection. However white blood cells are at an extremely low quantity in our blood only being 1% of the cells located in our blood, however, of course, this % will slightly increase when an infection is located in you.


Platelets are tiny fragments in your blood that will create clots to help with bleeding however if they somehow clot in your blood and that clot travels to your heart you will have a heart attack, and if it goes to your brain you will have a stroke. These are both extremely dangerous conditions that can easily kill you. Platelets are less than 1% of the produced blood cells. Red blood cells contain chemicals that transport oxygen through your blood they make up 45% of the cells in your blood and are required so much because our blood needs to transport oxygen to give to our muscles and organs. Without this oxygen collected from the lung and then transported with the help of these red blood cells, we would end up dead as our muscles and organs require oxygen like our lungs do and there is no way to bring it around without the blood cells. Plasma is also part of the blood cell group it carries nutrients through the blood so it contributes majorly to the digestive system however bone marrow does not produce this.

A message in Super girl S2 E3

A message from Supergirl S2 E3

Continuing in English with our look at messages in media that we watch. We watched an episode of Supergirl. This episode was all about the President wanting to sign a policy that lets Aliens be treated as equals by the government and be allowed to come out and live freely. A message in this is to not judge others based on past history with their homeland. 

This theme appears in the middle section of the episode when Supergirl imprisons a Daxomite. She believes this person is trying to kill the president and refuses to believe otherwise because of past history with that country. Back in the day her homeland and Daxomite fought a war that she was told was pointless and caused by the other side. However, the Daxomite was told that the other side had started it and they where the good guys. This situation occurs in the real world in many cases. Both sides are told a story that is filled with an agenda. Propaganda is a big example of this, propaganda is media that is controlled by the party making it to either make a group or individual look like terrible people or make themselves look amazing. In wartime, this happens all the time and it happens today all the time. A big example is North Korea, many of the citizens in NK believe their leader is amazing and that the western countries are oppressive nations that are trying to steal NK's power. However, of course, we believe NK is a terrible country that should be taken care off. This is due to intense propaganda in NK's media, in fact almost all of the media there is Propaganda. This even applies to everyday situations. The message definitely is a great message as this type of brainwashing is quite bad in our world and can cause conflicts all because of manipulation from the government from an old feud.

Ethics of cloning and some of my personal views on it

Ethics Of Cloning

Cloning is when you create an exact copy of an organism using some of the DNA of the cloned organism. However, there are many conflicts with Religious, Cultural and Philosophical beliefs. In this blog post, I will show you many of the conflicts with these ethics as well as give my own personal belief on cloning.

My Personal Beliefs

I believe making the clone a non-sentient organism that is more like an unfeeling robot rather than a real naturally created organism is fine. Making cloned sheep or other animals to feed Humanity is generally ok to me as long as they are unfeeling and basically like robots with natural body parts. Making clones for wars is alright as well in my opinion as long as they don't develop sentience and a personality. Creating a life form that feels and is like a Human and sending it into a bloody war to die is just like enlisting a young 18 year old to fight in a war that they will most likely die in. If they were unfeeling and robot-like, then yes I am fine with that, they have no life and have no feelings of what they are doing. Cloning could also be used in this way to help with lack of Humans in a certain area of job and Cloning could even save humanity if somehow one-day humanity is at the point of extinction. Another thing is that cloned food products are less likely to be disease-ridden and infect Humans that digest it, unlike naturally made animals. Clones, in my opinion, are fine and good but I do draw the line in many cases if they become sentient.

Religious Ethics

Catholics: Catholics have a sort of situational view on cloning. Based on their religious beliefs of the beginning of a person's life they believe that cloning a Human just to exploit it is a massive sin to god. For example, creating a Human clone and sending it to its death is a sin. However many of them do believe that it could be good in Jesus's eyes and help cure the sick and heal the blinded as well as many other issues Humans may face involving infection and disease.

Jewish: Ever since the first clone Jew's have debated on what their stance on Cloning is. This is because nothing about cloning is really mentioned in their religion so many different views have arisen and there is no definitive stance on cloning in their religion

Islam: Islam has no definitive stance from their beliefs so just like with Judaism they have many different opinions. However, quite a few Muslim scholars have realized the benefits if used in the "right" way (right as in their views of the right way). A massive contribution to this as that they believe the soul does not exist until a later stage of conception.

Christian: Most Christians are against the main type of cloning but are a bit more light-hearted towards cloning targeted towards our health. A major part of this is because they are worried about Humans playing god. In their eyes creating our own lives might be messing with gods views and they fear of overstepping the boundaries of the natural order.

For most religions, it comes down to where they consider life to start and if they believe a God plays a part in creating a new life. Every religion's stance on cloning is mostly based on past texts in their version of the bible or other historical sayings/texts for religious followers. This creates an issue for quite a few religions like Judaism where they can't really find a good or bad perspective on cloning based on their religious texts.

Philosophical

Philosophical ethics: Cloning ethics is a major debate among philosophers and just controversial in general. Many science groups, governments and especially religion is against reproductional cloning as of now. A science group even put forward that we should cease any reproductional cloning until evidence of it being completely safe is discovered otherwise until then they believe we should not use reproduction cloning. Some believe that reproductive cloning is contrary to Human Dignity. Some also speculate on how problems could arise with clones such as a female donor would be more like a twin instead of a mother of their clone "child".

How cloning works

Cloning is a more recent science first done in 1997 but how is it done? Well, first of all, you need a skin cell and a female donor. A skin cell contains 46 chromosomes of the person you are trying to clone. This is needed because chromosomes are like a genetic code that is always different from other chromosomes in other peoples bodies. This is why we look different, we have different chromosomes. You also need a non fertilized egg cell which would have 23 chromosomes. Then you would remove the nucleus from the egg since that contains the chromosomes and you can't really have two nuclei in the same egg. Next, this is repeated with the other person's skin cell however there nucleus is then put into the female egg since that is the reproduction cell used by humans and most mammals. Now the egg has the "data" it needs to create the person you are trying to clone and after around 9 months poof you have a lil baby clone. The reason why the birthing of clones is also a problem to some religions is that they believe the soul enters at a certain age, Christians, for example, believe it comes at the start of conception.

What would happen if we started cloning random things and what are the precautions we should take?

So what would happen if you did? Well, first of all, there are precautions you must take. Why? Well because there is a risk of cloning something that had a disease or the meat inside a cloned animal has the potential to suffer unique infections. There could be hidden infections that affect this created meat and many other possibilities. This is a major problem for many people with their view on cloning, how do we stop a worldwide issue happening? Scientists have already examined some cloned meat and believe it is safe for consumption but what about what we don't know? This is the question that bothers so many people. So what can we do to stop that? Scientists could test the meat in certain environments and around certain infections to figure out if it does get unusual effects that normal meat would not. If not brilliant we mostly fixed that issue.

However, if it does scientists will need to contain it and then test how to remove it and stop it from infecting the food in the first place. This is a process used to help fix that situation that could be used over and over again. However, now let's move onto what would happen if it becomes a majorly used thing. Religious groups such as Christians will voice their concern and most likely have a new tradition of trying to eat only properly made food, they would most likely not accept cloned people into their religion viewing them as having no soul and unethical. Meanwhile, dozens of donors would be cloned to create a new army once this is done millions of people will be jobless as cloned people would replace them in the army creating poverty.


The food market will have a strange situation where they have an unlimited supply of meat and other food products, this could very possibly damage the food economy if not properly managed. Many Humans will naturally turn against cloned people and turn against them viewing them as inhuman. However benefits will arise, countries will have the people they need for jobs and even better they don't have to pay for them, medical science will greatly raise and third world countries will have the manpower and supply to progress much faster. However, if control is not kept on cloning massive problems will occur. All the jobs could be filled with clones leaving basically everyone poor since they have no job causing the job owners to get poor since they can't charge people much money since these people are... guess what? Poor this, in turn, makes the government poor since they can't tax the citizens since they get no money causing worldwide poverty issues.


A massive event of "Racism"/whatever you all it for clones would occur. We are bad enough to people just because they have a different colour imagine what would happen if they were created from a factory. Smart and controlled use of cloning MUST be used otherwise chaos can and will erupt and the work leading up to cloning would be useless as public pressure and overuse of cloning would of greatly damages our society.

Tarzan stuff

Tarzan Stuff

In the first few weeks of english we have been working on perspective and messages in movies and books comparing to the world world. To help us understand we watched the Tarzan movie. After we watched it we had to compare events and messages in it to the real world. We have had to take a quote "Two Worlds, One Family" and take two messages and talk about them.

Here is my definition for the Quote Two Worlds, One Family. "The quote means that animals and Human are psychologically in a different world but in the same at the same time. In this case, the Gorillas and Tarzan are in one world but the Humans are in another world but Tarzan has one family which ends up being the Humans that stayed and the Gorillas"

Here are my two other messages I made a paragraph about.

In Tarzan, a big theme is about different cultures and how a more advanced culture may interact with a more “Primitive” culture that is discovered. This movie links to stuff like the British colonization of NZ were British troops tried to take the land and eventually warred with the Maori. It happened in the real world so much and even today it happens when cultures collide or Religions collide. The way it is shown here is the Humans come to find and eradicate the Gorillas while the two explorers want to save them. This shows a dynamic in the real world as well were people from the same culture and religion don’t want the war to continue or the conquest of other cultures/religions.

Another theme is about how nature is also a living thing and should not be needlessly trampled over like it was in the movie. They show the Animals in the jungle as living things with their own cultures traditions and language that talk to each other and are caring to each other just trying to survive in a peaceful place. When the Humans come you see their terrified expressions and how their Alpha male Kerchak gets extremely defensive and rushes at them to protect his family. It shows that in this world Humans are like Animals in a way. Which is true was are made from the same thing and both us and animals have communities families and stuff like that we are more similar than what a lot of people believe.

first health on spiritual

Alright so in health we are learning about spiritual well being which involved religion and all that stuff. Culture as well and values. So spiritual well being evolves around your values, traditions and beliefs. for example someone that beliefs in religion as well as has a culture they practice is quite spiritual.

We had to choose some values that are most important to us and I chose is enjoyment and kindness. These are important to me because you need kindness and enjoyment in your life otherwise what is it really worth. When people are having fun with you and treating you well you do feel great and it is alot of fun.

Top 5 human rights (In MY OPINION)

Top 5 Human Rights in my opinion

For my first Social Studies topic in 2019 we are looking at slavery. We are reading a book called Iqbal which you can find online as well as doing some tasks on Human rights right now. If you don't know what human rights are basically they are 30 rights the UN declared. These rights are for all Humans and cover basic things that are bad for us such as slavery as well as trying to guarantee us a education as a child. My first task is to look at the Human rights and select 5 that I believe are the most needed.

5. Freedom from torture and degrading treatment

Wars still happen and they are terrible like they always war. Country's like America are working behind the scenes to prepare for a war most likely. In these events people can be caught up in the crossfire and possibly sometimes believed to be the enemy imagine being tortured because you were believed to be apart of the other side. Or just being a conscript in an army that you believe is doing the right thing and having to face torture.

4.  Freedom from interference with Privacy, Family, Home and Correspondence

Being able to have your own family without it being taken away from you is important to someone. Many people need their family and those that have lost them wish them back. Having the government take your family away from you would be catastrophic and giving the government the power to do this without reason can create much turmoil in the country. Your home is in many cases what you worked hard for earning money to keep or pay for having that just taken from you is the same as family but to a lesser extent. Privacy is vital as well to a persons life these days losing our right to these things would create many problems and outcry in the people that life on earth.

3. Freedom of belief and religion

Religion is a massive thing in this world. I myself don't believe in it however many do and many wars have been started over religion. When a government or movement attempt to restrict a belief or someones religion they will bite back. This can become really nasty and possibly start a civil war or a movement. Some people need their religion to believe in, if you stop them from being able to they will rebel it is the same as freedom of opinion in a way.

2. Right to free education

Education in a society is vital, if our education wasn't free the legitimately poor will find it hard to send their children to school to get a education. Without a proper education what will happen with these people? There are many things that the lack of school will do to them. They will make less friends unlike if a person did go to school, affecting their social skills massively, they will have no idea about how to get a nice job that can get them into a better state in their life. They perhaps might not even understand English properly if their family does not teach them much. Without a free education poorer family's will have added money costs and in quite a few cases will have children not even able to go to school without endangering the family.

1. Freedom from slavery

In my opinion slavery is one of the worst kinds of things to happen to a person. You could be enslaved from the age of 8 all the way to the point where you are no longer to able to work well at the age of possibly 50. Imagine a whole life where you get a couple of meals a week, are not able to talk to people often and in many cases chained, beaten and punished for any mistake, in many cases slaves are given a false hope of freedom by their slave master however in the end many stay enslaved for their whole life. Child slaves are still a massive thing today where 10 year olds work for years making bricks or carpets in some country's and given a "reward' which in reality is a false hope that will never come.