Author: Mehreen Khanom

“Bell Hooks”, “Bill O Reill”, and “Beyonce: Sex Terrorist” talks about how Beyonce wasn’t seen as a role model anymore because of what she does and post. The problem is when it comes to celebrities is that people always seem to get dramatic to get attention.  She was judged for her looks because of what she posted. Their excuse for judging her was “teenage girls look up to Beyoncé, particularly girls of color.” Everyone has their own problem and it’s Beyonce’s life, she can do whatever she wants. The picture that I chose reminded of Beyonce and the girls that look up to her.

https://www.latimes.com/entertainment/la-et-ms-hip-hop-entertainment-the-age-of-hip-hop-updates-htmlstory.html

I chose this article because this article talks about how hip hop has shaped music and culture worldwide for decades.  Hip-hop is such a well-known genre and people even look up to it. In “Gettin’ Paid: Jay-Z, Criminal Culture, and the Rise of Corporate Rap” it states “Over the past ten years, though, “corporate rock” has been upstaged by “corporate rap,” which has emerged as the country’s new music.” Back in the days, people would hate rap music but now it’s a famous genre that people listen to all around the world, people enjoy it because of famous rappers like Jay Z and Kendric Lamar.

This picture represents the three texts we read because it shows how people are addicted to their phones (internet) these days. Everything is based on technology and the internet now that people forgot they actually have a life outside of the internet. For example gaming, Netflix, texts, video calls erased the reality we live in today. This topic is so serious to the point gaming has actually taken innocent gamers’ life. Sad to say that I am actually the girl in the picture because I am always on my phone, it’s either the phone or TV. Even when I go outside, instead of enjoying the moment I go on snap chat and start snapping everything. It’s almost like instead of viewing the world from my own eyes I view it through the camera. “What started out as web surfing for one teen descended into online obsession and isolation.”

One social issue I would like to talk about in my essay 2 is racism. It’s 2020 and people still face racism to this day. A song that is connected to this issue is “Everybody” by Logic. The song is about Logic facing racism because he is black but his skin color is while. In the song, he talks about how black people hate on him because of his skin color.

This picture connects to “Triptych: Texas Pool Party” because the characters in the text faced racism. In the first part of the text, the white ladies were being racist and hating on the people at the pool party because of their color since they were black. The second and third part of the story is based on police brutality which also connects to racism. The cop was being violent towards the black girl and her friends even though they did nothing wrong.  Cops think they have power, so they get to do whatever they want. What they don’t realize is people’s lives are in their hands. Because of one mistake, an innocent person’s life could be gone. At the end of the day, we are all humans and all equal. It’s 2020, racism shouldn’t even exist.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vIQfDvQSodg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lq8bpo9KWa8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QGGRcToE-2k

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8u8A9dp7x3g

After reading “My Instagram”, I found this article that relates to this text. https://www.cnn.com/2017/05/19/health/instagram-worst-social-network-app-young-people-mental-health/index.html“Instagram worst social media app for young people’s mental health” by Kara fox talks about how social media has a bad impact on people’s mental health these days. People on social media aren’t always perfect. It shows you what you want to see.  People only show the good side of their life. You don’t know what’s happening behind the camera. In the article, Kara states “Instagram draws young women to “compare themselves against unrealistic”, I completely agree with her because Instagram is setting a fake standard for the people to live by. Young females feel insecure because they want to have an Instagram model’s body. What the followers don’t know is most of the pictures are either photoshopped or these models got plastic surgery. People need to stop depending on this thing they see on social media. There’s a whole different world outside of it. Social media is not reality.