Glaber Response In your responses 150 words those two other students' initial posts, comment regarding the other students' reflections.  Feel free to quote a small portion (1-3 sentences) of the student’s post and comment on that.  You are welcome to address external sources, as long as they are credible, and you must cite them as per MLA formatting.  It is also a good idea to ask your fellow students questions to lead to further communication on the discussion boards. David A place where you could be popular, where you could be liked, and connect with everyone all over the world; a Cyber world. In today's society social media is the pinnacle of communication. If you don't have a social media account, you are considered an outcast, and or society tells you that you are missing out on the real world. But, ironically the more you are connected to social media, the more disconnected you are with the real world. Society has made it known that to be more likable on Facebook and Instagram gains you popularity, and therefore your whole entire outlook on life of even fitting in , is based on the likes you get on social media.  Understandable that it does connect you with friends and family. but i feel that because you are being more concerned with connecting with them that you ignore whats around you. Your immediate family, we tend to neglect. One of the saddest views i seen going to a dinner, was witnessing a couple on their date, and the whole time they were sitting across from each other, they were on their phone; not only on it, but they were glued to it. No conversation was flowing, not one word was even said. It was very sad because we had dinner for about one hour, and not even a peep. I recall that the only thing they talked about, was a pic on social media. Also, when their food got to the table they made sure they took a picture of it and post it up. Even after that, it took them another 10 or so minutes just post it up and get the perfect picture to share online with their friends and family.  We neglect the immediate for the satisfaction of connecting with the ones that aren't even around. Yet, we magnify how we love our family. Brandon Villaganas Top of Form Total views: 9 (Your views: 1)Facebook is something that I have been aware of since elementary school. Girls in my classes would take the same pictures together and tag each other. When high school came along, more people were on Facebook and older kids in my classes would be logged into their Facebook accounts on their laptops. Teachers warned us about Facebook, specifically, about losing our identity and to be watchful of cyber-bullying. This led me to have a Facebook account in name only because it was extra credit for my 10th grade English class and my teacher wanted the entire class to friend him. Facebook and it’s other incarnations disconnect people from one another and lead to a false presentation that does not entirely represent a person’s true self. Facebook, Instagra ...

1. Glaber Response
In your responses 150 words those two other students' initial
posts, comment regarding the other students' reflections. Feel
free to quote a small portion (1-3 sentences) of the student’s
post and comment on that. You are welcome to address external
sources, as long as they are credible, and you must cite them as
per MLA formatting. It is also a good idea to ask your fellow
students questions to lead to further communication on the
discussion boards.
David
A place where you could be popular, where you could be
liked, and connect with everyone all over the world; a
Cyber world. In today's society social media is the pinnacle of
communication. If you don't have a social media account, you
are considered an outcast, and or society tells you that you are
missing out on the real world. But, ironically the more you are
connected to social media, the more disconnected you are with
the real world. Society has made it known that to be more
likable on Facebook and Instagram gains you popularity, and
therefore your whole entire outlook on life of even fitting in , is
based on the likes you get on social media.
Understandable that it does connect you with friends and
family. but i feel that because you are being more concerned
with connecting with them that you ignore whats around you.
Your immediate family, we tend to neglect. One of the saddest
views i seen going to a dinner, was witnessing a couple on their
date, and the whole time they were sitting across from each
other, they were on their phone; not only on it, but they were
glued to it. No conversation was flowing, not one word was
even said. It was very sad because we had dinner for about one
hour, and not even a peep. I recall that the only thing they
talked about, was a pic on social media. Also, when their food
got to the table they made sure they took a picture of it and post

2. it up. Even after that, it took them another 10 or so minutes just
post it up and get the perfect picture to share online with their
friends and family.
We neglect the immediate for the satisfaction of connecting
with the ones that aren't even around. Yet, we magnify how we
love our family.
Brandon Villaganas
Top of Form
Total views: 9 (Your views: 1)Facebook is something that I
have been aware of since elementary school. Girls in my classes
would take the same pictures together and tag each other. When
high school came along, more people were on Facebook and
older kids in my classes would be logged into their Facebook
accounts on their laptops. Teachers warned us about Facebook,
specifically, about losing our identity and to be watchful of
cyber-bullying. This led me to have a Facebook account in name
only because it was extra credit for my 10th grade English class
and my teacher wanted the entire class to friend him. Facebook
and it’s other incarnations disconnect people from one another
and lead to a false presentation that does not entirely represent
a person’s true self.
Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat, and Twitter all operate on the
premise that the account holder is posting, recording, tweeting
out their thoughts in an effort to share some bit of themselves,
but this is false. There is as Sorkin claims an “inventing [of]
new identities, performing for each other” (Sorkin). There is no
interaction on social networks, because no one really knows
who is on the other side of the account. There may be a ‘catfish’
online posting false photos of their false life. In addition,
Gabler asserts how social media “underscores how much
traditional friendship . . . has become an anachronism and how
much being “friended” is an ironic term” (qtd. in Maasik 317).
Thus, rather than cultivating new friendships or connecting with
old friends by hanging out, people create personas of the type of

3. person they want to present to the world. Instead, people can
watch television friendships that “[provides] us with those
nonstop fantasies of friendship” (qtd. in Maasik, 317). Here,
media gives us images of family and friends interacting
together, not online, but it makes me wonder how many people
are on their phones while watching television. While the media
outlets provide us with images of who we should be and what
we should buy or wear, the truth is that we have to find a way to
connect with one another in our own real lives.
Dean Response
In your responses 150 words those two other students' initial
posts, comment regarding the other students' reflections. Feel
free to quote a small portion (1-3 sentences) of the student’s
post and comment on that. You are welcome to address external
sources, as long as they are credible, and you must cite them as
per MLA formatting. It is also a good idea to ask your fellow
students questions to lead to further communication on the
discussion boards.
David
The family Clamplette's are moving into their new mansion in
Beverly Hills. Although they have the expensive house and
luxuries, they are bringing their culture with them. As in they
are still acting like themselves; uneducated, not knowing a
different lifestyle outside of their home, closed in from
humanity, and survival of the fittest. Jethro (Pa's nephew) finds
new discoveries like a flamingo. And grandma wants to be the
one to cook it for dinner, since there are no possum's around.
Jethro is attending Oxfford University and Ms. Hathaway (the
secretary) asks to know more about him because she takes it
he's the intelligent one of the family. she is thinking is the
actual univerisity, but when she meets him, he mentions that he
is in 5th grade. She then proceeds to meeting the rest of the
family and to her surprise, they are all incompetent and arent

4. intelligent, she doesn't want to put up with them. She actually
thinks the family is one that works there, not lives there. She
confuses Pa' for the gardener, since it was what Pa' that got
started on the gardening tools, wanting to help out. The banker
(that is the neighbor next door) reminds Ms Hathaway that they
are The Clampette's and to treat them fairly. I think Dean's
claim on hillbillie's did a great representation of what they are
like. Personally, i have family in Lexington, Kentucky and i got
to encounter a hillbilly for the first time there. Yes, they have
the mullets, yes he had the speech, but i didn't want to jump off
the bat in the way he was, like the way he handled himself
because i didnt get a chance to get to know him, but i was
curious. From the outside, yes it is basically everything this
episode described. This representation is sad, but true. Reality
is that society does tend to stereotype by physical or the way we
carry ourselves. Basically "first impressions are everything".
Like the Clampette's, there are families out there that don't get a
second chance into speaking up.
Brandon
After watching the episode of The Beverly Hillbillies, the
program exploits negative stereotypes of the hillbilly as simple
caricatures. The Clampett family is portrayed as uneducated,
unworldly, and backwards. A laugh track is in place to let the
audience know that it is okay to laugh at the family. The
extended family is also not your typical WASP unit of mother,
father, two kids and a lovable dog. The family consists of
Grandma, Jed, daughter Elly May, nephew Jethro and a hound.
In this episode, the family has just moved to a Beverly Hills
mansion and immediately their backwardness is demonstrated.
In a series of misunderstandings, Jethro tells Pa that there is
another house on the second floor and Pa replies that he should
come downstairs because the second floor may belong to
someone else. Though the show is making fun of the family,
they are not portrayed as evil or mean. On the contrary, the
family is portrayed as simple, innocent, and caring. We learn

5. that Pa raised Elly May as a boy because his wife died and he
did not know what else to do. The simple task of moving from
one house to another takes on enormous comical surprises
because it seems like the Clampett’s are moving to a place that
is completely foreign to them. Seen in this light, audiences can
feel good about themselves because they are in on the joke. The
audience of the show can laugh at the deliberate
misunderstandings between educated urban professionals played
by the bank president and his secretary. While the show’s
portrayal of the family is a farce, the negative stereotypes of
grandma hating Yankees and being unable to recognize a fridge,
stove, or running water is exploitive. The Clampett’s did not
have the respect of the secretary who first believed the
Clampett’s were hired help. When she is fired from her job for
her error, she immediately appropriates hillbilly language. It is
Jed who stands up for her, because though he is a simpleton,
money still equates to power. As Michelle Dean asserts that
shows featuring the hillbilly “reassure us that our struggle is
worth it” (qtd. in Maasik 286). Even though the audience may
not have the 25 million dollars that the Clampett’s have, they do
possess common sense and knowledge of the way life really
works that the Clampett’s lack.
Chapter 9 Band Topic
George Clinton and Parliament utilized business and artistic
concepts from both James Brown and glam rock acts. How did
this provide a unique approach to funk music? Are they
influential to later acts? Are they still influential?Bottom of
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