examples of media effects theory

Catharsis Theory: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5S0e5IB0HzE this example is off of the show Rosanne. the reason i chose this is because it shows how the little things kept building up until they couldn't take it anymore. and if you were going through something like that if you watched that show/episode you would possible think "well atleast we aren't that bad, atleast we aren't wrecking our house.

Aggressive Cues Theory: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qSibseqLyYs this shows sheldon getting aggressive and if someone were to watch this it may cause them to act that way or it may not.

Observational Learning Theory:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A2wYLo0nET4 this video of teaching a baby how to put the ball into the basket represents the observational learning theory because the baby learns how to do something by watching someone else.

Reinforcement Theory:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JA96Fba-WHk this represents the reinforcement theory. because penny gets chocolate everytime she does something right so that her view of right and wrong will change.

Cultivation theory: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ln7Yg21Y55E these guys watch something and it makes one of them really scared and kinda crazy

Media Effects

Catharsis Theory- This theory i tend to agree with. the reason for that is because yes people can become very frustrated through out the day just by the little things that seem to continue to build up until it's to much. sometimes if the person can just watch tv or play games that are considered violent they get to take out all their anger and energy on the game or the movie, and they no longer have the frustration that they did before. it gives them time to take their mind off of things and to just rest and regenerate so they can be happier with their family instead of being ill with them. 

Aggressive Cues Theory- Disagree, one of the main reasons i disagree with this is when it says spanking a kid is obviously aggressive and VIOLENT act. well just think about how many of us got a spanking as a kid. think about how those spankings kept us from doing bad things that would get us in trouble. some of those spankings actually keep kids from doing aggressive acts. to me they make it seem like the parent is just straight out beating the kid. but all it says is a spanking. for some kids just saying no and putting them in a corner doesn't always work. sometimes they need to get a spanking to make them really under stand "okay mama keeps spanking me for this so that must mean i'm not supposed to do it and its bad". i know that's how it works for my brother, you cant get something through his head without spanking him for doing something wrong.

Observational Learning Theory- I disagree with this theory because alot of times when watching shows like that people become more aware of what to look out for if something in those circumstances happens. and i also disagree with the what would you do if someone jumps out infront of you would you do something aggressive? those things usually come naturally by instinct and reflexes to defend yourself. do they just want us to be helpless and not be able to automatically defend ourselves?

Reinforcement Theory- i agree with this theory because it does seem to happen so often. when looking at cases or watching shows on crimes it generally is the person you would least expect to be the one who committed the crime. and then you have this guys who are all big and tough and then sometimes you can really see their soft side, not all of them go with it but you do see it. and i also agree that the way we were brought up and where we were brought up plays an important factor. look at basically every other study scientist do,. majority of the time the results are based on our background, culture, and genetic makeup.

Cultivation Theory- i disagree with this theory because i don't think that the violence or aggression on tv is a "fantasy world" it shows you reality and what can really happen out there. you become informed and more alert of the dangers that could come to you. therefore it could save someones life if the recognize something out of the normal. when i was just a little girl like 3 my mom would get me to watch the news and see how people were kidnapped and killed or such things. i don't think my mother was wrong for that, because she did that whenever we went to a store every 30 minutes or so i would tap her arm or something to show her that i was still there and noone had taken me. it has made me more aware of the dangers that could happen to me and has made me more careful.

Cat in the hat

• when he says that children now don't get bored when it rains because of all the things they have now, this is true somewhat but there are still kids that love playing outdoors more than electronics and they are bored. he was stereotyping the children today and we all know that stereotypes are never 100% correct.
• i agree with the book having an ambiguous ending to it. 
• the organization of the essay could have been put together a little better. he had good points some of them were just scattered out and he could have linked them together in a better way. 

Beowulf

What is it?
What is it about?
What is the historical significance?

~ Beowulf is and Epic poem, meaning that it is very very very long. there are 3,182 lines to this poem.

Beowulf is the hero and title character of an Anglo-Saxon epic poem. The poem was written in England, though the action is set in Scandinavia. It takes place in the 5th and 6th centuries CE, but was written some time between the 8th and 11th centuries. Beowulf is among the most important extant Anglo-Saxon works of literature.

According to the poem, Beowulf was the son of a Swede, EcgÞeow, but grew up among the Geats. EcgÞeow had been banished before his son's birth because he was unable to pay a highweregild, a type of fine imposed on those who had killed a man. EcgÞeow sought refuge with the Danish king Hroðgar, who paid his weregild, then served under Geatish king Hreðel. EcgÞeow married Hreðel's daughter, and Beowulf was their child.

Beowulf began his heroic acts as a young warrior, when a monster named Grendel threatened Hreðel's kingdom. He killed the monster, ripping of his arm, and was celebrated by his fellow warriors as a hero. The following night, Grendel's mother, who is unnamed in the poem, arrives to avenge his death. Beowulf kills her too, with the help of a magical giant sword, then takes Grendel's head as a trophy back to Geatland

      "who is beowulf?" wisegeek. demand media, n.d. web. 2003-2013. 

~what is it about? 

Beowulf is a prince of the Geats of southern Sweden who comes to Denmark to help King Hrothgar rid his fabulous hall, Heorot, of a terrible monster known as Grendel. The hero mortally wounds the creature, who flees the hall to die in its lair. The next night, Grendel's mother comes to Heorot to avenge her offspring and kills one of Hrothgar's men. Beowulf tracks her down and kills her, then returns to Heorot where he receives great honors and gifts before returning home.

After ruling the Geats for half a century in peace, Beowulf must face a dragon who threatens his land. Unlike his earlier battles, this confrontation is terrible and deadly. He is deserted by all his retainers except his kinsman Wiglaf, and though he defeats the dragon he is mortally wounded. His funeral and a lament end the poem.

            "what you need to know about the epic poem". about. Demand media, n.d. web. 

~ historical significance= 

Beowulf is the oldest surviving epic poem in the English language and the earliest piece of vernacular European literature. It was written in Old English, the language of the Saxons. Originally untitled, in the 19th century the poem began to be called by the name of its Scandinavian hero, whose adventures are its primary focus. Historical elements run through the poem, yet both the hero and the story are fiction.

Origins and History of the Beowulf Poem:

Beowulf may have been composed as an elegy for a king who died in the seventh century, but there is little evidence to indicate who that king may have been. The burial rites described in the epic show a great similarity to the evidence found atSutton Hoo , but too much remains unknown to form a direct correlation between the poem and the burial site.

The poem may have been composed as early as c. 700, and evolved through many retellings before it was written down. Whoever the original author may have been is lost to history.

The sole manuscript of the poem dates to c. 1000. Handwriting style reveals that it was inscribed by two different people. Whether either scribe embellished or altered the original story is unknown.

The earliest known owner of the manuscript is the 16th century scholar Lawrence Nowell. In the 17th century it became part of Robert Bruce Cotton's collection and is therefore known asCotton Vitellius A.XV.

In 1731, it suffered irreparable damage in a fire.

The first transcription of the poem was made by Icelandic scholar Grímur Jónsson Thorkelin in 1818. Since the manuscript has decayed further, Thorkelin's version is highly prized, yet its accuracy has been questioned.

In 1845, the pages of the manuscript were mounted in paper frames to save them from further damage. This protected the pages, but it also covered some of the letters around the edges.

In 1993, the British Library initiated the Electronic Beowulf Project . Through the use of special infrared and ultraviolet lighting techniques, the covered letters were revealed as electronic images of the manuscript were made.

The Author or Authors:

Beowulf contains many pagan and folkloric elements, but there are undeniable Christian themes as well. This dichotomy has led some to interpret the epic as the work of more than one author. Others have seen it as symbolic of the transition from paganism to Christianity in early medieval Britain. The extreme delicacy of the manuscript, the two separate hands that inscribed the text, and the complete lack of clues to the identity of the author make a realistic determination difficult at best.

              "what you need to know about the epic poem". about. Demand media, n.d. web. 

Design your own myth

Ancient Greek

Values : intelligence, glory, hospitality, and loyalty.

Goddess: Nova

There was a goddess named Nova. She was the daughter of Zues and Hera. Her father (the most powerful) had the power to control the weather with his temper. He through thunderbolts when he was mad. She had the power to control some things in the sky and weather like her father. Such as she could control the when it would snow and the how she wanted the temperature to be, whether it be hot or cold. She fell in love with the human man named zor.  One day zor’s friend Carro tried to sleep with Nova. She was so infuriated that zor’s bestfriend would do this to him she will always make it extremely hot or extremely cold wherever he is so that he can never be comfortable again and live a miserable life. Carro also had a wife named Zeta. She went to see Nova one day and ask if carro had ever had an affair. Nova wasn’t exactly fond of Zeta but decided to talk to her anyway and offer any help she could. Though Nova hated Carro after everything he had done she decided he was being punished enough by what she was doing to him so didn’t tell Zeta that he had tried to seduce her. One day there was this unknown group that was coming to kill the Greek gods Nova was the only one who noticed this happening and created a diversion on an island not far away distracting them and making them forget completely about what they were originally going for. So in the end Nova ended up saving her land from being in a war and also staying loyal to her husband.

Jan. 17, 2013 Math & Pwyll

What are the most prevalent values of the Celtic/Irish people? Most people find Celtic stories very strange and unlike other myths they've read. What is so different and why is this?

In the story of Pwyll I would assume that one of their values that is very important to them would be loyalty and honesty. The reason I think this is because the wife felt very betrayed that her husband did this behind her back and she didn't know anything about it. that represents loyalty and honesty. Another reason i think that is because he could have slept with the other woman but he didn't he was to loyal to his wife.

In the story with Math, something that was really weird/different was how she didn't know that she had another child because the she thought it was just the afterbirth when it was really the other baby.

January 8, 2013 mythology

Pele

Hawaiian goddess of volcanic fire, personification of the female power of destruction.

Associated with Pele are the 4 snow covered peaks: Lilinoe,Waiau, Kahoupokane and Poliahu.
Poliahu has an extensive story associated with Pele. Poliahu liked to play with mortals along the eastern peaks of the mountain Mauna Kea.

One day, it is said, Poliahu and her friends had come down from Mauna Kea to a grassy sloping hillside south of Hamakua for holua sledding.
Pele loved he'eholua, the exhilarating race that took place on sleds with runners set only six inches apart. A narrow piece of matting attached to sticks lashed to the runners provided a place for the racer to rest his chest. A racer held the holua sled in his right hand as he ran pell-mell to the crest of the downhill track, hurled himself upon the sled, grabbing a hand-hold on the left side of the sled, as well, and then plummeting down-slope toward the ocean.On this day,

Pele appeared in the guise of a beautiful young woman and the unsuspecting Poliahu welcomed her to join in their sport. As the ground grew hotter and hotter, Poliahu realized the beautiful stranger was none other than Pele, her arch enemy. Pele called forth fire from the depths of Mauna Loa, sending fire fountains after Poliahu as the terrified goddess fled to the summit. Red hot lava licked at the edges of Poliahu's white mantle, but she grasped her robe and managed to escape.

Regaining her strength, she flung her white mantle over the mountain peak. The grounds trembled, fire licked the heavens, and the snow goddess unleashed snow from frozen clouds overhead. Pele sent rivers of lava down the hillside, which cooled and hardened so quickly it choked the yawning chasms that spewed the molten rock and drove the streams of lava underground into Kilauea and Mauna Loa, but not before the land masses that comprise Laupahoehoe and Onomea were formed.

From time to time, Pele continues to hurl fire and lava from Mauna Loa and Kilauea, but legend says that Poliahu always gains the upper hand in these battles. She and the other snow goddesses keep the mountain tops barren under their icy mantles, allowing melting streams to form the rivers that feed the fertile valleys and give the Hamakua Coast and North Kohala a green, misty surrealistic beauty. 

           "Pele". Hawaiian Gods. mythome.org. web. 22 Jan. 2009.  


Celtic Culture Mythology: 

       Arianrhod is a celtic goddess. she is from Whales. she is the goddess of beauty, fertility, and reincarnation. she is known as silver wheel and high and mighty fruitful mother. she is a sky goddess and her palace was Caer Arianrhod. (Aurora Borealis).  she is daughter of the mother goddess don and her consort beli. she is ruler of cear sidi. 


                            
Welsh Star and Moon Goddess
Arianrhod (ah-ree-AHN-rhohd), Arian meaning 'silver', and Rhod meaning 'wheel' or 'disc'. Celtic Moon-Mother Goddess. Called the Silver Wheel that Descends into the Sea. Daughter of the Mother Goddess Don and her consort Beli. She is ruler of Caer Sidi, a magical realm in the north. She was worshiped as priestess of the moon. The benevolent silver sky-lady came down from her pale white chariot in the heavens to watch more closely over the tides she ruled. Her Festival is on 2nd December, she is also honoured at the Full Moon.
In addition to native variations by locality or over time, there are often several possible transliterations into the Roman alphabet used for English, Arianrhod Aranrhod - Arianrod.
A star and moon Goddess, Arianrhod was also called the Silver Wheel because the dead were carried on her Oar Wheel to Emania (the Moon- land or land of death), which belonged to her as a deity of reincarnation and karma. Her consort Nwyvre 'Sky, Space, Firmament' has survived in name only. Caer Arianrhod is the circumpolar stars, to which souls withdraw between incarnations, thus she is identified as a Goddess of reincarnation. The Mother aspect of the Triple Goddess in Wales, her palace was Caer Arianrhod (Aurora Borealis), or the secret center of each initiate's spiritual being.
The moon is the archetypal female symbol, representing the Mother Goddess connecting womb, death, rebirth, creation. (Albion, the old name of Britain, meant 'White Moon'). The Celts "know well the way of seas and stars", and counted time not by days, but by nights, and made their calendars, such as the famous Coligny Calendar, not by the sun, but by the moon. Ancient astrologers took their observations from the position of the moon and its progress in relation to the stars - the starry wheel of Arianrhod.
In Celtic Myth the Goddess has three major aspects: the maiden, the mother and the crone. These three represent the three stages in life of a woman. Blodeuwedd is the flower maiden, Arianrhod represents the mother and The Morrigu at last is the crone. These three aspects of the Celtic goddess may have different names in different regions and regional legends. For example, Morrigan also takes the mother role at times.
Arianrhod is said to be able to shapeshift into a large Owl, and through the great Owl-eyes, sees even into the darkness of the human subconscious and soul. The Owl symbolizes death and renewal, wisdom, moon magick, and initiations. She is said to move with strength and purpose through the night, her wings of comfort and healing spread to give solace to those who seek her.

Hymn to Arianrhod

Arianrhod of the Silver Wheel
By all the names men give thee -
We, thy hidden children, humbly kneel
Thy truth to hear, thy countenance to see.
Here in the circle cast upon the Earth
Yet open to the stars - unseen, yet real -
Within our hearts give understanding birth,
Our wounds of loss and loneliness to heal.
Isis unveiled and Isis veiled, thou art;
The Earth below our feet, the Moon on high.
In thee these two shall never be apart -
The magick of the Earth and Sky.

          
     "Arianrhod" thewhitegoddess.co.uk. web. 8 Jan. 2013.