RE: To share or not to share

Questions

1. What is your personal opinion towards file sharing?  Is it right or wrong? Please explain

2. If you produced your own piece of art/song/movie, would you hold the same opinion?

3. Do you feel it is morally acceptable to download copyrighted material if it is only intended for personal use?

Answers

1.My opinion on file sharing is that its a cool thing because then you and your friends can share things like movies or music. BY law its wrong but to me i think its alright to do it, because i do not want to spend money on all these movies or music, cause the prices are a rip off.

2. If i produced my own piece of art/song/movie i would not hold the same opinion because then i'm going to most likely loose money, which as we all know is bad.

3. I feel morally that its alright to download this material as long as its for personal use and yours not trying to re-sell it to people.

Media and Self-Esteem

1.  Why do you think people are portrayed this way in the media?

2.  How are you affected by the images you see?  

3.  What can be done to reduce the amount of young men and women that are 

     negatively affected by these images?

4.  What would your reaction be to a magazine cover where the subject isn’t   

     all glammed up?  Is this a possible route that society should take?  Why or

     why not?

ANSWERS

1. I think that people are portrayed this way in the media to give people the idea of what they should look like. By doing this companies can sell products like make-up or clothes to people, because they think that they need it to look good.

2.I am affected by these images because it gives me the impression that people, mostly women, should look this way. 

3. I think that these companies could portray them differently and not to make them seem perfect. That way young men, like myself, and young women will not be so negatively affected. 

4. My reaction to a magazine cover like that would be "Wow, something different, i think it looks good."