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In this new project, I was at a total loss for a subject. Then I came across the debatable issue of censorship. I went to private schools my whole life and always was taught that censorship was the correct thing. Now that I'm at a large public university, all of my previous ideals on censorship has been challenged. Questions pop up continuously in everyday life: should curse words be allowed in many medias, what words should be banned, what topics should be hidden or avoided? Or on a wide scale, what about should be shown on television or in magazines. The fact that much of our youth is left in the dark when it comes to morals these days opens many new doors on right and wrongs in society. What I am trying to convince you of is that although we have many freedoms, there should always been some form of censorship and guidelines because without leadership, Americans would be mislead.
The media I will chose to display this project will be a photographic strip. By using this media I hope to prove that graphic words, meanings, symbols and actions do need to be controlled and not left on the loose.



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Censorship covers a broad range from words to clothes to television shows to library books. In my project, I will work on the appropriate style of modesty in modern magazines. Go to your local grocery store, or the gas station, there are dozens of magazines that sell "inappropriate" ideas. Many teens look to these as guidelines of what they should be. What should the guidelines for magazines be? How much is too much? In this project I want to show you that there is a limit on what should be shown in magazines in public places.

Screen capture :)

Beginning this process of creating a screen capture, I was clueless. Honestly, who uses this tool? I asked four people to help me before I realized you have to PASTE it in a paint screen. Wow, I'm slow. Well, maybe because I can't focus on anything other than my birthday being in 3.25 hours. I'll be legal! Making a screen capture was just not on the top of my list. But once I figured it out, I felt so proud and saw I could use this tool more often. By overcoming a very tiny dilemma in the digital media world, our eyes open to millions of ideas. America is not run by huge corporations anymore, and there is no one right way. We now have so much because of little ideas that people thought nothing of at the time. I am very proud of my new found skill, and I am currently bragging to a few people of my hidden talent. Small, new lessons in the digital and cyberspace world really make huge differences and open trillions of new portals of doors.
Also, these new doors and ideas are far from conventional. We don't look at anything the same nor do we act the same as we would three years ago. I was getting gas last week and I had a conversation verbally on the phone, and I was texting three people. The man next to be looks and comments to me about this and I thought to myself "the whole world has gone insane, people used to love coming to a conner store getting coffee and the paper, now we rush in and out still glued to our phones and all other outside connections." Anything that talks, blinks, moves or even intreges us the tiniest bit is incredible to us. I really don't understand our addiction but I can not picture life without all our sad inventions.

When I grow up I want to sleep with the President.

I came across this cartoon depicting a little girl in a classroom. Her teacher asked her what she wants to do or be when she grows up, something we all dealt with. Her response is shocking. "When I grow up I want to sleep with the President of the United States!" Obviously this is a change from fifty years ago when any child would respond to the question with "when I grow up, I want to be the President."

Out of the hundreds of president errors, mistakes, and conflicts, one presidential scandal has surpassed many others in the recent decades. The younger generations can conclude that the Clinton Lewinsky scandal was the most dramatic. The main issues that occurred were our president sleeping in the White House, not with his wife, our leader lied while under oath, obstruction of justice an perjury to a grand jury. These offenses should not, and was not taken lightly.