Monday, February 1, 2010

Post #1: First Blog Response!

Dear Class,
Glad you made it here. For your first blog response, go ahead and write a tentative thesis statement for Paper #1 here.

Due: Before our next class meeting
Length: A sentence or two

20 comments:

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  2. Option #1: Unconvential Families
    By breaking off from traditional ideals of the convential family, unconventional families are able to provide more equality in gender, race, and roles, resulting in additional benefits for their members to survive socially and economically.

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  3. Thesis: Through various techniques in family upbringing, the stratification system accommodates the marking and maintaining of social status through class, race ethnicity, and gender.

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  4. Option #1
    The sitcoms of the 1950's played merely on what a family should be but as times change people want to see shows they can relate to. These modern sitcoms take a different approach and that is dysfunction means family.

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  5. Option #1: Unconventional families are becoming more and more common in American society today since not only are they equally as functional as conventional families, but they have unique characteristics that prove to be beneficial for the members in each family. (this is very tentative...)

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  6. Thesis statement: Unlike the typical 1950s based family sitcoms, modern family sitcoms communicate different more real type of American families; families of different races, parents, ideals, and morals.

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  7. Option #1: Atypical families are positive because they allow individuality in the household and do not put as many restraints on a person as typical families do which allows for more freedom when it comes to thoughts such as ideals and rules. There are also extra benefits like the opportunity to expand out in the larger family as shown in "An Indian Story".

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  8. Option #2

    In modern sitcoms today, families validate there is no "idealistic" family as they come in a diversity of class, belief, colors, shapes, and sizes.

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  9. Option#2: The modern family sitcoms tries to get the American family more comfortable with talking as a family and show that this is the right thing to do. Families shouldn't be ashamed to talk about everything in the household, this way the children will be open to talking to the parents about an issue instead of submerging it.

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  10. option#1: An unconventional family is just as functional as a conventional type would be and can provide certain benefits and traits that supports them more than what the conventional family portray such as communication,affections, and economically.

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  11. #1: Through time, families have moved away from the conventional 1950's family towards unconventional families that function just as well and even benefit each of its members from traits that 1950's families didn't.

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  12. Option #2
    Two and a Half Men is an example of how a modern sitcom has changed since the mid 1900's by using basic themes from the 50's and adding today's family habits.

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  13. Option #2
    By examining the Simpsons one will be able to see what messages are displayed in the roll of each family member and how they affect one another.

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  14. Option 2.
    In television sitcoms in the 1950s served as a goal or an "idealistic instruction manual." Television sitcoms of modern times serves a different purpose and yet sends a similar message.

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  15. Option#1-

    In our modern society a family is what you make of it. Unconventional families are becoming just as “normal” and functional in our lives today. It is not about the number of heads counted at the dinner table or the gender of the children that makes a family normal, but it’s the tradition and rituals you help family members create,the memories you share, and the equality, caring, and love you show to one another.

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  16. Modern American family sitcoms have changed greatly over the past decades and relating to a much wider range of an audience because they are more realistic.

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  17. Option#2 While 50s sitcoms showed messages about how to obtain a more stereotypical family todays sitcoms show a more broad range of family types and don't necessarily show messages on how to create a proper family but more about how to solve family issues.

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  18. Option #2
    Modern sitcoms are different then those of the 1950's. 1950's sitcoms was set to show america the perfect family, and as in modern sitcoms they are meant to relate towards the typical american family.

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  19. #2
    Hard work and education is key to success no matter of ones racial background

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  20. Unconventional families provide traits that "traditional families" don't and can't always provide; such traits as wealth,love, and life lessons that can teach an individual be a better person.

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