Newboy created this Barbie because the other Barbie’s wore revealing clothes and gave the wrong message to young girls. This Barbie they created is known as “Fulla” and she is covered head to toe and she wears a Hijab. This is a very cultural Barbie which shows the religion of the Arabs. People want to buy this Barbie because it gives the right message out to young girls who play with dolls. It teaches them about culture and what they do in Arab culture and how its might be very different from everybody else but it is still unique. Parents don’t want a Barbie who is wearing short skirts and tones of make-up because it sets a bad example for young children. Some parents want a Barbie that will teach their children about culture and that’s where Fulla comes in. Shahira Kashlan is a parent who was happy with the Fulla Barbie and she said, “Her clothes don’t expose.” Since November 2003 they sold 1.5 million Fulla Barbie’s. Young girls who play with the normal American Barbie’s probably look at them and say that they want to be like that. When they get older they will probably want to wear make-up and wear those small skirts and carry around purses. The Fulla doll gives a positive message than the American dolls. I think it was a good idea to create this Barbie because it gives the right message out and it is very different from all the other Barbie’s and that’s why it makes it unique.
I don’t think it’s fair to make fun of Britney’s figure because she’s a singer not a model. So, there really is no point in judging her body and other singers may have looked like that in the past after having a baby or something. It doesn’t matter how you look because if you start judging celebrity’s figures than you are basically making fun of every other women whose body size is big and making them feel more insecure about themselves. Britney has 2 kids so if she doesn’t look like how she looked before, I think its okay. But I kind of understand why people were talking about her figure. I think it was because of her outfit she was wearing at the VMA’s and I think she could’ve worn something different then exposing her body that much. One thing I don’t understand is why people judge all celebrities like sometimes they are too skinny or when they gain weight, they are too fat. They can never be perfect for anyone.
On September 11th, 2001, I was in R.L Hyslop School in grade 5. I think we were told at school about what had happened and we were little at that time and we didn’t really react to it. Some kids were like “Cool” and some kids were worried because they seen the teacher panic and just stop what they were doing. My parents were worried because some of our relatives lived there and I remember my parents calling my cousin up who lived there and made sure they were okay. My parents were terrified when they heard what happened but they were relieved that our relatives were not harmed. I remember when I came back home I went to my cousins house and we were all sitting there watching the Twin Towers and how it all happened. That’s what we watched over and over on T.V because all the channels were broadcasting the Twin Towers falling. My cousins were a little older and mature and they were shocked because this kind of stuff never happens in reality. At that time I didn’t know much about the Twin Towers so it didn’t affect me as much but now when I look back at it, I can feel the pain the people have went through and how much harm is has done.
In Alan Jackson’s song “Where you were” he says “I cannot tell the different between Iraq and Iran.” Well, neither can I. I don’t know the difference between Iraq and Iran probably because it doesn’t matter to me and it is probably the same for Alan Jackson. Alan Jackson is basically saying that CNN plays things for people’s entertainment not for educational purposes. This also says that people don’t care about what they are watching because they don’t understand anything about what they are watching.
I think Alan Jackson’s song describes a vivid variety of the manifestation of grief, from sorrow to rage to depression to political activism because it talks about people who lost their loved ones. He also says, “Did you feel guilty cause you’re a survivor.” Alan is trying to get you thinking deep down and wants you to connect to your feelings and wants you to think what you were doing that day while all these other people went through a traumatic tragedy. He wants you to feel every emotion and what you would feel if you were in a position where your loved one was hurt or involved in the 9/11.
I think the production of these films are educational because the people who will watch these movies will kind of feel what the other people went through but for other people who were actually there for real life felt it wasn’t real at all and felt like they were in a movie. I think they do exploit the deaths for entertainment and profit because they know people who haven’t seen the Twin Towers fall want to watch it on movie. Movie producers know that so many people outside the world, who haven’t seen this big traumatic event, will want to watch it at some point and it will make them tones of profit. It is very obvious that someone was going to make a movie on this because of how much profit they were going to make. In one of the video’s a person said “this is so F*****’ real” by this quote you can feel people didn’t think this was real they thought they were in a movie because these kind of things happen in movies. People make movies for people’s entertainment and profit nothing more than that. The video clips of 9-11 and United 93, The World Trait Centre and the Spider-man trailer of WTC are all very touching. Just to see what has or would have happened to people it scares you. If people would not make movies like this then people around the world wouldn’t know what people have gone through.
The Spider-man WTC trailer was cancelled and now shown on T.V because the Two Twin towers were in it and in the trailer Spider man was jump back and forth on them. When they were going to show the trailers on T.V the twin towers were no longer there. They didn’t want to show the trailer because they didn’t want people to remember the past and get emotional and go through the trauma because some people have lost family members or even relatives in the incident.
