Media Final Research

Are Romantic Movies Bad For You?
http://www.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,1868389,00.html

The Science of Romance: Why We Love
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1704672,00.html

Sex and Relationships in the Media
http://www.media-awareness.ca/english/issues/stereotyping/women_and_girls/women_sex.cfm

Young People, Media and Personal Relationships
https://comminit.com/en/node/211486/307

Mass Media Influences
http://www.lcc.gatech.edu/~herrington/gcp/Ethnology/media_ethn.htm

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=3797338280660842276#

My Presentations
Media presents romance in fantastic and appealing ways that affect our views on romance and relationships.

Blog 18

I am not completely sure what I'm going to do for my final or how to present it, but I'm narrowing down my ideas and picking the best one to stand behind.

Blog 16

If I am correct, I do believe that I agree with the author, Nixon's claim that we are possibly living in The Matrix, but it is not probable.
The possibility of The Matrix is that the world that we currently live in is controlled by machines; machines that control us and the environment around us, machines we created. The probability of The Matrix being real is not true to me. We can say there is a Matrix, but it can't be proven. The fact that someone wrote on the idea of The Matrix makes it possible, but there haven't been any concrete methods or ways to prove it. Like the movie, when Morpheus states that the Matrix has to be seen to be believed and understood, I believe it is the same in our world. Seeing it would be a solid way of proving it, but being that we haven't found or figured out a way to prove The Matrix really exists then it is possible, but not probable.