Kristin vs Eugene

     Kristin expects her whole figure to be changed, due to the fact that Italian people are known to be on the skinner side. She says that Italians are meant to be skinny, toned, tanned, and be bigger-boobed. She also said before the image that she bets that she could look like someone trying to sell jeans in the catalog. But when Kristin’s image is altered, it’s exactly the way she thought it would be. Her photoshop turned out to be skinny, a bit more tanned, and she gained a little more boob. She said it was creepy, but it was okay to have fat in your boobs and butt. However, she countered her bet, saying she didn't think she would buy jeans from herself. She also said, if she were to hide her head, that would be her Italian cousins. But what she learned is that she is full of imperfections, but she is better than the parts that she says are imperfect. But changing the way you are, isn't going to make you look any better. 

    Eugene however, notices that they are comparing themselves to someone who was already beautifully sculpted. So, he is expecting a little more definition, and the photos to be altered, just like Channing Tatum. The photos are altered in black and white, and Eugene’s photos have been stitched together, to get the right pose. At first, Eugene is just silent for a long time. He realized he will always somehow have a problem with his body. Cause even with the photo altered, he still thinks his stomach is fat. He said that instead of criticizing himself, he should take on things that are more important.

Finances and Relationships

 Cameron Russel, known as a very popular model, shows the economic ways of being a model, she gains free stuff, and her whole career is based on the way she looks. Her body and face structures gave her that type of economic advantage, allowing her to get further into life, and allowing her to be more successful.  But when it comes to relationships, she helped a friend getting out of a speeding ticket just because of her beauty. 

And then there was Tom Chiarella. A person who took their days to dress up as four different types of workers.  A doctor, a priest, a security guard and a car maintenance man. Different views were put on each character. And the community relationships showed. When he was a priest, everyone thought they needed to be around him, everyone admired him. They wanted him to notice them, no matter what they looked like. And when he was a doctor, everyone wanted to help him, and got out of his way whenever he was in a "rush" somewhere. However when he was a security guard and car mechanic, no one gave him attention. Especially when Tom was the mechanic. But when it came financially, as a doctor, they make more money economically. So the doctor gained the respect of money, therefore, the maintenance man, was completely ignored.

Real World of Weddings

 As you may realize, having a wedding is one of the top most goals for most people. However, there are hidden truths behind the reality of weddings. In Wedding Confidential, there were multiple truths that were revealed. The average cost for a wedding for NORMAL weddings is just about 27,000 dollars. And while that might be surprising.. In the other video, Adam Ruins Weddings, He states that weddings are basically just displays of a person's wealth. 

So when it comes to the wealth of a Bride and Groom, it affects how much they will actually spend to have their best days. But back in the days, weddings used to be very informal, and most brides could not afford white fabric, or they didn't care, as white fabric was so easy to get dirty. And anything white back then was very expensive. So it was much more cheaper, just going the cheaper ways of weddings, and just having smaller weddings. 

Belle Knox vs Rehteah Parsons

 Belle Knox and Rehteah Parsons came from different backgrounds. They both went to highschool, and lived their normal lives as normal as they could. Until both of them chose different paths. One a porn-star, and one who committed suicide due to rape. 

Rehteah grew up and was born on December 9th, 1995. She was one of those kids were so confident in themselves, and wanted change in the world. But a terrible tragedy happened. That was rape. She went with her girl friend to another home of 2  young boys and decided to have fun by drinking. Reteah then became utterly drunk, and had no control of what happened to her.  After that, 2 more guys showed up and decided to rape her. They took photos of her and spread it around. After this, she was called a slut, harassed, and shamed. After 17 long months of fighting anxiety and depression, she took her life, by hanging. 

But it wasn't only rape that both of these girls in common, it was also the experiences of being slut-shamed. 

Miriam Weeks, formerly known as Belle Knox in the porn industry, had also had an experience of rape. Which also had turned her to be slut shamed. It's so common for women to be slut-shamed, and honestly something needs to be changed. It's caused many deaths of people who have been raped, and the stereotypical slut-shaming needs to go. But Belle Knox, still went into the porn industry after being raped. She didn't end her life, she moved on, and made herself stronger. Although it's still a sensitive topic for her, she went to college, all while being in the porn industry.  Being a porn-star and being in college, was a really surprising fact to me. But she left college with no debt to her name. 

Reteah sadly passed away in her Highschool years due to all the problems that were thrown at her, but made a change for other's lives. She helped other's lives by donating what organs could be used. Sadly, due to the loss of oxygen, her brain was damaged and it couldn't be donated to those who needed it. But she changed others lives by improving the way they lived. Her eyes, liver and other important organs were donated. 

So these girls had their differences, one being a donator, and ending her life. While the other was a pornstar and went to college. But similarly to eachother, they were both victims of rape, and they both were slut-shamed in result of so. These girls have so many other things that were different and similar from eachother, that this conversation could go for a much longer time than it would need to. 

Teen's Beliefs

 

Porn for any kind of teenager can be somewhat disturbing if they are just learning about the misconceptions of the sex industry. But there is a point in time where teenagers are required (in some states) to be taught about sex. Iowa, the state that I am from, is required to have a sex education program, and some of the things I learned from sex education mostly caused me to not like the whole program. I thought the program was disgusting, but it wasn’t until I was older and realized, I didn’t learn what I was wanting to learn from sex education. 

There are many other students just like me who want to learn something, but from Sex Education, they aren’t getting those answers. So they look towards porn to get their answers. However, many younger teens tend to learn false acquisitions of sex from watching porn, some acquisitions I found from What Teens Are Learning From Online Porn give examples of this problem which are quoted,  “Some of those same teenagers assumed the portrayal how how sex and pleasure worked was largely accurate,” and “Drew told me he got the sense that girls wanted to be dominated not only from reading a few pages of “Fifty Shades Of Grey” but also from watching the movie “Mr. & Mrs. Smith”’.

When it says that some teenagers believed the portrayals of the sexual content and how pleasure actually worked, this shows how much we really know about the real side of porn. In porn, teens think it’s mostly a reality, when in fact, most of the porn-stars are acting. Sometimes over-acting in most cases. So when teens are learning about pleasure and sex from porn, they may use it for their personal times with their significant other. But in most cases, teens then realize that porn is actually a whole acting scenario and realize it’s not how real sex works. 

Then reading about Drew’s statement, I, as a woman, tend to disagree. Books, Videos, and movies always can make that sense of a woman wanting to be dominated, but in reality that’s not always the case. There are some people who want to take over sometimes and that is okay, it doesn’t always have to be the male being “dominant.” It just makes it fun for both sides of the coin. “Fifty Shades of Grey” is meant to have that portrayal of women being submissive as it was meant to be a sexy movie. It allows both genders to imagine what they would be doing if they were in that scenario. 

But when they are learning about how those statements are incorrect, they learn that consent is majorly important in reality. While porn had already been set in stone, you can’t back out of a shot, otherwise you could be shamed. But consent is key in real life, when a woman says stop, or a man says stop, or the word, “NO”. All things that are happening in that moment need to stop, immediately. This goes with the first quote, as the second quote though, Drew started to think of the whole porn world differently, not just males being dominant, he said it was important for him to figure out what he liked by actually getting out there and trying new things, not just watching porn. And he had also realized that women don’t act the same way as they do in porn, which is a very huge outcome for him. So these students learned so much just in 3 weeks to finally get their real answers, and it taught them what they wanted to know. Which is very important to the new generations coming to play. 

Pay For Sport Players

The statistics of how much a College Football game makes and the salary payments for those playing College
Football needs to be attended to. Players who play football can’t always for-see a possible injury in a season.
Nor can they get a direct number from their coach based on a scholarship. Though with that possible injury
while on the field, it can also determine a football player's future. So with a payment for each game a player
plays while on the field, can help those players who may get a possible injury. In which by using the money
that they earned playing football can pay for most of the expenses, if at all. By which, I think Football players
should be receiving salaries based on their football experience in college.

I will be going over a few main reasons why we should be paying Football College Athletes. These reasons include
from the sources, Should College Students Be Paid? And The Myth of the Sports Scholarship.
 If an injury happens on the field, and they lose their scholarship. They would then have to pay their whole tuition in
full, which could take many more years now without that scholarship and without being paid. On top of that,
they would even have to pay for the expenses of each and every injury that had occurred to them while on
the field. But on the down low, there could be other players who get paid more than the other player. 
Then with the fact of College Sports bringing in so much money every year, not all of it is being used, sometimes it
just is being distributed amongst bigger companies while the students are doing all the hard work. With their
hard work, some colleges aren’t giving students that type of opportunity to get more money to use towards
their education and learning. Which is sometimes not allowing college students to keep going to school. As
you know though, school is the most important thing. But College comes with a cost. How would you expect
a newly graduated college scholar to pay all that money back? Well, that answer is simple, pay
the students accordingly, help them pay their schooling, and let them enjoy the years of college while
they have them. Another low could be the students overworking themselves for the best scholarship, or
the best play, and sometimes that isn't fair either.

There is said to be that the NCAA provides insurance, but only 12 have been accepted in the last 20 years. Why?
Well because that player has recovered, even in the slightest bit possible. Then those who are permanently
hurt from playing football, are the ones who get the insurance.  So without that insurance many people are
in trouble there as well. The medical bills will just keep racking up without some kind of good insurance
that will cover most of the expenses. So even if players do get paid, that will help them immensely. 
There are also times when people are trying to get scholarships that their coaches will try to make a “good” deal with
their recruiters. When in reality that said coach will most likely never give you an exact number. And that is
what worries me the most. They say they will give you the best scholarship ever, but in reality only be such
a small percent of a full scholarship. So with smaller scholarships, more people are out of luck. So having
them paid will help with all the expenses that a player will ever endure. 

But then of course, there's the one person who declines the said argument of paying student athletes. And that was
Christine Brennan. She had pointed out a good argument and said that if one sport was being paid, Why not
other sports? The single most important thing here is the fairness of paying for other sports as well. It’s
strong because she actually has a point, what about the other players of the sports world? What will they
do without that extra payment on top of their scholarships? Well, they would probably have a
complete riot if that was the case. It would be fair to pay for other sports as well. But that's not my
side of the matter.

Trauma and Heatstroke

 In Football High, there were many different problems that the documentary had covered. But there were two that had really stuck out to me. One being the inclination of CTE in high schoolers and two being the rise of heatstroke of high schoolers with the rising heat index. These are two different scenarios of high school football athletes, and I think something needs to be acknowledged. Highschool Football is getting to be more aggressive, which can lead to others being hurt, some being killed over time due to trauma. 

Trauma in Football is caused by the brain progressively and repeatedly getting concussion after concussion. CTE also known as Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy, has become more common in High schoolers due to the more force that they take and endure compared to college students. And those smaller athletes have been said to hit with their head, and by that, their actual heads, causing more trauma to their brains. You would think that a high school student wouldn’t have something like CTE. But in recent years, it's been becoming more common among younger students. 

As you’ve noticed our summers have been relatively hotter as the years go by, and that is due to the possibility of climate change. This problem of the heat index rising has caused many high school students to pass out from the heat possibly having a heat stroke. Which can be deadly if not dealt with properly and as quickly as possible. In the Documentary, it covered two different students from two different schools. Will James and Tyler Davenport were two students who had both collapsed from heat stroke the same Month of August 2010. Yet the only one to come out of the coma was Will. Why was this? Well, Will had an athletic trainer on field, at all practices, while Tyler in fact, did not. So in that case, Tyler was left to the hands of his coach and his teammates to do something, when they didn’t know what they were supposed to do. Which led to his body being above the regulating body heat it was supposed to be at, which then caused his body to be more damaged. 

Some types of possibilities that can decline the inclination of CTE and Heat strokes in high schoolers/college students are listed. 

For CTE: immediately take a player off the field if they are having symptoms of a concussion. Possibly get better helmets for the players or better protective gear in general. Remind your players it's never good to use your head in a situation, even if the other team is stronger. These are only some ideas that I thought of for preventing CTE. 

For Heat Stroke: Some ideas may be to possibly get an athletic trainer to be on your field, or someone who knows what to do in a bad situation. Make sure to watch your players closely, if any sight of weakness or struggles, don't overload them especially on a very hot day. Make sure water is on the field, at all times, make sure there are many breaks given to any athletes, even the non-fit ones.