Martineau's thoughts on society.

After learning a lot about some of these famous sociologists, it's obvious that they would all have different takes on events that have occurred in our society. One particular aspect of our society that some of these sociologists might feel strongly about, would be how women are portrayed as sex symbols in the media. In the society we have created today, advertisers realize that sex sells. However, they resort to women to be sex symbols and bring in the money. In magazines, on commercials, billboards and pretty much every other type of advertising, women are degraded to nothing more than a way to catch the eye of the American people and persuade them into buying that particular good or using that service. This has become an epidemic and in my eyes, I don't see an end to it anytime soon. If Harriet Martineau were to see these ads, she would be appalled. As the founding mother of sociology, Martineau's main beliefs were related to feminism and those are the ideas which she is most famous and recognized for. After studying Martineau and learning quite a bit about her, I have a pretty good idea as to how she would react to this epidemic. Martineau would undoubtedly take a stand and fight for women to be seen as strong individuals rather than half naked girls trying to sell a product or service for a company. Advertisements using women to sell, may never come to an end, but she would fight for it the best she could.
Another part of our society that is problematic and an issue that Martineau would also fight for, is how women are paid less than men in the workplace. If a woman and a man are just as qualified for a job, yet the man receives higher pay than the woman, a problem arises. Harriet Martineau wants women to be respected in society and treated just as equally. Although she would be very happy that the women can even be employed and hold steady jobs and get paid, she still wouldn't settle if she knew that the women weren't getting paid as much as the men.Overall, until women are portrayed as strong, powerful individuals with the same rights and privileges as men, Martineau will not settle.

Who I am.

To many different people, I am viewed in many different ways. I have been influenced by many experiences and people as I have grown up and that has definitely impacted who I am today. I am a competitor and I love it. I have grown up with two older siblings and therefore have been around sports my entire life. Sports are my passion and that has created that competitive nature that I possess. I am also very opinionated yet open minded at the same time. My dad is a very stubborn and opinionated person and I have always taken after him in terms of standing behind my beliefs and ideas regardless of whether others agree or disagree. I have grown out of my stubborn ways quite a bit and have been much more open minded to ideas of others. I love to talk to people and hear what they have to say and allow their ideas to possibly work with my own and make something better because of it. I also love helping others. I hate to see other people fall behind and because of this I do what I can to help them. Finally, I'm probably one of the hardest working people you will ever meet. Occasionally I allow myself to be lazy, but knowing that I have wasted time doing nothing when I could be doing something to make myself better at something or being productive, bothers me and that's why I don't do it a lot.
I have a ton of goals set for myself. Probably too many. I really know what I want out of life and I want to be successful and because of this desire, I have quite a few goals. I have different goals for each aspect of my life between sports, school, family, etc. If I'm not setting a goal that doesn't push me to do better and be better, then that goal is not good enough. I have accomplished many goals throughout high school so far and I don't like to think about the future too much, but that is ultimately what my goals are set up for. Each one is set to make me better and more prepared for my future. Some goals I have for the rest of this year is to finish out this year strong academically and get A's in all of my classes. For sports, I want to get all conference and win conference for basketball. As well as go for a regional title. In softball I want to win conference for my senior year and finally win a sectional championship. I also want to make the first team all state.  For summer softball, my plans are to use that time to gets as prepared as I can for DePaul and go try and defend our national title. As I go on to college my goal is to succeed and do the best that I possibly can. I think that the way I am, allows me to set such high goals and have such a need to get the most out of everything I do. I love to do well and see others do well too :)