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I thought the one story of reframing mexico city that spoke to me the most was one called: Dark life. In this story the girl being interviewed had both audio and video to present her troubles with her fashion and how it disables her from a lot of different things. This effected me because i have the exact same problem most of the time, just because i dress a certain way doesn't mean that I'm not respectful and a good student.
In my class memoir i decided to take one of the funniest moments i've had here at Columbia and made it into a hilarious movie/comic thingy! It's going to be great.

Blue Collar Blues

When Einreich begins the piece it is more of a set up to be a sarcastic reenactment of a job she seemed pretty apathetic about, but in reality i feel like Einreich showed that this moment that at first sounds insignificant soon became extremely important in how the rest of her life is viewed. Throughout the piece she talks about all the bad things that seem to go on at Jerry's. But in the span of them there appears a lot of experiences that had made her a stronger person.
My reaction to the piece was more like a situation i couldn't believe i related too. Though i had never had a shitty cleaning lady job. I realized that for something i wanted, or in Einreich's situation 'needed' you have to expirence both the highs and the lows. Even in my own life i'm almost thankful for almost all my mistakes because in the end how would i appreciate right discussions and things that mean so much to me.

Modern Family

In the Fifties and sixties there was a concrete portrayal of the perfect family, a domestic stay at home wife, a hard working father and two obedient and polite children. As the years goes by, the media slowly begins to adjust to a more realistic view of the family. Especially with such a high divorce rate, interracial marriages and other things that have jut recently been more mainstream. I think the portrayal in modern family expresses that not only has the media changed, in what we can actually show on television, and that american standards have changed. It's not that desirable now to have a stay at home parent when the economy is so bad. And now the power and authority of the family comes more or less from the mother and father, or even the kids. We have almost eliminated the nuclear family completely. But somehow most of the values of the old fifties family feels the same. We all try to get along with each other (we try at least) and we try to support our families through one or more incomes and we all try to have some sort of bonding time, though not so much at the table anymore. I like that this sort of change is happening in the media. Because as a society we are changing so fast, i hope the media can keep up. But with shows like modern family i feel like we are definitely going in the right direction.

Bah Bah Black Sheep

Even though I look so much like my parents, I couldn't be more different for either of them. My mom works as a lunch lady part time and at a local cafeteria. She loves cooking, and (while she'd never admit it) cleaning. She thinks horror movies are the devil, and doesn't understand any sort of music besides the 'easy listening genre. My father is an insurance agent who mostly works out of our house, in the minnesotan suburbs. He, a little more open to things then my mother, enjoys a good joke and has more of my sense of humor then my mother. Even though me and my dad get along, we are very different people personality wise. My dad is one of the patient and tolerant men i've ever known and my mother one of the most temperamental, my brother follows suit of my mother in thats sense. My brother is your average teenage boy, who enjoys a good game of high school football and some of the more popular music on the radio. But for me, I really am none of the above. Though my family loves and respects me, which took all to long to achieve, I have a personality i feel is completely different from that of any of my immediate family members.   Im never afraid to tell anyone how i feel about something. I'm blunt and I provoke controversy. Unlike the rest of my family who prefers to stay under the radar in almost every situation. Im sarcastic and i have a sense of humor that is probably considered 'sick' and 'dark' because i love all obscenities and i love making people feel uncomfortable, and creating shock value; (most of my own humorist satisfaction comes from trying to creep people out). My musical taste run to the performers who venture out in extreme costumes with lyrics that challenge routine and american norms. I love constantly trying to change peoples ideas and make them really think. A lot of my personality as far as morals go, do come from my family in some aspect, I'm always very respectful to adults (unless they have previously judged my character, then of course i give them exactly who they want me to be.) But In a backwards sense i feel like i was never trying to 'spit' my family in anyway, i've juts always had a completely different view on the world that my family had a hard time being able to relate to.