Fake Katie Couric

The picture I chose was of Katie Couric being completely doctored because as a female I think it was wrong of the editors to do that. They made her into something she is not and showed everyone especially little girls how females "should" be seen as. They showed something that is not true also. The person they made does not exist because it was not truly Katie Couric. The picture was originally CBS's official first picture of Katie Couric. Watch magazine took the original and doctored it for their September issue. The picture dramatically slimmed down Katie Couric in her body and face and changed her skin tone. Also her suit was darkened. It was manipulated to make her look better in the eyes of the magazine. They wanted her to look more "appealing" to readers. The manipulation was harmful because it made an unreal person. Katie Couric is an average woman who can appeal to average women across the nation, but the magazine turned her into something she is not. Girls can see the picture and think they have to be skinny and develop disorders that are unhealthy. They would try to change themselves into someone who does not exist and that needs to change. Magazines need to leave pictures alone and let the true inner stand out.

COPYRIGHT

Copyright is a huge issue. I partially agree with many of the laws. I do think that people should not be allowed to download thousands of songs for free. Artists and musicians work hard to make a living. I do also believe that record labels are too harsh on little cases. They should not force someone to pay millions or even hundreds of thousands of dollars for downloading five songs. They need to go after the people downloading thousands of songs and selling them. In regards to artwork or literature, I think the laws can be a little ridiculous, especially when it comes to using works in projects. People are too money crazy and that fuels their cases. Sure, if someone tries to claim something that is not theirs, that's bad. But just using something in an assignment with should be OK. People have just become too greedy. Everything is about how much they can get and how much they can sell it for. The world needs to get their priorities straight and change.

Network Diagram of Trinity's LAN(Local Area Network)

Visited by Joe Hatch

This past Thursday, my computer class was visited by Joe Hatch who is a User Support Services Analyst. He gave us some survival tips about the Trinity network and about how to make our computers work better and faster. The most interesting thing he showed us, at least for me, was about the cleaner. I used it on my computer and deleted 257MB of junk on my computer. I also was fascinated by the disk defragmenter. I love anything that helps my computer run faster. My dad has been telling me forever to do these things to my computer to make it better, but I never knew how. I am so glad I learned how to do these things and hopefully my dad will get off my back now. = ) Yeah for happy, faster computers!

Hello my name is Alana!

Hey, I’m Alana Ramos. I’m from San Antonio, TX and this is my first year at Trinity. I go by Alana and I was born and raised in San Antonio. I went to St. Anthony Catholic School from three years old to eighth grade. That school is about five blocks from Trinity. For high school I went to Incarnate Word High School, an all girl school, which is about ten feet from Trinity so I know the area extremely well. I have been wearing plaid uniforms since first grade and am so glad to be able to where regular clothes for school. When I was little I played soccer, softball, basketball, and volleyball. While doing that, I was also in pep squad, dance team, and took two dance classes. Interesting fact(interesting not secret): I cheered for St. Anthony High School, where my only brother is a freshmen, which you can see from some of the dorm rooms in the back of the Trinity campus.

I have been taking dance classes since I was three. I have taken tap, jazz, ballet, polka, lyrical, Broadway, and recently modern and swing dancing. My favorites are tap and jazz because you have to have so much energy and character when you dance. I watch every dance show on TV like So You Think You Can Dance and America’s Best Dance Crew. I used to dance in a polka group that goes around the county performing. I love dancing and watching people dance because it’s freeing your spirit and expressing yourself in movement.

Besides dancing, I love to sing, even though I sound bad. My senior superlative was “Able to sing a song to a random word” because at school while talking to my friends, they could say a random word and I would just start singing to a song that has that word in it. For example, if someone was talking about a brand new shirt they just bought, I would start singing “I Want You to Want Me” by Cheap Trick where the song would go, “Ill shine up the old brown shoes, put on a brand new shirt. Ill get home early from work if you say that you love me.” My love of singing comes from my love of music. I love all types of music except country. I don’t hate it, but I don’t love it either. All other types I love to listen to and probably have on my mp3 player. Other favorites I have are: color-purple, food-soft pretzels and cotton candy, and animal-dolphin. new students. I will also be working in the library so look for me the next time you are in there.

My computer background is not too extensive. I have taken a basic computer class but that was before Microsoft 2007 came out. Last year I took a multimedia class where I worked with Photoshop. I have also made a two minute cartoon with Flash.

P.S(ecret). This summer I went to Seattle with my cousin for two weeks to escape the heat in San Antonio but ended up getting there when they had a record high heat wave. My cousin and I then went to Long Beach and Waikiki which are in Washington State where the temperature was in the low to mid sixties. It was so cold but felt so good.

Thanks for reading!

Alana = )

alana.ramos@trinity.edu