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Jeremy Jone's Lifestyle and More.

Jeremy is a professional snowboarder most known for big mountain free riding. Jeremy has as well his own snowboard line and lot's of movies of his adventures climbing and riding mountains. He, as you may know is sponsored by O'Neill and some other brands, Jeremy as well is a really old snowboarder, with 37 years old being still on track you can tell he's one of the pro's. Today Jeremy is going to explain us a lot of things about snowboarding and some part of his personal life.

First of all I would like to ask you, How and Why did you start snowboarding?

Everything started when I was about 9 years old, I was living on England back then and a lot of friends of mine used to ride. After some time I bought my very first snowboard on which I started riding, and since the first time I went down hill I knew snowboarding was gonna be my call, that's how my heart got hooked forever.

Jeremy have you ever thought or tried any other extreme sport? 

No, I haven't tried any other sport but for Snowboarding, it's just that this sports full-fills my needs in every single way, economically, emotionally and physically. That's why I don't want to stop doing snowboarding, it's what I love and wouldn't change for everything. Although I have thought on doing other sports but yet I haven't tried them, it's like starting all over again on a different field.

What's the difference between Snowboards and Sandboards?

Well, I guess not much haha, it's basically the same perhaps snow is more dense than sand, this makes snowboarding sort of easier, and I can't bear with high temperatures. But snowboarding has it cons as well, to deal with all the cold we have to wear lots of clothes and such, it's stressing...

What do you spend your free time on?

On my free time I like to spend time with my wife and daughter, but free time doesn't mean no snowboarding for me, it's just a time to relax on Truckee while going to Squaw Valley so my wife and daughters can ride with me.

What's your favourite place to ride?

Alaska mainly, after riding for some years I decided to start doing big mountain free riding and the best place was Alaska, that's why I decided to go there and now I think that I'm going to stay for some time riding there, well at least until I find a better place, which is not going to happen.

Do you enjoy doing movies? Which one's your favourite and why? 

Yeah, actually I love showing to my fans all the stuff me and my team does to record such things, it's not easy but the results are awesome. I think my favourite one is Soul Purpose because it shows the best parts of snowboarding, in that movie we put much of effort to show the audience that we're here just because of love towards the sport, because we as riders have snowboarding as a soul purpose and not as a money gain activity.

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Image analysis

This ironic image tells us that we do not receive full information by the media, we just receive what they think is better for us to know, and what is not. We don't get full updates on terrorism, clandestine clans, etc. We just know the usual what will not make a disorder on society, this is why the media is a complete lie.

Media Manipulation Activity

1. What is Harold Laswell’s Chain of Communication’s Model? This models tries to explain how does the the media manipulation works, in which grade, etc. this is made by answering the following questions: Who(Speaker) -> What(Message) -> Channel(or Medium) -> Whom(audience) = Effect.

 2. What does the theorist Marshall McLuhan’s mean by stating that “the Medium is the Message”? The media decides what we should be informed about, what information doesn't require to be known (Area 51, CIA, etc). This is how the media manipulates us

 

 3. Refer to Jurgen Habermas’ “Public Sphere as a Platform for Advertising”

The public sphere constantly gives us a lot on information from different topics and different medias, this is why it's almost impossible for people to ignore what they're watching/listening

 4. What is the connection between Self-Presentation & the Celebrity Image?

Celebrities make their self-presentation make themselves more attractive to the
public.

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Loneliness brought from videogames addiction

Technollogy has advanced a lot during the last years, for almost every school task we use internet and if we want to have some fun, aswell, internet. This makes internet one of the most time consuming things we use, since we need it a lot for the mentioned tasks

This kind of use of technology seems to be really optimal, but everything has it pros and cons, computers may bring a huge fun to the user, there are millions of gamers around the world, wasting their time on games, facebook and anyother social network, this is a problem which can't be fixed since addicted people use at minimum 3 hours a day to play games so if the user is not able to play, he will not know what to do as a time spending activity. Social skills are lost upon gaming, and this is something you can't really teach because it's just nature therefore people addicted to games will be suffering through a good loneliness in their lives which may turn into depression. Eventually the user will be needing a daily dosis of gaming increasing this depression and the incomming effects which are agresiveness, stereotyping.

Each effect will be made because of their theme, such as shooting, fantasy, fighting, etc. The stereotypes for example, and the one we can see easily the classic "man stronger than woman", aswell video game addction can be compared to gambling addiction Excessive use of video games may have some or all of the symptoms of drug addiction or other proposed psychological addictions. Some players become more concerned with their interactions in the game than in their broader lives. Players may play many hours per day, neglect personal hygiene, gain or lose significant weight due to playing, disrupt sleep patterns to play resulting insleep deprivation, play at work, find themselves in the middle of nowhere looking into space for a considerable amount of time, avoid phone calls from friends, or lie about how much time they spend playing video games.

Some countries, such as South Korea, China, the Netherlands, Canada, and the United States, have responded to the perceived threat of video game addiction by opening treatment centers.

Because few clinical trials and no meta-analyses have been completed, research is still in the preliminary stages for excessive gaming treatment. The most effective treatments seem to be, as with addictions or dependencies, a combination of psychopharmacology, psychotherapy and twelve-step programs.

In conclusion, the use of internet may bring alot of pros, but some not concerned cons, on the internet we're able to search for almost everything, the use of books is no longer needed because of this, and the worst of all is the addiction it may bring to the user which will be growing making a physical need to play a game.

In this entrie, i will analyze the following quote:  

“Advertising is everywhere you look, whether it is in the newspaper you pick up daily or on that billboard you see while driving down the highway. Some people may say that they are not in fact influenced by the advertising that is thrown at them each day, and that they do not fall into it, but everyone does.”

First of all, is obvious, in any hour of the day you're reading, and if you're reading, everything popping out on your mind is making a kind of advertise on it, in any place, at any certain time you will lead to a sign saying "new burger on mcdonalds!" it doesnt even need to have letters to be an advertisement, for example an image of new shoes can mean alot of things, which for everybody will be different, and thats how advertisements come into your head, saying "i need to have those..".

Of course the advertisements just pop on our head, we dont even notice we're being manipulated by industries. That's why we dont even take a minute to think on them, we just read, analyze them, but after a few seconds it's gone and we didnt even notice it. Aswell these advertise cant be made for a general part of the society, they must separate it from man/woman, and any other people needs.

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