Blog #5

If I had to compare "Blankets"and the documentary "Jesus Camp", I would say they both speak on the subject of Religion mainly focusing on Christians.  "Jesus Camp" focuses on a camp of Christians and they discuss how they believe they should act and be trained so they can be a "example christian". I use this term because basically in all reality no one is really a example christian because they point out the flaws in how these people go about their religion. They make their religion look more of a group of people in a secret society, where as religion should be about the freedom to express who and what you believe in. It seems as if they are brain washing these children to be certain ways based on what they believe and the children can not decide for their selves what they want to do and be.

 In "Blankets", Craig goes to the same type of bible camp and they display the same type of values and flaws. They are forced to know and recite bible scriptures. One of his camp mates even makes fun of him for still reading the bible because he says their forced to read it enough.  The camp in the comic is basically just like the one described in the documentary "Jesus Camp", because people are forcing kids to relate to religions based on what they believe in. When in all reality it should be the kids choices to learn and believe in who and whatever they want to. 

Blog #4

    I choose this picture because it shows the diversity in women. They are all different shapes, sizes, and ethnicity's. They show that there is something different about all of the women in the world. It could also compare of how the women inside of the comics that we read all look like the women towards the right side of the picture but in reality they look like the women on the left side. All of these women are beautiful and this is why this is a on going problem in the world today because they want all the women in media outlets to look one way but in reality there are many types of women in the world.  This also relates to how the women in these comics are taught that they have to look certain ways to be featured as main characters in these comics. They aren't many overweight comic characters as depicted in the picture above. This also plays into the fact that many girls have low self esteem because they think they should look certain ways but no woman looks like another everyone is different in their own way. The women in the picture above are clearly different so why cant they be depicted as different in many different media outlets just as comics? There are many unanswered questions on why people are taught that they have to look and act a certain way to be featured in the media and the change starts with us as  a society and things will not change if we do not. This is how i think this picture relates to the diversity that is discussed in class and in the text.