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The 2nd annual SD&I Fast50
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G4S Technology (no. 14)—G4S Technology, based in Omaha, Neb., formerly Adesta, integrates some of the most complex security and communications systems in the industry today, according to Bob Sommerfeld, president. "We believe the fast growth of our company, including substantial increases in gross revenues, employee headcount and new projects, can be attributed to our strategy of providing every customer with a total solution for all their security and technology convergence needs. We offer a unique combination of personnel, project management, risk management, financing and technology solutions that makes G4S a very unique partner in the industry today."
Sommerfeld said that in 2012 G4S captured a significant amount of work with new customers in the port, mass transit and utility industries, while establishing a new regional presence in the Pacific Northwest. "We also generated a large amount of new work with current customers," he continued. "In addition, we continue to concentrate on developing a strong recurring revenue stream by offering maintenance and professional services and capturing a rich and diversified mix of business."
Compass Tech Systems (no. 18)—Dave Sims, vice president of the Jacksonville, Fla., summed up the company's growth to two words: Customer service. "When we established Compass Tech Systems in 2011, we became just another security dealer in northeast Florida. With security products being very similar these days there are limited areas to differentiate your company from all the others. The thing that seems to be the most lacking in our industry is customer service. We all do a great job selling our company, our abilities, products lines, warranty period, etc. in effort to win a customer's trust. What happens onceyou'vecashed their check and moved onto the next project? What priority do you place correcting problems for the customer you worked so hard to gain in the first place? If it's not right up at the top, the chance of repeat business and word of mouth advertising will be slim to none. Take care of your customers; they're the best sales force you'll ever have," Sims said.
Rapid Security Solutions (no. 19)—"We are able to maintain our growth by remaining dedicated to a focused strategy of providing best-in-class solutions to our clients," said Steven Paley, president of the Sarasota, Fla., company. "We integrate technologically advanced products and systems and support our clients with the absolutely finest team of individuals a company could have. We believe our team members are our most important asset and continually train and support them to ensure they are the best they can be."
Dowley Security Systems (no. 20)—"Reputation in the security industry is something that must be earned," said Jeff Fields, PSP, CHS III and general manager."Through dedication and perseverance of everyone on the Dowley team, we continue to achieve positive, proven results that make us a best-in-class service provider to those we serve.We are of a mindset that there are no problems without solutions. Our best work comes from assembling a team of 'like thinkers' to resolve conflict or create value through continuous improvement.The essence of Dowley success is the team approach.This is validated through the proven hard work by dedicated employees that put the customer first".
Advance Technology (no. 27)—"A couple of years ago, Advance Technology went on a visionary mission to find the latest and greatest solutions to help better support our customers and provide them with the best technology on the market," said Rob Simopoulos, vice president. "After our international search, we developed our unique offering of Remote Support Services, Managed Services and Cloud-Based Solutions.Today, our in-house engineers and Help Desk are repairing customers systems remotely, often without needing to send a technician onsite.We are providing our customers systems without the need for them to make an investment in servers, storage and software service agreements."
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Although many college students have expressed concern about not getting hired by possible future employers due to their incriminating pictures on Facebook, Chad "Keg Press" Broheem of State University has discovered that this is not always the case. After seeing a Facebook picture of Broheem funneling a bottle of Smirnoff vodka, the Anheuser-Busch company has offered him a job as their official new taste tester.
"In the past, we've had a big problem with our taste testers coincidentally dying from alcohol poisoning," said John H. Purnell, chairman and chief executive officer of Anheuser-Busch International Inc. "But this Chad kid funneled an entire bottle of vodka, and, according to our best sources, he is still alive. I think he's just what we're looking for. If he can do that with liquor, imagine what he can do with beer."
According to Broheem, the picture was taken at Beta Lambda Chi's 37th Annual Golf Pros and Tennis Ho's Party, an event which was described by 78 percent of its attendees as "straight ballin'."
"Betas are pretty well known at State for being the best drinkers and the hardest partiers," said Broheem. "But some douche from another college who somehow made it into our party started saying that the Betas at his school were really lame. As social chair, it was basically my duty to prove this guy wrong, so I grabbed the closest bottle of liquor I could find, funneled the whole thing, and was like, How's THAT for lame, bro!' Then things got sort of hazy and I woke up on the roof next to my English professor and a jar of peanut butter. But I think I made my point."
The picture was taken by Broheem's longtime friend and fellow Beta member Bill "Bill" Paddington.
"I always knew Chad could put them away, but a whole bottle of liquor? Damn," said Paddington. "I was pretty sure he was going to die, but I couldn't do anything to stop him. When the honor of the Betas is at stake, you do what you gotta do."
Paddington was able to confirm most of Broheem's story, although his version did not include Broheem's exclamation of "How's THAT for lame bro!"
"He definitely said something after he finished the vodka," said Paddington, "but it didn't really sound like that. It sounded more like, Hrrlmbroot.'"
According to Broheem's Facebook profile, he is set to graduate from State University in 2009 with a major in beer pong and a minor in freshman girls with low self-esteem. However, after his job offer from Anheuser-Busch, Broheem said he is no longer sure if he plans to stay in school.
"I would love to spend another year here with the Betas," he said, "but job offers like this don't come around very often. There's no guarantee that the job will still be around a year from now. Hell, there's no guarantee I'll still be around a year from now!"
Broheem's doctor confirmed this statement, saying, "If Chad keeps up with his current lifestyle, he should be dead from cirrhosis or some STD in about six months."
Purnell could not confirm whether or not Anheuser-Busch would keep the job position open for Broheem if he decides to remain in college for another year.
"Chad's a great kid, and we would definitely love to have him on the team," said Purnell. "At the same time, there are a lot of Facebook profiles out there that we haven't looked at yet, and if we find someone who looks to be as good of a drinker as Chad is and who wants the job now, we will probably have to offer it to him."
Despite this apparent lack of job security, Broheem did not appear worried.
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Bishop Michael F. Olson met with Pope Francis Thursday, September 18, 2014 as part of a delegation of new bishops who have been appointed by the Pope in the last year. Bishop Olson has been in Rome attending a conference for the new bishops who are from around the world.
Pope Francis addressed the delegation of bishops, telling them "nothing is more important than introducing people to God!" During the Papal session, Bishop Olson met individually with Pope Francis.
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Are you done shopping? I remember years ago it was almost Christmas and I hadn't done any shopping for my kids, so my husband baby-sat and I ran uptown late afternoon and shopped. I got the kids a little gift, my mother some cotton stocking, and my dad a necktie. I had a $20.00 bill to spend, so ended up with $2.00 left, put in some gas and went home. I wonder how many mothers now days would like a pair of cotton stocking for their gift or dads a cheap necktie. Christmas shopping was fun years ago, but the prices and also the gifts have really gotten out of hand. I guess to put it my way "we all have too much." Merry Christmas.
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Public Goods and Spillover Benefits Review for AP Economics
Review questions for this study guide can be found at:
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Main Topics: Private and Public Goods, Spillover Benefits and Positive Externalities
Private and Public Goods
So far, when discussing goods and services, we have focused on private goods and services. Private goodsare goods that are both rival and excludable. A bag of potato chips and a cup of herbal tea are all private goods. These are rival in that only one person can consume the good, and so consumption by one consumer necessarily means another cannot. Private goods are excludable in that consumers who do not pay for the good are excluded from the consumption.
Public goodshowever, are special cases where the goods are both nonrival and nonexcludable. These characteristics mean that one person's consumption does not prevent another from also consuming the good. If a public good is provided to some, it is necessarily provided to all, even if they do not pay for the good. Common examples of public goods are national defense, local fire and police services, space exploration, and environmental protection.
Who Pays?
In the case of private goods, each individual decides whether he or she is going to pay the going price. If the marginal benefit to me is at least as high as the price, I might decide to purchase and consume the good. For private goods, those who want the good badly enough are the ones who pay.
Maybe you have confronted the difficulty in paying for a public good if you have been assigned a group project in school. If each group member receives the same grade, regardless of his or her level of effort, some members of the group might slack off and benefit from the hard work of the others. If this sounds familiar, you have experienced the free-rider problem.The free-rider problem pops up whenever some members of the community understand that they can consume the public good while others provide for it.
A small town has a community meeting to decide how to pay for local police protection. The mayor passes a collection plate around the room and we each make a voluntary donation toward this public good. There are some difficulties with paying for a public good in this way. How much do I use or value the next unit of police services in my protection? Is this more than, less than, or the same as my neighbor's use and value of police protection? It is impossible to answer this question and even if it were possible to determine how much my neighbor values police service, maybe he won't pay his fair share. After all, if police protection is going to be provided to the entire community, and this protection cannot be denied to anyone, some members of the community might become free riders.The free-rider problem and the nonexcludable nature of public goods require that the government collect taxes to pay for their provision.
Spillover Benefits
In graduate school I rented a small house on a dead-end street. On the other side of the street, two older ladies had an immaculately landscaped yard with gorgeous rosebushes. Riding my mountain bike home from campus I was happy to see, and smell, the results of their hard yard work. I'm sure that I was not the only neighbor who felt that way. When one person's consumption of a good provides utility to a third party who has not directly purchased the good, there exist spillover benefitsthat are not reflected in the market price of that good. In my case, my neighbors went to the trouble, expense, and effort, to beautify their yard. In the process, they beautified the neighborhood and provided benefits to those of us who received utility from the landscaping and the roses. This situation is described as a positive externalityand is illustrated in Figure 11.1.
The market demand curve for roses captured the private benefits received by consumers of roses, but did not capture the additional benefits received by neighbors of those who consumed roses. Figure 11.1 incorporates the spillover benefits to the market for roses. The private demand curve, which does not include the spillover benefits, lies below the societal demand curve. The market produces only Qmkt roses, but the optimal amount is greater at Qsocial. Because the market produces less than the socially optimal amount, it is said that there is an underallocation of resources to rose production. In other words, society wants more than the market provides.
- The existence of spillover benefits in a market results in an underallocation of resources in that market. In other words, there is not enough of a good thing.
The older ladies who lived across the street from my house were essentially pro-viding a public good that we might call "community beautification" and the rest of us were free riding on their activity. How could we have contributed to the provision of the public good? Maybe we could have brought these ladies cash donations, or we could have volunteered our labor. Each of these gestures would have lessened their burden and freed up their private resources to provide even more landscaping for the neighborhood.
On a larger scale, this type of market failure can be remedied through government intervention. Our goal as economic policymakers is to move the equilibrium quantity from Qmkt to Qsocial. One solution might be to provide a subsidy to gardeners equal to the amount of the spillover benefit that their activity provides to the community. By sending a check (or voucher) to the ladies, they would have increased their demand for roses and other landscaping and shifted the private demand out to equal the social demand. This is seen in Figure 11.2. The price received by the firm has risen to Pfirm, but when the consumer applies the voucher, the actual price to the consumer is lower at Pcons.
Another possibility is to provide a subsidy to producers of roses. This type of subsidy would result in an outward shift in the supply curve so that the equilibrium quantity of roses would be at Qsocial. This policy is seen in Figure 11.3. The price to consumers, Pcons, is also lower in this case, while producers receive, with the subsidy, Pfirm.
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I get that there's quite a lot of bullshit out there from some of the 'Allies' that does come across as really patronising and misguided, and I can't say I like that.
At the same time, I constantly see people in the LQBTQIA community who seem to drop everything to spout hatred every time someone outside of the community mentions supporting them. I see so much "YOU oppressed us, YOU did all this shit, YOU didn't allow us rights, and now YOU are pretending to be supportive" and it confuses me. Why act as if everyone of a different sexuality had a personal hand in oppressing people of your sexuality - something none of us can just "choose". I'm not denying that people have had a huge struggle for rights, here - but not every straight person you come across has played a part in oppressing people, so don't hold a personal vendetta against all straight people because generalisation isn't good.
It strikes me as similar to if I said to any man who supported me (take my brother, for example, who supports me and my rights to do the same things as him more than anyone else I know) "YOU have no right to tell me you support me because YOU are a man and YOU stopped us from being able to vote for years and YOU made us slaves to the kitchen and YOU oppressed us". Bullshit, because he isn't responsible for anything every man in history has ever done, just the same as he, being straight, is not responsible for anything all the straight people in history have ever done.
I want support from my family and friends, and understanding (at least) from others, so that I can just be me. When I get that support, I don't turn on them for it. I appreciate it.
"We want support and rights!"
"Okay, then, we're going to support you and your rights!"
"Yay. Fuck you forever for oppressing us."
Just seems a little ridiculous for me.
Sometimes I reblog a lot of lesbian stuff, not because I'm a lesbian but to bother some of my homophobic followers. Love is love so get over it.
So the gist of this is that you enjoy reblogging things including groups of people just to upset people, not because you support them. And maybe you do support them and just worded that terribly, reducing a group of people to a thing to use to deliberately get on people's nerves.
"Sometimes I reblog a lot of cat stuff, not because I'm a cat but to bother some of my cat-phobic followers. Felines are felines so get over it."
Makes about as much sense.
I'm starting to see a lot of chatter that presenting asexuality as a legitimate orientation can be harmful to young people (read: teenagers). The argument seems to be that allowing a teenager to identify as asexual sends the message that it's okay to stop…
(Source: chronicallyspookyace)
Ah, the "you're so selfish" thing again.
If I'm in a position where I feel like I'd potentially end up in a relationship with someone, I like to make it clear from the outset how I feel about things, so someone can decide whether it's something they're happy with or not. If there's not a place where we can both be happy, then I wouldn't try to go there. No nasty surprises somewhere down the line.
I don't expect anyone to do anything they don't want to do for me. Just as I don't expect anyone to make me do something I don't want to do for them.
I'm not beyond talking things through with people and seeing if we can find a way to work things out that pleases us both, but if someone makes it clear from the start that sex is the most important thing to them, I wouldn't get into a relationship with them, because I couldn't give them what they want from a relationship.
I'm not ignorant to the difficulties of finding someone who'll be right for me. But I'm not desperate. In fact, I could wait a lifetime. I'm not unhappy living as I am at the moment. If I do find someone right for me, I'll be delighted. If not, my life's full of other wonderful people, things and experiences.
things you can do in the uk at 16 years of age
- get married (with parental permission)
- start a family
- join the army where they use guns and bombs and shit
- move out
things you can't do in the uk at 16 years of age
- buy a pair of scissors
are you serious
And you can't buy grenadine syrup in ASDA, since it's beside the alcohol. Despite the fact that it mentions children drinking it on the bottle. And it saying 'non-alcoholic' on the front.
The fact that people are more open to allies being a part of the LBGTQIA community than letting asexuals in honestly disgusts me.
(Source: snowflakehealer)


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Canadian Literature
The Collection
The aim of the 19th century private collectors who began the Harris Collection was to acquire all American and Canadian poetry, plays, and music, and this is still the guiding principle of the Collection today. It is the largest collection of Canadian poetry and drama outside Canada, and is much larger than collections in most Canadian research libraries.
The Collection includes a number of great rarities, of which the foremost is Marc Lescarbot's Les muses de la Nouvelle France, a masque performed in Nova Scotia in 1606 and published in Paris in 1609. This is not only the earliest Canadian title, but the earliest title in the entire Harris Collection. In addition, there are extensive collections of major Canadian writers of the 19th and 20th centuries, including: Charles Heavysege, Margaret Atwood, Dorothy Livesay, Charles Mair, Merrill Denison, John Coulter, George Ryga, Earle Birney, Louis Dudek, Archibald Lampman, Duncan Campbell Scott, Bliss Carman, Richard Hovey, William Henry Drummond, Wilfred Campbell, E. J. Pratt, Irving Layton, Raymond Souster, James Reaney, Al Purdy, Michael Ondaatje, bp nichol, Margaret Avison, P. K. Page, Frank Davey, George Bowering, bill bissett.
French-language writers of note in the Collection include: Anne Hebert, Francois-Xavier Garneau, Louis Frechette, Emile Nelligan, Gas ton Miron, Hector de Saint-Denys Garneau, Gratien Gelinas, Marcel Dube, Marie-Claire Blais, Michel Tremblay, Felix-Antoine Savard, Alain Grandbois, Roland Giguere, Gilles Vigneault, Nicole Brossard, among many others. Included in the Collection are exten sive holdings of vocal music and hymnals, anthologies, and literary periodicals. There are also considerable holdings of Canadian poetry broadsides.
The Collection also includes a considerable amount of Canadiana relating to Walt Whitman. The Henry S. Saunders Collection, amassed by a Toronto book collector, includes many photographs as well as works by and about the very active Canad ian circle of "Whitmanites" of the late nineteenth century, most notably Dr. Richard Maurice Bucke, Whitman's editor, biographer, and literary executor.
See Also:
» French-Canadian Literature
» Broadsides
Related Collections
In addition to the Harris Collection, Canada-related materials may also be found in the John Buchan Collection in the John Hay Library. Buchan (1875-1940), in later life Lord Tweedsmuir, was an author, editor, journalist, historian, member of the British Parliament and Governor-General of Canada from 1936 to 1940. The collection, the gift of Lyman Bloomingdale, Class of 1935, consists of several thousand books, manuscripts and letters of this prolific author, perhaps best known for his novel The thirty-nine steps.
Canadiana may also be found in the Anne S. K. Brown Military Collection. Including over 30,000 books, 60,000 pr ints, 5,000 miniature soldiers, and numerous drawings, watercolors, photographs, and manuscripts, it is one of the world's largest collections devoted to military history and iconography. The Collection has perhaps the largest coverage of Canadian military history in the United States, including campaign and regimental histories and uniform pictures.
The John Carter Brown Library at Brown University is an internationally renowned, constantly growing collection of primary historical sources pertaining to the Americas, both North and South, before ca. 1825. It includes an extensive collection of Canadiana.
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Cass-Beggs, Barbara
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Revised and updated.
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10th anniversary ed.
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Toronto, Ont. : ECW Press, c1993
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2nd ed.
Toronto ; Buffalo : University of Toronto Press, c1992
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[Toronto] : McClelland and Stewart, [c1978]League of Canadian Poets
Jackson, Rick
Encyclopedia of Canadian rock, pop & folk music.
Kingston, Ont. : Quarry Press, c1994
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Toronto : Reference Press, 1984
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New York : Garland Pub., 1997
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A preliminary checklist of nineteenth century Canadian poetry in English based on entries in A checklist of Canadian literature and background material s, 1628-1960.
Second edition revised and enlarged (1972), with additions from other sources
Sackville, N. B. : Canadian Studies Programme, 1976
Norris, Ken
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Toronto, Ontario : ECW, c1984
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Canadian plays : a supplementary checklist to 1945.
Halifax : Dalhousie University, University Libraries, School of Library Service, 1978
The Oxford companion to Canadian literature / general editors, Eugene Benson & William Toye
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» See also Online Edition
Pacey, Desmond
Ten Canadian poets; a group of biographical and critical essays.
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Quebec : Culture, 1964
Note: A supplement to A check list of Canadian literature and background materials, 1628-1950, by Reginald E. Watters, published in 1959.
Sedgwick, Dorothy
A bibliography of English-language theatre and drama in Canada 1800-1914.
Edmonton, Alta. : [s.n.], 1976
Stevens, Peter
Modern English-Canadian poetry : a guide to information sources.
Detroit, Mich. : Gale Research Co., c1978
Stuart, Ross
A chronological index of locally written verse published in the newspapers and magazines of Upper and Lower Canada, Maritime Canada, and Newfoundl and through 1815. / compiled by Ross Stuart and Thomas B. Vincent.
Kingston, Ont. : Loyal Colonies Press, 1979
Watters, Reginald Eyre
A check list of Canadian literature and background materials, 1628-1950, being a comprehensive list of the books which constit ute Canadian literature written in English, together with a selective list of other books by Canadian authors which reveal the backgrounds of that literature, compiled for the Humanities Research Council of Canada
[Toronto] University of Toronto Press [1960]
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Toronto, Ont. : League of Canadian Poets, c1999


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In society today the construction of a personal identity can be seen to be somewhat problematic and difficult. Young people are surrounded by influential imagery, especially that of popular media. It is no longer possible for an identity to be constructed merely in a small community and only be influenced by family. Nowadays, arguably everything concerning out lives is seen to be 'media-saturated'. Therefore, it is obvious that in constructing an identity young people would make use of imagery derived from the popular media. For example, it is becoming increasingly common for young children to have their own television and music systems in their bedrooms whilst also having easy and frequent access to magazines especially aimed at the 'developing' child and/or teenager. Such young people would also have a way of accessing the Internet be it at school or sometimes at home. However, it is fair to say that in some instances the freedom of exploring the web could be limited depending on the choice of the parents or teachers. So, if young people have such frequent access and an interest in the media, it is fair to say that their behaviour and their sense of 'self' will be influenced to some degree by what they see, read, hear or discover for themselves. Such an influence may include a particular way of behaving or dressing to the kind of music a person chooses to listen to. These are all aspects which go towards constructing a person's own personal identity. By close investigation into the popular media, and by using two specific examples of a popular teen magazine and a recent 'teenage' hit single that got to number 2 in the British charts, I intend to illustrate the various ways in which young people make use of imagery derived from popular media in the construction of their identities.
Firstly, it is important to establish what constitutes an identity, especially in young people. The dictionary definition states the following:
State of being a specified person or thing: individuality or personality… (Collins Gem English Dictionary. 1991).
This suggests that an identity is something that occurs to a person, like a 'state' of drunkenness. However, I believe that identity is something that is constructed over a period of time and can constantly be updated or changed completely. Young people can be seen to change their identities throughout puberty and often have different identities at the age of 11 or 12 to when they hit mid teens to their early 20s. Throughout this period, they will be in contact with many different influences ranging from older brothers and sisters, what is deemed to be 'cool' in school to popular imagery derived from the media such as the 'in colour' this season. The importance of the media influencing the construction of identity is reflected in the following:
…individuals actively and creatively sample available cultural symbols, myths, and rituals as they produce their identities. For teens, the mass media are central to this process because they are a convenient source of cultural options. (Brown et al. 1994, 813).
This clearly shows that young people will actively make use of imagery available to them when they are constructing their identities.
Constructing an identity in today's media-saturated world is not an easy task. With the multiple examples of identity found in the mass media it is clear that some people may have difficulty distinguishing between sorts. Society also adds pressure to young children when constructing their identities as there are certain expectations presented by society that individuals have to 'live up to', as to what is an acceptable identity to maintain and what is unacceptable. This is seen in the following:
A teenager does not experience the angst of constructing a self in a void but rather in the middle of a world of societal expectations and pressures that require public performances to "keep face" and, in some instances, to maintain physical and emotional safety. (Brown et al. 1994, 814).
Within this idea, it is important to remember that an identity is not a fixed thing and it is just as difficult maintaining one as it is constructing one in the first place.
The mass media provide a wide-ranging source of cultural opinions and standards to young people as well as differing examples of identity. Young people would be able to look at these and decide which they found most favourable and also to what they would like to aspire to be. The meanings that are gathered from the media do not have to be final but are open to reshaping and refashioning to suit an individual's personal needs and consequently, identity. It is said that young people:
…use media and the cultural insights provided by them to see both who they might be and how others have constructed or reconstructed themselves… individual adolescents…struggle with the dilemma of living out all the "possible selves" (Markus & Nurius, 1986), they can imagine. (Brown et al. 1994, 814).
When considering how much time adolescents are in contact with the popular media, be it television, magazines, advertising, music or the Internet, it is clear to see that it is bound to has a marked effect on an individual's construction of their identity. This is especially the case when the medium itself is concerned with the idea of identity and the self; self-preservation, self-understanding and self-celebration.
Popular media has experienced a great deal of technological expansion during the last century, which in turn has had an immense impact on the construction of identity. As Debra Grodin and Thomas R. Lindlof state:
With a simple flip of the television channel or radio station, or a turn of the newspaper or magazine page, we have at our disposal an enormous array of possible identity models. (Grodin & Lindlof 1996)
Such models provided by the television, radio and indeed the Internet have not always been available for use to young people growing up. Nowadays, it is quite common for children when they come home from school to switch on the television and watch the programmes especially designed for them. Such an example is Grange Hill which is a long running drama about a comprehensive school and all the trials and tribulations of the pupils who attend that school. This was a popular programme when I was at school and still has a great following. This sort of programme shows a particular type of school not unlike those attended by children all across the country and therefore they are able to identify with the characters portrayed on screen. When I was around ten years old I was not allowed to watch Grange Hill as my parents thought it put forward a bad example of how to behave in the classroom. This suggests that they believed it would be possible for me to copy the behaviour portrayed on screen and use it in school, somehow constructing my identity from aspects of the characters in the drama.
Similarly, magazines can also be seen to have a great influence on the formation of an identity, not just in young people but with adults too, to an extent. For example, there are constant complaints made about the portrayal of thin models in fashion magazines that apparently encourage young women to want to be as thin as the fashion models they see in such magazines. I shall return to this point later. Adverts seen in magazines, on billboards, on television or even the Internet and the imagery such advertising campaigns put forward can also be seen in influence a young person constructing their identity. This can be anything from the 'correct' labeled trainers to buy to which mobile phone is the smallest and therefore most popular to which beauty treatment to use. The list is endless. Furthermore, young people are also able to gain material to construct their identities from listening to music and especially when they pay close attention to the lyrics of songs. Sometimes, a young person is able to find a certain line of a song which completely sums up how they feel, and this can go towards making them feel more secure in themselves and therefore enabling them to pursue a specific area of their personality further.
The same can be said of the Internet. I believe the Internet is an especially interesting medium for young people to use in order to construct their identities. Not only can they make use of the imagery derived from the Internet, but also it provides a perfect backdrop for the presentation of the self, notably with personal home pages. By surfing the World Wide Web adolescents are able to gain information from the limitless sites which may interest them but they can also create sites for themselves, specifically home pages. Constructing a home page can enable someone to put all the imagery they have derived from the popular media into practice. For example:
…constructing a personal home page can be seen as shaping not only the materials but also (in part through manipulating the various materials) one's identity. (Chandler 1998)
This is particularly important as not only are young people able to access such an interesting and wide ranging medium, but they are also able to utilise it to construct their own identity. In doing this, people are able to interact with others on the Internet just as they could present their identities in real life and interact with others on a day to day basis.
Young people choose to read magazines for a variety of reasons. Not only do the magazines reflect the interests of a certain age group but they are also a form of enjoyment. They contain varied topics, which interest young people as the articles are written on their level and such articles can be used for light reading and can be read over and over. Magazines have been popular for many years but since World War II they have been increasingly popular with young people. They have been:
…developing in tandem with the expansion of particular commodity markets, records, fashion, make-up and toiletries, targeted at the newly discovered affluent youth market. (Willis 1990, 53)
Magazines are unlike newspapers in that young people regard them as interesting as they are written on a somewhat one to one basis, and a person can exercise control over the magazine in what they choose to read. The fact that magazines are often kept and referred back to is also important in the construction of an identity, especially when a young person may be looking to the magazine for advice.
One of the most prominent images in popular teen magazines, especially those aimed at girls is the image of the model. This in turn is linked to which clothes are fashionable at a particular time and what is deemed to be 'cool' to wear. A great many young girls would look as these images as a source of inspiration as to what to wear and would think that they were inadequate to some extent if they could not wear those clothes or did not look like the models featured. For young women:
Figuring out how to dress their bodies requires that they learn a subtle symbolic system, and then decide which of its components fit with, express and develop in desirable ways their identity. (Willis 1990, 55)
By close study of a magazine entitled Mizz published by IPC (International Publishing Corporation) it is clear to see that a thin model wearing fashionable clothes is central to the magazine. (I have included a copy of this magazine). On page 54-57 it is clear to see that the young model is obviously thin and portrayed to be happy as a 'cute' young girl wearing pink. She is smiling in every picture, which tends to suggest to a reader that by wearing pink they too will be happy and content. Young people could look at these images and wish to be more like the model pictured. They may take to wearing pink all the time, not only because it is a fashionable colour but also because they wish to be more like the model in the picture. By doing this, a young woman would be constructing her identity from imagery derived from a popular media.
The thin issue does not end here in this particular magazine. Not only are all the models portrayed thin and very 'girly' looking but the front cover declares a heading of 'Fat- are YOU at risk?' which tends to suggest that all young girls should have perfect thin bodies like the girls in the magazine. It completely loses sight of the fact that the young women reading this magazine are all aged between 11 and 15 and that their bodies would still be in a developing stage. The featured article (pp52-3) takes a slightly different stance however, trying to promote exercise if there is any 'danger of you becoming fat'. The images presented in this article include a photograph of a young girl slouched on a sofa with pizza and a television remote in her hand, representing the 'fat' side of the argument, which is contrasted by two girls on roller skates. These girls are obviously a great deal older than the 11-15 year old intended readership, and are both smiling which would suggest that their form of exercise is not only good for you but great fun as well. Young people reading, or even flipping, past this article would see these images and compare themselves to them. They would find similarities between themselves and one of the pictures and this would influence their identity and sense of self. They would either think themselves too fat or too thin but most probably not a happy medium as young women and even older women are strongly effected by such weight-related images presented in the popular media.
Other features of popular teen magazines are exemplified in Mizz. For example, there are the usual problem pages for young women to refer to for help with their personal problems or worries, which are considered to be of paramount importance when young people are constructing their identities:
The advice columns in magazines rend to be much read and provide young women with symbolic materials concerning their personal and family lives. They can also be much criticized and parodied in their symbolic work and creativity. (Willis 1990, 55)
There are also the usual star sign features, real life articles and posters of popular teenage male icons. Even a young person's choice of whose picture they put on their bedroom wall reflects the popular media being utilised in the construction of their identities. Their personal preference for one famous person over another reflects what the owner of the poster looks for in a relationship. If they chose a television actor, for example, the individual may be admiring the personality presented by that character in their particular television show. Posters are not just a means for making a bedroom a personal space as a great deal more can be read into them which is reflected in the following:
Pop stars are, to some extent, symbolic vehicles with which young women understand themselves more fully, even if, by doing so, they partly shape their personalities to fit the stars' alleged preferences. (Willis 1990, 57)
Consequently, it is clear that when reading popular teen magazines, young people make use of the symbolic resources on offer to them in the construction of their own identities.
Just as the images on offer on magazines are open to wide interpretation, the same can be said of popular music. Popular music nowadays can be seen as a kind of theme-tune to young people's lives as they are growing up. A song can always take you directly back to the moment you attribute it to, and this is especially the case for young people in the process of constructing their identities. The importance of this point is reflected in the following:
Popular music is always listened to within specific social settings and locations, and used as a background to any number of activities from courting and sexual encounters, dancing in clubs, to surviving in work, or defeating boredom in the home. (Willis 1990, 71)
Therefore, it can be said that music can be seen to permeate everything we do either during our youth or when we are older. Music is also a means of communication for some young people, which also goes towards the construction of an identity. For example, if adolescents are able to talk passionately about their favourite genre of music, they are able to share their own thoughts and feelings, which in turn would reflect their personality type.
Young people can also show a great deal of interest in the lyrics of certain songs. Sometimes a phrase or even a few words in a song can sum up completely how you feel at that moment and this can all go towards the construction of an identity.
Songs are made somehow to really speak for a listener. As Paul, a dedicated fan of Bob Marley, points out, 'A lot of people relate to Bob Marley, and I can see why, you know, 'cause a lot of the things he sings about I've been through myself'. (Willis 1990, 70)
This can be said of many songs. The music can be seen to chronicle the feelings and experiences of a great deal of young people and this in turn can make them feel better about a situation, then encouraging them change to the way they feel about themselves. This is the case with a recent hit single entitled Teenage Dirtbag by a band called Wheatus. The lyrics (Appendix 1) describe how a 'teenage dirtbag' is in 'love' with a popular girl in school but is never noticed by her. This is something a great many adolescents could identify with. The song continues to talk about his lusting after this girl with an anthemic chorus of:
Cause I'm just a teenage dirtbag baby. Yeah I'm just a teenage dirtbag baby. Listen to Iron Maiden baby with me. Ooohoo Hoo Hooooooo. (Wheatus. Teenage Dirtbag. EMI Music Publishing Ltd. 2000).
This is clearly a chorus that would be sung by teenagers in a variety of settings as they too feel like a 'teenage dirtbag'. The climax of the song states that '…she doesn't know what she's missing' which I think is particularly clever. Teenagers listening to this song whose love was unrequited could think that the other person indeed did not know what they would be missing. By doing this they would be making themselves feel better about the whole situation and consequently build their own self-esteem.
The end of the song culminates when the 'dirtbag' is at the Prom and the 'girl of his dreams' propositions him. This would be any teenager's dream; to have one's identity accepted by the most popular person in school. Wheatus' web site also focuses attention on a teenager that does not fit in with the rest of school as can be seen in appendix 2. By focusing on this, the idea of Wheatus' debut single can be introduced and young people are given the idea that they too can achieve that 'happy ending'. This plot is an echo of the film from which the song originates. Appendix 3 is a plot summary of the film Loser, and clearly shows the similarities between the song and the film. Both end with the 'teenage dirtbag' getting together with the girl of their dreams. This is a theme which can be seen to permeate much of the popular media aimed at young people suggesting that even if a teenager does indeed feel like a 'dirtbag', they can, by listening to such tales and taking notice of them, 'come good' in the end.
In conclusion it can be seen that the popular media permeates everything that we do. Consequently, the imagery in the media is bound to infiltrate into young people's lives. This is especially the case when young people are in the process of constructing their identities. Through television, magazines, advertising, music and the Internet adolescents have a great deal of resources available to them in order for them to choose how they would like to present their 'selves'. However, just as web pages are constantly seen to be 'under construction', so can the identities of young people. These will change as their tastes in media change and develop. There is no such thing as one fixed identity; it is negotiable and is sometimes possible to have multiple identities. The self we present to our friends and family could be somewhat different from the self we would present on the Internet, for example. By using certain imagery portrayed in the media, be it slim fashion models, a character in a television drama or a lyric from a popular song, young people and even adults are able to construct an identity for themselves. This identity will allow them to fit in with the pressures placed on us by society, yet allow them to still be fundamentally different from the next person.
Appendix: Web Site Propaganda linking the film with the song
Have you ever been overlooked for the guy or girl with the neat hair-do instead of the mullet you opted for? Have you ever been the center of attention (and not with your consent) because of the pimple resembling a plateau of the Himalayas? Have you ever been ridiculed with the L-shape hand gesture (meaning 'Loser') and been too scared to do your own hand-gesture back?
If you answered yes to any of the above, read on 'cause you're not alone!
Wheatus introduce their first single "Teenage Dirtbag". This scratch-inflected anthem is for anyone who has ever been a loser-in love but with a happy ending…'cause the 'loser' in this track uses his geek appeal to win the girl of his dreams over!
"Teenage Dirtbag" is featured in the film Loser, starring Mena Suvari (American Beauty) and Jason Biggs (American Pie). The video for "Teenage Dirtbag" also features both Mena and Jason and you can catch a preview here.
'Teenage Dirtbag' Lyrics- WheatusHer name is Noel, I have a dream about her.
CHORUSCause I'm just a teenage dirtbag baby.
CHORUSOh yeah, Dirtbag; No, she doesn't know what she's missing.
April 2001