Last Blog :)

For the last weblog post of the term (by Tues. 10:30 a.m.), I would like something retrospective. Looking back over this semester's class, what were for you memorable moments or events? You might look back and select a favorite blog post, a favorite assignment, a moment which stands out in the course discussion. Or it might be something that didn't work for you. Perhaps analyzing images doesn't have enough to do with the rhetoric that you are expected to use in your writing. Perhaps on-line discourse isn't your cup of tea. Whatever the topic, take a look back and write a bit in the blog about it.

I thought the class was kinda Interesting but don't know what it really did for me. I'm going to school to become a cop, not to write visual papers. I think it could help me maybe with writing up reports but not to much. I think this class was a miss for me but It was probably helpful to people that are going into something visual. My favorite event that we did in this class was probably making our blogger page. I thought it was neat how you taught us how to make our own little website. I Also liked our picture project that we had to do. That was pretty fun and showed a little bit about everyones lifestyle. My least favorit assignment was our project. I hate talking in front of people and it seems like I always get screwed on my score. I thought my presentation was good but I only got a C, everyone that I asked in class thought that my project was one of the better ones and I seemed to get a lower score then most of everyone else. I know you said my deliverance was bad but I hated that project anyways. Overall this class was ok, and would of been good if my major was to deal with alot of writing about visual things but m ynajor does not. Whoo whooo I mglad were done for the summer, and I mready for the sun!

Mcdonalds Marketing

I thought this presentation was pretty good. It got into good details on how McDonald's targets young children with the Toys, and the cartoon characters. They also said that they target athletes too because of all the celebrity's or professional athletes in their commercials. I wanted to throw something in to. They also sponsor the All-American High School basketball game for men and women. It is like a big honor for someone to play in this, and it is sponsored by McDonald's. They also said that the commercials that do every year are very expensive. They said the average that they spend a year on commercials is $500,000,000. That is a whole heck of a lot of money!!I think the strong point in their presentation was that they target young children, I think they do this because it will get the children to always bug their parents for McDonald's and parents will usually give their kids what they want to shut them up!

Myspace Presentation.

I think that this presentation was overall good. The topic was very good because of how popular it is now. It was helpful to show that myspace is dangerous. I think that this presentation could have opened up peoples eyes and make them realize that they need to be safe about what they put in their profile. The paper on this will be interesting is Mary or Stephanie go into detail about how much you can actually do on the site, or just give better examples of some cases that dealt with the sexual predators. I'd also like to throw it out there that Tom is now making it harder for all of the dumb fake people and he is trying to get rid of all the viruses, he has most of them taking care of.

peer to peer sharing

Peer to peer sharing is growing rapidly in America. It is when people on the Internet share file like movies, and songs. The artists of many songs are against these websites and lawsuits have been filed. But on the other hand many small bands are in love with these sites. This is giving the smaller bands opportunities to get their songs to people and chances of becoming known are improving. For the big bands and singers like Eminem, or New Found Glory this site is dipping into their pockets. These sites are taking revenue away from the singers because people are stealing their songs off the Internet so they don't have to buy the C.D. I know that many of people out there do this and I don't think it will stop people. I know I do it my self and I feel that It is not wrong for me to do it. I have 2600 songs on I-tunes and I have not paid for a single one. I think that the songs are to expensive to pay for in the first place, I really don't think you should have to pay $1 a song, that is outrageous. Many websites have been shut down because of peer to peer sharing, these websites include, Napster. Napster was pretty much the founder of Illegal downloads. The company was sued and then went bankrupted before selling to someone over seas. The man who bought Napster has now made it into a place where you can buy songs for $1.

Alcohol in commercials

In the recent class one of the girls did a report on Alcohol in commercials. This interested me a lot because I'm doing my report on something very similar. She told me a couple helpful facts that I could plug into my presentation also. She said that many NCAA schools are banning alcohol commercials during their games. I think this is a good idea because I believe that this commercials are targeting younger people to drink their product. She also presented an idea that you have to be 25 years of age to be in a beer advertisement. I think that they try and find their 25 year olds, but usually they are not the average 25 year old person. They are either a really good looking super model or a very funny person. They use these kinds of characters to draw attention to their commercials. I also learned in her presentation that they are making them go away from cartoon characters in their ads. But now they are finding ways around that by putting in animals to do funny stuff instead. I just think in all that Alcohol commercials are on way to much, funny thing actually is as I'm typing this paper their is a bud light commercial on right now..

My project materials

As you gather materials for your project, find an article that you think you might be able to use. Write an entry which gives the author’s main point and supporting evidence presented.

As I was looking for some materials to help me with my presentation I came across an article called "Momentum Builds to End Beer Ads in College Sports." This ad was put out to try and end Beer advertising during college athletic games. This is related to my topic because I am doing my presentation on Alcohol commercials during sporting events. I have found lots of articles about alcohol and sports but this is one that will stop a lot of beer or liquor advertisement in whole. A huge amount of sporting commercials deal with alcohol, because beer companies target sports fans because they seem to think that while watching sports it is always funner to watch it drunk! Also the majority of beer drinkers are men, and men are the majority of people who watch sports. So during big time sporting events like the super bowl or the final four it is always a good time for the big time beer companies to come out with new and funnier advertisements to catch the viewers eyes. Like I said before I have found lots of great ads but this one squeezes in nicely with my topic.

My project topic, Hmmmm.....

As you gather materials for your project, find an article that you think you might be able to use. Write an entry which gives the author’s main point and supporting evidence presented.

In the article I have read about they are talking about the commercials and what one they liked the most. The first comment about the article is about the Budweiser commercial that I believe I will be showing during my presentation. I will show the rock, paper, scissors bud-light ad, and list how much the spot was. The ad was probably really expensive but the commercial was good enough that it will be remembered, and people are talking about it. That is what the ads now-a-days are going for. But what I'm actually going for is that football and beer commercial are directly related to each other. In every single football game you will see more then one beer commercial, and when you actually go to the games t watch them live, you will see nothing but beer signs all over the place. Beer and sports are directly related!