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the article for this post is "and now a word from their cool college sponsor" by kate zernike. basically, this article tell of two highschool senior that graduate and pay for college by advertising themselves for a credit card company. the question in this article is who is taking advantage of whom. i think both sides are taking advantage of each other. from the side of the students, they paying for college by merely advertising for them. they get fame and "fortune" and get to talk about fiscal responsiblity. the credit card company gets a way to advertising even closer to the youth who "need" lost of stuff and have the "income" do buy said stuff. first, the credit card company is shelling out 80000 dollars for this. i'm suprise they're paying that much for advertising. at least it goes to a good cause. second, are the boys selling out? well, you have to ask them according to their morals and values. personally, i don't know that it would be right for myslef to be an advert even for that. but, i pay to be an advert by the shirts that i buy, etc. so, is what they are doing so horrible? what i advertise on my shirts, i can be proud of. i own five doctor who shirts, and you know what, i'm proud to advert for them. it's a quality show. the new show is very well made and is good tv. if they paid for to wear the shirt, then awesome. but a credit card company? i don't think i would. so, it all comes down to what it is that i'd be adverting. if it's something that i can be proud, then it's a mutal benefit and i wouldn't mind telling people about it. so, can these lads say that same?

Advertise Here

the article for this post is "salespeak" by roy f. fox. the gist of this article is that advertising is ridiculous. that it, though it does it in a creative way. basically, it's a piece of fiction where everything is saturated with adverts. the child's name is pepsi and childern do experiments based on adverts in science class (like which spagetti sauce is thicker: ragu or prego). the author then goes on to talk about examples in current times. adverts are ridiculous. i remember watching tv during a commercial break. all it contained was different pics of michael jordan. then it ended zooming out with michale jordan just standing there. that was it. to this day, i still have no idea what was being advertised. how many products do i own are some form of advertising? let's see, my computer says hp on the back of the screen, my tv says symphonic, my shirt say something about doctor who. that's about it for my room (i got off lucky). the point is that humans themselves have become advertising space. just by what you dress in you show off some product. is this story so far fetched and ridiculous? no. but, not all advertising is bad. without it, capitalism might not work and you wouldn't know of somethings that you might actully like to bad instead of just being told to buy something. the point is, there is a time and place for advertising. where is that line and have we crossed it already?

People I know in Real Life

the article for this post is "meet my 5000 new best pals" by janet kornblum. the gist of this article is about social networks sites and how ridiculous they can be. for those of us online (and i don't know how you're reading this if you aren't), most of us are connecting through some type of social networking site like facebook or myspace or whatever. the article talks about the fact that there are no rules for friend list and the fact that they can be faked. facebook is the main site that i use. i've already had people on there friend me who i didn't have a clue about. people from all over the world. i never friend someone that i don't know. one of my friends doesn't friend somebody unless he would actually talk to in real life for some amount of time. there have been a lot of complaints about social networking cites and about how they're breaking communication down. i say meh. i use facebook to talk to friends that i see all the time, to post various pictures (both slighty embarrassing and not at all), and, perhaps the best use for such a site, to connect with people and friends from long (well, for me anyway at age 25) ago who i wouldn't have had a clue where to find. so, bad and good but, like any product, it's just there. the worth is left up to the person who uses it.

SuperWoman

the article for this post is "supernatural girls" by kathleen sweeney. basically, the subject of this article is the semi-recent trend of super-naturally endowed/capable fictional female characters. first off, the super powers. ever since childhood, we have always wondered what it would be like to have super powers. the human condition is such that it ponders the what-ifs and what-wills of situations. therefore, one what-if is if human beings became superior in some way to what they are now. i'd love to have super powers. i myself grew up reading comic books. i use to pretend that i'd have super powers along with my friends and we'd form "super hero" groups. secondly, the rise of the female that can kick super butt. as our culture stresses on equality in real life, so too has it stressed equality in our dreams of super "heroes". one just has to compare the new doctor who series with the old one. the female companions (with maybe the exception of romana and tegan) were "helpless" girls that would scream whenever there was a monster. in the new series, they help the doctor, remind him to be compasionate, and make sure to stick up for the human race whenever the doctor makes an offhanded remark against humanity every now and again.

Double Life

the article for this post is "leading a double life" by irene sege. basically, the topic of the article is the comparison of a person in real life to their person in cyber culture/on the internet. personally, i try to be who i am both online and off. that said, there are different facets to my personality. does this mean that i'm a liar or that i'm really somebody completely different online? no. most people are at least a little different even among friends. 1. people don't act the same around the same people and 2. people act differently around different people. so, on the interweb, i'm surrounded by lots of different people, therefore, one would expect me to act at least a little differently. that said, i do still try to just be me. granted, i can be a little more charasmatic online because i can type something up, reread it, and edit it. on many sites, you can even edit long after you posted. what i'm trying to say, is that different parts of my personality are able to be accentuated online versus real life but, i'm still me online compared to the many, many people at there.