Thursday, September 22, 2011

Advertisement Hype

                    As many people know, advertisements are the most prevalent and toxic of the mental pollutants. Mentioned in the article " Hype" by Kalle Lasn, "approximately 12 billion  display ads, 3 million radio commercials and over 20,000 TV commercials are dumped into North Americas collective unconscious". The reason for advertising is to persuade an audience to take action into buying a product, getting ideas or looking for service. " There is nowhere to run", everywhere you turn there will be an advertisement, whether it is a TV commercial, bulletin board or just a simple phone call from an telemarketer, you cannot escape it.
                    From personal experience I have seen many advertisements, train, garbage can, taxis, television, newspaper, all over to keep it short. Sometimes I hate seeing ads because its never that much persuasive to me. If you have an product, or some type of service that would maybe benefit the person, they should ad more details and more deals, then they will win the person over. Otherwise they just going to ignore.
                    Some ads can be helpful to society and some cant benefit us. Such as the cancer for quit smoking commercial, is a good ad to society because it shows what can happen to you if you keep smoking, and explains why you need to stop. Useless ads such as alcohol and cigarettes aren't necessary because its just showing society that it is necessary to have these things to have a good life when its not. Whoever makes those type of ads shouldn't because what if kids see these type of ads, they going to think its the right thing and follow by what the ad is promoting, that's not healthy at all. 
                    Although advertisement is to benefit is to help promote products and such, it should be kept to a minimum. Only post important ads that can help benifit the world, not negativity.

Tuesday, September 20, 2011

The Allegory of the Cave

Based on the text The Allegory of the Cave is based on how prisoners view prison. Explains what goes on in prison, what they have seen and experienced. Human beings living in an underground den which have an mouth open towards sun light and reaching all along the den. Many of these prisoners have been here since their childhood, with their legs and necks chained so they cannot move and can only see before them. As you can tell prison isnt a fun place to be, just by reading these little details.

Tuesday, September 13, 2011

Hype

As many people know, advertisements are the most prevalent  and toxic of the mental pollutants. The reason for advertising is to persuade an audience to take action into buying a product, getting ideas or looking for service. Approxiameatly 12 billion  display ads, 3 million radio commericals and over 20,000 tv commericals are dumped into North Americas collective unconscious.