Did you know using Pantene will make you a great musician? (8)
First I’d just like to say: What the heck does that have to do with shampoo? Sure, it’s a wonderful message, but what’s the point? Should we all start using Pantene because the makers have beautiful views on humanity or maybe because we’ll all become great musicians? Just strange…
^^ I guess that’s my take on the irony.
Anyways, we’ve got a deaf girl who desperately wants to play music but is constantly being told she can’t by not just by another teenage girl but by herself. So, the deaf girl is the protagonist and the conflict is not only man v. man but man v. self.
You can see that the rising action is her struggling with the fact that she thinks she’s unfit to play music and then finally the climax, when she hops on stage and plays like there’s no tomorrow.
I’m not too sure about symbolism, but it does remind me of Beethoven.
Obviously what Pantene’s trying to sell you is that you can be anything you want be (even a person with shiny hair for just $4.99), and that you should follow your dreams. So theme: “you can shine” as Pentene so eloquently put it.
Best part: I kept wondering why during her performance she kept slinging her head around like she was having a seizure, but then I realized it was a sneaky way to show of her soft&shiny hair, courtesy of Pantene, those selfless rascals.
Yet another commercial from Dove’s “Campaign for Real Beauty.” We all know where the irony comes in; Axe commercials. This isn’t exactly the same as the other commercial in its message, but still the basic shine from withing mumbo jumbo. However, it really doesn’t have any of the literary functions like the other one. I couldn’t find another commercial like that, although I’m sure I’ve seen one >_<
Lyre , Lyre, Pants on Fyre : #7
First of all, wow! It really is hard to believe that noises like chainsaws and camera shutters could be mimicked through any organism, but I guess you learn something new every day, huh?
The lyrebird is definitely extraordinary (and with a name that suits it all too well – lyre, like it lies, as in it mimics – haha). We all know that civilization and humans have an effect on nature, but I never would have guessed that it would go this far.
Obviously, the lyrebirds would have never made these sounds hundreds of years ago. How could they, many of these items it mimics didn’t exist. But I think it goes more along the lines that as time goes on we encroach further and further into natural territory. Animals such as the lyrebirds are surrounded by us. It makes you wonder if eventually they will have nowhere else to go. Will civilization completely take over nature?
Assignment (10/2)… aka 5
The media has such a strong effect on the way we all act. They tell us how to dress, how to look, how to act. Even if you aren’t being directly influenced by the media, chances are you’re being pressured by people who are. It’s such an ordinary part of our society now that we tend to overlook it. We fall into their traps. We buy the jeans that promise to make us look “3 sizes smaller in just 5 minutes!” or the diet pills that guarantee that we will lose “20 pounds in 20 days or your money back!” All because of what? The fact that we are constantly reminded every day that we are not good enough the way we are.
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I heard women in my family say often that this is what a woman should be. It never struck me as abnormal. It’s sad that so many women strive to look like the models on the magazine covers and never seem to realize that they are nothing more than a Photoshop creation, not obtainable. But does that stop the media from showing these false portrayals down our throats every second. Of course not! On the one hand, we’ve got women who try to reach these impossible “perfections”, and men who think that real women actually look like this.
The fact that it starts so young is really saddening. My 6 year old sister sometime says things like “I’m fat” or “I’m ugly” (both of which she is neither). It makes me feel awful.
Speaking of awful, anyone ever heard of The Swan? What a disgusting, disgusting show. I remember seeing it when I was a kid and basically it was “Extreme Makeover : Home Face Edition”.
Yuck. So, they would bring in 2 women each episode, “tragically ugly” women, by the way, and do about 10 different plastic surgery operations on their faces and bodies. They would then go home where everyone would tell them how much better they looked. That’s not even the worst of it. Before they go home, the 2 women see their new selves and the judges decide which one is prettier of the 2. Then, that women who is chosen gets to go on to a pageant at the end of the season where they compete with other women who were chosen out of 2 to see which one of those had the best surgery job done. Whew.
The really awful thing is, when I was a kid, I actually liked watching this show.
http://www.adl.org/what_to_tell/whattotell_media.asp
P-p-p Pencil Face, P-p Pencil Face, Geddit?
Creepy. Definitely creepy. I think the first thing that really warned me that “Pencil Face” was going to creep me out was the title. Maybe it’s just me, but “Pencil Face” has a sort of sinister ring to it. But the real definite answer was first the music. I really feel that without the music this would have been way less creepy, but the soundtrack was definitely pushing the freaky vibe. The only reason I don’t think the video would fully be considered not creepy are the characters. For one, pencil face. Enough said. Second, the girl looks like she just stepped out of “The Ring”, clothes and all.
I also want to mention that it reminds me so much of an episode of Spongebob. Anybody ever seen that episode. I thought it was weird, too.
I think “Pencil Face” is trying to make you think a little of greed, and that you can’t have what you want at no cost as we see with the girl and the consequences she pays. She ends up sucked through a black hole. Everything comes at a cost, and nothing is free.
To be honest, I don’t think I want to use Pencil Face; not if it’s going to get me nothing but being sucked through a dark hole. But I suppose if it didn’t do that, I’d do what most people do, get those material objects. You know it’s the truth, we are superficial beings, and it’s not as if I can draw world peace. But I know I honestly would try to draw things to help people as well.
The Population is a Box of Chocolates : Assignment 3
Starting this, the exercise really didn’t seem all that hard. I thought I’d do good.
I only got 5 right which seems to be lower than a lot of other scores.
My basic way of sorting was this: with Asians I looked at the eyes; Blacks , the skin color and lips; Native Americans and Hispanics got pretty mixed up, I couldn’t tell them apart; and Whites were just anyone left over, plus I looked a little bit at the skin color. Basically, every aspect of a stereotypical race.
There’s no black and white when it comes to ethnicity and how someone looks, and I think this really helps to uncover that. I was honestly very shocked to see some of the people in a different racial group than I had thought they were in.
I only got one of the Native Americans right. The others I had put in the Asian category and one in the Black.
I got no Asians right. Ironically, this was the group that seemed the easiest.
I got two of the Blacks correct. The others I out in Latino and White.
It would seem that the Whites should be the easiest for me since it is my own race, but it wasn’t. I put one lady in there based on that I actually thought she was White (I was right), but the others were just leftovers.
I had always thought that classifying someone’s race by the eye was a fairly stable way to do it. Not perfect, but often close enough. Obviously, that isn’t the case.
Hello world!
Heyo!
So! I’m not new to blogging, although my life’s so boring that there isn’t a whole lot of need to do it much.
But I’ll try to tell you guys every insignificant detail of my day like those people on Twitter. So, in case you were wondering, I had a granola bar for breakfast.
Anywho, I’ll tell you all my life’s story later.
fin. for now.
Assignment Numero Dos.
If I were reading for pleasure alone, I would definitely start with Fahrenheit 451. But I have this friend named Procrastination. Let’s just say that he is a seriously bad influence. He’s got it in for me, I think, and it’s about to the intervention/rehab point in our relationship. So, I’m forced to start with the books that I feel will take a little more time to do. So that means, McTeague or A Farewell to Arms. The reader response journals just seem a little more time consuming. The plan is that I’ll get these two out of the way, and then I’ll be left with the less time consuming ones. And hopefully I won’t be as stressed as last year when I had to do 3 in the last months.
And I like reading anytime of the day; it’s my favorite past time (<– I didn’t know that was 2 words until the spell check just told me >.<)pastime (stupid spell check, you know nothing!). But reading in the morning around 9 o’clock when it’s sunny and breezy outside is the best.
