Now a days our lives are based on advertisements. Every where we go there is a ad trying to sell you something or showing you beautiful place to go to. Most of us have our radio as alarm while we a wake and listen to the radio we hear a commercial telling us to go here or go buy that. While we watch t.v with our family and try to enjoy our show there always a commercial showing a new product. The kids are memorized by these commercial at time. Telling their parents to buy them that toy.This how corporate America makes there money. They spend millions of dollars on advertisements but the profit they make it from is worth while. About 12 billions ads are displayed, 3 million commercials and more than 200,000 TV commercial are shown to us without us evening noticing.
We have not noticed but these ads, commercials have slowly become part of our lives. For insect when super bowl is getting near you hear a lot of people talking about what new commercials will come out this year. Everyone is looking forward to see them. They get your intention and make you want to go to the website or want to buy the car they are advertising. They question is how do we get away from all these advertisement? How don't we let these ad and commercial to us? The answer is there is no way out. Everywhere we go there always some one trying to advertiste to you, even when you are the comfort of your home.
Diana-- I like how you respond to the examples in the piece by Lasn with some of your own (such as mentioning the Superbowl ads). Good strategy.
ReplyDeleteMy suggestions have to do with attribution, focus, and grammar/word choice.
Attribution: while you touch on several of Lasn's ideas, a reader unfamiliar with her piece would have a hard time figuring out which are your ideas and which are Lasn's. You may want to make that clear by using the author's name and the title of the piece at the beginning of the summary as explained at the bottom of on page 2 of the class packet.
Focus: I think the point of your response is "how do we get away from all these advertisement?" but I am not sure. If it is, the short answer "there is no way out" does not allow you to elaborate much. What would happen if you tried to respond to Lasn's idea that ads are "toxic"?
Grammar/word choice: there are a series of small issues that make your response a bit hard to read. For instance, the phrase "Most of us have our radio as alarm while we a wake and listen to the radio we hear a commercial telling us to go here or go buy that" mixes ideas in such a way that the reader needs a second read to get your meaning. You may want to practice writing shorter sentences to make sure all the necessary elements are in place.
You may also want to re-read the piece after you are done and check the spelling of words with which you are not familiar in writing but may understand orally: "insect" should be "instance."
P.S. To put the blog entries back in order, go to Blog 2, open it by clicking the little pencil, click on "Post Options" at the bottom of the window, and under "Post date and time" select "Automatic." Publish the post and voila!
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