RR #6 Lantry's Article

I absolutely loved this article. It was very intriguing because of how true it was. Women are stupid in a way. We fall for the claims that advertisements promise. Some of the illustrations presented in this article included women seeing themselves with men in their lives, beautiful woman, or beautiful celebrities promoting the product. The products promised that if you do not use this soap or this mouthwash, you would not get a guy. The pictures showed women using the product and trying to better themselves. The pictures with the soaps show women with clear skin standing over a water filled basin. The water filled basin is intended on representing holy water, which would signify that it is “right” the use the soap. The other soap ad includes the celebrity with the catchy “feel good” phrase. The celebrity seems to be smiling in every picture signifying that not only is she happy with this product but you will be too if you try it. At the bottom of the ad, it shows the same celebrity with her husband representing that you will get married if you use Lux soap.  In the Listerine mouthwash ad, there is a really pretty, youthful girl sitting on the floor with a huge smile on her face. She is slightly leaning forward to represent that boys will kiss you because your breath will not smell. The ad also includes eye-grabbing phrase. Like I said before, women are stupid. They will fall for anything when it comes to something they want and these ads really know how to manipulate women into thinking that it is what they want. 

In Class Prompt #10

As we drive our old beat up truck up the long stone drive, I can’t help to have a terrible feeling bubbling in my stomach. I look to my single mother who seems to think that moving away will erase our old lives. My little brother Jake, notices my hateful stare directed toward my mother and pinches me really hard on the leg.

“OWW! What the hell Jake?” I scream with annoyance.

“Language, Sam!” my mother snaps.

“He freaking pinched me for nothing!”

“Well quit looking at mom as if she is ruining your life on purpose!” defensively Jake retorts.

“Whatever.”

“Kids, please, no fighting. I want you guys to keep an open mind about this house and new life.”

As we snake through the wooded drive, I finally spot a house. Great. It deteriorating walls look as if a five mph wind would blow it down. Vines possessively crawl over just about every inch of the house. I hop out of the truck and slam the door shut. Rusted shards of metal fly off and sparkle the white stone pebbles with orange. I look up at the house and notice something in the top-level window. What in the world? I blink and the figure disappears. Oh-kay?  

“Okay kids, go ahead and pick out the rooms you want upstairs.”

Jake and I hurry towards the stairs. Jake picks the bigger room. Of course. I look beyond his room and open the door to the next one. I open the door and instantly feel a chilly breeze run up my arms. The room was bordered with elegantly elaborate, detailed, wood paneling.  I drop my bags on the floor and dust flies up in a cloud at my feet. I lie down on the bed and drift into a deep sleep. I wake up to the same weird chill that I first experienced when walking into the room. I walk down the hallway and look into Jakes room. Why are Jakes bag still unopened?  I run down the squealing steps and into the living room.

“Mom! Mom, where’s Jake?” I yell.

I don’t hear a sound. I turn around and run into an old woman.

“Boo!” she calmly speaks.

“AHHHHH!”

I look down at what the woman is carrying. Along the almost transparent white-laced dress that is blood stained, she is carrying a sleek silver machete. The tip of the machete is tipped with blood dripping the floor. I take one step back before yelling for my mom. I quickly turn to run away and see my mom and brother’s body pallid and limp next to the table.

“No, no please no.”

“Sorry, sweetheart. You are unwelcome here.”

Then darkness got the best of me.

In Class Prompt 12

These four videos we watched today in class were very insightful. I never really thought about how much "remixing" there was in the world. Like the guy said, EVERYTHING is remixed. Things are copied and copied and copied over again to produce something better and more advanced. I was astonished at the fact the Led Zeppelin copied a lot of their songs. Led Zeppelin is a huge name even now a days and to discover that their music was made up of different songs just surprised me. I was also really surprised to find out that Steve Jobs was a huge hypocrite. Not only did he brag about stealing ideas from other companies and used them to make his goods better but also the fact that when Android copied apple, Stev-o was not to happy about it. Supposedly he sued. Hypocrite. I am really upset too because I am a huge fan of apple products. Everybody wants the Iphone and the Ipad...well most do anyways. This is plagiarizing on a different level that I never even thought about. These videos were very educational and very enlightening. I was absolutely shocked by a lot of the information that we had heard. The way I write my papers is remixed from what I read because that is what influences me. The music I listen to remixed from either other songs or similar beats. What also amazed me was what Walt Disney did to alter the law by asking the president to amend it. Things are truly not what they seem.

RR #5 Seelye's Essay

 Katharine Q. Seelye did an impressive job on her essay of Lurid Numbers on Glossy Pages. First of all, it will be extremely beneficial when I write my text and visual analysis, but also because she had a truly intriguing article. This essay was super interesting because it was so true.  People like numbers! A lot! If one magazine has ten ways to make yourself beautiful and another magazine has eleven ways, odds are the majority is itching to know the one way the other magazine does not have. This article reminds me of the movie Thirteen Going on Thirty with Jennifer Garner. In the movie they are all in a meeting that Garner is late for due to the fact that she just found out she was magically thirty, overnight.  In this meeting the boss is extremely upset with them because they have 10 ways on how to do something, while Poise, there rival competitors, have 11. All Americans know that number draw you in but Seelye makes it sound even better with impressive evidence. She also says that beautiful people help sell the magazines. A hot, sexy, ripped man on the cover of Men’s Health will draw the attention of both woman and men, but the women just look, whereas the man is like “Oh, if I do this, this, and this, I’ll look like him? Cool!” It is just the same for women with a pretty woman on a cover of a magazine as well.  Seelye does an amazing job with this essay and she made it really easy to set up a drawing board for my essay. 

In class prompt #9

Girlfriend

Wow, Luke looks sooooo fine! I wonder who that ugly pregnant chick is! If that’s his baby I may have a internally tantrum similar to a two year old. 


“Hey Cami, This is my wife Jessica”, says Luke with a huge look how my life turned out without you expression.

Are you freaking kidding me!! HIS WIFE!! I cannot believe him. He told me he would never be the marrying type and I was fine with that. I accepted it because I knew he just needed more time. He needed to get to know me more. I was so wrong about that. I figured it was just him saying that because he was in denial. That means there is something wrong with me. Am I too short? Do I smell? I am just not pretty enough. That’s what is. Wow, his ugly pregnant wife is kinda pretty. Who am I kidding? She is gorgeous, not to mention glowing! I am 28 and still haven’t found a man who wants me! Ugg, I am soo mad at Luke! Jealousy is like liquid fire coursing through my veins. I just want to slap him and his ugly/gorgeous plump wife! She is soo not his type, right? I’m mean he was the jock! He liked that I played sports and was a state champion. He liked wrestling with me and playing a game of hoops on the driveway. This chick looks extremely uncoordinated. The type of cheerleader that stood in the front just to look pretty while the athletic cheerleaders did all the flips and extreme stunts behind her. Maybe that’s my problem. I’m just one of the guys.

“Hey Luke! Wow you two look amazing! Look, I’m so sorry I can’t stay and chat but I have to go..uh do this thing…at the..ya. Well, it was so good to see you again. Uh…bye.”