websites!

netflix is a good website. the design makes it easy to navigate and even bring suggestions of things you might want to watch on the homepage. 

Argren.net is a bad web design because there is too many things going on at once.  The whole set up of the website is sloppy and hard to navigate.

Magazines!

14 whole pages of royal tour photos! the word Dazzling is made huge and bright to get the attention. Following dazing is "Will & Kate Conquer America".  The photo is a picture of Kate looking very pretty and well put together as always.   On the first page of the article a friend says "They are a great love match.  She was always by his side.  Their spontaneity is lovely".  The cover shows Kate very poised and proper and throught the article the picture shown and things they did on their visit to America was nothing less than poised and proper.  They had a-list celebrities star struck.  CEO of the inner-city arts said that they were "warm and nurturing" when they visited there.  The fourteen pages of the article are filled with pictures and compliments from people who they met on their visit.

Tauber, Michelle. "The Royal Tour." People Magazine 25 July 2011: 50-67. Web.

Research book!

Olson, Lester C. ., Cara A. . Finnegan, and Diane S. . Hope. Visual Rhetoric a Reader in Communication and American Culture. London: SAGE, 2008. Print.
A book on visual rhetoric can only help me understand more about ads and this research paper!


Giles, David. Media Psychology. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 2003. Print.


my second book will help me to figure out why and how ads are targeting a crowd

Free write

types of advertising. who are they aiming for? more TV commercials are aimed toward the youth. also on time.  it would be very inappropriate for Trojan to have a commercial during blues clues. More billboards are aimed for adults. The driver is the one who is going to focus on the billboard so therefor they are going to appeal to them.  Magazine and newspapers ads are dependent on the readers.  Again Trojan wouldn't wanna have an ad in a youth magazine or christian magazine.  What makes the company decide to put what ad where?  How much money goes into ads.

Brainstorming

Does it suck?

Republicans do not suck.  I am a republican so therefore they do not suck.
Obama sucks.  Obama has done nothing to impress me.
Harry Potter does not suck.  Harry Potter is one of the most entertaining series.
Apple product do not suck.  I own many apple product and they are been very useful.
Star Wars does not suck.  They were very ahead of their time and were awesome.
Facebook sucks.  It only sucks cause it is so addicting.
McDonalds sucks.  It might be the original fast food joint but the food is disgusting!
Clemson University does not suck.  Clemson has so much to offer and a place for everyone.
Lady Gaga does not suck.  Her music inspires people to be nothing more than themselves.
Justin Bieber does not suck.  I've been struck with Bieber Fever, he actually does have talent.
Sudoku sucks.  It is a headache and a waste of time.
Avatar does not suck.  Basically it was the best movie of 2009!
Xbox 360 sucks.  It is also time consuming and distracting.
American Idol sucks.  There have been too many seasons, the show needs to retire!
Glee does not suck.  It has comedy and music, what else could you possible need?
Cigarettes suck.  They are used to make people look cool but if cancer is cool then go right ahead.
Guns do not suck.  This is only true when in the hands of the right people. Guns are good for hunting and sometimes a sense of security.
Abortion sucks.  Abortion sucks because people are all up in everyones business. I do not care what you do but just know that it is basically murder.
Dogs that a forced to be dressed up suck.  It isn't natural!

my writing process

Writing does not come that naturally to me. When I write I cannot be sitting at a desk. Sometimes I sit on the floor or my bed, but never outside because there are too many distractions.  Depending on what I am writing for or about I use music to help me think and stay relaxed.  A diet Dr. Pepper is always close by while I'm slaving away.  When a writers block comes the first thing I do is call my mom.  No, not so she can help me but just so we can gossip and I can stop thinking about writing for a while.  If that doesn't then I go to Netfilx and watch an Episode of Brothers & Sisters.  If neither of those work I just stop writing for a while and eventually something just comes to me.  I actually had about 500 words done with this paper and decided I did not really like what I had said or the picture I was using.  I started completely over.  The second time my picture was better and it was much easier to write about.  I still have a whole lot of work to do by friday but I'm getting there!