PBS Culture Shock

                             When I look at a video game and see the many demission and technique they use, obviously I’ll look at it like art.  When I was a sophomore in high school, I took an art class that taught me that my pieces should reflect me and who I was. The ambition that I had for a certain piece, lead that art to come out on top. When a video programmer is making a game, they are putting their all into it. To me when they put their all in and the game represents who they are, then yes it is art.  One question that we had to answer, was if we felt the image was offensive and the answer is no. It’s hard to find a game offensive unless they have some racial meaning. If there’s a lot of violence an amount that I cannot handle, I turn it off. Easy and simple.  It wasn’t so hard to just say no, because I truly believe that the image has no place on a PBS homepage.  I’m not one to watch PBS a lot, but I do believe it’s a channel you turn to when you want your kids to watch an educational program. That means violence showed not be the first thing they see.   

Answer to section 1, part of Alexie Presentation

4. At his new school, Reardan, Arnold gets to know a book-lover named Gordy, who says that “life is a constant struggle between being an individual and being a member of the community.” How does this idea relate to Arnold’s life? (132)

                   The quote that comes from Gordy, explains what is happening to Arnold through the end of the book. When Arnold talks to his old teacher Mr. P, he learns that there is hope, you just have to make it yourself. With the knowledge that staying at the school in Wellpinit will lead to an alcoholism life, he decides that leaving and interring a new school would be better for him.  The decision was not meant to insult the people leaving on the reservation with him, but it did anyways because he was leaving his “family” behind. Even though the people bullied him, and made him feel unwelcomed, Arnold was in the wrong for leaving.  Quite crazy that Arnold trying to better himself, is in turn insulting them for even thinking about having a better life than what they had to give. That’s what Arnold had to deal with, the anger of his fellow tribal members for trying to find himself. To live in his community, he had to be like them, alcoholic, depresses and hopeless.

Cartoon Analysis. Pg 36

                          The carton that I picked from Sherman Alexie’s novel “The Absolutely Diary of a Part-Time Indian,” is on page thirty-six. The cartoon is located in the part of the story where Junior is talking to Mr. P about throwing the text book at his face.  Mr. P is explaining how he felt guilty about how he treated the Native Americans and how he was taught “to kill the Indian to save the child,” (35) making Junior feel like a Priest.  The cartoon caught my attention, because it touches on racism, and how young children were taught at a young age, proved by the quote “It all started when I learned to walk.”  Guess the purpose of the cartoon, is to explain the racism of that time. Shows that at a young age the children were to look down at minorities and think changing them was for the better, without explaining it in depth.  (page 36)

My six word Memoir

                                       “If I can show my Feelings "

 

                 It’s hard for me to show others how I feel, and the person on the top of that list is my crush.  It’s never a between, its either I’m happy to see you or I’m not in the mood to care. Deep inside, I’m glowing from talking to you, just wish I could show it.

Analysis of two Ads

                     

                I picked the Dolce & Gabbana ad, because its selling clothes and I love clothes. In this add, I believe the target audience are middle age women, who have a family that they need to take care off, but would like to look good doing it. Also, I picked the Visa ad, because the other three need to interest me or caught my attention.  In this Visa ad, they try to pull in young adults with an image of a girl’s stomach with a tattoo.

http://twenty2.onsugar.com/ad

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                            In the ad, Madonna Is a designer name dress while washing the dishes, which is showing people that Dolce & Gabbana, can be an everyday wear.  If the companies name was not included in the ad, it would be hard to pick out what they are trying to sell, because the clothing does not seem to be the center of attention, like Madonna. .  The product does not seem to fit in with the background, a little too fancy for washing dishes. If I say this ad, I’ll probably skip past; it seems to bland, nothing that pulls me in. I guess this ad could promote “Woman as Second Class” with the fact that a dressed up women stuck in the kitchen cleaning.

                     http://www.advertolog.com/visa/print-outdoor/go-13011055/

                       Without the name and product I guess I would know what was being sold, I could be promoting the life a young teen could have if they were feeling a little down.  With the image they are using, I feel they are targeting a younger audience, to show young adults its okay to have a credit card. The Visa ad would be featured in People, which is read by the younger or more social in touch people. If the tattoo was located on a different body part, I believe the ad would still be effective; we don’t need to show private parts to sell things.

Dunbar's number (150)

                               In Robin Dunbar’s essay “You Gotta Have (150) Friends,” he explains how the number 105 is the perfect amount of friends that you can have and can keep up with.  Also how social networking sites like Facebook, keeps you in touch with friends and others that you might of not met with out.  Dunbar also wrote in his essay that in the real world we spend the majority of our time with five close friends. That’s one of the many things I agree with, because I have five friends that I spend the majority of my week with; my very close friends Megan, Stephanie, Dennis and my Aunty Dette.  To me, it doesn’t really matter how many friends I have, a hundred and seventy-one or fifty, as long as I have friends that I can call “Friends”.  Robin Dunbar’s essay has some truth to it, but I hope he’s not promoting the need for popularity.

Will not flip a switch

My name is Melissa, and this is my first blog ever.  To make this blog, I had a will hard time, or I could be over dramatic. But i was real close to sending the blogging company a mean letter, but i'm ok now




        ~The ad that I brought to class today, was selling a beauty product that removes our from our legs. The product is called Nair. This advertisement is also selling a image of a free pretty girl, that their product could help you to stay pretty.  A phrase that was used take capture the girls attention was
                            " I am
                               I Am Pretty
                               I am a citizen of the world
                               I am a dreamer
                               I am Fresh
                               I am not going to have stubs sticking out of my legs
                               I am who i am
                               I am Happy, I am Pretty. "
         Gives the young girl a powerful image to buy.