When Suzannah Moore came in on friday, we discussed how the media and advertisments can affect how a person thinks. We talked about how people change sometimes because of the media. I've noticed that if a certain celebrity is in an advertisement and a person likes that celebrity, they go out and buy the product. Sometimes people change their style to match celebrities. I will admit that I have gotten caught up in advertisements. If I see something I like, I will go and buy the product. Sometimes the advertisements are done so well that it's hard not to want the product they are trying to sell.
We also discussed how sometimes advertisements can be deceiving. We took a survey on friday. On the first part, we had to guess what the advertisement was trying to sell, and who was trying to sell it. Most of us got them completely wrong. One of them had text that said something like "caviar and wine" and had a woman with bright red fingernail polish. Most of the people in class thought it was trying to sell caviar and alcohol, but it was really an ad for fingernail polish. Another one of the ads had a lady in lingerie. I thought it was an ad for lingerie, but it was really an ad about cancer. It is amazing how you think an ad is about one thing and it is really about something else.
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