Blog Topics:

Your blogs were too short last week! I’d like to see more thought process going into your responses.

1.)    Emotional Response – Everyone has those moments… The ones where you see something/read something/discuss something that really draws emotion out of you. Rage. Happiness. Sadness. Distress. Whatever emotion it is… the advertisers or promoters are doing a great job pulling that out of you.

TASK: I would like you to respond to something that you have seen/read/experienced that drew a lot of emotion out of you. I expect a minimum of a 10 sentence paragraph explaining your thoughts and feelings and an attachment of the advertisement/video/whatever it is.

Example:

The Ad using a commonly seen subject matter of a girl posing with an object for sale. In this case, the ad appears to be trying to advertise a new handbag. The text features state the following:

Handbag:  32 Euros

Food for a Week:   4 Euros

Text ‘ad’ to 2255 to donate 1.50

I feel as though this is something that people in developed countries take for granted: food. We (and yes I am guilty of this as well) often think about our expendable income and think “what new ________ can I buy?” …………..

2.)    TASK 2: Since we are talking about emotions, I’d like you to write about something that you notice about society.

a.       Example: When I am on nutrition break duty, I often observe the student interaction in the cafeteria. I watch what students in our schools age group (10-18) are eating, how they eat it (behaviours they exhibit), where they sit, and most often, how students interact with each other. One thing in particular that I have noticed is the students who eat alone. I don’t necessarily watch them, but the other students around them. What makes these students so cool that they can’t take 2 minutes of their lives and invite this lone student to sit with them.  Can they not imagine how it would feel to be the one person who has no one to sit with? How isolating it must be to not have the nerve to gain strength and ask others if it would be okay to join them for their meal? …………..