ADS

"The more you play with it, the harder it gets. You sit there, eyes glued to the writhing, arcade quality graphics pulling and squeezing your knob. Now youre breathing heavily over the digital stereo sound. now you're shooting all over the place. but but its no use..."GAME OVER."

Many people would take this ad offensively, but I'm sure there is a great amount of people who think its completely harmless. I am definitely one that thinks its just funny and harmless. People need to stop being so crazy about advertisements needing to be regulated. The advertising companies have just as much right of free speech as we do, so they can say what they want to say and show what they want to show without needing to be punished for it. Yes the advertising companies do go too far sometimes but people just need to not take things so literally. People also need to realize that skinny "perfect" models are not real, yes in real life they may have good bodies but nothing close to how they look airbrushed and all made up. People need to gain the ability to know that many things shown in advertisements are not real!
Here's another innapropriate/ but not funny (at all) one for Popsicle's..

 

now that is an ad to get upset about..

Advertising and Childhood Obesity

We were talking about advertising in class the other day and the negativity about some advertisements. There were the models that were made to look completely too thin, the advertisements that were sending a bad image and all of the others that we didn't have too much time to look at. Although the models do affect children and young teens, I think that fast food advertising is by far the worst and most effective, especially among the youth. Children have such spongey minds especially at such a young age that if Mcdonald's or any other fast food restaurant shows a toy advertised for their favorite television show or movie they will automatically want that toy. They will beg and beg and beg their parents for the toy, then the parents will get sick of the begging and just take them to get the happy meal with over 600 calories for them to eat and get awarded with a toy. Although many people do not think that the toy is an "award" if you think about it, it truly is, the toy is an incentive or a bribe to have when they finish their meal. They usually cannot have the toy until their meal is eaten and then are given the toy. Advertising companies use child psychologists to figure out exactly how to get into the children's head. Obviously the companies have the complete right to do so and I do not object to that, I am just more interested in the effect that it has on the youth and what our society will be in time with all of these children being so overweight with such horrible health problems at such a young age.

Field Day Assignment

You accept other opinions not only your own? A

You pay clear attention to someone’s opinion when they are talking although theirs might be different than your own? A

You go with your instinct rather than second guessing yourself? A

You are comfortable disagreeing with other people? A

You let your feelings control you and your decisions? S

You think before you speak? S

You openly accept criticism? A

You are curious about other opinions and options? A

You change opinions when new evidence is shown? S

Do you take time to answer questions? S

ALWAYS=6, SOMETIMES=4 NEVER =0

Critical Thinking:

Critical thinking I feel is completely different for each person. The person Jono and I interviewed stood behind his opinion but also was open to new opinions. He does act off of feeling sometimes but for the most part thinks about things thoroughly before speaking. So I think he is somewhat of a critical thinker. For me personally I feel like I am sometimes a critical thinker but more to myself. I always listen to other people’s opinions no matter if I agree with theirs or not and am always open to suggestion with new opinions but then again I am always one to let my feelings take control of pretty much every decision I make. I also for sure do not think before I speak and I take opinions very internally sometimes. I do think I can improve on being more opened with my opinions because I do tend to be more on the shy side when I feel uncomfortable or when I feel like my answer is wrong. Critical thinking is something I feel you either do, or you have to learn how to do.