Supersize me

The Movie, Super size me shows the very disturbing truth of what eating fast food can do to your body. Morgan eats at McDonald for 30 days every meal of the day and manages to gain 10% of his body weight in the first week. Doctors that were taking tests of Morgan had not idea of the effects of fast food could do in the such a short period of time. Morgans doctors said that he was potentially killing his liver and doing other damage to his body that is nonrecoverable. Plenty of people eat at McDonald regally but many have no idea what risk they put themselves in by eating there.

diet of america

Morgan Spurlock is one crazy dude, I go to Mcdonalds every once in a while but its only because its a bit expensive sometimes, I sure hope he made bank off this movie because the tab at McDonald's must have been just shy of a thousand. Not to mention the implicit cost to doing the experiment. Its a good thing he choose McDonald's and not something worst like Five Guys or Chipotle, Day 22 would have happened at day 18 I bet. As for some of the stats McDonald's has posted back then, think about now today 10 years later, Now it would be even worst because there are some many lose weight fast or stick to your every day diet but still lose weight regardless, the results would be horrifying. We can't help the fact that they exist and we can't help the fact that people are addicted to it who are way past gone. The only way we would be able to make a dent in the diet of America is to get rid of most fast food chains,or at least limit the number of restaurants in them, but since we are not going to do this ever the main key is self control. That is the sole thing you need to stay healthy even with all of the temptations we see everyday.

Supersize This

     In Morgan Sperlock's documentary Supersize Me he undergoes a 30 day diet change were all he could eat was McDonalds.  This is absolutely crazy and I recommend watching it if you haven't seen it.  The transformation his body makes is insane.  He gains about 10% of his own body weight in only a week.  He also goes to multiple doctors throughout this process and each one says the same thing, that if he doesn't stop his unhealthy high fat diet it will take a major impact on his health.  Despite his doctors' concerns he finishes the 30 day diet and it pretty much dying.  Too learn more, watch the documentary.

Supersize Me

"Super size me" is a documentary on the dangers of fast food eating. It is known that eating too much fast food is not good for your health but to what extent is unknown. Morgan Shurlock takes it upon himself to see what the human body can handle by going to the absolute extreme. He eats only McDonald's for 1 month. Evert meal 3 times a day. The results were stunning. He experienced extreme liver damage and was forced to stop because he was at risk of death. He also experienced depression that is simpler to that of an addiction. HE raised many points that healthy eating starts in the schools and the lunch that students receive can lead to future bad eating choices.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wT3eHA1e-GU i think that this Gatorade commercial is trying to advertise that their product will give you the energy to do one more of your training. And that it will give you the energy need to complete your task to the best of your ability.

weight watchers....really?

The eight watchers commercial during the 2015 super bowl was the biggest mixed message I've seen yet. The main point of their ad was to advertise how good all this food looks and how you should eat all of it or at least eat what you think is good and hey by the way you should go on a diet. I don't want to tell them how to do their job but i don't think that showing the public really good food, based on appearance not nutritional facts, then expecting them to say no to all of it and go on a diet doesn't work. The only reason why i say this is because people who are already fat or at least getting there most of them don't have the discipline to just say no and go on a diet, if that fact where true then 60% of america wouldn't be over weight according to Super size me and other health sites. Not the best approach, maybe showing a world full of fat people,exaggerated of course like the movie Wall-e, then at the end just show the weight watchers logo would have been better.  

Superbowl Ads

Avocado from Mexico uses humor to help establish their protect as the best avocado available.  It shows that its product is the best available and the best pick for  your avocado needs. It subliminally shows that other products have issues, for example "off the field issues" is shown to make that product undesirable. So the next time you are in the mood for some guacamole, and need to run to the store to grab some avocado you see this brand and remember the commercial. Your mind remembers it because it is funny and you think to yourself that it is the best product and you buy it.The commercial also shows famous sportscasters with knowledge on the sports, specifically football in this commercial, so they must know what the best avocado is for you.

In my oppinion I think the Super Bowl was a very good game all the way around. All the calls were accurate and the game was fair. I really didn't not like a lot of the commercials. They were kind of boring and did not really catch my attention. But the end of the game is what really upset. Why would you thirw the ball on the 1 yard line. When you have one of the best HB in the league

As most of you may know Gatorade is the most chosen drink from athletes such as lebron James, to normal average joes. But what most people may not know about Gatorade is that awful for you to just drink on a regular day bases. Because of all the sodium(salt) that it contains. Gatorade contains the same amount of salt as 3 large McDonald's fries. Now don't get me wrong Gatorade is amazing drink if you are workout or playing a sport. But just to drink with like just regular meal is awful for your health

Deforce

What I learned from the movie Deforce


Detroit was the most industrious city in the world during the 1950s. When New York had to be bailed out Detroit had more jobs than it knew what to do with. And these jobs were good, thanks to henry fords livable wage model, workers could become part os the middle class by simply working on the assembly line. When Detroit started to decline in population was after the 1960's race riots. Jobs were moving south or even internationally and Detroit had little natural beauty like LA or New York. A class war began after the race riots between the wealthy white suburbs and the low income black city. Anyone with money moved out, leaving the city to low income individuals. The low income and mass unemployment in Detroit was the perfect breading ground for drug dealing. Drugs became a large part of the underground Detroit economy but violence also came with it. Decent people who just wanted to make a living honestly had fewer opportunities and incentives to stay in the city as crime increased. As time went on city resources decreased and taxes increased, leaving the already low income area to a path of self destruction. The time finally came in 2013 when the city of Detroit caught up to the amount of dept it had created and declared bank bankruptcy.

Superbowl commercial

Fiat Blue Pill

The Super bowl is the most watched event in TV history and the real moneymaker for NFL executives and players. Companies pay top dollar to run a short pitch over the break of half time, time outs, and between quarters. No stops are left out when big money is on the line and companies choreograph their commercials down to the wire.  The expectation for high quality commercials has produced a great environment for Superbowl commercial to grow a brand. Super bowl commercials are always the most anticipated commercials of the years and with all the press in the world covering the super bowl, the commercials get tons of free publicity if they catch the eye of the viewers.

One of the most controversial super bowl commercial this year was the Fiat Blue Pill Ad. Though the erectile dysfunction (blue pill) ad is nothing new to being broadcasted alongside the male dominated sports, it was unusual for a car company to use the pill to show how there new car has increased in size.

Kim K Superbowl Ad

     This commerical was very interesting because it was Kim Kardashian talking about how T-Moblie allows her to post about her life.  When all she was doing in the ad was showing off her body.  This is funny because she is pretty much famous for no real reason other than being hot.  I don't think this was a good advertisment because after the commercial I wasn't even thinking about the product being advertised.  Overall, I think that T-Moblie should of had a more product focused ad.

Detroit Segregation

 Most cities in America are reasonable integrated between races but Detroit gave up on race relations completely after the 1960's riots. The whites moved out of Detroit and into the suburbs while backs stayed. Relations were still tense between blacks and whites and many of whites did not want blacks to move into the suburbs. So communities in the suburbs set up heavy regulation and secret alliances with real estate agents to keep blacks out of the city. This map below shows just how segregated the city of Detroit (mostly black) is from the suburbs (mostly white).

Gender when gender isn't an issue

When it comes to things that have nothing to do with physical ability, do you think that there should be teams for the separate genders? I don't find it necessary to have two separate teams. I was reading online just surfing the web, and i come across an ad for a Girls engineering team. What is the purpose of this? Wouldn't it make sense if there was just one team for something such has this? I assume that they would want more women to be interested in engineering, but you can easily do that but making an ad with a female engineer working in action, or something of the sort maybe with a team or even just posing, however making a separate team for just women seems a bit ridiculous. Sometimes i feel as if the 21st century is like a YouTube video, The advertisement loads perfectly and yet the video itself is buffering ever couple of seconds; time to wake up people. 

Nike Swoosh Response



            After reading this article it made me realize how much branding has become a part of everyday life.  I do agree with the fact stated at the end of the article claiming that the Nike swoosh relates to sports like the fish to Christianity.  Nike has become the focus and main innovators of the sports world.  I also believe that if a track coach from Oregon can have this type of success it is possible for just about everybody with a good idea and the correct advertising/marketing.  Mentioned in the article was how the Nike swoosh logo was created for only $35.  This to me is mind blowing, that logo now must be worth millions.  You never know how a company might be started and what their symbol will be. 

Product Placement

Product placement has become a part of the entertainment we see every day. Nike has one of the biggest impacts on entertainment. Professional athletes that we look up to wear the Nike logo on their uniforms and in our mind we want to feel like a sports star so we buy the products. Student athletes want to buy the same products that heir favorite athletes wear so that they can feel more like that person. In TV we see our favorite characters use a product and we buy it so that we can look like them. Product placement is a major impact in what we buy and marketers use it to make more money.

hidden meanings in ads

In the Advertisement cross the line for the warrior lacrosse company they use the childhood sport of many, baseball, and show how difficult it is to play for many people. But then show how lacrosse as the hero who everyone can play and enjoy. Some of the underlining meaning of the ad were becoming a jock but not through the typical sports of baseball and football. They also show the sex appeal of lacrosse which is aimed at boys and men.

Ads

Today’s ads are all about selling a brand. Companies are becoming social creatures capable of having personalities and emotions to convey their costumers in the brand experience. People can be passionate about allot of inanimate objects but none is more impotent in its role in human life and has more passionate followers than an automobile. Cars are more important in many young man’s lives than having children. So selling the idea of independence and sex appeal car brands sell is easy to do when your market is for independent young men.
Both ads above do a good job displaying how the car market is aimed at young men by the use of attractive women and selling the independence a car gives to a young adult.

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest shows the mistreatment in mental institutions. This brought about changes in the 1960's  to reform society. Many of these changes included racial equality, women's rights, and support for the mentally handicapped. Now people who are emitted into an institution receive the help they need to get better. They are no longer tortured with the threat of electroshock therapy and lobotomies. Nurses and orderlies are there to help and not to punish the patients. Socially people today feel an obligation to take care of the mentally ill and have learned that it isn't the persons fault they are mentally ill.

as most of you may know the biggest game any football player gone ever play in is coming. i would like to think that the seahawks are going to dominate the patriots. i think that russell wilson is going throw 2 td passes and NO interceptions. i think that tom brady and rob are going to have good games but not good enough to be superblow. champions.

Nuclear Drone

So as of 2014 there have been talk and plans for the first drone to be able to fly and drop nukes. There has been previous talk about trying to limit or reduce the use of drones because it is unsafe, too many civilian risk at stake and they tend to crash allot. There has also been talk about how the increase in drone usage could potentially solve issues more efficiently and at less need for military funding. To that i say it doesn't make sense. If they need less military funding then how do they expect to pay for the drone, the people to put it together, operators to play it and fuel to fly it;despite the ability for drones to fly months on end without refueling. The works on the drone has been stopped as of "now" as fear of public opinion flourishes on the new ideas.

Can a 6-Year Old Drive Better Than You?

Rashid al-Dhaheri is a 6 year-old driving sensation out of the United Arab Emirates.  He is his nation’s best driver and is becoming very well known.  In the article writer Sam Borden explains how this young kid is going to be the next racing great out of the United Arab Emirates.  But is t fair to say that he will be?  He is only 6-years old, and I believe that he won’t become the next start.  It’s not like he is even driving a real car, he drives a go-kart.  Driving a real car that goes faster than 40 mph is actually very hard and takes a lot of mental and physical strength.  I know that I am being brutally honest here but when was the last time you heard of a professional driver coming from the United Arab Emirates.  It’s not a country known for their drivers and to predict that a kid will become the next big thing seems a bit absurd.  “He has been driving for half of his life” says his father, but he is only six so if he can have such great skills after only driving for three years I’m sure many other kids could have the same.  Not trying to wreck his dreams, but this is how I feel about this article.

Deforce

The City of Detroit is one of the most historic cities in the united states. The city is most known for the auto industry, and crime. The crime in Detroit is significantly higher than in most major cities. The film Deforce shows the difficulties that have hit the community of Detroit. The crime rates in Detroit are significantly higher than the U.S. Average. The city has a major increase in drug related crimes due to the lack of jobs in the city. People in the inner city can make more money with drugs than anywhere else in the city. 318 soldiers were killed in Iraq while over 400 were killed in detroit in 2013. Of these murders over 65% were drug related. Despite all the crime, there is still progress in detroit. Crime rates have decreased in all categories except drug related crime in the past year. The city is also starting to increase the amount of businesses that operate in Detroit.

The Breakdown of Detroit

    

     Detroit used to be one of the most well known cities in America.  It was known as the one of the most opportunitistic cities based on all of the automotive plants and assembly line jobs.  People would come from all over to get paid for doing one simple job over and over.  But, then riot struck and because of segregation Detroit started to become more of a war zone than a utopia.  This lead to many run down buildings and despite all the money being put into the city, the population started to take a fall and the remaining people were being taxed like crazy.  Before anyone could stop this tragedy, Detroit became finacially broke.

Riots in the street about racial inequalities was a bad move on both party's to me, all of them knew a better way to handle it but chose not to either it be human nature or sheer ignorance. the whole thing on racial equality sadly will never come but we can make it better, fighting and rioting in the streets may have been the most effective way at their disposal at the time but in no way was it the best way to get their message across. If only there wasn't a need for it tin the first place but i guess that's what makes America beautiful.  

Post Racial America

In 2008 America saw the election of the first black president in history. The assumption was that racism would die with the election. Recent events in Ferguson, Missouri show that the racial tensions have not died down. The racial tensions is in part due to the increase in police brutality. Today 60% of Americans have cell phones capable of taking a video. More people are now able to see first hand what the police are doing to people being arrested. When excessive force is used the majority of the time it is a black person being assaulted. Most of the time the cases against the police are dropped. It is important to make the police able to do their job without having to worry about the possibility of being reprimanded, but at the same time the use of excessive force should be stopped. 

I think mean girls was a good movie that really displayed how most girls in the school all have to be prefect. This movie is a good example of how girls will do anything to be in the inner crowd and to be the prettiest and most popular girl in the school. This movie shows a good example of that when they cut holes into the chest area of reginas top and she walked around like that all day. And the very next day all the other girls in the school were also wearing their shirts like that. this really shows how girls will do anything to be in the inner circle and to be popular.

This graph is a bit surprising to me because when i first looked at it I thought that he north would be less predictable while the south would be more predictable. I always heard stories of Texas having lots of weather stories but i had no idea it compared to Michigan. This graph in my experience is very accurate to the places I've visited, Must be after gathering data for 20 years just to put this together. Now all they have to do is tell us which state is the nicest year round usually.  

Gender sterotyping

Louis Sullivan
Gender gap in suicide
My article

Most popular culture movies and videogames that are aimed to men use violence to prove their characters masculinity. Guns also play a large part to influence men into settling their rage with violence. But does pop culture’s view of men mean that men are any stronger than women. Sure men are typically larger in physic but from a mental intelligences standpoint. Evidence shows that women are stronger. Women are becoming much less dependent on men to be the breadwinner and have better achievement levels in school.

Because of these gender stereotypes many men go untreated for mental disease because of fear from pop culture that was resulted in the gender gap in suicides. 

Despite pop cultures view of how strong men are women are far superior dealing with their emotions and don’t have fear of looking weak to seek help on mental disease and are less likely to commit suicide.

Fahrenheit 9/11: Persuasion or Propaganda?

I think that Moore's critique of the Bush administrations lack of effort to prevent the attack on 9/11 showed the downfall of the president to fulfill the role of national security. At times Moore was belligerent going as far that Bush spent most of his time away from the white house and at his ranch in Texas. Moore did seem to be coming from a passionate background on the event of 9/11 and I think that I would classify his work as a persuasion. When most people were rallying around the flag Moore showed just how incompetent the Bush administration was to prevent the attack and then during the committee meetings how little blame was given to anyone or any system in place.

Graph of police race in US cities

Race make up in US cities

In this graph from David Murphy cities are rated with % based on racial make up of the population that is represented by their police force. This graph shows just how much white police officer over represent minority city populations. This is important because in several recent events, race issues have reignited the flame of the long hatred between of the blacks and the whites in the US. Most recently the death of Eric Garner raised the question are police using unnecessary force towards minorities such as the choke hold that was used to restrain Mr. Garner.