Wednesday, April 21, 2010

the power of images

while using images in writing is a very powerful thing. images can be used for many different reasons. whether its to persuade, scare, shock, or influence.
images can be used for letting the reader know what the paper is going to be about. images can also be used for relating to something that is in the paper as well.
many writers will use images to scare their reader. and i don't mean just scare as in ghosts and goblins, even though they can be used for that. what i mean for example is a woman form the central Illinois area was arrested and did jail time for being addicted to meth. in the story about her they show a before and after picture of her from the use of drugs. writers will do this in order to scare people out of making the same mistakes that someone else once did.
writers will also use images that will go along with statistics they might have in their paper. sometimes these consist of pie charts, maps, and graph charts. some times they will use actual pictures to shock people like the bill board of drunk driving versus buzzed driving to show people that it is the same thing.
using images in your writing can play an important role for a paper. some examples of how writers use them are shown above. the use if images are used in many different ways and should be taken advantage of from all writers.

Wednesday, April 14, 2010

media and advertisement

I think that some of the stuff that the FCC has allowed to be on television is somewhat ridiculous. Almost all television shows have profanity, vulgarity, and show public displays of affection. I think that this is influencing the actions of young kids and teenagers.
The media publicizes just about everything now a days, anything from condoms, to profanity, and even Tiger Woods cheating on his wife. All of this is not needed to be published as frequent as it is. Because when it comes down to it no one really gives a crap one, and two there are bigger, more significant things in everyone’s life that we need to worry about.
Young kids and teenagers are influenced by everyone. Most of them also watch television most of their free time most of the time. So if they see a famous person or their role model on their favorite t.v. show smoking or having sex, then what do you think this influences them to do? Go out and do what they see is happening on that show.
I also do not think that it is necessary for every other commercial to be selling condoms or feminine products. Girls and women know about that stuff already and know where to buy it if they need it. Also by publicizing condoms it is not teaching people to be safe about sex but it is saying go out and do it, your okay as long as you use a condom, which really it is not okay to just go out and have sex.
Media sends mixed messages out to people so that they will buy products. I think that not only should commercials be more censored but also television shows.

Monday, April 5, 2010

expressions

There are many ways to express your feelings. I am not good at expressing how I feel. I am a person with a lot of opinions but majority of the time I am too nice to say how I really feel about people or things. I think that expressing feelings are an important way of writing. When someone expresses their self in their paper it sets the tone and lets the reader know that they are serious about what they are arguing. In my next paper I am going to talk about tanning and why I think it is not as bad as it seems. also in the paper I am going to talk about the new 10% tax law that Obama put in any tanning products that a person buys. I think that the best way to get my point across would be to argue my side and set my tone for the whole paper.
I also think that by expressing your views in a paper is really important. It’s always nice to have reliable sources but by showing how you feel about the subject can help people relate to what it is that you are talking about. I think that stuff like this is an important piece of writing.