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5. Revlon Magazine Ad

2 Propaganda Techniques:

1. Testimonials- Uses celebrities or experts to speak for a product.
2. Scientific Appeal- Uses statistics or scientific data.

4. 5 Gum Cobalt TV Commercial

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1. Emotional Appeal- Connects to your fears and desires.

2. Glittering Generosities- Relates a product to words or images that promise greatness.

3. M&M Commercial

2 Propaganda Techniques:

1.Testimonials- Uses celebrities or experts to speak for a product.

2. Glittering generalities- Relates a product to images or words that promise greatness.
2.Subway Avocado Sub

2 Propaganda Techniques:

1. Plain Folks Appeal-  Relates to ordinary people.

2.  Glittering generalities- Relates a product to images or words that promise greatness

1. Evian Water TV Commercial

2 Propaganda Techniques:

1. Glittering generalities- relates a product to words or images that promise greatness.
2. Plain Folks appeal- relates to ordinary people.

ii. I like this ad because it’s something out of the ordinary. How often do you see a group of rollerskating babies on T.V? It’s unique and also has a humor factor in it.

iii.  The target audience is basically anybody, ranging from young people to older people. Young people because it’s supposed to be funny. Older people because it advertises youth, and how it could make you feel young again. Probably ages 7 and up.

iv. This commercial includes babies of different ethnicity’s. Just from watching it you can see an African-American baby, as well as an Asian baby. The majority of the babies, though, were visibly Caucasian- or white.  The babies were a mixture of genders, some boys and some girls. There is no people over the age of one in this commercial.

v. All of the babies are dressed in white, possibly representing purity or innocence. The music playing ads and edge to the babies, and the overall mood of the commercial.

The image of life that the Evian commercial is that this water will make you feel as if you could do anything- youthful. Just because you may not be an infant, doesn’t mean you can’t feel as free as one by drinking this water. You should feel young and free no matter what age you are.

This ad is influencing consumers to buy this product mainly by making it cute and humorous. they make you think, “Hey, this is the water from that funny rollerskating babies commercial!” And then they grab it from the shelf at the store, because of that commercial and the impact it had on them.

I believe that when questioning whether media shapes us or we shape the media, the best answer would likely be that it’s a mixture. The people who create commercials do research on what people like currently, and what’s popular. Using this, they create a commercial or some ad that society finds enjoyable in some way. That being said,  many of the things that people like or find desirable are put into our heads by the media. We see celebrities using whatever it is, and suddenly it’s a must have. Some of the thing’s that we like are originally our own thoughts, but some are also thoughts from the media that we like.

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New World:

April 1^st, 1501-

It has been exactly 1 whole year since my two bodyguards, 4 workers, and I have travelled to this formerly undiscovered land on my Father’s more than generous dowry. He hoped that in doing this, I would find a husband. It’s unfortunate that I have been unable to accomplish that task for my Father, but hopefully he will forget about that when he sees how extraordinarily well I have done here in these past months.

If I had to pick the toughest year on this quest to develop land, it would likely be this one. I had expected that the land would be empty, and I wasn’t disappointed. Fortunately, I bought land with good, moist soil for growing crops and such. Waiting for growth was the only problem. The crops were planted immediately so we could get a full growing season out of it, and we threw down grass seed in the places that needed it. While waiting, we fed our stomachs with fish from the well-populated river and vast lake, and fruit from the trees. We would eventually be able to butcher the cows and chickens I brought once they were more populated, but until then it was a fish, fruit, water, and milk. So we weren’t in danger of starving, that was a fact. After the food was planted, we planted dozens of coniferous trees and we started developing homes to stay in. We had brought enough wood so that my two bodyguards and I would be sheltered as soon as possible. Both guards and one of the workers were skilled builders, so they built my house and their houses in 2 months. In the process of building, they slept in tents that I supplied and I slept in my carriage. In those 2 months, we tended to the crops and other plants we planted since we got there. A fence was also put up so we could keep the horses, cows, and chickens I brought contained. We would build a barn shortly after so the animals had somewhere to stay in during the cold seasons. During this first year, I learned that it rains regularly. This meant that the crops would be nicely hydrated, and there was a slim chance that the late would dry up.

4 months later, my house and my two companion’s houses were built, and the barn was done. The crops were flourishing. We should start getting food from them in the coming months. As a group, we decided that we could begin to bring population here slowly. We decided that one of the extra workers would go on the ship and bring back 10-15 people. While he was fetching others, the builders started making cozy huts for those who are brought back.

All in all, it has been a good year.

April 1, 1503

Since my last log 3 years ago, lots of things have changed, mainly for the better.

One of my bodyguards sold his land to one of the citizens, and left to help develop other land somewhere else. That left me with 1 body guard, 4 workers, and the 14 people that were brought here in 1502. We plan to make another voyage to the main land in the next months to come. We currently have one doctor, and 4 women with children.

The crops of wheat and corn have been giving us so much that we have decided to start building a mill to provide us the necessities for breads. As the population grows, the abundance of fish goes down. Because of this, we are cutting back the amount of fish we eat to give them time to repopulate.

The cows have bred twice a year for the past 3 years, so we’ve butchered the first set of cows, and the next generation is currently breeding. The chickens have provided plenty of eggs; we eat half the eggs, and leave to rest to fertilize. Out of the living eggs, half are kept for breeding and half are butchered.

The fruit trees give us some apples and the bushes provide different berries for half the year. 2 of the women living here can the majority of the fruit to keep it edible, using it for jams and baking. Those who aren’t helping build the mill and small shelters for newcomers, are building a schoolhouse, where I will be teaching whoever is interested (mostly children and a few women) how to read and write.  My bodyguard set traps to catch any kind of animals

Two of the foragers have gone back to the mainland since the berries and fruit trees are done being harvested.

April 1, 1506.

The mill has been finished, and is fully working, and the new citizens brought back are working there. In the last 3 years, we have gained 12 more people, leaving us with a grand total of 38 people, counting the children.

It was an extremely difficult winter. We lost 2 adults and 1 child to illness. Without our beloved doctor we would have lost at least 6 more. This scare has caused the doctor to start training 2 more to be doctors so that we can be sure that we will be prepared next time illness falls upon us. The animals held up quite nicely inside the barn, so we had a decent food supply throughout the winter. It’s a good thing we had some canned fruit, or our diet would have been strictly meat and bread. We focused on butchering the old cows and breeding the younger ones, and ate more eggs to build the supply of chicken.  The mill is fantastic. Without it we would be without breads, so we are all grateful for it.

The traps set have caught plenty of rabbits. With these rabbits, we have taken the fur and made blankets, and used their meat for food.

The lake has frozen solid, and since some families acquired skates from their previous settlement,  the children skating for recreational enjoyment. By the spring we should be able to fish again.

April 1^, 1508.

My landing is thriving with live now! Women have had children, and more families are living here.  We have a foolproof system where everyone is assigned to a specific job, and the doctor in training is doing quite well. We have a grand supply of food. The only negative is that the owners of plot 4 dammed the river, so the amount of water has shrunk drastically. This may be a problem for some places, but with our large lake and respectable amount of rain, we shouldn’t be set back to far. We just have to watch the amount of fishing we do.

In the middle of the year, 1 of the Queen’s soldiers travelled through to see our progress, and whether or not the land should be repossessed. Some were really worried, but I had faith in our little community. I was right too, because the soldier was really quite impressed with our progress.

April 1, 1509

Her majesty, the Queen, paid a visit to our land and presented us with some demands. We had to either give food, soldiers, or weaponry to the army, or get our land repossessed by the Queen. This really was no problem for us, so we asked men if they would be interested in being recruited in the army. If we didn’t get any takers, we would give them bread, since we don’t really have military grade weapons.

10 brave people offered to be recruited by the army. We topped this off with 2 months’ supply of bread.

In these 9 years, I have made a variety of different realizations:

1. I am still not married. I’m sure my father wouldn’t be happy with this if he knew. Unfortunately, I’ve been so busy developing this place, I haven’t gotten around to communication with my father. I’m not even sure if he’s alive.
2. Without all my money, the progress made would have taken a lot longer. We most likely wouldn’t have gotten this far without my money, and I am very grateful. We would most likely be building homes, and looking for food.

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What is Kony 2012? This was a big question when the official Kony 2012 campaign video came out, and rapidly spread. People quickly found out what this video was all about, whether they liked it or not, because of the power of the media, and the internet; especially Facebook.

Joseph Kony is the head of the LRA- Lord’s Resistance Army.  What makes Kony so bad? He abducts children of all ages, and forces them to become part of his army. Either the children are used as sex slaves, or child soldiers. The child soldiers are given weapons and forced to kill innocent people, like their own parents.  The Kony 2012 campaign is trying to make him famous, but not in a good way. The idea is to make Joseph Kony known all around the world for all the awful things he has done, and continues to do. In order to find Kony, Uganda needs help from America and their advanced technology, but to keep American soldiers in the mission, they need to know that they are doing something that everyone agrees with and wants to move forward with, so people have to show they care by sharing the video, wearing the merchandise, and hanging posters. By doing at least one of these, we move a step closer to ending the retched Joseph Kony, and freeing the 60,000 ‘invisible children’ he abducted.

Many people say that the Kony movement is overdue, and now pointless. Or that sharing the video won’t make any difference whatsoever. To me, saying that just makes a person sound ignorant, even if they aren’t. You don’t have to do something huge to make a change in the world, anything will help, whether it’s making a viral video for the world to see, or simply clicking share so that others can learn about it. The whole idea of Kony 2012 is to make everyone see what it is, and doing something like sharing a link for it does exactly that. do something because it was so inspiring, and I think that was the point of the video. It clarifies that when everyone does something little, it all builds up and makes a big difference.  Kony 2012 is trying to make the lives of people in danger better, and I support that!

Watching the video actually made me want to

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Visual Essay Presentation: ashlynVisualEssay

Theme: Being diverse shouldn’t matter: It shouldn’t matter what religion someone believes in, what race you are, what you look like or who you’re friends with; everyone should be treated with equal respect.

Paragraph of Theme and Quote Explanation:

                In ‘My Canary Yellow Star’ German soldiers are coming into Hungary, and making life extremely difficult for the Jewish people.  They start with making them wear large yellow six pointed stars on their clothing so they can easily be identified. Things slowly become worse when they add a curfew that all Jewish citizens must follow, they have to move into specific ‘yellow star houses’, and can’t go to most stores or hold a steady job and obtain food. Eventually Jewish people are being beaten and killed, or deported to work camps. The German soldiers and Arrow Cross soldiers make it clear that they despise the Jewish. Marta is timid about the idea that the soldiers could hate a group of people just because of beliefs, but after encountering several incidents, she realizes it is true.

“Girls, always remember March 19^th, 1944. This is a day of infamy in our country. The thunder outside these windows is the noise made by the approaching German army.” – Page 2                                                                                  - I used this quote because it is basically when everything goes downhill for Jewish citizens, and things begin to change in a bad way. I associated this quote with the thunder clouds and lightening in my picture because it represents the darkness and chaos that the German soldiers brought along with them.

“Who is this Wallenburg?” –Page 80 – When Marta asks who Wallenburg is, she didn’t know he was an official from Sweden who gave Shultz- passes to Hungarians, with connections to Sweden who could change her family’s life and save them from the threats of the Germans by giving them a pass. I showed this in the poster with a picture of a Shultz-pass, as well as the Swedish flag around Marta (the girl in the poster) protecting and attempting to shield  her from the storm coming; the German soldiers.

“But it isn’t safe anymore.” Page 219 – This is an important quote because it shows that the soldiers had gone far enough to make people believe even their home isn’t safe anymore. Your home is supposed to be the place where you feel safety and security. When it doesn’t feel that way, then there is a problem.

‘Survival’ – I used the word survival because it is something that all the Jewish citizens where struggling for. With the German army placing all those obstacles in front of them- torture, discrimination, curfews, punishment- it’s hard for them to survive.

“Judit and I stood as if hypnotized while young women rushed up to the marching soldiers and hugged and kissed them. A man in a beret proudly lifted his toddler and passed him into the extended arms of a tank commander.” –Page 4 – This quote is important because it shows how much the people of Hungary trusted them. A parent giving their child to a soldier to hold is basically allowing them to hold their world, and is a huge symbol of trust. (Not on the poster)

I am sick of being sensible.” Page 83 – When Marta said this, it showed how much she disagreed with what was happening around her, to the people she loved and herself. It was basically her saying that she didn’t care anymore, that she is going to be judged by whatever she does, and there is a risk of getting into trouble with everything she does.   She might as well do things she will enjoy and be careful about it instead of sitting around depressed because of the events taking place.

‘Rebellion’ – I used the word rebellion because it works with Marta’s attitude.  She wasn’t going to sit around and take what wasn’t deserved; she tried her hardest to make the best of a horrible situation. To represent her rebellious personality, I put her in front of a huge crowd to show that she isn’t afraid to stand out and speak up.

“They were both dead.” Page 217 – This is a big part in the novel, when her best friend Peter get’s shot and killed trying to save her Aunt from being shot. Unfortunately, they were both killed by the bullet. I put the quote in the picture because it represents all the people she cared about who died- her Grandmother, Aunt, and Peter- either doing something brave, or taking a stand for what they believe in.  In my poster, the grave stone represents this.

‘Friends’- I used the word friends because when the German soldiers took over, Marta learned who her true friends where, the ones who stuck with her even though a whole nation was saying it was wrong.

“I ran and ran until I had no breath left to run any longer.” Page 80 –This symbolizes all how Marta felt throughout the book. She was always running away from people who didn’t like who she was.

‘Adversity’ – Adversity is one of the main words that go with the theme of the book. Before the German soldiers came and said how horrible being Jewish supposedly was, everybody got along with each other.  But after the German soldiers came, they suddenly thought the people they lived around most of their life were criminal. They showed their true nature in a time of adversity.

“I was as frightened and confused as she was.” Page 2 – This shows how many of the Jewish people felt during this whole book. Frightened because of what the soldiers were doing and trying to accomplish, and confused because they had no clue as to why they would do something like that, when they had done nothing to deserve it.

“Where should we go now?” Page 219 – This shows how they suddenly had everything taken away from them, and had absolutely no place to go. They didn’t have a home anymore, and they’re closest friends and family had been killed.

‘Dignity’ – It is what was taken away from all the Jewish when the German soldiers came.

‘Diversity’ – Diversity ties together the whole book. These people were punished for being different, when it shouldn’t matter how and why you are different. What should matter is the person themselves, not the group they’re with, the race they are, or in the book’s case, the religion they believe in.

I put a gun with an army hat to show that there is war happening in the book, and is a big reason why the Jewish are being harmed. There is a map from the German army linked from Germany to Hungary to show that Hungary was where they were targeting, and Poland is crossed off because they had already been there. She is wearing a six point star because that is the first thing the Germans made them do is wear a large yellow star, and it is a way they were separated from a crowd and it’s an essential part of the story.  She’s holding a necklace with a six pointed star because it belonged to her grandmother who she greatly admired, and who died for standing up for herself, and her religion, and what she believed in.

Quotes and Personal Statements:

“Who is this Wallenburg?” –Page 80

“But it isn’t safe anymore.” Page 219

‘Survival’

“Girls, always remember March 19^th, 1944. This is a day of infamy in our country. The thunder outside these windows is the noise made by the approaching German army.” – Page 2

“Judit and I stood as if hypnotized while young women rushed up to the marching soldiers and hugged and kissed them. A man in a beret proudly lifted his toddler and passed him into the extended arms of a tank commander.” –Page 4

“I am sick of being sensible.” Page 83

‘Rebellion’

“They were both dead.” Page 217

‘Friends’

“I ran and ran until I had no breath left to run any longer.” Page 80

‘Adversity’

“I was as frightened and confused as she was.” Page 2

“Where should we go now?” Page 219

‘Dignity’

‘Diversity’

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