Monday, December 8, 2008

Bad ad contest


I think this is a bad ad for many different reasons. This ad is insulting stereotypical, and inappropriate.

The first bad point of this ad is that it depicts men as pigs. This ad is stereotypical it gives the image of what most women picture when they think about men at a bar. They think of old, fat, ugly, disgusting pigs who always try to pick women up. In this ad it shows all of the men in the bar as pigs, this is because they do not have a Trojan condom. The pigs are dirty, fat, ugly, and are drinking. This is offensive as you could infer, that this ad is saying that a lot of men are dirty, fat, drunk pigs who try to pick up women. So we can compare what we infer from the ad and the stereotypical view of men, and it turns out to be very similar.

The second bad point of this ad is that it is very sexist. In the ad it is only the men who are depicted as pigs, aren’t there women who can be as bad as drunkard men? All the women in the poster are beautiful and young and are all being oppressed by the pigs. But isn’t it the same when a women sees a man she likes she hits on him?

The third bad point of this essay is that this poster depicts bars as breeding grounds for men who try to pick up women. Not all bars are like this most people just go to bars to have a fun time, and enjoy themselves. Men and women go to relax have a few drinks and sure even “hook up”; but in the poster it is over done it shows that the bars are only a place to “hook up.”

The fourth and final bad point of this essay is that it’s a marketing gimmick. This ad tells men that if you have a Trojan condom than you will get a woman and if you don’t they will think you are a pig. As it is shown all the men in the poster are pigs, and the women are avoiding them. Although in the background there is one man who has a Trojan condom, and he is not a pig and he also has a women with him. This also applies to the women, the poster tells them only choose a man with a Trojan condom and he will not be a pig.

In conclusion the whole poster is a marketing gimmick, to make people buy Trojan condoms. It falsely advertises, and makes all men ,except those with Trojan condoms, look bad.

Tuesday, December 2, 2008

imitation

There seems no question but that written letters are going to be out of this world in time. Because of our computers, and email we no longer have the need to send letter through the post. we just send them electronically. Nowadays birthday cards, greeting card, all sorts of different cards, and letter are sent via email. All you need to do is write or download something, and then at the click of a button its off to your person of choice anywhere around the world.
back in the days where Internet was just a dream, and computers looked like nuclear powered reactors; the only ways to get letters to another person was to post them. People used to have to write a letter, go to the post office, get a stamp, and post it. This was the usual manner of how things where done. A quote from a wise lady was "once we all get into the way of email we will soon forget about writing letters. It will be more of a burden, than something done to keep in touch with someone, or to send information etc. Sure writing letters takes longer than an email but, isn't it nice to receive something in the mail which is not a bill or some junk mail? There are still people who write letters; but their numbers demisinish slowly as our generations turns more towards the internet and email.
I predict that as time goes by writing letters shall become obsolite, as the floppy disk and the 8 track once did.