something about being like rich and famous, he's in nice clothes and sipping on drinks by the pool

he created a type of style that tries to be rich and awesome but instead he's in a ugly bus

trying to make a new dance song that everyone knows the steps to when it comes on

verse about some girls

Class Blogger

To start off class, we met with our groups to discuss some final details for our final project. My group is basically done with our project, all that's really left is to do both the group reflection and the individual reflection. While we were in our groups Ms. Lang walked around and gave everybody back our last paper about advertisements.

We did this for about 10 minutes and then we moved on to our group presentations for our projects. My group went first, our magazine is called Sports Lifestyle and is mainly geared toward Men's health and how they live.

They group that presented called their magazine 24-Hour Mom. It is a Christmas edition of the magazine that follows a red and green color scheme. The front page with its older looking picture was geared towards older parents while the table of contents photo of a young couple is to attract younger moms. They all are basically nutrition articles dealing with something around Christmas time such as milk.

They next group that went up had a magazine entitled Das Mens Health. It is also a men's health magazine that is supposed to be a German publication that was translated to English. It is geared towards younger men because it deals with drinking, smoking, Mcdonalds, and weed smoking which in Germany are socially acceptable at a younger age. This range is what the group was trying to target.

The next group had a magazine called Mid-Life Crisis. They had a Newsweek theme cover and where all about guns, cars, and anything that dealt with a midlife crisis. The interesting part of their magazine was that their article titles were not just some random articles they found. They created article titles that also spoofed their spoof ads. Unfortunately I was not able to get a photo of their magazine cover.

The final group to present created a magazine that used an already published magazine called People. Their issue was all about fame and family because the fame included their article on Absolute Vodka and Heineken while the family part of the issue dealth with animal cruelty especially with puppies and buying the right products for your family.

After all the groups presented Ms. Lang talked about the deadlines for our final project and how everything was due on Friday December  7, 2012. She then talked about the papers that she gave back and how when we refer to our selves we should use men and women if we want to be treated like men and women, not boys and girls.

gangnam style

something about his own style causes of how hes dressed

something about a girl cause he keeps chasing after them

hes acting rich and famous cause he's sipping on drinks and it expensive looking places

peer review

This peer review was really helpful. I found out that ive made a bit to many generalizations and i need to give a little more evidence about them so they have some backing. All the peer reviews have been helpful in their own ways but honestly the best type we have done this year is the one on one with someone else. Talking face to face is better because it gives it a more personal feel and you can clarify certain points of confusion. Instead of just someone reading your paper and not being able to clarify points for them could cause them to see the paper the wrong way and make them give advice that makes no sense whats so ever. Along with having someone to clarify confusing points during the review you also get to see the type of person they are which helps you understand their writing better and you can see what they are trying to do better.

Spoof Ad

this advertisement is depicting the nike zoom's which is one of there best selling brands they have created. however instead of highlighting the actual shoe with bright colors and crazy designs they make the shoe all black. they also make the shoe look worn out and destroyed a bit. this gives the shoe an aurora of old and bad. Then on the actual shoe there is a dotted line down the middle that makes it seem as if there are trying to show two sides of a story. the two sides that they want to show are the side of where its made and the side of where its bought. the right side says sweatshop 83 cents, while the left side says nike 250 dollars. I believe its an anti-ad campaign against nikes use of manufacturing their shoes in sweatshop and exploiting workers in other countries. However it benefits them because when they bring it back and finalize it as a nike shoe its worth 250 dollars. I also think it is an anti-ad against branding because they put sweatshop on the right and at that time when it is a sweat shop shoe its only worth 83 cents but then it becomes part of the nike brand and the price sky rockets out of control. This ad is trying to take consumers away from the glamour of the shoe and get consumers to look at the inhumanity taking place.

Bicycle

I looked up at my grandfather with amazement as he put something on my head. I dont know what it is or what it is for but its my grandpa so i just accept it. Next thing I know he disappears and whatever I am sitting on starts moving. I am a little scared at this point because i cant see Papu but I hear his voice, I here him singing "La cucaracha, la cucaracha..." so I know I am safe. We keep riding around for awhile and the whole time I can here my grandfathers voice. It wasnt until I saw my house that his voice stopped but I knew i was still safe. I come to stop and there is Papu once again but this time he's taking off whatever he put on my head. He picks me up and I look at what we were on, its a bicycle. I dont know why i loved it so much but i did. This was one of the first memories i have of my grandfather before he left, before he was taken. We would ride around for ours at a time and Papu would sing to me during the entire ride. These where some of my favorite times with my grandfather and it wasnt until i was older did i understand that while me and him would ride around for 3-4 hours at a time he was running a huge and international company. I dont know how he was able to spend so much time with me and still be able to run his company successfully. However i respected him that much more when i learned this. It wasnt until 8 years ago did my grandfather begin to leave us. He started forgetting things, important things, he wasnt able to drive anymore, and his sight was getting worse and worse by the day. At first I really didnt understand, i just thought hey he's getting old and this happens but ill help him in whatever way i can. So i did. It worked for a couple of years, me and my grandfather were a team. I was always with him and helped him remember certain things that happened throughout the day and remember important events like birthdays and such. As happy as i was to help my grandfather i also got a front row seat to his departure. There was one day about 4 years ago that i walked in to his office to say hi and he had no idea who i was or why i was there. It was at this point that i knew he was gone. Alzheimer's had taken the man who raised me, the man who loved me, and the man i wanted to become from me. For that i hate it. However since that day i have never looked back, i only look forward so  i can become the man that my grandfather was. A great business man, a family man, but most of all Papu. He is and forever will be my inspiration in anything i do. I measure my actions based on what i think Papu would have done in certain situation. I have lost my grandfather in this life however he lives on in my heart and in my the rest of my families hearts. For to live on in hearts we leave behind is not to die.

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I looked up at my grandfather with amazement as he put something on my head. I dont know what it is or what it is for but its my grandpa so i just accept it. Next thing I know he disappears and whatever I am sitting on starts moving. I am a little scared at this point because i cant see Papu but I hear his voice, I here him singing "La cucaracha, la cucaracha..." so I know I am safe. We keep riding around for awhile and the whole time I here my grandfathers voice. It wasnt until I saw my house that his voice stopped but I knew i was still safe. I come to stop and there is Papu once again but this time he's taking off whatever he put on my head. He picks me up and I look at what we were on, its a bicycle. I dont know why i loved it so much but i did. This was one of the first memories i have of my grandfather before he left, before he was taken. We would ride around for hours and Papu would sing the entire ride. These where some of my favorite times with my grandfather and it wasnt until i was older that i learned that my grandfather was CEO of a huge and international company. I dont know how he was able to spend so much time with me and still be able to run his company successfully. However i respected him that much more for it. It wasnt until 8 years ago did my grandfather begin to leave us. He started forgetting things, important things, he wasnt able to drive anymore, and his sight was getting worse and worse by the day. At first I really didnt understand, i just thought hey he's getting old and this happens but ill help him in whatever way i can. So i did. It worked for a couple of years. My grandfather and I were a team. I was always with him and helped him remember certain things that happened throughout the day and remember important events like birthdays and anniversaries. As happy as i was to help my grandfather i also got a front row seat to his departure. There was one day about 4 years ago that i walked in to his office to say hi and he had no idea who i was or why i was there. It was at this point that i knew he was gone. Alzheimer's had taken the man who raised me, the man who loved me, the man i wanted to become. For that i hate it. However since that day i have never looked back, i only look forward so  i can try and become the man that my grandfather was. A great business man, a family man, but most of all Papu. He is and forever will be my inspiration in anything i do. I measure my actions based on what i think Papu would have done in certain situation. I have lost my grandfather in this life however he lives on in my heart and in my the rest of my families hearts. For to live on in hearts we leave behind is not to die. 

Peer review

After the peer review i am confident that my paper is now headed in the right direction. I was really iffy on the topic to begin with and really couldnt decide what to write about. once i got the idea about Cudi i knew i was going to write a good paper. I am also confident in all of my examples because they are about songs that i really enjoy. so instead of it being something random that i didnt mind for i actually care about making sure my views can be seen clearly because i have enjoyed all these songs so much. I will deff want to change the voice i used and include more I rather than us and we because i wasnt sure if i could use the first person in the essay. for sure ill change the entire essay to reflect my views rather than a subject view. The part i wont change is how many songs i used because i think that include the entire album works better together rather than only a couple of songs. Using the entire album as well also gives me the chance to talk about the story of the track list and how it tells a story in and of its own.