logical fallacy

From watching the movie PCU I learned that the way college life is percieved is very different from the way college life actually is. One primary example that I found interesting during the movie was the part when there was a group of people protesting not to eat red meat that red meat is murder, and then the people that stayed in the pit went up to the top of this building and started throwing all sorts of meat down at the protesters. I thought to myself that there is no way people in college would do anything like this and get away with it. The part of the movie we watched in class seemed so exaggerated. The movie was very funny but overall it did not show what college life really is about. This logical fallacy would be "Red Herring."

McCandles

From reading the story about McCandless and all the things he went through I do not think that many people today exist like him, but I do think that there are still some people that are still like Mccandless. McCandless had everything that you could never imagine. He was a graduate student, for one, from one of the most highly honored colleges, Emory University. Just by getting into this college and graduating from this school lets you know that McCandless was an extremely smart person. He also came from a very wealthy background. His parents had $20,000 just for his schooling which he eventually gave the money away to a relief fund. McCandless had everything that anybody could ever want and he felt like he had everything and needed something that he has never experienced. I feel like when people have all the material things you could possibly have they feel like they have to do other things to get a since of satisfaction. Some famous people do things to get attention, too, like when Brittany Spears cut her hair off that was for attention because she has all the money and basically gets whatever she wants. In some ways Brittany Spears and other celebrities like Paris Hilton seem like the people that would end up doing the things that McCandless did. Society has changed drastically over the past 15 years to where our primary goals are affected by the economy. Everything revolves around money. If you don’t have money then life is going to be hard for you. It seemed like McCandless wanted to see what the hard life felt like. He went days without eating just to prove that he could make it. He did not want the help of anybody. For example when McCandless did not want to take the plane ticket offered to him by his friend Gallien. McCandless wanted to take the hard way of doing things. Money matters a lot in this world. If you do not have money you cannot afford to go to school, have a house, or even buy the things you need to survive. Society is going to continue to change drastically. For example the price of gas continues to increase. The economy is increasing all the time. McCandles would not be viewed as the “norm” of the society today. People during today’s society go to school then go to work as a way of living. McCandles did not do that he did go to school but like to do more adventurous things that did not involve money or the material things. He left everything behind and went off of what his heart felt. Now a day people cannot go off what their heart feels because their heart is not going to pay the bills or put food on the table. You have to work in order to survive in America or else you will die of starvation like McCandles did at the end of his short lived and creative life.

AD Campaign

I feel like the ad might have appealed to people in some type of way but not through buying clothes. To me this ad would have been better if it was campaigning something related to clothes but for clothes I do not think that it works. The picture would actually make me afraid to buy the clothes and the people in the picture are not even wearing the clothes so why would I want to buy from this company if the people are not even wearing the company’s clothes. When campaigning for people to wear your clothes you have to make the picture appealing where people are like WOW where can I get those clothes from. You should at least have the people wearing the clothes so that the costumer knows what they are going to look like. I really feel like this ad has anything to do with clothes it actually scared me the first time I saw it. If the ad was placed in a campaign to promote the prevention of AIDS I believe it would have been more affective, because people back then did not know a lot about AIDS so the picture would have showed them the AIDS can affect anybody in the world and that people need to learn about this disease to protect themselves from becoming infected. In some way I can see that the ad is trying to promote informing people about AIDS so that they know what you could possible look like but I am still confused on how it would help the company’s promotion of their clothes. In some ways I think that they ad was used to scare people of the effects of AIDS. Promoting AIDS the ad does a great job but the promotion of clothes I think the ad is suffering the promoters should have choose a different way to promote their clothes. I personally do not like the ad and I would have loved to see if the sales rate of the clothing company went up or down because of this ad. I really do not know how the sales would have been affected because some people may interpret the picture differently than I am some people may like how strong the picture is and really like what it stands for, but some people on the other hand, like me, probably would not understand what the ad has to do with selling clothes. It all depends on what you like and what attracts your attention to something to how you would view this ad. The ad does not get my attention to buy clothes mainly because I am not able to see what the clothes look like and the picture is really throwing my attention off from what they mean by the ad and the clothes they are trying to sell. I would strongly agree with the ad if it was promoting what it actually stands for and that is to inform people about what AIDS really is.

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