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Notes on "Why are students turned off" by Casey Banas, "Here is to your Health" by Joan Dunayer and "Is Sex all that Matters?" By Joyce Garity.
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I think Joan Dunayer´s work on Here´s to Your Health ir really interesting and defineately real. It is certainley true how now alchol is managed as a powerful weapon to make people believe that by drinking it they will become stronger, beautiful and succesful. This discussed points result really intresting because nowadayas I often see in my country how alchol is related with party, sex, fun and sociability in general. The total idea of what health represent has been drastically modified and even misunderstood for is it is obvious that alchol does no help your health as it reduces the body´s senses and fast responses which difficulties the person´s reactions and behaviors. Porpaganda has been bale to nmascarate the real and nocive effect of alchol by promoting it as some kind of magic beverge that estimulates people senses and allows people to reach happiness.
ResponderEliminarHere’s to your Health
ResponderEliminarThe majority of the times teenagers think that consume alcohol is cool or is going to give to them more powerful in the school or in the society.
Some people thinks that drink beer is going to make that people more attractive and more sexy, they think that they are going to gat a girlfriend or a boyfriend just for drink a beer, just for be “cool”.
The reality is different, because to drink alcohol can reduce the hormones and even cause infertility, also the alcohol dulls the brain an reduce muscle coordination.
We have to remember that relationships based on alcohol are unlikely to lead to social success and true friendship.
To consume alcohol is not good for health; it can cause a lot of different diseases and also can cause our die.
Daniela Gonzalez
Is Sex All That Matters?
ResponderEliminarJoyce Garity, in her article, criticises the sex-saturated world we live in nowadays, using a real-life case to support her argument.
She is, undoubtedly, correct in her affirmations--a factor which can be confirmed by merely looking at today's magazines or television ads.
Sex sells: the statement seems to ring loud and clear in most every advertisement as pictures of half-naked girls flash through the screen or rest atop glossy magazine pages.
The media, as the author suggests, does indeed manipulate its audience into believe their little charade. The most alarming part, however, is the fact that its audience accepts these false images without bothering to question, even for a moment, their verisimilitude.
Like with the previous article (Dunayer's Here's To Your Health), sex is sold in a rather glamorous light where its supposed advantages (i.e. obtaining a perfect lifestyle of "sexual spontaneity, playfulness and abandon") are ridiculously blown out of proportion as to enchant and enthral its audience. What they fail to mention, however, is that fiction usually fails to match reality in these sorts of instances and, like in Elaine's case, disaster ensues because of this disparity.
.- B. Aguas
Why Are Students Turned Off?
ResponderEliminarI believe that what Casey Banas is telling us is absolutely true. As a student, most of the times I feel like some things that teachers are teaching us are not necessary. I am part of those that are described as students who think that teachers are only saying important things to approve an exam and having good grades, rather than learning.
I think it’s really hard to push a student to do something he is not passionate for. I don’t know what type or style of learning should be applied to students. Now a day, students are really complicated, and they have a lot of rights that protect them. On the other side, teachers are really unprotected and are afraid of encountering with students, because actually students have much more possibilities to win. Liberty and freedom in teaching is going to lead the path of education for a while. If students are pushed to do things they are not willing to, they are going to be turned off as Quito when Paute was almost dry.
Here’s to Your Health
Advertising is worried about money and not at all on health and life. Joan Dunayer gives this example with alcohol. Alcohol is showed as a “successful” drink, as a “cool” drink and as an “attractive” drink. All this is just a lie and a myth. A lot of people are harmed and damaged just because they have consumed this “innocent” drink.
Alcohol is the main cause of teen’s death. It’s also the main cause of domestic violence. It can cause infertility in women and impotence in man. So how important is it for advertising companies to make money? Does life has some kind of value? And how silly are we as customers that accept those myths of liquor as they told us? It’s time to start thinking and to stop letting others think instead of us.
Is Sex All That Matters?
Does sex sells? I think it’s a common phrase we’ve all heard when we are talking about advertising. We are all bombarded by sexuality every place we look. There are billboards, magazines, TV advertising and newspapers. One of the most important things we never ask ourselves is the link there is between the product the company is selling and the sex content that appears on the publicity.
I think, at what point is sex used as an excuse to create advertising and that lack of creativity covered with such superficial motive.
Ignacio Merino
SEBASTIAN IBARRA 19811
ResponderEliminarWhy Are Students Turned Off?
In my opinion, I believe that most of the time students lose their motivation to learn a certain subject because teachers do not find the proper way to transmit knowledge. Mainly, this problem is due to the difference of ages between teachers and students. In this sense, I support Casey Banas’ theory in the measure that students are turned off because of lack of passion to learn; meanwhile teacher do not try their best to filter information by classifying it, most of the time students worry only about their grades. Consequently, students should have a dynamic role during their different lessons, leaving passivity aside even if it is motivated by teachers.
Here’s to Your Health
Nowadays, the main informative goal of advertising is being hidden by an ambitious feeling of corporations of feeding their wealth further and further. In fact, as it can be seen in the text, Joan Dunayer exposes a reality where alcoholic beverages are promoted as the key of attraction and success. Somehow, people believe this fake idea and start to get lost in a blind consumption. As a matter of fact, few are the ones who tempt to see beyond the advertising campaigns, realizing the damage alcohol can bring into their life. Fake advertising should be totally forbidden in order to guarantee human integrity.
Is Sex All That Matters?
As exposed on the text, sex advertising is one the preferred ways to reach a potential customer. As the Diesel marketing campaign establishes “Sex sells (unfortunately we sell jeans)”, but is this really all that matters?
In my opinion, sex is used as an easy an superficial tool to advertise, people need to realize what is hidden beyond this idea. There’s way more in life than vices and entertainment, individuals need to deepened their critical sense in order not to fall against any lacked of reason idea wanted to be induced.