Cast Suggestion Sunday

Cast Suggestion Sunday

Dream Cast Round Up|Peeta

Dream Cast Round UpPeeta

Percy Jackson And The Olympians The Lightning Thief

Percy Jackson And The Olympians The Lightning Thief

Dream Cast Round Up | Katniss

Dream Cast Round Up Katniss

RE: Is Taxing Pop Really a Solution?

You go to your refrigerator and open it. There's one last can of pop and you decide to have a nice cool drink.You hear the fizzle of carbon dioxide bubbling to the top. Then you take a sip and feel goosebumps on your arm from the refreshing coolness of the drink.

Have you just sipped or chugged down fat that could end up ruining your life?

No city or town today is without a McDonald's. It's even worse in the bigger cities like New York,which has one at every corner. But why is that? We all feel that every once and a while the need to relax and take the easy way. Fast food and most convenience foods do exactly that. Even though we fully know the unhealthiness of the food content, we simply don't try hard enough to make an effort of eating a balanced diet.

(There are 13,000-or-so McDonalds in the U.S. Shocking but true.)

So recently there has been scare campaigns to make people eat healthier. they are accompanied with restaurants giving healthier options and schools reducing or cutting out junk food altogether. I think that the measures taken are effective only to a certain extent, since America and Canada still having growing obesity rates. I actually really appreciate the efforts made to solve this problem, but if doesn't make me want to go out of my way to eat healthier. If I do chose to it's because I want to and not because that's my only option. here's a poster for those who feel that the choice of junk food is being taken away:

This is actually contradicting the shown video because it gives people a choice unlike the video which is telling everyone to just stop with junk food, in this case it is pop. The video was disgusting, and it grosses me out, but I'll still be drinking pop. And about the tax.,if it goes through in America,then it will definitely be coming to Canada. I'm not sure if it will go through though because President Obama seems like he's all about giving choices. Letting this tax go through would be taking those away. But let's just say it does go through, I wouldn't want to pay. Why should I have to pay to drink my favourite drink ever, rootbeer! But what will happen to all those companies that make junk food? What if no one buys because they don't want to pay the tax?

I love the idea of a healthy Canada, but at what costs will it be achieved?

RE: Hey Guess What! I Can See You...

So I'm on Google Street View, and what do I see? My house of course but if I wanted to pretty much any one's on the world. Is this really cool or really dangerous? I'd say a little bit of both, I mean it depends who you are really, either an innocent curious computer user, or some crazy stalker.

As this was made by Google, I'm sure they had a lot of problems surrounding it. like the people who were caught on the footage and can be seen by the world. If they're complaining, I think they have every right to because it's their privacy. But then I think why they are being such babies. So what if you're shown, this new system solves way more problems than it creates. People can now have the benefits of a GPS without spending all the money, which is something everyone would like to have these days even with he economical crisis. The only problem would be the stalking that some people will be doing using this. But Google has outsmarted the wackos of society by blurring faces and licence plates. Anything really useful is being hidden so what's the point of being against such a great invention? And if you still think that you can see your face too clearly, then I suggest you contact Google. Wouldn't want any unexpected visitors now would we?


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RE: Are They Kidding Me?

W-o-w, is all I can say when I see advertisements such as these. Is there such a thing as an advertisement too stupid to exist. That's just because I think these would take first prize in that category.

The commotion is surrounding the question: why were these ads run in the first place? The only reason is why these advertisements made it off the drawing board and out to the public was because the first and only priority was probably to sell the product. Then there's the issue of the message each one is delivering. To me, these ads suggest that society in North America is built upon leisure time and lenient issues such as fat intake and the decreasing of it. In comparison, today's ads give the public what they want: strong information, persuasion on issues and entertainment for fun. Here's an example of a product that convinces most to buy their product with a very entertaining advertisement through the means of a T.V commercial:



(It's the Cadbury eyebrows commercial! I think it's great because of the humor that the visuals bring the audience, and because it makes me want to buy Cadbury chocolate every time I see it. It's effective and completely not stupid like those other advertisement in previous media.)

Another side of those previous ads were that they made statements about gender roles at the time. By the looks of them, males were the dominant in every way possible, for example the Tipalet cigars say that if you smoke into a women's face with it, they'll follow you anywhere. This probably was untrue then as it is now, since having someone smoke in your face is disgusting. But today that fact is different. Women are as every much capable as men, and so they are their equals. I even think women have become dominant for certain things and have ads to show it.

The world of advertising is so interesting to analyze especially with advertisements as dumb as they used to be.