MONEY!!! money? Image...

Making money and completing school work at the same time? What could be better? While I was just chilling taking looks around my blog I happened to come across something.

The ads that we are commenting on each week are sitting right under our noses. As seen in the picture itself and in the YouTube video from the picture, we are asked whether we would like to have ads placed on our own site. The ads would be carefully chosen to best match my site. I disagree. As said in the video different companies will pay different prices to place ads on blogs. If one blog has one-million viewers, and is about being active and playing sports, then I wouldn't doubt McDonald's would try and place an ad there as compared to a blog with fifty views that's about fast food. The ads "for our blogs" are really quite the opposite. Rather than being for us they are to create an image of the company. Imagine the excericeing blog and the McDonald's sponsor, if you had never heard of McDonald's and you saw their ad there, what would you think?

     Using the power of science and reason, Google attempts to tell us that this is a beneficial choice, that if we do this we help ourselves. They even try to make the Adsense feel positive. In the video while showing the bidding, the highest bidder was a recycling supporter. Recycling is positive, therefore the whole process is positive, right? It's all in the idea. It's all about "you the writer, your way, your style." Yet who is it really for? Our need for money, or the image of the advertisement company?

R2, a droid incapable of emotion, is perfect for showing romance

     Created this year in cooperation with Disney, or more directly, Star Wars, the HP Star Wars ad attempts to create a setting of a new type of love directed at teens, Star Wars fans, and inventors all at the same time. As hp decided to put it, they want to...

Which leaves us with two options: HP and romance, or another computer and nothing. But does it really? What we are told to see is innovation and creativity along with a little love story of a girl and a boy. This creates a connection from HP to love, making us desire HP as much as we desire the relationship which we don't have.

     However, I'm sitting here looking at everything they don't want me to realize. For example, if you take your eyes off the screen for the entire ad, you would realize something. Throughout the video you hear three things: simple classical music, the faint sound of an R2 droid(only sound known to those who are into Star Wars), and finally a 0.5 second long sound of a creaking door. So what's this ad for? Well if I weren't looking at the screen I'd be wondering that, too. The careful consideration of each element of the commercial left out an important detail, they didn't say HP and they also didn't say Star Wars. Leaving people who weren't looking wondering, "What was that?" The problem is we see, or rather hear, this far too often in the world of advertising. A commercial or ad that failed to state just what they are selling. Just by listening I'm assuming that this is a Star Wars commercial for the new movie, and while it partly is, that isn't the main commercial point. Luckily for us watchers though, they hit what's needed. Not only, did the commercial hit us with a bit of a smile and make us cheer for the poor little nerd who gets the girl, but we are also amazed by the fact that the technology could help to do all this. Aside from the fact that no Bluetooth connection could reach that far out, it's shown how much a small Star Wars themed computer could do to create a life of love. As long as you make a robot to deliver the message for us since you are too afraid to talk to her face to face that is. But that's beside the fact, right HP?

     This ad uses the need for affiliation appeal by making us feel left of out this movie date. It makes us want a movie date of our own and the only to accomplish that would be to: buy that HP computer, make the droid, and buy tickets before she even says yes. It's also under quite a few assumptions here.
      Assumption 1: the "nerds" of our modern age live near, have access to, and can afford parts from a junkyard and they happen to be exactly what we need while also being in great condition.
     Assumption 2: a robot just strolling down the street would only be seen by one dog and one person, and that person would not at all freak out at the sight of it.
     Assumption 3: the girl liked him before he sent R2 to her house.

(P. S. The robot never knocked it just really softly drove into the threshold)

Yung JB, Kendrick, and Ed Sheeran display the code... right?

Lyrics for "Sorry"-- http://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/justinbieber/sorry.html

Here is 

yung JB 

for y'all

         The road to popularity in the American music business is simple as long as you fall into a category. The equation is simple x=popular, y=popular, and z=popular. What is x,y, or z? They are the possibilities for popularity in the modern day: X=found on youtube or TV, Y= found outside of America, Z= Start poor and rap about what you would do with "B***hes and Benjamins and Blunts " The music categories for X and Y are open to any type because somehow the x's and y's always end up getting liked by us. Examples of these people are: the boy JB, who was found on youtube and is often a pop singer and Professor Green, a rapper from England. There is also many examples of Z, which is the most popular form as of this time: Fetty Wap, Kendrick Lamar, Marshal Mathers, Etc. There are always the people who slip through as professionals that don't exactly match the largest categories. For example, Lil Dicky started off pretty wealthy and he still made it as a rapper. Fame is of the categories, to appeal as a person of interest in the game. It's not about having a nice voice or pleasing songs, its about matching the system. Justin here matched the system quite well, he was born in Canada and found singing on Youtube, now he's a successful pop singer who made it in the business.

       It's not only your profile though. Once you match the profile, you move onto the next stage of the game, your music. "Location, location, location," quote every realtor ever. Music is quite like this idea; however, it's closer to "words, words, words." Every music category has a certain formula for successful entrance. To be a rapper just talk about your "personal" experience about wanting to fight someone or talk about all the money you will have and how you will get all the females with it. For pop music you have to WRITE ABOUT EVERY SINGLE PERSONAL EVENT EVER- TAYLOR SWIFT (not a literal quote.) Either that or say "baby" at least 27 times. Luckily we are advancing in the business each day. In Justin's new song "Sorry," he speaks not of babies but of Selena Gomez. He uses his music outlet to express himself which is where the pop culture is headed. 

"I know you know that I

Made those mistakes maybe once or twice

And by once or twice I Mean

Maybe a couple a hundred times

So let me oh let me

Redeem oh redeem oh myself tonight

Cause I just need one more shot at second chances" 

-Justin Beiber "Sorry"

Mr. Orwell question #4

What does Orwell mean when he asserts, "but if thought corrupts language, can language corrupt thought"?

     As a writer, a thinker, and a teacher Orwell shares the idea that thought and language is a two way street leading nowhere. Yet he claims neither side is the problem. As claimed by the quote "...thought corrupts language," Orwell tells us that we as people create emotions that surround and often suffocate the original word. This creates problems to us because seemingly happy words to one can harm another because of the emotional connection to he word, because of the connotation. However, the point to which the connotation is created is through a person using the word. Certain words that were often used by someone who is seen as bad or unwanted. For example: hail, originally meaning to give recognitition now has poor connotation due to the 1940's use of the word. Words can also be placed in simple context spoken or unspoken to creat the same negative feel. To creat a negative effect of politician place it with other words such as "lies, Donald Trump, crazy, etc." These other words set a tone of negativity and then once politician is added the word gains a negative effect.

"Politician"

     Orwell, in simple, states that our thought creates corruption of words. In turn the corruption that our thought creates spreads as the average connotation for the words and corrupt thought for itself. The cycle that never ends continue until the word is no longer in use, then another word is corrupted, and the cycle continues until an entire language is corrupt.