Wednesday, April 20, 2011

ad·ver·tise·ment

  [ad-ver-tahyz-muhnt, ad-vur-tis-muhnt, -tiz-]
–noun
1.
a paid announcement, as of goods for sale, in newspapers ormagazines, on radio or television, etc.
2.
a public notice, especially in print.
3.
the action of making generally known; a calling tothe attention of the public: The news of this event willreceive wide advertisement.



Moral of the story is if you ever work at an aquarium..make sure not to hit the glass with your mop while singing. Second moral of this story...if you do run into a situation like this one, get to the yellow pages! 

This commercial relates to all ages, races, the whole world! I believe this is why this is such a great advertisement because it does relate to everyone. Everyone at some point in their life will have an emergency situation and need to contact help. 

I know what you're thinking. "Hello we have smart phones, computers, ipads, google, etc., why do we need a phone book?" My answer? When if one day we no longer have the ability to access those materials (2012...just sayin')? In reality that is never going to happen but the point of this commercial is to remind you that we still do need to use phonebook in case of emergencies. 

Just A Movie?

Sure we go to the movies for entertainment, and to get sucked into lives we wish our lives could be like. But there are some movies that we get so sucked into that we can believe that that life is actually real...and actually is sometimes. No I'm not talking about movies where aliens come into the world and try to take over, or superheros saving us in situations (that never happen in a daily life by the way).

Now I'm not bashing these movies by any means because lets face the facts, we all wish that could be our lives once an a while. But there are some movies that suck us in and it just seems  so real. 

When I was in high school with my mom that took me by complete surprise. It was so realistic in the way these people's lives were and I wanted nothing more than my future to end up like theirs...kind of. It's a movie about relationships, and no not ones that only happen in movies. Girls that are obsessed with guys that will never like them. Then you have the couple that has been together for years but they man has yet to propose. Also you have the girl that just doesn't care and sleeps around. 

And the movie is....


What is so perfect is simply everything about this movie. It's as if the creators captured all single/married/confused men and women's dating lives and put them into a movie for all of us to enjoy. This movie goes to show that yes movies are enjoyed by taking us out of our daily lives. But that doesn't have to be done by having big heroes and explosives. Directors can take our daily lives and turn them into something we could never imagine. 

Wednesday, April 13, 2011

Laptop > textbook

When we were children, the most exciting thing we ever learned, was how to read. Yet, now the most exciting thing is how to learn how to read through a computer, tv, and still some books. Some believe that now reading is a 'myth'. That some children will never pick up a good book and curl up in the blanket and get lost in there mind while reading. I believe this is totally false.






Although I'd give anything to just be lazy and read a book...when do I have the time? When does anyone have time? Times are changing and evolving to things we could have never imagined twenty years ago. It's not that no one does not want to simply flip through a dictionary and find out how to spell deoxyribonucleic acid, when you can just look it up on the internet. 


People are not losing interest in learning, they are just finding new ways to go about it. Technology evolving has done nothing but help children really learn more ways to learn besides sitting in front of a text book for hours doing homework. And the best part is that they really do enjoy doing it!