The truth

Is this for real? Now lets be serious with commercials likes these. First and foremost I thought commercials with cigarettes were illegal to advertise. Although of course the argument to that would be it is an anti cigarette smoking commercial instead a commercial that advertise the specific cigarette brand. But honestly it is still technically advertising the smoking of cigarettes whether it would subjectively or objectively. I do not smoke but either way the message of this specific commercial is just down right disturbing. This commercial is a little extreme when is comes to getting the message across. The truth did loosen up a little bit with their new commercials and their animations in them. I think that is a lamer way to show that smoking is bad for you but it is a different message for example like smoking while being pregnant, which was one of their newest animations. The older commercials like the cowboy who lost his voice box proves it is indeed possible for bad things to happen such as losing a lung or get your tongue snipped but honestly what are the odds. It takes so much for that to happen. That is just my opinion; I have not looked at statistics or anything like that. These commercials might be helpful to some but not to all like I think they are intending to. They either scare you like this commercial, or make you be like what was that, was that really a smoking commercial? Like their newer animated commercials. I for one think these commercials are unnecessary.

One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest

I read this novel was one of my favorite books I read in my senior year of high school. Our class watched the movie also, which is a little different from the book because they are from different perspectives. The book's perspective is from one of the two major characters of the book, which is Chief Bromden; the movies perspective is from the other main character, McMurphy. Chief is a six foot something guy with an Indian ethnicity that plays deaf in dumb in the mental hospital, which is the main setting for the book, called The Ward. The first one of many twists in the book is when McMurphy is checked into the mental hospital, because he is not a mental handicapped person; he just pretended to be insane so he wouldn't go to jail from rape. That is when the fun starts for The Ward. His loud, rebelious personality brings a different wave of feeling to The Ward and the patients in there. All the patients are divided into acutes and chronics, depending on their mental state of mind. The third main character is Nurse Ratched. She controls the patients with her overruling authority. Her authority is what ends the book with the turning of McMurphy into a vegetable with electric shock. When McMurphy returns as a vegetable, Chief strangles and kills McMurphy to put him out of his misery so he would not conform to Nurse Ratched and The Ward. Overall the book is good read filled with fun filled mischief and many twists.

Cable?

I have finally come to realize that I actually miss cable. When there is nothing to do around my dorm like say on a rainy day, I always wish I had some cable to just chill out and watch as sad as that sounds. I never thought that I would ever say that I miss it when I decided not get cable the first day. My thoughts of getting cable were like, I barely ever watch television, I don't need it and so on. I'm sure my roommates were saying the same exact thing also. As I am writing this and thinking about what to write, I'm contradicting myself saying all of this. I'm contradicting myself because I know now of my roommates and I living statuses, that we couldn't really afford it. If I weren’t a communications major I would look at the television as a luxury item. However television is one of the major forms of communication. A lot of people look at cable television as their savior for many purposes. I mean cable does offer so many different things if you look at it. I think it also depends on a person’s lifestyle, to which they actually need cable television. For example, I am from the Jersey Shore and I would say my friends and I rarely watched the television. Yes we did hangout and watch some cable sometimes, but mainly when there was nothing else going on. I feel the same way with my current condition.

Wheres the beef?

As much as i dislike fast food this commercial is a classic television advertisement. A commercial with innocent elderly women and a hamburger really doesn't get better than that. I rarely go to fast food places but wendy's ads are never not good. I will give some props to the wendys business for making me hungry. My next wendy's hamburger, who knows when that will be, but it will be in honor of these sweet old ladies who can't see the beef.

Politics✌

Well... apparently I do not follow the politics or the election coming up so i figured from what I know, I would find a political cartoon that made some sense to me. This one obviously came out during the Olympics this summer. It's impact is just like any other politcal cartoon. With this one the artist bashes both of them by making fun of them for changing what they planned to do if they get elected. Their race for presidency is like a flip flop race in the Olympics. On their flip flops are some of the things they said and claimed they were going to do if they win the race. Things like tax cuts, immunity, among others. If I knew more about the election I could probably tell about what they claimed they were doing. Also if I knew more I could talk about what is going on and who that is in the background, however I can not haha. I am going guess and say that Barrack Obama is the favor right now because he is out in front of John McCain shown in this picture. This is my first time I can vote since I am now old enough and I would have to say I would support Obama for anti-war reasons. I assume that in elections to come when I get older I am going to follow politcs, but I certainly can not predict the future. Maybe in the future I can write a better blog entry on politics then this one ha.