The Power of Advertising

     Advertisements, we see them everyday and everywhere. We even see them when we don't think were paying attention to them. They are powerful. By having a clever but possibly misleading advertisement people are still drawn to the product and buy them anyways. The thing with advertisements is that it can mean one thing to you but actually mean something else. And then there are advertisements that are just trying to advertise, trying to get the product out there so people know it's there. One thing I don't think people realize is how persuasive advertisements are and that you sometimes go out and look for something and you buy it and get home and it's something completely different than what it has appeared to be in the advertisement. There are many advertisements that have a lot of money poured into them to sell different products such as Victioria Secret always shows models in a new bra that they are trying to sell and get the word out there other corporations do this such as Levi jeans, mcdonalds ads always shows their newest sandwich, ipod always has an advertisement for their new ipod that comes out every few months, verizon with their new cell phones and more. Verizon is a huge one because a lot of people especially the younger crowd is always looking for the newest technology and next thing you know it's on their list for the next holiday. New shoes such as the newest Jordan shoe that comes out. And these days advertisers have become even smarter because majority of people spend their time on the internet so advertisements pop everywhere and even though pop ups can be blocked somehow somewhere advertisers get their point across. Advertising is powerful but I also am glad it was created because it wasn't for advertisements tthere are some things we would never know about.

Why Did I attend WSU

     I chose to attend WSU because I wanted to be closer to home. My freshman year I went to Morehead State University and even though it was only three hours away at the same time I wanted to be closer and it was a very small school. So thats also another reason I chose to come here because wsu is a lot bigger than my old school. I was also on a tennis scholarship at Morehead State so that was something I was looking for when I chose to transfer. WSU offered me a scholarship here so that was also something that brought me here. I knew people that go here and different parts of family went here for example my mom. I like that I can live here on campus but if I never need anything or need to go home I can, which is something I couldn't do at my old school. Another reason I'm really happy I chose to come here is because one of my old teammates from high school goes here and we play on the same tennis team here at wsu. I really like my coaches, which is something I was looking for. I wanted a coach that would be very caring but at the same time to be hard on me. I really like my teammates. Everyones very outgoing and fun, which is a huge thing for me also. I feel like my teammates are who I'm going to spend the most time with for the next 3 years and I want all of us to be close. I want to be able to go to them whenever I have a problem, whether it's an issue at home or something else. I like that my farthest walk is more than 10 minutes to class. I didn't want to go somewhere where the school was huge but a good size. I don't want to know everyone on campus. I also like that some of my classes are bigger. I love everything about wsu. Another huge bonus for me is that there is actually stuff to do around here. There's a mall, movie theater, and even clubs for us young people to hang out. I'm crazy about it here just because it's the complete opposite of where I spent my freshman year of college. And I'm so glad that I made the choice to come here.

My Song

   A song that I have always liked is Changes by 2pac. How Cliche right? You may think so but it's a great song and I feel like that's a song that was true a while back ago and I feel like it still is today. The song is simply talking about life today not only for blacks but for whites, just people in general. There are still people dying everyday because of something that happened a long time ago. Kids are starting to do drugs at a much younger age and the drugs are getting stronger and the doses are getting bigger. With the economy the way it is right now I feel like it's causing people to do whatever it is that they can do to get money to be able to survive. It's sad to even admit to this but it's very true. And like 2pac says "That's just the way it is." The purpose of this song is to inform because he's just speaking the truth of the way life is. To tell people that don't really know what goes on, what's going on. In this song I feel that the 2pac is speaking to whoever is listening, and that he is talking to world. I think that he believes it's something that everyone needs to here. Genre for this song is hip-hop and r&b. His tone is very forward and basically this is how he feels. My stance on this topic is that I completely agree. I think that just because some people don't deal with certain issues they forget that certain problems can exist. Such as just because you aren't poor doesn't mean that there aren't people that are or people that don't have any food to eat or any car to drive to get themselves for one place to another. But that's just how life is. Nobobdy can control that life turns out the way that it does, things change. My medium doesn't call for any particular writing. It was just created to be read.

If I Could go back in Time

If I could go back in time there are some things I would change although I do believe everything happens for a reason. Growing up was good, I loved every minute of it. I always stayed busy, and my parents took me everywhere. I started playing tennis when I was three and I have been playing ever since. That is something I would never change. A part of me wishes that I wouldn't have grown up in ohio because I feel like there really isn't that much to do here. Theres no beach, there's no mountains. And it can snow here. But at the same time I do like the weather here because we get to see a little bit of everything. Something I'm really thankful for is my parents staying married because not all the time but sometimes kids have a really hard time growing up because of their parents not being married even if they are still in their lives. After 5th grade I moved to a different school and that is also something I would not change because I wouldn't have met some of the best friends I have today. Something I wish that I could change is that I wish I would have done a better job in school. Most of my life I have just done enough to get by, I have never really given all I have. I had to say it but I think part of it comes from me being an only child. I have 3 older half sisters from my dad but I never really saw them much growing up. Part of me wishes that they would have been around more so that I would have been a lot closer to them. I always worked really hard when it came to tennis growing up until I got into late middle school and then high school. Before I had always missed out on a lot because I was gone playing tennis and once I got to high school I realized that I wanted to do a little bit both meaning hanging out with friends and playing a sport. And now that I'm older I wish I would have worked harder. I wish that I would have tried harder in school even though I did okay now that this is my second year in college I have realized that  Icould have tried even harder. In high school I dated my first love and it took me several months to get over him and I wish that I could have just forgot about him and realized that there are more fish in the see and that everything was going to be fine. I haven't had a bad life, but if I could go back in time there are things I would have changed.