AD

My add, I think, is extremely funny. The entire add is about Mr. and Mrs. Potato head in an extremely nice car, driving down a long road with a lot of twists and turns. Mrs. Potato head is nagging Mr. Potato head, as most wives usually do, and at one point he doesn't see a flock of sheep crossing the road. She screams and he slams on the break, coming to a complete stop just before hitting the herd. This is because he has Bridgestone high performance tires on his high-end car.

The argument for this ad is the fact that the car might not have been able to stop in time if he did not have those tires on his car. That is the main reason you should by them. In addition, the tires look good and would give your car a nice sharp look. Because of these two fact, this ad is more pointed towards men than women.

Some funny things in the ad are the fact that the wife is nagging the husband about how fast he is going and also that he doenst know where he is going. This leads to him loosing concentration on the road and almost gets in an accident. This is a main stereotype in the common world and most men know this.

Reading

This last reading was very interesting to me. The reading was about how kids are taught differently depending on where they live and what social class they were in. One example they gave was how kids in the lower class schools were taught how to do division. They were taught the different names of things like product and quotient, but this was the last they were taught these terms. They were just taught how to actually to division and not the names of everything. I figured this is because those kids in the lower classes are never going to need that information because they are probably not going to go any higher than high school and kids in the upper classes, in better schools, got taught everything because they were going to go to a betters schools. This surprised me because i figured that kids in better schools had better resources but i didn't that they were actually taught differently.

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Project

For this project i have chosen to do a DVD. Since there is a few very diverse parts of my life this project is going to be very odd looking. I was thinking of doing the collage on the front of the dvd in a desending order of how they happened so the last thing should be tech and tech related stuff. On the back i am going to put my parents and people as the cast and a story line about my life and how each person played a role in where i am. Also i was thinking on the inside jacket i was gonna put a chapter list that corresponds with the pics on the front.

Embarrassment

I really didn't like the first reading this week. It was extremely sad. I mean how can you be embarrassed of your parents. I do understand where the kid was coming from because they didn't speak english very well but that would cause me to try and work with them so they did learn english. I mean that kid got to the point where he was very good at speaking english so he wouldn't have had much trouble teaching his parents. Also i think it was bad that he was embarrassed that they weren't very educated. I mean my grandfather didn't go to college and he was very successful so I guess it depends on who you are. My grand father also couldn't speak english very well and my father helped him get to a point where he was ok at it. I think this bonding experience helped them get closer. I guess this is why I don't understand why the author didn't help his parents.

Why I hate the Semicolon

Although i really don't like the topic of this project, I do think it is a good idea. This project causes us to sorta bond over it and learn more about each other. I thought it was fun, but I cant say too much until we get our grades. Did i mention that I hate the semicolon. I mean honestly how many uses are there and its gonna be hard to fill up eight whole minutes. I think it was a good move to utilize a video in our presentation to suck up some of the time. Also, we have an activity. I cant say too much because that will ruin the surprise but there is an activity as well as the PowerPoint slide show. My hope is by the end of this project that everybody in the class will be able to correctly use the semicolon. I think most people use it wrong and because they don't know how to use it then they just don't. This really sucks because it is a very good writing tool.

In case you don't know how to properly use the semicolon there is a video below that will show you thanks to YouTube.