From El Dorado...

Students,

I hope you guys are doing well, enjoying and learning on your Social Studies field trip. Please take advantage of these moments. They might seem boring, but trust me, after you're enrolled in college(in the near future...for MOST of you)high school life will become a simple, affective memory. I write to you from the airport, waiting for my flight to Ft. Lauderdale. I'm happy...
...to inform you that your Written Tasks (WT) will be due on Tuesday, October 19, 2010. We will engage in a peer review grading session with your classmates on that day. For more information on the WT's, pleas check your notes and pg's. 18-20 of your A2 bible. The bibles were sent to your cyberskoolz accounts.
Your Interactive Orals (IO) will be due on Thursday, October 21, 2010. For more information on the requirements and options of the IO, look at your bibles, pg's. 39-40. If you decide to do group work, no problem, just make sure your groups contain a maximum of 3 people. You may videotape your IO's and show them to the class. I will be videotaping the ones that are not handed in as videos.

Please be serious with your work. These will potentially be the samples of your work sent to the I.B. for external assessment. Both must be on the Cultural Option: "Media and Culture: Advertising, Bias and Media Manipulation".

Lastly, please wish me luck, write me a message on the blog. I will be available during recess week to answer questions. You can email me: lramirez@tvs.edu.co. Or you can just leave me a message on the blog. You know what? Please leave me a message on the blog...pray for me...I am flying AIRES!!!!

Luis

...and how does that make you feel?

The Famous "Emotions Wheel"

Since you all like twilight....

Congratulations to Juan Diego Lahidalga, Javier Ayala, Jorge Lince, Juan David Bonilla, Luis Espejo, Maurico Castillo, Santiago Vasquez and Ana Maria Ortiz (She wasn't even in school today!!!) for handing in the first drafts of your essay. You should be proud. By the time we finish drafting, you'll have the best essays on the planet. The rest of you should be ashamed of yourselves. After giving it much thought, I won't read any other essays until the 2nd draft deadline. Be well. Now go enjoy your Twilight Cake! hahahahahahahaha

Satan?

The following article from the popular business magazine 'Fast Company', criticizes WalMart's pricing practices and their effect on consumers and competition. We will read and analyze this article in tomorrow's (Thursday, Sept. 9, 2010) class. Please familiarize yourself with the text, its themes and structure. Be well.

Article: http://www.fastcompany.com/magazine/77/walmart.html?page=0%2C0

Write Here!!!

Seniors,

Please leave your thesis statement as a comment to this post by Wednesday, September 8, 2010, 8:00PM. Thank you.

Luis

Publicity and companies.

We can see that in the society, there is a very high consumption index in the teenagers and that is affected by what companies make them think, by showing publicity and make the teen waste money in things that they do not need.

“We`ll buy a lot of clothes when we don´t need em” (Kanye West).

*The companies are using publicity that makes them appear in a higher class than other companies, for example “Pepsi” used publicity that criticizes “Coca- Cola” ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Gh61DRCT8A&hd=1 )

We can see that Pepsi is trying to make the teenagers consume Pepsi and not Coke.

*Other example could be “Televentas”, that wants to show that their products are very cheap and are better that the OTHER companies. They want to sell an idea that what they publicity shows is the best, using black and white images to show that the other products are very old, so the people decide to buy in “Televentas”.

“If I could be like that
I would give anything
Just to live one day
In those shoes”

Such has been the influence of media in our lives that we must deal with everyday personality twists.

Fashion and major corporations plays such an important role in our daily actions that we`re constantly pursuing their ultimate releases to buy them in order to fit into certain social groups.

There`s a clear example in Kanye West`s song “All falls down” which states

“We`ll buy a lot of colthes when we don`t really need ‘em.”

People become so obsessed with their artists that they forget to be themselves and try to imitate them. However, not only fans try to act as their favourite celebrities, but also among them, performers sometimes emulate characteristic actions of others in order for fans to follow them.