PCU

PCU was a very interesting movie that we watched in class recently. It was funny to me how college life is perceived by many. Most part of the movie showed most students either partying, doing drugs, or just in their rooms not doing any work. It is funny because college is not even like that at all. College has become too expensive for one to come to school and just lounge around. There were many logical fallacies in this movie but there was one that really caught my attention. It is a scene in which the leader of the Pit shows no respect to the president of the school when she enters the house. When she is talking to him he just waves her off and ignores her when she tells him to put his cigarette out. This adds to the argument that the movie is trying to make by saying that college is just a big party and the students are not respectful. This would definitely be a fallacy because it is not true at all.

Death of an Innocent

Chris McCandless was a young man that was not considered one who lived the “normal” life. He went against the norm of having a job, living in a house, and going about the modern way of obtaining food. This was a man that had everything at his feet. His parents were wealthy, he was a college graduate, and had a family that loved him dearly. Chris did not want to use these advantages to his sake .He wanted to live by traveling around the U.S. and relying on nature as a means of survival. It is funny how almost fifteen years have passed and people would not even have thought to live in nature if they had a choice. Society has become greedy for money so the idea to live in nature would surely be out the question. People want to be content with their way of living and living in nature would surely be unethical. People would love the idea of having an education and being born into a family that had money like McCandless’s. Since everyone in America is not affluent the urge for money is a constant addiction.
Society has changed day by day and the money has become the main goal of most people. People have become too used to having a roof over their head and living of materialistic things. Nature would surely not be an alternative even if one did not have a home. The economy has become a source of survival. People need money to live like how they want. They work and go to school so they would not have to eat in the wilderness and find any means of a ride from a stranger like Chris did. It is interesting because Chris chose this way of living on purpose. He did not want to have to work just for money and that goal having to be his daily routine. He found happiness in nature and the beauty and challenges that it brought forth. Many people unlike Chris base their life of money and do not think about traveling on foot and being a hitchhiker. People are becoming greedy. Some laugh at the fact of giving back to the environment and enjoying the existence of it.
Money is quickly being burnt figuratively when it comes to how people are living their lives these days. Chris did not want that life. Once during his journey he burnt up the last bit of money that he had. He knew that money was not the means of happiness, but instead just another asset truly treasured by society. Chris donated to an organization a large sum of money that his parents saved up for him for his college fund. He did not want to live of money like the rest of society. There are not that many people that can live in nature for a long period of time with the purpose of never going back into society. Even though Chris did not survive to share his story he died not give into the myth that “money makes the world go around”.

AIDS- Now A Way To Make Money?

What is the world coming to! Why does this one particular clothing company have to advertise such a sad picture of an AIDS patient in order to get the sympathy of their customers? I am certain it is not even for their sympathy but for the public’s money. This ad was not a good way to appeal to consumers at all. It is interesting that this clothing company used such a sad picture in order to appeal to their customers. When someone initially sees a picture of a bed ridden man who seems to be dying of AIDS their thought would not be oh “clothing ad”. This ad was only used so that customers could sympathize and want to buy the clothing. This way of advertising is just wrong. The promotion for the cure or knowledge of AIDS should have been better advertised then in this clothing company’s advertisement.
I looked at this ad and when I saw it I realized that AIDS is really REALITY. There are many people that are naïve about this epidemic that is spreading all over the world and killing a lot of our generation. There are so many people that are being infected who don’t know the proper treatment or the way to go about being helped. The man on the bed of the ad was at his last stage of life and for him to have known that he was the main face on clothing ad should have been considered an insult to his face.
AIDS is a serious disease and the money collected should just be for that. People who looked at this ad are not sure if the percentage of the money that will be made from the clothing will go to the cure for AIDS or the company itself. I would think having looked at this ad that it was only to get money for the clothing company itself. Most of the money probably went to the company anyways. Wow the way companies try to make money now a days!
There are many people out there who do not mind trying to help with the treatment of AIDS but there has to be a better strategy in how to obtain the public’s attention. There are many companies that raise AIDS awareness by making all the contributions made only for that particular cause. How is one to be sure when they bought this clothing from this company that the money was raised for AIDS? Some people would probably even be afraid to buy clothing to know that the main advertisement is for such a serious disease. For advertisements for clothing objects more like a celebrity or people that seem happy would make people want to buy the clothes.
People want to give their money to a company or a foundation that makes its main focus about raising money for a particular cause. When a company has its own intentions of making their own money and just using a serious disease to increase its’ buyers this makes people not want to contribute to the awareness of AIDS. No one wants to be cheated out of what their money. The clothing company should have found a better way to get money from the public!

Thinking

So while I am at the library alot of things are running through my mind...I am supposed to be finishing my blog but it will have to wait. Why is this one particular thought constantly in my head. I want to do something about it but my ego will not allow me to. You and I are alike in so many different ways.. I love your company.Whenever you are around I can not help but to keep a smile on my face. I know we tried to work on our relationship but the word STUBBORN keeps us apart. The thought of ever trusting someone again was definately out the question before I met you...Hmm what is a girl to do because I am building trust in you and loving everything about you....all the way down to that sexy ass jamaican accent!