Tuesday, November 10, 2009

Case Study

It's time for another case study. This time I am going to talk about the last two pieces I wrote for this class, being the travel essay and the ad paper. I enjoy doing primary research so i relly enjoyed writing the travel paper. I llike to interview people and get their opinioins on subjects. SO i enjoyed the travel essay. However, I think it was kind of hard to do a travel essay for peoria Illinois. I am sorry but I think everyone will agree with me here that peoria/centeral Illinois in general is really kind of boring, with not much to do at all. I mean honestly how often are you sitting around your house bored and complaining that there is nothing to do in peoria? But i still enjoyed writing the essay and I think that i found a pretty decent topic, although it is kinda boring still. I also enjoyed writing the ad paper. When companies make ads they do it to persuade people to buy there products. And in the case of alchol tobacco, and many pharmaceticules they are selling a horrible product. Just a little sidenote persciption drugs, alchol, and tobacco kill nearly 2.2 millinon people in america each year, due to overdoses, and other healt risks. But heroin cocaine, and meth along with all other illiegael drugs only kill 10,000. Maybe we should let drug dealers advertisein magazine? Just kidding that would be a horrible idea. But now back on topic. I think that writing these ad papers will help people see that you need to look past the catchy pixctures, sex appeal, and what not. And if what I write can help someone else make a "good" choice then I am a very very happy person.

1 comment:

  1. Joe, the common theme between both your travel essay and your ad analysis was that you are asking your readers to have an open mind...to think beyond the obvious.

    That's cool.

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