Unplugged

 

If all the Tv sets where unplugged I think parents, not children, would be the ones to have difficulties. I do believe that children need to watch less TV and read books or play outside more but that’s not always how the parent sees it. If a child is watching TV, they hear the TV and know what the child is watching, and the child will sit there and watch. But, if there was no TV,  parents would have to find appropriate things for the children to read, they would have to be sure the child is outside being safe, not running in the streets or being picked up by a creeper in a jeep with candy.

Children need to be able to run around and to scream and shout and have fun. They should read more, but not to the point that they’re forcing themselves to read what they don’t’ want to when they don’t want to. But, they also need to have a time when they can just not think and wined down from a day out playing. TV, isn’t a horrible thing, it’s not the best either, and I’m pretty sure if you tried taking the TV out of a house hold the parents would still have the biggest problem with it. The kids would throw tantrums but they’d get over it and find something that gets them moving to do instead. The parents would have to do more work even if it’s just watching them play outside. So yes, if would be a good idea to unplug all the TV’s but it would be a horrible idea to leave them unplugged.

Ad Power

Advertising is one of the basic activities of society. It’s not a necessary it’s just a basic activity that always happens and always has an impact, great or small. People say “Oh, that doesn’t affect me I don’t care what the commercials are for I only watch because my show isn’t no.” But then you see that same person in the store because there’s a sale that was presented in a commercial that they do not watch. It doesn’t have to be an ad that’s for something impractical that has affect on a person; it could be something like a sale at the grocery store advertisement. Many times, yes, there are commercials that are so convincing they affect every person that comes in contact with it. But, many times, advertisements in magazines, newspapers or on commercials are so ridiculous that it’s too hard not to pay attention to it. Even if it doesn’t’ seem as if it’s affected you, subconsciously they all do. It could be two days or two months later and you’re in the store and you walk past something that you had never bought before but vaguely you remember seeing somewhere for something. You may not buy this product but a commercial, that you thought had not affected you, from two months before had made you stop and look at this product.

Advertising is a power that anyone can use, right or wrong, it’s still a power to be recognized. Whether you believe it affects you or not, whether you realize the affects of advertising or not, it is still taking place, still happening and still causing us to see what we never would have seen in the past.

Why WSU?

There isn’t really a specific reason why I chose Wright State University. It’s close to home, so that was a plus; I was able to get enough grants and scholarships that I didn’t have to take out a giant loan. Wright State is a good school; I’ve been an affiliate since tenth grade because of my pre-college program. I already knew the campus, even though I commute now, I was accustomed to the atmosphere around the school and I wasn’t afraid of not seeing someone I know. Many people that I graduated with came to Wright State and I still see them. I am happy that I’m here, it kept me close to everything I know and I wasn’t thrown somewhere that I don’t know where the closest mall or Wal-Mart is. My home has been Dayton for my entire life; I’ve always known Wright State was a good option for me, whatever I decided to do. Even if I decide to change my major from chemistry to music education I’ll have the help I’ll need from the people and teachers. I won’t be stuck if I decide to change what I want to do; I’ll be able to stay in a good program even if it’s different.
My first pick wasn’t Wright State; it was more like my second. My top choice would have been University of Kentucky, for my major. Wright State still has an amazing science program and is a good school, but still being here makes it seem like I never really grew up that I’m still that kid I’ve always been.

Music Meaning

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GaOSiEDOCAw


Song: Hey

By: Mitchell Musso

Genre: Pop

Medium/Design: An up-beat song

Purpose: Tell that the singer is better off not having the person in their life

Stance: Happy, “walking in rain but feels just like it’s the sun” (Hey, Mitchell Musso)

Audience: Pre-teens, Teens that have been hurt by a girlfriend/boyfriend, young adults

                I chose the song Hey because I have had people in my life that have not been the greatest. I’m not saying that they were horrible but, they weren’t very good for me. Some of them where ones that put me down, mistreated me or didn’t really care about me when the truth came out. When I listen to this song it makes me realize that I’m happy those people don’t have sway over me any longer. I don’t have to deal with someone treating me like total crap if I don’t want to. I’ve moved on and I’m ready to get rid of that part of my life.

                I’ve never had the feeling that if I just went ahead of myself then I could do more than I ever thought. I truly feel like I’m walking through all the rain in my life but the sun is still shining down on me because I am being me and changing. This isn’t the obvious pick for someone with my musical taste, but it’s a song that has a way of telling me that without those people I really am doing fine and with the people I’m still having issues with I can make it through.

Rock and Drunks

Every year in Dayton, for the past fifteen years, there has been a rock concert held within the Montgomery County Fair Grounds. There are up to ten well known/upcoming bands, five or six local bands from right in Dayton, a hundred security guards, twenty vendors, and 5000 drunks. This concert is hosted by 103.9 the X, it is X-Fest, one of the loudest, most exciting, crazy forms of entertainment that occurs in this city annually. Every year there are drunks that fight and get thrown out, then there’s the mess of people who are so laid back from smoking too much of the illegal plant everyone knows and most love. There’s the crowd surfers and mosh pitters and the ones that just want to hear good loud music. Every year I’ve been to X-Fest, I’ve come home after a day in the sun, hot, sunburned and drained. My ears are pounding, my feet are tired and my legs are sore, but at the end of the day when the music is done and the sun’s down, all the memories will still be there. Rock and Roll has been around for decades, it’s changed , it’s morphed and it’s grown to become the music we now have today, but the fans never change. The fans will always be the ones that have their radios blasting and are screaming (not singing) along to a harsh voice and loud guitar screeches. 
X-Fest: Loud, crazy, hot, bright, drunks, plants, smoke, screeching, pounding head, intense, exciting, awesome, shocking and the common love that brings it all together- Rock And Roll Music.