Propaganda 2011

Propaganda in 2011, there is a lot of it everywhere. One main propaganda type in the world is cars. Especially in the US because we need to sell American cars. That is why it is such a big propaganda type. In the super bowl we had the commercial of eminem driving a chrysler car the whole story of it was telling everybody where that car came from which is Detroit. They spend a lot of money for that type of propaganda. It cost 12 million dollars just to put that commercial in the super bowl. One propaganda I found in the Internet was for the 2011 chevy cruze. It was talking about how green and economical it was, it stated that the car got 42 mpg on the highway. That is another thing that car companies have to fucus on now being green and get good mileage. Especially the American cars because we deffinitlety see more foreign cars than american cars. I guess the propaganda for the American cars has worked a lot they have been selling better but they have been receiving help from Toyota's brakes malfunction. This has helped the American car companies with this propaganda.This is what most propaganda in 2011, but there is more like politics and stuff like that.

Beat Street

This movie is very good. I like the break dancing, the graffiti, the DJ-ing, and the rap. Now things are different, the graffiti that we see now is not like Ramo's graffiti, which was art. The dancing was amazing people spinning on their heads and all that. The raping was good they were not raping about money, drugs, and women, like now a days. What I also liked was that Ramo and the rest of Beat Street were doing what they were doing because they loved doing that. One example is double K loved music and he showed it, whenever he was DJ-ing, you can notice him jamming to what he was doing. When Lee was break dancing you would see him enjoying doing that. The train battle was a very good scene, so good that a pop star like Michael Jackson would take inspiration from to imply it in his music video. This movie is good and shows us the hip-hop in New York City. Especially in the Bronx where it is one of the main birthplaces of hip hop. That is what I think of Beat street and I hope on Monday we get to finish the movie.

Hunger for Attention!!

In the book, Black Boy by Richard Wright the main character is Richard. He is a young black boy who has hunger for attention. He loves attention and he loves it so much he does bad things to get some of the attention. The first thing that he does badly is when his grandma was sick, and everybody was paying attention to her. He decided to turn the house on fire so he would get attention. Then he kills a kitten because his dad told him to. His dad did say kill that kitten, but he meant like shut up the kitten. That is what he did to get attention and more. When he went to the saloon, he then started to drink and tell the women there what the man had said. He liked doing this because he got attention and money. He then writes bad things with soap on his neighbor’s windows. This is what he did to get attention; I do not think any of us is different from him we all do dumb and bad things to get people to notice us. We have all done something to gain attention am I right or am I wrong?