Thursday, December 18, 2008
Wednesday, December 17, 2008
Subliminal Messaging
It sounds a little creepy from my point of view but this trick is used in every day life and you probably don’t realize it. I got this idea from watching a video game commercial. I forget what it was for but this one guy that everyone loves come onto the screen and starts playing a guitar. And if you notice closely, on the end frets of the guitar are cigarettes while he is also smoking one. Yes it is for the bettering of a game that the company wants to be sold, but if you think about it, maybe the cigarette company paid to have a small piece of advertisement in the ad.
This is what I would like to define as a distinct type of subliminal messaging. Meaning that the commercial or advertisement that you see will be for something but the background to which the ad is for might be playing around with something that effect your conscious. Its hard to believe but your brain notices more things in a ‘message’ than you interpret. One thing that comes to mind when thinking about this is that when people yawn. If you are attentive to the action it sits in your sub conscious until you end up yawning. That’s where the term yawns are contagious came from. They really are since it sits there until an action is taken to deal with it.
Well back to the actual message. The commercial was for a good videogame but it looked like it was pointing out that the only way to be as cool as the character would be to act as he does, hence the smoking. Another thing that comes to mind is models and perfume commercials and ads in the newspaper. They might be modeling for just the smell with maybe a tester like in magazines, but if you notice they also where the best designers clothes. Meaning that you may only smell sensational only if you also where the best clothes along with the scent.
I have been searching around but I haven’t really found anything that has to do with this messaging in the educational system. There are some obvious ones that you can point out, and that is requirements for popular games being sold. They never tell you about system requirements but with the new graphics and things it kind of comes to mind that ‘I need a better way to deal with the problems at hand. Hey! Why don’t I just get a new system that can run the program?’
I was also reading the intentions of the Broadcasting Act in 1990. This essentially says that “No advertisement may use images of very brief duration, or any other technique which is likely to influence viewers, without their being fully aware of what has been done” (taken from blog.schools.co.uk/2008/07/01/subliminal-messages-in-school-education/). This is pretty funny since they actually realized that companies were actually performing this advertising technique. Also the website said that this does not apply to gaming industry ads. So these may be swimming with many unseen messages that definitely will affect the individual in their choice making.
So if you are willing to look around and find different things that advertise something but go for other objects let me know and comment. I personally find it amusing how this type of messaging works on the human being.
This is what I would like to define as a distinct type of subliminal messaging. Meaning that the commercial or advertisement that you see will be for something but the background to which the ad is for might be playing around with something that effect your conscious. Its hard to believe but your brain notices more things in a ‘message’ than you interpret. One thing that comes to mind when thinking about this is that when people yawn. If you are attentive to the action it sits in your sub conscious until you end up yawning. That’s where the term yawns are contagious came from. They really are since it sits there until an action is taken to deal with it.
Well back to the actual message. The commercial was for a good videogame but it looked like it was pointing out that the only way to be as cool as the character would be to act as he does, hence the smoking. Another thing that comes to mind is models and perfume commercials and ads in the newspaper. They might be modeling for just the smell with maybe a tester like in magazines, but if you notice they also where the best designers clothes. Meaning that you may only smell sensational only if you also where the best clothes along with the scent.
I have been searching around but I haven’t really found anything that has to do with this messaging in the educational system. There are some obvious ones that you can point out, and that is requirements for popular games being sold. They never tell you about system requirements but with the new graphics and things it kind of comes to mind that ‘I need a better way to deal with the problems at hand. Hey! Why don’t I just get a new system that can run the program?’
I was also reading the intentions of the Broadcasting Act in 1990. This essentially says that “No advertisement may use images of very brief duration, or any other technique which is likely to influence viewers, without their being fully aware of what has been done” (taken from blog.schools.co.uk/2008/07/01/subliminal-messages-in-school-education/). This is pretty funny since they actually realized that companies were actually performing this advertising technique. Also the website said that this does not apply to gaming industry ads. So these may be swimming with many unseen messages that definitely will affect the individual in their choice making.
So if you are willing to look around and find different things that advertise something but go for other objects let me know and comment. I personally find it amusing how this type of messaging works on the human being.
Friday, December 12, 2008
Do I really Believe? Yes I Do.
I believe that knowledge is what comes to the individual through experiencing,
it is not just achieved because of the age. ever since i could remember, there
are people that think that just because they are older means they know more than
those that are younger. This isn’t necessarily true because even the youngest
minds can have more experience in many different categories compared to those
that haven’t really done anything during their life time. Just looking back on
people that were older than me when I was younger, make me feel better about
most of the experiences I have been through because I have done quite a big
amount of stuff during this short period of time I have lived on this planet.
From traveling to social periods of time, knowledge has definitely overwhelmed
me as a
person since the brain can only hold so many events and activities in
remembrance. So I try to treasure all the moments that I have so that to see if
they really will help me. Every once in awhile I come across things I have held
on for so long and finally realized that their value has no more importance to
the world and to me. So in the end these thrown away memories are what give you
a better understanding of the world because they are of no use, meaning that
wisdom comes from all the bad events that been done and gone through.
Places and environment are also what shape you into the person that you know
and what you know to move along through time. Some experiences are definitely
used to survive through some harsh times but most others are used to interact
with the world around you and what to do in situations or how to handle certain
things. Most of the time I can get through things easily but then their are
some
things that are done wrong and I learn from “experience” of how it is to be
dealt with if it is ever come crossed again in the future.
These things are what make every person who they are and how they think. You
can not live through life without experiencing because certain aspects. These
specific situations or activities are part of character development, so I always
do things differently from people since everyone learns to do them and every
person deals with the same situations differently due to what they have been
through in life. So my point is that; do what comes to you. Listening to others
may help but then there are things that you must be willing to do on your own
because these are what truly specifies ‘you’ as an individual.
it is not just achieved because of the age. ever since i could remember, there
are people that think that just because they are older means they know more than
those that are younger. This isn’t necessarily true because even the youngest
minds can have more experience in many different categories compared to those
that haven’t really done anything during their life time. Just looking back on
people that were older than me when I was younger, make me feel better about
most of the experiences I have been through because I have done quite a big
amount of stuff during this short period of time I have lived on this planet.
From traveling to social periods of time, knowledge has definitely overwhelmed
me as a
person since the brain can only hold so many events and activities in
remembrance. So I try to treasure all the moments that I have so that to see if
they really will help me. Every once in awhile I come across things I have held
on for so long and finally realized that their value has no more importance to
the world and to me. So in the end these thrown away memories are what give you
a better understanding of the world because they are of no use, meaning that
wisdom comes from all the bad events that been done and gone through.
Places and environment are also what shape you into the person that you know
and what you know to move along through time. Some experiences are definitely
used to survive through some harsh times but most others are used to interact
with the world around you and what to do in situations or how to handle certain
things. Most of the time I can get through things easily but then their are
some
things that are done wrong and I learn from “experience” of how it is to be
dealt with if it is ever come crossed again in the future.
These things are what make every person who they are and how they think. You
can not live through life without experiencing because certain aspects. These
specific situations or activities are part of character development, so I always
do things differently from people since everyone learns to do them and every
person deals with the same situations differently due to what they have been
through in life. So my point is that; do what comes to you. Listening to others
may help but then there are things that you must be willing to do on your own
because these are what truly specifies ‘you’ as an individual.
Wednesday, December 10, 2008
Recession or Depression?
First things first and that is what exactly is going on with the economy in this giant flux of money changing possibilities? One thing that I noticed that seriously points out this economic change is the drastically dropping price of gas and rising prices in food products. I couldn’t believe it the last time I went food shopping with my mom. Instead of the normal that we usually pay for, we got pretty much the same amount of stuff and the receipt came out with an amount that was at least twenty bucks more than what we usually pay. I swear! I know that we aren’t going into a depression but the possibility has changed everyone’s minds in the stock market. When I read the article online all I could remember was, myself saying, “That oh crap!” where is the market going to go to now?
Recession seems to me as a way to choose the path. It looks like it can be the way to choose the easy way or the right way. When I first heard about the bail out that, I might be for thinking of the better for the country, but then comes the fact that we are already in debt by a humungous chunk of money. What was it again? Like 3 trillion or something or other. If we are going to try to ‘bail’ ourselves out of this we should probably go back to all the passed events in which other countries owed us. Yes we did waiver them, but if you think about it, if we didn’t help them out in their times of need where would they be right now? Probably being ruled by a country near them which forcibly took their land would be a tolerable answer for the situation. Now that I think about it though, this would probably leave us under really bad terms with other decently powered countries around the world. *sigh* Why do politics have to play such a major role in deciding the fate of the world. I hope it is not just me saying that this will end up being a bad thing like what has happened before.
Well back to the stock market. Did anyone watch the stock market the day that recession was announced to the world? I was watching some of the off hand important markets and noticed that most dropped by like twenty or thirty percent in the first half day or so. Now this is the sort of thing that causes depression if you know what I mean. Hysteria is a plague that slowly creeps up on the population and in the end we pay for it. Like the first Great Depression, we had a small window that we could have gone through and made things easier but no…. we had to see what would happen if we did not deal with what we needed to. So I guess that the point I am trying to make is that yes, we are going downhill and things will get worse before they get any better but all the actions we are doing to try to save ourselves are more applicable to hurt us in the long run more than just leaving the stocks and see where it actually goes.
The reason that I say this is that extracting from the market leaves these major thriving businesses that help out the population with nothing to use and so they die, slowly, while we trying to save money which is increasingly becoming less of a currency/value in other parts of the planet. So stop and I hate to say this but leave the politics to the politics. And peace out…
Recession seems to me as a way to choose the path. It looks like it can be the way to choose the easy way or the right way. When I first heard about the bail out that, I might be for thinking of the better for the country, but then comes the fact that we are already in debt by a humungous chunk of money. What was it again? Like 3 trillion or something or other. If we are going to try to ‘bail’ ourselves out of this we should probably go back to all the passed events in which other countries owed us. Yes we did waiver them, but if you think about it, if we didn’t help them out in their times of need where would they be right now? Probably being ruled by a country near them which forcibly took their land would be a tolerable answer for the situation. Now that I think about it though, this would probably leave us under really bad terms with other decently powered countries around the world. *sigh* Why do politics have to play such a major role in deciding the fate of the world. I hope it is not just me saying that this will end up being a bad thing like what has happened before.
Well back to the stock market. Did anyone watch the stock market the day that recession was announced to the world? I was watching some of the off hand important markets and noticed that most dropped by like twenty or thirty percent in the first half day or so. Now this is the sort of thing that causes depression if you know what I mean. Hysteria is a plague that slowly creeps up on the population and in the end we pay for it. Like the first Great Depression, we had a small window that we could have gone through and made things easier but no…. we had to see what would happen if we did not deal with what we needed to. So I guess that the point I am trying to make is that yes, we are going downhill and things will get worse before they get any better but all the actions we are doing to try to save ourselves are more applicable to hurt us in the long run more than just leaving the stocks and see where it actually goes.
The reason that I say this is that extracting from the market leaves these major thriving businesses that help out the population with nothing to use and so they die, slowly, while we trying to save money which is increasingly becoming less of a currency/value in other parts of the planet. So stop and I hate to say this but leave the politics to the politics. And peace out…
Animals keep getting the worst treatment you can think of...
I swear that people around this nation have been doing some of the most stupid things you can ever hear. I remember from like a year or two ago about Michael Vick getting convicted of the crime of holding dog fights for money. First thing I remember that came out of my mouth was what the heck was he thinking? First of all it makes me wonder how people think that harassing and abusing animals of some type is fun. Ever since I started actually working with animals from around the world it kind of opened up what I actually think of the outside world in which these species have lived in. Then we came along and we domesticated some of them for differential uses, and others we left alone. Animal cruelty has taken up a huge variety of entertainment to the public.
Sometimes I might find a animal show that is interesting but I would never watch something that has to do with the abuse of animals on each other or humans on animals. This is where I have drawn a line that shows a difference between people I know and me. It was sort of a shocker if you want to call it that when I found out that some of my most distinguished friends like cruelty of some animals. I have kept this in mind and tried not to start up an argument with friends because that is not the way I am about if you can’t tell. Some animals I know and have had experiences with from volunteer work I have done have been known to be quite stubborn but they have their place in the world like we do.
This one tourist attraction called Safari West, in the outskirts of Sonoma County, I have seen really horrific accidents happen, but they treat them as if nothing has happened. They don’t put them down like what most civilians would do if they were hurt by a wild animal. Oh another thing that comes to mind while on the subject is that incident that happened at the San Francisco Zoo earlier this year. You remember those people that were attacked by the tiger that jumped out of its exhibit and mauled a couple people. If I am thinking correctly I believe that this animal was provoked by man that was under the influence. He was killed and the Siberian traveled through the zoo and made its way to the café where two other people were badly injured. All were believed to be with each other, and also a sling shot was found on one of the victims. Stuff like this made me laugh. I know it is kind of a bad thing but I believe that the people that became part of this horrific incident deserved what they got.
Just out of the ordinary things like this happen, and I personally have been part of an incident like this but I don’t hold grudges like many others who have been through stuff like this. Another thing that you could say would tweak my nerves would be the old traditions places have with the killing of animals. Some parts I could see being okay because animals are used for food, and that’s part of the reason how were able to survive for this long. But the one thing that always comes to mind when it comes to animal cruelty is the old matador arena in Hispanic countries. Sometime you do hear about the man getting killed before taking his final chance to slay the beast (bull). More power to the bull in my opinion.
So I will leave you at that… I might be for animals being used for food but inhumane ways of killing off some types of animals is beyond inhumane.
Sometimes I might find a animal show that is interesting but I would never watch something that has to do with the abuse of animals on each other or humans on animals. This is where I have drawn a line that shows a difference between people I know and me. It was sort of a shocker if you want to call it that when I found out that some of my most distinguished friends like cruelty of some animals. I have kept this in mind and tried not to start up an argument with friends because that is not the way I am about if you can’t tell. Some animals I know and have had experiences with from volunteer work I have done have been known to be quite stubborn but they have their place in the world like we do.
This one tourist attraction called Safari West, in the outskirts of Sonoma County, I have seen really horrific accidents happen, but they treat them as if nothing has happened. They don’t put them down like what most civilians would do if they were hurt by a wild animal. Oh another thing that comes to mind while on the subject is that incident that happened at the San Francisco Zoo earlier this year. You remember those people that were attacked by the tiger that jumped out of its exhibit and mauled a couple people. If I am thinking correctly I believe that this animal was provoked by man that was under the influence. He was killed and the Siberian traveled through the zoo and made its way to the café where two other people were badly injured. All were believed to be with each other, and also a sling shot was found on one of the victims. Stuff like this made me laugh. I know it is kind of a bad thing but I believe that the people that became part of this horrific incident deserved what they got.
Just out of the ordinary things like this happen, and I personally have been part of an incident like this but I don’t hold grudges like many others who have been through stuff like this. Another thing that you could say would tweak my nerves would be the old traditions places have with the killing of animals. Some parts I could see being okay because animals are used for food, and that’s part of the reason how were able to survive for this long. But the one thing that always comes to mind when it comes to animal cruelty is the old matador arena in Hispanic countries. Sometime you do hear about the man getting killed before taking his final chance to slay the beast (bull). More power to the bull in my opinion.
So I will leave you at that… I might be for animals being used for food but inhumane ways of killing off some types of animals is beyond inhumane.
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