How Do You Sell An Idea?

So another example of an ad can be the ad from Airwaves Company trying to sell their delicious and spicy gum. In the ad, there was a guy who was falling asleep at work, I believe, and then he pops one of the airwaves into his mouth and he appears much more awake and has little blue spiraling things going up into his brain. It uses the transfer technique of persuasive techniques, because it shows that you can stay alert with the gum and that is a positive image. Another ad can be one of the 7-11 ads which was trying to promote its "collect 10 points in exchange for a cute bear cup" (my sister's obsessed with that). It uses the testimonial technique because it asked some popular celebrities from Taiwan to hold the cup around and talk about how they use it and how good it is when they use it. 

Can A Dream Change The World?

My vision for a better world involves better food for everyone, and less people stuck in poverty. Hopefully, also less annoying people, but that's probably not possible. In the future, I hope there will be no shortages of food. I know right now there are numerous people starving to death because of the huge population of people we have on Earth. So I hope that we can all share our food and maybe that will even solve another problem! The problem of obesity. Obesity is quite widespread among prosperous countries right now, so if the richer countries with more food resources are willing to give some of their share of food to the ones that need it, then not only can they save a life, they can also get skinnier! I also hope that less people will have to be in poverty or be jobless. It is definitely very sad to think about such things, but I have no solutions to that, because people do have to work hard to get where they want to get, or else it'll be like communism which, when regarding the ideal communism system, is almost impossible to achieve. Lastly, getting rid of annoying people will be the hardest, but it can still be done. Perhaps we can just get rid of them and that will reduce the population, thus creating more food resources for everyone and less poverty and more jobs! What a great solution! But of course I was just kidding.

How Does Friendship Begin?

"Think about an unusual or unlikely friendship you might have had? This could be someone who is much younger or older or very different from you. What started the friendship? What is it that makes people connect that can create a friendship?"

Last summer, I went to this summer camp called CTY where there were a bunch of freakishly smart people, and I made a lot of my usual friends but I also made a quite unusual friend, one that I never would've made intentionally. Her name is Carissa and she was my hall mate. When I first met her, I never thought I'd get close to her at all. She seemed like those annoyingly smart people who I've always hated. I went to CTY with Angela and she became friends with Carissa. Since she and I were friends, I became acquainted to her as well, but I didn't become friends with her yet. Then, we started hanging out more and we became closer. She then taught me how to play this card game that was really popular in CTY called ERS and it was the best game in the world, I swear. The more we played, the closer we got and we actually became great friends. We then had many sleepovers together playing cards, talking about our own school lives, cute guys, and gossip. We're really close friends and I'm absolutely glad that we became friends and my first impression of her didn't stop our friendship from developing. I guess you really can't and shouldn't judge a person by their covers.