Monday, June 6, 2011

Blog Entry 22 - Final Project

In Food, Inc., filmmaker Robert Kenner exposes our nation's food industry, with the truth that has been hidden from the American consumer with the consent of our government's regulatory agencies, USDA and FDA. Our nation's food supply is now controlled by a handful of corporations that often put profit ahead of consumer health, the livelihood of the American farmer, the safety of workers and our own environment. We have bigger-breasted chickens, the perfect pork chop, herbicide-resistant soybean seeds, even tomatoes that won't go bad, but we also have new strains of e-coli, the harmful bacteria that causes illness for an estimated 73,000 Americans annually. We are riddled with widespread obesity, particularly among children, and an epidemic level of diabetes among adults. Meat and meat products should be bought from small farms because of all the diseases spread during mass prodution slughtering of the animals.

The film's first segment examines the industrial production of meat, chicken, beef, and pork, calling it inhumane and economically and environmentally unsustainable. In the movie, they showed you how a hamburger got bigger, fast food chain resturants got larger. Chicken were raised without seeing sunlight, instead of the full lenght of growing, at seven weeks they were ready to be slaughter. The conditions where the chickens
were raised was horrible, very dusty and cramped together in a small space. Some of the farmers became immuned to antibotics, becaused they feed the chicken so much antibotics in their feed, which included corn as an ingredient.

The second segment looks at the industrial production of grains and vegetables, primarily corn and soy beans, again labeling this economically and environmentally unsustainable. I now know why it's so hard to find a supermarket tomato that tastes like a tomato. That's because tomatoes, like so much of our food, aren't farmed or grown as much as they are engineered to satisfy rigid corporate and economic mandates. The food industry use corn in many products. Some items that contain corn as an ingredient is velveta cheese, ketech-up, mayonese, pan cake syrup. Smithfeild is one of the largest distributors of pork in the food industry. Meat packing industry employed cheap labors. Some workers worked very long hours, covered in filth, blood and urine. While working, some of the workers lost their finger nails, get cut because of the heavy machinery in the meat packing industry.

 The film's third and final segment is about the economic and legal power, such as food liable laws, of the major food companies whose livelihoods are based on supplying cheap but contaminated food, the heavy use of petroleum-based chemicals, largely pesticides and fertilizers, and the promotion of unhealthy food consumption habits by the American public. According to that law, you are not allowed to say bad things about the food you eat or this food industry. Ophra was sued for something she said about the food, particular hamburger, but she won the law-suit. The USDA and FDA like to make scare people, so they take people to court should you say negative things about the food or food industry.

We all can change this system by cooking and eating smarter, three times a day. Buy from companies that treat workers, animals, and environment with respect. When you go to the supermarket, choose foods that are in season, buy foods that are organic, know what's in your food, read labels. Know what to buy. The average meal travels 1500 miles from the farm to the supermarket. Buy goods that are grown locally. Shop at famers' market, plant a garden. Cook a  meal with your family and eat together. Everyone has a right to healthy food. Make sure your farmers' market takes food stamps. Ask your school board to provide healthy school lunches. If you say grace, ask for food that will keep us, and the planet healthy. We all can change the world with every bite.

Wednesday, May 25, 2011

Blog Entry 20 - Responding to other class

I agree with you all, I think Memo fought for the people, who had abundance of water and in the memory of his father.
Memo worked long hours. He had a better life and was able to send money to his family. Memo lost his father.
The fight was a revenge.

Tuesday, May 24, 2011

Blog Entry 21- Reflection

In reflecting on my work, I think I am comfortable where I am. I can think my best work can be found in my most recent blogs, 19, 18, and 16.

In blog entry 19, the part of planned obsolescence that refers to “desirability”. An object may continue to be functional, but it is no longer perceived to be stylish or appropriate, so it is rendered obsolete by perception, rather than by function.Planned obsolescence is caused by the Government, when an  industrial design is a policy of deliberately planning or designing a product with a limited useful life, so it will become useless or nonfunctional after a certain period. This is real life situation for me, not too long ago I bought a bose surround system for my home, I was shocked after about two years the system needed fixing. Now the the same system is not working or useless to me. In blog entry 18, since the American border has been walled off, Tijuana, in “Sleep Dealer,” has become a magnet for migrant workers. This story brought back memories to me, I am an immigrant to the US. Growing up it was my dream to come to America and see explore its beautiful land. When I became nutralized, or for that matter anything that had to do with immigration, I had to wait on line for very long time. So many people from all around the world wanted to be American. In blog 16, I believe fast-food and national resturant chains are targeting everyone not just black men. Many people are obese because of fast-food and national resturant chains. It makes me crazy to see people just eat whatever is infront of them. Some people have no time to cook, or work two or three jobs, or broke have very little money, but you have to make time to take care of your body. We all should think of our health.

My on-line experience was great. I enjoy posting comments to professor's and other classmate's blog and also reading their comments on my blog. I also read other people's blog and comments, even though I was not assign to read them. I know other classmate did the the same as me. Some of the online activity was done as group work.

Finally, I would like to say to anyone coming into this class, try to work on your thesis statement first. After that, write your thought and ideas as they come to you, also include your experiences in your essays and blogs. I have a great professor, and I enjoy taking this class.

Tuesday, May 17, 2011

Blog Entre 19 - The Story of Stuff and Labor

Define "planned obsolescence" and "perceived obsolescence" in your words. Who/What is responsible for these marketing strategies? Who/What benefits from them? Who/What suffers because of them? Are these strategies necessary? Are they right? Provide evidence from your own experience or from what you have read and discussed in class.
I believe the Government design to ramp up the economy which was dictated by Victor Labow.
Planned obsolescence is caused by the Government, when an  industrial design is a policy of deliberately planning or designing a product with a limited useful life, so it will become useless or nonfunctional after a certain period. Planned obsolescence has potential benefits for a producer because to obtain continuing use of the product the consumer is under pressure to purchase again, whether from the same manufacturer a replacement part or a newer model, or from a compitor which might also rely on planned obsolescence. For an industry, planned obsolescence stimulates demand by encouraging purchasers to buy sooner if they still want a functioning product. Built-in obsolescence is used in many different products. There is the potential backlash of consumers who learn that the manufacturer invested money to make the product obsolete faster; such consumers might turn to a producer, if any exists that offers a more durable alternative.
The part of planned obsolescence that refers to “desirability”. An object may continue to be functional, but it is no longer perceived to be stylish or appropriate, so it is rendered obsolete by perception, rather than by function. Fashion is all about perceived obsolescence, and it could be said that perceived obsolescence is the number one “product” of the advertising industry.

Saturday, May 14, 2011

Blog Entry 18 - Sleep Dealer



Outsourcing of Labor

“Sleep Dealer,” the feature directing debut of Alex Rivera (who wrote the screenplay with David Riker), is an unusually thoughtful science fiction film. Set mostly in Mexico, it imagines a future in which local water rights have been snatched up by multinational corporations, and in which people connect to a virtual-reality cybernetwork by means of “nodes,” electronic jacks implanted in their arms and necks.
The film, which makes thrifty use of some basic but effective special effects, follows Memo (Luis Fernando Peña), a young man from Oaxaca who travels north to Tijuana after the death of his father. A self-taught computer hacker, this anxious wanderer is looking for work of some kind, but for vengeance. His dad was killed by a military drone defending corporate-controlled water from “aqua-terrorists.”
In Tijuana Memo meets Luz (Leonor Varela), a beautiful stranger who hooks him up with black-market nodes but whose kindness cloaks an ulterior motive.
Since the American border has been walled off, Tijuana, in “Sleep Dealer,” has become a magnet for migrant workers. In fact, in the city of Tijuana the local people wants to have a job and earn a salary. First they go to the coyotek to get their nodes and their labor can be exported to North, South, and Central America. The nodes used by humans also enable intoxication, intimacy and communication. In the scene that I choose from the movie Mexican workers are connected through nodes. It happens when they are doing various types of jobs in order to get pay after working for long hours, which sometimes causes illucinations.

Tuesday, May 10, 2011

Blog 17 - Reflection

In reflecting on my work for the food segment,  I believe that the Meatrix was designed to inform the public and consumers of the the hidden dangers of mass production of meat and meat products in the food industry. In the Meatrix they encourage the public to buy from small farmers and to be smart of what they are eating. In the movie Neo was given the choice of the red pill blue pill, he chose the red pill. Meat and meat products should be bought from small farms because of all the diseases spread during mass prodution slughtering of the animals.
The Meatrix, The Truman's show, The Matrix and The Allegroy of the Caves were all connected, it is all about finding out the truth, the red pill leads you to the truth, the blue pill, you remain the same. In writing about all these movies, my writing improved a little. I find more words to put in my essays. I think my thesis statement improved.
Overall, writing about food was an interesting topic.In the article "Let Them Eat Fat" by Greg Critser, fast-food and national chain resturants aim on minority and poor income families. By eating from the fast-food and notional chain resturants you add on calories and gain weight easily. It is easy to super-size a meal for a few cents more than the original price. People choose to buy cheap meals because they get off work and are very tired, so they head for the fast-food and notional chain resturants. By supersizing a meal you super-size the calories too. Obese people are every where. They come from black, white, spanish, indian, chinese. Everyone needs to be smart about what they are eating or putting in their bodies. When you buy fast-food from national chain resturants, make wise choices and pay attention to your calorie intake.

Monday, May 9, 2011

Blog Entry 16

I believe fast-food and notional resturant chains are targeting everyone not just black men. Many people are obese because of fast-food and national resturant chains.

In the article "Let Them Eat Fat" by Greg Critser, fast-food and national chain resturants aim on minority and poor income families. By eating from the fast-food and notional chain resturants you add on calories and gain weight easily. It is easy to super-size a meal for a few cents more than the original price. People choose to buy cheap meals because they get off work and are very tired, so they head for the fast-food and notional chain resturants. By supersizing a meal you super-size the calories too.

In today's economy, many parents are forced to work long hours for very little pay. Some people find it easier to just buy fast-food to stretch their dollar. Large families find it economical to buy fast-food. A working mother may go to work and on her way home from work she might stop in a McDonalds for dinner instead of cooking a healty dinner. Some parents who work may get payed every two weeks, so they have to budget themselves enough money to last them for the next pay day. At the end of the day both parents may come home very tired so they decide fast-food is best. In some families there is only single parents, so they may think that fast-food is better.

Families need to be encouraged to cook healthier meals for their families. Since my kids are babies, I have been encouraging them to eat healthy. I do buy McDonalds for them very few times. I would show my kids how easier and better it is to cook their own food. Chicken nuggets from McDonalds are fried whereas those same chicken nuggets can be baked or broiled. They taste just as great, but with less fat. I show my kids how easy it is to make french fries from fresh potatoes instead of the greasy french fries from the fast-food and national resturant chains. My husband does an excellent job of making french fries for our kids. I also encourage my kids to eat healthy. I cook vegetables every week and my family enjoys eating their veggies. Once a week I prepare food, vegetables, fish, chicken and meat or meat products for my family. We occasionally go to the resturant to have dinner or breakfast. My family likes to go to Red Lobster. A meal at that same resturant like shrimp alfredo would be less fat but taste just as great if I cook it. Resturants cook their food with lots of grease, butter and salt.

The lack of exercise causes people to be obese. Some people get so tired after their work, so they come home, eat their meal or buy fast-food and go to sleep. Kids now want to play vido games instead of playing in the yard or going to the gym. The weather also contributes to weight gain. In the winter it is cold outside, so some people work or kids go to school, come home, eat their food or buy fast-food and go to sleep.
Obese people are every where. They come from black, white, spanish, indian, chinese. Everyone needs to be smart about what they are eating or putting in their bodies. When you buy fast-food from national chain resturants, make wise choices and pay attention to your calorie intake.

Monday, May 2, 2011

Blog Entry 15 - The Meatrix


I believe that the Meatrix was designed to inform the public and consumers of the the hidden dangers of mass production of meat and meat products in the food industry. . In the Meatrix they encourage the public to buy from small farmers and to be smart of what they are eating. In the movie Neo was given the choice of the red pill blue pill, he chose the red pill. Meat and meat products should be bought from small farms because of all the diseases spread during mass prodution slughtering of the animals.

In the Meatrix, Neo, the young pig who wonders if he is "the one". He was eating when he was approached and was given a choice of blue pill, which would allow him to remain on the same farm, or the red pill would allow him to see how poorly the animals were treated. Chickity, the feathered family farm defender and Moopheus, the trench-coat-clad cow with a passion for green pastures as they expose the problems with factory farming while making the world safe for sustainable family farms. Some of the animals, the  cows, their tails were cut off and packed so closely together and were fed antibotics. The chickens, their beaks were cut off.

Moopheus, Chickity and Neo were in the barn where the agents from the Agri business arrived to inject the cows with growth hormones. They fought and Moorpheus was captured and taken to the plant where meat and meat products were packaged. At the meat plant the working conditions were very poor for the employees. Chickity and Neo had to saved Moorpheus at the plant. At the plant they saw how diseases were spread among meat and meat products, from the excrements of the dead animals. The agents intended for Moopheus to be part of their meat and meat products, but were saved by Neo and Chickity.

Neo, Chickity and Moopheus had a clear message. The public and consumer should support small family farms, free of antibotics, chemicals, pesticides and growth hormones.

Thursday, April 28, 2011

Blog Entry 14 - The Meatrix

The Meatrix was designed to inform the public and consumers of the the hidden dangers of mass production of meat and meat products. They also showed how easy it is to spread or pass on diseases. In the Meatrix they encourage the public to buy from small farmers and to be smart of what they are eating.The Meatrix is connected to the Matrix. In both movies Neo was given the choice of the red pill blue pill, he chose the red pill.

Tuesday, April 26, 2011

Blog Entry 13

I believe that I do not live in the Matrix even though my world is not perfect, I am not ruled or charged  by any machinery and my feelings are real. When I was watching the Matrix, I felt some anxiety about what will happen, I laughed at some part even though I know it was a movie. The movie was about the Matrix, Neo was the choosen one, technology played a great part in the movie.
My world is not perfect, I am a human being and I am entitled to make mistakes. I am a mother and maybe I forget to do an errand that was important. In my math class when doing a problem, there is a possibility I may get it wrong. When driving on the road it is a possible I may make a wrong turn.
I am not ruled or recharged by any machinery. In the Matrix when Neo went to sleep, he was hooked up with a lot of cable to be recharged. I may go to sleep in my bed, but at the same time I am not being recharged by any machinery, even though I may feel more energetic. Neo had special powers which gave him the advantage to run from one end, up and around like a spider, which was part of the movie when he was fighting with Morpheus. I have never seen anyone fighting like Neo in real life, only in movies.
My feelings are real, should I die my other half would not kiss me and bring me back to life. At the end of the movie Neo was killed, but he was brought back to life by a kiss form Trinity. From the love, between me and my other half we have been blissed with two beautiful daughters, can this happen for Neo?
The Matrix was an interesting movie which has a lot to do with technology and machinery. Neo was a hero in the movie, who did not just think of himself, he fought for others. There is no way that I live in the Matrix!

Monday, April 25, 2011

Blog Entry 12 - Reflection and Evaluation


Reflection and Evaluation

In reflecting on  my blogs, I  know that my thesis statement needs improvement, maybe a little  more evidence in my paragraphs. I plan on working a little harder, writing more longer essays with specific details, especially if I want to do better on my CAT-W test, which was the only thing we did using paper and ink. I have to be able to better myself at proof-reading before submitting my work. I have a major problem in finding 400 word per essay,  I prefer reading a story than writing a story, my ideas and thoughts does not flow enough to make long flowing sentences. Writing an essay takes a lot of time and concentration, it takes practice, reading, thinking and revising.  I admire someone who can just sit and write a 500 word essay without breaking a sweat. A good writer would capture the reader's attention, and make the reader want to read on, and lets the reader know what to expect in the essay. I also learned to use the Thesaurus and the writers handbook. I enjoyed playing Freerice Grammer game, and also the other games on the internet, the memory or brain game, the math game, the speed game. I liked the movies that was seen throughout this class, I think they were all interesting but connected in some way or the other. Technology played a major part in this class,  most of the class work was done on the computer,  I enjoyed the challenge and look foward to more. It was nice to read my classmates comments about my blog, they were all acknowledge. Overall, I think I am comforatable where I am in class, I can perform the task efficiently.

Tuesday, April 12, 2011

Blog Entry 11 - CAT Practice

I agree that reality television posses a danger in today's society. Reality television reinforces several unsound messages that are molding the minds of its young fans. According to the author Timothy Sexton of Buzzle.com "The Dangers of Reality TV.", reality television promotes the old belief that compition is the key to success in a capitalist economy, it also sends the message that the to success is image rather than the ability, and that education is completely unnecessary to fulfill the American dream.
Reality television exposes our kids to sex and voilence, especially the series shows. It sends the message that money can be awarded for being crazy, or doing one of a kind show. My kids recently called my attention to one of their shows where Will Smith's daughter dancing a song about whipping her head back and forth, personally I think the song and it's movement is crazy, but I she makes a lot of money frome doing things like that. Some reality television shows uses slang language which sends the wrong message and influence to our kids. It also show that life in general is a compition, in order for success which is achieve by image rather than ability. Reality television shows that in every show there is a winner and a loser, which nobody wants to be a loser.
Reality television is sending a message to everyone that education is completely unnessary to fulfill the American dream, all you need is fame and lots of money, but in reality that fame can be replaced by someone trying to do better in another series. Education cannot be taken away from you; you can achieve great success in education with a focus mind.
Reality television is a greater challenge to get on a show, you may do adution of a hundred people before you pick five people for a show. These series shows would not demonstrate how difficult it is to get on a show, its all about the reality television, they show you what they want you to see, and its up to the person to see the dangers of reality television. Reality television is all about a compition.

Blog 10

Claim:- Why take any pill, red or blue?
Reason:- I don't like taking drugs, and why would I take pills from people I don't know?
Evidence:- Those people hang out in a tacky old building.

Sunday, April 10, 2011

Blog Entry 9: Telecommute Report-out.

Telecommuting was very interesting, you first log onto the matrix, enter your name and then start having conversations with professors and other students. Then you are required to read the questions and other people's views on their questions and respond to it accordingly.
I had such difficult time with the computer I was using in the library, when I tried to switch back and forth to different pages, it froze on me, at one point I decided to log out and go to a different computer on campus in the math lab, I then log onto the site again, so on the roll I should be marked twice in and twice out. Overall I enjoyed doing the telecommuting on the matrix.

Wednesday, April 6, 2011

Blog Entry 8 The Truman Show

The perfect world that Christoff created for Truman was not the happily ever after, Truman's life was planned out before him, he knew what was expected of him, how he should react to situations, even his lifestyle. Since birth Truman's whole life was broadcasted as a show on television, every day he awake to the same pattern of life, Seaheaven was the place he lived in, they knew what he would say t to his neighbors, which news stand he would buy his papers and magazine from, claiming the magazing was for his wife, but secretly he was looking for the love of his life, the girlfriend who had a sickness. Truman wanted for a very long time to go to the island, so he could see the girlfriend that was not good enough for television.
I do not agree with Christoff definition of "perfect world", the one which he created for Truman. In the real world, we are not viewed on camera 24/7, we have a normal life, we are allowed to go on vacation unlike Truman, who could not go on vacations, he could not ge a flight for more than a month, when he tries to drive to go on a vacation, he was met with one devastation  after another.

Thursday, March 24, 2011

Blog Entry 7 Reflection and Evaluation

Reflection and Evaluation
In reflecting on  my blog, I  know that my thesis statement needs improvement, maybe a little  more evidence in my paragraphs. I plan on working a little harder, especially if i want to do better on my CAT-W test. I have to be able to better myself at proof-reading before submitting my work. I have a major problem in finding 400 word per essay,  I prefer reading a story than writing a story, my ideas and thoughts does not flow enough to make long flowing sentences. Writing an essay takes a lot of time and concentration, it takes practice, reading, thinking and revising.  I admire someone who can just sit and write a 500 word essay without breaking a sweat. A good writer would capture the reader's attention, and make the reader want to read on, and lets the reader know what to expect in the essay.

Monday, March 21, 2011

Blog Entry 6

Essay

Parable of the caves.
In comparision to Socrates' description of the the caves, I think I am beyond being chained because I realize of many thing being shown in the media are not accurate representations of the world, specifically stories about politics and the way women are portrayed.
I realized that I am no longer in the caves about how politics is portray in the news. Often in the news, reporters tell stories of what they want you to know, telling you their versions of the facts. Reporters tell their  stories to get you more ratings and encourage more viewers to look at their shows. Another way reports influence their viewers they get power and fame by giving their version of the truth, for example, when our new President was running for office he had one of the most popular host of television shows, Oprah Winfrey, who supported him, saying possitive things about him encouraging viewers to vote for him. The viewers voted for Obama because they believe in her (Oprah), however no one know if everything that was said about him was true or not. The media is casting the shadow around us.
In the media women are portrayed mostly skinny, blond and beautiful, but in reality there are various kind of women, brunette, redhead, blonde, coloured, full-sized and plus-sized. Rarely would you find a story of a plus-sized woman in the media. It's not just food which make people of various sizes, rest, movement, diet and genetics all play a part in determining our phisical health. I am not a big sugar fan and agree that highly processed food are empty calories. However, it's the lack of movement and sleep, along with large portions, that cause the weight gain in most people.
The prison-house world of sight maybe finally be lifted.

Saturday, March 19, 2011

Blog Entry 4 - Hype

In Excerpted from Kalle Lasn "Hype", in Signs of Life in the USA: Readings on Popular Culture, as the author stated commercial pollution is all around us, even in unusual places. I agree, advertisements are most toxic of mental pollutants, in today's world everywhere you go there is advertisement. The author claims that there is an estimated 12 billion display ads, 3 million radio commercials, and more than 200,000 television commercial are dumped into America's collective unconscious. Advertisement are not confined to usual places, they are on buses, billboards stadiums, every your eyes can rest. The kids cannot look at their shows without looking at advertisement, and from the shows comes a list of stuff they want to try or buy because they see it on television. Sometimes they try to convince you that you have to buy a particular item because the television says it is so good. I sometimes buy juice or snacks for my kids and i have to help them to eat or drink it because they did not like it, instead of throwing it out.
Sometimes my kids get caught up in series television shows and they hurry up when doing home-work. Sometimes the shows have slang language and kids are being influenced, which they may think it is cool, but it's not. In their classroom, kids watch pepsi and snickers commercial.
When you listen to the radio you hear so much advertisement, sometimes i get so tired of hearing the same advertisement. Sometimes some of the commercial stays in your head, like the advertisement for the skin cream - head, shoulder, knees and toes, knees and toes, eyes and ears and head , shoulder knees and toes. I enjoy those radio channel which have commercial free music.
There is advertisement for everything you use, you eat, you drink, you wear, you drive even where you live, the area, the town, the city even the country.
America is constantly advertising, commercial are pouring in from everywhere.

Thursday, March 17, 2011

Blog Entry 5 The Allegory of the Cave

SUMMARY
THE ALLEGORY OF THE CAVE
From Book VII of The Republic by Plato
Written 360 B.C.E; translated by Benjamin Jowett

Allegory of the cave is a fictional dialogue between Plato's teacher, Socrates, and his brother,
Glaucon. As stated in the story human beings were held captive in an underground cave from their childhood, legs and neck chain which prevented them from turning their heads. Above and behind them fire was lit at a safe distance. Echo and shadows were seen but could not be distinguished even as their fellow prisoner.
This allegory is the prison-house is the world of sight, the light of the fire is the sun, and the journey upwards to be ascent of the soul into the intellectual world according to the author's belief of God, an enlightenment to the prisoners.

Tuesday, March 15, 2011

Blog Entry 3 "HYPE"

SUMMARY
HYPE
Experted from Kalle Lasn. "Hype," in Signs of Life in the USA: Readings on Popular Culture.
Everyday an estimated 12 billions display ads, 3 million radio commercials, and more than 200,000 TV commercial are dumped into North America's unusual places.
Everywhere you go, to buy gas, at the bank, a drive, you are bombarded with commercial.

Thursday, March 10, 2011

Blog 2 - Reflecting on Annotation

  1. What did you get from thinking about annotations with the class?
 Annotation helps me to find the main idea or the most important facts of the story. It also help to find new word and find out their meaning.

2. What did you get from writing annotations for "Is Google Making Us Stupid?" with your partner?

I think Google affects our ability to think deeply about information while encouraging us to think superficially. Our group agrees with the brain scientists that we think deeply when our minds are clam and attentive.

3. What did you learn about the reading by annotating it?

I learn to better arrange main ideas, find unfamiliar words and connect on personal experiences.

4. How may annotating make you a better writer

I hope from the first annotation that ia am better writer but maybe a little more pratice.

Tuesday, March 8, 2011

Blog 1 "Hype"

Hpye

In Excerpted from Kalle Lasn. "Hype," in Signs of Life in the USA: Reading on Popular Culture,as the author stated commercial pollution is all around us, even in unusual places. I agree, advertisements are most toxic of mental pollutants, in today's world everywhere you go there is advertisement. The author claims that there is an estimated 12 billion display ads, 3 million radio commercials, and more than 200,000 television commercial are dumped into America's collective unconscious. Advertisement are not confined to usual places, they are on buses, billboards stadiums, every your eyes can rest. The kids cannot look at their shows without looking at advertisement, and from the shows comes a list of stuff they want to try or buy because they see it on television. Sometimes they try to convince you that you have to buy a particular item because the television says it is so good. I sometimes buy juice or snacks for my kids and i have to help them to eat or drink it because they did not like it, instead of throwing it out.
Sometimes my kids get caught up in series television shows and they hurry up when doing home-work. Sometimes the shows have slang language and kids are being influenced, which they may think it is cool, but it's not. In their classroom, kids watch pepsi and snickers commercial.
When you listen to the radio you hear so much advertisement, sometimes i get so tired of hearing the same advertisement. Sometimes some of the commercial stays in your head, like the advertisement for the skin cream - head, shoulder, knees and toes, knees and toes, eyes and ears and head , shoulder knees and toes. I enjoy those radio channel which have commercial free music.
There is advertisement for everything you use, you eat, you drink, you wear, you drive even where you live, the area, the town, the city even the country.
America is constantly advertising, commercial are pouring in from everywhere.