future class room presentation

Ralph Lauren Model controversy

"sex sells" was the intent of that Ralph Lauren advertisement which displayed a women posing sexy wearing the clothing line. The only problem in the picture is the model's head is bigger than her waist! The picture photoshoped to slim her waist but obviously they went a little to far. This grossed me out because not only do a lot of ad's that depict women as eye candy but now makers of these ad's are altering these photos in attempt at presenting the "perfect image." This is really sad because these models cause a lot of women to be self conscious of themselves when they see these altered pictures. This isn't the only image that has been changed, many other ads have done the same. By corrupting these ads makes the media look like its making us live in a fake world.

put a price on it

I came across an interesting article on Kotaku the other day that asked a basic question: Who and how do we determine the cost of a video game? This got me thinking, why are games always 59.99$ In the article they tried to answer this question. Mostly all the cost in the game goes to producers and designers of the game. Also add in the cost of printing the games and shipping them to stores to be sold at. This also leads to another question: why do gamers accept this price? I think that if you got enough people to protest the cost companies would have to lower their prices just to stay in business. But that would be a hard task to follow through and games will most likely continue to rise in cost as time progresses.

gmail presentation

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