MAC vs PC

What kind of computer should I buy, a PC or a MAC? MAC tries to make this answer obvious using their commercials. The older man featured in the commercial represents a PC, while the young kid represents a MAC. MAC does this for an obvious reason, to make their computers look hip and cool. It makes regular PCs featuring windows look outdated, old, and nerdy. The older man fits the stereotype of a computer nerd, with the glasses, the suit, and hair. But not the MAC, he has a more casual style that does not appear nerdy. MAC directly attacks windows in this commercial, making fun of the windows vista security which asks for certain permissions during operation. This is to prevent viruses or hijackers getting into your computer, but at the same time annoying. This commercial strongly emphasizes this and promotes how MACs don't have this problem. The commercial uses this logos in a comical fashion. It is trying to promote the logical benefits of using a MAC to the audience while at the same time using pathos as a way to show that the MAC is the new hit. The commercial is directed to anyone looking to get a computer or even someone who already has a computer. The MAC character is especially designed to attract younger, college students.

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Marlboro Country

Do you want to go to where the flavor is? Then you should go to Marlboro country, according to their company. This advertisement makes smoking look like an everyday thing. Everyone who wants to be a cowboy should smoke Marlboro reds. This is mainly directed towards men, especially rugged, tough men. This advertisement also makes it look like Marlboro owns the country, which I don't think they do since the last time I checked. This advertisement is trying to coerce people into smoking cigarettes with this advertisement. They have to use text in order to do this, or it would be just another cowboy smoking. This advertisement does not seem very logical to me. According to the advertisement, the flavor is in Marlboro country. But Marlboro country is not a physical place. It is smoking Marlboro cigarettes. The advertisement contains some pathos. It says in the small text, "either way, you get a lot to like." People want something they will like; Marlboro is trying to convey that their product will do this. It is appealing to people's emotions, because people want to be cool like the Marlboro man.

Synthesis

The Banking Concept of Education by Paulo Freire discusses the practice of the banking education, the repetition of recording, memorizing, and repeating. This practice of education dehumanizes students and turns them into robots. It distorts the students' understanding of what true reality is. In order to fix this boring practice of banking education, Freire describes a problem-posing method. The problem-posing method forces students to think critically. They have to analyze information given to them by the teacher, not just record, memorize, and repeat. The problem-posing method of education allows students to see true reality. It gives freedom to students to learn.

The banking concept occurs in several schools across America. One movie, School of Rock, deals with this boring practice of education. A man named Dewey Finn, played by Jack Black, is kicked out of his hard rock band. He then pretends to a substitute teacher at a prep elementary school. The type of education used at this education is similar to the banking concept that Freire describes in his essay. Dewey Finn decides to not conform the the school's teaching styles. He ends up teaching the students music through his own style. He not only teaches them about rock and roll, but about life and reality. Dewey Finn proposes a solution to fix this problem of the banking concept of education.

Joy Synthesis

"The feeling of joy is the ability to not worry about anything and just live your life in the moment." --Tom

"Joy is more of being content with what you have and the life you live." --Me

Being content is having no worries in life, which produces a joy unlike any other.

What is Joy?

I see joy as a pleasure beyond happiness. Most people see little difference between the two, but I see them as two different meanings. Joy is more of being content with what you have and the life you live. It has nothing to do with material possessions. Joy does not come gaining worldly possessions, happiness does. Happiness is a superficial feeling, while joy is much deeper than that. Joy is being glad for what you have.

The Allegory of the Cave

The Allegory of the Cave, written by Plato, is about prisoners bound in chains. These prisoners were raised in the cave, only seeing shadows on a wall created by their keepers. The keepers used puppets and fire to cast shadows upon the wall the prisoners were fixed upon. The picture on the left illustrates the basic idea Plato is trying to show in his allegory. The prisoners see the shadows as reality, they do not know of the world outside of the cave. People of today are also bound in chains in a similar way to the prisoners in the cave. Reality t.v. has taken over the 21st century. Viewers watch t.v. like it is reality. This is especially true with MTV. Many of the shows appear to be reality when they are truly staged, similar to the images on the wall in the cave. In The Allegory of the Cave, Plato discusses going beyond reality. One must ascend into a higher intelligence level. The prisoners eyes are stuck on the shadows cast on the wall of the cave. They are stuck in the dark, hidden from the true light. Plato states in his allegory, "the turning of a should round from a day which is like night to a true day--this is the ascent into real being, which we shall say is true philosophy" (232). One must go beyond what he sees as real in the darkness and step into the light. Plato's allegory illustrates the idea of seeing what is true reality and going beyond the tangible.