One Year Reprieve

I ran out of things to say for an entire year. It could be that I didn't speak this whole time either, living the life of a mute, but anyone who has read one of these posts knows that's not quite true.

Looking back at this once graded assignment, I'm glad I wrote some things down. No, I cannot be consistent with something like this, but my entries entertained me as I read them in my insomniac state. It's too bad my mind isn't more random, incoherent or generally A.D.D., otherwise I would be a much more interesting person.... perhaps.

My insomniac state. Right. When I don't have a schedule on my hands, such as school or work, I seem to fall out of sync with the world. It's a bit ridiculous. For example: since December 14th of last year I have been on break from school and am jobless. What do i do to occupy myself? Play video games, see people when I am feeling outgoing, and eat. I mainly play World of Warcraft. Don't judge me. I go out about twice a week on average. And I munch on anything I can find in my pantry. Yum.

Oh yeah, talk about my insomniac state. Basically, my days are on average 9 hours longer than everyone else. That is to say, some days I don't sleep for two days, some days I sleep for a day, and some days I'm awake at night rather than day. Nothing keeps me on track, and every time my parents come downstairs and see me they don't know how to react. I think that if days were longer I'd fit in better. Fit in better? I guess that means socialize more. More .... successfully.

Rhetorical Analysis: Geico

Through the commercials (and there are many) of Geico's claims for car (and many other things) insurance, they use an effective amount of ethos and pathos and a little logos. Each commercial begins with the phrase "... is a real Geico customer and not a paid celebrity..." referencing that the company acknowledges that they do not need celebrities to connect to their audience because they work with people on the same ground as the customer. This is an argument of ethos because Geico is establishing itself as insurance for the 'layman'.
An appeal to pathos appears with each call to a celebrity, as well as an actual Geico customer in a pleasant mood on camera. The fact alone that commercial represents the customer with a cheerful depiction sends the viewers the message that there is high customer satisfaction (at least with this person). [In previous commercials Geico directly states their statistics on customer satisfaction (it might've just been a Maryland commercial though) appealing to logos.] The celebrity announces the Geico customer's story in an entertaining fashion, causing the viewer to enjoy the particular commercial. It has no significant role other than causing the viewer to want to see the entire commercial through, where they sell their product with slight logos.
The logos in this particular commercial only came at the end of the customer's story, referencing how reliable and fast Geico is. In other commercials with the gecko talking about how Geico works, or talking about the people's preference in Maryland logos is used more heavily. Speculatively, Geico uses different commercials on different times and channels depending on its expected audience at the time.

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Beginning to go over advertisements in English class, and I really don't think that advertisements towards the populous contain much in the way of ethos or logos anymore. Well, I suppose that some commercials about teaching things to your children like the Leap Frog commercials are kind of mainly Logos, but they are also directed to the 'responsible adults with children'(who shouldn't be falling for the pathos appeal anymore anyway). The majority of the ads today try to use their sexy pathos appeal to attract everyone, and personally I think that's ridiculous. Each consequent generation of youth growing up is more and more impacted by what they see on advertisements and they are more and more corrupted by these false images that convince them to be what they see.

I don't know if anyone has seen Idiocracy, but their Brawndo commercials are the epitome of what the future commercials may hold for us if we continue this degeneration of ads on kids minds. I'll post the YouTube links, but I can't post the videos because they aren't exactly considered "good, clean, and wholesome for the entire family". There are three of them in all, and there is also a Powerthirst commercial (rip off of Brawndo) which is more obscene and I will not link.
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By the way, I highly recommend you see Idiocracy, and if you think its a stupid movie thats because its a parody of our future. Think about it. Chew on that a little bit, see how it tastes.

Blogging

I'm really starting to get out of this blogging habit. Which sucks (for my grade). But I really don't know what to write about anymore. Yes, I can write about my life, or a story, or whatever, but after doing this blog for such long I just don't want to write anything anymore. It's like doing something, enjoying it for a while, then moving on. I'm pretty sure that I won't be able to keep up with this for the whole semester, especially since half the time I just look at the other blogs and don't write anything. I don't have really any 'free time' to just sit and type to my hearts content (and my heart isn't content if I have to type all this) until Thursday and Friday, so it's like 3 consecutive days of nothing then 4 days straight of a blog (if I do it). I keep my blog page open as a reminder to write something, and I click on the tab and glance through, but the phrase "oh, I'll write something later" always pops into my head. Writing so much takes all my creativity away from my head.

By the way, did Corbin say that we had a blog assignment? Because I keep checking hers and not seeing anything and I need to be sure I'm not missing any(more) work.