Homework for 2.28.08

Reading about Design-
Reading about the different aspects of design was very interesting. Since I was once interested in going into Advertising in college, I took lots of Marketing and Business classes in highschool so I therefor learned a little bit about Advertising as well. I knew the difference between Advertising and Design. Today, though, with all the different ads for different companies and products, I can see where people get confused. I for one know that I only remember certain ads or commercials if they are funny or relate to me in someway.
The article about the Christmas decorations was fun to read. It was cool to see how many different families and people in the world care so much about the appearance of their home over the Holidays and compete with others to have the "best house." Although, I do think that it is a bit over the top to hire someone to put up your Christmas decorations.

Beyond Words- 498-502
It was surprising to read about what we are going to be writing our next big essay about. Obviously something way different than the first one, I am excited to get this one started. When reading, I thought of many different things that I use everyday that I myself feel I would be lost without. Although I was confused in parts when they called the product a "text." There are some parts about the essay Im going to need to be cleared up, but overall, I am excited to get this one started. In reading about the girl who wrote about the Girl Power shirt, I agreed with her on many of the things she said. For example, Queen of the World has to be skinny to wear this shirt, a size XL fits a size 5 frame? Other aspects played into this essay interested me as well.