RCL #02 "Miss Turkey on turkey burger commercial."

"Miss Turkey on turkey burger commercial."

While I was searching for a commercial, which I can use it for my next rhetoric and civic life post, I found another ridiculously funny commercial that was made by Carls Jr. The company continues its tradition of rhetorical, over the top food porn commercial (That’s what my dad said). It puts Miss Turkey in a bikini. Yeah, the real Miss Turkey, who held the title since April 1, 2010. With the tiara and red dress, a beauty queen nibbles on a burger while strutting along the poolside in a recent new Carl's Jr turkey burger.

During the commercial, Miss Turkey drops her red pageant gown to reveal a bikini that had tiny turkey burgers all over. The narrator says "We had fabric custom-printed with the image of our new Charbroiled Turkey Burger… and then had it made into a bikini."

In this commercial, the Rhetoric is about persuading customer to buy their turkey burger. They start out with the turkey burger. For people to remember it, they hired Miss Turkey. So they can also remember Miss Turkey, they put her in a bikini. That bikini had turkey burger patterns on it and that goes back to the turkey burger. It makes a circle, starting and ending with the main product, the turkey burger. This turns out to emphasize on what the commercial is trying to sell: the burger.

Oh, and don’t forget how good looking Miss Turkey is. (I know you loved it too :) )

RCL #1 "Engaging Civic Life through Facebook"

 "Engaging Civic Life through Facebook"

Did you know that Facebook has more than 800 million active users? And more than 50 % of  their users log on in any given day?

source: google image

Facebook has affected the engagement of civic life and activity of people in countless ways.  There are some advantages to Facebook. With Facebook, people can

continuously stay in touch with families and friends no matter where they are, as long as they have Internet access. It unites people with similar interests, beliefs, and opinions.

I don’t like Facebook. There is a lack of emotion in online communication and I am not comfortable with random people (my Facebook “suggested friends”, for example, most of which I’m certain I have never met in my life. I have no problem making my own friends in real life without Facebook’s “suggestions”) reading and commenting about my opinion on something.  There are definitely issues about privacy, because Facebook encourages people to post personal information on their profile where many people can read it.  

Despite this, I’ll admit I have a Facebook account and I used it a lot while I was in junior high.  Over the years, I’ve realized that if I really care about someone, I should call them and ask how are they doing rather than posting “what’s up” on their wall. I know that social networks like Facebook and Twitter will continue be a part of our everyday lives as technology develops, and I will have to remain engaged to keep up with my generation. 

Like LA101 blogging…I am not use to it but I plan to use this blog as an opportunity to explore this idea. I think technology can be used in a way that is both modern and personal.  My goal this semester is to learn to write this way.

Here is an interesting stuff to read, even President Obama agrees with me, read below:

President Obama Banned His Daughters to Use Facebook

http://sickfacebook.com/president-obama-banned-his-daughters-to-use-facebook-total-respect/#more-559