Blog 2- Rude Runner

My first reaction to this ad was "This person is crazy." Although she does have good reasons to think that jogging is not running, I still disagree with how she degrades joggers. I ran track in high school all four years so I would be considered a runner. The writer of this ad said that runners don't like listening to music while they run and would gladly punk on their shoes after running, but I really disagree with that. I have puked after some races and I did not do it with a smile on my face. I only wish I could have had my iPod with me while i practiced and raced because I did not like hearing my heavy breathing or the heavy breathing of the girls I raced against. What stood out in the ad was Izumi saying how the forensics TV shows start out with a runner finding dead people because I can think of at least five episodes where that has happened. I like how Izumi gave the time of when jogging came about and saying how that was a decade where many mistakes were thought of trends there, like disco. Alienating joggers to persuade people to run more was not smart to me because people could take offense to it and issues could arise. In the Reebok ad, pathos is the strongest to me because it is saying running and puking is crazy, so take it easy while running. I would choose the Reebok ad to put in a magazine because it is not putting down a certain group like the Izumi ad is doing to joggers.

Blog 1- It's just a game

Although parents are upset with the Army introducing the video game to boys and girls 13 and up, I don't think it is that bad of an idea to do. Yes the Army hopes it will persuade kids to consider joining it when they become 18, but if a 13 year old boy goes to Walmat with his parent and say he wants that game and the parent buys it for him, it is that parents own fault for buying it for him. If a 14 year old girl downloads the video game from the Internet it is still the parent's responsibility because they could set up Internet blocks on the computer. I don't think that kids want to join the Army just because of this game but because some might not want to go to college or can not afford it and that is their only other option. On the America's Army website they do try to convince teens to want to be a "REAL HERO" like Sgt. Monica Brown and the others named and getting rewarded like they did. The America's Army trailer showed a lot of men who just like the game because its a great video game to play. The brown and the grey on the websites represent Army colors and being on those sites remind me of the military. I do not agree with Boyle when he says that kids are getting a false sense of what war is. If they look in the newspaper, look online, or turn on the TV to the news they can easily see that it is very dangerous because the news talks about the soldiers that lost their lives in war. A 13 year old might think being in the Army and shooting guns is really fun at first, but by the time they turn 18 they could have changed their mind in that time because five years is a long time to think about it. The video games may promote violence with some young teens, but the majority of them know that shooting people in a game where it is fake is nothing like shooting someone in real life. In the video game they could do it as much as they wanted to and turn it off at the end of the day, but in real life they could actually kill someone and find themselves in jail and not only ruin other peoples lives, but also their own. There are some teens that think shooting a lot of people in real life is cool or fun and could make them famous, but they do know that there are consequences to that. If it weren't for the video games giving them ideas, they would get it from movies and TV shows. I'm not big on video games but a lot of my friends are, and I know that when they play the violent ones, they like to shoot people and run over things with a car because they know its consequence free.