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Over the past week I’ve witnessed how a simple game can weigh so negatively yet positive on so many people. Many were persuaded to follow this game by their peers, friends, family, and surprisingly coworkers. From a negative view, many lost focus on their daily routines. People who were supposed to go to the gym, didn’t go…while on the positive side, you had people that didn’t exercise a day in their lives, running all over town, so that was a plus. You had people paying more attention to their phones and trying to catch these Pokémon pieces that they ruined their relationships at home. Meaning, they wouldn’t take their eyes off the phone for two minutes to ask their significant other how their day was or what was for dinner. Then when Hilary Clinton mentioned the Pokémon game for votes Donald Trump struck back as well with the game to throw balls at Hilary. While on the positive side of things, it brought strangers together…no matter the skin color. Uptown Charlotte in the Epi Center, people joined together to start meet up groups to work as teams. I mean with all of the negative things happening in the world today, it brought many together. I am really not a fan of the game because it makes people lose focus. However, if this game will bring people together, no matter the skin color, then I am alllllll for it! There weren’t any fights…there weren’t any bashing…there weren’t any people showing hatred towards another. There was just some competitive teams, having a great time exercising while playing a game….UNITY #PowerofPersuasion #perscc16 @drjmunsell

When looking at commercials and magazines, I notice that all have a target market, an emotional connection to the market, while other take offense not to the words, but to the visual images. If humor or displaying someone with little to no clothes can make a sales pitch, then that is the way most companies are leaning towards. Sad to say, but sex sells! From children cartoons, to hunting, cars to travel, there always seems to be a hidden or plainly visible sexual act or reference to sex. On these foreign cars, you see “foreign” females with little to no clothes and females wonder why we are seen as sex symbols/objects rather than a person. Magazines and Commercials tend to put more emphasis on the females body than the faces.  Visual advertising gets the point across, but it is what and how you use the “it” to get the point across. There are many smoking and beer commercials out that paints a picture that doing these types of things are cool and you’ll fit in and then you’ll be this big macho man or sexy girl. Hmm not really…only stinky breath, accidents waiting to happen if you use too much or even cancer. Once people started opening up about how cancer took over their lives from smoking, the visualization changed. Now you see people with a tube talking like a robot about cancer and how “if I would of just listened or if I had only stopped smoking” my life would be much more fulfilling and I would be living longer.  Men are very attracted to half dress women, and women are totally attracted to shirtless men. Axe commercial where the man sprays the cologne and all the women flock to him, is a perfect example. I can bet you that men that never showed interest in Axe went out to purchase some of the Axe. They saw that the women was all over the actor and wishfully thought the same would happen to them.  This can open up a whole can of worms about how we as women or portrayed and how we tend to bring it on ourselves. If a woman knows that she’s being addressed as a sex symbol and is ok with that, why should she be paid more in the “workplace”? Sounds like it is two different scenarios right, right? NO! Same ball field different game. The way society presents us is how we are viewed, how we are viewed is how we present ourselves. Think about it! Oh yeah I should quote that by that way J But think about it…we as women are always trying to stand up for what we “think” is fair and what we think is equal, yet we continue to play ourselves down, when we do nude or nude like or sex commercials, when we apply for a job and take a lessor offer than what would be given to a man to do the same job, when we think that there is nothing that we can do other than live this imagine that “society” is portraying us to be. No, we may can’t stop the gossip how all women are alike, no we can’t stop the dream of our youth that they want to be the next Kardashian…however but we can start with ourselves. Once you know self -worth, you’ll have the key to open the door or women equality, women rights, women self….respect. My Visual Advertising Paper will be about a young lady preparing to talk to her boss about pay, while also wearing deodorant by Secret. https://youtu.be/9ilSeJ6B5ro

Do recent shootings persuade you to want to carry a gun? Or stay home, because you feel that you're unsafe no matter where you go? Do TV commercials persuade you in a positive or negative way?

http://www.infowars.com/new-evidence-of-multiple-participants-in-orlando-shooting/ 

How many times have you seen people skipping the lines at clubs and entering without being searched, only because they knew the club owner or the security guard? I've seen it far too many times and there has been many fights that led to stabbings and shootings right here in Charlotte. The last incident was during CIAA Week when an artist was performing and these guys started shooting. The police was right outside, telling us to stay in. My friend and I snuck out anyway to get out. No way we were staying "INSIDE" when there were multiple gun shots being fired on the "INSIDE". Keywords, police officers were supposed to be searching all club attendees, since this is such a high capacity weekend. So how on earth did multiple people with guns get past security?? Everyone kept asking the same question when we were walking to our cars. How could this happen? Another incident happened 2 years ago in Charlotte at a club and people were hurt, but nothing fatal. Fatal or not, still not good situation to be in. As my grandmother would say..."A bullet has no name and you don't want to ever be in the cross fire." Thinking about the recent shooting in Orlando...how could this have been prevented? Was this a true terrorist attack? Or was this just a shooter with motive? Will discuss in my next post... #perscc16 @drjmunsell