Propoganda

Beautiful People
This type of propaganda deals mainly with celebrities, or instead use people that are more attractive, These commercial can often be over sexualized in order to take advantage of that persons beauty.

Slogan
This propaganda technique uses a catchy motto or phrase designed to catch the viewers attention and connect their product with that phrase.

Presentation Idea

For my research paper/ presentation I will be conducting a full on investigation on Viral Marketing. Basically what Viral Marketing is a way of advertising that uses things from social media that are currently going viral, are creating a certain campaign to go viral in order to attract consumers towards their product.
For the paper i will be using many credible sources throughout the internet as well as our in class text book.

More In Touch With the Music

Songs

Since I myself am a music junkie it is extremely difficult for me to choose a favorite song of the past year, but if I had to choose i'd say that song would be "Blood On The Leaves" by Kanye West. The production of this song is so phenomenal, the sample of Billie Holiday used in it, just fits in so well with the song and the beat. Kanye is by far one of the greatest rappers/producers of all time. 

One of my favorite oldies of all time would have to me "Try Me" by James Brown. This song was dedicated to my mother from my father when they were younger, so they would always listen to it in the car on their oldies CD. But he song "Unchained Melody" by the Righteous Brothers is at a close second because its a beautiful song expressing his love. Plus the movie Ghost was pretty good.

Magazine Proposal

Name: Who's Next?

Concept: This magazine will provide College sports and professional sports fans with insight on the latest and greats talents in College and why they will be great professional players on your favorite sports team. Will give you name of players you've never heard of to watch out for, and reasons why you should be looking out for them. Who's Next will be an online article that you can subscribe to. It will provide an in depth analysis of these players, give you states, and live highlights of these players. 

Readers: This magazine will target sports fans who are seeking the next big thing that will come to their favorite teams.

Competition: Their is not much competition with this magazine idea. Our only competitors would be ESPN, and NFL.com NBA.com MLB.com etc. But unlike those websites and magazines we strictly dedicate the magazine to these players that are up next, not just a column or a section.

Advertisers: Some advertisers that would be undoubtably interested would be Nike, Under Armour, Adidas, Gatorade, and College Campuses around the country.

Articles: Each article would highlight a new player to watch out for and the things that player is doing to set himself/herself apart from the competition. There would be articles on the biggest games of the week/weekend and anylasis of how certain players performed in that game.

Books

The Great Gatsby

By far one of my favorite books. I enjoyed this book because of the era it was written in. I wish I could have been able to experience the 1920's, and this book was able to give me a taste of what it was like. It also influences me to strive for greatness just like Jay Gatsby did, even though he came from nothing.

http://www.amazon.com/Great-Gatsby-F-Scott-Fitzgerald/dp/0743273567/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1413438171&sr=1-1&keywords=the+great+gatsby

Like Water for Chocolate

I have no clue why, but I have always been the type of person that loves romance and drama. This book was able to satisfy both those needs for me. What I found very influential about this book was how it portrayed the Mexican culture and how beautiful it was. I have come to learn that this book is controversial because of all the sex involved within it.  But it not like teens aren't exploring sex for themselves once they are in high school.

http://www.amazon.com/Like-Water-Chocolate-Installments-Romances/dp/038542017X/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1413438868&sr=1-1&keywords=like+water+for+chocolate

I Hope They Serve Beer in Hell

This is probably the craziest book I have ever read. Its the most controversial book i've ever read too.  This book is all about sex. Its a autobiography about Tucker Max and all the women he's been with, all one hundred and something of them. Ill admit the book is hilarious, and really makes you dislike men, but hey props to him and writing all his stories.

http://www.tuckermax.com/books/ihtsbih

Media Autobiography

Books

Growing up books have always been a big part of life.  Not through my choosing though.  Reading was always enforced upon me though either school or my family trying to get to do something that would work my brain.  So you could only imagine how much I hated books.  It wasn't until recently that I began to get more into books and actually read from time to time for my own pleasures.

Newspapers

As far as actually physically holding a newspaper, I do not do so often.  There are times that I will be at Starbucks in the morning grabbing some coffee or finishing up some homework before I head to class, when something in the newspaper catches my eye, which then makes me sit down and actually skim through it.  But as for and News Apps on my phone I do use often.  I only have local news apps like San Jose Mercury News though, the rest are just a bunch of sports apps such as ESPN, NFL Mobile, and my personal favorite Bleacher Reports.  I'd say i spend a good amount of my day on those three apps searching and reading about whats going on in the sports world.

Magazines

Not really a big fan of magazines.  Like we discusses in class magazines are just a bunch of advertisements and pictures.  To me their like picture books.  When I pick up a magazine I end up skimming through it in about 5 minutes and only looking at the pictures and not actually reading what was in them.

Movies

Movies on the other hand are a big part of my life.  Im a movie person, so I spend a lot of my time at the movie theaters, with my lovely girlfriend of course, who so happens to be into movies as much as me.  If we're not at the movies, her, and I are probably at home watching some weird movie we found on Netflix or streaming a movie online.  I love movies, so I could sit and watch movies for days.

Audio

Audio is heavily involved in my life.  Im a music junkie, thats always keeping up with the latest, and greatest hits.  I pride myself on having everyones newest songs, and showing my friends who's going to be the next best thing, or what song will be becoming the next radio hit.  Listing to music is what gets me through the day.  I work at a casino, so they play music the whole 8 1/2 hours I'm there, not to mention I listen to music on my to work and back home, I even listen to music as I do homework.

Radio

All though I listen to music a lot, I am not a radio fan.  To me they are very repetitive with the music they play.  They also tend to have a lot of commercials and advertisements which totally kills the vibe when you're into the music.

Television

When i was younger I was really into television.  I would always be watching something, cartoons, MTV, BET, or some cool show that was in at the moment.  I would even stay up all night watching TV.  Now a days though I hardly watch TV, the only times I watch is when a live sport is on, or when my girlfriend wants to watch an award ceremony.

Internet

The internet is life.  Everything is on the internet.  If you have a question, you ask Google.  When you want to talk to friends or family that you may have not contact with you can find them on Facebook, or even shoot them an E-mail.  If you missed out on a certain show or Movie and cannot wait until it come out, or on TV again, you can easily find it on the internet.  If you wan to keep up with the latest news, you can use the internet to go on specific website.  The internet even has books for people to read and download.  The internet has EVERYTHING!  So yea, I use the internet a bunch.

Major

As of recently I have found my calling.  After many classes, and trying out different areas I was interested in, I decided I'd pursue Journalism, sports journalism to be specific.  My life plan as of now is to attain my AA at De Anza, transfer to SF State, attain my bachelors there, and then hopefully attaining my Masters at Columbia University.  After all those years of school, I hope to one day have a career as a Sports Analysis with ESPN, or NFL Network.