Monday, November 7, 2011

The Age of Persuasion Podcast review of CBC


  
When you  listen to the radio and suddenly an ad about vitamins pops up  and they tell us how that certain people  feel better every day they  takes them,  it’s hard to believe it because we don’t know who is speaking if it is  a real person or if it is someone  that was hired by the company  to make us believe that those pill make miracles on people.
 Companies Goal right know is the recruitment of Real people, an unbiased expert, a peasant on the street, a Co-worker, they simply want to show how someone from outside has tried their product, and that it tastes the same way they are selling it.  Because spontaneity makes people believe it. There are professionals that are hired by the company that make us the product more appealing and then there are the real people, who  don’t wear makeup, their speech is less secure than a professional actress who has performed all her his Life, they are less prepared for it.  The commercials are more basic like for example they can make commercials with a speaker on a radio calling a total stranger and asking them for something (advertising the product they are trying to sell) the commercials are basic, and they involve people like you and me; they are starting to put normal people into commercials instead of actresses. Pears Soap was one of the first ones to use real people in their advertisements, the company wanted to link their product with quality and high culture.  The famous stage fighter Jersey Lilly, to sell Pears Soap, she was the person chosen to present the soap, she gave a testimonial saying how much she likes the soap and how she use it, she also says that she has thrown away all her old ones she is only using that one .
In general companies, need real people to make a good impression to us because, if they don’t we wouldn’t want to buy something that isn’t true, and that is fake and think , again they lied to us saying things that aren’t true

Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer Book Review

The Moving quest of a boy looking for answers  


After the  death of Oskar's father during  horrific 9/11 attck on the twin towers  Oskar found out a secret, something that his dad was hiding inside  a vase. It was  a key. This will lead this young man  to a huge adventure that he will take in honor of his father. This young man will go from Brooklyn to Queens to try and find what this key is supposed to open, this will be the answer to all the questions he wanted to ask his  father but never will be able to ask him.
The most incredible,lovable nine year old character ever created.  A boy that suffered a tragic moment in his life and is trying to reconstruct his life. I recommend this   book to all ages, because not only it is a historic book, its also a book that a lot of people can learn from




Teachers Comments: Nicely presented, Beatriz.  You have written a short positive review that is typical of such a magazine.  You could have written more of a summary to give your reader an idea of what the novel is about.