Please let me know. I can post it on the board or PM you. It’s due tomorrow though!
<p>bump..........</p>
<p>i will try AIM me or post it here</p>
<p>You can email me or post it here. I will check back later.</p>
<p>you always get more responses if you post it here, but you can PM it to me.</p>
<p>What college is it for?</p>
<p>i have to recite this speech in class tom, what do u think?</p>
<p>Whether or not we wish to acknowledge it, we are all victims of media brainwashing. From the minute we wake up in the morning to the sound of repetitive radio commercials on our alarm clock, until the moment we go to bed at night, forced to stare at the glitzy 3D labels adorning our flamboyant tubes of toothpaste, advertisements bombard just about all of our waking hours. They try to convince us that unless we buy the latest products and fashions, have the ideal body weight and a perfect smile (just to name a few), we will always be inferior. Sadly, most of us will never do anything to try to stop this travesty, allowing ourselves to be subliminally dominated, in much the same way as the children in Huxleys Brave New World. Just as they sacrifice their consciousness to hypnopaedia rituals, we relinquish our self-control. Think this all sounds a little far-fetched? Youre in good company. The media conglomerates rely on passive people like you to ensure their multi-billion yearly revenues.</p>
<p>Think what you see on television commercials goes in one ear and out the other? Think again recent research by scientist Herbet Krugman has proven that the psychological effect of television is much more complex. Krugman decided to try to discover what goes on physiologically in the brain of a person watching TV. He executed his study by taping a single electrode to the back of a 22 year-old woman and monitoring the action of the electrode by hooking it up to his computer. After turning on the television, Krugman began to monitor the brain waves of his guinea pig. After repeated experimentations, he was able to safely conclude that within about thirty seconds, the brain waves switched from primarily beta waves, which indicate alert cognizance, to predominantly alpha waves, which denote a distracted lack of attention, approaching a state of comatose. During this dreamlike state, you mindlessly absorb all the information before you. So later, when your brain needs to decide something, such as what kind of deodorant to buy, it automatically searches your mental database for relevant information, making the pricier, but familiar Dove seem like the most viable option.</p>
<p>Though television takes the cake for employing the most blatant methods of subconscious domination, the conniving technique is also used by other means of advertising. Perusing the Internet, I found subliminal depictions in the most unexpected places. On a website solely devoted to Coca Cola, I was shocked to find dozens of hidden subtleties on cans of pop. Camouflaged images ranged from phallic symbols to sexual innuendos. An astute child could very well decipher these images for himself; we must draw the line somewhere!</p>
<p>The media has one other tricky mechanism that allows it to control our psyche. That is repetition. Watching one 30-minute episode of TRL alone, we are forced to endure the same advertisement for Newlyweds up to a half-dozen times. The mastermind behind Nazi Propaganda, Joseph Goebbels, elaborates on the success of such redundancy: the most brilliant propagandist technique will yield no success unless one fundamental principle is borne in mind constantly... it must confine itself to a few points and repeat them over and over. </p>
<p>In Brave New World, repetition is the driving force behind the Utopian practice of hynopaedia. In this nightly ritual, phrases devised by the State are repeatedly ingrained into the minds of children, as they helplessly lie asleep. Theyll have that [phrase] forty or fifty times till at last the childs mind is these suggestions. (Huxley 28) The children wake up, sharing the views of the State, without actually having any clear understanding as to what they are saying. The same is happening in todays society; we are continually told that were not pretty enough, skinny enough or smart enough, until finally we believe it. The media successfully thrives off our insecurities, making us, bright and successful young women, every bit as vulnerable as the clueless children in Brave New World.</p>
<p>i ddint read the whole essay coz i dont like reading... i thought it was gonna be short, but the intro was good. so i would say its good</p>
<p>That's not for a college application, right? It's for speech class? That makes a big difference in how I critique it.</p>
<p>For speech class I think it is great. Your use of language is excellent. You make some good points and back them up with the use of research, and so it is very convincing and makes a person really think about what you are saying. If I were the teacher, I would give you an A on that.</p>
<p>If it were for a college application, I would just ask that you have more of yourself in it, as colleges want more personal essays, for the most part. But for a class, sounds good!</p>
<p>If it's supposed to be a formal critique, don't use second person "you" or address the readers</p>