In my life right now, I have been very stressed due to school because since I did very well my first semester I have been offered a lot of new opportunities and it has all been very overwhelming. I am counting down the days until spring break and am excited to not have to worry about school or anything for a week. The critical analysis for me is to not worry too much about school and just try my hardest in everything I do. I just need to remember that not everything needs to be perfect.

I am in class on 2/19/14.

Men are constructed in this commercial to be structured as strong, country, and drive pickup trucks. This commercial makes it seem that women are just there to do things for men and are not needed in doing other things. The cows represent love between a woman and man.

Article: http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2010/04/20/sugar-dangers.aspx


Pepsi Youtube Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_2smYVl0zrk


I was surprised that humans consume 180 pounds of sugar each year and in almost everything we eat, there is sugar in it. The government is not regulating sugar because there would have to be a new way to produce many kinds of foods because there is sugar in almost everything. I feel that the government should regulate sugar but there is really no way for them to do that. I feel that the pepsi commercial is trying to increase the profit of pepsi by persuading people to keep drinking it. The pepsi commercial is using Beyonce to persuade Americans to keep drinking this drink.

I am in here in class today.

I feel like the hardest part of the evaluative summary was reading and understanding the article. I did not really care for this assignment because I would prefer to write more personal experience essays than research papers. I had a hard time trying to use the APA format because I have never used it before. I personally did not like anything about this paper because the article was very boring and I could not relate to the topic. I feel like if the article had more to do with college students, it would have been easier to relate to and easier to write.

Milk ads have changed throughout the years because times are changing. Before there were pictures of children or women and today it is celebrities advertising milk companies.

I did not really find anything on whether the nutritional facts of milk have changed but I am sure they have because today food is a lot more unhealthy than it used to be.

Nutrition of Milk

1950's
http://www.chewonki.org/sustainablefood/dairy.asp
http://plenteousveg.com/government-health-posters/

1980's
http://www.journalofdairyscience.org/article/S0022-0302(81)82678-1/abstract
http://www.teagasc.ie/publications/2003/20031112/paper7.asp

2010's
http://www.nationaldairycouncil.org/Pages/Home.aspx
http://www.buzzle.com/articles/milk-nutrition-facts.html

Milk Ad from 1950

http://pacificparatrooper.wordpress.com/2013/07/30/usa-home-front-1950s/

Milk Ad from 1960

http://www.historicnewengland.org/collections-archives-exhibitions/traveling-exhibitions/from-dairy-to-doorstep-milk-delivery-in-new-england-1860-1960

Milk Ad from 1970

http://www.collectingcandy.com/wordpress/?p=7793

Milk Ad from 1980

http://www.beachpackagingdesign.com/wp/2012/09/piggly-wiggly.html

Milk Ad from 1990

http://www.cadbury.co.uk/the-story

Milk Ad from 2000

http://www.vintageadbrowser.com/got-milk-ads-2000s/3

Milk Ad from 2010

http://www.advertisingarchives.co.uk/detail/87518284/1/Magazine-Advert/a2-Milk

I was in class on January 29, but it did not show up on my blog. It was on somewhere else.

In Carrie Underwood's, "Before He Cheats", she is criticizing woman for causing their men to cheat on them. Yes, it is empowering for women because it gives women an example of how they should stand up for themselves against men for cheating on them. It shows that women should not put up with cheaters.

In Miley Cyrus's, "Wrecking Ball", she is criticizing herself and men loving a woman, then leaving them, brokenhearted.  I feel like it is empowering for women because it shows the pain a woman feels after being left by the one person she loved the most. I feel like Miley Cyrus was criticized more for this video than Carrie Underwood was because she was sitting on a wrecking ball, naked. This shows a more wild approach, while Carrie Underwood's video was more under control. 

I am in class on 2/5/14.

I think this video is trying to play the babies as very innocent and that men are cheaters.