Hyorim Kim
May 14, 2010
FD4
The Right Only Exists in a Community.
Human beings never live without others because humans are social animals that require close relationship with other people. Therefore, we have constructed communities throughout various networks. To generate smooth and active communities, we need to have communication with other including expressing and sharing his or her own ideas, and understanding each other. In the 20th century, the freedom of speech is considered as one of fundamental human rights as the First Amendment Right. Although, the freedom of speech is a democratic principle that must be protected to the utmost, its limitation is necessary because the freedom of speech exists within a community. [THESIS] Therefore, the right has a limitation for community’s order and balance, which means under the name of the freedom, we are not supposed to misuse our right. [THESIS]
The extent of how much our society allows or limits the freedom of speech is an ambiguous and controversial topic. In other words, giving a distinct boundary to the freedom of speech is really hard actually because of liberty. Liberty is a concept that each individual can act in certain way according to his or her own will. Although limitation and liberty have an antipathy, ironically the freedom of speech must have certain limitations for our community. Especially, speeches considered as only one person’s purpose without credibility and harming community must be limited. Moreover, one who gave such speeches cannot be protected under the First Amendment Right and will have a responsibility what he or she said.
I think when we express our ideas to someone and especially throughout public, the ideas must be based on credibility and responsibility. If his or her speech falls one of these components, it would cause social problems. In 2001 on September 11, terrorists attacked the twin tower of world trade center and a number of people died for no reason. It was a very tragic affair in America. While Americans were overwhelmed with grief, a person comment made them angry. Ward Churchill, a former ethic professor at the University of Colorado, has made a comment about victims as “little Eichmann’s,” the Nazi war criminal, it is an ongoing debate whether his speech protected according to the freedom of speech or not. Remington Taum states “Not only does it show Churchill in a bad light later on, but it's a comment that shows Churchill had no respect towards Americans.” I believe that Churchill misused and misunderstood the basic idea of the freedom of speech. As a member of his community, he needs to respect others’ feeling. I want to ask him that if one of his family members was a victim of 9/11, would he say what he said before. Definitely not, his comment is just careless and the result of abuse in free speech.
In addition, as a professor, he fell to transmit truth and reality to his students. In 2006 during an argument with David Horowitz, Author of "THE PROFESSORS," Churchill said “The purpose of a professor is to profess, not simply to impart sterile information. You can go to a trade school to get simply the delivery of the technical data.” He defends his comment by the freedom of speech and the purpose of education as well. Information were instituted by professor has to be clear and objective and then how perceive the information is students’ share. However, his personal feelings could prevail wrong information and concept to students. Sometime information from an unreliable source could create bad rumors and effect on people negatively.
I remember when my favorite Korean president, 16th South Korean President Roh Moo-hyun, died in 2009. He was renowned for the president who lived frugally and honestly. Therefore, president Noh was respected by commoners in Korea. However, when new president was elected and new government came out, some politicians who have animosity toward Noh’ former government brought a bad supposition about Noh’ morality throughout public. The rumor is that Noh was taking huge secret money for personal wealth. He was under investigation by the prosecution. During the investigation, he committed suicide because all media described him as a liar and cheater. He might feel disgrace on himself. After his death, he could be cleared of his false charge. However, the rumor has had irreversible impact on society and his family. Whole country including me mourned together after the loss of a great leader by an undefined rumor. However, people who published the undefined rumor as a reality, such as politicians and journalists, wanted to be protected by the right of free speech.
Ward Churchill and his supporters have been insisting that Ward Churchill’s right of free speech has been violated. Edward Lee who defends Ward Churchill states that “His freedom of speech is one of the very foundation in which America was built upon and imposing on his freedom of speech would mean imposing on the constitution.” However, in my opinion, he has been enjoying his right of free speech by the First Amendment. The content of the First Amendment, it is clearly specified that “The most basic component of freedom of expression is the right of freedom of speech. The right to freedom of speech allows individuals to express themselves without interference or constraint by the government.” Since publicizing his idea about the victims of 9/11, he became even more famous than before. Moreover, he had a number of chances to give his speech about the controversial topic throughout publics.
The concept of the freedom of speech is different from other freedom of actions. For instance, if government planned to forbidden drinking Coca-Cola, the government would shut down Coca-Cola factory legally. In other words, if the United States or his society really did not respect his right of free speech, not only he could not make speech anymore but also his publications about the controversial topic would be vanished on the earth. Since human beings become a member of society, the society gives us various legal authorities, such as the First Amendment which is very thankful gift for us. Ward Churchill must realize that his community provides his right of free speech and if he is not in a community he could not express any his ideas and enjoy interactions with others. He must consider people’s feelings in the same community with him and if he hurts others by his authority, he would be responsible because the right to free speech only exists in a community.
WORKS CITED
"First Amendment: An Overview." N.d. Legal Information Instiitute. Cornell Law School. 5 June 2003.
[http://www.law.cornell.edu/topics/first_amendment.html.]
Lee Edward."Defend Ward Churchill." Online Posting. 19 Apr 2010. Laulima Discussion 26 Apr 2010.
[https://laulima.hawaii.edu/portal/site/KAP.33517.201030/page/c2a89a6c-a93e-47dd-b419-873ef93bb50f]
Taum Remington. “Attack Ward Churchill.” Online Posting. 19 Apr 2010. Laulima Discussion. 26 Apr 2010.
[https://laulima.hawaii.edu/portal/site/KAP.33517.201030/page/c2a89a6c-a93e-47dd-b419-873ef93bb50f]
"Ward Churchill vs. Hannity, Colmes & Horowitz." _FoxNews.com_ 7 Apr. 2006. 26 Apr 2010.
[http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,190967,00.html].
Log of Completed Activities
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X Apr. 16F- Laulima Discussion: Attack Ward Churchill
X Apr. 21W- Laulima Discussion: Defend Ward Churchill
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Friday, May 14, 2010
Monday, May 10, 2010
Hyorim Kim
10 May 2010
FD5/Final Exam
Hate crimes occur in human right barren zone.
When I was in my high school, I have watched a movie called “A time to kill” in my citizenship class. The movie was about a lawsuit related to racism between Caucasians and African-Americans. In Canton, Mississippi, one day an innocent African-American girl is viciously raped and killed by two white men. Although the two white men are brutal criminals, the local court is not likely to impose heavy penalty on the two guys because the white superiority took firm root in Canton. During the movie, KKK interrupted and intimidated the layer who is supporting killed girl. This was my first memory that I faced racial discrimination and hate crime. Most of hate crimes related to racial discrimination, homosexuality, and religion occurs when minorities’ human right is not respected by others. Every human being has a right to be happy and respected by others. [THESIS] Our society should provide security for minority groups by educating people and establishing standardized hate crime laws and institution.[THESIS]
America is the country that various ethnic groups coexist each other. Each ethnic group has distinctive values, religions, cultures from other group. Although such varieties have been a great advantage in America, there are many conflicts and tensions between different ethnic groups and it has been a serious social issue such as racial discrimination. In November 2006, Michael Richard, a comedian at a famous L.A. comedy club, made prejudiced remarks at his show. Richard humiliated one of African-American audiences by calling him “nigger” and making fun of African American. Richard yelled at the audience, "Fifty years ago we'd have you upside down with a f***ing fork up your ass." While watching Richard’s show, I felt really uncomfortable and confused. I remember that all audiences were in chaos and finally left the show. Richard’s senseless remarks hurt African-Americans seriously and it is defiantly hate crime. I could not imagine that such ugly incident could occur, until I moved to Hawaii.
I came from Korea that is racially homogeneous nation and I barely had a chance to think about racial discriminations. However, living a foreign country gave me a notion that I could be the victim of hate crime. In the last summer vacation, I visited New York to see one of my friends. I went to a house party with my friend because she wanted to introduce her friends. One of her Caucasian friends asked me “why do you eat dog meat? It is an ignorant practice these days. ” she reputed Korean as barbarian. I was so embarrassed and everybody was focusing on my answer. Even though, I told them I do not eat dog meat and few old people eat dog meat, people in the party already looked at me oddly. I got a big hurt in my heart from that incident. When I think that moment, I am still embarrassed and angry. The Caucasian girl that I met in the party has a strong prejudice toward Korean and could not realize that her remarks could be considered as hate crime.
According to FBI annual official reports, in 2004, there were about 7,500 hate crimes, including violent hate crimes such as murder or assault. However, Heidi Beirich, spokeswoman for the Southern Poverty Law Center, said about the actual rate of hate crimes that “there’s really more like 50,000 hate crimes out there each year.” That is because some states do not have the recognition of hate crimes or have weak hate crime laws. Moreover, the rate of hate crime has been increasing since 1994. I believe that the primary solution of hate crimes are publishing standardized hate crime laws and establishing a specialized institution. Having the same standardized hate crime laws in America will give people to have the same awareness of hate crimes in everywhere. In addition, we will be able to instruct people through public so that hate crimes will be decreased. Hate crime education is especially important two groups, young generations and adults who already have bias or prejudice toward certain group. Providing hate crime education in schools will allow students to have right ideas of the crime and the rate of hate crimes will decrease in the future. Using media, such as TV, radio, and newspaper, we can instruct adults to be aware at hate crimes.
The specialized institution which I mentioned in my primary solution, the function of institution should be not only arresting and punishing criminals but also providing programs for the criminals. If the government only gives a harsh fine or punishment to a people who committed hate crime toward certain group of people, such as transgender, the criminal could have more ill feeling than before. We should provide hate crime criminals a chance to understand their prejudiced group by social programs. For instance, if a hate crime criminal who has a hatred against transgender, to break the prejudice, the program provide chance to meet a transgender and share personal feelings emotionally. The consultant who helps hate crime criminal must be professionally trained for such purpose. Therefore, we can prevent reoccurrence from former offenders.
In America, the rate of hate crimes has been increasing every year. America is the county that various ethnic groups live together. We cannot say which race or whose value is superior because every human being in the world has right to pursuit of happiness, it is civil right. Hate crimes are closely related to human right. People who committed hate crimes or keep prejudices in their mind toward a group of people are not respecting others civil right. To prevent victims of hate crimes, America should have standardized hate crime laws so that we can uniformly educate people to have right ideas of hate crimes. In addition, the government should establish a hate crime institution. The institution must have two functions that one is detecting and punishing criminals to protect victims and the other is providing retraining program to criminals so that they can have chance to break their prejudices. If we are living a society that ignores a certain group of people and make them as second-class citizen, there would be the human right barren zone.
Works Cited
“‘Kramer’s’ Racist Tirade — Caught on Tape.” TMZ.com. 20 Nov. 2006. 07 Dec. 2006
[http://www.tmz.com/2006/11/20/kramers-racist-tirade-caught-on-tape]
Anderson, Curt. “FBI Reports More Than 7,400 Hate Crimes.” Charlotte.com 22 Nov. 2004. 9 Dec. 2004 [http://www.charlotte.com/mld/charlotte/10246350.htm]
10 May 2010
FD5/Final Exam
Hate crimes occur in human right barren zone.
When I was in my high school, I have watched a movie called “A time to kill” in my citizenship class. The movie was about a lawsuit related to racism between Caucasians and African-Americans. In Canton, Mississippi, one day an innocent African-American girl is viciously raped and killed by two white men. Although the two white men are brutal criminals, the local court is not likely to impose heavy penalty on the two guys because the white superiority took firm root in Canton. During the movie, KKK interrupted and intimidated the layer who is supporting killed girl. This was my first memory that I faced racial discrimination and hate crime. Most of hate crimes related to racial discrimination, homosexuality, and religion occurs when minorities’ human right is not respected by others. Every human being has a right to be happy and respected by others. [THESIS] Our society should provide security for minority groups by educating people and establishing standardized hate crime laws and institution.[THESIS]
America is the country that various ethnic groups coexist each other. Each ethnic group has distinctive values, religions, cultures from other group. Although such varieties have been a great advantage in America, there are many conflicts and tensions between different ethnic groups and it has been a serious social issue such as racial discrimination. In November 2006, Michael Richard, a comedian at a famous L.A. comedy club, made prejudiced remarks at his show. Richard humiliated one of African-American audiences by calling him “nigger” and making fun of African American. Richard yelled at the audience, "Fifty years ago we'd have you upside down with a f***ing fork up your ass." While watching Richard’s show, I felt really uncomfortable and confused. I remember that all audiences were in chaos and finally left the show. Richard’s senseless remarks hurt African-Americans seriously and it is defiantly hate crime. I could not imagine that such ugly incident could occur, until I moved to Hawaii.
I came from Korea that is racially homogeneous nation and I barely had a chance to think about racial discriminations. However, living a foreign country gave me a notion that I could be the victim of hate crime. In the last summer vacation, I visited New York to see one of my friends. I went to a house party with my friend because she wanted to introduce her friends. One of her Caucasian friends asked me “why do you eat dog meat? It is an ignorant practice these days. ” she reputed Korean as barbarian. I was so embarrassed and everybody was focusing on my answer. Even though, I told them I do not eat dog meat and few old people eat dog meat, people in the party already looked at me oddly. I got a big hurt in my heart from that incident. When I think that moment, I am still embarrassed and angry. The Caucasian girl that I met in the party has a strong prejudice toward Korean and could not realize that her remarks could be considered as hate crime.
According to FBI annual official reports, in 2004, there were about 7,500 hate crimes, including violent hate crimes such as murder or assault. However, Heidi Beirich, spokeswoman for the Southern Poverty Law Center, said about the actual rate of hate crimes that “there’s really more like 50,000 hate crimes out there each year.” That is because some states do not have the recognition of hate crimes or have weak hate crime laws. Moreover, the rate of hate crime has been increasing since 1994. I believe that the primary solution of hate crimes are publishing standardized hate crime laws and establishing a specialized institution. Having the same standardized hate crime laws in America will give people to have the same awareness of hate crimes in everywhere. In addition, we will be able to instruct people through public so that hate crimes will be decreased. Hate crime education is especially important two groups, young generations and adults who already have bias or prejudice toward certain group. Providing hate crime education in schools will allow students to have right ideas of the crime and the rate of hate crimes will decrease in the future. Using media, such as TV, radio, and newspaper, we can instruct adults to be aware at hate crimes.
The specialized institution which I mentioned in my primary solution, the function of institution should be not only arresting and punishing criminals but also providing programs for the criminals. If the government only gives a harsh fine or punishment to a people who committed hate crime toward certain group of people, such as transgender, the criminal could have more ill feeling than before. We should provide hate crime criminals a chance to understand their prejudiced group by social programs. For instance, if a hate crime criminal who has a hatred against transgender, to break the prejudice, the program provide chance to meet a transgender and share personal feelings emotionally. The consultant who helps hate crime criminal must be professionally trained for such purpose. Therefore, we can prevent reoccurrence from former offenders.
In America, the rate of hate crimes has been increasing every year. America is the county that various ethnic groups live together. We cannot say which race or whose value is superior because every human being in the world has right to pursuit of happiness, it is civil right. Hate crimes are closely related to human right. People who committed hate crimes or keep prejudices in their mind toward a group of people are not respecting others civil right. To prevent victims of hate crimes, America should have standardized hate crime laws so that we can uniformly educate people to have right ideas of hate crimes. In addition, the government should establish a hate crime institution. The institution must have two functions that one is detecting and punishing criminals to protect victims and the other is providing retraining program to criminals so that they can have chance to break their prejudices. If we are living a society that ignores a certain group of people and make them as second-class citizen, there would be the human right barren zone.
Works Cited
“‘Kramer’s’ Racist Tirade — Caught on Tape.” TMZ.com. 20 Nov. 2006. 07 Dec. 2006
[http://www.tmz.com/2006/11/20/kramers-racist-tirade-caught-on-tape]
Anderson, Curt. “FBI Reports More Than 7,400 Hate Crimes.” Charlotte.com 22 Nov. 2004. 9 Dec. 2004 [http://www.charlotte.com/mld/charlotte/10246350.htm]
Monday, April 26, 2010
The Right Only Exists in Community.
Hyorim Kim
24 April 2010
RD4 Draft
The Right Only Exists in Community.
Humans being never live without others because humans are social animals that require close relationships with other people. Therefore, we have constructed communities through various networks. To generate smooth and active communities, we need to have communication with other including expressing and sharing his or her ideas, and understanding each other. In the 20th century, the freedom of speech is considered as one of fundamental human rights as the First Amendment. Although the freedom of speech is a democratic principle that must be protected to the utmost. However, it need to have a certain limitation because the freedom of speech exists within a community. [THESIS] Therefore, the right has a limitation for community’s order and balance, which means under the name of freedom, we are not supposed to misuse our right. [THESIS]
The extent of how much our society allows the freedom of speech is ambiguous and controversial topic. In other word, giving a distinct boundary to the freedom of speech is really hard actually because of liberty. Liberty is a concept that each individual can act in certain way according to his or her own will. Although boundary or limitation and liberty have a antipathy to each other, ironically the freedom in speech must have certain limitations for our community. Especially speeches considered as only one person’s purpose without credibility and harming community must be limited and one who gave such speeches can not be protected under the First Amendment and will have a responsibility what he or she said.
I think when we express our ideas to someone and especially public, the ideas must be based on credibility and responsibility. If his or her speech falls one of these components, it would cause social problem. In 2001 on September 11, terrorists attacked the twin tower of world trade center and a number of people died for no reason. It was very tragic affair in America. While Americans were overwhelmed with grief, a person comment made them angry. Ward Churchill, a former ethic professor at the University of Colorado, have made a comment about victim as “little Eichmann’s,” the Nazi war criminal, it is an ongoing debate whether his speech protected according to the freedom of speech or not. Remington Taum states “Not only does it show Churchill in a bad light later on, but it's a comment that shows Churchill had no respect towards Americans.” I believe that Churchill misused and misunderstood the basic idea of the freedom of speech. As a member of community, he needs to respect others’ feeling. I want to ask him that if one of his family members was a victim of 9/11, would he say what he said before. Definitely not, his comment is just careless and the result of abuse in free speech.
In addition, as a professor, he fell to transmit truth and reality to his students. In 2006 during an argument with David Horowitz, Author of "THE PROFESSORS," Churchill said “The purpose of a professor is to profess, not simply to impart sterile information. You can go to a trade school to get simply the delivery of the technical data.” He defends his comment by the freedom of speech and the purpose of education as well. Information were instituted by professor has to be clear and objective and then how perceive the information is students’ share. However, his personal feeling idea could prevail wrong information and concept to students. Sometime information from an unreliable source could be a rumor and effect on people negatively.
Ward Churchill and his supporters have been insisting that Ward Churchill’s right of free speech has been violated. Edward Lee who defends Ward Churchill states that “His freedom of speech is one of the very foundation in which America was built upon and imposing on his freedom of speech would mean imposing on the constitution” to support Churchill’s right. However, in my opinion, he has been enjoy his right to free speech by the First Amendment. The content of the First Amendment, it is clearly specified that “The most basic component of freedom of expression is the right of freedom of speech. The right to freedom of speech allows individuals to express themselves without interference or constraint by the government.” Since publicizing his idea about the victims of 9/11, he become even more famous than before. Moreover, he had a number of chances to give his speech about the controversial topic in publics.
The concept of the freedom in speech is different from other freedom in actions. For instance, if government plans to forbidden drinking Coca-Cola, they would shut down Coca-Cola factory legally. In other word, if the United States or his society really does not respect his right of freedom, not only he could not make any speech but also his publications about the controversial topic would be vanished.
WORKS CITED
"Ward Churchill vs. Hannity, Colmes & Horowitz." _FoxNews.com_ 7 Apr. 2006. 26 Apr 2010. [http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,190967,00.html].
Taum Remington. “Attack Ward Churchill.” Online Posting. 19 Apr 2010. Laulima Discussion. 26 Apr 2010.[https://laulima.hawaii.edu/portal/site/KAP.33517.201030/page/c2a89a6c-a93e-47dd-b419-873ef93bb50f]
Lee Edward."Defend Ward Churchill." Online Posting. 19 Apr 2010. Laulima Discussion 26 Apr 2010. [https://laulima.hawaii.edu/portal/site/KAP.33517.201030/page/c2a89a6c-a93e-47dd-b419-873ef93bb50f]
"First Amendment: An Overview." N.d. Legal Information Instiitute. Cornell Law School. 5 June 2003 [http://www.law.cornell.edu/topics/first_amendment.html.]
24 April 2010
RD4 Draft
The Right Only Exists in Community.
Humans being never live without others because humans are social animals that require close relationships with other people. Therefore, we have constructed communities through various networks. To generate smooth and active communities, we need to have communication with other including expressing and sharing his or her ideas, and understanding each other. In the 20th century, the freedom of speech is considered as one of fundamental human rights as the First Amendment. Although the freedom of speech is a democratic principle that must be protected to the utmost. However, it need to have a certain limitation because the freedom of speech exists within a community. [THESIS] Therefore, the right has a limitation for community’s order and balance, which means under the name of freedom, we are not supposed to misuse our right. [THESIS]
The extent of how much our society allows the freedom of speech is ambiguous and controversial topic. In other word, giving a distinct boundary to the freedom of speech is really hard actually because of liberty. Liberty is a concept that each individual can act in certain way according to his or her own will. Although boundary or limitation and liberty have a antipathy to each other, ironically the freedom in speech must have certain limitations for our community. Especially speeches considered as only one person’s purpose without credibility and harming community must be limited and one who gave such speeches can not be protected under the First Amendment and will have a responsibility what he or she said.
I think when we express our ideas to someone and especially public, the ideas must be based on credibility and responsibility. If his or her speech falls one of these components, it would cause social problem. In 2001 on September 11, terrorists attacked the twin tower of world trade center and a number of people died for no reason. It was very tragic affair in America. While Americans were overwhelmed with grief, a person comment made them angry. Ward Churchill, a former ethic professor at the University of Colorado, have made a comment about victim as “little Eichmann’s,” the Nazi war criminal, it is an ongoing debate whether his speech protected according to the freedom of speech or not. Remington Taum states “Not only does it show Churchill in a bad light later on, but it's a comment that shows Churchill had no respect towards Americans.” I believe that Churchill misused and misunderstood the basic idea of the freedom of speech. As a member of community, he needs to respect others’ feeling. I want to ask him that if one of his family members was a victim of 9/11, would he say what he said before. Definitely not, his comment is just careless and the result of abuse in free speech.
In addition, as a professor, he fell to transmit truth and reality to his students. In 2006 during an argument with David Horowitz, Author of "THE PROFESSORS," Churchill said “The purpose of a professor is to profess, not simply to impart sterile information. You can go to a trade school to get simply the delivery of the technical data.” He defends his comment by the freedom of speech and the purpose of education as well. Information were instituted by professor has to be clear and objective and then how perceive the information is students’ share. However, his personal feeling idea could prevail wrong information and concept to students. Sometime information from an unreliable source could be a rumor and effect on people negatively.
Ward Churchill and his supporters have been insisting that Ward Churchill’s right of free speech has been violated. Edward Lee who defends Ward Churchill states that “His freedom of speech is one of the very foundation in which America was built upon and imposing on his freedom of speech would mean imposing on the constitution” to support Churchill’s right. However, in my opinion, he has been enjoy his right to free speech by the First Amendment. The content of the First Amendment, it is clearly specified that “The most basic component of freedom of expression is the right of freedom of speech. The right to freedom of speech allows individuals to express themselves without interference or constraint by the government.” Since publicizing his idea about the victims of 9/11, he become even more famous than before. Moreover, he had a number of chances to give his speech about the controversial topic in publics.
The concept of the freedom in speech is different from other freedom in actions. For instance, if government plans to forbidden drinking Coca-Cola, they would shut down Coca-Cola factory legally. In other word, if the United States or his society really does not respect his right of freedom, not only he could not make any speech but also his publications about the controversial topic would be vanished.
WORKS CITED
"Ward Churchill vs. Hannity, Colmes & Horowitz." _FoxNews.com_ 7 Apr. 2006. 26 Apr 2010. [http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,190967,00.html].
Taum Remington. “Attack Ward Churchill.” Online Posting. 19 Apr 2010. Laulima Discussion. 26 Apr 2010.[https://laulima.hawaii.edu/portal/site/KAP.33517.201030/page/c2a89a6c-a93e-47dd-b419-873ef93bb50f]
Lee Edward."Defend Ward Churchill." Online Posting. 19 Apr 2010. Laulima Discussion 26 Apr 2010. [https://laulima.hawaii.edu/portal/site/KAP.33517.201030/page/c2a89a6c-a93e-47dd-b419-873ef93bb50f]
"First Amendment: An Overview." N.d. Legal Information Instiitute. Cornell Law School. 5 June 2003 [http://www.law.cornell.edu/topics/first_amendment.html.]
Monday, April 5, 2010
Honesty is always important
Hyorim Kim
April 5 2010
Final RD3
Honesty is always important
One of my favorite stories is about George Washington and the cherry tree. When George Washington was six years old, he visited a blacksmith and found a nice little axe to bring home. Like any other kid, young George Washington wanted to try the axe and had cut down a beautiful English cherry tree in his garden. Unfortunately, the tree was his fathers’ favorite and became furious when his favorite tree had been chopped down. His father asked him “George, do you know who chopped down my beautiful tree in the garden?” despite of fear, he confessed what he did. His father’s temper cooled down and said “My son, you should not be afraid to tell the truth as the truth is more to me than a thousand trees.” This story represents how honesty is important and a beautiful thing. I was also impressed how George Washington’s father responded to his son’s truthfulness. [THESIS] Honesty is the most important ethical value in our lives. Honesty has to be the most important fundamental component parents and leaders must possess since they have great responsibility to lead. [THESIS]
We know how to be an ethical and honest person being truthful, however, depending on certain situations, people’s opinion varies about lying. For example, although a person has the information that others need, if he remains silent when others are asking a question does he lie? Many people think that he is not lying, he has a right to do keep silent, the Fifth Amendment. However, some people have a little different. Edward Lee states that not answering a question when you know the answer is considered lying because you're lying about your knowledge of the question and feigning ignorance. I agree with Edward Lee because keeping silent is still one of the communicative ways, non-verbal communication, as it causes misunderstanding to other people. To be honest, what we say and what we do are the same or not we deviate from honesty. Because of such reason, honesty is the most rudimentary element of being a parent and leader.
Wes Hanson introduces six standards of ethics, called the “Six pillars,” In his book the “Making Ethical Decisions. The six pillars are trustworthiness, respect, responsibility, fairness, caring, and citizenship. Every component has to be considered by people equally but depends on people’s position as some ethical factors are more valuable among the “Six pillars.” For example, caring and responsibility are the most important factor to parents, while trustworthiness and responsibility are more worth to leaders in business. Moreover, these pillars must be based on honesty. People cannot perfect any of six pillars without honesty. Especially, leaders and parents who are leading their group must be honest because their unethical issues bring negative impacts on people.
Because of Confucianism, we have a number of related beliefs of being parents in Korea. It is believed that “parents are the mirrors that reflect their children’s behavior.” In other words, parents are the role model of their children. I have worked at mental clinic center as an art therapist. Parents brought their kids that considered as abnormal behaviors such as lying all the times and violence. However, eventually, in the end of the therapy, most of parents have contributed their kids’ unfavorable behaviors. Simply, seven-year old child tell lies always to his or her parents, friends, and teachers, where does lies come from? Children learn from their parents. Indeed, there is a new research about parental lying done by University of Toronto and the University of California, San Diego. If parents are regularly lying to their child, it causes children’s misbehaviors and damaging feelings. (2009) Parents have responsibilities for their children because only honest parents can bear honest kids. Parents are the leader of a house and their children, the role of leader is very important not only in house but also business.
Leaders in companies greatly relate to ethical issues such as caring and responsibility because they provide products that people use. The product could be food, toys or cars. If they ignore the essence of caring and responsibility for people using their goods, company could lose their values and the customers’ trust. Recently, we had a big new about Toyota recall. Until the recall issued, Toyota Company had a good business image that they produce reliable cars. First time when I received the new, I thought the problem was simply a defective part of cars. However, by chance, I have read a magazine about a piece of interesting article Toyota recalls. Early in 2006, one of employees of Toyota warned the significant safety problem in a number of cars to his boss. Although Toyota Company knew that the widow electronic system could cause problems, they ignored due to the cost-cutting plan and the name of competition. I was very impressed what the employee said four years ago that “become a great problem that involves the company's survival.”
The most important ethical value is honesty. Being honest is always valuable both in home and work place. In house, parents are the leaders and the role model of their children. When parents keep honesty in how they act and speak, they can raise healthy children mentally. Children learn how they behave through copying their parents. Parents have a responsibility to their kids’ ethic problems. Today many of companies are dealing with either quality or quantity. According to severe competitions in industry, some companies tend to chose quantity rather than quality. Leaders of a company must understand that when they are producing a product, they must take care of the users and think their responsibility of the product. When leaders lose their honesty, it causes significant dilemmas to their people and business like Toyota Company. We do not consider hiding honesty, but we always consider hiding lies and unethical issues. Parents and leaders require honesty and never hide their lies or unethical issues because there is always someone being affected by them and eventually not being honesty will be exposed in the air.
Works cited
DeMello, January, “Discussion 1 (March 18)” Online posting. 17 March 2010. Laulima Discussion. 27 March 2010 [https://laulima.hawaii.edu/portal/site/KAP.33517.201030/page/c2a89a6c-a93e-47dd-b419-873ef93bb50f]
Hanson,Wes. “Making Ethical Decsions.” Joesphson Institute. [http://josephsoninstitute.org/MED/index.html]
Lee, Edward, “Discussion 2 (March 18)” Online posting. 17 March 2010. Laulima Discussion. 27 March 2010 [https://laulima.hawaii.edu/portal/site/KAP.33517.201030/page/c2a89a6c-a93e-47dd-b419-873ef93bb50f]
University of Toronto. "Lies My Parents Told Me: Parents Use Deception To Influence Their Children." ScienceDaily 23 September 2009. 27 March 2010 [http://www.sciencedaily.com¬ /releases/2009/09/090922132844.htm]
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X Oct. 20-21- Intro to Paper #3. Read the Guidelines for Paper #3. (Confirmation reply required.)
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L Oct. 30F- Laulima Discussion #1
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April 5 2010
Final RD3
Honesty is always important
One of my favorite stories is about George Washington and the cherry tree. When George Washington was six years old, he visited a blacksmith and found a nice little axe to bring home. Like any other kid, young George Washington wanted to try the axe and had cut down a beautiful English cherry tree in his garden. Unfortunately, the tree was his fathers’ favorite and became furious when his favorite tree had been chopped down. His father asked him “George, do you know who chopped down my beautiful tree in the garden?” despite of fear, he confessed what he did. His father’s temper cooled down and said “My son, you should not be afraid to tell the truth as the truth is more to me than a thousand trees.” This story represents how honesty is important and a beautiful thing. I was also impressed how George Washington’s father responded to his son’s truthfulness. [THESIS] Honesty is the most important ethical value in our lives. Honesty has to be the most important fundamental component parents and leaders must possess since they have great responsibility to lead. [THESIS]
We know how to be an ethical and honest person being truthful, however, depending on certain situations, people’s opinion varies about lying. For example, although a person has the information that others need, if he remains silent when others are asking a question does he lie? Many people think that he is not lying, he has a right to do keep silent, the Fifth Amendment. However, some people have a little different. Edward Lee states that not answering a question when you know the answer is considered lying because you're lying about your knowledge of the question and feigning ignorance. I agree with Edward Lee because keeping silent is still one of the communicative ways, non-verbal communication, as it causes misunderstanding to other people. To be honest, what we say and what we do are the same or not we deviate from honesty. Because of such reason, honesty is the most rudimentary element of being a parent and leader.
Wes Hanson introduces six standards of ethics, called the “Six pillars,” In his book the “Making Ethical Decisions. The six pillars are trustworthiness, respect, responsibility, fairness, caring, and citizenship. Every component has to be considered by people equally but depends on people’s position as some ethical factors are more valuable among the “Six pillars.” For example, caring and responsibility are the most important factor to parents, while trustworthiness and responsibility are more worth to leaders in business. Moreover, these pillars must be based on honesty. People cannot perfect any of six pillars without honesty. Especially, leaders and parents who are leading their group must be honest because their unethical issues bring negative impacts on people.
Because of Confucianism, we have a number of related beliefs of being parents in Korea. It is believed that “parents are the mirrors that reflect their children’s behavior.” In other words, parents are the role model of their children. I have worked at mental clinic center as an art therapist. Parents brought their kids that considered as abnormal behaviors such as lying all the times and violence. However, eventually, in the end of the therapy, most of parents have contributed their kids’ unfavorable behaviors. Simply, seven-year old child tell lies always to his or her parents, friends, and teachers, where does lies come from? Children learn from their parents. Indeed, there is a new research about parental lying done by University of Toronto and the University of California, San Diego. If parents are regularly lying to their child, it causes children’s misbehaviors and damaging feelings. (2009) Parents have responsibilities for their children because only honest parents can bear honest kids. Parents are the leader of a house and their children, the role of leader is very important not only in house but also business.
Leaders in companies greatly relate to ethical issues such as caring and responsibility because they provide products that people use. The product could be food, toys or cars. If they ignore the essence of caring and responsibility for people using their goods, company could lose their values and the customers’ trust. Recently, we had a big new about Toyota recall. Until the recall issued, Toyota Company had a good business image that they produce reliable cars. First time when I received the new, I thought the problem was simply a defective part of cars. However, by chance, I have read a magazine about a piece of interesting article Toyota recalls. Early in 2006, one of employees of Toyota warned the significant safety problem in a number of cars to his boss. Although Toyota Company knew that the widow electronic system could cause problems, they ignored due to the cost-cutting plan and the name of competition. I was very impressed what the employee said four years ago that “become a great problem that involves the company's survival.”
The most important ethical value is honesty. Being honest is always valuable both in home and work place. In house, parents are the leaders and the role model of their children. When parents keep honesty in how they act and speak, they can raise healthy children mentally. Children learn how they behave through copying their parents. Parents have a responsibility to their kids’ ethic problems. Today many of companies are dealing with either quality or quantity. According to severe competitions in industry, some companies tend to chose quantity rather than quality. Leaders of a company must understand that when they are producing a product, they must take care of the users and think their responsibility of the product. When leaders lose their honesty, it causes significant dilemmas to their people and business like Toyota Company. We do not consider hiding honesty, but we always consider hiding lies and unethical issues. Parents and leaders require honesty and never hide their lies or unethical issues because there is always someone being affected by them and eventually not being honesty will be exposed in the air.
Works cited
DeMello, January, “Discussion 1 (March 18)” Online posting. 17 March 2010. Laulima Discussion. 27 March 2010 [https://laulima.hawaii.edu/portal/site/KAP.33517.201030/page/c2a89a6c-a93e-47dd-b419-873ef93bb50f]
Hanson,Wes. “Making Ethical Decsions.” Joesphson Institute. [http://josephsoninstitute.org/MED/index.html]
Lee, Edward, “Discussion 2 (March 18)” Online posting. 17 March 2010. Laulima Discussion. 27 March 2010 [https://laulima.hawaii.edu/portal/site/KAP.33517.201030/page/c2a89a6c-a93e-47dd-b419-873ef93bb50f]
University of Toronto. "Lies My Parents Told Me: Parents Use Deception To Influence Their Children." ScienceDaily 23 September 2009. 27 March 2010 [http://www.sciencedaily.com¬ /releases/2009/09/090922132844.htm]
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L Oct. 30F- Laulima Discussion #1
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X Nov. 9M- RD3 due [50 pts] (Confirmation reply required.)
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Monday, March 29, 2010
Honesty is always important
Hyorim Kim
March 29 2010
RD3
Honesty is always important
One of my favorite stories is George Washington and a cherry tree. When George Washington was six years old, he visited to a smithy. He found a really nice little hatchet and he brought it to home. Like other kids, young George Washington wanted to try the hatchet. He found a beautiful English cherry tree in his house garden and he cut down the tree. However, the tree was his fathers’ favorite. After founding the tree, George Washington’s father really got angry. His father asked him “George, do you know who killed my beautiful tree in the garden?” despite of fear, he confessed what he did. The anger on his father’s face was gone and he told that “My son, that you should not be afraid to tell the truth is more to me than a thousand trees.” This story represents how honesty is important and beautiful thing. I also impressed how George Washington’s father responded his son’s truthiness. [THESIS] Honesty is the most important ethical values in our lives. Especially, honesty has to be the fundamental component that parents and leaders must possess since they have a great responsibility to own their people. [THESIS]
We well know that how can we act to be an ethical and honest person, such as not to lie to others. However, sometime, depend on situations, people’s opinion is varied about lying. For example, although a person has the information that others need, if he remains silent when others are asking a question does he lie? Many people think that he is not lying, he has a right to do, the Fifth Amendment. However, my opinion is a little different. Edward Lee states that not answering a question when you know the answer is considered lying because you're lying about your knowledge of the question and feigning ignorance. Keeping silent is still one of communicative ways, it could be caused misunderstandings by other people. To be honest, what we say and what we do are the same or not we deviate from honesty. Because of such reason, honesty is the most rudimentary element to be a parent and leader.
Wes Hanson introduces six standards of ethics, called the “Six pillars,” In his book the “Making Ethical Decisions. The six pillars are trustworthiness, respect, responsibility, fairness, caring, and citizenship. Every components have to be considered by people equally but depends on people’s position some ethical factors are more valuable among the “Six pillars.” For example, honesty and responsibility are the most important factor to parents, while caring and responsibility are more worth to leaders in business.
Because of Confucianism, we have a number of saying related to being parents in Korea. The most well known saying is “parents are the mirrors that reflect their children’s behavior.” In other words, parents are the role model of their children. I have worked at mental clinic center as an art therapist. Parents brought their kids that considered as abnormal behaviors such as lying all the times and violence. However, eventually, in the end of the therapy, most of parents have contributed their kids’ unfavorable behaviors. Simply, seven-year old child tell lies always to his or her parents, friends, and teachers, where does lies come from? Children learn from their parents. Indeed, there is a new research about parental lying done by University of Toronto and the University of California, San Diego. If parents are regularly lying to their child, it causes children’s misbehaviors and damaging feelings. ( 2009 ) Parents have responsibilities for their children because only honest parents can bear honest kids. Parents are the leader of a house and their children, the role of leader is very important not only in house but also business.
Leaders in a company are greatly related to ethical issues such as caring and responsibility because they provide products that people use. The product could be food, toys or cars. If they ignore caring and responsibility for people using their goods, company would lose customers’ trust and be in a big danger. Recently, we had a big new about Toyota recall. Until the recall issued, Toyota Company had a good business image that they produce reliable cars. First time when I received the new, I thought the problem was simply a defective part of cars. However, by chance, I have read a magazine about a piece of interesting article Toyota recalls. Early in 2006, one of employees of Toyota warned the significant safety problem in a number of cars to his boss. Although Toyota Company knew that the widow electronic system could cause problems, they ignored due to the cost-cutting plan and the name of competition. I was very impressed what the employee said four years ago that “become a great problem that involves the company's survival.”
The one of most important ethical values is honesty. Being honest is always is valuable both in home and work place. In house, parents are the role model of their children. When parents keep honesty in how they act and speak, they can raise healthy children mentally. Children learn how they behave through copying their parents. Parents have a responsibility to their kids’ ethic problems. Today many of companies are dealing with either quality or quantity. According to severe competitions in industry, some companies tend to chose quantity rather than quality. Leaders of a company must understand that when they are producing a product and take care users and their responsibility of their product. When leaders lost their honesty, it causes significant dilemmas to their people and business. We do not consider hiding honesty, but we always consider hiding lies and unethical issues. Especially, parents and leaders are required full of honesty because they never hide their lies or unethical issues because there is always someone can be affected by them and eventually not being honesty will be exposed in the air.
Works cited
Hanson,Wes. “Making Ethical Decsions.” Joesphson Institute. [http://josephsoninstitute.org/MED/index.html]
DeMello, January, “Discussion 1 (March 18)” Online posting. 17 March 2010. Laulima Discussion. 27 March 2010 [https://laulima.hawaii.edu/portal/site/KAP.33517.201030/page/c2a89a6c-a93e-47dd-b419-873ef93bb50f]
Lee, Edward, “Discussion 2 (March 18)” Online posting. 17 March 2010. Laulima Discussion. 27 March 2010 [https://laulima.hawaii.edu/portal/site/KAP.33517.201030/page/c2a89a6c-a93e-47dd-b419-873ef93bb50f]
University of Toronto. "Lies My Parents Told Me: Parents Use Deception To Influence Their Children." ScienceDaily 23 September 2009. 27 March 2010 [http://www.sciencedaily.com¬ /releases/2009/09/090922132844.htm]
March 29 2010
RD3
Honesty is always important
One of my favorite stories is George Washington and a cherry tree. When George Washington was six years old, he visited to a smithy. He found a really nice little hatchet and he brought it to home. Like other kids, young George Washington wanted to try the hatchet. He found a beautiful English cherry tree in his house garden and he cut down the tree. However, the tree was his fathers’ favorite. After founding the tree, George Washington’s father really got angry. His father asked him “George, do you know who killed my beautiful tree in the garden?” despite of fear, he confessed what he did. The anger on his father’s face was gone and he told that “My son, that you should not be afraid to tell the truth is more to me than a thousand trees.” This story represents how honesty is important and beautiful thing. I also impressed how George Washington’s father responded his son’s truthiness. [THESIS] Honesty is the most important ethical values in our lives. Especially, honesty has to be the fundamental component that parents and leaders must possess since they have a great responsibility to own their people. [THESIS]
We well know that how can we act to be an ethical and honest person, such as not to lie to others. However, sometime, depend on situations, people’s opinion is varied about lying. For example, although a person has the information that others need, if he remains silent when others are asking a question does he lie? Many people think that he is not lying, he has a right to do, the Fifth Amendment. However, my opinion is a little different. Edward Lee states that not answering a question when you know the answer is considered lying because you're lying about your knowledge of the question and feigning ignorance. Keeping silent is still one of communicative ways, it could be caused misunderstandings by other people. To be honest, what we say and what we do are the same or not we deviate from honesty. Because of such reason, honesty is the most rudimentary element to be a parent and leader.
Wes Hanson introduces six standards of ethics, called the “Six pillars,” In his book the “Making Ethical Decisions. The six pillars are trustworthiness, respect, responsibility, fairness, caring, and citizenship. Every components have to be considered by people equally but depends on people’s position some ethical factors are more valuable among the “Six pillars.” For example, honesty and responsibility are the most important factor to parents, while caring and responsibility are more worth to leaders in business.
Because of Confucianism, we have a number of saying related to being parents in Korea. The most well known saying is “parents are the mirrors that reflect their children’s behavior.” In other words, parents are the role model of their children. I have worked at mental clinic center as an art therapist. Parents brought their kids that considered as abnormal behaviors such as lying all the times and violence. However, eventually, in the end of the therapy, most of parents have contributed their kids’ unfavorable behaviors. Simply, seven-year old child tell lies always to his or her parents, friends, and teachers, where does lies come from? Children learn from their parents. Indeed, there is a new research about parental lying done by University of Toronto and the University of California, San Diego. If parents are regularly lying to their child, it causes children’s misbehaviors and damaging feelings. ( 2009 ) Parents have responsibilities for their children because only honest parents can bear honest kids. Parents are the leader of a house and their children, the role of leader is very important not only in house but also business.
Leaders in a company are greatly related to ethical issues such as caring and responsibility because they provide products that people use. The product could be food, toys or cars. If they ignore caring and responsibility for people using their goods, company would lose customers’ trust and be in a big danger. Recently, we had a big new about Toyota recall. Until the recall issued, Toyota Company had a good business image that they produce reliable cars. First time when I received the new, I thought the problem was simply a defective part of cars. However, by chance, I have read a magazine about a piece of interesting article Toyota recalls. Early in 2006, one of employees of Toyota warned the significant safety problem in a number of cars to his boss. Although Toyota Company knew that the widow electronic system could cause problems, they ignored due to the cost-cutting plan and the name of competition. I was very impressed what the employee said four years ago that “become a great problem that involves the company's survival.”
The one of most important ethical values is honesty. Being honest is always is valuable both in home and work place. In house, parents are the role model of their children. When parents keep honesty in how they act and speak, they can raise healthy children mentally. Children learn how they behave through copying their parents. Parents have a responsibility to their kids’ ethic problems. Today many of companies are dealing with either quality or quantity. According to severe competitions in industry, some companies tend to chose quantity rather than quality. Leaders of a company must understand that when they are producing a product and take care users and their responsibility of their product. When leaders lost their honesty, it causes significant dilemmas to their people and business. We do not consider hiding honesty, but we always consider hiding lies and unethical issues. Especially, parents and leaders are required full of honesty because they never hide their lies or unethical issues because there is always someone can be affected by them and eventually not being honesty will be exposed in the air.
Works cited
Hanson,Wes. “Making Ethical Decsions.” Joesphson Institute. [http://josephsoninstitute.org/MED/index.html]
DeMello, January, “Discussion 1 (March 18)” Online posting. 17 March 2010. Laulima Discussion. 27 March 2010 [https://laulima.hawaii.edu/portal/site/KAP.33517.201030/page/c2a89a6c-a93e-47dd-b419-873ef93bb50f]
Lee, Edward, “Discussion 2 (March 18)” Online posting. 17 March 2010. Laulima Discussion. 27 March 2010 [https://laulima.hawaii.edu/portal/site/KAP.33517.201030/page/c2a89a6c-a93e-47dd-b419-873ef93bb50f]
University of Toronto. "Lies My Parents Told Me: Parents Use Deception To Influence Their Children." ScienceDaily 23 September 2009. 27 March 2010 [http://www.sciencedaily.com¬ /releases/2009/09/090922132844.htm]
Wednesday, March 17, 2010
Negative Impacts of Ads
Hyorim Kim
17 Mar 2010
RD2 (Final)
Negative Impacts of Ads
As a consumer, today we have various choices of a product by the fast development of industry. For instance, if we go to the store to buy a toothbrush, a supermarket provides consumers with many different kinds of toothbrushes. A number of companies have been producing similar goods, competing with one another. The best way of trying to sell their products is by advertising their products through the media. The sole purpose of commercials is to attract people into purchasing a certain product from their company instead of someone else’s company. Some companies gain competitive advantages over their rivals, by advertising illogical slogans, sexual or criminal images to make the ads more alluring. [THESIS] Ads containing illogical and sexual concepts have negative impacts on people. Ads containing excessive sexuality are offensive to women and effect adolescent behaviors. [THESIS]
According to Dr. Turow, a professor at the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania, advertisers do not focus on all audiences, instead, they narrow down a certain audience group (Goshgarian, and Krueger p.330). The narrowed audience group consists of potential buyers. Commercials are a new way of marketing and reach customers with a special message. However, in order to have a powerful influence, some commercials purposely contain logical errors, called logical fallacies (Goshgarian, and Krueger 48), to manipulate people who are targeted by advertisers. I found advertisements that tend to manipulate people who are possible targets established by advertisers.
For example, in the commercial featuring the Motherly Cubes, a frozen baby food product, the commercial starts with a mother pushing her shopping cart with her baby to the frozen food section. The mother says “all moms want to give their babies the best start in life. That's why I love motherly cubes 100% natural grain.” The commercial contains both the Bandwagon Appeal and Circular Reasoning. The bandwagon is easy to appear in advertisements because it gives people the image that “people are doing this and thinking that.” Bandwagon slogans direct people to act in a certain way. (Goshgarian and Krueger 419-48) The “Motherly Cubes” commercial contains a message that the concerns mothers have for their babies are the reason to buy their product, but it is not; it is a form of bandwagon. All moms want to give their babies the best start and natural foods, which are generally true, however, mothers who are truly concerned for their babies’ life and health would not want to feed them instant frozen food. Therefore, what the actress said is not a general idea accepted by all mothers. Feeding babies frozen food can never be a logical reason for the babies’ best starts in their lives because the commercial slogan does not have evidence to support its claim. Such fallacy is called circular reasoning. (Goshgarian and Krueger 48) Not too many commercials contain such logical fallacy, but commercials containing sexuality also make adolescents and women vulnerable. Remington Taum gives a good example of selling sexuality in TV commercial.
Calvin Klein’s perfume commercial, CK In2u, starts out with one girl and boy meeting each other on the street and smelling each other. The girl keeps teasing the boy and she unfastens his belt and runs away into the elevator. The commercial ends with the girl and boy on a couch touching each other. This commercial definitely denotes sexual contents. Remington Taum also points out that this commercial contains a logical fallacy which is post hoc, ergo propter hoc. Post hoc, ergo propter hoc is a wrong cause-and-effect relationship. The main message of this commercial is that if you use CK In2u, the other gender would be attracted you However, such happening in the commercial is impossible in reality by a perfume. CK In2u commercial contains the post hoc, ergo propter.
Portraying sexual concepts in advertisements can be a powerful technique to attract people because sex stimulates people’s curiosity. Although sexual advertisements are hard for audiences to understand what they are advertising, many companies employ sexual concepts to their top selling products, such as Puma’s Kneeling and Carl’s Jr. Hamburgers. The Carl’s Jr. Hamburgers’ commercial is renowned thanks to Paris Hilton’s sexual appeal in the commercial, where she is wearing swim suit and washing the car with her body. In the Puma’s commercial, a school girl is kneeling down in front of a guy. Although the audience cannot see their heads, people can easily imagine the sexual intended content. In addition, the female model in the commercial is a school-looked girl and indeed, most of customers of Puma are teenagers. In other words, these kinds of ads provide a chance to adolescents to imagine the situations what they are watching.
Pediatrics research has shown advertisements’ impact to the adolescents. It has been reported that averagely an adolescent sees about 250 ads per hour. The problem is that they do not have the ability to understand or distinguish the notion of various commercials, which means that they are defenseless. (dfd) According to the research, when adolescents are exposed to media containing sexual concepts, they are more likely attempt sexual intercourse or other activities. In addition, most of the models in the ads are erotic and skinny. Such factors impact on adolescents’ body images. Many of adolescents are eager to be the same as the skinny models’ look. Indeed many teenagers are suffering from eating disorders to reduce their weight.
To make a more powerful sexual commercial than others, some commercials contain even unethical issues, such as rape and murder. These unethical issues influence negative impact on adolescences and women. One of Dolce & Gabbana advertisements in a magazine, there is a topless guy pushing a girl onto the ground and the girl is wearing a sexy dress. She seems to resist the guy and four other guys around them are watching the situation. The commercial situation describes rape and this commercial does not have relationship with fashion. The other example is Jimmy Choo’s advertisement in our text book. In the advertisement, a dead woman is lying in a car truck and a guy is digging the ground with his shovel. This commercial contains murdering and abandoning of a dead body. Both Dolce & Gabbana and Jimmy Choo ads contain criminal-like contents, such as rape and murder, in order to give the audiences strong impressions, which are very offensive to women. These kinds of ads are describing women as victims of crimes. Such unethical commercials have negative influences not only on women but also on the adolescences.
As Jennifer Pescador stated, commercials for movies, special events, and sports provide people with information. In general, however, most of the commercials have negative on towards people. Commercial is a marketing tool to approach its target customers quickly. Each commercial contains messages to manipulate people to act in certain ways. Moreover, nowadays many advertisers employ sex in commercials to sell their products from shoes to hamburger. They want to give a shocking impression on people. However, ads containing illogical messages are misleading and manipulating people’s thoughts.
Moreover, using criminal concepts or excessive sexuality in advertisements is offensive to women and causes significant negative impacts on the adolescents. Especially, adolescents are vulnerable and they do not ready for distinguishing the notion of ads yet. Advertisers are responsible. Therefore, when advertisers consider commercial concepts, they must deliberate ethical issues and further social impacts.
Works Cited
"Children, Adolescents, and Advertising." Pediatrics. 2006. American Academy Pediatrics, Web. 27 Feb 2010.
[http://aappolicy.aappublications.org/cgi/reprint/pediatrics;118/6/2563.pdf]
Gifford, Amy. "Sex Sells Best?." Inventorspot (2007): 3-1. Web. 29 Feb 2010.
[http://inventorspot.com/articles/ads_prove_sex_sells_5576]
Goshgarian, Gary, and Kathleen Krueger. Dialogues. 6th ed. 771. Longman Pub Group, 2009. 419-48. Print.
Kilbourne, Jean. “Buy This 24-Year-Old and Get All His Friends Absolutely Free.” Dialogues: An Argument Rhetoric and Reader. 6th edition. Eds. Gary Goshgarian and Kathleen Krueger. New York: Pearson-Longman, 2009.
Pescador, Jennifer. "No, Ads Don’t Have Negative Impact." Online posting. 19 Feb 2010 Laulima discussion. 28 Feb 2010
[https://laulima.hawaii.edu/portal/site/KAP.33517.201030/page/c2a89a6c-a93e-47dd-b419-873ef93bb50f]
Taum, Remington. "Logical Fallacies ." Online posting. 27 Feb 2010 Laulima discussion. 27 Feb 2010
[https://laulima.hawaii.edu/portal/site/KAP.33517.201030/page/c2a89a6c-a93e-47dd-b419-873ef93bb50f]
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_X__ Feb. 9t- Intro to Paper #2. Read the Guidelines for Paper #2. (Confirmation reply required.)
Feb 15M: Holiday: Presidents’ Day
_X__ Feb. 16t- Complete readings for paper #2. (Confirmation reply required.)
_X__ Feb 19F- Laulima Discussion: Ad Pros and Cons
_X__ Feb 26F- Laulima Discussion: Logical Fallacies Exercise
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Mar 5F- No classes.
_X__ Mar. 8M- FD2 due [125 pts]. Review the guidelines. (Confirmation reply required.)
17 Mar 2010
RD2 (Final)
Negative Impacts of Ads
As a consumer, today we have various choices of a product by the fast development of industry. For instance, if we go to the store to buy a toothbrush, a supermarket provides consumers with many different kinds of toothbrushes. A number of companies have been producing similar goods, competing with one another. The best way of trying to sell their products is by advertising their products through the media. The sole purpose of commercials is to attract people into purchasing a certain product from their company instead of someone else’s company. Some companies gain competitive advantages over their rivals, by advertising illogical slogans, sexual or criminal images to make the ads more alluring. [THESIS] Ads containing illogical and sexual concepts have negative impacts on people. Ads containing excessive sexuality are offensive to women and effect adolescent behaviors. [THESIS]
According to Dr. Turow, a professor at the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania, advertisers do not focus on all audiences, instead, they narrow down a certain audience group (Goshgarian, and Krueger p.330). The narrowed audience group consists of potential buyers. Commercials are a new way of marketing and reach customers with a special message. However, in order to have a powerful influence, some commercials purposely contain logical errors, called logical fallacies (Goshgarian, and Krueger 48), to manipulate people who are targeted by advertisers. I found advertisements that tend to manipulate people who are possible targets established by advertisers.
For example, in the commercial featuring the Motherly Cubes, a frozen baby food product, the commercial starts with a mother pushing her shopping cart with her baby to the frozen food section. The mother says “all moms want to give their babies the best start in life. That's why I love motherly cubes 100% natural grain.” The commercial contains both the Bandwagon Appeal and Circular Reasoning. The bandwagon is easy to appear in advertisements because it gives people the image that “people are doing this and thinking that.” Bandwagon slogans direct people to act in a certain way. (Goshgarian and Krueger 419-48) The “Motherly Cubes” commercial contains a message that the concerns mothers have for their babies are the reason to buy their product, but it is not; it is a form of bandwagon. All moms want to give their babies the best start and natural foods, which are generally true, however, mothers who are truly concerned for their babies’ life and health would not want to feed them instant frozen food. Therefore, what the actress said is not a general idea accepted by all mothers. Feeding babies frozen food can never be a logical reason for the babies’ best starts in their lives because the commercial slogan does not have evidence to support its claim. Such fallacy is called circular reasoning. (Goshgarian and Krueger 48) Not too many commercials contain such logical fallacy, but commercials containing sexuality also make adolescents and women vulnerable. Remington Taum gives a good example of selling sexuality in TV commercial.
Calvin Klein’s perfume commercial, CK In2u, starts out with one girl and boy meeting each other on the street and smelling each other. The girl keeps teasing the boy and she unfastens his belt and runs away into the elevator. The commercial ends with the girl and boy on a couch touching each other. This commercial definitely denotes sexual contents. Remington Taum also points out that this commercial contains a logical fallacy which is post hoc, ergo propter hoc. Post hoc, ergo propter hoc is a wrong cause-and-effect relationship. The main message of this commercial is that if you use CK In2u, the other gender would be attracted you However, such happening in the commercial is impossible in reality by a perfume. CK In2u commercial contains the post hoc, ergo propter.
Portraying sexual concepts in advertisements can be a powerful technique to attract people because sex stimulates people’s curiosity. Although sexual advertisements are hard for audiences to understand what they are advertising, many companies employ sexual concepts to their top selling products, such as Puma’s Kneeling and Carl’s Jr. Hamburgers. The Carl’s Jr. Hamburgers’ commercial is renowned thanks to Paris Hilton’s sexual appeal in the commercial, where she is wearing swim suit and washing the car with her body. In the Puma’s commercial, a school girl is kneeling down in front of a guy. Although the audience cannot see their heads, people can easily imagine the sexual intended content. In addition, the female model in the commercial is a school-looked girl and indeed, most of customers of Puma are teenagers. In other words, these kinds of ads provide a chance to adolescents to imagine the situations what they are watching.
Pediatrics research has shown advertisements’ impact to the adolescents. It has been reported that averagely an adolescent sees about 250 ads per hour. The problem is that they do not have the ability to understand or distinguish the notion of various commercials, which means that they are defenseless. (dfd) According to the research, when adolescents are exposed to media containing sexual concepts, they are more likely attempt sexual intercourse or other activities. In addition, most of the models in the ads are erotic and skinny. Such factors impact on adolescents’ body images. Many of adolescents are eager to be the same as the skinny models’ look. Indeed many teenagers are suffering from eating disorders to reduce their weight.
To make a more powerful sexual commercial than others, some commercials contain even unethical issues, such as rape and murder. These unethical issues influence negative impact on adolescences and women. One of Dolce & Gabbana advertisements in a magazine, there is a topless guy pushing a girl onto the ground and the girl is wearing a sexy dress. She seems to resist the guy and four other guys around them are watching the situation. The commercial situation describes rape and this commercial does not have relationship with fashion. The other example is Jimmy Choo’s advertisement in our text book. In the advertisement, a dead woman is lying in a car truck and a guy is digging the ground with his shovel. This commercial contains murdering and abandoning of a dead body. Both Dolce & Gabbana and Jimmy Choo ads contain criminal-like contents, such as rape and murder, in order to give the audiences strong impressions, which are very offensive to women. These kinds of ads are describing women as victims of crimes. Such unethical commercials have negative influences not only on women but also on the adolescences.
As Jennifer Pescador stated, commercials for movies, special events, and sports provide people with information. In general, however, most of the commercials have negative on towards people. Commercial is a marketing tool to approach its target customers quickly. Each commercial contains messages to manipulate people to act in certain ways. Moreover, nowadays many advertisers employ sex in commercials to sell their products from shoes to hamburger. They want to give a shocking impression on people. However, ads containing illogical messages are misleading and manipulating people’s thoughts.
Moreover, using criminal concepts or excessive sexuality in advertisements is offensive to women and causes significant negative impacts on the adolescents. Especially, adolescents are vulnerable and they do not ready for distinguishing the notion of ads yet. Advertisers are responsible. Therefore, when advertisers consider commercial concepts, they must deliberate ethical issues and further social impacts.
Works Cited
"Children, Adolescents, and Advertising." Pediatrics. 2006. American Academy Pediatrics, Web. 27 Feb 2010.
[http://aappolicy.aappublications.org/cgi/reprint/pediatrics;118/6/2563.pdf]
Gifford, Amy. "Sex Sells Best?." Inventorspot (2007): 3-1. Web. 29 Feb 2010.
[http://inventorspot.com/articles/ads_prove_sex_sells_5576]
Goshgarian, Gary, and Kathleen Krueger. Dialogues. 6th ed. 771. Longman Pub Group, 2009. 419-48. Print.
Kilbourne, Jean. “Buy This 24-Year-Old and Get All His Friends Absolutely Free.” Dialogues: An Argument Rhetoric and Reader. 6th edition. Eds. Gary Goshgarian and Kathleen Krueger. New York: Pearson-Longman, 2009.
Pescador, Jennifer. "No, Ads Don’t Have Negative Impact." Online posting. 19 Feb 2010 Laulima discussion. 28 Feb 2010
[https://laulima.hawaii.edu/portal/site/KAP.33517.201030/page/c2a89a6c-a93e-47dd-b419-873ef93bb50f]
Taum, Remington. "Logical Fallacies ." Online posting. 27 Feb 2010 Laulima discussion. 27 Feb 2010
[https://laulima.hawaii.edu/portal/site/KAP.33517.201030/page/c2a89a6c-a93e-47dd-b419-873ef93bb50f]
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Monday, March 1, 2010
Negative Impacts of Ads
March, 1. 2010
Hyorim Kim
FD#2
According to the industrial development, new products are turning out every single day in a fast pace and people have various choices in their purchase. For instance, when we go to a supermarket to buy a tooth blush, we could see an abundant tooth blushes which filled an entire wall. A number of companies have been producing the same good and competing with other company producing similar product with them. As a result, the industry of commercial advertising also has grown fast. The purpose of commercials is to attract people a certain product so that make them want to buy the product among others. The problem in contemporary commercials is to be a more luring advertising to people among one’s competitors, commercials tend to manipulate, be deceptive and offensive to people. [THESIS] In general, most of advertisements have a negligible negative impact on our lives by illogical and sexual concepts especially on women and adolescents.[THESIS]
According to Dr. Turow, a professor at the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania, advertisers do not focus on all audiences, instead, they narrow down a certain audience group targeted (Goshgarian, and Krueger 330). The narrowed audience group is consisted of potential buyers. Commercial is the new way of marketing to reach customers with a special message. However, in order to be a powerful temptation, some commercials contain logical errors, called logical fallacies (Goshgarian, and Krueger 48), to manipulate people who are targeted by advertisers. I have found an appropriate example of advertising that tend to manipulate target customers.
The name of product is Motherly Cubes, a frozen baby food brand, and Jenny Webber is the director. The TV commercial of Motherly Cubes starts with a mother having her baby in shopping cart. A mother is pushing a shopping cart around frozen food section in a mart and a baby is in the cart. In the background, other two mothers are shopping with her baby. The main actress, the mother, says “all moms want to give their babies the best start in life. That's why I love motherly cubes 100% natural "grain or range" This commercial contains the Bandwagon Appeal and Circular Reasoning. The bandwagon is easy to appear in advertisements because it gives people image that “people is doing this and thinking that.”(Goshgarian, and Krueger 419-48) The renowned slogan for bandwagon is “Smart shoppers shop at Sears.”
“All moms want to give their babies the best start in life, that’s why I love motherly cubes 100% natural "grain or range" This commercial contains a meaning that mothers concerning their babies love to buy “motherly cubes” which is bandwagon. All moms want to give their babies the best start and natural foods, which are generally true, but mothers really concerning their babies’ life and health, most of them would not want and feed instant frozen food for their babies. Therefore, what the actress said is not general idea that accepted all mothers. Feeding a baby the frozen food never can be a logical reason for the baby start in life because the commercial slogan does not have accurate evidence to support. Such fallacy calls circular reasoning. (Goshgarian, and Krueger 48) Not only many commercials contain such logical fallacy but also make adolescents and women vulnerable by commercials focused on sexuality.
Brining sexual concepts in advertisements is one of powerful techniques to attract people. Sex stimulates people’s curiosity. Although sexual advertisements are hard to recognize what they sell, in reality, many of advertisements employed sexuality are top selling products such as Puma’s Kneeling and Carl’s Jr. Hamburgers. (Gifford) The main a school girl is kneeling at a guy feet and she is touching his knee. Even though, heads of models is limited. People can easily image a sexual situation. Carl’s Jr. Hamburgers got famous by Paris Hilton’s sexual appeal in the commercial. She is wearing swim suit and car washing with her body. Until see the final scene of the commercial, audience may not recognize what she is advertising. My classmate, Remington Taum sets a good example that is selling sexuality in TV commercial.
Calvin Klein’s perfume commercial, CK In2u, starts with one girl and boy. They meet at a street and smell each other. The girl keeps teasing the boy, unfasten his belt, and runaway into elevator. The boy follows the elevator finally meets her. The commercial ends on a couch and the girl and boy touch each other. This commercial definitely gives image of sexuality. Reminton Taum also point out that this commercial contain logical fallacy which is post hoc, ergo propter hoc. Post hoc, ergo propter hoc is a wrong cause-and-effect relationship. The main message of this commercial is that if you use CK In2u, other gender would be attracted you. Therefore, CK In2u commercial contains the post hoc, ergo propter.
To be a more powerful sexual commercial among others to shock or stimulate people, some commercials contain even unethical issues such as rape and homosexuality or Lesbianism. These unethical issues influence negative impact on adolescences and women. For example, one of Dolce & Gabbana advertisements in magazine, in two pages of advertisement, a topless guy is pushing a girl on the ground and she is wearing sexy dress. She seems to resist the guy but four guys around them are watching the situation. The commercial situation describes rape and this commercial does not have relationship with fashion. The other example is Jimmy Choo’s advertisement from our text book, the Dialogues. In the advertisement, a dead woman is lying in a car truck and a guy is digging ground with his shelve. This commercial indicates murder and abandonment of a dead body. Both commercials of Dolce & Gabbana and Jimmy Choo contain criminal issues such as rape and murder and are very offensive to women at the same time. Such unethical commercials have negative influences not only women but also adolescences.
A research has shown that advertisements impact on adolescents. An adolescent views about 250 ads per hour. The problem is they do not have ability to understand or distinguish the notion of various commercials which means they are defenseless. (Pediatrics) According to Pediatrics research, when adolescents are exposed at sexual media such as ads, they attempt to do sexual intercourse or other activities. In addition, most of models in ads are erotic and skinny. Such factor impacts on adolescents’ body images. They perceive their body shape has to be the skinny model. Actually many teenagers are having eating disorder to reduce their weight.
As Jennifer Pescador, classmate says commercials such as movie, special event, sport, help people to have information. However, in general, most of commercials have negative impact on people. Commercial is a marketing tool that approach its target customer in a fast pace. Each commercial contains message to manipulate people to act in certain way. Moreover, today many advertisers employ sex in commercial to sell everything from hamburger to shoes. They want people to be shocked by their ads. However, using criminal concepts or excessive sexuality in advertisements are offensive to women and cause significant negative impact on adolescents. Definitely commercials are responsible. Therefore, when advertisers consider commercial concepts, they must deliberate ethical issues and further social impacts.
Works Cited
Gifford, Amy. "Sex Sells Best?." Inventorspot (2007): 3-1. Web. 29 Feb 2010..
"Children, Adolescents, and Advertising." Pediatrics. 2006. American Academy Pediatrics, Web. 27 Feb 2010..
Goshgarian, Gary, and Kathleen Krueger. Dialogues. 6th ed. 771. Longman Pub Group, 2009. 419-48. Print.
Taum, Remington. "Logical Fallacies ." Online posting. 27 Feb 2010 Laulima discussion. 27 Feb 2010
Pescador, Jennifer. "No, Ads Don’t Have Negative Impact." Online posting. 19 Feb 2010 Laulima discussion. 28 Feb 2010
Hyorim Kim
FD#2
According to the industrial development, new products are turning out every single day in a fast pace and people have various choices in their purchase. For instance, when we go to a supermarket to buy a tooth blush, we could see an abundant tooth blushes which filled an entire wall. A number of companies have been producing the same good and competing with other company producing similar product with them. As a result, the industry of commercial advertising also has grown fast. The purpose of commercials is to attract people a certain product so that make them want to buy the product among others. The problem in contemporary commercials is to be a more luring advertising to people among one’s competitors, commercials tend to manipulate, be deceptive and offensive to people. [THESIS] In general, most of advertisements have a negligible negative impact on our lives by illogical and sexual concepts especially on women and adolescents.[THESIS]
According to Dr. Turow, a professor at the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania, advertisers do not focus on all audiences, instead, they narrow down a certain audience group targeted (Goshgarian, and Krueger 330). The narrowed audience group is consisted of potential buyers. Commercial is the new way of marketing to reach customers with a special message. However, in order to be a powerful temptation, some commercials contain logical errors, called logical fallacies (Goshgarian, and Krueger 48), to manipulate people who are targeted by advertisers. I have found an appropriate example of advertising that tend to manipulate target customers.
The name of product is Motherly Cubes, a frozen baby food brand, and Jenny Webber is the director. The TV commercial of Motherly Cubes starts with a mother having her baby in shopping cart. A mother is pushing a shopping cart around frozen food section in a mart and a baby is in the cart. In the background, other two mothers are shopping with her baby. The main actress, the mother, says “all moms want to give their babies the best start in life. That's why I love motherly cubes 100% natural "grain or range" This commercial contains the Bandwagon Appeal and Circular Reasoning. The bandwagon is easy to appear in advertisements because it gives people image that “people is doing this and thinking that.”(Goshgarian, and Krueger 419-48) The renowned slogan for bandwagon is “Smart shoppers shop at Sears.”
“All moms want to give their babies the best start in life, that’s why I love motherly cubes 100% natural "grain or range" This commercial contains a meaning that mothers concerning their babies love to buy “motherly cubes” which is bandwagon. All moms want to give their babies the best start and natural foods, which are generally true, but mothers really concerning their babies’ life and health, most of them would not want and feed instant frozen food for their babies. Therefore, what the actress said is not general idea that accepted all mothers. Feeding a baby the frozen food never can be a logical reason for the baby start in life because the commercial slogan does not have accurate evidence to support. Such fallacy calls circular reasoning. (Goshgarian, and Krueger 48) Not only many commercials contain such logical fallacy but also make adolescents and women vulnerable by commercials focused on sexuality.
Brining sexual concepts in advertisements is one of powerful techniques to attract people. Sex stimulates people’s curiosity. Although sexual advertisements are hard to recognize what they sell, in reality, many of advertisements employed sexuality are top selling products such as Puma’s Kneeling and Carl’s Jr. Hamburgers. (Gifford) The main a school girl is kneeling at a guy feet and she is touching his knee. Even though, heads of models is limited. People can easily image a sexual situation. Carl’s Jr. Hamburgers got famous by Paris Hilton’s sexual appeal in the commercial. She is wearing swim suit and car washing with her body. Until see the final scene of the commercial, audience may not recognize what she is advertising. My classmate, Remington Taum sets a good example that is selling sexuality in TV commercial.
Calvin Klein’s perfume commercial, CK In2u, starts with one girl and boy. They meet at a street and smell each other. The girl keeps teasing the boy, unfasten his belt, and runaway into elevator. The boy follows the elevator finally meets her. The commercial ends on a couch and the girl and boy touch each other. This commercial definitely gives image of sexuality. Reminton Taum also point out that this commercial contain logical fallacy which is post hoc, ergo propter hoc. Post hoc, ergo propter hoc is a wrong cause-and-effect relationship. The main message of this commercial is that if you use CK In2u, other gender would be attracted you. Therefore, CK In2u commercial contains the post hoc, ergo propter.
To be a more powerful sexual commercial among others to shock or stimulate people, some commercials contain even unethical issues such as rape and homosexuality or Lesbianism. These unethical issues influence negative impact on adolescences and women. For example, one of Dolce & Gabbana advertisements in magazine, in two pages of advertisement, a topless guy is pushing a girl on the ground and she is wearing sexy dress. She seems to resist the guy but four guys around them are watching the situation. The commercial situation describes rape and this commercial does not have relationship with fashion. The other example is Jimmy Choo’s advertisement from our text book, the Dialogues. In the advertisement, a dead woman is lying in a car truck and a guy is digging ground with his shelve. This commercial indicates murder and abandonment of a dead body. Both commercials of Dolce & Gabbana and Jimmy Choo contain criminal issues such as rape and murder and are very offensive to women at the same time. Such unethical commercials have negative influences not only women but also adolescences.
A research has shown that advertisements impact on adolescents. An adolescent views about 250 ads per hour. The problem is they do not have ability to understand or distinguish the notion of various commercials which means they are defenseless. (Pediatrics) According to Pediatrics research, when adolescents are exposed at sexual media such as ads, they attempt to do sexual intercourse or other activities. In addition, most of models in ads are erotic and skinny. Such factor impacts on adolescents’ body images. They perceive their body shape has to be the skinny model. Actually many teenagers are having eating disorder to reduce their weight.
As Jennifer Pescador, classmate says commercials such as movie, special event, sport, help people to have information. However, in general, most of commercials have negative impact on people. Commercial is a marketing tool that approach its target customer in a fast pace. Each commercial contains message to manipulate people to act in certain way. Moreover, today many advertisers employ sex in commercial to sell everything from hamburger to shoes. They want people to be shocked by their ads. However, using criminal concepts or excessive sexuality in advertisements are offensive to women and cause significant negative impact on adolescents. Definitely commercials are responsible. Therefore, when advertisers consider commercial concepts, they must deliberate ethical issues and further social impacts.
Works Cited
Gifford, Amy. "Sex Sells Best?." Inventorspot (2007): 3-1. Web. 29 Feb 2010.
"Children, Adolescents, and Advertising." Pediatrics. 2006. American Academy Pediatrics, Web. 27 Feb 2010.
Goshgarian, Gary, and Kathleen Krueger. Dialogues. 6th ed. 771. Longman Pub Group, 2009. 419-48. Print.
Taum, Remington. "Logical Fallacies ." Online posting. 27 Feb 2010 Laulima discussion. 27 Feb 2010
Pescador, Jennifer. "No, Ads Don’t Have Negative Impact." Online posting. 19 Feb 2010 Laulima discussion. 28 Feb 2010
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