Wednesday, March 28, 2012
Cross Country
I have
been running basically my entire life.
Throughout my four years of high school, the guys always said that cross
country was not hard and basically anyone could do it. Personally, I think cross country is a very
hard sport. Yes, anyone can run but it
takes dedication to run cross country. Through
my four years of running for Lady Runnin’ Red I have learned that it takes a
lot of practice and dedication to become a good runner. For a typical practice at cross country at
Metamora High School we would run about ten miles or so. We were required to run out to the park and
back to the school after practice which equaled to three miles just for warm up
and cool down. Also, once a week we
would stay at the high school and have little stations where we would lift
weights, run, stretch, and do core. I
think cross country is one of the hardest sports a person can do. First off, you have to have the strength and
dedication to run for a long time at a good pace with a coach yelling at you
every two minutes to run faster or get the girl in front of you. Secondly, cross country meets are horrible! Especially in the big meets where there are
thousands of girls in your heat, and at the start of the race all the girls are
squished together. When the gun goes off all the girls push and shove to get to
the front, some even fall and get spiked.
Therefore, cross country is a very difficult and hard sport to do.
Wednesday, March 21, 2012
Social Lubricant: How a Marketing Campaign Became the Catalyst for a Societal Debate
For
this week’s blog I chose to read the article Social Lubricant: How a Marketing
Campaign Became the Catalyst for a Societal Debate by Rob Walker on page 265. This
article is about how in the new Dove commercials they are using “real” women
rather than extremely skinny, unrealistic fashion models. In this article the debate about the models
for Dove is over whether these images of the Dove girls are positive because they
are more “real” unlike the fashion model types that are all over magazines or
negative because the Dove girls are practically naked and trying to sell a
product. Walker then goes on about Dove’s
marketing ideas and how the marketing director of Dove, Philippe Harousseau,
says the campaign has been in the works for a couple of years. Also, in this article it says that women even
agree that “the media and advertising” were pushing “unrealistic” beauty
standards. I personally think that using “real”
women as models for the Dove commercials rather than “unrealistic” fashion
models because it shows girls that beauty comes in all shapes and sizes and you
do not have to be extremely skinny to be beautiful.
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