Vince’s Blog

1.  My argument is how clothing advertisements have changed today and are mainly sold using sexual innuendo.  Commercials today use the idea that”sex sells.”  I will examine the abercrombie and fitch clothing line and how it has changed today and is mainly selling through ads that show sexy young adults almost naked showing a bit of their clothing.  It is mainly sold to teens through their twenties and really sells with sex instead of the actual clothing. 
2. I hope to discover how advertisements used to be and how they have evolved over the years.  I want to understand how they sell so well and really attract todays generation of young adults.  I really want to discover more about how the clothing line started as well. 
3. I have used a few dicfferent sources including  news paper article I received when hired at A&F back at home and also their website.  The newspaper article I received when hired there showed how I was supposed to dress, how I was supposed to work and act there and basically when you work there you are basically modeling the clothing.  Most of the people that would work there were all good looking and basically you had to be good looking in order to work.  So it was as if they were selling the people instead of the clothing.  It was kind of strange.  I will also use their official site because it shows plenty of pictures of the models for their clothing line and all the clothes they sell and to whom they sell to.  It will give me good information about their clothing line and how they advertise. 
4. I should still look for more sources to work with and really understand the history to their clothing line.  Some elements that aren’t clear to me are the history to the clothing line and the type of people they sell to, gender to ethnicity.  I want to learn more about the clothing line and why sex sells so well and how it is aimed at the young generation.  I will need a few more sources as well.

1) When Freire talks about classes today and the “problem-posing” class in for example english, the professor isn’t the only one teaching anymore they are learners as well.  Professors and student now a days both have their say in class and pose different opinions and ideas on topics which are raised in classrooms.  Students have just as much say as the professor and professors can also learn from students instead of just the students learning from the professor.  Students are allowed to have their own opinions and think openly and be creative.  They can have their own reflection of the topic.  In the discussion of “consious of consciousness”, it means being aware of your conscious state.  This would mean knowing your thoughts at a certain point and only you know about your thoughts, no one else.  Being aware of your thoughts and ideas on a subject.  This made a difference in my school work when I sit in class and while others answer a question asked by the teacher, I have my own thought on it but no one else knows what it is.  I have my own conscious creative idea.

2) The term praxis is defined as practical application or exercise of a branch of learning.  This type of learning goes along with the banking system.  This system lets students come up with their own ideas and theories while at the same time learn about theories known today.  However this does not give students the chance to think freely.  Alienation is defined as the state of being withdrawn or isolated from the objective world as through indifference or disaffection.  Students can feel alienated in a sense that their own thoughts aren’t accepted because they are not law and students are not given the chance to open their minds freely . 

3)  In this reading, I think Friere is like a teacher and we the readers are the students.  He attempts to give us information that we should accept.  Kind of like the metaphor of making deposits in a bank, he is filling us with his ideas instead of letting us think freely and open our thoughts and ideas.  He attempts to feed us information and we should accept it, instead of letting us have our own ideas and opinions.