Writing Assignment 2

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Every day, I look around and see things when I walk. In fact, we all do. Looking around when walking is a simple way to keep our mind busy and entertained while in reality our feet are subconsciously working to propel the body forward.

            Looking around, people are naturally drawn to different things. Some look at animals, or houses, or cars, or some try to step equally in each concrete block. No matter what we look at, we are all again drawn to the same things. The short walk from Johnson B, us travelers will notice the same things: The famous smoking section with never less than five people there, the undercover cop cars parked at Lafollette, and the multiple car brands—all looking like a college student drives them.

            However, until this year, I thought high school was supposed to be trendy and everyone was to look alike. When thinking about it, after venturing off to college for just over two weeks I see that high school was not so bad. Here at college, a student is not cool if they do not have a pair of Dre Beats to listen to inconveniently, a long board to ride to class and cannot lock up on the bike locks, a snap back Ball State hat that twenty other people in a 200 yard radius have on. If a person really wants to be cool and come off as an intelligent college student, they should get to class early, pull our their MacBook pro, scatter the huge books on the floor, drink coffee, and look as if they doing homework. That is how to impress people. Oh, and do not forget, if you are a freshman “you better not wear your lanyard around your neck!”

            Looking at all of the trends and stereotypes that are still here and not left back at high school like they are supposed to be, it is sad. It is sad that the students are so easily persuaded by products and the desire to fit it. It is rhetoric.

            This activity showed me not advertisements, but the effects of advertising.