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In the article Our Age of Propaganda, the author says "During the trial. Huston prosecutor Mark Vinson places some of the blame on the images created by advertising. Said Vinson "It's bad when we create an image of luxury about athletic gear that it forces people to kill over in'" In this quote the author is speaking about a case form the early 1990's where 17 year old Demetrick James Walker was sentenced to life in prison for shooting another boy over a pair of Nike Air Jordans. Now the point of this section is to show the powerful grip that advertisement has over people in our modern world and it illustrate the lengths some people seem to be willing to go when under the impression that things that are widely advertised in pop culture are as popular as they are made out to be by "propaganda" promoting them. But to me this also underlines another important point, the propaganda of the courtroom and our strange ability to manipulate other human beings to see our own world view. When reading this case I knew that more must be going on than an intense love for shoes. My best guess is that the person on trial was dealing with very serious mental issues and instead of addressing them he was sentenced to life in prison rather than to a treatment facility that he clearly needed. But now we see this case as being entirely about advertisement, which in itself is almost an advertisement as well. Instead of focusing on the clear probleme at hand the prosecutor chose to say that the shoes had such a powerful hold of Walker that it drove him to murder, now of course you don't want shoes that could get you killed, but say you had never hear of Air Jordans (somehow) and then you read about this trail, all of a sudden you are going to be very curious about these shoes, you are going to seek them out wondering what makes them so special and thus they have one your attention, the advertisement that took place in the courtroom, weather or not it was on purpose has worked on you. In face after doing a bit of research looking at Nike's stock prices, I saw that even during these trails their revenue continued to climb despite the murder. This to me is almost scary, it really proves the fact that no publicity is bad publicity, and that whenever we mention a brand name or associate with a company we need to be careful with how we go about it.

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This advertisement is for Reece’s Peanut Butter cups and as you can see they are using celebrity testimonials to promote their brand. One of the many possible reasons that people may not eat Reece’s chocolate is because they are worried about the effects it may have on their health, but by having 3 gold medals, world record-setting swimmers saying that they like and eat Reece’s helps get rid of people’s health concerns because if Michael Phelps can win more then 25 Olympic medals and eat chocolate they can’t be that bad for you. It also just helps grab people’s attention because during the Olympics all eyes are on the athletes so the brands they work with and promote will gain more traction. Lastly, it also uses bright colors and brand association to draw your eye in, you associate Recce's with the color orange so when you see that color in an ad you will imminently recognize that specific color palet, but even if you don't the bright orange color is a great way to draw in peoples eyes and keep them focused cause it pops out so well and adds a bright and lively mood to the image.

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In Gwendolyn Brooks 1945 poem the kitchenette building is a fantastic example of how an author can take large scale multi personal struggles and turn them into beautiful person stories about slices of a persons life. She addresses the struggles of living on the poverty line and the dynamics of poverty, but she brings it down to a personal level, she describes just one persons dream, just one hope just one prayer, not poverty as a whole, just how it effects and molds the speaker shes describes in this work.

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Growing little sister

By: Anna Eisen

When she screamed the rafters shook

And when she cried the shingles broke

And when she whispers flowers leaned

And when she stomped they writhed and screamed

When she hummed it was a song

But when she sang it was not for long

But when sunshine shone upon her face

The sadness?

Oh, it did not leave a trace

During this semester I was most inspired by Gwendolyn Brooks’s 1949 poem, Do Not be Afraid of No. I felt like it spoke very clearly to me about what it means to be a woman, and how it feels to learn to come into your own identity, to learn to value things because you like them, not because they are what you are supposed to want. When reading this poem I was also very interested in how Brook’s used such clear yet expressive diction throughout the whole work, carefully using concise phrasing to describe such an abstract concept as personal freedom. For example in the 6th stanza, she writes “A flying furniture, or bird with lattice wings and gaunt things, a stammering down nightmare neon”. We can see here how she describes real objects in such a way that almost no other poets have, and it creates a beautiful chaos of words in one single phrase. So for my final project, I decided to write a short poem that reflected back what it felt like for me to grow up and learn the power I held in the identity that I could shape for myself, similar to the theme of Do Not be Afraid of No, by using similar poetic techniques. I took great inspiration from Brook’s use of forceful and concise phrasing that she supported by using couplets in this poem to create a reflective yet rapid environment in her work. This poem was inspired by my younger sister because I wanted to write something about growing up as a young girl, to relate to Brook’s themes of womanhood, and no one was more important in my time as a child than my younger sister has been. So this poem is dedicated to life growing up with her, and finding out what it truly means to grow up into a person you are proud to have become. Throughout the poem, I used a couplet format until the final line and learned how to use concrete diction in the most effective way with phrases such as “And when she cried the shingles broke '' that I felt used this poetic device effectively. I also used personification in the second stanza, by giving flowers human-sounding qualities, like the ability to lean in to listen to something, this was inspired by the line in Do not be Afraid of No “ flying furniture” which gave life to an ordinary household object, a technique I found very effective within her work.