Blog 2 "The Allegory of The Cave" Summary

          "The Allegory of the Cave" is a conversation between Socrates and Glaucon. In this dialog Socrates is using a metaphor to point to a group of people that they are pretending to look at, who live into a cave. He uses this literary figure to compare and explain to Glaucon how the humanity lives mostly covered with the darkness just like in a cave. Socrates is also explaining to him how the change between the darkness to the brilliant sun outside of the cave can be horrible at the first moment when they, as human being, experiment the lightness, but after a while and with to much effort they would get their eyes used to the clarity of the sun and then, they will be comfortable looking every detail in the real world that is only in the exterior of the cave where they used to live and are coming out now for the first time.

Blog 2 "Hype" Summary

          According to the article  "Hype" from "Reading on Popular Culture for Writers", Sonia Masakik and Jack Solomon said that advertisement are toxic and affect the mental peace of people, therefore, they express a big concern regarding the extremely proliferation of commercials in North America last years due to the exaggeration in quantity and places.

Blog 1 "Hype"

Are Advertisements Harmful for the Population?

           In the passage "Hype" from "Readings on Popular Culture for Writers", Sonia Maasik and Jack Solomon express a kind of concern regarding the extremely proliferation of Advertisements in North America during the last years. They affirm that those ads are toxic and affect the mental peace of people every day because of the exaggeration in quantity and places.

           I know that the marketing needs to create and use imagination to get wherever and whenever with their product or service, however I think before I read this passage that they are really overcrowded our minds with all this information. Sometimes I have doubt of the quality of a product for seeing it every where. I also think that they are doing too much and that some one have to let them know to stop because we feel more like every single advise can be a foolish stuff and restless of importance.

        This fact is not only happening in the United States. In my country the Dominican Republic which is a third world country is worse and people get affected because they became more superficial due to the fact that they can not get this or that product which they says is amazing and It will resolve their problem. Then the result is an increase in the corruption and delicuence.

       Lastly I am glad that there are authors and books which talk about this topic because it is really too much already. We have to think about it as a serious issue which will bring worse consequences to our population and mostly in our kids. I wish my daughter could grow up in a healthy and uncontaminated environment, just like the years of our grandparents with the publicity and marketing limited to some places only.        

Blog 1 "Hype"

Are Advertisements Harmful for the Population?

           In the passage "Hype" from Readings on Popular Culture for Writers, Sonia Maasik and Jack Solomon express a kind of concern regarding the extremely proliferation of Advertisements in North America during the last years. They affirm that those ads are toxic and affect the mental peace of people every day because of the exaggeration in quantity and places.  

           I know that the marketing needs to create and use imagination to get wherever and whenever with their product or service, however I think before I read this passage that they are really overcrowded our minds with all this information. Sometimes I have doubt of the quality of a product for seeing it every where. I also think that they are doing too much and that some one have to let them know to stop because we feel more like every single advise can be a foolish stuff and restless of importance.

        This fact is not only happening in the United States. In my country the Dominican Republic which is a third world country is worse and people get affected because they became more superficial due to the fact that they can not get this or that product which they says is amazing and It will resolve their problem. Then the result is an increase in the corruption and delicuence.

       Lastly I am glad that there are authors and books which talk about this topic because it is really too much already. We have to think about it as a serious issue which will bring worse consequences to our population and mostly in our kids. I wish my daughter could grow up in a healthy and uncontaminated environment, just like the years of our grandparents with the publicity and marketing limited to some places only.