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     Sadly in today's society, self portraits have become the term, Selfie. This term has basically taken over the world. You could go through any social media and type in #selfie or just selfie for that matter and you will find millions of pictures of random people's faces or a group of people's faces. While you do through this you might even catch a picture of your someone you know. Like your friend, your co worker, a teacher you know or even your parents. 

    With this being such a big trend it is practically everywhere, which lead to the creation of the selfie stick. The selfie stick allows you creates the illusion that someone else is talking the picture of you but really it's just you holding your phone far away using a stick to hold up your phone. 

Articles about selfie sticks (http://www.digitaltrends.com/mobile/museums-ban-selfie-sticks/)

     From reading that small portion of the post you probably already know what side of this trend I am on if you don't already know me in person. Yet, I am going to tell you what side I am on. I don't enjoy taking selfies very much, though I have done this once. I can say that I don't like it because I have already tried it once. 

    With selfies being such a big things, I also hear about something bad about the seflie sticks. I heard about how selfie sticks are hurting other people and damaging the things around them. Which doesn't not surprise me at all. This lead selfie sticks being banned in places like museums. 

     In a recent article I read that you can read too here, it talks about how why selfie sticks are banned in places like art museums. This is because that they are worried that when trying to get the perfect selfie you might knock something or someone over when moving around with the stick extended. 

     This is shows how self absorbed the world is now. We first start the trend of taking selfies, which turns into companies created things to get money from this trend that has been taking over the world that will not stop because selfies have been going on for a very long time. It's just that back then it was called a self portrait and not a selfie. 

    With the our new selfie sticks that has been created by someone smart enough to make these and mass produce it. We are just trying to innocently take selfies with them and then just happen to swing them around, not caring about the things and people around you. Even though selfie sticks are basically a long stick that holds your phone in place so you can put a timer on it to get the perfect shot. 

     Which leads me into banning the selfie stick, there are better thing to buy or use your money on then actually going out and buying a selfie stick just to take picture of yourself. Also, if it harms things and people around I'm pretty sure you would want to avoid buying it so you never get in trouble because you hit something or knocked out someone trying to take a selfie with your selfie stick. 

Here's a picute of the group assignment that my English class was given, Creating an Advertisement

     Through most people's spare time, they would usually plop onto the couch and turn on their TV. With TV being such a big thing that many people use, companies of any sizes take advantage of that in making the many ads or commercials that annoy, offensive, and just some times rude. Though, it sometimes just looks little a small very comedic ad that's very creative and humours on the surface. Yet, these commercials are just rude and sometimes disgusting.

     All commercials are used to promote the service or product that they are selling. Yet, the way some companies do this just tick me off once I started to look deeper into the ad. You can watch the video here.

Here's a screen shot of Axe commercial (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y3qYT60DSKQ)

     The ad shown above is an example of this. A very creative and what I consider amusing ad by Axe to promote their line of chocolate body spray. Yet, the way that they show that people should buy this product distributes me. The commercial shows a young boy that's spraying body spray on himself making him become a man of chocolate. While he walks around town, all the young women that are around him can't keep themselves away from him. So all the girls there just start licking and eating all the chocolate that is also him too. This is because the ad wants to tell the view that if you use our product you will be irresistible to all the Caucasian young ladies that are around you.

     This ad to me is just very awkward. By watching the expression of the boy, he is enjoying the fact that every girl he sees wants him. By saying this, he is very racist. He himself is a Caucasian young boy who only likes young Caucasian woman.  All of  the Caucasian women are all over him are all of the same race. There was no sign of any other race like Asians or African Americans.

     Another ad that has some way that includes stereotypes is in the ad created to promote stride. A gum company that is trying to promote their new layer gum. You can watch the commercial here.

Here's a screen shot of Trident Layers commercial (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tviPLpD8VG8)

As a child, I got into fights, accidents, and into troubles many times. For this, my parents would start yelling at me and tell me what I did was wrong. Sometimes they would even ground me from watching TV or using my tablet. Thankfully, I am not get grounded today. 

Recently while skimming through my YouTube subscription list, I saw that Buzzfeed a website with crazy and funny articles. I spent some time on the web page, though what surprised me the most was this articles about a child who got his head shaved like an old man. If you would like to read the article, it is right here.

      For the parent who did this, he said that this was a form of punishment to his child and he even gave the haircut a name, the "Benjamin Button Special." This is where they shave the kid's head to look like an old man. Though this is pretty smart and a very creative way of punishment. I don't really see how this is a punishment at all? All the parent did was just giving him a haircut? 

Yes, he does look like an old man but he probably doesn't act like one? How is this supposed to teach that child whatever he did was wrong? It can be very embarrassing for the child to go around looking like that until his hair grows back. Also, posting it on the internet for millions to see must have made it worst. 

Yet, a video made by the same company, Buzzfeed, shows four of their own workers dyeing their hair grey. They did this to show off the new "granny hair" trend that has been going around. Many celebrities have done this, Pink for example dye her hair grey in 2010. If you would like to watch the video it is right here.

Photo of one of the volunteers results (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kgrwCOxjx-Q)

 By watching this video and the way the volunteers reacted to their new looks, I just don't understand how this could be a form of punishment at all? Many of the volunteers liked their new hair colour in the video.