5 Creative advertisements

Target audience: men, interested in cars
This is the advertisement for Mini Cooper. 
The women bent because of the "Mini" and she's waiting for a car to pass by. I think the advertisement just describes the 'Mini' and the 'Cooper' and nothing more.



Target audience: adults, elderly. Actually all people who want to have a nice breath
This is the advertisement of Clorets.
Fish smell and when you have a bad breath your tongue colors a bit. This is why the fish is placed as a tongue, when you're having a bad breath, you can smell like fish!

Target audience: people who are old enough to go on a trip by themselves, from grown-ups to elderly
This is the advertisement of Eurostar.com
The food is the typical English breakfast and lovers often have sex. This is why the egg attracts the beans which have changed into sperms. 

Target audience: all people who use stamps
This advertisement from Australia post is meant to show how your own post stamp would look like. 
You can create one yourself, the mirror is the place where and how your picture is going to be placed.

Target audience: people who are having sex (there is no specific age for those things)
Condomshop.ch created this advertisement. "Don't be stupid, protect yourself"
When you're not using a condom, you might get into dangerous situations. Just like when your house is on fire.
I think they choose to use the nude man so people will think he just had sex without a condom and therefore came into this dangerous situation.

Social Media

The role of social media is grossly overestimated.


We had the discussion if the role of social media is grossly overestimated.
Many of us disagreed. It is easier to communicate with eachother, the whole world knows what's happening, the social media is accessible for everyone and it's cheap. No phone costs, only internet costs. Whenever you want to get more information you can go on a social media to look it up. You can find people with the same interests as you on the internet and have a nice chat with them. If there has happened something dramatic, most people tweet it. So we're all quickly up-to-date.

Guinness book of records for having 8 kids

Laura from Miguel street (a street near the Port of Spain) set a record in the Guinness Book of Records 2 years ago. She was the only one in the world who has 8 kids. Nothing strange about that but, those kids are from 7 different men!

It’s time to get to know that remarkable story better.
We did some research in Miguel street, talked to some people
and went to Laura if she wanted to talk to us about this great news.
And yes, she gave us some more information about the background of the 8 kids,
7 different men and how she experienced it.

Laura was very happy about this. Not everyone has the ability to get such a record
in the Guinness book of records! After 3 or 4 times getting a baby,
you get to used to it, according to Laura. Her first 6 kids are from 6 different
men, the last 2 are from the same man, called Nathaniel. She said their relationship
was pretty serious and Nathaniel came to live with her. He was
pretty quick a member of the Miguel street ‘gang’. Nathaniel made rude remarks
to women who just passed by and he told the guys he was used to beat Laura.
But the opposite was true. Laura admits she shouts and curses at her kids, but
she really loves them. She also blames God for the fact of having so many kids.
There was no job for Laura, but she still had to feed all those hungry mouths.
She did this by asking her friends for some help.

According to a boy from Miguel Street, her belly was rising and rising,
then it was flat again. After a few months it started to rise again!
 “Laura was the most vivacious person in the street”, the boy said.
Many Miguel street people had the opinion that Nathaniel was dirtier than them,
because he came from the east end of Port of Spain. When the guys from Miguel street
discovered that Nathaniel was actually trying to be the ‘cool guy’ from Miguel street
by saying he was used to beat Laura, they wanted him to leave as soon as possible.
After their first child (Laura’s 7^th child) , Laura wanted Nathaniel to leave.
She said she’d call the police, that made him finally leave Miguel street.
The only thing what was left was another child in her belly from Nathaniel.

The eldest daughter of Laura, Lorna, drowned in a swimming pool
only one week ago. This was very sad for Laura and the other 7 kids.
We wish Laura and her kids the best of all.
Now Laura has a place in the Guinness book of records, people probably want to be better than her. So who knows? Maybe there’s a women with 10 kids from 10 different men!

written by Tukusi for Girls Only Magazine Trinidad and Tobago.™

Rationale

I choose to write a Magazine Article because I wanted to inform others about this happening. The Magazine is called “Girls Only Magazine”, just because I couldn’t come up with something better and I think girls are more interested in such a story than men are.

My first idea was to write a newspaper article but that was a little bit too hard and I couldn’t find the right formal sentences, instead I was writing more informal sentences. I also started with an introduction which is written in a way like you’re telling it to a friend. Then I thought about ‘doing research’, so I could quote some things from the book.

To make it look a bit professional, I wrote her answers in the article, but not like an interview. It still had to be an article. It also gave a better story, than just telling everything from the authors view. Now it’s clear, the 3^rd paragraph is about Laura and how she has been thinking about this all. And the 4^th paragraph, I include the “I-person” from the book in it. Because I still don’t know what his name is. The reason I wrote that the record was already set 2 years ago is because of the 5^th paragraph.

In the book, later in the chapter, Lorna dies. I thought this would be nice for my article so I had to change the time for a bit. I could not say that Laura set the record only 1 week ago, so that would mean her 8^th child is one week old now. If I did so, it would not really fit into the story according to the book.

The last paragraph is more like an ending in a magazine I think. Bit of asking a opinion (“who knows?!”) of the one who reads this article, but also show that it’s the end of the article.

The last thing to discuss is the writer. I chose a name which means hummingbird in the Trinidad and Tobago language. The Girls only magazine is a magazine from Trinidad and Tobago. Because the story has happened in the country itself, in one of the streets near the port of Spain. The language use is not like the people of Miguel street, this is just because I think there are people in Trinidad and Tobago who do speak ‘normal ‘ English. The Miguel street gang might just speak a dialect.  

Past vs. Future

What is more important? You can’t say that the future is the most important for all of us. It depends on the person. For me, I think the past is the most important but the future is also quite important...

People often say: “The past repeats itself”. If that is true, the past would be more important for us because we can expect what is going to happen and prepare ourselves for it. But therefore, it would be less exciting if you already know what is going to happen.

A lot of things got discovered in the past, but without a doubt, I can say that this will also happen in the future. We, or scientists, haven’t discovered everything yet. Maybe there will be more information about where we, the human being, come from. Or if the evolution theory is right.  There is already pretty much evidence to show that the earth is older than the people who believe in a creator of the earth believe. Scientists have shown that the evolution began 8million years ago, the creationists believe the earth is only 4,000 years old. But who knows if scientists are always right?

I think in the future we’ll develop even more technology. Nowadays we have the iPad, iMac, Macbook, laptop, mobile phone and iPod. In the future this will be a product everyone has, and there are even more luxuries.

With the knowledge from the past, we can handle things which will happen in the future or are already happening. But we must not forget that some knowledge from the past might be outdated. So in fact the future will most likely be a place where we will see to the knowledge of the past combined with the possibilities of today.

Without a past, you don’t have enough knowledge to survive in the future. But there are new problems we will have to face in the future, which were not there yet in the past (or not that big), which means we don’t have all the knowledge yet.

By reading all those arguments, I change my mind and I think both are equal important.  I think that past and future are equally dependant on each other, no past without a future, because then why would we live? And no future without past, because where would we be without the inventions from the past?

"How to Die"

Dark clouds are smouldering into red
  While down the craters morning burns.
The dying soldier shifts his head
  To watch the glory that returns;
He lifts his fingers toward the skies
  Where holy brightness breaks in flame;
Radiance reflected in his eyes,
  And on his lips a whispered name.

You'd think, to hear some people talk,
  That lads go West with sobs and curses,
And sullen faces white as chalk,
  Hankering for wreaths and tombs and hearses.
But they've been taught the way to do it
  Like Christian soldiers; not with haste
And shuddering groans; but passing through it
  With due regard for decent taste. 

We did a Phileas Fogg play about the first world war

and of course, we had to write a response:

The first world war really interests me. This is why I really liked the Phileas Fogg role play. I had to play the ‘news reader’, or actually, the one who read some names of cities in which people had died. I also had to support Iris together with Laura, while we died in the gassy air. The people who taught us the play were really nice, just like 2 years ago. They are funny as well by the way. This was finally a nice ‘Op-Maat’ project. In the end of the play, Ben was the last man standing. He was the only soldier who survived. This was an awesome moment. Everyone died and Ben still stood in the middle with his helmet and a gun. I learned a lot about the first World War; how people lived, how they died, what they did to survive and ofcourse, how to play drama. Mr. van Voorthuizen also recorded the play and I’m really looking forward to see it again. If there was an opportunity to do it again, I definitely would take that opportunity.

Woesh

So, this is a new blog which we needed to create for our English assignments.
I'll only post those assignments on here, other posts/pictures etc are on Tumblr.


Just so you know.