Chayse J. Adams

Ms. Chastain

Eng. 104

Blog- Jan. 27, 2011

Blog Response to the following Questions:

Tell us about the ad you have chosen. Spend some time describing the ad in detail. How does it objectify a male or female? Next briefly identify the intended audience. Go further than identifying young, white women. Use the example that I have provided you with for the writing assignment for the first essay. Discuss how and why that ad targets this audience. Use supporting details from the ad to support your claim.

I have chosen the ad for Spike TV’s series, Blue Mountain State, shown at the bottom of this blog for my writing assignment. In this ad there is a young, extremely attractive, blond haired woman looking to be in her younger twenties. She is wearing white tennis shoes and long, white sports socks with three black stripes towards the top. She has black underwear that shows at the waistband just above her extremely short grey, athletic “booty” shorts. She is wearing a white tank top style of athletic compression top that shows most of her stomach. The woman straddles or rides on top of a giant football that has “BMS Blue Mountain State” written as the logo on the side of the football. She arches her back inward with her arms in the air and hands running through her hair as if she is signifying an orgasm by sexual pleasure. Behind the woman at chest height the phrase, “It’s All About the Scoring.”

This ad objectifies young white women in their twenties. It could also objectify women athletes such as cheerleaders. The as does this by taking typical athletic wear of women and through her posture and how she styles the clothing, turns the attitude of the ad into a more sexual intended and oriented ad than it would have been for a woman athlete to just stand next to a big football.

The intended audience for this ad is typically straight men ranging from the ages of 17-25, who are most likely single or at least not married. This ad would attract the attention of college men or football fans or men in general as a whole would be enticed by this advertisement. This ad would detour some men in these categories as well though, these men would be those who their religion would reject this kind of show and also the church member who was watching it. There are a number of religions that would not approve of this show. Another deterrent of this show could be moral beliefs of some people that would see this show as morally wrong.

A Writerly Biography of Myself, Chayse Adams

Chayse J. Adams

College Writing and Rhetoric, blog response.

1-20-2011

A Writerly Biography of Myself, Chayse Adams

            My name is Chayse Jacobus Adams, I am 19 years old and I am starting my second semester as a freshman at Missouri Western State University. I was born and raised here in St. Joseph Mo. My experiences with reading have not been as good as my experiences with writing. Although I am not a great writer, yet, I have always managed to do decently well in writing, which I believe may be because of the creative person I am. I like to talk and tell stories and that’s generally what writing is, without the excitement of getting to throw facial expressions and move my hands in every which direction. I do that because I am one of those people who talk with their hands even if someone tells me not to 5 seconds before, I’ll get lost in my thoughts and story and sure enough they’ll be flailing everywhere in a matter of moments. Not that you don’t already know me Ms. Chastain, but now anyone else might be beginning to get a glimpse of the funny, charming, all around goofy person that I comfortably am.

            My reading experiences are few and far between. It seems that from as early in my childhood that I can remember, reading has always been more of a chore and a means of getting any pleasure or enjoyment out of my day. To put it simply, I just seem to find better, more productive ways to spend my time. However in recent years I have found a “few” books that I would say I actually have enjoyed spending my time in such a manner. But only a “few”! As a writer I have always struggled with the use of commas and spelling. Those would be my two biggest problems in which I will be looking and asking for assistance on this semester from the instructor and my peers. Because I have never been an avid reader, I am extremely slow! However, odd as it may be, I have always had extremely high comprehensive skills, which I believe may be because I read so slow that I really take in each word and take the time to understand what I am reading. Another theory to that may be that I try to comprehend and fully understand what I read and that is why I am so slow.  Two rather good theories I believe. When I say I am a slow reader, I also want to clarify that I do not read like a 4^th grader, just probably a little under the average speed of a typical freshman in college. My schedule consists of a lot of reading this semester, that would probably be the most intimidating factor for myself that I can come up with at this point in time.