Role Models vs. Mirrors

Hillary Clinton's new campaign advertisement, Mirrors should have succeeded where Role Models failed to show the detrimental effects that Donald Trump could have on the future and the youth of America because of his poor character and the dangers of having a leader who does not lead by setting a positive example. The Mirrors advertisement ultimately failed because it did not show that Clinton is the positive role model that America needs.

The new advertisement, Mirrors might as well be a revised edition of the Role Models advertisement that she released in July. Role Models did not succeed because it portrayed Hillary Clinton as a positive role model in contrast to Donald Trump. This was not received well because in July, when the Role Models ad was released, only 28%-50% of the population had a favorable view of Hillary Clinton. Mirrors makes the same arguments as Role Models did, and follows the same format except that it shows only young girls, they are looking at themselves rather than Trump and Clinton does not appear in the ad. The most significant difference between the two advertisements is that Hillary Clinton is not included in the Mirrors ad. The most prominent complaint about the Role Models video was that it attempted to portray Clinton as a positive alternative to Trump in the last few seconds of the ad. This part of the video is somewhat hypocritical in that it is saying Clinton is a positive role model and a strong character-ed alternative to Trump at the end of an attack ad. The Clinton campaign's solution to this problem was to make a new ad in the same format but without mentioning Clinton at all. This decision only led to another failed advertisement. The Mirrors ad has no positive alternative to Trump's rhetoric which will draw unfavorable response not only from Republicans and independents but from Democrats and Clinton supporters as well.

The failures of these two advertisements to convince voters to support Hillary Clinton is evidenced by the viewer's responses on YouTube. The Role Models video has 1,283,781 views 11,424 likes and 13,322 dislikes. This puts percentage of viewers who liked the video at 0.890%, almost five times lower than that of the average YouTube video. The video's 46 to 54 likes to dislikes ratio means that it is in the most unpopular 4% of YouTube videos and is about 11 times more unpopular than the average YouTube video. Contrary to the intentions of the Clinton campaign, Mirrors performed even worse. The Mirrors video has 4,717,092 views, 27,042 likes and 45,156 dislikes. While Mirrors has bring in about four times the viewership of Role Models and therefore more likes and dislikes, its percentage of viewers who liked the video is 0.573%, about 1.5 times lower than Role Models and almost seven times lower than the average YouTube video. The video's 37 to 63 likes to dislikes ratio means that this video is also in the most unpopular 4% of YouTube videos and is about 15 times more unpopular than the average YouTube video. Therefore, Mirrors has had an audience response about 1.5 times more unfavorable than that of Role Models. This contributed to making Mirrors an even less effective advertisement than Role Models. Role Models gained 575 new subscribers for the Hillary Clinton YouTube Channel while Mirrors gained only 394 new subscribers. About 0.048% of unsubscribed viewers subscribed to the Hillary Clinton YouTube because of the Role Models video while only 0.0085% of unsubscribed viewers subscribed to the Hillary Clinton YouTube because of the Mirrors video. This means that Mirrors was about 5.6 times less effective at bringing in support to the Clinton campaign than Role Models.

Hillary Clinton: Can she make our children proud?

An ad for Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign was released titled, ¨Role Models.¨ This ad shows young children as they watch all of the controversial and unpopular things that presidential candidate Donald Trump has said throughout his campaign. It then shifts to young children watching Hillary give a speech on TV about how America needs to set a good example for the future generations and electing her would make the future generations proud of their families choices.

To persuade the people of the United States to vote for Clinton this ad appeals to ethos. It calls out Trumps character and presents him as loud, obnoxious, and ignorant. It sets him up as a leader who the future generation would be ashamed of and they would be embarrassed their families chose to elect him. It paints Hillary in a much different picture, as a leader who the children can be proud their families elected and even look up to her as a role model.

To back this argument the ad uses clever lighting to vilify Trump and make a hero out of Clinton. Whenever the children are shown watching Trump, the lighting is very cloudy and gloomy, almost as if to say if Trump is elected the bright days in America would be over. When the children are watching Hillary however, the lighting is much sunnier and the children are smiling, bringing a sense of a bright future for the United States if Hillary is elected.

With the United States getting closer and closer to the day that the next president is elected, this ad helps strengthen Hillary's campaign tremendously by making her out to be a president that would make the future generations proud, along with the many other great presidents the United States has seen.

That's So True or Real?

This episode of That's So Raven she addresses the fact that racism is present in work places and the world we live in. The only problem with this is that a lot of the viewers are youth, who may not quite understand what was actually going on in the episode itself. Was this episode of That's So Raven true? Was is Real?

I feel as though this episode of That's So Raven was very true. As in portraying how people of color are treated in the real world and by society. Shows the younger audience what's really happening in this world around them and basically what's being hidden from them. I feel as though Raven was trying to prove a point and wake her younger audience up to reality. Many shows on Disney then, still currently, portray a "white" world and perfect world, which is never true for any person in the real world. Raven really set a mark in the Disney world by addressing the problem that many kids were and are naive to in society.

Which leads to was the episode real? Obviously not with the over exaggeration of the way the situation was handled. The extreme costume situation and having Chelsie wear a "camera hat" is just not realistic. It does show how you can use the resources that you do have to bring awareness to what's happening in the world around us.

Full House True to American Society?

The Full House episode ¨I’m not D.J,¨ questions the culture of American schools by bringing down the idea of fitting in, popularity, and peer pressure, and instead promoting the idea of individuality. Towards the beginning of the episode, Stephanie(one of the main characters on the show) is talking to two ¨popular¨ girls, who both have their ears pierced, and they tell her in order to fit in with the ¨popular¨ kids she must get her ears pierced as well. So she decides to try and get her ears pierced to fit in. Later in the episode she asks her father to take her to the mall to get her ears pierced and when he tells she must wait until she gets older, she says, ¨but Jennifer got hers pierced¨ and ¨how am I ever supposed to be cool?¨ This is an extremely truthful and relatable scene for a lot of children because they want something in order to fit in, and their parents decline them the opportunity to do or have it, and when they hear this the usual response for young children is ¨but how am I supposed to be cool?¨


The final scene has Steph talking to her father about why she got her ears pierced even when he told her not to. She told him she did it to fit in at school, but she also did it to be different from her sister. She said she wanted to be treated like an individual. Her father then tells her as she gets older she must learn to make tough decisions that are good for her and not for others and that being an individual is extremely crucial in life. The episode then ends like every other, with a happy ending. This Full House episode explores the culture of children in school and what they face in order to fit in and stay relevant. It criticizes this idea and instead promotes the concept of originality.

Twenty One Pilots: Guns for Hands

Tyler Joseph, the lead singer in Twenty One Pilots, wrote the song Guns for Hands to help make the realization about how many people, especially kids, have depression and suicidal thoughts. That he is having trouble living his life while knowing what these kids are going through. It hits him even more, since he has gone through the same things that these kids are going through, and sometimes still does. He brings this issue forward, by sort of connected it to gang related problems, the usage of guns in gangs, and the guns for hands.

Tyler sings, "That you all ave guns/And you never put the safety on/And you all have plans/To take it, to take it, don't take it, take it, take it". Tyler compares the kids hands to guns and the gun's safety. in the way that they all have the power to conflict harm on themselves. The safety of a gun, is a blocking mechanism that does not allow the trigger to be pulled, not letting the gun to be fired. So when the kids aren't putting the safety on their hands, they are not taking it upon their selves to seek out help, or even just talk to someone about it. And they all have plans on pulling the trigger, to end their lives, but Tyler is telling them not to. Since they don't want to talk to someone, but obviously listen to his music, he is trying to tell them not to, to get the point across to them that there are other ways.

He later says in the chorus, "...I'm trying to sleep/But I can't, but I can't when you all/Have guns for hands". He is losing his sleep because of his thoughts about these kids. He worries about them, knowing that they can end it whenever they wanted to. Knowing that, disturbs him so much that it is keeping Tyler from sleeping.

In the third verse, He sings "We've turned our hands to guns, traded our thumbs for/ammunition". He's comparing all of these to tools. But the type of tool changes. Hands and thumbs are tools of creation that come together to work wonderfully. They are used for making things of greatness. While guns and ammunition, when put together, are tools for destruction, for ending things as people know it.
                     

                              

The Racism in American Dad

The show American Dad is promotes stereotypes.

American Dad is largely based on stereotypes, which are mostly not the true/good stereotypes.

This is a show that has been out for sometime now, and was meant for grown ups to watch, it is aired on a television channel named Adult Swim. But lately, the show’s audience is becoming younger and younger. Another show that is in the same trend as American Dad is Family Guy, which is created by the same person that created American Dad.

There is a character of Asian descent in the show that goes by the name of Toshi, in which by itself, sounds stereotypical. In the episode, “Best Little Horror House in Langely Falls”, Steve, one of the main characters, takes a liking to Toshi’s sister, Akiko, another stereotypical name. Toshi’s finds out and tries to get revenge on Steve. The way he tries to take, is being a samurai, more stereotypical. If that wasn’t enough stereotypes, like the “typical” Japanese fighter, Toshi did not give up until he completed his mission, or until he was defeated.

Popular Is The Way To Be To Survive In High School

The video for "Fancy" by Iggy Azalea and Charlie XCX promotes the stereotype that only being popular and materialistic is the way to be in high school to fit in. I see this as a true work of an accepted truth because, for instance, in the beginning of the video Iggy is standing in front of a class saying, "First things first I'm the realist." At that moment you can analyze that she has the conceited demeanor as  the typical High School "popular" teenage girl. This is showing her that she is more superior than the other students in that class, which one would consider the "nerds." Also throughout the whole video she walks around with two other girls through the hallways flipping their hair and strutting. This is very much like the "Mean Girl" presentation.

The Truth about HS relationships

The video I am analyzing is "lil Wayne Prom Queen." This video shows a guy who is not popular at all but wants a girl. This girl is so popular and beautiful she is the queen. Through out high school she always wanted the popular varsity guys.The tables eventually turned when she became pregnant and lonely and Lil Wayne's career took off.

The Old Days vs. Now, Which is Better?

Miranda Lambert's "Automatic" video talks about how the American culture used to be. The song brings up how things, and the meaning of them were worth more before things became quick and manufactured. In her song, she says,
"Hey, whatever happened to, watin' your turn
Doing it all by hand
'Cause when everything is handed to you
It's only worth as much as the time put it
It all just seemed so good the way we had it
Back before everything became automatic."

What Lambert is saying is that before we had the technology that we have now, whatever we were doing was more meaningful. Mailing a letter or "cranking" a car window down instead of emailing someone or pushing a button for the car window to work takes a little more time and effort. Yet, at the same time, without that kind of technology, our generation would find life more time-consuming. We are used to texting, emailing, and downloading music instantaneously instead of talking to someone on the phone, sending a letter, or recording music on a cassette tape. Her song is a nostalgic reflection how American culture used to be, today some would like to return to this time. The current generation likes its technology and convenience.

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