Sunday, January 31, 2010

Cynthia L. Selfe wrote an article called, “Lest we think the revolution is a revolution.” This was about how we turn to technology for all are answers and how that may not always be the right choice. My group read from pages 301-305. In are section of the article we saw how TV and computers still sell there product by using old family structures and the good old keeping with the Joneses technique to make there product seem like a absolute necessity in the American lifestyle. They use mottos like America the land of opportunity. Selfe states, “This landscape, Americans like to believe, is open to everybody male and female, regardless of color, class, or connection. It is, in fact at some level, a romantic re-creation of the American story and the American landscape themselves a narrative of opportunity in an exciting land claimed from the wilderness, founded on the values of hard work and fair play.” What Selfe is trying to say is that this is the story we grow up hear and trusting to be normality. They however are nothing more then myths used to give us sense of were we stand in the world, they are saying we are Americans so we should use this product because it has an American theme that is all that is going on here with the commercials, they are just using what ever works to get the consumer to buy.

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