Post 5

It is probably common for students to consider the third essay to be the toughest since it is longest and it covers a generally foreign topic. However, the topic is similar to one I wrote about in my communications class. For that paper, I analyzed a single advertisement and the cultural message it was perpetuating. I wrote about an ad for a cold sore treatment cream with the slogan that read, "Goodbye cold sore. Hello, beautiful." I really liked analyzing the promotion and explaining that the advertisement rested on the idea that in order to be beautiful, you couldn't have blemishes like cold sores. It's interesting to consider that all advertisements are sending a cultural message and it is up to try to decipher it. I'm enjoying analyzing the three advertisements for this paper now because I have a little practice from communications. I can dive deeper, too, in this paper than I could in my previous one.

I think that the hardest paper for me to write in this class was the second one. Regardless, it was the most rewarding one for me to write, probably because it was hard to write. It was tough for me to write because I made it challenging for myself by arguing that graffiti didn't have one true purpose, but rather that it was more important to understand it on an individual emotional level than to analyze it intellectually. It was risky for me to argue this because it goes against the prompt that essentially asks why analysis is important. Still, it was rewarding to take this risk because I am passionate about my stance and I enjoyed finding evidence to fight for what I believe in.