A red herring stuck on the bandwaggon

Watching the PCU video I picked up on many logical fallacies, but the one that stood out the most was he the school dean went to the house where the people that lived in the pit stayed and told them they had to pays fees. The group of students were trying to think of ways to raise money. One guy suggested they all get jobs and then mad a joke saying like thats going to happen or something like that but anyway the logical fallacies was that college students don't like to get jobs and work.

Into the wild

The peace “into the wild” is so sensational in the fact that it doesn’t match the stereotype we usually see for college students. After reading this some might say Chris McCandless aka Alex Superstramp was a little nutty despite being very intelligent. Why would an honors graduate from a prestigious college, Emory University want to go on such a wild excursion?

McCandless would ask himself questions like how could people possibly be allowed to go hungry? Most college students would just start up an organization to help the unfortunate or give a little community service, but not McCandless. It is no doubt that he had the money to do it or something similar to it, having 20Gs left over from the money his parents had for him, thinking he might use it for law school, but no he give it away to charity. I would think for a college student who had just graduated 20Gs would be something wonderful to have going out into the world.

It was like he was on a mission to prove that he could be independent of any ones needs show himself that he is not ungrateful of what he has, but by doing what he did, leaving to prove this even if it was just to himself to me is kind of selfish. I say this because not only in the end did he waste his parents money and a great opportunity to do something great with his education he let the ones who loved him suffer. His parents were so worried about their son that they hired a private investigator to track him down. I don’t believe for one second that McCandless was a nutcase like the text says most Alaskans might think and that’s proven where it says “Chris McCandless came into the world with unusual gifts and a will not easily deflected from its trajectory. As early as third grade, a teacher was moved to pull Chris’s parents aside and inform them that their son “marched to a different drummer.” At the age, he entered his first running competition, a 10k road race, and finished 69^th, beating more than 1,000 adults. By high school he was effortlessly bringing home A’s” and it also goes on to say that his high school classmates were blown away by his talk of spiritual aspects to motivate them in track. He would tell them about the evil in the world, all the hatred, and that the evil was trying to keep them from running their best.

That being said I think McCandless just didn’t know what to do with the gifts that god has endowed him with. This man could have done many great things with his intelligence but he chose to go on this wild ride across the country that alone proves he was no ordinary college student. I also don’t believe he had any death wishes, I think he always planed of coming back home, why else would he do this after going to college and not before.

AIDS AND ADVERTISING

Although I don’t believe that this photograph is appealing for a clothing line, I do think that it will help consumers remember the brand. The United Colors of Benniton clothing company has nothing to do with AIDS. This ad is just a good way for the company to make some extra cash while gaining new customers that wouldn’t normally buy it. People might go into a store to buy another brands clothing, but end up buying a United Colors shirt only because it is for a good cause.

These are the only ways I believe that the clothing company will benefit from this ad; people will look in to AIDS awareness more in my opinion. When someone looks at this ad they will think about the disease, how many people die, how many have it, they may even want to do their own research. The ad is sad but I think people might be confused with the picture alone. If the ad didn’t run with a title I wouldn’t know what it was for. At first I thought the people in the ad were wearing the clothing company’s clothes, until I was given a little background information about the picture and company. This makes me wonder if at the time this ad was ran if people thought that the clothes the people in the picture are wearing their clothing line. I think the whole ad can be confusing. If the people in the ad were wearing the company’s clothes then I think that it would benefit the company a lot more.