Articles

http://discovermagazine.com/2011/may/06-could-dirt-help-heal-the-climate/article_view?b_start:int=0&-C= (dirt helps global warming)

http://discovermagazine.com/2011/sep/26-power-people-plugging-into-sahara ( alternative energy)

link for puppet ad

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XlrP5b4FvJM

short response 2

This commercial is for the Burger King big kids meal. This Commercial shows a kid dressed like Goku, the main character of the kid Television show Dragonballz, going into a Burger King (while doing some flips).Once he reaches the register, the man behind the counter says "Your here for dragonballz?" and then the kid nods his head yes. 

This commercial was marketed to children by showing a kid (dressed like Goku) doing flips and tricks to go to the register. Next the commercial advertised a free dragonballz toy with every "big" kids meal. With the marketers adding big next to kids meal, it implies that only older kids eats the big kids meals (which seperates them from any other kids meal)   

This Commercial actually reaches several of the appeals, this includes appeals 1,3,4,and 7. This commercial implies that you will join a group of people who are all in a quest to collect all the dragonballz cards. ( Implied when the speaker says " Now you can join the quest to collect all ....") This commercial also implies that you will be rewarded with the same skills that Goku had if you collect the cards and figures.( Implied when the guy behind the cash register saw that the kid did all of those flips and knew that the kid was there for the dragonballz toys and cards.) Also it's implied that others will look highly of you( This is when the kid dressed as Goku took the french fry from the other kid. The other kid looked amazed when the kid dressed as Goku took the french fry. This commercial clearly displays that if you buy a big kids meal then you will be more like Goku ( A famous and popular cartoon hero), when the kid was dressed like Goku when he "back-flipped" his way in. A kid wearing Goku's outfit and back-flipping his way into Burger King is very unlikely. Also kids won't gain Goku's abilities if they buy a big kids meal like the commercial implied. So overall the commercial wasn't really realistic. Marketers most likely wanted kids to believe that if they collect the dragonballz cards and buy the big kids meal that they would be more like Goku and have some of his abilities, which is very....very unlikely. 

link to essay 1

http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/breaking/bs-md-co-apartments-20110901,0,5939734.story

Short response 1

                                              

My name is Donnell Ricardo Gilchrist Jr. and I like my name. I enjoy being unique and my name is nothing short of that. My name was going to be Dionne Andre Gilchrist,named after my uncle and aunt but if you look far enough into the roots of Dionne it's from Dionysos, the Greek God of wine,vegetation,theatre,and madness. The name Dionne's popularity reached it's peak at the year 1970 but has been going down since then. This is most likely how my aunt was named Dionne since she was born around that year. ( The video below will give more information on the Greek God Dionysos.)

         My name was planned to be Dionne Andre Gilchrist  through my mother's entire pregnancy with me,but once I was finally born and the nurse asked what would be my name my father step in and shouted "Donnell Ricardo Gilchrist Jr!" My confused mother broke the awkward moment with laughter. My fahter and my mother both agreed that Donnell was better than Dionne. But since I was a junior and shared the same name as my dad, my family came up with the nickname DJ(Donnell Jr.). Donnell was never truly a  popular name and its orgins are still unknown in my family. My grandfather says the it was my grandmother who named my father and she unfortunately doesn't remember why she did. But my last name Gilchrist is from the gaelic phrase  "giolla Chriost" which translates to "servant of God". The roots of the last name Gilchrist is Scottish. Even though I could not trace far enough back to see if my family changed it's name to Gilchrist it seems unlikely.But whatever the cause or reason behind it, that is how I scored the awesome name Donnell Ricardo Gilchrist Jr.