Wednesday, November 17, 2010

Fibbers Public House Ad

We received our on campus magazine which has stories about people from our school and various coupons  in it. In one of the stories called the Avett Brothers there is an ad by Fibbers Public House restaurant. The add gives you their phone number, tells you where they are located, tells you how old you have to be to get in, and most importantly tells you Wednesday is their drink special day. The goal of the ad is to draw people to their restaurant by telling them there are penny drafts on Wednesdays. They figure if they make their drafts cheap people will come in and spend extra money on food and keep drinking their penny drafts at the same time. The ad has the restaurants name directly in the middle at the top so its easy to see while the Wednesday drink special is in the very center of the ad in a darker green color than the rest. This helps draw people to read what it is saying. I think Fibbers did a good job in making this ad because when I was flipping through the magazine it caught my attention very easily and I knew right away what the ad was for. The ad also tries to draw people in by saying there are 5 dollar burgers everyday and free pool everyday until 8pm. They put this right under the ad for the penny drafts because it is not as good of a deal as being able to gets drafts for pennies but it still will help draw in some business. It is not in a darker green like the big ad but still noticeable once the ad had drawn your attention.

Sunday, November 7, 2010

Outline for Love, Internet Style

Thesis: I agree with David Brooks when he says online dating puts structure back into courtship and that internet relationships are just as powerful as relationships that begin face to face.

Introduction: 40 million people go onto various online dating sources each month. These websites are all different, some are for certain religious groups, some are for certain ethnicities, and others are for all people. The similarity between all of these websites is that majority of people that are using them are searching for love. Although people on these websites are searching for a life long partner extensive research shown in the new york post says that almost everyone using these dating websites lie about some aspect of their life. Through all of this still people find their lifelong partner using internet dating everyday. David Brooks believes internet dating is  a good thing for the American Society because it puts structure back into the dating scene. It slows down a process that in our century has been sped up so much that sex is an option on first dates, which was never heard of a few decades ago.

Paragraph 1: Websites, Statistics about internet dating,
Paragraph 2: dating process from older generations and online dating process compared to new age dating process
Paragraph 3: Online dating success and ability to find true love

Tuesday, November 2, 2010

Pros and Cons of Online Dating Website

I have chosen to write my essay on the Love, Internet Style essay from our book. I searched the effects of internet dating in google and one website I came to was http://www.articlesbase.com/relationships-articles/pros-and-cons-of-online-dating-262338.html. This website I decided would not be able to help me as research for my essay for a few reasons. The main reason is because after looking around the website for some time I found out that anyone can post an ad for people to read. I do not know anything about the person that posted this article so I have no way of knowing if he/she is certified to get credited information from. I also found this website to be more like a blogging website because people can choose to write comments on the post and like I said before anyone can create a post. Also the writer of this article did not state any facts it was all opinion based. This would not help a research paper because research is not based of someones beliefs it is based of proven facts. I would not use this article in my research although there was good information in the article that also came up in the essay written in our book, I can find the same information from a much more reliable source.