Killing Us Softly

This film I thought at first would be something that was not very interesting, though in the end it really did grab my attention. She made a lot of good, and very true points during her film. The impact that advertising has on people is different for everyone, because not every ad will make a person feel the same as another, though it could. For me it depends on what product or what it is that they are trying to sell that has an impact on me. For example: an ad that is directed towards women for some sort of clothing brand that is more expensive than others, such as under armour or north face, is going to make me feel like oh that women is pretty, and she is wearing this brand, maybe if i wear this brand people will think i am pretty. To me this is not what would go through my mind, but it could have gone through many women's minds. I also have noticed, and it was clearly pointed out in the film that women have a much higher standard than the men do. Women are always expected to look or dress, and act a certain way. As for men based on the advertising i have seen, it seems that as long as they have muscle and are not heavy, they are fine, and all brands will look good, they are not expected to act a certain way. Though they may think that in an advertisement with Lebron James or Kobe Bryant that if they by their brands they will look good, and will look good doing whatever they are doing in the pic or commercial. Both of these examples shows what Killborn was saying, that it is ridiculous how the society has such a large difference in what is acceptable for men and what is acceptable for women.

Impatience in America

I see impatience as a problem in this world because it can make people very angry. It can come from so many things that a person could be perfectly fine one minute, and be exploding the next for example: a person is going slow through a school area, which of course is always 25 during school hours( this is during school hours) and a person behind them is in a hurry and tailgating them. So the person in the front realizes this and has 2 options, to continue to go slow poss brake check them, or to speed up and get out of their way. lets say the person is an older person though so they just continue to go slow. Thus leaving the person behind them very impatient because perhaps they will be late to work or are just in a hurry. when they get to a stop sign the impatient person may honk, flip the person off, or just get out of the car and start yelling. Personally i feel that impatience is something that gets many people in a lot of trouble. There are so many ways that its nearly impossible for all of us to not feel impatient at least once in our life. some other types of people being impatient could be: standing in line at a store, waiting to get gas, waiting for someone to arrive, waiting for a call back from someone, stop lights, late for work, Christmas shopping, black Friday, among many other situations that can cause some people to be impatient. A large problem I notice is road rage, possibly the highest on the top of my list for impatience. I am not sure how so many problems could possibly all be fixed, I believe that a person can only fix the problem within them selves, because they are the ones that make them selves that way. Perhaps therapy or some sort of relaxing thing could be done.