Entry 2: Life in the U.S.

Please write a paragraph in response to the question: How is life different in the U.S. than it is in your home country? Some ideas to consider in your response might be climate/weather, religion, culture, education system, dress, food, communication, entertainment, to name a few.

Your comment should be AT LEAST one full paragraph and a minimum of 75 words (yes, I will check your word count!) To receive full credit (10 points) for your response, you must:

- answer the question "how is life different in the U.S. than in your home country"
- meet the length requirement of 75 words
- post your comment by midnight, February 4th

Entry 1: Advertising

The topic for our first unit is advertising. Describe one commercial that you have seen on TV - it can be a good commerical or a bad commericial. Describe what you like or dislike about it, and why you think it is a good commercial or not. Would you buy what the ad is selling? I'll start!

One commercial that I always enjoy watching on television shows a man drinking his morning coffee in a yellow cup and singing and smiling while the birds fly around him. He is very happy with his life, and everything is going good. Then a tree falls on his car and crushes it. He looks at it and pauses for a second, but then goes back to being happy right away.

I think this is a commerical for insurance. I like it because I think it is funny and the man reminds me of my friend who is always happy, even when bad things happen. I think it is a pretty good commercial, but I am not interested in buying insurance, so it doesn't effect me.