English Lang/Lit LPs

 Reflecting on the IO practice we had. The IO practice went well I think, the main problem for me was timing and covering all my points sufficiently(which are pretty much the same problem). I feel like I prepared well and had good, well-thought-out points. I'll have to make sure to time myself better in future practices and the real IO. I liked my works and giving the IO was pretty fun, I liked talking about my works so getting the motivation to work on my IO wasn't a problem. Overall the IO practice was good, the main takeaway was to work on timing more precisely.

  LP 15 Blood, Sweat, and Sear by Oliviero Toscani I wanted to jot down some of the ideas about Toscani's work because I found the documentary we watched in class to be very interesting. Toscani is an interesting figure because he takes advertising, which is usually very filtered, muted, and profit-driven in its message, and uses it as a tool to draw attention to controversial, yet important, issues. The main issue in this is that behind all of the really great activism, there is the underlying understanding that Benetton and Toscani are getting filthy rich off of it, Benetton would, and consequently did, fire Toscani the first moment his activism started hurting the company's bottom line. I would, however, say this is a critique of Benetton and not Toscani, even journalists and authors profit off of publishing controversial stories, Toscani, perhaps uniquely as a very different kind of advertiser, is not much different. Benetton, on the other hand, could have had at least a li...