Liz's Social Studies 8

        Usually the best ways to communicate something are through visual and audio images, video, figures, etc. Advertisement uses the same thing, with visual images or short videos to advertise a particular product or service, and therefore it has a huge influence on consumption. People don’t just buy stuffs; they have to know about it first. Companies spend a lot of money in advertising their products/services, and their purpose is to get people extra consumed the products or services. In order to do so, they have to make it appealed by telling the efficient sides of that products or services, making people feel like they should/ want to consume those for their good as well as satisfaction. 

2. Do you think citizens are sufficiently informed about the sustainability of our consumption habits? If not, how can we become more informed about sustainability issues?

        Citizens are not all the times sufficiently informed about the sustainability of our consumption habits because first of all, habits are something we do involuntarily. Possibly advertisement for consumption aims to create those habits so that their product or service can be more consumed, in which they will earn more profit. And in order to that, they hardly ever tell about the negative impacts of the product/service, or if they tell, they’ll tell just a few portion of what they actually have to tell to educate people about sustainably using the product/service. For instance, in Vietnam, there are mostly the poor class and the middle class, in which what most of them care about is survival, not sustainability. Therefore, advertisements about services and products in Vietnam aim for the majority of population, which are the poor and middle classes, in which the advertisements just tell what the people what they need or desire. Meanwhile, the government doesn’t educate the citizens about sustainability nor do any campaigns like using posters, games, or advertisements to do that which explain why not all people know about sustainability.

        I think advertising techniques greatly influence what me and my friends purchase because most of the time when I turn on the TV, or I surf the internet, there are tons of advertisements that are made only for teens, which are our age. As teens, we like colors, music, technology, clothes, games, celebrity, etc. Advertisements use those elements that teen desire in order to get them consumed the products. Also, most of the time advertisements for teens use celebrities that are well-known or at least teens admire, which motivates us to consume the product to be like our idols. In addition, at this age we require and want a lot of things. Most of us receive monthly pocket-money from our parents and just go buy stuffs without considering the consequences. It’s reasonable why we don’t consider that because we don’t make the money. And that’s the point where advertisements pop in and lure teens’ mind to consume their products.

Nadiir’s Migration from Naagarjun to Saborina

      
        Lalaland is where dreams come true, all started with the historical man named Gaga. Gaga was originally born an inheritance in Spongie Spunge, but at an age of 33, he was exiled to another land because of his dullness & irresponsibility towards the nation. Only that Spongie Spunge people didn’t realize that there was an extraordinary potential in Gaga, which later manipulated him to be a successful king.

        Gaga sailed to the wild land across the Woolge Zand Ocean, and decided to found his kingdom named Lalaland there. After many years, he died a shameful man for he didn’t leave any accommodating things on earth for his people. Consequently after his death, the kingdom felt into years of corruption with wars and destructions, including a devastating pollution. In heaven, Gaga was regretful and desperately asked God to give him another chance in 5 years to rebuild his kingdom. His issue was accepted, and therefore he revived from the death and expanded Lalaland into an official country. The capital is named after Gaga, where every year people around the country gather together to have a memorial of him. They then later proceed to the Gaga Shrine, which locates about 2000 miles west from the capital, 525 degrees north and 350 degrees east. On this special event, people would use the main road system that leads the four main cities toward the capital, even though normally they would travel by clouds as transportation; the clouds often suddenly precipitate which cause a variety of accidents throughout the country. Those four cities include Mooney – the largest port city, Sleepy – another port city, Cloudy – a port & exploitation city, and Pinky – a port city. Each city has one hospital and one agora so that those will support human’s needs. All of them locate on 0 sea levels and near the sea coasts as well as the Pinky Sugary River. The highest elevation includes Mt. Lolli, in which people from Pinky and Sleepy have to go through in order to reach the capital. 

        The Pinky Sugary River starts from Gaga Shrine and spreads north east across the country where it ends up meeting the Wet Land, and south east where it ends up flowing into the Lagonspolin Ocean. Facing the oceans, the port cities provides adequate boats for traveling to foreign countries such as Gongoozler, Spongie Spunge, and Linsey – Woolsey order to trade and exchange ideas: education, religion, etc; exchange goods: silk, fabric, spices, cotton, etc.

        In the past, Lalaland people just spent the whole day eating, gossiping at the agora, sleeping, or checking into the hospital. They were really lazy and mainly got the food resource by ordering Spongie Spunge people to fish the cotton fish from the seas and exploit the Cotton Mines region. Nowadays, they do the same thing yet but their own labor. The Cotton Mines region locates near the North West coast and is ever famous for its splendid cotton - deposited from the dead cotton fish. Cotton Mines region is not only a physical geography or an environmental geography, but also a human geography and an economic geography because many countries crave for this resource.

        Lalaland has different types of precipitation throughout the year, including: hailstone, rain, fog, etc Even though those cause various accidents and death, yet sometimes is helpful for the Lorda Forest that locates 650 degrees north and 600 degrees east. A lot of wild animals live there, including gryphon, Pegasus, unicorn, and jackalope. People never disturb these animals, though their population remains balanced due to hailstones.

       The advantage of having a good weather and broad lands not only make Florida a famous place with many attractions: including Walt Disney World, Sea World, Everglades National Park, and the Kennedy Space Center; but also a very suitable place for manufacturing (electrical equipment and electronics, printing and publishing, transportation equipment, food processing, and machinery - referred to the Kennedy Space center) and agriculture. For that reason, it is no wonder why many food resources come from here, such as oranges, grapefruits, and sugar cane. In addition, the main attractions such as Miami Beach, Palm Beach, Daytona Beach, Key West, and Tampa, etc – have numerous of tourists each year and that helps raise the state's economy. One special highlight of recent news is that the explosion of BP’s Deepwater Horizon drilling rig contaminated a huge area of the United States marine environment among the Gulf of Mexico – one of the bodies of water that surround Florida. That caused a lot of people in Florida to lose their jobs, especially fishermen. In particular, because of the oil a lot of sea creatures die and therefore sea food amount decreases. Besides, Florida is a tourist city with attractive beaches and plentiful sea food. If the amount of sea food decreases, at the same time the beaches are contaminated, the city might lose a lot of tourists and other things that might result problems in Florida’s ecosystem, economy, and the environment.