Learning from Writing

From writing the past two essays I have learned a lot about life and how others live their life. In my image analysis paper I wrote about two smoking advertisements and the people in the ads. The companies that were promoting these products wanted to make in seem like the audience had to smoke in order to look like the people in the ads. Before writing this paper I hadn't ever thought about companies doing this through advertisements. I always thought it was about catchy slogans and ideas that would grab the consumers attention and not using the people in the ads as products themselves. I learned something that I never thought I would and about something that I didn't even know was out there. For the synthesis essay I wrote about the idea of race and how its is dealt with in today's world. When reading some of the articles that were given, I noticed that all of the author's focused on the black community and nothing else when talking about race. They never took into perspective that there are more than just blacks that are discriminated against in today's world. As I began to write my paper I noticed that these types of things needed to be taken into account when talking about this subject. Before writing this paper I had no idea I would be writing about what I ended up putting on that paper. The more you research different topics or analyze different images, the more you see what this world is coming. I know that I didn't expect to learn what I learned.