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[moonshine_baby]

 I have 30 papers to correct by Friday. They're 3rd year, so they're fairly interesting, but oh my god. They had to pick a long-standing brand and choose a lens to analyze the ads through, I think 90 per cent of the girls did Chanel No. 5. I want to kill them all. It's 15 papers, 20 pages each that say things like "and it is completely obvious that

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[born_against]

What does nicole kidman represent??? I didn't know anyone who took communications before you and I find it so intriguing! I did not know that there was a university degree where people wrote things like this. I guess I have lived under an "academic breadth" rock.

[moonshine_baby]

It's insane that I have degrees that require this. It's pretty simple, I'm sure you've heard it before. It's not so much Nicole Kidman, but using a celebrity, especially a movie star, to sell something links the product with all those conotations like fame, fortune, beauty, sexuality... ie: buy this product and be as wanted at this actress.

[aztec_mummy]

"the key sign"

Semiotics, eh?

That's the danger of teaching. I always kinda felt bad for teachers at any level that had to mark essays that the students had to pick from a limited list of products.

[moonshine_baby]

That's just why I'm angry with them, they had the choice of ANY brand that has existed for more than 20 years, from ANY country, and they all pretty much chose the same crap. I've had two really interesting ones so far, one girl did "the siding scale of shame" about feminine prooducts in the ealy 1900s and 1960s and another guy did a very bad essay with interesting ads of Ford during various US wars.

[zunderholz]

Just write, "You fucking suck," on all the papers.

[the_troubles]

and then stab them

[zunderholz]

This is key. When the come to complain about their, "You fucking suck," grade, you stab them.

[moonshine_baby]

Definately key! Especially for the girl who only gave me an url to her C drive. awesome. Third year university my ass.