Commonly believed; movies are intended to be for entertainment, but alissa quart examines how movies have greatly influenced teenagers over the years. Most "teen flicks" center their focus on popular crowds, drawing that line between "popular" and the 'loners'. They make teens believe that they need to be popular, that means having

Branded:Chunk 1

In Alissa Quart's Branded, Quart elaborates on how brands influence teenagers. she discusses how the history of branding began through magazines, movies, books, catalogs, and the internet. The teenage era also attracts the producers of these brands, which makes them use teenage advice on how to advertise their product in order to appeal to other teenagers. They are called trend spotters. i the first chunk Alissa Quart also speaks about parents and how they are obsessed with brads and wanting to shop at the same stores as their children. This is all reasons why Alissa Quart wrote this book and throughout it she gives solutions to help teens realize what is more important.

Tone: Informative, Annoyed


Application: Do you think girls are more materialistic than boys?


Clarification:Does some of the thing Quart discusses reflect you in a way?

Denny's :Where The Food is Free, and Drunks Can Pee

Not going out as much? The Economy is just too bad to enjoy life? Restaurants all around are trying to stay in business by creating money schemes that will keep costumers coming in. One restaurant in Particular is Denny's. In Sean Gregory"s article, he examines the many different ways Denny"s is trying to keep up in this recession and peoples contrasting views about it. In the past year The famous Dennys restaurant sales went down, showing that they were struggling in this recession and business was not going well. In result of this on February third they made a world wide advertisement at the superbowl, stating that they were going to be giving out FREE grand slams to anyone who walked in the door from 6 a.m. to 2p.m. . It was a successful task appealing to the emotions and logic. They needed to create something to make Denny's spark again even, if it ws a big risk and even though the meals were free, they still made a profit, because costumers wanted a nice beverage to go with that grand slam. they had so many costumers, the bought beverages wss enough to pay the superbowl for te advertisement. Dennys succes was a success for other resturaunts as well, such as CiCi's Pizza, who also came up with Buy one-get one free deals. However, opposing views says that this will haunt these resturaunts in the long run. Saying that its actually cheapening the brand and its worth. Others just say the "economy sucks' and they rather just stay at home, but hey you cant win them all.

Question 1: Do these promotions justify the cost?

Question 2: Do you feel these advertisements are actually helpful to our economy?