Hidden themes of Super Bowl ads

Super Bowl XLVI is on this coming Saturday, February 5, millions of Americans will be watching the New England Patriots against the New York Giants while sharing finger foods, beer and sodas. These people will be commenting and discussing the play action passes, blind side sacks, and a couple of the biggest franchise quarterbacks scrambling in and out of pockets to throw a touchdown. But for me, and lots of other people the football game being played is the least of our excitment. I am watching the game purely for the commercials. According to researchers, over half of the people watching the Super Bowl are only watching it for the commercials. These commercials are a huge investment, and a huge source of entertainment. The spots for a singal commercial is easily a couple million dollars. Behind each commericial is a hidden goal that each producers tries to trigger. One of them is the quest to bring out your inner child. Another goal is to bring out our affection for animals. And the final one, which could be portrayed in a good, and a bad way is sex. These goals can have an effect on everybody, from a little boy to an old women. They are forsure a gurentee to make you laugh.

Exams

It's hard to set aside a time to study. There's a lot of distractions and things that cause us students to lose focus. Getting good grades in school is hard to keep up with, especially when you have to balance school, and sports, and your social life. For me personally, I have to completely set aside all the distractions in order to focus and register what I am reading or studying. This is especially the case with exams coming up this week. The distractions also include the timing of year, every January the county fair comes around and it is the exact week of exams. This causes students that are involved in FFA or talents. This is a time that there is no time for procrastination and distractions. We need to focus, and do good on exams!

Season well Earned

   Cheering this season for the Tigers was a blast. I didn't realize til the Manatee game how good we actually are. It's an exciting thing to see, the players giving their all every game with the best attitudes they can have. The football team is definitely different than years past, and I think everyone in the community and Palmetto High School can tell. I no longer get the "oh my gosh you go there" reaction when I tell people I go to Palmetto High.
   It's amazing to me how much the football team's success has really changed Palmetto's reputation. However, this winning streak that we had was well-earned and so is the newfound reputation and respect for our school that came along with it.
   But think about if we hadn't gone 12-2, and instead we maybe went 9-4 and didn't make it to the playoffs? Our players still would have trained just as hard, had the same coaches, and disiplined and acted the exact same way. Without the 12-2, all of it would have gone un-noticed by the community. I feel like this is a lesson in life too: only the best are noticed, recognized, and rewarded. Sometimes it's a good and bad thing. It can motivate you, or discourage you. The Tigers decided to let it motivate them this season. Instead of looking at the odds that were constantly stacked against them, they over came it. Are you going to let this life lesson that the Tigers overcame motivate, or discourage you?

Stumble Upon

 A new website has everyone's attention. Lately picture websites like tumblr, and flickr are getting bigger and bigger. These websites are especially used by teens and young adults. However, most of the entertaining websites like Facebook, Twitter, and Tumblr are blocked on the school's server. But now there's a new website. It is helpful, educational, and a little different than the average website you usually see. Stumbleupon.com is a website which you pick certain categories and you submit them, and the results are websites and ideas that match your chosen topics. It's pretty neat really. Last time I was on the website I picked the category of craft ideas, and so many creative things came up. For example; how to make t-shirts with blended-in writing on them, how to make corner bookmarks, and how to paint your nails in certain ways and designs. 

 There's so many different things to chose from, and if you don't like the website that pop's up you can just press the "stumble" button and something new pops up. Try it for yourself and see! 

http://www.stumbleupon.com/

Blackout Sunday Football

 If fans want to watch the local team play, they need to attend the games because it sure isn't going to be on ESPN or Fox 13 on Sunday's anymore. At least that is the theory of NFL for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers'. Since the start of the season, there has been 10 home games that have not been televised. In the first two weeks of the NFL season, the Bucs were the only team in the league to have their game blacked out. Some people are finding ways around this blackout, and trying their best to get the Bucs back on to Sunday afternoon T.V. Teams like the Miami Dolphins and the Jacksonville Jaguars have bought up tickets and given them to their season ticket holders in order to get attendance up. In '09, Ramon James Stadium was sold out every Sunday, now it's just about impossible to achieve that.

Water for Elephants Review

 All books that are turned into movies usually have high-success rates; Water for Elephants can be added to the list of successful books turned into successful movies. With movie trailers and announcements of the actors well before the release date of early summer; this movie was bound to be a success. The movie trailers for Water for Elephants gives it the "look" or "stereotype" of being a tear-up, heart-wrenching, romance movie. It's all of that, and more. There's a couple of twists and scenes that include action, violence, and suspense. You don't normally expect that many types of genres in one movie. Water for Elephants is set in an old-fashioned circus arena, and follows the life of a young veterinarian who trains and nurses the animals under the abusive and overly-intense owners watchful eye. While on the circus circuit, the vet meets and falls in-love with the circus' main horse attraction star, who also happens to be the owners wife. This creates the suspense and intensity of the movie. This movie was extremely easy to get into. Especially with the elaborate crops, sets, and animals that are used to make the atmosphere of a successful circus come to life. The costumes are elegant and really give the movie an old-fashioned feel, and well as the make-up and over all look of the actors. What makes this movie great is the perfect match-up of two great actors. Twilight's; Robert Pattinson and Legally Blonde's; Reese Witherspoon, this movie was great, and leaves you with a sense of adventure and the encouragement of wanting success in life. 

Money spent on a Pointless Marriage

 Apparently the Kardashian clan was too much for Kris Humphries to handle. After 72 days, Kim Kardashian and Kris Humphries have announced their divorce. Some say the whole engagement and marriage was a scam. However, whether it was a set up or not the press still would have gotten hold of the story and made a huge deal about it. There's always money to be made with these types of things, why not give it to the people that are making the story successful?
 It's not how much money was made through the process of the wedding and the reality show following the love affair of Kim and Kris. The bigger deal is how much money was spent. A total of 13 million dollars was spent on the wedding. This number is hard to believe, and causes ordinary people like me to think of other uses for that money. This money that was spent on a wedding that is now completely meaningless could have been used towards college tuitions, shelters, schools, cancer research, and so much more.