Final Feed Project / Composition Reflection Essay

My theme for my final feed project is about how consumerism targets your desires for you to buy their products. So on my poster I had many things that interested me and that also showed what they do to appeal to people like me. How I based my project was that I noticed that Feed had made a personal profile for each person and showed what their interests we're and etc. so I just basically created my own personal profile that showed what things run through my head daily but with pictures I had cutted out of many magazines and had placed it in a certain order. On my poster I had things like,...life takes visa, fighting causes for cancer, diabetes and such, and sports, being fit, and etc. Those are the things that really appeal to me. Also, notice that I have no clothes or anything fashion things on there...just a beautiful flower on the bottom right of the poster to show that beauty lies within. To me, I wouldn't die without fashion and it's latest trends. Beauty does, truly lie within a person, it doesn't always have to be expressed through what you wear, and what are the latest trends with the superstars and etc. As I see it, if I were to have a feed, my pop ups would be like pop-ups on computers! My Feed contains that pictures and information it does because of how I feel inside. It's what I think of most of the time. I constantly occupy myself with sports, inspirational books, music, being fit and avoiding my temptations such a cookie and such, I've always thought of becoming one of those people who tries to cure diabetes or cancer for a living and etc. It's just who I am, and what makes up me, and that is why I had cutted those kind of pictures on my poster board. How this defines American culture and identity is that America keeps finding ways to appeal to the public by using slogans and starts by convincing one, then it leads to another, then another, and then as soon as you know it...it'd be like the new thing! How media, consumerism, reliance on technology, and/or popular culture personally affect me is by far alot! To be real honest, if I'm not playing sports, I'd be either listening to my iPod, watching movies, or either on the net downloading my music! Without technology, I don't believe I can really survive, unless I adapt. Because I have grown up with technology already in great use though, I would be really hard to go way back then when technology never existed you know. Comsumerism would affect me but not as much I believe. I say this because I normally just take what I can get. What's there to offer is, I don't normally go out and go out of my way to get things just cause I think It's UNIT hip! (you know what I mean) Surprisingly, I am the youngest daughter out of 11 girls altogether but I am not spoiled at all and I wouldn't like to be either. I'm the more independent types, that likes to do things and get things on her own. Yes, of course, when I do come to those points that I have to rely on others than I do, but nothing BIG. I'm not super positive or anything of what I think the moral is to the story, "Feed" but i do believe that the whole moral about the book is basically all about a story of how the world may come to be in the future,...like, as the days get older, the future starts to become more and more of perfection! Right now, we are creating a society of wanting, desiring, and greiving for/or to be perfect, or having such a life. They find ways of what you eat so you'd life longer, meds you can take that'll fix your so call sickness/problem. They create many many cosmetics that makes women/men believe that'll make you look young, hot, appealing, sexy, and that'll transform your appearance & etc. As soon and you know it, as the days run by...soon enough, I do truly believe the future will be close to making people think that being perfect and living a perfect life is important, or you can say,...the new thing! I believe what M. T. Anderson was trying to get across this book is that how society changes so much day by day and what happens when all those that did use to matter soon enough will be discarded. Just completely forgotten about,...gone. (just like that) The book shows how trying to be a perfectionist can be a disaster in many ways, especially when about 73% goes along with it and are believe that it's there everything. It's all that mattered. At the end of the book, when the feed interlude had said (Everything must go...) I believed it meant that Violet had died because it showed how the size of the font was slowly decreasing and seemed to get further and further away; which showed that the feed was slowly shutting down on her. That's just my opinion, but I do think it can mean many other things such as: maybe it shows that the feed kept and kept slowly dying all other, because of all the malfunctions that people with the feed had. ...A new resolution! Violet, was the first victim. She had began the new resolution!