From what I've seen and heard from all the Frontline videos and from my own personal belief, I think technology is taking over our lives.  You almost always see someone with some sort of device they are bringing around with them.  Personally, I don't like the complete 'take over' of technology.  I do believe that technology should develop and that in some ways it is good.  Unfortunately a lot of its uses are not, for the most part good. 
        One major problem I have is that technology is developing so quickly that some of it is utterly useless.  Creators don't take any time to think and truly develop a product to its full potential.    Also, from what I have seen from the videos, kids are becoming addicted, and are losing touch with reality.  In some ways this can be good, but in other ways I feel like we are losing a part of ourselves.  I wonder if we are making it so we can not reach certain potential skills.  Also with the Internet at so many people's finger tips, I feel like that the meaning of earning where you can get in life is changing.  People no longer have to work as hard when they don't have to think up the anwser themselves.  They can ask some smarter person online or even look up possible solutions online. 
       I kind of fear losing certain parts of the none digital world, such as books, talking to someone face to face and I really don't like the idea of online dating.  That is just me personally and everyone else has their own opinion, and it seems as though alot of the opinions are heading in a technology centered world, not saying that is bad, it could have its perks.

As seen in the Pursaduers video and the packet, Americans and consumers cannot escape the world of advertisment.  They can and may ignore it, but it is still there, leaving a small imprint in your memory.  So much of these advertisments pull at humand needs, most notibly is the one to be like everyone else.  Companies use this idea, something we don't even think about, to get our attention.  They try to find the holes in our life, anything that will change someones mind on wether or not to buy a certian product.  And these advertisments will never go away, there will always be someone that comes up with  new advertising schemes and ideas.  From here on out it will always be part of our life and society.

For my product and add, I chose Dunkin' Donuts.  The add was about how Dunkin' Donuts is family run and is good for the community.  It started as a business, like many others.  They used Ethos when they showed that the creators of Dunkin' Donuts, was like everyone else and had started the same.  They told viewers that they were helping the community and economy, which is pathos.  They didn't use logos, but their add was more for convincing the viewer that they were good.

Amelia

      In the three videos the argument, or at least the main one, was that media is giving and showing false images and ideals of who a person should be or look like and it is wrongly effecting teens and young adults. I agree with their arguments.  Many people do look at these images in advertisments and I'm sure think that they need to look like that.  Many people see pictures of celeberties, but so many, most, of those pictures have been fixed to make a person look "perfect".  Like in the How Media Influences  Image, everything, including children's movies create a sterotype person.  Seeing this at such a young age and often will leave a image in a child's head ,that will possible come back when they are older, that they should be like the people they saw and 'admired' as a child. 
        Sometimes, like in the Effects of Mass Media on Teens, if at one point they think they are overwait, they won't stop trying to lose it, even if you are extremely overwait.  They are scared to be seen as not the "correct" person, not pretty enough or thin enough.  These fears of not being seen as perfect or different from others can seriously mess a person up.  Also, if a teen or young adult sees that their 'role model' is really thin, or has other attributes that may have been perfect through the use of technology, they will strive to try to look like that. 
        Advertising sends out false images, showing people who don't exist.  They are just out for a profit often and people's attempts leave a shell of the former person.  Advertisment is ruining the moral and true way to look at a person.

Amelia