Creativity essay #1

English, per.4

Dear school board,

Can creativity truly be taught? Creativity is developed from inspiration, experience, and improvisation. It's seen as different thinking, to consider the "hidden options" in every situation. If we all sat in a class room and were taught lessons of creativity, it'd no longer be creativity we'd be learning. Creative inventions or ideas are original and specific to that individual. It's not the same as history or English. There isn't a right or wrong.

Today, if a person is good at athletics or smart it's seen as a talent, a gift. But the difference with that and creativity is to be good at athletics you'd have to train in that sport for a long period of time. Also to be really smart you have to study constantly. As for creativity, it comes naturally. Something your born with. We are taught to be smart and trained to be an athlete. This allows us to be tested on these areas. However creativity is not the same. Throughout our history people have made it clear that we are not the same yet we are all equal.

There are different forms of creativity. One can be creative in drawing with colors and designs, in math with manipulation of numbers and shapes. Both are completely different yet still considered as creative. A class can not teach us these things. Yes classes are beneficial in teaching us other subjects but it's not the same. With creativity anything can be great. 

Authors Po Bronson and Ashley Merryman reported that a test has been distributed to millions to analyze their creativity levels. Test creativity? How does one do that when there are so many different forms of the subject itself. There is no one way of being creative. People today are creative in dance, art, music, building, cooking, etc.... Everyone has their hobbies and are somehow creative in doing them. You can't just tell a person they aren't creative because they didn't pass the "creativity test". Walt Disney, one of the most creative men in history, was fired from his job. His boss claimed that he lacked creativity. Walt Disney made millions of dollars because he created Mickey Mouse which led to Disney productions eventually leading to Disneyland. Walt Disney became a multimillionaire because of his creativity. He is proof that there is no true judgment in whether a person is creative or not.

Why go through the trouble of creating a class about creativity when it cannot be taught. Today many schools need classes like speech, journalism, government, etc. Students have asked and petitioned for other needed classes, it'd be foolish to give them a class that's unrealistic. Creativity cannot be taught, but that's okay. We have built and achieved the impossible making us the most extraordinary race to have ever existed on earth. And we did it without classes on "how to be creative".

Advertisment essay

 

AP Language P.4

25 October 2014

                                                    Advertisements

​Today’s goal of all advertisers is to sell their product. They use the popularity of celebrities to endorse the item hoping it will win the interest of the public. Sue Jozui expresses her clear disapproval calling this method “misleading” and “insulting” to the public intelligence. Products aren’t always as good as they seem. Celebrities make great profit when advertising an item, as a potential customer we should consider this before any purchase. Jozui ideals that the people should exercise their first amendment and protest against the trickery. Today’s society is constantly being infected with deceit; legislating rules for advertisers would be a small step for a more absolute future.

​Katy Perry, Emma Stone, Jennifer Lopez, and more have all been featured on Loreal makeup advertisements. These well known big stars say it’s the best brand and they use it all the time. Today you can find Loreal makeup at Walgreens even Rite Aid where the product is constantly on sale. Most of these stars don’t use Loreal makeup; they go for the more expensive brands like MAC and Sephora. They make so much money in their industry they have no reason to limit themselves to a product of lesser value. In fact, just this morning I was told Kelly Clarkson is so well off she pays an assistant to walk behind her just in case she falls. Even in tabloids stars are pictured wearing high priced clothing that could pay for a student’s college fund.  Celebrities only do advertisements for the extra money most of them don’t even need. Jennifer Aniston was caught walking the streets with a different brand of water after just advertising for Smart Water. Corporations know the celebrity doesn’t actually use their product but they want their fame and popularity to be shared on to the item.

​A tactic many corporations also use is free bees. After a star has just endorsed their item, the company sends them free products hoping they’ll be seen in public with them. In the movie “The Game Plan” main character, Joe, is told to eat at bob’s burgers after he wins the game, when his daughter (8-10 years old) hears about this she then tells her dad that Bob’s Burgers gives you gas. In the movie Bob is very fit and doesn’t eat that type of food. He then wants to set a good example for his daughter and refuses to endorse the product. However, he made the morally right choice, his agent was very upset because of the money Joe could have made. If the daughter wouldn’t have said anything Joe would have eaten the burger.

​Setting laws for advertisers is only the appropriate thing to do. People only have so much money and most likely don’t want to use it on things of bad quality. We trust celebrities to be truthful and that’s what makes them so much money. Even with regular advertisements the faults of the product are in small fine print that’s almost impossible to read. If advertisers were given limits to how they could endorse their product there would be so many lawsuits against the bad product.