First Paper

I enjoyed writing this paper. It was cool to watch the movie, Gender Codes, to understand how models are posed to have hidden meanings. I always knew the phrase, "sex sells," but I never knew the deeper meaning. I wouldn't have known that there are specific poses that interpret so much. Then it was cool to put that new understanding to advertisements we got to critique. It was a good start to assignments because it was our opinions as well. It was not the stiff research assignments like most classes. It was interesting and fun to look closely at ads we use everyday and see what was trying to portray. It was different and fun. It was helpful that we had time in class to peer review and ask questions. I have never had a teacher that emphasized peer editing as much, but it definitely led to better results.