Compare Tom Vanderbilts discussion of consumer culture in The Advertised Life to that of Thomas Frank in Why Johnny Cant Dissent. How do these essays present similar views of consumer culture and in what ways to they differ?

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Compare Tom Vanderbilts discussion of consumer culture in The Advertised Life to
that of Thomas Frank in Why Johnny Cant Dissent. How do these essays present
similar views of consumer culture and in what ways to they differ?

Remember, your answer should run at least 250 words. And, as with all documents in an
English course at the collegiate level, your assignment should follow MLA style
guidelines.

Lifestyle Assignment

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Demographics or Psychographics

Use these websites to help you complete this Internet Exercise.

SRI’s Values and Lifestyle Program

http://www.strategicbusinessinsights.com/

In one or two paragraphs answer the 2 questions below.

Go to the sites for VALS (Values and Lifestyles Program) and Context.  Do you feel this lifestyle information is more helpful in explaining consumer behavior than demographics? Please explain why or why not. Take the VALS survey (www.strategicbusinessinsights.com). Do you think the survey accurately described you? Why or why not?

Creating a social media marketplace

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So I need a web application which will be a social media like marketpalce. Itll be most like Deepop. I need there to be users who can log on and log off. They can upload pictures of items they would like to sell. Other users can message them to purchase those products. Users can also message and follow each other.

Desirable:
Sign up function
Log in and log off function
Change password
Post and delete pictures
Users can follow and unfollow each other
Users page which will show, followers, following and posts of that user
Have a home page which will show all items as a feed posted by people users follow
A way of searching items, be by hashtags, filters, or just typing
Explore page where users can see all items being listed
Pay each other through payPal for item
Users can message each other

Must:
Sign up function
Log in and log off function
Change password
Post and delete pictures
Users can follow and unfollow each other
Users profile page which will show the followers, following and posts of that user
Have a home page which will show all items as a feed posted by people users follow
A way of searching items, be by hashtags, filters.
Users can message each other

Linguistic reading reflection

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Read the article closely before formulating your questions; taking notes as you read is highly recommended. In your discussion board post, you should present:
1. One (1) open-ended question for discussion based on any aspect of the article. This could be something that you thought about in relation to other things we have talked about in the course, your own life experience, etc. as it strikes you. For example, How does this article connect to our earlier discussion on the relationship between ideologies about gender and ideologies about race and class?, In performing their drag personas, how is the drag queens use of the white woman style beneficial to their performances (p. 320321)?, etc.
2. One (1) whats up with… question highlighting something that you either didnt fully understand or that you would like to discuss with the class in more detail. For example, Whats up with the data on page 41? It seems to contradict the authors main argument, Whats up with the term polyphonous identity? Its not clear how the author is using it, etc.