Is Astrology Accurate?

Is is possible to make accurate predictions from astrology? For those of you who don’t know, astrology in simple words can be defined as a study of stars and planets, and their positions and movements in relation to their effect on the lives of human beings. Also it can be said that astrology is one of the most misunderstood, difficult to understand subjects. Im one of those people who like to look up my zodiac sign for fun and see if my personality matches up with what it says. I must say that i was pretty surprised.  I matched up almost perfectly. i was curious to see how it’s possible and where it came from and i found that every person has his/her personal horoscope which is based on the position of the stars at the time of their birth. As for the individual horoscope, astrology makes the predictions for the future. No two human beings are alike and no two horoscopes are alike. The happiness and misery of two individuals can never be the same. And astrology claims to find out accurate individualistic predictions for each individual with the help of these horoscopes .

Will Toyota’s TV apology ad help?

With all of the recent recall issues, Toyota has a lot of explaining to do. They recently put out a new commercial apologizing for everything that has recently happened. It talks about Toyota’s commitment to restore its tarnished name and the 172,000 employees who have stopped the current production and ‘dedicated to making things right’. It’s a very emotional ad with the music and tone of voice and historical pictures. But ultimately what we don’t have is a person taking responsibility and saying what went wrong.

Toyota must be really hurting when sending this message.  Many people have lost their faith in the company and are disappointed. Apologies like this are rare in advertisement, and i feel like it was only done because the company fears lawsuits, but i also do hear sincerity in the message. Mistakes are bound to happen and it is only human. I think this sincere apology will be receptive from the American consumers, however I think many of us will forget about it very soon.

So Vanity Fair has gone white?

So i recently received my latest issue of Vanity Fair Magazine and noticed that it was their annual Hollywood Issue.  This issue shows all of this years greatest talent, just in time for the Oscars.  It had the suspected people like Meryl Streep, Jim Cameron, Julianne Moore, and  Quentin Tarantino. Looking more thoroughly, i noticed that there were barley any african american actors portrayed in this article.  The only ones shown were the stars of “Precious”: director Lee Daniels and stars Mo’Nique and Gabourey Sidibe. Are they trying to send us a message? Is Vanity Fair trying to say that the only stars of the next decade are white? The cover shows three young, attractive, pale skinned women wearing blush pink colored clothing. I find it sad that a black actor cant be represented correctly and be pictured on the cover and there are a few i would have at least liked to see in the article: Zoe Saldana who strarred in Avatar and Star Trek, two of 2009′s most successful films. Or Anthony Mackie who gave an amazing performance in the Oscar nominated film the Hurt Locker. After all the years of discrimination, the african american actors can be in the issue but not on the cover? Are we even moving forward?

a mom has the right?

Moms have the tendancy of being paranoid and careful when it comes to their children. My mom and a group of friends always email each other about interesting news articles they have read/heard about on the news. This is the most recent one:
“New drug in Schools…
Please pass this on even if you do not have kids in school. Parents should know about this killer drug. Grandparents, send it to your family and friends.

This is a new drug known as ‘strawberry quick ‘.
There is a very scary thing going on in the schools right now that we all need to be aware of.

There is a type of crystal meth going around that looks like strawberry pop rocks (the candy that sizzles and ‘pops’ in your mouth). It also smells like strawberry and it is being handed out to kids in school yards. They are calling it strawberry meth or strawberry quick.
Kids are ingesting this thinking that it is candy and being rushed off to the hospital in dire condition. It also comes in chocolate, peanut butter, cola, cherry, grape and orange.
Please instruct your children not to accept candy from strangers and even not to accept candy that looks like this from a friend (who may have been given it and believed it is candy) and to take any that they may have to a teacher, principal, police etc.immediately.

Pass this email on to as many people as you can (even if they don’t have kids) so that we can raise awareness and hopefully prevent any tragedies from occurring.
Click on the link below, it is very informative!!  All Parents need to know this!! “
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,271215,00.html

So we have all grown up hearing from our parents that we should never take candy from a stranger. Personally, i never took it seriously because as a child you are always too naive to think that anything bad could really happen to you from something like a candy bar. In this case, there have been instances in the area where kids have died of a drug overdose from eating what they thought was a candy bar. It is from times like this that worry our parents and make them paranoid. Drug dealers are trying to seduce young kids into drug use .

The Doppelgänger Craze

I was on facebook and realized that many people have changed their profile pictures to a picture of a celebrity that slightly resembles them. Looking more into it, i noticed the word doppelganger. It was seriously everywhere. There are articles all over the internet saying that it is “doppelganger week” on facebook. I didn’t know what that word meant, so i decided to look it up. For those of you who don’t know what it means either, wikipedia defines it as ” any double or look-alike of a person.” So why this sudden craze? and how did the word spread so fast?

There are a couple new applications on facebook that helps you find your doppelganger. One of them called “Face Double Celebrity Look-Alike Doppelganger on Facebook” which was too busy to use the first few times i tried. But when it finally let me, it went through my pictures on facebook and gave me a few celebrities that look like me. I got Evangeline Lily, Nikki Reed, Vanesssa Langies, and some others. All brunettes but i don’t think i look like any of them. There is  another application sponsored by coke zero that takes a photo of you and find another facebook user anywhere in the world that looks similar. That was creepy because i actually did find someone that looked a lot like me and it gave me her name so i could friend request her. it was cokes way of advertising coke zero because its similar to regular coke, but different.

The combination of word of mouth and quick clicks to share information got me thinking about the potential Facebook really has for marketing. Can you get quality brand recognition on Facebook? The doppelganger fad is kind of ridiculous, however despite the doppelganger fad lacking a point, people are still participating and rapidly spreading the word. the doppelganger has over 8,000 fans. In addition, hundreds of people are changing their personal photos to a celebrity look alike every minute. There is a debate about rather or not this is legal. Is Facebook violating privacy rights which they promise to protect by allowing users to participate in the Doppelganger fad?