BOC Week 6 : Duck Dynasty

Duck Dynasty

 

 

 

 

The show Duck Dynasty the first episode of season 4 premiered on A&E this Wednesday and surprised the whole world by blowing everyone away with nearly 12 million views knocking out other reality shows such as Jon and Kate plus 8 which drew  10.6 million viewers in 2009. Even though Duck Dynasty is based on one kind of audience which is like rednecks hillbilly type of audience (http://www.celebritynetworth.com/richest-businessmen/ceos/willie-robertson-duck-commander-net-worth/). By the looks of it they drew in a lot more attention of all kinds of viewers than you think. The range of adults that mostly likely watch this show is adults from 18-49 and 25-54 for the second quarter of this week — rising 17% in both categories — while placing sixth in total viewers (up 19%). Today, Duck Dynasty is one of the most popular shows on television airing in over 40 countries. The third season's final episode drew an audience of over 10 million people and beat out network shows like American Idol. Duck Dynasty have made a big impact for A&E. This show is great for all viewers because it’s a family show. When you watch this show for the first time you get stuck on it and really want to watch the show again. Its draws audience in. Their wives look like beautiful high class women and you wonder why they are with men like them but, it has a twist to it the Robertson’s look like typical rednecks and obviously by just looking at them it seems as though they are just plan country but behind the beards there is a lot more. They are all we educated and also participated in sports during high school and studied business in College. Looking at this show you would think that it’s just some rednecks but you have to really watch the show to understand that they are a lot more than just rednecks.

BOC Week 4: Publicis and Omnicom Merger

Publicis and Omnicom Merger

 

Two rivals in advertising decided to partner up to make one big advertising company. Publicis one of the big advertising companies in France partners up with an American advertising company called Omnicom merge together to create one.  In an interview with the CEO of Publicis a statement is made saying “You have a contract with Coca-Cola; Omnicom works for Pepsi. According to the Bank of America, the merger may involve conflicts of interest between clients.”  Maurice Levy then says “This question has been raised by our competitors. But at WPP, for example, their clients within the same group include Colgate-Palmolive, Unilever, Procter & Gamble, Kimberly-Clark and part of Estée Lauder [Editor's note: all are multinational corporations that produce hygiene-related consumer products]. The fact that we serve clients who operate in the same market segment is part of normal life for our agencies. We do not plan to consolidate our networks. Clients will continue to have the same number of agencies to choose from and to be served by their current agencies. The potential for conflicts is hardly a revelation, and it's up to us to find solutions. We're working on it.” Not only do they have to think about all of their clients but the location as well. They say that the new location for their company will be in the Netherlands because a lot of big European companies have their headquarters there but they will still have the operating offices in New York and Paris.  All of their efficiencies valued up to 500 million just from the combination of the two companies.

BOC Week 3: Rolling Stones Magazine

Rolling stones

The edgy stylish magazine The Rolling Stones made a perplexing decision on their august cover issue. Although the august issue made a 145 percent increase on last year’s issue, it was beneficial for the magazine. Why make the cover of a person who was on trial for bombing in Boston? The Rolling stones magazine has done this before in the 1970’s they had a cover of a Charles Mason, should we not be surprised that they did something like this again.  Dzhokhar Tsarnaev on the cover of the rolling stone magazine. The public was definitely not happy with what The Rolling Stones did, many people had a lot to say about this situation. Everyone was really surprised how the magazine made his photo more appealing than the original photo. The professor Kathleen Hall Jamieson from the University of Pennsylvania said "I can't think of another instance in which one has glamorized the image of an alleged terrorist. This is the image of a rock star. This is the image of someone who is admired, of someone who has a fan base, of someone we are critiquing as art,” The professor makes a very good point there are no other pictures where a terrorist is glamorized. The rolling stones had no comment saying “Rolling Stone did not address whether the photo was edited or filtered in any way in a brief statement offering condolences to bombing survivors and the loved ones of the dead.”   The photo cause so much controversy many people thought that the magazine was glorifying the bomber. Even though on the cover at the bottom of his picture it does say bomber in a big nice bold lettering it still seemed as though he was a celebrity. My guess is that the some of the public was offended by The Rolling Stones.

BOC Week 2: About Me

ABOUT ME

I’d like to think of myself as a very giving and free minded person.  I don’t believe that fashion is just clothes, and accessories. I believe that it’s more, people express what they are feeling through their clothes. When you see a person that has confidence part of it is because of what they are wearing, they feel confident in what they chose to wear. One outfit can change a person completely. I think that is worth letting people know. I want to show the world that fashion is more than just clothes plus it’s my job as a person in the fashion industry to make people believe that clothes is your best friend when it comes to confidence.  I want to be successful in the fashion industry life not a lot of people get the opportunity and I’m not taking my opportunity for granted. As long as I’m determined and motivated I know I can do it, I’m not going to need a deadline to keep me on track.  I rather not dream about my goals I rather live every one of them.  I can say that I’m a very positive person, thinking about negatively brings people down and I rather not think that way I rather be high spirited and more positive.

BOC Week 2: Augusto Pinochet

Pinochet

 On September 11, 1973, less than 20 days after he was made commander-in-chief of the army, Pinochet ordered his troops to take Santiago and ordered an air strike on the presidential palace. Allende died defending the palace, and Pinochet was made part of a four-man ruling junta led by the commanders of the army, air force, police and navy. Later he would seize absolute power for himself. (http://latinamericanhistory.about.com/od/20thcenturylatinamerica/p/pinochetbio.htm) On August 23 1973 Pinochet became commander-in-chief by his good friend the president of Chile, Salvador Allende. The president of Chile meet Pinochet at a concentration camp and then they became good friends but the president did not know what he was getting into. He was wrong to trust Pinochet, he would have never guess that his commander-in-chief would go against him. He wouldn’t realize until he was shot dead defending the palace. Pinochet ruled for 8 more years. Chile suffered with a series of kidnappings, disappearances, and assassinations. Soon after those horrible 8 years on October 1988 the people got to vote for whether they wanted a new president or no. The election is really easy for them to vote there were simply two answers “Yes or No?”  The results ended up being 55 percent NO and 43 percent YES which had meant the suffering was over. Not quite Pinochet stayed in office until free elections got a new president. After stepping down, he became a senator-for-life, a post granted to former presidents under the 1981 constitution. Later in 1998, while visiting London, he was detained by British authorities after Spain requested his extradition in connection with the torture of Spanish citizens in Chile during his rule. The unprecedented case stirred worldwide controversy and galvanized human-rights organizations in Chile. (http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/461158/Augusto-Pinochet )The charges were dismissed in 2002, on the grounds that Pinochet, by then in his late 70’s, was unfit to stand trial. Further charges were brought in 2006(http://latinamericanhistory.about.com/od/20thcenturylatinamerica/p/pinochetbio.htm). Pinochet had died before they were able to have trail. You can say that Augusto Pinochet got lucky for not having to face all of the consequences for his actions.