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Entry #5: Mayhem

  The Mayhem Bear commercial is one that promotes the Allstate insurance. The advertisement states explicitly that the insurance will cover the costs of damages to property such as to your car. The ad is designed to be humorous to keep the audience engaged with the content. It is promoting to people who need good insurance so that they don’t pay out of pocket for every damage they take to their property. Rhetorically, the ad shows a bear coming out of hibernation in the woods and approaching a clean, undamaged car. The rhetorical bear proceeds to rip the door off the hinges and destroys the side-view mirror. The commercial states that the Allstate insurance will cover the costs for all of those damages. The atmosphere of the ad is set in a casual setting near a hiking trail in the woods. The weather is calm and beautiful, people are heard in the background laughing and chatting for a split second before they leave the scene. This implies that any and all incidents or accidents done...

Entry #4: Using an immoral to eliminate a immoral

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  People often think DUIs are sinful, chaotic in nature, and foul play. However, what if I told you that wasn’t always the case? If perhaps it was a better alternative than not? What if the argument was made that drinking and driving could be ethical? The argument would sound ridiculous, and nobody would listen. Something so immoral couldn’t possibly have any use to anyone involved. Unless it did hold some use, more than what the average person could think of. How immoral is something if you can use it to stop something more evil? Take Joseph Stalin, for example. Stalin wanted to spread communism throughout Europe and divide Germany after World War 2 so that it could not threaten Europe again. Stalin did many immoral things considered worse than a DUI, which brings us back to the previous question of what if drinking and driving could be ethical. Drinking and driving is considered sinful, and killing a person while drinking and driving is horrible, but what if the person that was k...

Entry #3: Mint

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  I had recently gone to the store and bought myself a small package of mints. When I arrived home, I tore the paper packaging open and took a singular mint out. It was hard to the touch and white as snow. The mint I had eaten left me feeling refreshed. Like I had gone outside and sucked in a huge breath of cool springtime air. It made my mouth and throat burn but in a pleasant way. It feels like I can breathe smoother. The smell on my breath is strong and lingering. I could feel how it dissolved in my mouth. The sound of the crunching was loud inside my mouth, the chunks of it being broken down seemed to amplify the flavor and strength of the freshness. The flavor is strong, biting, almost spicy, it left me feeling like I was outside during the winter season where snow covered the ground like a thick blanket. The mint I had eaten left me feeling refreshed, giving me the sensation as if I could see my own breath as I exhaled. Inhaling made my mouth feel like a cave in the mountains...

Entry #2: Would you?

One of the many time travel questions people ask is, “Would you go back in time and kill baby Hitler?”. This questions is purely for the sake of wondering what people would do if given the chance, but what if you could? Imagine you are in that situation, not a “What if?” or “Would you?” situation, but you did, in fact, go back in time and kill baby Hitler? In our current timeline you would be hailed as a hero for saving many people from certain death or corruption, but to the people of that time you would be a monster, a baby killer. You wouldn’t be able to explain anything to anyone in that time, they wouldn’t believe you anyways. Nobody would believe that you are from the future and came to their time to kill this baby to save thousands of lives, they would think you are insane or some nutcase. It makes you think about all those who have killed babies and have been called monsters for it. It makes you wonder if they were all just heroes from the future trying to prevent a horrible ev...