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Gatorade Ad Analysis (Week 10)

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       It isn't news to anyone that Covid-19 and the global pandemic has not held back in affecting everyone's lives throughout 2020 and 2021.  This could especially apply to live sports and such alike, as at the start most all sporting events that everyone was looking forward to had to be cancelled.  Something as big as that could very easily harshly affect athletes practice and adversely affect there mentality as well.  This creates an eagerness on two sides, on one hand you have athletes, with a desire to play and show their skills, and on the other, hungry, thirsting fans with a longing to see teams compete for glory.     Thankfully, as time went on, and leagues took actions to have players be tested and keep each other safe, restrictions eased, and players finally could compete once again.  Finally, athletes could go to head to head, hone their craft, and show the world what they got.  Not only that, but Gatorade could now keep...

Signal: The App No One's Heard Of (Week 9)

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     I can't be the only one who has never heard of a little app known as Signal before right?  Well if you are like me, then prior to reading this blog, you probably don't know that Signal is actually a private messaging app, similar to that of other messaging apps like Facebook Messenger and Whatsapp, and even built in messagers like that of Instagram's and Snapchat.  It mimics these messgaing apps in the sense that it has the ability to send images, videos, gifs, voice messages, and normal text messages.  Signal also allows one to make calls, audio and video, just like the other messaging apps can as well.       If you are wondering what I personally think of this newfound messenger, well the answer is simple, I think it's boring and unneccessary.  Now when I say that, I don't mean to say that the app itslef is poorly made or has no need to exist at all in the slightest.  When I say that Signal is boring in a way, it's that it's ...