Introduction

Hey Susana and Alison

My name is Michelle Davis and I'm working on my Masters degree while I am home taking care of my two babies. I have a little girl who is 2 and a son who is 1. I plan to go back to teaching this year in August. I'm currently getting my teaching license transferred from Nevada to Wyoming and I hope that goes smoothly. I teach High School Biology primarily although I've worked a lot with Middle School as well.

My email address is michelleteaches2002@yahoo.com which is the best way to reach me.

The worst advertising message I can remember was something I saw in Las Vegas over the Christmas vacation. My husband has family in Vegas which is what takes us there. We actually moved away from Vegas a year ago and I'm so grateful for that because I don't like the message of the city. When you drive down I-15 you are bombarded by billboard advertising and I would say that 80% of it is sexual. I saw a billboard with a woman pulling a man's tie and it said on the bottom of it "have you been tugged?" The billboard was advertising a clothing store but was using sex to attract or sell the product. You see a lot of that everywhere really but I'm especially sensitive to it because that message of sex has taken ahold of someone that I love very much and torn my family apart. So it really leaves a bad taste in my mouth.

One of the coolest advertisements I've seen lately is a hair commercial silly as that is. I really like the hair color that I see on that commercial and the reason why it captures my attention would be that I think my hair color is drab and I want to change it to the advertised color. Sorry, that's kind of dumb I know but the point being that I pay attention to something like that when I'm in the market for it. Otherwise I probably wouldn't even notice. I'm looking forward to learning in this class. I'm thrilled to find that I am learning a lot of applicable information in this degree and each class teaches me something better and better :)

Michelle Davis