Color in the world today affects people more than almost anything else. Color is used as a rhetorical device. It provokes feelings in people to persuade them one way or another. Depending on the target audience, people will use one color or another.
According to research, different colors represent different emotions, personalities, and lifestyles. Most people do not realize they are manipulated every day by the use of colors. If someone wants to make a bold and powerful statement, the color black may be used. The color black may often be used by a company targeting leaders who strive to be powerful. Research shows that blue is the least appetizing food color, yet the most relaxing color when put on the walls of a bedroom. Yellow is known to be the most cheerful color. However, people lose their tempers most in rooms painted yellow. If someone desires to look pure and innocent, he may use the color white. Whatever the color might be, it is rarely decided randomly. Color is one of the most effective visual rhetorical devices.
Whether it is to create a feeling of power, innocence, tranquility, luxury, optimism, reliability, or relaxation, color is used widely to appeal to any of the human senses.
http://www.infoplease.com/spot/colors1.html
Tuesday, October 15, 2013
Sunday, October 6, 2013
Is Fantasy Football ruining the enjoyment of real Football?
In the past few years, Fantasy Football has taken the football world by storm. Participants research player's statistics, the Draft comes, and they have their team. This is an activity that goes on throughout the season. Stats earn you points, points earn you wins, and wins earn you bragging rights, money, or even a trip to the Super Bowl. While the activity is fun and the rewards are even better, Fantasy Football is ruining the experience and enjoyment of the NFL. Fantasy Football diminishes a fan's loyalty to his favorite team and often results in fewer viewers of a live game.
To a football fan, there are not many things better than watching his favorite NFL team beat a bitter rival in a nail biter game on a Sunday afternoon. It's a feeling identical to seeing his daughter win a national competition. It gives a feeling of pride deep down inside of him. However, if his beloved team loses, much like seeing his daughter lose, he is devastated. These emotions are traits of loyalty. Whether it's because of a popular player, hometown favorite, or even the colors of the mascot, anyone who has ever watched football has at least a small sense of loyalty. No football fan has ever said he likes every NFL team evenly. A Pittsburgh Steelers fan would never wish anything good on the Baltimore Ravens; until Fantasy Football. Fantasy Football has brought about unthinkable events such as Broncos fans hoping for a Raider's quarterback to have an outstanding game. This is because Fantasy Football gives a participant players from teams he may not like. However, he does not want his Fantasy team to suffer, resulting in support of a bitter rival. Most football fans would consider this sort of detestable act betrayal.
Once the favorite team has won, football fans often remain seated on their couch. They channel surf until they find the next upcoming game. If the game is between two teams outside the hometown's division, one will often say to himself "I just want to see a close game with exciting plays". However, Fantasy Football has resulted in participants getting up off the couch and leaving the game; if they were ever even watching any football initially. Many Fantasy Football team owners do not even care about the game itself but only about the statistics at the end of the day. Games can often be much closer than the stats present them to be. However, Fantasy Football partcipants cannot enjoy this close competition because they are enthralled in keeping up with their Fantasy team.
Football is about hard hits, close games, and pure loyalty. Fantasy Football should be considered an abomination because of it's corruption of the enjoyment of NFL football. When a participant builds his team of players from various teams, including rival teams, he is losing his loyalty to the team he has rooted for his entire life and often does not watch football games for the sheer enjoyment of competitiveness.
To a football fan, there are not many things better than watching his favorite NFL team beat a bitter rival in a nail biter game on a Sunday afternoon. It's a feeling identical to seeing his daughter win a national competition. It gives a feeling of pride deep down inside of him. However, if his beloved team loses, much like seeing his daughter lose, he is devastated. These emotions are traits of loyalty. Whether it's because of a popular player, hometown favorite, or even the colors of the mascot, anyone who has ever watched football has at least a small sense of loyalty. No football fan has ever said he likes every NFL team evenly. A Pittsburgh Steelers fan would never wish anything good on the Baltimore Ravens; until Fantasy Football. Fantasy Football has brought about unthinkable events such as Broncos fans hoping for a Raider's quarterback to have an outstanding game. This is because Fantasy Football gives a participant players from teams he may not like. However, he does not want his Fantasy team to suffer, resulting in support of a bitter rival. Most football fans would consider this sort of detestable act betrayal.
Once the favorite team has won, football fans often remain seated on their couch. They channel surf until they find the next upcoming game. If the game is between two teams outside the hometown's division, one will often say to himself "I just want to see a close game with exciting plays". However, Fantasy Football has resulted in participants getting up off the couch and leaving the game; if they were ever even watching any football initially. Many Fantasy Football team owners do not even care about the game itself but only about the statistics at the end of the day. Games can often be much closer than the stats present them to be. However, Fantasy Football partcipants cannot enjoy this close competition because they are enthralled in keeping up with their Fantasy team.
Football is about hard hits, close games, and pure loyalty. Fantasy Football should be considered an abomination because of it's corruption of the enjoyment of NFL football. When a participant builds his team of players from various teams, including rival teams, he is losing his loyalty to the team he has rooted for his entire life and often does not watch football games for the sheer enjoyment of competitiveness.
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