Too Much, Too Little, Just Right!

There is always a place where more is better but that is not on a poster. A poster is supposed to catch the attention of a person and make them want to read it. If there is too much going on than one will pass it and will probably never read it. But one does not want to be bland and not have anything on your poster because people will forget about it right after they see it. So how much is too much and how much is too little? In order to examine this I will need to examine three different posters.

The first poster I will examine is the one with Superman on the cover. This one is doing way too much. This is because you cannot tell the main point of the poster. When people are reading a poster they want something that will take less than 10 seconds to read and remember. This will take most people a good thirty seconds to read, look at the pictures, and understand what the poster is trying to say. Even though the poster might be memorable it has too much going on.

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The second poster of just the writing is nice and simple but people will not remember it. Even though there is a little color it is mostly black and white. And it does not tell you what you will get. Buy a tin of Andrews what? This is the type of poster that people will read and not remember. Another thing that is wrong with this poster is that there is no store name, address or phone number on it. If someone sees this poster and want to buy a tin of what is being sold how are they going to know where to buy it at? This has way too little information so people might read it but will not remember it.

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The third poster with the pencils is a perfect example of having just enough material on a poster. With the picture you see what the poster might be about and there is enough writing where you can read it quickly and easily. The picture makes the poster memorable because when most people have pencils they want to have them all facing one way because people like order and this poster breaks that order. The words will make people want to read it because there are not that many and they can easily go on with their day.

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Posters should have enough information to make it memorable but not too much that it makes it crowded.

Right Place, Right Time

“There is a right time for everything.” I have heard this saying multiple time and never really cared about it until I was ease dropping on an argument. They were arguing about some crushed chips. I guess the dude did it on purpose because the girl was heated. This argument was going on for about ten minutes and it had escalated too much more serious things like money and his ability to hold a job. Since I did not know any of them I thought this argument was hilarious until one of her friends whispered something in the girl ear. I have no clue what it was but the girl got even angrier and punched another girl who I thought was just a bystander. I just assumed that the two people arguing were dating and the girl that got slept was the main reason why the man was broke and always tired. After she punched the girl the cops came and she got arrested. If her friend ever heard “there is a right time for everything” then no one would have got arrested for assault.

This is a perfect example of kairos because she lost the time to tell her the information that she did when she started yelling with her boyfriend. She should have waited until she was thinking straight until she told her some news like that. She probably would have acted differently if she was not already heated but that was not the case. Remember there is a time for everything and that saying the wrong thing at the wrong time could lead to someone getting into serious trouble. So next time you are about to tell someone some bad news make sure they are in their right mind so they can deal with the problem in a sane way.

What Controversy?

Controversy is apart of our society. So would there be controversy if the government made a weapon that do not have to be manned, could shoot over one million rounds a minute and quarter of a million 40mm grenades a minute? You probably think that these types of gun only exist in movies or TV shows. You would be completely wrong.

When I was watching the Discovery Channel I came upon this video of this gun called Metal Storm. It was developed for the military by Metal Storm Limited which develops electronic weapons. There gun is different from other guns because the only moving part is the bullet. When you fire the gun an electric emissions system to sends the bullet out.

They also have made handguns that can fire three rounds within less than a second before the gun recoils. Another advantage to this gun is that this gun can never jam. A gun jamming could lead to severe injury or worse, death. This gun never jams because if one of the signals does not go through then the next round would just push the next one out.

Metal Storm also has sensors. It shows where one’s people are and where all of the enemy’s are. This allows the military to devise a plan on how to put the most hurt on the enemy with the least fire power.

So why does this affect tour life? There are many ways that it can, one is black market trading. People always want to make more money so they could sell the plans on how to build this gun. Also people who commit crimes here may be able to get them since they can get almost any gun with enough money. If a criminal had this gun then he would be able to commit any crime he wanted because this gun is deadly accurate and can rip through any type of armor.

What other things are the government making that you do not know about? Have they found a bomb stronger than the hydrogen bomb? Have they really stopped making bombs?