LE Reflection Blog

 Today, after being recommended videos that may help with the essay, we learned about how countries resolve disputes. This can be between countries and countries, or countries and corporations, and though this may look like an equal way to resolve problems, we learned that there are often bias decisions. We learned about the WTO and the connection with the DSU. In addition, we learned about chemical labels not being on products in most states in America.  Warnings are a way to allow consumers to understand that they take in, and even if many people don't even look at it, it serves as insurance if damages are done, but not noticing consumers about potential damages from products was something that I found disturbing. 

 Today, after the explanation of the essay assignment, we resumed the corporation documentary and discussed the tricks corporations use in commercials to get the viewers to unconsciously think things. In particular, we focused on different types of accents. I learned that even in the same accents, the origin of the accent can greatly alter the impression of the person. In the commercial feild, there are tons of these mental tricks that corporates used to make us belive in their ideas, or to buy their product.  Another example these marketing tricks I found was the decoy effect. The decoy effect if a trick created by setting a middle price just a little lower than the most expensive choice to make the top price seem lower than it is. For example, if there are 2 sizes of drinks, small being $2 and large being $5, many people would opt for the small because the large is more than 2 times more than small, but by adding a medium at $4, people would start to buy the large because it...