Kayla's Blog

The advertisement above was released in 2016 as Gucci's most recent campaign (at the time) for their famous "Guilty" fragrance line. The photograph is a still-image shot of a short video which airs the full advertisement. The video was aired on television as well as shared on various social medias, including as YouTube and Facebook. The advertisement pictured above, however, was published in gossip magazines such as People Magazine  and US Weekly. The intended audience of the advertisement is likely wealthy individuals, as Gucci is a brand that sells exclusively expensive products. The author's use of social media and gossip magazines for advertisement likely reaches a younger audience, as teenagers and young adults are frequently the largest population holding social media accounts. However, Facebook is used by a massive adult population, so the airing of the ad would be seen by the older and likely wealthier individuals belonging to that social media platform. This

I was never a fan of my name because of its lack of pizazz. I thought there was no cool significance behind it, no sense of originality to it since it's common enough. I always wished that I would've been given a long name that I could shorten into whatever name I wanted; I thought that such an action would give me control over something that was given to me without my say. However, once I discovered where "Kayla" came from, I came to be appreciative of the significance that my name has within my family. My older brother had a love interest during his Kindergarten year. She would write him love letters that were deciphered by my mother, as my brother was still illiterate. These notes were always signed "Love, Kayla", and I guess my parents were amused by the six-year-old love exchange going on. When they were surprised with the gift of my existence, they decided that they would name me after my brother's Kindergarten lover. It's sort of weird when he

Wing Young Huie is a photographer whose goal is to portray the cultural America through his photographs. Huie has several collections of photos based on the specific aspect of American culture he desires to display. One of these collections is named "From the Archive", which is a compilation of photos that Huie has taken throughout his career which he has not assigned to a specific album. The photo I chose belongs to "From the Archive", and was taken in North Dakota in 1999. The photo I chose is labeled We gave them an inch , and displays a Native American man with his hands crossed in front of himself. The man is wearing a shirt with the comment, "We gave them an inch and they took 5000 miles." This shirt is alluding to the 19th Century American expansion West, which included the forced removal of American Indians from their settled land. Huie's photo communicates the dark parts of American history in which political moves permitted unjustified acti