The Hummer is just one of many artifacts of today’s popular culture that advertisers induce people to buy. For a person who makes these types of purchases, Lasn’s book is very worthwhile reading if it causes them to examine their lives and understand why they need to consider their environmental responsibility and consumer habits. However, even though everyone should understand how their purchases and consumer habits effect the environment, most average Americans do not blindly buy everything they see in advertisements.
By writing the Response to Culture Jam essay I learned that in the United States consumerism is a problem of which everyone should be aware.
As a writer I learned that the order of paragraphs in an essay is very important. Placing a summary paragraph before the introduction paragraph confused the readers in my Peer Response Group. Based on their feedback, I switched the order of Introduction and summary paragraphs. I also learned about appositive phrases and how using this grammar construct allows one sentence to contain more information yet still remain clear. I also learned that linking each paragraph back to the thesis sentence is very useful in a longer essay because it makes the writing clearer and pulls the whole essay together.
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