Primary source for REA

Coca-Cola is one of the most recognized and well known product in the world.
Coca Cola has a long history, and I thought this product might serve as a good cultural object.



My interest is in premedical studies.
I thought Coca-cola will serve as a good cultural object.
Coca-cola has been around the world, being a popular drink, for the last 120 years.
It was loved by many people around the world, but it also survived harsh criticism regarding health-related issues. Since my interest is in premedical studies, I think it will be interesting to find relationships between Coca-cola and health, health in children, teenagers, and older people. Organizations such as OCA, Organic Consumers Association, provide many professional opinions about health and Coke.
Upon visiting Coca-cola.com, I have noticed that it has many continents, including North America, Latin America, Europe, Asia, Africa, and South Pacific. I went to Asia-Korea, and North America-the United States. In Korea, a concept "well-being" is becoming more and more popular. Well-being refers to how one could maintain and improve his/her health. Consequently, I noticed immediately the menu that says, "find out how Coca-cola contributes to keeping promises with customers about health issues..." When I went to one in the United States, I found out that it is more focused on events on Coca-Cola, which now is a design contest, and music. I do not exactly know how that contributes to different cultural relationship among the continents, but I am sure it will be interesting to talk about them.

REA assignment

I think our assignment is to write a 12 page paper on interesting relationships I can find using and interconnecting various sources, primary and secondary. I need to find a primary source first, which will serve as a basis, a cultural object, for the essay throughout. And, I will need to find a secondary source, such as research, and find out what can properly and professionally support, criticize, add-on to the object I have chosen. Finding the relationships between the object and other sources will be easier because I have written a analysis essay which was all about finding relationships and interesting things off of the advertisement.

Additional primary sources part II

For another primary text, I have selected "Cindy Sherman," a book of photography. Cindy Sherman takes pictures of herself in settings that resemble "movie-like" atmosphere. Her pictures seem as if they were taken out directly from the particular scenes of a movie.
Some of the pictures I like the most are one with her staring at the phone sadly, as if she is waiting for a call from someone she misses, and one with her pretending to be dead on a bed, with clothes lying spread around her. I have selected this as my second primary text because I am interested in photography.

Finding Primary Sources Part II

"Gifted Hands" by Ben Carson, a well-respected neuro-sergeon in the nation, is a inspiring story that I would like to use as primary text. The subtitle of this book reads, "The true story of the amazing man who gives children a second chance at life." Ben Carson M.D. is well known for his succesful surgery on sham twins. He gives hope to children with his "gifted hands," that is mastered in using the scalpel. I think this will be a good primary text since my academic and carrer interest is related to this book.

Finding Primary Sources Part I

I have selected two primary sources, which are the following: IPod Speaker, and Wireless Keyboard.
My IPod Speaker is a Ipod compatible portable speaker that is white, and where the sound is delivered is grey colored. I has a port where any Ipod kind can be connected to. It has volume button and a power button.
My Wireless Keyboard, obviously, do not require any lines connected to the computer. It is white, with black letters on each button. Shortcut buttons are located on the top of the keyboard, which is silver, and they are buttons for purposes such as raising or lowering volumes, fast forwarding, booting the computer, sleeping the computer, and turning on the internet explorer.
What I like about the Ipod Speaker are that it can be used as a speaker for other sources of music, other than Ipod, and that it can be folded up that it takes very little space.
The wireless keyboard provides eleven useful shortcut buttons, and not having to connect lines to the computer makes this particular keyboard very appealing.
These two objects are fit for primary sources because they contain many details. Aside from what I wrote above, they both contain many other details, such as AC lines, small stand used to rest arms, and so forth.