Entertainment is Personal Choice

In the reading for this week there were three assumptions about entertainment. The first two were Entertainment  is just for fun, and entertainment is merely a reflection of culture. The third assumption is the only one of the three that I personally agree with and that is Entertainment is a person choice. I believe that entertainment is a person choice because I believe that in order for something to be entertaining to a person, they have to have an interest in that certain thing, and they have to like it. The example i would use in this situation would be that if my girlfriend wanted to watch something on TV like Jersey Shore, I would not find that show entertaining at all. If i were to get any sort of feeling from that show it would be annoyance, and I certainly do not find things that are annoying to be entertaining. Although many people may argue that just TV alone is a form of entertainment, I would argue that not all TV could be considered entertaining.
While there are certain pressures from advertisements and media to push specific forms of entertainment, it is a person choice whether or not a person will like or dislike it. I'm sure someone who may not like hockey or any violent sports in general would not consider them entertaining. They would probably say that those events bore them, in which case they are not being entertained. Entertainment is something that we decide on our own, it's not something that is simply formed by culture or media.

The Walmart Experiece

For our project, Lester, Danny and I went to Walmart and studied the areas of self checkout and electronics within the stores. We have created a powerpoint presentation that shows pictures of these particular departments within Walmart and we have each prepared our own piece in the presentation to talk about. Hopefully since there isn't any text on the powerpoint, the presentation should hold people's attention and make them actually listen to us in order to get the information. Our powerpoint is completed as of today and our talking points are almost done. It should be a fun and interesting topic to present.