(note: details of event have been changed to fit school assignment)
“FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE”
March 21, 2010
Women’s Center Shows Real Beauty During Fashion Show
From: Hamline University Women’s Resource Center
Contact: Alanna Storey, 651-222-3333
(Saint Paul, MN) If you are wondering what clothes are in style for the spring season, the Women’s Resource Center has the answer for you. The Women’s Resource Center is proud to present the second annual Charity Fashion Show. Join some of Minnesota’s most popular fashion retailers as they feature a variety of clothing just in time for the spring season. Enjoy a night out on April 19, 2010 at the Hamline University student center ballroom, in Saint Paul Minnesota. Doors will open to the public at 6:30pm. Tickets are free but donations are encouraged. Donations go to directly benefit women at the Alexandra House, which is a local battered women’s shelter.
The Charity Fashion Show event features a variety of fashion retailers as they show off their new spring designs. Hamline University student volunteers will be debuting the clothes on the runway. Guests will be able to submit orders and learn more about the clothing from store representatives after the fashion show. The retailers are from many notable stores found in Minnesota such as Macy’s, Bloomingdale’s, Torrid, Herberger’s, New York Express, Lane Bryant and others.
The evening finale is a raffle that includes many wonderful prizes that have been donated to the event by local groups. Guests are welcome to enter their names in the raffle before the event to be eligible for the prizes. The prizes include a fifty dollar gift card to Macy’s, a women’s Juicy Couture diamond watch, Vera Wang perfume, a one hundred dollar gift card to Bloomingdale’s and more.
Mandy Susan, Event Manager, remarked, “The Women’s Resource Center is all about giving back to the community. We figured why not hold a fashion show and a raffle to create a night of fun for many local women while helping out a local women’s shelter.”
The Hamline University Women’s Resource Center’s mission is to help women in the community and the state. Each year volunteers plan events, hold fundraisers, and collaborate with other organizations to take action and improve the lives of women in their communities.
651-532-2045
wrc@hu.edu
Contact: Alanna Storey, 651-222-3333
Email: alanna@hu.edu
Hamline University Women’s Resource Center
1536 Hewitt Ave.
St. Paul, MN 55104
651-532-2045
http://www.hamline.edu/personal/dhudson/eng3370/339s00/johnson/WRC/about.html
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Sunday, March 21, 2010
Sunday, February 28, 2010
War Made Easy Critical Essay
Most P.R. practitioners think of public relations as a field that helps a company get in touch with the needs and wants of the publics it serves. However, some people have a less favorable impression of public relations. Public relations has also been linked to the idea of spin, or lying to audiences to get them to feel a certain way about an issue. The government has been notorious in its use of propaganda and getting the American people to think favorably of their actions, especially in terms of going to war. The film War Made Easy reveals how propaganda and government relations tactics are used to turn an audience’s attitude in favor of something as destructive as war.
The government uses the tactic of making America look like the good guy and demonizing its opponents to gain the American people’s support in going to war. President George W. Bush labeled the people of Afghanistan, North Korea, Iran, Iraq, and the Taliban as a part of an “axis of evil”, a “cult of evil”, and said that the U.S. going to war with Afghanistan would be a “monumental structure of good vs. evil” (Alper & Earp, 2007). The American government shows its enemies to be monsters so that the American people will not sympathize with them but, rather, see them as a threat to our safety. Even back during the red scare the government was demonizing a different way of life. There were television shows saying communism was “dirty, godless and evil” (Alper & Earp, 2007).
The American government tries to make itself look like a martyr by going under the guise of going to war for the sake of democracy for the American people. Various presidents such as Ronald Reagan, Bill Clinton, and George W. Bush were shown saying that they “love peace and hate war” and “we will liberate these people” (Alper & Earp, 2007). The government gives the impression that we must go to war for the sake of a free country. U.S. presidents lie to us by telling us that they will liberate the people we are warring with even though we are slaughtering civilians and destroying countries that have different views than we do about religion and life.
The film War Made Easy reveals a darker side of government relations through exposing the use of propaganda to gain support from the American people to go to war. U.S. presidents and media pundits have been swaying the American people to be enthusiastic about going to war and view it as a sense of patriotic duty. The American public is never given the full story about why we are going to war because the government knows they would lose support if they released all of the facts. We need to learn to demand the facts before permitting ourselves to be brainwashed into believing that war is our only answer.
*Final Edit*
Bibliography
Alper, L. (Producer), & Earp, J. (Director). (2007). War made easy: How presidents and pundits keep spinning us to death [Motion Picture]. United States: The Disinformation Company Ltd. .
The government uses the tactic of making America look like the good guy and demonizing its opponents to gain the American people’s support in going to war. President George W. Bush labeled the people of Afghanistan, North Korea, Iran, Iraq, and the Taliban as a part of an “axis of evil”, a “cult of evil”, and said that the U.S. going to war with Afghanistan would be a “monumental structure of good vs. evil” (Alper & Earp, 2007). The American government shows its enemies to be monsters so that the American people will not sympathize with them but, rather, see them as a threat to our safety. Even back during the red scare the government was demonizing a different way of life. There were television shows saying communism was “dirty, godless and evil” (Alper & Earp, 2007).
The American government tries to make itself look like a martyr by going under the guise of going to war for the sake of democracy for the American people. Various presidents such as Ronald Reagan, Bill Clinton, and George W. Bush were shown saying that they “love peace and hate war” and “we will liberate these people” (Alper & Earp, 2007). The government gives the impression that we must go to war for the sake of a free country. U.S. presidents lie to us by telling us that they will liberate the people we are warring with even though we are slaughtering civilians and destroying countries that have different views than we do about religion and life.
The film War Made Easy reveals a darker side of government relations through exposing the use of propaganda to gain support from the American people to go to war. U.S. presidents and media pundits have been swaying the American people to be enthusiastic about going to war and view it as a sense of patriotic duty. The American public is never given the full story about why we are going to war because the government knows they would lose support if they released all of the facts. We need to learn to demand the facts before permitting ourselves to be brainwashed into believing that war is our only answer.
*Final Edit*
Bibliography
Alper, L. (Producer), & Earp, J. (Director). (2007). War made easy: How presidents and pundits keep spinning us to death [Motion Picture]. United States: The Disinformation Company Ltd. .
Tuesday, February 9, 2010
Blogger Bio
Hello! My name is Alanna Storey. Yes, I do find it funny that I like to blog, write, and do PR related activities and happen to have the last name of Storey in case you caught that too. I am currently a senior at Hamline University and am looking forward to graduating. My interests are in women's studies, communications, and psychology. I feel that all of these subjects of study are very important in being an effective PR person. Women's studies gives one the knowledge to understand and be able to interact with diverse groups of people. Communications gives people the art of words to be able to communicate a particular message to a particular audience. Psychology also gives one the skill to be able to go inside the audience's head and become better equipped to give them what they want.
I have had PR experience through doing newsletters and brochures in order to promote the women's studies department here at Hamline. I also interned at the Minnesota Women's Consortium and worked to revamp their marketing system. I introduced Twitter, Facebook, and newly designed newsletters to the office. When I am not doing that I am President of the Women's Resource Center which seeks to create awareness about gender diversity on campus and in the community. I do much event planning for this organization. We have a variety of events such as media talks, charity fashion shows, and a women's history month celebration on campus. I also work in the President's Office doing everything from drafting donor letters to helping with mailings.
That is a short summary of all of the duties and responsibilities I have on campus. You can usually find me on Fridays wearing a Hamline shirt for the weekly Piper Pride Fridays we have. I hope you have enjoyed this summary and I look forward to getting to know all of you and your interests!
I have had PR experience through doing newsletters and brochures in order to promote the women's studies department here at Hamline. I also interned at the Minnesota Women's Consortium and worked to revamp their marketing system. I introduced Twitter, Facebook, and newly designed newsletters to the office. When I am not doing that I am President of the Women's Resource Center which seeks to create awareness about gender diversity on campus and in the community. I do much event planning for this organization. We have a variety of events such as media talks, charity fashion shows, and a women's history month celebration on campus. I also work in the President's Office doing everything from drafting donor letters to helping with mailings.
That is a short summary of all of the duties and responsibilities I have on campus. You can usually find me on Fridays wearing a Hamline shirt for the weekly Piper Pride Fridays we have. I hope you have enjoyed this summary and I look forward to getting to know all of you and your interests!
Monday, February 8, 2010
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