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  I, like many others, love football. This makes February, or should I say Super Bowl season , super exciting. Not only because you get to watch the best of the best play each other, or watch Rhianna's comeback six years in the making, but you get to see some of the most creative and entertaining tv commercials that exist. Forbes magazine wrote an article introducing some of the upcoming ads for the Super Bowl and one of them caught my attention. It’s a collaboration between Marvel Antman the movie and Heineken the beer brand that shows the Antman Paul Rudd reaching for a Heineken before going out to save the world. It’s just a sneak peek so it leaves room for interpretation of what happens after he drinks the Heineken when he goes to save the day. The Super Bowl has previously, for the last 33 years, exclusively only shown alcohol commercials for Anheuser-Busch. This year, they have opened up the field for all brands. While this new visibility will be great for these brands, they ...

Hi! My name is Lauren Patrick and my pronouns are she/ her. I am a junior here at LB studying practical business management. I work as quality coach at Crumbl Cookie here in Corvallis and also occasionally pick up shifts as a caregiver at a local assisted living facility. I enrolled in this course because I plan on opening a coffee shop and dispensary in the future and my goals is to have the knowledge to run them on my own, even if its not physically plausible I want to understand what is going on at all times. I am most interested in learning how to optimize the social media accounts for my current and future businesses because this is how a majority of people discover new things. Outside of school and work I love to go to music festivals, raves and concerts. I generally make it to one every two months and will be headed to Tacoma at the beginning of February for Thunderdome. I also have a very small side business where I sell personalized and themed smoking accessory kits. I plan to...