Scholars have argued that content in Sports Illustrated – known for its racy swimsuit editions – has long been designed to appeal to straight white men. I chose to look at these three magazines because they allowed me to explore ads designed to reach different groups, namely white men, Black people and women. In the following Q&A, Favara explains the rationale behind his book and discusses some of its key findings. The three magazines are Sports Illustrated, Ebony and Cosmopolitan. Military Advertising,” Jeremiah Favara, a communication scholar at Gonzaga University, examines military recruitment ads published in three commercial magazines between 1973 – when the federal government ended the military draft – and 2016. I just wish I could have enjoyed it and gone on to read the rest of the series.(THE CONVERSATION) In his forthcoming book, “Tactical Inclusion: Difference and Vulnerability in U.S. Also, people who love MiSF absolutely love this book, so it really is a 'it's not you, it's me' situation. To be fair to Kloos, this was his very first book, so it makes sense it wouldn't be as good as the ones he wrote eight books later.

Moving from one battle to the next, downtime with the squad between actions. The whole book, and by my Goodreads checking the entire series, is just military actions. (And yet they're still called recruiting offices.) They now try to discourage people from joining the military, because everyone in the world wants to enlist. There was zero world building, other than one bit that actually made me laugh out loud while reading: Military recruiting offices exist in the future, but their purpose has changed. After reading the first 30% of the book, I couldn't name one character trait of the main character or any other character in the book. Set in the most generic YA dystopian setting in existence, the first 20% of Terms of Enlistment was a very detailed look at basic training in the 'future' (it felt pretty current-time, just with a higher level of tech, sort of more like fantasy military stuff). I had said to myself 'This is just sci-fi, no different than other sci-fi books, so I guess I like MiSF!'. He's a military sci-fi author (which I learned is abbreviated as MiSF, which is kind of cool), so I had assumed the Palladium Wars series was MiSF.

I don't think I ever before repeated 'I don't think I'm the right audience for this' so often over a book. Since this is an eight book series, I really wanted to enjoy it and hoped maybe the later books would seem a better fit for me, but nope. Instead I made it to 30% before I went to Goodreads to check not just the review of this book, but the ones later in the series. If I hadn't enjoyed Kloos's The Palladium Wars series so much, I would have DNFed this one much earlier on.

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