The movie is about the two bikers traveling from LA to the city of New Orleans. Their pursuit of freedom gets abrupt dramatically.

Throughout the film the two main characters experience several adventures. The first adventure is when they stop at a motel where they were turned away. Thereafter they started driving through several beautiful landscapes, which shows how the film portrays freedom in all of its beauty. The scene is quite long and shot from various camera angles, such as fade away and close-ups. Eventually, Wyatt’s bike gets a flat, and the two stop at a farm to fix it. It is at this point that the film makes a comparison of the bikes to cowboys. As Wyatt is fixing his tire a man in the background is shoeing his horse. This scene represents Wyatt as a new version of a cowboy and his chopper is the new cowboy’s steed, while the farmer is representing the old version. It is in this scene that Wyatt tells the farmer how much he admires his farm because he built it with his own hands. Wyatt’s values and morals become clear in this scene.

In the next scene they pick up a hitchhiker. The hiker was from a city, but he refuses to say which city he is from, because he believes that all of them are the same. The hitchhiker obviously feels that by revealing the city he is giving into the idea of “big business” that would mean losing one’s identity. Wyatt responds that he’s never wanted to be anything but himself. The hitchhiker is running from the city, while Wyatt is searching for something.

In the following scene, the two bring the hiker to his home in a commune. Throughout this scene, there is a feeling of solitude. Everyone seems to be getting along, people are having fun, and they’re all sharing the workload and growing their own food. Wyatt really looks up to the people on the commune and tells Billy that “they’ll make it”. The scene where they all hold hands gathered in a circle is shot from a center point and focuses on every face while rotating around. Wyatt feels comfortable there, as opposed to Billy who begins to freak out when the entire commune is singing “Does you hair hang low?” This scene shows the differences between Wyatt and Billy. For example, Billy can’t stand life on the commune for more than one afternoon, while Wyatt is content to live on a commune forever.

After leaving the commune, they get arrested for participating in the parade without a permit. This symbolizes a change in the environment. They are now in the deep south of America which at the time was not as free and accepting as the commune.

While they are in jail, Wyatt and Billy meet George Hanson, an ACLU lawyer. The idea of racism becomes clear with Hanson who says that he can get them out of jail as long as they didn’t kill a white person. This racist comment represents the mentality of the south at the time.

A turning point in the movie happens when they stop at a diner in New Orleans. It is obvious that they are not welcome inside the diner by the looks they get from the locals. So they decide to leave and camp out in the woods. While camping out they are beaten by the good old boys (who they previously saw at the diner) and George is killed. The death of George is very significant in the scene that follows. This scene shows the mentality of the locals which does not tolerate anything or anyone “different” then they are.

Next, after leaving a whore house Wyatt and Billy get into a discussion about how they are now free because they have the money. However, Wyatt disagrees and says that they blew it. His thinking is that they have not reached a point where they are free and never will because society is afraid of the idea of true freedom. By saying, “We blew it”, Wyatt is really thinking that he would have been content if he had stayed on the commune. His chance for happiness is lost. After this scene the producer uses the black transition background the same as in scenes before.

Finally, the movie ends with the death of Wyatt and Billy. They are killed by some rednecks in a truck. After Billy is shot, Wyatt hops on his bike and rides right past the truck that shot Billy. After being killed his bike went up in flames. In that scene we can see the same burning motorcycle which is foreshadowed in an earlier scene. He had to know that they would shoot him as well but he realized that death was the only way he could truly be free. Perhaps it was an act of loyalty to Billy and also a way to escape the false notion of American freedom.

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“There is little difference in people, but that little difference makes a big difference. That little difference is attitude. The big difference is whether it is positive or negative.
-W. Clement Stone.

Viral marketing works on the premise that your service or product is popular enough to advance through a word-of-mouth process. Whether this gets done in the real word by physical means, or whether it is done online, the method is usually the same. Viral marketing happens when word of your business or product is able to move through a “grapevine” without you having to do any paid or “free” advertising to spread the word about its benefits.

The word spreads more quickly from person-to-person-to-person when it is done via the internet. This happens quite frequently when your clients find worthy benefits from using your products or services and tells the “world” about them. Using the internet is one way of getting the word spread out to a global market. One email message sent to thousands upon thousands of people at a time with just one click of a button is awesome. Now the internet is the newest and quickest way to introduce viral marketing about up your business products and services.

The internet has many, many sites and forums available for posting new ideas and services. A new product can become enormously popular when endorsed by others who spread the word on your behalf. When you offer freebies that can be immediately downloaded online, like a special report or an ebook, give them permission to forward your ebook or report to others. Make sure it is of value or has quality content so they will want to forward it to others and they forward to others and on and on. In the ebook or special report your business resource information stays intact and gets passed around.

When someone voices their opinion, whether it is positive or negative, about a product, business, or service to others, and they pass it along to others, that is an endorsement and viral marketing in action. This happens all the time with a movie. One person goes to see it, tells another about it, they go to see, and tells more people about it, the word gets spread around and builds the popularity of the movie resulting in more ticket sales.

The important goal of viral marketing is to promote your idea, business, product or service over and over until it reaches thousands of people. The same with any free samples you offer. Set a goal and do it over and over again with a free quality sample until it reaches a maximum number of people. Then offer a second item to sell to those same persons. If a small percentage of the ones who liked the free sample purchases the second item, you will have a good number of sales from the free endorsement.

This method is done often by businesses both on the internet and offline with retail businesses. Even though this form of marketing takes a bit of effort, it can work wonders when you introduce your new ideas and products to the public. Is your business, idea, service or product worthy of the test?

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The power to generate traffic is simply links. The most powerful technology governing the Internet is hyperlink.

This is the technology that makes it possible for you to browse, download, order, and do all you do online. And this is the technology that drives traffic. When you point links to other sites, you give them traffic, when other sites point to your site, they give you traffic.

A site without links pointing to it cannot get traffic. So the most important traffic strategy is having loads of links pointing to youthe more the merrier. Now, to get pointed at often requires you to point to others. Big sites like EBay, Yahoo, Goggle, and MSN get great traffic because they are great pointers. There are about 100 million eBay users and Yahoo has more than 300 million users making billions of dollars. These big sites are related to loads of other sites through a link of interlocking financial arrangements.

You have to cut other sites into your site. It is a favor for favor thing. Links will always be the most important part of any website promotion campaign. If you want traffic, look for sites to link to and have them link back to you. Let’s say you have a site that sells paintings you did on African-American history, then you should develop your site into a shelf where you not only list your paintings but also list other paintings related to African American history and also list essays, books, personal letters, forums, blogs, journals, poems, movies, and even schools related to African American history. Then in return, have them link back to you.

Let say, you have a home business where you stock coffeemakers and sell online, you could link to other sites selling toasters, mixers, freezers, dryers, washing machine, iron, and other sites that relates to coffee. Then in return, have them link back to you. Make sure you don’t link to competitors, link to cooperatives, this gives you targeted traffic. Mind you, not all your links are for work; some have to be for play. All work no play makes a failure.

Frankly, you can’t really get a lot of traffic with only 1 site. You should build 10 to 50 more and link them all together. And have a resource link exchange page so other relevant sites can link up with you. Do joint ventures. You can make contact with other people who can give you referrals or refer you to their associates and friends.

Truly, the strength of your sites is determined by the strength of your links. But ask this: who will link to you? It is not as easy or as simple as it sound. If you don’t have traffic, who will want to link to you in the first place? You will write to load of sites and they won’t even reply you. Like a man said, “I hate linking. It is such a hassle. Many of the link requests that I do get are from poker or porno sites that are totally irrelevant to my site’s content. Most of the sites that I would like to link to don’t respond. Some sites supposedly do respond, but when I search their sites, I can’t find my link anywhere. It is just so totally and completely frustrating.”

The choice is yours. You either work at it or quit. Download “Evil ways of making money–what the rich won’t tell you” free at http://oxcheck.com and learn how to introduce immoral and unethical survival tactics into your business.

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