1. Graffiti - This from of text is can be used to express opinions on public property. These can be from expressing hope during time of tragedy or to mark territory for gang members in certain parts of the world. These opinions illustrate how the text is alive.
2. Text Messaging - Text messaging is very alive because it is direct interaction with other people. The instant gratification of knowing that you and another person are holding a conversation can make one express emotions of happiness to sadness, anger to joy, or being dreary to being alive.
3. Bumper Stickers - This is an interesting choice of text. Bumper stickers can express many opinions on someone's car, a facet of their lives that they would be with for much of their time. These opinions can be anything from views on politics, to religion, to a funny joke.
4. Billboards - The average billboard has made itself become more alive through the use of technology with text. When a billboard can hold many forms of text, it can catch people's eye because their is more that they might be interested in, therefore making the text applicable with the person and making it alive.
5. Apparel - In today's youth, many clothing items use text on them. Some pieces may be sayings or jokes, others can be the name of the brand, and that can convey a certain stature. The stature of one's lifestyle being shown through a pop culture reference or a shirt that says "American Eagle" shows that the text can interpret others lives.
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