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In today’s society, no matter where you are, there is always a good chance that you have seen an advertisement. These little creatures are everywhere. You may see them when you are reading a magazine, watching TV, or surfing the internet. We have become so used to them. Advertisements are good at making us stop what we are doing and giving them our full attention. What is an advertisement? An advertisement is an announcement made to the public. In Jib Fowles’ article, “Advertising’s Fifteen Basic Appeals,” he is informing us that companies are spending millions of dollars on advertisements to grab our attention in order to manipulate us into spending or thinking of spending our hard-earned money on their product. Even though a lot of people do not want to believe that a paper that is eight times eleven with an image and no more than five words is manipulative because we want to think that we are not that easy to trick. Nike created an advertisement for one of

In “No More’s Official Super Bowl Ad”, No More reveals the audio of a woman calling 911 ordering a pizza for delivery. The 911 operator addresses the woman questioning if she is aware she called an emergency line. The woman answers questions from the operator by disguising her responses with a pizza order while the background noise comprises of a television and a male voice accompanying her in the room. While the audio plays, visuals of the interior of a home flash upon the screen. A hole in the wall, a picture frame on the ground, specifically of a woman and a man, and an untidy bedroom all show signs of a previous violent struggle in the home. At the end of the video a message appears which states, “When it’s hard to talk, it’s up to us to listen…” associated with a website. In their powerful and informative public service announcement, “No More’s Official Super Bowl Ad” proves to be a campaign opposing domestic violence and sexual assault in which No More thoroughly establishes the need to stop domestic and sexual abuse by using pathos to evoke multiple distinct tones, ethos to demonstrate concern to the audience, and as well, using ethos to provide credibility.

Throughout the commercial sick children and shown being given different tests and laying in hospital beds. By showing these images the audience feels a sense of fear, loss, pain, and grief, even though they do not personally know the children. By not donating the audience does feel responsible for these sick children potentially losing their lives. At the same time the commercial causes such negative feelings, it also provides positive ones such as hope and pride. By donating to St. Jude’s hospital a child’s life can be saved and that is because of you. This is effective for St. Jude’s because most people would rather feel positive feelings rather than negative, so they are more likely to call and donate to keep that positive feeling going. Also, ending the advertisement on a positive note by telling the audience “You can bring them that hope” the audience is drawn into pathos all over

Domestic violence ads tend to be mostly digital, and you can shy away from looking at them. Some people do not believe domestic violence is real, they think there is nothing to be afraid of or that the victim did something to deserve the abuse. The National Football League (NFL) ad for domestic violence shows how scary it can be for victims without showing what happened or what they look like. This domestic violence ad was created by the NFL and was “the first public service announcement ad aired on the network”, (Bates, K) employs effective techniques to allow viewers to understand that domestic violence is real and a scary reality for some. Dramatic conflict, hidden fear, and plain folk testimonies are ways to make viewers think on a deeper level. The domestic violence ad also features ethos (credibility), logos (logic), and pathos (emotion), to add to the effect of violence.

In a day, the average American sees thousands of ads, the world is covered in them. Be it on TV, in the daily newspaper or on the shopping cart one picks up at the grocery store, exposure to these ads is inescapable. Most are these ads are harmless, wanting only to catch the attention of potential customers and invest them in their product. The companies make use use of pathos ( for example the Budweiser commercials with the puppy and horse), logos (the Geico “15 minutes could save you 15% or more…”), or ethos (Jamie Fox using his iPhone 6s in Apple’s latest ads) to sell their product. Some companies, however, employ extreme tactics to stand out. They create ads that target human’s natural inclination to use sex and violence. More often

Advertisers use a variety of appeals to convince the viewer’s to buy certain products or bring a topic to the awareness of the viewer. The anti-child abuse announcement that San Francisco Human Services Agency released is no different. A public service announcement is designed to publicize a problem the nation is facing. Advertisements can appeal to the audience through a variety of elements such as images and speech. In this advertisement pathos and ethos are represented through the sounds and visual content while logos is presented through the statistics given at the end of the advertisement. With this advertisement it is also important to consider the

This is effective in this advertisement because it causes the audience to feel remorse for the victim, because she places the blame on herself, causing emotional trauma on top of the physical beating. This shows the audience that domestic violence needs to be understood to stop woman from seeing it as their own faults, and start seeing themselves as abuse victims that need to be strong and end the relationship. No one should encounter injury or neglect by people they trust. But when someone is abused, it can lead to the victim self-hating, provoking the woman to do more harm to themselves. The woman in the ad has a look of blame and judgement on her face, which may be directed toward herself and her loss of self-respect.

Advertisements are the most commonly used way to sell and market a product or message. Although we may not realize it while watching or seeing the advertisement, there are many underlying factors that cause us to buy into the advertisement. Whether it may be the color, picture, text, or sound; the advertisers find a way to draw us in without even a second thought. Many advertisers focus on guilt, they try to find a soft spot with in us by showing us those that are less fortunate than us. “Don’t you feel bad that you are so fortunate and these people are living like this? Give to them, help them, give up your luxuries, and share with them.” This is the

The commercial ends with a plea to the public to help stop domestic violence and sexual assault and that it’s up to us to listen. It also highlights how most people feel it as almost of a taboo to talk about abuse and people as a whole should speak up and talk openly about it more. The commercial assesses that showing support and educating people more about assault is the best the public can do, and that it is possible to get help no matter the situation; for example the woman had her abuser in the same room but was still able to obtain the help she needed to escape the toxic

It was a series of videos featuring people of all walks of life exercising. Obviously the campaign was intended to create revenue for the sports retailer, but more than that it was intended to convince people to be healthier and more active. This is one still from the series of commercials. When a viewer first looks at the image their eye will first fall on the bold font, “Find Your Greatness” and the trademark Nike swoosh. The two elements build the image’s authority, so it makes sense that the creator would want a viewer’s attention to be directed here first. The audience will the notice the subject of the image, a running overweight boy. The subject himself will appeal to the viewer’s emotions as well as present a subconscious logical argument to the viewer; specifically, the audience will feel a degree of pride seeing the boy trying to get healthier. As the audience looks at the subject they would see this overweight, unhealthy child trying to make a change and they themselves may feel more empowered to make a change in their lives as well. While looking at the subject the viewer will notice his facial expression. This is the strongest appeal to the audience’s emotions and will undoubtable inspire feelings of respect and guilt. Respect for the effort being made by the boy and guilt because of how they themselves may be lazy and unhealthy from time to time. Lastly, the audience will notice the background setting

The display is sending the message to abusive husbands, boyfriends or any men. Layout is organized correctly, the had a small paragraph in the bottom corner of the display that gives excellent information. “Nearly one-third of women get physically or sexually abused by a husband or boyfriend at some point in their lives. 40% of girls between the ages 14 and 17 years of age report that they know someone who has been hit, beaten or slapped by their boyfriend.” (Ad Council Advertisement) A sad, hopeless women who gets abused by her boyfriend or husband. The concern in this advertisement would be that people need to stop abusing women and they also need to be educated on how to treat a woman. Women need help, they're just too scared to ask for

First, the advertisement was called "Stand by you". It was about Budweiser shutting down there factory to make cans of water instead of Budweiser. They did this for the people in Texas, Florida, Puerto Rico, and California because they were all effected from natural disasters. This advertisement is pathos (to appeal to emotion) because it could reflect on someone

One out of every six women just in the United States alone experience a case of physical and emotional violence by their partner. Through the years, the awareness of domestic abuse towards women in the media has risen drastically. Most companies have recently included the topic of domestic abuse into their advertisements. For example, advertising sources such as commercials, billboards, radio, and magazines. Companies do this in order to provide an outlet of help for women who are put into these life threatening situations. The Salvation Army has put their own spin to this in an amazing way with their recent advertisement titled “Why is it so hard to see black and blue?” The advertisement features many uses of visual rhetoric such as the use of popular object, powerful choices of color, the model’s body

Advertisements work in such a way that we grow to envy those we are not; they exploit our perceived flaws by displaying a person who is the living and breathing version of who we wish to be. John Berger in his book, Ways of Seeing, explains that publicity works by convincing his reader that advertisements use envy to entice the public to buy products: “Publicity persuades us...by showing us people who have apparently been transformed and are, as a result, enviable” (131). Though Berger published his book in 1972, his arguments about envy and publicity still hold truth, perhaps now more than ever. Furthermore, the more present advertisements are in our everyday life, the more envious our society becomes. With the power of envy, those who fall under its spell become choiceless, and therefore powerless. Berger also argues in his book that there is a correlation between the number of advertisements we see and the less freedom Americans possess. However, Berger believes that capitalism hides this powerlessness with the illusion of choice: “Publicity helps to mask and compensate for all that is undemocratic within society” (149). This idea Berger has relates not only to the advertisement of products, but also to present-day politics. Withheld information creates power using envy which is used in both advertisements and the US government. As more envy is created with modern day technology, and we become more immersed into social media, the further we stray from democracy.

Advertising is a persuasive communication attempt to change or reinforce one’s prior attitude that is predictable of future behavior. We are not born with the attitudes for which we hold toward various things in our environment. Instead, we learn our feelings of favorability or unfavorability through information about the object through advertising or direct experience with the object, or some combination of the two. Furthermore, the main aim of advertising is to ‘persuade’ to consumer in order to generate new markets for production.