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“I got up and pretended to study the pictures on the walls like I was a lover of religious art. When I got to the Merciful Mother right above Sinita’s head, I reached in my pocket and pulled out the bottom I’d found on the train. It was sparkly like a diamond and had a little hole in back so you could thread a ribbon through it and wear it like a romantic lady’s choker necklace. It wasn’t something I’d do, but I could see the button would make a good trade with someone inclined in that direction.

Advertising has come a long way in terms of advancement with the enlightenment of the new technological age we live in now. In James Twitchell’s essay “What We Are to Advertisers,” the author explains that mass production means mass marketing, and mass marketing means the creation of mass stereotypes. Generally, the use of stereotypical profiling in our society not only exists in regards to race, social class, personality type, and gender but also holds a special meaning in advertising circles as well. To advertisers, stereotyping has become an effective means to pitch their products according to the personality profiles they have concocted for us and are most times eerily accurate. For instance, according to advertisers, the daytime

Bonnie Green, Chief Estimator, agreed that in a normal year only slight delays might develop due to a shortage of labor. However, she pointed out that for such a large project, the company would have to use unionized employees and that the construction industry labor agreements with New York City were to expire on October 30, 2004. Past experience and current construction activity in the surrounding area indicated that any union tradesman would support a strike against the city. Since this is a public project, she estimates that there is a 50% chance that they would strike this project to gain the attention of the national media.

Advertisements are always trying to decide on who you are when sometimes they have it all wrong. People making the advertisements have studied the way you think to attract more attention. Ads are everywhere and they use different tactics to catch the viewer to get them to buy their products. People making these ads study peoples identity and target you in ways you couldn't even imagine, by using the identity of a busy person. Placement, color, and the content of the ad are what they use to try and guess your identity.

Allen Neuharth understood the need to know his audience, which is why he conducted extensive polling to gain a clear picture of unmet consumer desires (Ferrel & Hartline, 2014). Anyone who has joined a streaming movie service, like Netflix, knows that upon registration, the customer sees a variety of content to help build a profile. This profile contains algorithms transparent to the customer which predicts the content of interest to the customer and advertises it upon the next login. Accordingly, the first action in the strategy would be to follow in the founder’s footsteps and conduct extensive polling of the target market for the type of content they would like to be able to receive and customize. This would occur not only during registration of new accounts, but also be maintained by tracking the time customers spend on particular articles and what advertisement links they click, with their consent. Just as retail marketing can be specifically targeted to certain demographics, newspapers can also market different types of news to various segments of the market based upon their interests (Mensing, 2007). The goal would be for readers to have not only articles about topics which they deem relevant, but also advertisements for products they

Furthermore, Gender as a representative kind of culture stereotypes, it strongly influences people’s perspective of others, especially when lots information has been limited, for example, in the advertisement, the audience only have a few minutes to engage with it and it normally has no time to explain the issue of gender itself. In other words, when people meet new friends at the first time, they always make a precision of that person based on their characteristics, especially visual features. For instance, if a man seems full of muscle and powerful, then he will be defined as masculinity. Therefore, advertising often is critiqued as controversial of gender because it mainly expresses ideas and values visually, and gender is the most popular

Advertisements are a large part of the world's daily life. Ads show up on billboards as people drive their cars, in the newspapers, and all over the internet regardless of what site an individual is on at that moment. The advertisers stalk and take notes on what people do while they are online, if an individual is shopping for shoes, miraculously shoe ads will pop up on any other website that person is looking at. The web is creating a personal profile of what each person looks at helping them target which ads to show to each person, hoping to increase in profit. That is to say, if corporations can track what a person looks at and they gear the ads that person sees towards the individual's interests, then that person will be more likely to click the ad and buy the product. When corporations are guiding ads specific to an individual's online history, they create an advertising identity for that person. That advertising identity differs from one's actual identity, which is defined most easily as what an individual thinks of his or her self. To some people there is little difference between the two identities, however it is more likely that the two identities are vastly different. In my life, advertisements are typically directed towards expensive clothing and shoes, however this is not a true depiction of who I am as a person.

The identity advertisers have of me is so much different than the identity I have of myself. Advertisements try to make me think that I don't look good in the clothes I'm wearing, so I should buy their nice, new ones. Whether or not that belief is true, they still are putting me down in a way. The view I have of myself is different than the view advertisements have of me. The view I have of myself is real and imperfect. That being said, my flaws are what make me who I truly am. Advertisements tell me that it is not okay to make mistakes. In other words, advertisements are completely and utterly fake.

Have you ever helped out the CIA? Let alone on a mission to track someone down? It all started when I started questioning my dads death. It was a Monday, i had just got out of school and Carlos wanted to hang out so i told him to come over. When he came over we took a vote on either playing video games or doing something outside, but we couldn’t decide so we decided to do both. Right before we took one step away my mom butted in and said, “you better get your homework done David!”

Immediately with me being leader, tone of the whole team improved we were making record runs. No sooner after are record runs, a scotch half breed took charge of us and other teams. He started us back over trails to Dawson. We were hauling heavy loads each day, for what was called the mail train. I did not like this but I worked hard, I felt pride for myself and my mates. But with the loads so heavy, we all began to feel tired and worn, muscles ached. On one long trip and after traveling over eighteen hundred miles our strength went down. Dave suffered the most being irritable, he would cry out in pain, would make his nest and not get up until the following morning. Yet no one could find anything wrong with him.

One of the several major factors that influence mass consumption is advertizing. Diverse perceptions occur in the

I’ll be looking at two websites for this essay. I’ve decided one would be a more modern looking website – that being the local football team’s website – and the other is my old primary school. Looking through these two websites, that are a few years apart in terms of the technology and syntaxes used, would give me a better understand of how technology has developed over time in wed design.

The torrential downpour outside of the old Miami Tower was stampeding against the window. Ferociously, the seawater level over the past 2 years have risen 7 feet and is constantly climbing due to the vicious weather conditions and backlog from sewage. Ever since the flooding started the water has blocked off the roads and tunnels which made transportation near impossible. In our small civilization, we have a system that is based off on a basic monarchy where the king’s son or daughter becomes the holder of the throne when their father dies. The man who created the society 20 years ago had lived in poverty his whole life, but he strived to make sure everyone was safe and happy. When the flooding first started he didn’t have the money or

The researchcited indicatesthat people, when given just a simple visual stimulus of an individual, will readilyassociate socially desirabletraitsand character with attractive individuals, and negative aspects of personalitywith unattractiveindividuals.The findings suggest that the use of attractiveindividualsin advertisements potentiallycould increase the effectiveness of an ad either by increasingthe perceived credibility of the communicator,and thus his persuasibility, or by creatinga "halo effect" and increasingthe credibility and acceptance of the communication message itself. Additionalsupportfor the hypothesis that the use of physically attractivemodels increases promotional effectiveness can be found in attributiontheory [15, 17], which in fact involves several theoretical approaches. In its broadest form, attribution theory concerns attempts by individuals to infer the basic causes of behaviorfrom observationof that behavior. The basic problemfacing the observer is to determine whetherthe actor's behaviorprovidesany information aboutthe dispositionsor qualitiesof the actor himself.

In an effort to extend Andreasen’s (1968) typology to computer-mediated environments, we assert that information sources can be sorted into one of four groups: (1) Personal source providing personalized information (e.g., “My sister says that this product is best for me.”); (2) Personal source providing non-personalized information (e.g., “A renowned expert says that this product is the best.”); (3) Impersonal source providing personalized information (e.g., “Based on my profile, the recommender system suggests this product.”); (4) Impersonal source providing non-personalized information (e.g., “According to Consumer Reports, this is the best product on the market.”). In consumer research, studies on personal influence, social influence, or WOM, can be categorized as studies investigating personal sources providing personalized or non-personalized information. Furthermore, studies dealing with reference groups encompass such sources as well as impersonal sources that provide non-personalized information. Thus, a new area has emerged in consumer research, arising mainly from information technologies such as the Internet: that of impersonal sources that provide personalized information (Alba et al., 1997; Ansari et al., 2000; Häubl & Trifts, 2000; Maes, 1999; Urban, Sultan, & Qualls, 1999; West et