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Every time you flip a magazine, change channels, or go online, you are struck with images of models who are super skinny with flashy outfits and have excessive make-up on. Ads not only try to sell their products, but also promote how females should look like. These models are airbrushed and photo shopped which is false advertisement. The media progressively encourages a thinner body image as the ideal for women. We see advertisements every day. Some of these ads use manipulative strategies that influence our choices and spending habits. For example, “One in every three articles in leading teen girl magazines included a focus on appearance, and most advertisements used appeal to beauty to sell their products.”(Teen Health) To grab the viewers’ attention, especially females, they include

For the longest time now, advertising has played a huge role in how we identify ourselves in the United States with the American culture, and how others identify themselves with all the cultures of the rest of the world as well. It guides us in making everyday decisions, such as what items we definitely need to invest our money on, how to dress in-vogue, and what mindset we should have to prosper the most. Although advertising does help make life easier for most, at the same time it has negative affects on the people of society as well. Advertisement discreetly manipulates the beliefs, morals, and values of our culture, and it does so in a way that most of the time we don’t even realize it’s happened. In order to reach our main goal of

In our society today a business is not a business without an advertisement. These advertisements advertise what American’s want and desire in their lives. According to Jack Solomon in his essay, “Master’s of Desire: The Culture of American Advertising,” Jack Solomon claims: “Because ours is a highly diverse, pluralistic society, various advertisements may say different things depending on their intended audiences, but in every case they say something about America, about the status of our hopes, fears, desires, and beliefs”(Solomon). Advertisers continue to promote the American dream of what a women’s body should look like. They advertise their products in hopes for consumers to buy them, so they can look like the models pictures in the ads. Behind these ads, advertisers tend to picture flawless unrealistic woman with the help of Photoshop. In our society today to look like a model is an American dream and can be the reasons why we fantasizes and buy these products being advertised. “America’s consumer economy runs on desire, and advertising stokes the engines by transforming common objects;signs of all things that Americans covet most”(Solomon).

The target audience is both males and females in their late teens to mid twenties. This company gets the male side of the equation by getting their attention and interest drawn to an attractive woman scantly clad

Many people would argue that they personally feel exempt from the influences of advertising. But if this is the case, then why is the advertising industry grossing over $250 billion a year? The American living in the United States is typically exposed to over 3,00 advertisements in a single day, which means that he or she will spend two years of their lives watching television commercials. Advertisements are everywhere and we cannot avoid them. We see advertisements in schools, buildings, billboards, airplanes, bust stops, and so on. Not only are advertisements selling advertisements, but they’re selling values and beliefs, sexuality, images, and the normalcy of believing who we should be because an advertisement said so. Advertisements can create environments, but sometimes these environments can become toxic when consumers buy into its toxicity. One of the biggest toxicities of advertisements is the portrayal of women in advertisements. Though standards of beauty vary over time and by cultures, it seems as though the advertising industry is still buying into “the beauty myth.” This is notion that “the quality of beauty objectively and universally exists.” Though there have been strides to break this notion and attack how advertising has objectified women, it seems as though advertisements are objectifying women more and more. In most advertisements, we are not seeing women being depicted as who they really are, but being portrayed and objectified to be someone that they

The ad itself appears to be in a military instructional setting. The viewer’s eye is immediately drawn to the central focus of the document; a strong, physically fit African American woman in a combat stance, facilitating the techniques of martial arts.

With my ad, relative size plays a part in which the male is obviously larger than the female and he towers over her petite frame. For feminine touch, the male has a clenched fist on her shoulder and the other hand on a tree. His entire arm is holding her body in its place. This body language says that the male is in charge and takes an aggressive stance over her, while the girl just stands there limply and leaning on the tree. Its as if she would fall over if he weren't there to hold her up. For function ranking, the male is clearly in the managerial position, as he seems to be overpowering her in every way. For licensed withdrawal, the girl featured seems as though she has left her body psychologically for the male counterpart to simply ravish. As in many rape cases, victims have stated that while they are being raped, their mind leaves their body as not to experience the horrible psychological or even physical pain occurring. This ad depicts a girl who does not seem present in the situation with a dazed look on her face and a motionless body. The family aspect doesn't exactly correspond with this particular ad, as a family is not present. With nearly all of the "frame analysis" characteristics satisfied from this one ad, one must assume that although leaps and bounds of efforts have been made by society to free women from stereotypical gender roles, "advertisers are still relying upon their subordination as a tool in the attempt to sell a wide variety

The advertisement that I pick was a true or false Modess advertisement. This advertisement really represent the 1950’s and 60’s because at that time women were allowed to vote, but didn't how a out of house job. A female's job at that time was to stay at home cook, clean, be a wife, and a mother. As for a male's job he was a work and was “allowed” to clean he just had to go to work and provide money for the family. The show I Love Lucy is an example of what was the job for a women in the 1950’s was. The Brady Bunch was in the late 1960’s, but it still show how life was back then and how were gender roles took place in a family. On that note women weren't allowed to be all feminin. This product makes me think that the human body back then, especially

When looking at this advertisement there is nothing sexy about it, but you do get a sense of cleanliness, and pureness. The advertisement is a headshot of Zendaya with

I think that the main attraction of this advertisement is the woman in the middle. She is strong and confident looking and what woman doesn’t want to be like that? It draws you in to thinking that if you smoked cigarettes like that than you might have the confidence that this woman has.

The advertisement is set on a clean white background. Filling in the white void is, on the left a black and white photo of physique competitor Ryan Hughes. He is midway through a bicep curl, and the veins on his arms and chest are seemingly tearing through his skin. He is wearing a pair of basic gym shorts, and no shirt. He clearly has large pectoral muscles as well as abdominal muscles. He is well manicured and has been working out for a while; this is noticeable because of the glistening of his skin. He is curling a large red dumb bell; his expression shows that he is struggling. On the right of the ad is the words “Set your goals to PUSH your limits.” Under that is a bottle of the product Syntha-6 Chocolate milkshake flavored protein. The bottle is a similar red to that of the dumbbell being held by Ryan Hughes. It has a

Prior to discussing the myths found in this advertisement, one must first understand how the woman pictured is being objectified. The advertisement only includes the model’s legs

My overall impression of this advertisement at first glance is the selection of men shoes they have. There seems to be no trace of any women shoes on the cover for some odd reason, they do advertise “Best Selection of Top Brands for the Entire Family,” but all I see is boots and athletic shoes for men. My eyes are drawn to the coupons on the bottom of the page and the 25 % off on selected Nikes on top of the page because let’s get real, everyone loves to save money. The colors on this advertisement make you just stop and see what it’s all about.

The bold eye-catching copy that pops out gives the athletic reader the immediate energy to get fit. This ad shows its dominance by occupying

At first glance the advertisement seemed so simple and to the point, but the image has an emotional pull that people still cannot resist. We see a beautiful woman basking in the glow of the night’s sky. In the background we see the castle, which represents her