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The Rose Grew From Concrete Analysis

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Commercial companies use many different methods to sell products to the public. They use commercials and logos to manipulate the ways people think. While using public figures or sports icons to connect with the general public emotionally. In this paper I will be writing about two sports drink giants and how they use credibility, emotion, and logic to sell their product. In 1991 Gatorade released a commercial asking the general public if they wanted to be like Mike. Now you might ask yourself who is Mike, the Mike they were referring to was Michael Jordan of the Chicago Bulls. Coming off his first championship season he would go on to win 6 more in his career becoming quite possibly the greatest basketball player to ever play the game. Gatorade used the popularity of Michael Jordan, who at the time was a worldwide icon to sell their product. …show more content…

Seeing the boy coming up in the bad neighborhood with nothing but basketball to keep him out of trouble is enough to make any person feel for him. When being narrated by a figure who was murdered also shows the path that boy could have taken if it wasn’t for basketball to keep him out of trouble. The poem used during the narration is Tupac’s famous poem “The Rose That Grew from Concrete.” This poem is a depiction of how one might feel emotionally when seeing a rose that had the will to grow from concrete. Also, it symbolizes the youth being brought up in the urban areas of America. Seeing the boy become an NBA superstar also leaves the impression that escaping that life is possible through hard work and having a dream. The credibility falls with the truth in the commercial and how they depict the real life struggles of young black males in society today. By using a basketball superstar and a cultural icon in music they sell to the kids who want to be basketball players and touch the ones who wanted the world to be a peaceful place like Tupac Shakur once

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