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    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

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    Advertisers display women as more of a sex symbol while the men are displayed normally. In the first essay, Kilbourne points out an epidemic that still occurs today when Kilbourne states, “Sex in advertising is pornographic because it dehumanizes and objectifies people, especially women, and because it fetishizes products [...] meet our emotional needs” (489). This quote unfolds the truth on how advertising and media portray women as sex symbols. Both the media and advertising have women portrayed in a

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    of Advertising on WomenAdvertisements of today are overwhelmingly sexual with undertones of hostility and degradation towards women. It does not matter whether the advertisement is directed at men or women, boys or girls. It may be overt or it may be subtle, but there seems to always be an underlying theme of pervasive sexuality and enmity. The mental, emotional, and social impact ofthese advertisements may be adversely affecting our young girls and women of today. The effects of advertising have

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    the media and advertising, they fetishize women as an object rather than a person. In the first essay, Kilbourne points out an epidemic that still occurs today when Kilbourne states, “Sex in advertising is pornographic because it dehumanizes and objectifies people, especially women, and because it fetishizes products [...] meet our emotional needs” (489). This quote unfolds the truth on how advertising and media portray women as sex symbols. Both the media and advertising have women portrayed in a

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    discussing the affects of fashion advertising, especially subliminal advertising within the affects this causes the consumer market and women to have on their identity. The Subconscious mind plays an major role within advertising as it is the key to provoke thoughts of consumerism. I will begin by briefly outlining what the definition of fashion advertising, followed by a insight into how we understand the subconscious mind to work and how this has an affect on advertising. For my final major project

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    Advertising can take many forms, whether that includes promoting an idea with print media like magazines or billboards, or whether it means marketing through the screen with television commercials or mobile marketing on cellphones and computers. The contents of this essay discovers and uncovers the trends in place for women in commercial media. For example, marketing between women and men differ significantly in all areas: The use of women for marketing purposes, the ways advertisers make modifications

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    on any given day, drivers pass numerous billboards featuring ads of beautiful women. Others turn on the television or open a magazine to discover more ads showing scantily clothed women. These types of advertisements appear everywhere. In fact, the average woman sees about four hundred to six hundred advertisements per day (“Eating Disorders: Body Image and Advertising”). What is worse, these misleading ads show women whose bodies have been edited to portray society's perfect image of beauty. Since

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    stereotypes that come along with being a man or a woman. That’s just how the world was created to be. Men and women are seen as unequal at times. Men are the providers of the household, the strong foundation. Women are, however, taught to be the homemaker; the gentle loving ones. These stereotypes are not only what we see but they are taken to the media. In advertisements today, women are sexualized and made to seem they are in their own world, not worrying about what is happening around them

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    Clinton and Sarah Palin, two women of opposite political parties, were hardly ever discussed in news castings without a comment on physical appearance, favor was given to Sarah Palin based on the fact of being a younger and more good looking campaigner. Many newscasters said many statements under the same theme of having to hold sex appeal in order to hold any power, in which media has turned into a very popular advertisement tool. Showing the next generation, women are meant to only to be regarded

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    but they are also advocates of empowering women. Most brand advertisements have a sole purpose of promoting and selling their product or service. However, Always had a different agenda in mind when they released the Like a Girl commercial and #Likeagirl campaign. The commercial has attracted women all over the country for its promotion of the empowerment of women, as well as their line of feminine care products. I chose this topic because it targets women in a way no other company has before. The

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