Fresh Prince Essay

Fresh Prince Essay

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  • Date Submitted: 02/25/2009 9:04 AM
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ENC 1101 Sherry Lohmeyer Advertising Paper Prompt For this assignment, you will write a *1000-1200 word* paper in which you present a cultural analysis of print advertisements in the United States. Yourprint advertisements should come from magazines published within the past six months. I am aware, of course, that there are various websites that address the issue of advertising and popular culture, and many of these websites include numerous examples of advertisements. Although students are certainly encouraged to use these sites as a means of generating ideas, these websites are not to be used as a source of advertisements for inclusion in your paper. You are not required to scan the advertisements you usebut it would add a professional appearance to your paper. If you do not scan the images, please include the originals with your submission. Your paper must adhere fully to MLA documentation style. At the college level, originality is highly prized. Students who merely replicate material discussed in class are unlikely to earn a high grade. To Begin Advertisements present ways of living, models of American life; try therefore to identify what these ads say about our lives. {draw:frame} {draw:frame} Avoid ads which work based upon the cultural significance of a celebrity: ads that encourage people to “be like Mike” work in a very different way than do ads which use people with no celebrity status. Do not unnecessarily limit your analysis to advertisements for particular products; it may well be a mistake to focus exclusively, for example, on ads for beer. In many ways the object being sold is irrelevant; the advertisers are, culturally speaking, selling attractive images rather than things. Make sure you look at the advertisement as a whole. You will find, for example, that there are lots of ads in which women’s breasts are partially revealed--sex does...

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