The essay about the ad was one of the more difficult essays. I looked through countless of ads and I couldnt find something that i could effectively pick at. so i yelled at myself to stop wasting time and to finally pick an ad. I picked a Tampax ad that shows rosie the riveter flexing with a tattoo on her bicep showing Tampax (the name). To be honest, it was late at night and i was tired of spending days, yes days, looking for an ad that i could write 1000 words about.
at first i thought to myself, "what can i possibly write?"
so, i slept on it since sleeping seems to be the cure for everything these days.
it hit me when i began looking at it. I wrote about one appeal and then another. Then I looked back and analyzed the two appeals more. Once i did that, I saw another appeal and then more just came out of hiding.
the essay took me a while to complete but i analyzed it more than i thought i was going to orginally. I see the effectiveness of the appeals after writing the essay. They seemed so hidden that i was actually surprised. I feel like the people that make the ads are hiding subliminal messages now.
After writing for a day and only have 2 appeals half written i did want to give up and find another ad but since time was running out and my patience for looking through more magazines and the ray of hope was sliming i stuck with the tampax one. It's kind of funny because i didnt even know it was for tampons until i looked at it again. Which makes me think that these ad makers are really sly...
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