Toronto Star Ad Observation

Advertisements have been used throughout generations to persuade the viewer to purchase the product that the company is trying to sell. However, some companies appeal to the emotions instead of trying to sell the product itself. Companies have the ability to persuade the opinions of the reader and make an advertisement that can be mesmerizing. Advertisements have helped the awareness of what a products good for or how it is better than the other retailers product. As Jeremy Bradley states “Advertising can help your business to increase its value and build its reputation” (Bradley, Jeremy.

Media Literacy Journal 1: Intended Audience Littered with behind the scene looks, final interviews, spoilers and deleted scenes; The Bachelorette site is clearly intended to intrigue a wide audience of women. With access to never before seen footage, women are compelled to step into the shoes of the beloved cast members and experience the making of the show. Although watching the show and surfing the site is free, the extravagance of the show is tailored to a certain class of wealth. With the constant trend of Caucasian contestants and Bachelorettes’, this has a repercussion of how the audience views The Bachelorettes racial diversity.

Wherever you may go often you will see advertisement. It may come in many different forms such as a poster on a telephone pole telling someone about a yard sell. Perhaps a bench ad or a television commercial. On a milk carton or box of cereal, whatever the form it’s all around us. Have you ever thought, what is the point of the advertisement?

The Toronto 18 case also known as “The Battle of Toronto” that was named by the terrorist group back in the year 2005. The ringleader Zakaira Amara of the Toronto 18 case confessed it as the mimic to the 9/11. That group’s main task included crippling the economy and unleashing mass carnage, terror and destruction in downtown Toronto. The method being used included a number trucks loaded with tones of fertilizer bomb material and detonating them at the Canadian broadcasting center, the Canadian parliament building, the Canadian security intelligence services building and the parliamentary peace tower to take hostage of the building and ending up with the beheading of the Canadian ministers and including the Canadian prime minister at that time.

Advertisements can get old very quickly; they are usually repetitive, boring, and a waste of everyone’s time. People are getting better at ignoring advertisement, but occasionally, some brilliant advisement can be stuck in one’s head. One advertisement for Orion Telescopes was particularly interesting. With just three images, the moon, the American flag, and the Made in China on the flag, it captured the capability of their product and added an ironic twist at the end. The simplistic design, the clear message, and the interesting layout works great together to promote their telescope, and intrigue their American consumer.

Views change over time, however the usage of visual rhetoric remains the same and with these two smoking advertisements it becomes evident. Advertisements (ads) are a very powerful tool when it comes to persuasion through its use of visual rhetoric such as color schemes and how the use of the images will be perceived by the intended audience. One of the ads I chose was a modern anti-smoking image, more specifically an anti-smoking ad against smoking and the effect of second-hand smoke. Second hand smoke is the smoke exhaled by the smoker. The other ad I chose was a pro-smoking image from the 1950s.

“Under A Cruel Star” despite being an excellent book to read was not credible or believable as compared to Kevin McDermott’s scholarly article. Heda Kovaly depicts popular opinion under Communist dictatorship as being controlled by terror of the government. She states that popular opinion no longer comprised morals or humanity, but instead was uttered by fear and doubts of the consequences of their actions and the domination of the government. This significance of life can be explored and tested against details found in secondary sources. “Under A Cruel Star”, a primary source, provides personal experiences through the political difficulties of Jews while secondary source in Kevin McDermott’s article provides accurate facts of events that

People thought that the north star was the brightest star in the universe. When we had slavery the slaves would follow the north star which was quite noticeable, considering people thought it was the brightest. Although, people may have gotten the North Star confused with other stars, people still believed it was the brightest. People believed that the north star was the brightest star because they got it confused with the dog star, (Alpha Canis Majoris). Stars have different magnitudes, so if the north star had a magnitude of below -1 it would be brightest then a star with a magnitude of above 0.

The message of our project is to buy Sticky Socks instead of ordinary socks. The ad focuses on the ups of the Sticky Socks and the downs of the ordinary socks. Many different techniques are used in the making of this commercial. Our main advertising techniques was Name calling or appeal to guilt because we kept going back to the ordinary socks vs the Sticky Socks. We also used testimonial, Partial Truth, and Card Stacking to persuade our viewers.

Advertising has become a vital part of the human culture. As a result, advertisers have learned several ways to harness basic human desire, in addition to learning how to alter human emotion enough to make their products and ideas fly off the shelves. This is a simplistic print-based ad with a bright green backdrop. It shows a smartphone being held in a person’s hand. The screen of the phone features an app known as “Pokémon GO.”

Text: This is a commercial regarding the immigration issues. The main argument in this commercial is that immigrants help enriched and strengthened the US or perhaps, the argument supports the immigrations. The argument in this commercial is displayed by showing images of immigrants from all over the world. Along with the images, the commercial has also displayed the voice of the President Obama’s voice and a quotation of John F. Kennedy of how they support the flow of immigrations. This commercial argument is the best medium for conveying the message to people that immigration is not harmful as everybody thinks.

As a writer it always seems hard to write about yourself. When asked “Who are you?” you tend to dance around the question or are not able to answer it at all. In the book “The Hour of the Star” by Clarice Lispector, the author uses a narrator who cannot fully determine who he is and also cannot determine who the character he narrates is. The narrator constantly addresses the idea of inner peace and describes it by telling a story of a girl named Macabea; this inner peace that the main character possesses infuriates the narrator because he himself does not possess such inner peace.