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    Sexual Images and Social Inequality in Advertisements Mass media has played a very special and important role in social influences and identifications. Beauty is in the eyes of the beholder and the media is that of the beholder as it can be a “powerful agent of gender-role socialization” (Crooks and Baur 2008‚ 70). Generally‚ the media is the one that can either help shaped or changed certain social images. Once an image has been made popular by the media‚ it can become a substantial impact that

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    My discourse community that I chose is law. I chose this direction because law is something I’m passionate about. Whether it be defending the rights of an individual‚ or an entire business‚ this is something I see worth doing. Sometime this year‚ I met a friend that shared his passion for law with me. He chose law because of the fifth amendment‚ stating‚ “everyone has the right to not self-incriminate oneself. For example‚ when the government knows you have a document that is self-incriminating‚

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    9 1.4. Difficulties connected with distinguishing synonyms 12 1.5. Summing up 13 2. Media discourse 14 2.1. What is media? 14 2.2. What is discourse? 17 2.3. What is media discourse? 19 2.4. Topics of media discourses 20 2.5. Summing up 21 3. Practical part 23 General overview 23 Analysis 26 3.3. Summing up 28 Conclusion 29 Bibliography 30 Introduction

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    Advertising Standards Agency . (2012). About ASA. Retrieved September 25‚ 2012‚ from ASA: http://www.asa.org.uk/About-ASA.aspx So the advertising standards agency referred to as the ASA in the quote above helps us to understand more about how advertisements and other media products are regulated. The ASA are a government recognised body who ensure that outlandish claims are not made by organisation in order to sell more of their products and also to make sure none off the adverts which they approve

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    Rachel B 12 October 2013 Fiji Water Advertisement People tend to trust what they see‚ but will that get them sucked into being manipulated by the advertisement world? What people see‚ is not always how it looks. Advertisers are not typically here to help‚ they have one goal; to sell their product and make some money off of their audience. Everyone at some point decides which advertiser to trust‚ and they do that through what the advertiser says. Face it‚ how many people really go and look up

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    Culture in Discourse 1.0 Introduction Discourse‚ its etymology comes from Latin‚ discursus (which means “running to and fro”) is the term that concerns with spoken and written communication. In linguistics‚ discourse is a unit of language longer than a single sentence. More broadly‚ discourse could be the use of spoken or written language in a social context. According to Hinkel and Fotos (2002) in New Perspectives on Grammar Teaching in Second Language Classrooms‚ discourse in context

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    Communication between males and females has always been somewhat complicated. Because we are arguing that males and females have different cultures we wanted to take a look at what some of these differences might be. According to our research the inherent differences between male and female culture are the different roles that society holds for them and the ways these roles lead to different communication styles. The stereotypes that men and women grow up with affect the types of ways in which they

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    The 2005 ‘Stubbies” advertisement by Coke-Cola owned soft drink company Lemon and Paeroa (L&P) is constructed in such manner to produce ‘New Zealand’ within it text. The advertisement has been produced with particular attention and reference to New Zealand and New Zealanders‚ subjugating a sense of nationalism among viewers. This essay analyses and explains how L&P creates and fosters a sense of national identity among viewers through elements of; nationalism‚ banal nationalism‚ and symbolism.

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    if you have acne‚ you don’t have a boyfriend. Many young people struggle with acne‚ and‚ unfortunately having acne leads them to feel insecure and doubt themselves. Advertisements can encourage young people to value their looks‚ desire a significant other‚ and spend money to look beautiful and accepting by their peers. Advertisements encourage teens to focus on how they look. In particular‚ girls are generally preoccupied with attempting to become beautiful. As a young girl begins to grow up‚ the

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    Print advertisements are used by marketers to make advertising appeals with an aim of influencing the manner in which consumers or buyers view themselves. This creates a psychological appeal whereby buyers view buying of certain products as beneficial to them. Print advertisements greatly influence the buying decisions of the consumers. The Tripwire Magazine contains car advertisements that capture the attention of the reader and arouses emotions that make them desire to get more about the cars.

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