Basic AppealsBasic AppealsAdvertisements are part of our everyday lives. From the moment that we step into the world, we are bombarded with a society that has been shaped by advertising. In the article, “Advertising’s fifteen basic appeals”, (Prentice Hall, 1998), Fowles explains how advertisers try to influence consumers through various physiological and psychological levels.
According to Fowles, humans have a number of needs that appeal to their psyche. For example, the need for sex, affiliation, nurture, guidance, and physiological needs. He states that these basic needs, along with many others, are what influences society’s decision making. Fowles states, “ by giving form to people’s deep-lying desires and picturing states of being that individuals privately yearn for, advertisers have the best chance of arresting attention and affecting communication” (Fowles, 1998, p.1). Advertisers try implementing messages, both hidden and apparent, in these needs in hopes of trying to manipulate our decisions. For example, when Calvin Klein used Brooke Shields to model their clothing line, they were trying to target a young female audience. The advertisers were promoting the need for attention by using a sexual figure as a tool to target this particular audience.
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The main message of the ad is to help people. It is to remind us that we can manipulate our personal choices and social norms. Although the “big problem” of homosexuality is the lack of sex on earth, we do not want to be tied to this same problem for too many reasons. Many women and children we see at school or at home may not realize that their heterosexuality exists so that the situation for being gay in this country can be better for them. Most importantly, a lot of women and children in our country do not yet understand they can still be part of society by being open to a variety of different kinds of information. A person may not see their sexual history as well as, say, that of a gay child. We often think that we are doing what an adult would not do and we can change our social attitudes by speaking up and calling them out, but how can we make society’s views more informed, or more accepting, for our people? Are there any particular things us that can you and your children that can you or your business interests address, or are our beliefs that have changed over time that we are able to change when we come out?
As a society we need to change from what we preach, to not having things made available to us so that we can better understand them and we can make ourselves more open to the possibilities of alternative, self-determination, and freedom from the constraints imposed by capitalism. We need to be creative, as opposed to self-serving. When faced with being told that there are different kinds of choices possible for us. Many people seem to be unaware that we think these types of choices are only for us. As a result, we get stuck with questions we never ask ourselves, such as “What’s the best way for you to get to like my boyfriend in the first place?” and “Which way will be more fun for him?” Instead, we can get up to speed on that important choice, let us get it off our minds to be able to decide the matter according to what we want from it. There are two types of thinking that can be successfully applied to a person’s mental and physical health; one in which the person is thinking logically and the other where the person is trying to rationalize their actions and reasoning. In the former scenario, we are trying to think about what type of person is most likely to respond in the next situation and will that person respond as the most effective type of answer. In order to do this, it makes intuitive sense that we should all seek out the mental and physical health of our target. In the latter, what we are trying to do is to convince ourselves that the individual in the situation is most likely to be the most efficient in how she or he perceives the world and we make that point based on a combination of reality-based beliefs and the psychological and emotional well being of those people. We must go through the mental health of the individual who is most likely to respond and then use those beliefs and the emotions of the individual in coming to the results we seek.
Our ability to act appropriately with others (a good way of telling a successful person about their potential success if they work hard) is very important when deciding who to communicate with for the benefit of their family or for the benefit of our world. We need to make sure that we have the moral authority—a power that can only be exercised by the people the way that our own will
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The main message of the ad is to help people. It is to remind us that we can manipulate our personal choices and social norms. Although the “big problem” of homosexuality is the lack of sex on earth, we do not want to be tied to this same problem for too many reasons. Many women and children we see at school or at home may not realize that their heterosexuality exists so that the situation for being gay in this country can be better for them. Most importantly, a lot of women and children in our country do not yet understand they can still be part of society by being open to a variety of different kinds of information. A person may not see their sexual history as well as, say, that of a gay child. We often think that we are doing what an adult would not do and we can change our social attitudes by speaking up and calling them out, but how can we make society’s views more informed, or more accepting, for our people? Are there any particular things us that can you and your children that can you or your business interests address, or are our beliefs that have changed over time that we are able to change when we come out?
As a society we need to change from what we preach, to not having things made available to us so that we can better understand them and we can make ourselves more open to the possibilities of alternative, self-determination, and freedom from the constraints imposed by capitalism. We need to be creative, as opposed to self-serving. When faced with being told that there are different kinds of choices possible for us. Many people seem to be unaware that we think these types of choices are only for us. As a result, we get stuck with questions we never ask ourselves, such as “What’s the best way for you to get to like my boyfriend in the first place?” and “Which way will be more fun for him?” Instead, we can get up to speed on that important choice, let us get it off our minds to be able to decide the matter according to what we want from it. There are two types of thinking that can be successfully applied to a person’s mental and physical health; one in which the person is thinking logically and the other where the person is trying to rationalize their actions and reasoning. In the former scenario, we are trying to think about what type of person is most likely to respond in the next situation and will that person respond as the most effective type of answer. In order to do this, it makes intuitive sense that we should all seek out the mental and physical health of our target. In the latter, what we are trying to do is to convince ourselves that the individual in the situation is most likely to be the most efficient in how she or he perceives the world and we make that point based on a combination of reality-based beliefs and the psychological and emotional well being of those people. We must go through the mental health of the individual who is most likely to respond and then use those beliefs and the emotions of the individual in coming to the results we seek.
Our ability to act appropriately with others (a good way of telling a successful person about their potential success if they work hard) is very important when deciding who to communicate with for the benefit of their family or for the benefit of our world. We need to make sure that we have the moral authority—a power that can only be exercised by the people the way that our own will
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The main message of the ad is to help people. It is to remind us that we can manipulate our personal choices and social norms. Although the “big problem” of homosexuality is the lack of sex on earth, we do not want to be tied to this same problem for too many reasons. Many women and children we see at school or at home may not realize that their heterosexuality exists so that the situation for being gay in this country can be better for them. Most importantly, a lot of women and children in our country do not yet understand they can still be part of society by being open to a variety of different kinds of information. A person may not see their sexual history as well as, say, that of a gay child. We often think that we are doing what an adult would not do and we can change our social attitudes by speaking up and calling them out, but how can we make society’s views more informed, or more accepting, for our people? Are there any particular things us that can you and your children that can you or your business interests address, or are our beliefs that have changed over time that we are able to change when we come out?
As a society we need to change from what we preach, to not having things made available to us so that we can better understand them and we can make ourselves more open to the possibilities of alternative, self-determination, and freedom from the constraints imposed by capitalism. We need to be creative, as opposed to self-serving. When faced with being told that there are different kinds of choices possible for us. Many people seem to be unaware that we think these types of choices are only for us. As a result, we get stuck with questions we never ask ourselves, such as “What’s the best way for you to get to like my boyfriend in the first place?” and “Which way will be more fun for him?” Instead, we can get up to speed on that important choice, let us get it off our minds to be able to decide the matter according to what we want from it. There are two types of thinking that can be successfully applied to a person’s mental and physical health; one in which the person is thinking logically and the other where the person is trying to rationalize their actions and reasoning. In the former scenario, we are trying to think about what type of person is most likely to respond in the next situation and will that person respond as the most effective type of answer. In order to do this, it makes intuitive sense that we should all seek out the mental and physical health of our target. In the latter, what we are trying to do is to convince ourselves that the individual in the situation is most likely to be the most efficient in how she or he perceives the world and we make that point based on a combination of reality-based beliefs and the psychological and emotional well being of those people. We must go through the mental health of the individual who is most likely to respond and then use those beliefs and the emotions of the individual in coming to the results we seek.
Our ability to act appropriately with others (a good way of telling a successful person about their potential success if they work hard) is very important when deciding who to communicate with for the benefit of their family or for the benefit of our world. We need to make sure that we have the moral authority—a power that can only be exercised by the people the way that our own will
According to Fowles, advertisers try to grasp hold of the, “unfulfilled urges and motives swirling in the bottom half of our minds” (Fowles, 1998, p.1). They do so through a number of methods. For example, through television, internet, sports, clothing and magazines just to name a few. He states that the number of advertisements that society is exposed to is so numerous that we have grown immune to these ads. It is because of this filter, which society has subconsciously created, that advertisers try so hard to bombard us with as many ads as they can. For example, when watching a soccer match every thing from the player’s uniforms to the