reach. According to Jib Fowles, "people can understand media as having two orders of
content"(141) to a product. These two orders of content are the drive in the minds of consumers
and the information regarding the goods sold. Advertising is a message designed to promote a
product, a service, or an idea. The purpose of most advertising is to sell products or services.
Companies design advertising to inform, influence, or persuade people. Advertisers use a variety
of techniques to create effective advertisements. They start with a basic appeal, which is the main
selling point, or theme, of an advertisement. Advertisers rely on many kinds of appeals such as the
need for affiliation, the need for prominence and the need to achieve.
This ad needs prominence - someone we look up to and admired. A woman standing in
the position of attention, holding a sword and wearing a uniform is a model of a
The ads in a seventeen magazine targets young teenage women. Advertisers wants to
Some common words found in the essay are: United Marines, Jib Fowles, Marine People, , power tool, product associated, seventeen magazine, marine uniform, reader marine, promote product, teenage pregnancy, wearing brand, Approximate Word count = 689 Approximate Pages = 3 (250 words per page double spaced)