The ad displays two orphaned boys caring for each other and the sepia tone of the photograph makes the scene feel very dim and sad. ... The picture of the little girl smiling with the quote "Life skills are a main ingredient in every Girl Scout cookie,"" gives you the want to guide the child, which is the opposite of nurture as it is the need to be nurture or guided. ...
To quote Brad Pitt's character from the film Fight Club, "Advertising has us chasing cars and clothes, working jobs we hate so we can buy shit we don't need ". ... While I'm not suggesting these are unworthy causes, the fundamentals of propaganda still apply: the ads use music that invoke a response of sadness or even guilt on the part of the viewer. ...
As quoted in the article, "A Call for Truth in the Fashion Pages" by Ashley O'Neil, "The beauty and fashion industries sell consumers, mostly women, products to make them thinner, younger, and more attractive. ... In the United States, 32.8% of adults are obese but the disgustingly sad part is 25.8% of children are considered obese (Khan). ... Quoted by O'Neil, the United Kingdom formed a system, called Advertising Standards Authority (ASA), which is: "a system of self-regulation of the advertising industry that is run by a nongovernmental regulatory body[that is]...
