{"id":19286,"date":"2024-04-04T00:34:33","date_gmt":"2024-04-04T00:34:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.writemyessays.app\/blog\/questions\/directions-study-the-pitch-the-ad-men-come-up-with-and-then-address-the-questions-below-in-an-organized-scholarly-essay-composition\/"},"modified":"2024-04-04T00:34:33","modified_gmt":"2024-04-04T00:34:33","slug":"directions-study-the-pitch-the-ad-men-come-up-with-and-then-address-the-questions-below-in-an-organized-scholarly-essay-composition","status":"publish","type":"questions","link":"https:\/\/www.writemyessays.app\/blog\/questions\/directions-study-the-pitch-the-ad-men-come-up-with-and-then-address-the-questions-below-in-an-organized-scholarly-essay-composition\/","title":{"rendered":"Directions: Study the pitch the ad men come up with and then address the questions below in an organized, scholarly essay composition."},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"margin: 12px 0px; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\"><span style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\"><strong style=\"font-weight: bold; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">Background:<\/strong><span style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">&nbsp;<\/span>The television program<span style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/span><i style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\"><span style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">Mad Men<span style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/span><\/i><span style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">focuses on the lives and careers of people working in the field of advertising. The show is mostly set in the 1960s, when workplace behavior accommodated the worst kinds of masculine entitlements. The audience is invited to recognize how much has changed over the years, and how much has stayed the same in less overt ways. One of the characters, Peggy, started in the secretarial pool and made the transition to writing copy, a rare occurrence for a woman in the 1960s. Throughout the series, the audience witnesses her navigate the routine sexism of the office.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 12px 0px; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\"><span style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\"><strong style=\"font-weight: bold; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">Episode Summary:<\/strong><span style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">&nbsp;<\/span>The clip at the end of Chapter Six is from the episode \u201cMaidenform.\u201d In it, a long-time client, the undergarment manufacturer Playtex, want to reposition their product to compete with sexier brands. The creative team conceives of a pitch at a strip club, having left Peggy behind at the office.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 12px 0px; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\"><span style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\"><strong style=\"font-weight: bold; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">Directions:<span style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/strong>Study the pitch the ad men come up with and then address the questions below in an organized, scholarly essay composition.<\/span><\/p>\n<ul style=\"margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 6px; margin-left: 25px; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">\n<li style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">Who do the ad men say is the actual customer? Who is the target for the ad? What does that say about them? What does it say about the people using the product?&nbsp;<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">What does it suggest about how Playtex perceives their customers?<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">How does it represent gender and celebrity? Marilyn and Jackie? Cultural perceptions of women?&nbsp;<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">If the show \u201crepresents the past,\u201d what does Peggy\u2019s treatment say about the past? Does it speak to the present?<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">Are there other representations at work in this clip?<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"margin: 12px 0px; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\"><span style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">Format:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul style=\"margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 6px; margin-left: 25px; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">\n<li style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\"><span style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">Use the standard format: 12-point Times New Roman font. Double-spaced. One-inch margins all around.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\"><span style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">Capitalize and<span style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/span><i style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\"><span style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">italicize<\/span><\/i><span style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\"><span style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">&nbsp;<\/span>the titles of shows. Names of episodes are in \u201cquotes.\u201d<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\"><span style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">Composition Structure: Introduction, Body Paragraphs, Conclusion. Your work must display organization and coherence.&nbsp;<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Background:&nbsp;The television program&nbsp;Mad Men&nbsp;focuses on the lives and careers of people working in the field of advertising. The show is mostly set in the 1960s, when workplace behavior accommodated the worst kinds of masculine entitlements. The audience is invited to recognize how much has changed over the years, and how much has stayed the same [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"disciplines":[],"paper_types":[],"tagged":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.writemyessays.app\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/questions\/19286"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.writemyessays.app\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/questions"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.writemyessays.app\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/questions"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.writemyessays.app\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.writemyessays.app\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19286"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.writemyessays.app\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/questions\/19286\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.writemyessays.app\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"disciplines","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.writemyessays.app\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/disciplines?post=19286"},{"taxonomy":"paper_types","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.writemyessays.app\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/paper_types?post=19286"},{"taxonomy":"tagged","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.writemyessays.app\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tagged?post=19286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}