Message in a Bottle

Joshua grew up about fifteen minutes driving from a bar called The Shrew. The Shrew itself was located in small laundromat/fast-food complex built sometime in the 1980s. It was a den for odd-looking old men and teenagers, with no one in between. Slowly, laundry found its way into people’s houses and that laundromat stuck out more and more and one week in the middle of summer, a brown-stained bag was discovered by a few teenagers behind the laundromat; that day end with a crowd of teenagers…

interprets their lives and traits through fictional characters. Readers are captivated by Sparks powerful novels because of its endless connection to their lives, leaving emotional imprints while capturing the essence of love, loss, and triumph. “Message in a Bottle” reevaluated my Uncle Daryl’s life as it moved him to tears, gasping the underpinnings of unconditional love. According to the article “Nicholas Sparks Biography’, Nicholas first published…

How could something as little as reading determine your whole life? Walker Percy explains just how he believes this to be true in his essay, Another Message in the Bottle. According to Percy, you must make the breakthrough into reading in order to have a beautiful imagination, do well in your profession, and treasure your heritage. In Walker Percy's essay, he shortly mentions that making the breakthrough into reading is basically just finding the pleasure in reading. This pleasure ultimately…

a regular beverage. Using the stories of actual people, the consumer can be more relatable to the brand. It is no longer just a bottle of Coca-Cola, now it is instantly a personalized bottle of Coca-cola that has a personal message on it, of what brings that person satisfaction. Also provoking the idea that if a regular person can have their story on a Coca-Cola Bottle for the world to view, that process of storytelling can be extended to another case to better isolate the market. Thus ensuring…

I decided to do my book report on the novel “Still Alice” by Lisa Genova but instead of typing out the report, I decided to be a little more creative with it. Alice Howland, a cognitive psychology professor at Harvard, suffers from early onset Alzheimer’s disease. At the age of 50, she starts to forget the words and objectives for her presentations. She forgets where she lives after a run, daily plans, recipes and people around her. It gets to the point where she has to rely on a cell phone to…

Coca-Cola describes the true importance of love and how it can be achieved. It shows before and after glimpses of negative messages and situations that are turned positive because a little love is shared. Despite the many evils that are present today, love can be spread throughout the world with something as little as a bottle of Coke. The commercial starts out with hateful messages flashed across screens. It…

Prevailing over a print ad in Glamour magazine’s June 2016 issue is a sultry Johnny Depp and a bottle of Dior’s new Sauvage cologne (Sauvage, Dior). The way that Depp is presented in this ad only adds to the impact of the marketing. Both Depp and the cologne bottle is placed in the forefront of the scene making them the focal point. Depp is not dressed up as any of the outlandish characters he has played, but in all black and the usual gaudy jewelry he is known for. Penetratingly looking to the…

“Semiotics is the theory of the production and interpretation of meaning.” Roland Barthes identified three messages in semiotic theory in his article to analyze the contemporary advertisement. He showed how different messages are conveyed by a system of signs. He stated the advertisement is the signification of the image that is international, and these signified are clear, full and emphatic. This essay will analyze the newest advertising of Coca Cola company in 2016 with Barthes’ principles in…

These methods are numerous and involve the exploration of tensions such as those that exist between abstraction and representation, or moralizing versus hedonistic. Considered one of the lowest types of art by the French Academy, Still Life with a Bottle of Rum, Shoes, and Still Life with a Skull and a Writing Quill are three still paintings that have managed to rise above the typical wave that have been produced by artists of varying skills for centuries. Though looking at each alone does not…

Advertisements work to convince the viewer of a certain message, whether it is to vote for a particular candidate or buy a certain product. This is done through agents of persuasion. By analyzing several different perfume ads from two different magazines we can discern the intended audience, the message, and the different routes of persuasion used. To start, the Modern Muse perfume ad from Cosmopolitan magazine uses both central and peripheral routes to persuasion. The Muse ad…