Advertisements have a primary purpose to inform, persuade, and entertain audiences. Many television commercials tell a story that is

entertaining, amusing, or emotionally touching. Some commercials use logical appeals to provide information about a product or to compare

their product to others in the market.

Watch three commercials, either on television or the Internet. As you watch the commercials, notice the media strategies used to inform,

persuade, and entertain. Write a one-page response analyzing the use and intended purpose of each of the strategies you identified.

Read the excerpt from ernest hemingway’s “soldier's home.” his father was in the real estate business and always wanted the car to be at his command when he required it to take clients out into the country to show them a piece of farm property. the car always stood outside the first national bank building where his father had an office on the second floor. now, after the war, it was still the same car. nothing was changed in the town except that the young girls had grown up. how does hemingway’s description of the town as unchanged impact the readers’ perception of krebs? it emphasizes that while the town has remained the same, krebs has changed. it illustrates that krebs despises the town he grew up in because it is boring. it demonstrates that krebs views himself as similar to the other soldiers from his town. it reveals that krebs is jealous of those who were able to stay in town and avoid the war.