What I've Learned- Charlie

I have enjoyed writing the last two essays of the semester. They challenged me not only as a writer but as a thinker. Before writing the image analysis essay I thought that advertisements had no effect on me. After reading into the marketing strategies of Hollister and Abercrombie, the two companies advertisements I chose to analyze, I now have a better understanding of how marketers try to entice consumers on an emotional level to sell products. I also learned how to look at an advertisement and pick out all the elements of the advertisement from the color scheme to the setting and to know that everything in the picture is focused on getting a consumer to buy.

I have never written a synthesis essay before so I would say that was the harder of the two papers for me to write. This idea of looking at two articles and creating a new idea from them was very foreign to me. After I had trouble generating content for the topic I chose I wanted to switch topics completely. I am glad that did not end up happening because I feel that I grew more as a writer and a thinker from writing about a topic that was out of my comfort zone.