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SCS 100 Module Two Ac0vity Template

Replace the bracketed text below with your responses. Support your responses with specific details and examples. You do not need to conduct outside research, but if you use sources, cite them using APA style.

Describe how individuals are presented in all of your adverBsements.

Dove, Sky Witness: Empowering Idents Individuals who seem to be middle-aged women of all colors working in law, medicine, and crime with physical differences.

Mini Cooper: Created in a Countryman Two characters seemingly female and male in their late teens to early twenBes.

Burger King: Reduced Methane Whoppers I see someone in their early teens who seems to be a blonde white boy.

Apple: A Climate Change Promise from Apple An infant who seems to be a boy with the name Edan.

Describe the acBons being taken by the individuals in all of your adverBsements.

Dove, Sky Witness: Empowering Idents Women doing daily acBviBes while discussing their occupaBons and the impact their appearance has had on their life.

Mini Cooper: Created in a Countryman A male and female are being acBve by swimming with both each other and other fish they are then greeted by a larger fish.

Burger King: Reduced Methane Whoppers A young boy singing about methane emissions while surrounded by other singing boys and girls as well as flatulent cows.

Apple: A Climate Change Promise from Apple 4. The infant, Edan, sleeps while the company Apple narrates the promise they should make for the planet by creaBng and using carbon-neutral technology.

Explain whether social scienBsts can be truly objecBve when conducBng research.

Following this week’s module, social scienBsts can remain truly objecBve while conducBng research. To make objecBve observaBons the researchers should uBlize their five senses and communicate their conclusions to other observers to see the similariBes of their observaBons.

Discuss how consumer biases may impact the interpretaBon of your adverBsements.

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The four adverBsements chosen may be interpreted as propaganda because the Empowering Idents and Created in Countryman adverBsements present viewers with the importance of inclusion and acceptance, which can be relayed as a negaBve to certain viewers in our society. As for Reduced Methane Whoppers and A Climate Change Promise from Apple ads they discuss adjusBng our current way of living to improve the environment. However, many people in our society that don’t believe in climate change or global warming.

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