Options for research paper
So the first thing that came into my mind when we were supposed to pick an advertisement to trace through history was coke. It’s been around for a pretty long time, so theres a lot to trace. They also have had an extremely large campaign to advertise anywhere and everywhere. But coke seems pretty generic, so I kept thinking. The next thing I came up with was ciggarettes. It would be interesting to see how one manufactures a product that will slowly kill you. It has to take a lot to sell that kind of thing, (other than the burning addiction that comes attached) because if it were easy then people would be selling murderers or something equally lethal. I also thought about Barbies, although I don’t think that would go very far, it seems too specific. Maybe dolls in general, because they’ve been around about as long as little girls have and someone had to sell it to them.
Prof Groom said,
October 25, 2006 at 9:28 pm
Kathy,
You would be amazed about how much information you can find about Barbie. I would recommend tha, you do some research – if you are interested in this topic. I believe you will soon find out that there are some remarkable sub-cultures that haveemerged around the Barbie dolls making for some interesting discoveries.
There will be a lot of information about Coke and Cigarettes. I am afraid Coke may be a bit daunting for there is so much written on it – books upon books upon books of research -I would consider making thist a bit more manageable than that.