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Sinful ads

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Porsche Ad Author: Porshe Date: 1983 Place of Publication: magazines In this ad, the words "Nobody's Perfect" are put in bold over a list of 1-10 where Porsche takes up every place except for 9th. The background is plain white, while the text is in black. This helps to draw attention to the words on the ad. Other than that, not much else is going on in the ad. I've read that this ad was created in 1983 where 9 Porsche 956 models were in the top ten spots for overall classification. Except for 9th place, which was taken by Sauber/BMW. In order to make a joke out of this Porsche created this ad . This ad obviously represents the deadly sin of Pride . This is seen in how they are saying "Nobody's Perfect", they are showing how they take up every spot in the top ten except for one. By saying this they are stating how amazing they are, but even then they can't be perfect. They are basically saying "Hey guys were amazing look at our

Names and Individuality

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Melanie  Melanie. This is the name that I have researched. But first, a little history on my experience with my name. I actually got the name Melanie, after actress Melanie Griffith , and my parents only knew of her because she was Antonio Bandera's Wife. Growing up I actually hated my name because I never knew anyone with the same name as me, I felt like no one had the name Melanie because everyone hated it. I actually would try to go by the nickname Mellie because I knew I girl on twitter with that name and I thought it was the coolest name ever. But I actually have 2 nicknames an english and spanish one. My "Spanish" nickname is Mela, and my "English" one is Mel. But other than that I found my name to be pretty common in regular society (I have a lot of name keychains). I do believe that my name has brought me privilege, I don't actually have any examples of it but because my name is pretty "American" no one usually makes any judgments base