Class Lab & Identifying How sample essay fit criteria for analysis.

1. We all agreed that Heather's main point was that Mad Men was a ideal representation of American Society, using the revered 60's as the setting to further represent the ideal. We think that Mad Men is a stark contrast to the stillbirth that is the American dream currently. We reached consensus that this point was defined early and later elaborated on throughout the body paragraphs.

2. We can now see after reading chapter nine that she tailored her thesis to better relate to the American audience by giving brief anecdotes of an American dream that is no longer apparent. She carefully defined her main point and then analyzed the components of Mad Men that supported her agenda. During an analysis considering the audience is important and since the main readers are an American audience her narrative was polished to better relate to its readers and evoke an emotional reaction from them. Analyzing the larger context is also vital, she did this by noting the various characters that represent forms of femininity in the world and connecting their overall success in life back to this in an effort to articulate that independence is an important trait to women in the modern world.

4.)In reading the "Stay Sweet As You Are" sample essay, it is easy to identify the components that make it an analysis paper. The author takes into consideration the claims the ads are making and talks about how the ads themselves attempt to supports its claims. In analyzing the Listerine ad for example he takes what the ad is claiming and then proceeds to point out the components of how the ad attempts to support its claims using science and sex appeal, etc. He goes even further into his analysis by not only pointing out how they use that particular information to support their claim but also pointing out how everything as far as to how the ad is designed, such as the position the girl in the Listerine ad is sitting, what she is wearing etc. and how the company uses those elements of design to support or further suggest or "support" its claims.