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Many people think that a photo or illustration is the only thing that can capture your market when doing print ads. But the written material is as important too. In fact, we have here a written advertisement example that won the market instantaneously. Check this out and get inspiration.

If you are looking for a good business school, then Sheffield Business School’s ad will make you want to include them on your list. Of course, the primary purpose of earning a degree is to boost your way up the corporate ladder and to be called ‘Sir.’

Just a quick note. If we are to write this, though, we’ll also address how female leaders are called. This would make the ad even more effective.

(Adaptado de: ISLA, Barbara Anne. 20 Print Advertisement Copy Examples To Increase Sales. IN: Content Fuel (online), Advertising, Feb.11, 2023. Disponível em: https://contentfuel.co/written-advertisement-examples/. Acesso em: 30 ago. 2023.)

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Death Row

Tom moved around the prison yard with the other inmates, waiting for the sound of death. There would be no stay of execution for their condemned mate, who would die in a most barbaric way.

“They don’t care that he’s innocent,” Tom said. “As are we all. The system is guilty, but no one wants to break tradition.”

The bang of the axe made him shrink. Tom lowered his head out of respect for the dead.

In the silence, he heard the executioner’s voice drifting through the chicken wire fence. “It’s a big turkey. We’ll have a grand Thanksgiving feast.

(Adaptado de BERTRAM, Pat. 100 Word Story: A Different Perspective IN: Bertam’s Blog (online) 28 Nov. 2019 Disponível em: https://bertramsblog.com/tag/drabble/. Acesso em: 19 ago; 2023.)

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Death Row

Tom moved around the prison yard with the other inmates, waiting for the sound of death. There would be no stay of execution for their condemned mate, who would die in a most barbaric way.

“They don’t care that he’s innocent,” Tom said. “As are we all. The system is guilty, but no one wants to break tradition.”

The bang of the axe made him shrink. Tom lowered his head out of respect for the dead.

In the silence, he heard the executioner’s voice drifting through the chicken wire fence. “It’s a big turkey. We’ll have a grand Thanksgiving feast.

(Adaptado de BERTRAM, Pat. 100 Word Story: A Different Perspective IN: Bertam’s Blog (online) 28 Nov. 2019 Disponível em: https://bertramsblog.com/tag/drabble/. Acesso em: 19 ago; 2023.)

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Until the end of his life, Carl Sagan (1934-1996) continued doing what he did all along – popularizing science and “enthusiastically conveying the wonders of the universe to millions of people on television and in books.” Whenever Sagan appeared on “The Tonight Show” with Johnny Carson during the 70s and 80s, his goal was to connect with everyday Americans – people who didn’t subscribe to Scientific American – and increase the public’s understanding and appreciation of science.

At the end of his life, Sagan still cared deeply about where science stood in the public imagination. But while losing a battle against cancer, Sagan also sensed that scientific thinking was losing ground in America, and even more dangerously within the chambers of the Congress.

During his final interview, aired on May 27, 1996, Sagan issued a strong warning, telling the journalist Charlie Rose:

We’ve arranged a society on science and technology in which nobody understands anything about science and technology, and this combustible mixture of ignorance and power sooner or later is going to blow up in our faces. I mean, who is running the science and technology in a democracy if the people don’t know anything about it.

20 years later, figures like Neil deGrasse Tyson and Bill Nye are out there, trying to popularize science with new forms of media. But the same structural problem, so well articulated by Sagan, remains largely in place. And yet there’s reason to hope. Because even as establishment politicians still play the same games with science, there are early signs that, as with other important issues, public opinion is changing under their feet.

Adaptado de OPEN CULTURE (website) Carl Sagan Issues a Chilling Warning to America in His Last Interview (1996) In Current Affairs | October 4th, 2022 1 Comment. Disponível em: https://www.openculture.com/2022/10/carl-sagan-issues-a-chilling-warning-to-americain-his-last-interview-1996.html. Acesso em: 10 set. 2023.)

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Until the end of his life, Carl Sagan (1934-1996) continued doing what he did all along – popularizing science and “enthusiastically conveying the wonders of the universe to millions of people on television and in books.” Whenever Sagan appeared on “The Tonight Show” with Johnny Carson during the 70s and 80s, his goal was to connect with everyday Americans – people who didn’t subscribe to Scientific American – and increase the public’s understanding and appreciation of science.

At the end of his life, Sagan still cared deeply about where science stood in the public imagination. But while losing a battle against cancer, Sagan also sensed that scientific thinking was losing ground in America, and even more dangerously within the chambers of the Congress.

During his final interview, aired on May 27, 1996, Sagan issued a strong warning, telling the journalist Charlie Rose:

We’ve arranged a society on science and technology in which nobody understands anything about science and technology, and this combustible mixture of ignorance and power sooner or later is going to blow up in our faces. I mean, who is running the science and technology in a democracy if the people don’t know anything about it.

20 years later, figures like Neil deGrasse Tyson and Bill Nye are out there, trying to popularize science with new forms of media. But the same structural problem, so well articulated by Sagan, remains largely in place. And yet there’s reason to hope. Because even as establishment politicians still play the same games with science, there are early signs that, as with other important issues, public opinion is changing under their feet.

Adaptado de OPEN CULTURE (website) Carl Sagan Issues a Chilling Warning to America in His Last Interview (1996) In Current Affairs | October 4th, 2022 1 Comment. Disponível em: https://www.openculture.com/2022/10/carl-sagan-issues-a-chilling-warning-to-americain-his-last-interview-1996.html. Acesso em: 10 set. 2023.)