An animated advertisement for a local electronics chain portrayed St. Nick as a superhero with a body more Stone Cold Steve Austin than North Pole Kris Kringle.

The advertisement, titled "Robben Island", portrays South African political prisoners during the apartheid era forming a soccer team.

The advertisements portray a flock of birds against an angry red sky, with a single phrase: Omnium Finis Imminet, Latin for The End of All Things Is Near.

These advertisements portrayed children trying to get access to a packet of Sugar Puffs with someone or something then preventing them from getting the Sugar Puffs.

Scott said companies should also consider the circulation used and the tone the advertisement portrays to the audience.

But all brokers are not the smirking pickpockets that on-line brokers' advertisements portray.

The 30-second commercial, titled "Historic Conservative Reforms," contrasts Mr. Dole's conservative record with what the advertisement portrays as President Clinton's liberalism.

While the 1946 advertisement included photos of a female doctor (a progressive view for the time), the 1997 advertisement portrays a "babe" waiting to be picked up in a bar.

The advertisement apparently portrayed the bands as supporters of Camel.

Her aim: to assess how popular songs, television sitcoms, news stories, movies and advertisements have portrayed women over the years, and analyze the impact that feminism has had on these evolving representations of women.