First, since I missed the prompt about the personality essay, I'll answer that...
The hardest part of writing the essay, for me, was being truthful. It's not that I'm a chronic liar or anything (though I am an actress), but I tend to embellish my memories and self-image in my mind. While I know I do this, I have trouble telling what's real and what's not on ocassion. Therefore, I tried to stick to facts...which, being a fictionista at heart, I also had trouble with. Finally, I decided to just type something. I think it came out fairly well.
As for the advertising prompts...oh bugger, that's loaded. I definitely think that advertising, while necessary in a market like ours, can be harmful. The false ideals projected onto us through some of the airbrushed images out there wounds our national psyche--it is partially the fault of advertising that the American dream has mutated into a race to have the best clothes, hair, skin, cell phone, gaming system, grades, college, career, income--advertisements appeal to and inflate our lust for power and superiority.
...or something like that.
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