This essay seeks to analyze the “Calvin Gets a Job” Mc Donald’s commercial series and creator’s used encoded messages to encourage young black men to apply for employment. The messaging of this commercial will be deconstructed in part using Barthes’, Saussure’s, and Peirce’s semiotic terminology and Stuart Hall’s representation theory. 

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