(289~291) I agree with Johnson’s claim of, Sleeper Curve makes the viewers improve so they Liu 2 can and will want to watch more TV shows. However, watching TV have more factors that make you more stupid than make you smarter. This skill ends up letting people watch more and more TVs, which already is a bad thing, and they become more stupid. First of all, TV shows’ content also is a great factor of being smart which Johnson never talks about. In “Watching TV Makes You Smarter” when he talked about the show 24, he ignored the content of the show like the torture scenes, and go straight to the Sleeper Curve.
Whether many would prefer to admit or not, advertising has changed society- modifying the way Americans think and act in today's day and age, though not entirely for the better. Over the years, the wants and luxuries of Americans have progressively changed into their "needs", caused by the numerous persuasive advertisements that convince the viewers that their life would drastically improve if only they had the said product. As Sesana states, "they create unfulfilled desires... to buy products we don't need", referring to the strategies used by advertisers to create a driving want to self-indulge for the customers (Source F). Separate groups are targeted in different ways in order to appeal to the different wants of each group, thus making the want that much stronger (Source H). These tactics summon a sense of need that, in turn, cause people to believe whole-heartedly that the product is a necessity, however, in reality, it is merely a luxury.
These could include fountains of youth, treasures and endless venison. Up until the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries advertising was generally used in a reflective and educative manner. That is, an advertisement was used primarily to make the target audience reflect on the product or service, not necessarily to change their minds up front. After this point advertising changed entirely into a fashion by which advertisers sought to persuade their customers with “styles”. This may have been caused by a cultural change in consumers or just a change in perception of advertising.
For instance, a cigarette company uses ads to promote its product not because it believes that cigarette would help the people, but because it believes that the ads would help to increase its own profit--selling more cigarettes. It is true that ads develop “selective demands for individual brands” (Source B); however, in a moral sense, creating ads to encourage people to smoke more is unacceptable. As a human creature, I fully understand that self-interest is really important to the people;
But in order to promote overall play, Prince needs to focus on personalities and behavior rather than science and professional athletes. They need to keep up with what''s popular and target parents to reign in the junior market, and promote convenience to appeal to recreational players. In addition, Prince does a great job at advertising and distributing their product, but could use a better strategy in streamlining their information towards customers and globalizing their
After watching the Bud Light- Swear Jar commercial, I can interpret that this commercial was made to entertain. The commercial made me laugh by bringing something that might offend others like cussing and making it funny. By having this situation occur in a place where you would not think this act would take place in reality, like an office environment where people would be more professional made it interesting. This commercial has a professional environment but what catches your attention is the fact that this would not normally happen, which of course, made it funny to make you want to see it again. Thus, people will continue to talk about it.
More than describing his reasons, he hopes that many other people identify with his ideas, so he don’t feel as the only one who degrades computers’ function. Berry’s article draws attention of the audience because we live in a society that barely looks up for reasons for not buying not only computers, but also any other technological advance. We live on a pro technology world. Past generations might always seem technology as an enemy because it is hard for them to catch up with technology. Berry’s intention to persuade readers depends whether the reader agrees or disagrees with his reasons.
Imagine a kid solving a puzzle -which will help to develop his brain- instead of watching TV; also this kind of activities will keep him safe from violence. Ratings: I have seen a TV channel specifying violence ratings, I cannot recall the channel but every time I see it has violence on it I change the channel. We shouldn’t have to watch a program to see if it is violent. Sometime we start watching a program just to see if it appropriate or not to watch and then we realized that even it has violence we watched the entire TV show I think ratings will work just
“In recent years, however, though advertisers have become increasingly concerned with the purchasing power of ethnic groups, the images they use continue to reassure the consumer that the group’s “foreignness” is carefully controlled” (Rashap 353). Even though stereotypical beliefs play a huge part in advertising and how items are marketed, advertisers have started to target minority groups. Gender specific ads with certain sports stars or celebrities have endorsements meant to make them believe that if their favorite person uses this item, it must be good. “American Express features a slew of well-known people who assure us that they never go anywhere without their American Express card” (McClintock handout). Ann McClintock also tells us in Propaganda Techniques in Today’s Advertising, “Americans, adults and children alike, are being seduced” (handout).
It is not merely just a lie, but also a statement with different motives. For example, turn on your television and watch the commercials. Commercials are always claiming that they want you to buy their products because they care about you, or they strongly believe it will work out for you but in reality all they want to do is sell a lot of their products so they can make more money. There are always lies an alternative motive behind what they are saying in the commercials. Also, Men will tell a female anything they want to hear, claiming they like and care about their feelings but in reality all they want is to get in their pants.