Television and Media - The Power of Advertising :: Argumentative Persuasive Topics

The Power of Advertising   Advertising has an lure on every integrity in one way or another, but it especially has had an influence on my children. guileful jingles, cute slogans, and cartoon characters are all key factors that construct dependent my children on certain products. Advertising influences the toys they want, the clothes they wear, and the food they eat.   Advertising influences my childrens excerption of toys. If a television technical displays children laughing and playing, my children think it must be a great toy, regardless of the type. For example, my three-year-old desperately wants a skateboard for Christmas. each time he sees a skateboard commercial, he gets excited. He believes that if he had a skateboard, he would instantly have the same fun and learning as the boys on television. He also wants a fingernail kit. He does not know what a fingernail kit is, but he likes the glitter and stickers the commercial shows. The more appealing the commercial is, the more he wants the toy.   Another influence advertising has had is on the clothes my children want to wear. Clothes from Wal-Mart and K-Mart are no longer satisfactory. Brand names such as GAP, Tommy Hilfiger, and American bird of Jove are much more appealing to them. My teenage daughter is ceaselessly looking through catalogs and magazines, examining each outfit down to the last detail. She is ceaselessly wanting to change her wardrobe to keep up with the latest panache trends and most popular brand names. Of course, clothes endorsed by celebrities are invariably at the top of her shopping list.   Last, advertising influences the food my children want to eat. study characters are placed on boxes of foods such as crackers and cereal grass to influence young children. For instance, I was grocery shopping with my young parole the other day, and he asked me if I would buy him some yogurt to have for breakfast. I reached for the cheapest brand off the shelf and was about to put it in the cart when he said, I want the Rugrats yogurt. I had no head what he was talking about until he pointed to the shelf behind me. at that place I saw a six-pack container of yogurt with pictures of Rugrats characters on the label.