As many people know, advertisements are the most prevalent and toxic of the mental pollutants. Mentioned in the article " Hype" by Kalle Lasn, "approximately 12 billion display ads, 3 million radio commercials and over 20,000 TV commercials are dumped into North Americas collective unconscious". The reason for advertising is to persuade an audience to take action into buying a product, getting ideas or looking for service. " There is nowhere to run", everywhere you turn there will be an advertisement, whether it is a TV commercial, bulletin board or just a simple phone call from an telemarketer, you cannot escape it.
From personal experience I have seen many advertisements, train, garbage can, taxis, television, newspaper, all over to keep it short. Sometimes I hate seeing ads because its never that much persuasive to me. If you have an product, or some type of service that would maybe benefit the person, they should ad more details and more deals, then they will win the person over. Otherwise they just going to ignore.
Some ads can be helpful to society and some cant benefit us. Such as the cancer for quit smoking commercial, is a good ad to society because it shows what can happen to you if you keep smoking, and explains why you need to stop. Useless ads such as alcohol and cigarettes aren't necessary because its just showing society that it is necessary to have these things to have a good life when its not. Whoever makes those type of ads shouldn't because what if kids see these type of ads, they going to think its the right thing and follow by what the ad is promoting, that's not healthy at all.
Although advertisement is to benefit is to help promote products and such, it should be kept to a minimum. Only post important ads that can help benifit the world, not negativity.
Collette, you have a long quote in the summary, and we said that this could be enough to make this a failing essay. The second paragraph is a good one, but the third one switches to a different perspective.
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