Advertising In The 1880's
The 1880’s is around the time that businesses found that they could use advertising to coax people into buying their products (“American Advertising: A Brief History”, 2014, Paragraph 5). From then on businesses changed the advertising market into an abomination. Advertising has advanced so much that everywhere you turn you see an ad; even places like park benches. You can’t turn your computer on without seeing an advertisement for Microsoft or look at a quick video on YouTube without the annoying line of commercials. Advertisements are everywhere there is no escaping their evil wrath and they are doing more than just frustrating Americans while they watch videos of cats on the internet. These dreadful nuisances known as ads are causing unrealistic
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After they have purchased the new device it is not long before Apple has come out with an even newer version so they have to get rid of the “old” phone and buy the newest. Some consumers will completely throw away a completely new phone just so they can have the latest and greatest invention. The companies are competing for business so it is a constant cycle that repeats itself. They are so busy trying to out-do each other that they are blindsided by the fact that they are wasting resources. False needs have been dreamt up by the marketers making consumers believe that they have to have the most up-to-date technology. There is now an unlimited expansion of material production and will not slow down until it has been forced to. The Lorax movie exemplifies a futuristic setting where all the trees were cut down to make marketing products and they had to buy bottled air. This is not a realistic case for the sake of the children watching the movie because without trees we would have no oxygen and without oxygen the human race would cease to exist. Advertising wastes resources in many more ways than one, like how many paper advertisements that are given out and are always thrown away because they have to be updated. Societies has allowed this continuous waste and one day there will be nothing left to waste. The factories used to create products are also leaving a carbon footprint and damaging the earth. Everything needed to keep up advertising, is causing pollution to the Earth and without mother Earth there are no humans. Things have got to change before it is too
After they have purchased the new device it is not long before Apple has come out with an even newer version so they have to get rid of the “old” phone and buy the newest. Some consumers will completely throw away a completely new phone just so they can have the latest and greatest invention. The companies are competing for business so it is a constant cycle that repeats itself. They are so busy trying to out-do each other that they are blindsided by the fact that they are wasting resources. False needs have been dreamt up by the marketers making consumers believe that they have to have the most up-to-date technology. There is now an unlimited expansion of material production and will not slow down until it has been forced to. The Lorax movie exemplifies a futuristic setting where all the trees were cut down to make marketing products and they had to buy bottled air. This is not a realistic case for the sake of the children watching the movie because without trees we would have no oxygen and without oxygen the human race would cease to exist. Advertising wastes resources in many more ways than one, like how many paper advertisements that are given out and are always thrown away because they have to be updated. Societies has allowed this continuous waste and one day there will be nothing left to waste. The factories used to create products are also leaving a carbon footprint and damaging the earth. Everything needed to keep up advertising, is causing pollution to the Earth and without mother Earth there are no humans. Things have got to change before it is too