Advertising Persuasive Research Paper

From the time infants are wrapped in Pampers diapers, to when someone's daughter is purchasing her first Coach purse, every product and service is advertised. Some items in life will always be necessary, some will be considered necessary in the minds of some. The purpose of marketing industries is to make the public believe they need a product, and convince one to buy it. The truth is, products in commercials aren’t always necessary for survival, no matter how much one may make believe. Second, advertising doesn’t have an direct benefits to the consumer, besides telling them to “Buy, Buy, Buy!”. Most important, anything could be advertised, but that doesn’t mean it would be for a greater good.
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C compares advertising to teaching, stating that if putting a map on a classroom wall isn’t bad, then why is a billboard. This claim makes next to no sense, considering there is almost no similarities between taking away information from a map in a classroom and seeing a billboard when driving. The map will actually benefit someone in the long run, the billboard will not. Document F supports the claim that what we truly need doesn’t require advertising. Honestly, if someone saw an aid for canned oxygen on television, would that make them aware of their breathing. Would we have more companies, or more monopolies. Necessities would slowly turn into wants as prices would skyrocket with advertising, because the truth is, people will buy anything if they’re told enough. Once there was no such thing as the internet or television or even radio. Back then, people made conscious decisions to buy products based on the fact of if they truly wanted or needed it. Today, advertisement pushes as many products it can into its’ 15 minute time slot to tell you what you need to buy. In reality, if advertising didn’t exist, not much would change besides people making their own mind up about whether they truly need and want