class topic: Advertisements

It's impossible to get through the day without being forced into reading, watching, or seeing some sort of advertisement unless your away from any type of socialization. Advertising manipulates everything around us. In Jay Chait's essay "Illusions are Forever," he quotes "We've been acculturated to the way advertisers and other media-makers look at things, so much that we have trouble seeing things in our own natural way." This statement was very powerful. I analyized this quote and realized that most people live life the way they are conditioned to through media. Media forces us to believe that expensive cars, high priced brand names, a big house with one son, one daughter and a mother and father are the American dream. Who says this is how life is really meant to be??? Media says so... Also sex sells...Causing most of us to believe that portarying ourselves as sexual objects is the only way to be attractive. We forget what we really believe in, what our ideal lifestyle is because we are being overwhelmed with 1000s of advertisements a day, whether we are watching TV, passing a bus stop, reading a magazine we are being consumed by advertisements.