The 50s: The Barring Of Misleading Advertising

In the essay Advertisements R Us, Melissa Rubin does a satisfactory job persuading readers who may not share the same view or analysis of the advertisement as her. Rubin does this by including plenty of historical context into her writing. This works by providing sound reasons and evidence to back up her analysis about what the ad was trying to do, which was to sell its product to the most profitable group of people

In an essay written by Jim Fowles, “Advertising’s Fifteen Basic Appeals” he says advertising manipulates individuals to buy things they do not need. Advertisements use many emotional appeals such is the need for sex, escape, aesthetic sensation, satisfy curiosity and guidance. Today, Calvin Klein advertisements captures majority of individual’s attention. It is a well-known brand and expensive. It is known for their jeans and underwear. Calvin Klein apparel, underwear, shoes, and accessories can be found and brought online stores, malls, and outlet malls. Many famous celebrities and musician artists posed for Calvin Klein’s advertisement campaigns, wearing Calvin Klein jeans, shirts, sweaters, jackets, bras, purses, and underwear. Calvin Klein

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Advertising is everywhere, but does it affect us as much as advertisers might like? I find myself pondering if it was the commercials between my favorite TV show and the ads in my favorite magazine that encouraged me to buy Kotex feminine hygiene products. Or was it my own wants governing me to purchase. According to Jib Fowles’ article “Advertising’s Fifteen Basic Appeals”, “There is no evidence that advertising can get people to do things contrary to their own self-interests” (567). Although this discovery hasn’t stopped American businesses from spending billions of dollars annually on advertising. With this in mind, Kotex hasn’t needed to change their appeals too much, their products are a necessity for women, but obviously with their good

Coming from commercials, newspapers, movies, and magazines, advertisements are one of the most prominent things that we get bombarded with on a daily basis. The problem with a lot of people including myself is that we fall victim to the manipulation of the advertising sharks and their devious tricks. In the article ‘Advertising’s 15 Basic Appeals’ by Jib Fowles, the author describes how advertisers will use 15 basic emotional appeals in order to get you to say ‘I want and need that!’ In National Geographic, a historical, anthropological, discovery-based magazine, advertisers focus their energy on the middle-aged, middle-class, educated audience, who want to improve not only their intellectual integrity, but also improve their families lives if the readers can help it. National Geographic advertisers can do this by appealing to the readers’ basic needs for achievement, nurture, and guidance.

In the 1950’s, “the standard consumer package” consisted of a home, television set, and car. Eighty percent of American families possessed at least one car, and fourteen percent had two or more. Almost all of the cars sold were mass-produced in the United States. To stimulate further purchases the cars were fabricated to go out of style within a year or two. The highest ranks of corporate America were oil companies and auto manufactures. Detroit was recognized for its vast auto factories. The automobile industry guaranteed the region’s affluence because of its necessity for rubber, steel, and other products. The car and interstate highway system made it possible for Americans to travel long distances. The interstate highway system stimulated

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The beginning of consumerism was a major development in the United States because of the new era of living. But before i continue let's talk about consumerism and what it is; consumerism it is the protection or promotion of the interests of consumers. Which is exactly what happened, people started to buy more and more with credit, allowing them to get ti and pay for it later. This later became what changed the society. The overall use of consumerism created a more comfortable living style and lead to the common use of technology, shopping sprees and many other things. The causes and effects of consumerism and conformity are based off of the social, political, and economic aspects of the 1940-1960’s.

Advertising is brainwashing Americans. Advertising is full of deceptive practices such as lying, distorting facts, and presenting products out of context. These practices tend to cause negative effects on Americans. Consumers are becoming insecure about themselves because of the deceptive practices in marketing beauty products, children are being enticed to use unhealthy and inappropriate products and have unhealthy behaviors, such as change in their attitude, and Consumers are spending hundreds of dollars on products, that are falsely advertised.

During the 1950’s art took a major turn in history from traditional styles depicting people and scenes of everyday life to abstract thoughts and ideas that were transformed onto a canvas to express emotions and ideals in society. People, events, and society have always impacted several styles of art, but the consumer culture in the 1950’s impacted art in a new completely unique way. Post WWII society was more industrialized and more focused on developing and selling new products. The postwar generation had more disposable income to spend on the latest and greatest products and the market turned to advertisements in mass media to get their products out there to consumers. With televisions and films increasing in popularity the market flooded these forms of media with catchy flashy ads that showed favorable people like movie stars using products. With the increasing use of mass media, the culture shifted to consumerism which effectively shifted art as well. Art was directly impacted by the consumer culture because of society’s use of advertisements, photographs, and films which artists like Richard Hamilton and Andy Warhol used those elements in their own works to portray the change of societal standards in a new modern style of art called pop art.

Dior Suavage Makes The Heart Yearn For The Wild Jib Fowles’ essay “Advertising’s Fifteen Basic Appeals” analyzes the different appeals that show up in advertisements. The appeals range from the need for nurture to the need for sex. The viewers witnessing Dior’s new advertisement for Dior Sauvage, featuring Johnny Depp, are not immune to these basic appeals. The appeals used to captivate the audience include the need to escape, the need to satisfy curiosity, and the need for aesthetic sensations.

Ads are a way to deliver a message to people and make them want to buy a product or to influence them to do something, or act in a different manner. Ads do this by being very persuasive and making you believe what it says and trying to appeal to you. But some people don't realize how they can easily be manipulated and misled by ads by false claims and making you doubt yourself and making you want something better. An excerpt from the book Advertising:Information or Manipulation clearly depicts how ads get to people and how they target certain ages and genders. This source reveals how ads try to establish loyalties with people by targeting them at young ages, and by implementing this strategy in ads it has proven successful as adult women today

In “Propaganda Techniques in Today 's Advertising” by Ann McClintock, the author discusses how Americans are being brainwashed by advertisements and the different techniques they use to catch our attention. Ads are simply everywhere we look, it is impossible to get through the day without seeing one. All advertising companies put tons of research into how consumers spend money or even vote. Once these companies finish their research, they create advertisements that appeal to the masses. The basic propaganda techniques that McClintock writes about are Name Calling, Glittering Generalities, Transfer, Testimonial, Plain Folks, Card Stacking, and Bandwagon. Each one of these propaganda techniques is used in specific ways by advertisers to sell their product or service to consumers. I have selected a political ad which uses the Glittering Generalities technique, a coffee ad that uses Transfer technique, a soda ad that uses the Testimonial technique, and a soup ad that uses the Name Calling technique.

According to Bassham et al. (2002), a logical fallacy is “an argument that contains a mistake in reasoning” (p. 140). There are two types of logical fallacies, fallacies of relevance, and fallacies of insufficient evidence. Fallacies of relevance happen when the premises are not logically relevant to the conclusion. Fallacies of insufficient evidence occur when the premises do not provide sufficient evidence to support the conclusion. Though there are several logical fallacies, four logical fallacies commonly found in advertising are amphiboly, appeal to authority, appeal to emotion, and non sequitur.

Each day we are bombarded with advertisements from a plethora of corporations in every waking moment of our lives. Advertising agencies have become so advanced at what they do, that often times we may not even realize we are being advertised a product. This raises an interesting ethical dilemma over a certain type of advertising: persuasive advertising. Philosophers, economists, and business professionals have debated over whether or not persuasive advertising is an immoral violation of the autonomy of consumers. While not all forms of advertising are in and of themselves certainly immoral, persuasive advertising is particularly reprehensible due to the fact that not only does it manipulate our unconscious desires of which we are completely unaware in order to sell a product, but it also routinely leads us to act against our own best interest, thus overriding our autonomy.