Advertising in America
Most Americans have excessive desire to gain wealth and marketers thrive on this. People dream of making lots of money quickly and without working very hard to get it. Another scenario of people wanting to gain wealth is getting something free. Marketers know that when they advertise getting something for free or getting money quickly, they will gain the consumers attention.
When marketers advertise that there is an amount such as $85 million up for grabs people will easily invest their money no matter what the odds are. People love thinking about becoming a millionaire by spending as little as a dollar. An example of an advertisement that helps feed on the consumer willingness to spend money just for the chance to become a millionaire is the Power Ball commercial. The Power Ball advertisement ran on TV saying, “Add a buck power up,” is reinforcing the idea that playing the lottery gives back. How often does one hear the chances of winning the lottery in the advertisements for the lottery? The fact is that many Americans are brainwashed into believing that risking a dollar does usually give back in huge amounts.
The odds of winning the Power Ball jackpot are 1 in 80,089,128 or .0000012% according to the Pennsylvania Lottery Web Site. Quite a few people spend hundreds of dollars on lottery tickets each year, not realizing how much money they are losing. They just keep
spending their annual dollar a day and do not even think about the amount of money they
have lost over the long period of time. People seem to especially get addicted with
scratch off lottery tickets when they when win five, ten or twenty dollars.
From my experience when the prize money is under twenty dollars involving scratch off lottery tickets they often spend it on buying more lottery tickets. Gambling with money is an addiction that is notacknowledged in America like smoking or drinking
addictions.There is more money obsession in America besides the lottery, take peoplegetting their tax money back quicker. A new advertisement of H&R Block that has comeout recently is aimed toward tax-payers getting their tax refund back more quickly. The commercial shows a man pulling up to an H&R Block office in a minivan with a pregnant woman in labor. Screaming, the woman in labor ask furiously why he stopped
at the H&R Block office, his response was that he needed to get some quick cash.
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Advertisements are one of many things that Americans cannot get away from. Every American sees an average of 3,000 advertisements a day; whether it’s on the television, radio, while surfing the internet, or while driving around town. Advertisements try to get consumers to buy their products by getting their attention. Most advertisements don’t have anything to do with the product itself. Every company has a different way of getting the public’s attention, but every advertisement has the same goal - to sell the product. Every advertisement tries to appeal to the audience by using ethos, pathos, and logos, while also focusing on who their audience is and the purpose of the ad. An example of this is a Charmin commercial where there is a bear who gets excited when he gets to use the toilet paper because it is so soft.
“Why We Keep Playing the Lottery”, by freelance journalist Adam Piore takes a very in depth look as to what drives millions of Americans to continually play the lottery when their chances of winning are virtually non-existent. He believes that because the odds of winning the lottery are so small that Americans lose the ability to conceptualize how unlikely it is that they are going to win, and therefore the risk of playing has less to do with the outcome, and more to do with hope that they are feeling when they decide to play. It 's essentially, "a game where reason and logic are rendered obsolete, and hope and dreams are on sale." (Piore 700) He also states that many Americans would rather play the lottery thinking ,"boy, I could win $100 million" (705) as opposed to thinking about all of the money they could lose over time.
This includes all forms of income from high to low and all races from black to white. A more financially set adult will spend more money gambling then the “minority and poor populations” as Will explains them. If these so called poor populations have no money will they be the ones flying all the way to Vegas spending money on gas, food, hotel, and entertainment? I think not the ones gambling are those who make a good living and can afford to spend thousands of dollars in Las Vegas. One thing all people can agree there is not a person out there that would wish to be average their whole life, everyone wants to be able to retire knowing they have money to send their kids to college or to even buy luxury items. This hope of one day winning it big is the reason people get up each day only to work long and hard hours at work as well as at home. People don’t just quit their job because they lost the lottery they will work many more days to buy a ticket and hope to win only to try again and again. People need something they can look forward to work hard and achieve things never done before and the lottery provides this for them. You take this away and the hard-working people no longer have anything to look forward to, nothing stops them from going out and doing
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The Wave is a short novel about the effects of conformity and social coercion. It describes an experiment done by a history class teacher, Ben Ross, to answer questions raised by his students after watching a documentary on World War II. The experiment is eerily close to the event it was based on, the persecution of Jews in World War II. Consequently, the experiment was ended. The author, Todd Strasser, suggests that conformity to a group causes ignorance of the effect of an action. Human behaviour is depicted throughout the book through loyalty, social coercion, and loss of identity and proper awareness through conformity.
... that are susceptible to very high loss in a short amount of time. Gambling should never be accessible to children also. When lotteries and casinos are advertised, advertisements should be prohibited from falsely expressing the chances of winning. Lottery commercials repeatedly imply that hundreds of millions of dollars and a life of paradise is just a ticket away. In reality, however, chances of hitting the Mega Millions jackpot are a measly one in two hundred and fifty eight million. To put these odds in perspective, ticket holders are 23 times more likely have identical quadruplets, 26 times more likely to become president, and 86 times more likely to die from being struck by lightning; events that most Americans admit are extremely unlikely. Local officials should put emphasis on educating citizens about gaming odds and on the addictive nature of gambling.
“The Lottery” was quite disturbing to read. It is an very unusual story that has an ending that will have you baffled. You will want to reread certain parts to see if there is anything thing that you could have missed. The title of the short story is also misleading. In most cases the lottery is a good thing. People don’t win punishment and lotteries don’t hurt them. But in this story it does just that. The author did a great job of telling how anyone and everyone can follow tradition blindly. It is dangerous not to have a mind of your own and to just follow the crowd even if you don’t understand on agree on why something is happening.
Gambling has been an activity that has been around many states for a while. People like to gamble to test their luck and hopefully get lucky enough to win a prize. Nowadays you don 't have to go to the casino to test your luck, at majority of grocery stores they offer the ability to buy scratch off ticket and or play the powerball. Many people gamble to have fun, as well as, have a good time, but there are others that gambling becomes an addiction that is hard to control. The odds of winning are less favorable than the odds of losing. According to Jost, “lotteries in 43 states” as well as, DC “collectively” made “18 billion in revenue for the state,” along with the “local government.” (Jost,525) The lottery is a great investment for many states and the local government. Something that everyone has to be aware of is that the the lottery will always make a profit. Someone might get lucky enough to win 100 dollars, while 2 other people loss 100 dollars each. The big picture is that nobody is going to invest in a company that is not going to
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In many peoples minds winning the lottery would be a dream come true. It's something that everyone wishes they would win; But what happens when the prize you get once you win the lottery isn't a blessing but instead a nightmare. In the short story, " The Lottery " by Shirley Jackson, it portrays a beautiful small village full of happy people in New England. By the use of symbolism and foreshadowing, Jackson uses the setting of the town, certain objects, and the characters in her story to indicate the true meaning behind "winning" the lottery.
Spending a considerable amount of money on the lottery, disregarding your other financial responsibility and completely losing yourself in the thought of spending a couple dollars to maybe win a couple million dollars every single day, then it becomes an addiction. According to addictions.com “Gambling addiction is characterized by a compulsive desire to gamble that is marked with an inability to control behaviors when gambling. Those who suffer from gambling addiction will continue to gamble (either daily or possibly just on a binge) despite negative financial, legal and social
Study Commission showed “ that low and moderate income lottery taxpayers spend more on the lottery than do middle income taxpayers” (Analysis 3,4). In addition, this study revealed that education levels do affect how much a person spends on the lottery. The biggest spenders were
...ciety and the characters and the setting in the story affect the theme. The Lottery has several different themes. A.R. Coulthard stated, “Little has been written about "The Lottery," possibly the most widely known American short story. Perhaps that is because the story seems such a transparent attack on blind obedience to tradition that little or no exegesis is necessary, a reading usually encouraged by discussion questions accompanying this much-anthologized story. But "The Lottery" is not an assault on mindless, cultural conformity. It is a grim, even nihilistic, parable of the evil inherent in human nature.” This could also be true about The Lottery. I like to look at it as a story about tradition. It is important that people know where their traditions come from. In this situation, it is important to realize when a tradition is chaotic and needs to be retired.