Posted: 31/01/2009 at 08:08 | IP Logged

   Advertising is ,everywherewow power leveling, you look, whether it is in the newspaper you pick up daily or on that billboard you see while driving down the highway. Some people may say that they are not in fact influenced by the advertising that is thrown at them each day, and that they do not fall into it, but everyone does. Many children are often the target for most advertisers, because they know if they hound at their parents enough they will give in and buy their product, and everyone will be happy. Some advertisers try to portray more positive items to children, but many children are overcome with the negative ways of advertising. With televisionCheap WoW Gold, being the most popular way to advertise to young ones, the average American child may view as many as 40,000 television commercials every year (Strasburger, 2001). Schools are now even advertising to children without them being aware that they are actually doing it. Food, clothing, toys are just a few of the many types of advertisements being influenced upon children daily. Many advertisements being directed towards children are that of food.
Many of these food advertisements that children are being exposed to are products that are of low nutritional value. McDonalds spends roughly $570 million a year on advertising (McNeal 2001). Everyone knows that McDonalds is not a good place to find much nutritional value, and in turn will only lead to obesity in children. Now in many schools students are being rewarded coupons for Pizza Hut, and McDonalds for doing a good job in school. Why not reward these children with money towards furthering their education? Many educational posters in schools are advertising candy to children, when it will only rot their teeth and make them gain weight. Along with food advertisements many young children are even being shown cigarette advertisements which promote many young people smoking and enjoying themselves. Well when a young child sees something like that they can only think but to go try it themselves and maybe they will have fun and enjoy themselves. Children that are trying smoking are becoming younger and younger. Smoking has nothing good to offer to children but health problems later on in life. Television impacts children the most as far as advertising goes. Many children as young as three years old recognize brand named products and clothing. When these children spend time watching so much television they cannot World Of Warcraft gold,help but be influenced by it, and want what they see. These children become so obsessed with having what they see on television that they continue to hassle their parents until they get it. Some parents may even have trouble keeping up with the amount of money their child thinks that they need so they may have the newest products out there. These children that are watching more television, are going to want more toys seen in advertisements and eat more advertised food than children who do not watch as much television (Strasburger, 2001).
   Although many advertisements are negatively affecting children there are those few advertisements out there that are beneficial. For example the ones thatWoW Gold, are selling educational books for children, and other types of learning materials. These products are nothing but beneficial to younger children. Parents need to be more aware and cautious of what their children are watching and how much of it they are watching. There are so many toys out there for children to play with, but how do you decide if it is a good toy or a bad toy? You can always read the box and try to get some idea what the toy does before giving it to your child, butWorld Of Warcraft gold how do you know if that will be enough? There are a lot of ways you can look at this, but when it comes down to it there are more and more toys being made everyday
that can influence the way your children think or even act. According to the American Heritage College Dictionary part of the definition of toys is, an object for children to play with (1455). But today a child can play with anything from a piece of paper to a computer. How are we supposed to decide what would be best for them?Over the years there has been an increasing amount of violence in media directed towards children. There have also been an increasing number of violent acts directed toward
children and the high degree of these acts that childrenaoc gold, see on television, in movies, computer games, videotapes, and the large number of violent toys.The National Association for the Education of Young Children (NAEYC) feels that the increasing
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   The problem of violence shown to children in the media will not be solved easily. This violence doesn¡¯t only show how violent our society is, but it helps make our society more violent. If we continue to allow the violence on television that is consistently shown to our children, thenour future nation willhave a large quantity of angry adults and criminals.

Posted: 09/02/2009 at 06:54 | IP Logged

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