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Necessity In Advertising

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‘Necessity is the mother of invention’ is an often-saying quote. However, nowadays the opposite of it is additional true. In modern business, ‘invention’ has became the mother of necessity. The world is progressing, and the means of advertisement are also increasing; In our age of technology, new things are manufactured day to day, the business and economical market is created for many things through media and specifically advertisement. Thus buisness companies managed to create several ways to show their good’s advertisement in various ways and to spread the knowledge of their advertisements among the customers. It is through such advertisement that many people started to feel the need for those goods of which they maybe had never seen or …show more content…

. For instance: women strive desperately to imitate those skinny and flawless models on the covers of magazines Second of all, in the article ‘‘The truth about false and deceptive advertising’’, Sienna Kossman (2013), details a study effects of the impact of advertisement on the conscious and subconscious mind by explaning the high amount of which a viewer can be influenced …show more content…

According to Sienna Kosman(2013), these unrealistic images and perceptions of females will cause men and women alike to believe that this is the way that all women should look like. If they don’t then they are ‘unattractive’ or ‘unappealing’. Studies by NEDA show the harmful effects on the human body from eating disorders. These effects include the lessening of bone mass which causes osteoporosis, heart failure due to muscle weakness, excess hair in order to keep the body warm since the fat level is dropping drastically, imbalances in salt concentrations which lead to nervous system problems which controls the body itself and many other harmful effects that can deteriorate the inside of the body itself. Without proper diet and exercise, the girls will lack essential vitamins and energy that should be present in their body at their age. Eating disorders also affect other aspects of the body. ANAD also showed that 20% of people with anorexia will most probably die from complications that came from their eating disorder, not to mention, suicide and heart

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