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There comes a time when we all must get away; weather it be

from a stressful job or a frantic home. But the fact of the

matter is that the reality of being able to pack all your things

and leave on a week long vacation to the Bahamas is not going to

happen. This is why in today’s society, there is a ever

demanding need the sensation of escape. Because of this need to

escape people have turned to several different ways that their

need could be filled. One way of escape that is found is our

society today is the role that media plays in advertisement.

When someone turns on a television in today’s society several

types of advertisement is used in order to get people to believe

that they need something that they do not. The need for escape

is ever changing, and because of this our societies need will

never be filled because of human nature that demands more and

more until nothing is left to give.

There are three main sources that advertisement is found in

today’s society. The first and most common is the advertisement

that is found on television. One example of this is the Buick

LaCrosse commercial, this is where a attractive young women is

swept away by the car of her dreams, while she is day dreaming in

her shower. This is a perfect example of the need to escape,

that illustrates even how something simple as a car can be used

as an item of escape. This is one of the many advertisements

that us the need of escape to get their product out on the market

so. This is not the only way that companies push their material,

but because of the demands on vacations, weekend getaways, or a

simple evening out on the town. Human sight is the easiest way

for companies to endorse their product. It does not take much

for the human mind to captured, most of the time is just takes a

shinny object or an attractive man or women....