SUMMARY AND CRITQUE OF “HERE TO YOUR HEALTH” In her article she talks about how company print media and television gives ours false reviews about alcohol and it facts. As a freshman attending school one should not be easily influenced by classmates and friends to do something such as drinking alcohol causing harm to their body and mind. Advertising in the electronic media and the print media they always portray drinking alcohol showing success and being part of a society that is the right thing to do. Drinking too much alcohol is not good for your body because it has a tendentious to slow you down causing illusions. It can cause hormones in female and males to become lower. Alcohol can cause dulls of the brain and reducing muscle coordination
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You sit and watch the TV commercials targeting the successful individuals staring in the commercials. As a writer she makes her point by giving strong supporting details. “According to industry estimates, brewers spend more than $600 million a year on radio and TV commercial and another $90 million on print ads”. In addition, the liquor industry spends about $230 million a year on print advertising, and since 1966 it has greatly expanded its presence on cable and independent broad stations.”(page 688). Drinking alcohol causes many problems like loneliness, despair, and mental illness. Driving and drinking is very dangerous not only to you but others as well. Many deaths have occurred in my life time. Many families have broken up because of these problems “Another part of the alcohol myth is that drinking makes you more attractive to opposite sex. “Hot, hot, hot,” one commercial’s soundtrack begins, as the camera scans a crowd of college-age beachgoers. Next it follows the curve of a woman’s leg up to her bare hip and lingers there.”(page 689. In real life drinking socially is not all bad for you because sometime when you go out to dinner most of the time you have a glass of wine. Drinking excessively and abusing alcohol occurs in all segments of all classes of people. Her tone is to inform the readers about false statements that company makes about
You sit and watch the TV commercials targeting the successful individuals staring in the commercials. As a writer she makes her point by giving strong supporting details. “According to industry estimates, brewers spend more than $600 million a year on radio and TV commercial and another $90 million on print ads”. In addition, the liquor industry spends about $230 million a year on print advertising, and since 1966 it has greatly expanded its presence on cable and independent broad stations.”(page 688). Drinking alcohol causes many problems like loneliness, despair, and mental illness. Driving and drinking is very dangerous not only to you but others as well. Many deaths have occurred in my life time. Many families have broken up because of these problems “Another part of the alcohol myth is that drinking makes you more attractive to opposite sex. “Hot, hot, hot,” one commercial’s soundtrack begins, as the camera scans a crowd of college-age beachgoers. Next it follows the curve of a woman’s leg up to her bare hip and lingers there.”(page 689. In real life drinking socially is not all bad for you because sometime when you go out to dinner most of the time you have a glass of wine. Drinking excessively and abusing alcohol occurs in all segments of all classes of people. Her tone is to inform the readers about false statements that company makes about