Advertising is in the Air that Americans Breathe

1.    From infancy to adulthood, advertising is in the air Americans breathe, the information we absorb, almost without knowing it. It floods our mind with pictures of perfection and goals of happiness easy to attain. . . . We are feeding on foolery, of which a steady diet, for those who feed on little else, cannot help but leave a certain fuzziness of perception.
Barbara Tuchman Write a well-organized and fully developed essay in which you do the following:

•    Select and discuss some specific examples of advertising that illustrate what Tuchman calls “pictures of perfections and goals of happiness”;
•    Explain how such advertisements can lead to a certain “fuzziness of perception,” a distorted picture of reality;
•    Discuss what you consider to be some of the important effects of widespread and pervasive advertising on individuals here in America