Persuasion

Persuasion is a valuable technique to know. I use persuasion often to get my way with my parents and my friends. When I'm persuading, I usually appeal to some one's emotions. I can make them feel bad about not letting me have what I want, or I can make them pity me and then they'll let me have what I want out of pity. Persuasion is a big part of my life becuase without it, I wouldn't be able to get what I want.

I witness persuasion on television everytime I turn it on. It's in many of the commercials ran on the channels I watch most often. The channel I frequent the most is Nickelodeon. On Nick, most of the commercials are aimed at young children. They promote new toys and make the kids want them by telling them that the toys are cool. As I know that by seeing these commercials the kids will go beg there parents to get them, I'm sure the writers of these commercials know that the parents will be bugged until the kids get what they want. In this way, persuasion is used twice. It's used to persuade the kids that they want the toy and it's used to persuade the parents to buy the toys for the kids.