My argument essay was about legalizing gambling and in particular legalizing the creation of casinos on state soil. My main points were based on how well the American Indians have used them on their reservations and that the good side of gambling far out weighed the bad side. My main idea is the number of jobs created by casinos helps out the economy to a large scale. That number exceeds 670,000 jobs. Combine that with the laws on Indian reservations and Casino’s are giving the majority of their 30 billion dollars of revenue back to the community. We should follow in their footsteps.
My original audience in my paper I thought would be upper scale businessmen, or congressmen, etc, who could use the information and do something about it, this is why I included the facts and logistics to a greater deal. However; I feel just getting the word out to the young and middle aged adults, both male and female would create a bigger impact, and would then lead to changes. So immediately I had an idea in my head, and it was a billboard. I feel that billboards have a great impact on people as they have had a large impact on me. One billboard in particular stands out to me, and that was a non-smoking ad that read: Smoking kills over a hundred thousand people a year. That’s all it said, plain and simple in black and white with the numbers in red. To this day I can clearly remember it even though I saw it over four years ago. I really wanted to model my billboard after this one, because of the impact it had on me. I feel in the right location this could really change people’s minds about casinos.
I can picture in my head exactly what I want my casino to say and look like. It Will be a giant white billboard with Giant black letters that can be read from miles away. It will read; Indian Casinos open up more than 670,000 jobs. 75% of those jobs go to American Citizens. Do the math. Legalize Casinos in
This billboard will be appealing for the same reasons the smoking ad was appealing to me. It is plain and simple, it catches you and doesn’t distract, and it gets right to the point. I’ve learned that if you can convince the working class to get things done, get them to vote, get them to buy your product, etc, you have it made. With an ad like this outside of all major cities, the knowledge about this issue will greatly increase.