People’s lives are now surrounded by advertisement. This affects what people consider important and has a negative impact on people’s lives. To what extent do you agree or disagree?

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Nowadays, it is manifest that advertisements are dominating daily life. Advertisements can be seen everywhere under very specific formats,
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, display advertisements, social media advertisements, direct mails and personal sales, product placement, or event marketing. Coming along with the rise of advertisements is a debate amongst people over the opinion that advertisements influence people in a negative way, since these advertisements manipulate the perceptions of people on what is truly important in life. I strongly agree with that opinion and the purpose of
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, in contemplation of comprehending why advertisements have a negative impact on people, it is crucial to understand the fundamental methods that most advertisements nowadays have been
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. The ultimate purpose of advertisements is to sell products, and in order to do that, they emphasize on several specific values,
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, appearance, function or the value of the products themselves, which sounds very meta.
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, these values are being promoted regularly to people, and
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may lead to distinctive unhealthy associations. Some advertisements wrongly equated success, status or happiness with the state of being wealthy, as well as labelling their products as the accomplishment of people’s pursuit of happiness, resulting in people trying their best just to purchase these products.
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in the long run has a relatively high possibility to lead to excessive shopping, since people’s beliefs have been
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by advertisements. Excessive shopping would eventually lead to the state of bankruptcy if it’s totally out of control. Materialism resulting from excessive shopping could be another outcome when people value material possessions higher than spiritual values,
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neglecting all meaningful relationships. Ultimately, people will suffer in loneliness and
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could possibly cause depression as well.
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, advertisements can, without prevarication, manipulate people’s perceptions about beauty, especially for women. There is a popular generalization in not just Asian countries but
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the world as a whole, that a woman’s beauty will be determined by the condition of the skin. The whiter, the smoother, the better.
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is precisely what advertisements have been tackled - the women’s view of themselves, society’s judgment on women and the self-esteem of women.
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could cause a mental discomfort in the mind of women and
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lowering their self-esteem. Not to mention, bleaching and whitening products have been advertised to create a better skin, yet as a matter of fact, toxic substances these products contain can lead to several skin diseases as well. In conclusion,
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it is indisputable that
advertisements
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beneficial in daily life, I still agree that advertisements conduct more harm than good.

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Include an introduction and conclusion

A conclusion is essential for IELTS writing task 2. It is more important than most people realise. You will be penalised for missing a conclusion in your IELTS essay.

The easiest paragraph to write in an essay is the conclusion paragraph. This is because the paragraph mostly contains information that has already been presented in the essay – it is just the repetition of some information written in the introduction paragraph and supporting paragraphs.

The conclusion paragraph only has 3 sentences:

  • Summary
  • Restatement of thesis
  • Prediction or recommendation

Example:

To summarize, a robotic teacher does not have the necessary disciple to properly give instructions to students and actually works to retard the ability of a student to comprehend new lessons. Therefore, it is clear that the idea of running a classroom completely by a machine cannot be supported. After thorough analysis on this subject, it is predicted that the adverse effects of the debate over technology-driven teaching will always be greater than the positive effects, and because of this, classroom teachers will never be substituted for technology.

Start your conclusion with a linking phrase. Here are some examples:

  • In conclusion
  • To conclude
  • To summarize
  • Finally
  • In a nutshell
  • In general

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