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Today the high sales of popular consumer goods reflect the power of advertising and not the real needs of the society in which they are sold.

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There is a rising number of arguments, that power of advertising popular consumer goods is not reflecting the real necessities of
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. I agree with
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 I am going to present a couple of examples. It cannot be denied, that the current
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 lives in an enormously advertising world. The commercials are everywhere. It is almost impossible to watch evening TV programs until the end, because of the vast number of
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. It is hard to concentrate on driving a car because of billboards along the route.
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, if we look carefully at these advertisements, at least 75% of the goods that they are offering we already have and the rest probably we don’t need at all if we don’t have them yet. The mainstream, highly consumable western world, is pushing us to buy vast numbers of different products. Honestly, neither of us needs new clothes every year, new smartphones and many other items. Each company is just following its own profit, which is as greedy as could be imagined,
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, advertising may be a relevant source of information as well. If someone is purposely focusing
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 a certain product he needs, the
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 can be helpful. Unfortunately, there is
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 minority of these situations in comparison with the number of advertisements. In nutshell, we live in a
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, which is overfilled with the advertising of products mostly unnecessary, while are not reflecting the real human needs. Unlike these, there are some
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, which can be useful.
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    • Sentence 2 - Detailed background statement
    • Sentence 3 - Thesis
    • Sentence 4 - Outline sentence
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    • Sentence 1 - Topic sentence
    • Sentence 2 - Example
    • Sentence 3 - Discussion
    • Sentence 4 - Conclusion
  • Paragraph 3 - Second supporting paragraph
    • Sentence 1 - Topic sentence
    • Sentence 2 - Example
    • Sentence 3 - Discussion
    • Sentence 4 - Conclusion
  • Paragraph 4 - Conclusion
    • Sentence 1 - Summary
    • Sentence 2 - Restatement of thesis
    • Sentence 3 - Prediction or recommendation

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Topic Vocabulary:
  • consumer behavior
  • perceived need
  • lifestyle aspirations
  • brand image
  • prestige
  • psychological techniques
  • scarcity
  • social proof
  • celebrity endorsements
  • technological advancements
  • product innovations
  • emerging consumer needs
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