some people say that advertising is extremely succesful at persuading us to buy things. other people think that advertising is so common that we no longer pay attention to it. Discuss both these views and give your own opinion?

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The passage above mentioned that advertising could encourage us to consume goods and services
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it is no longer effective as it is considered
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too common. I would say that
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able to persuade us to buy
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one of the
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of marketing, as its innovation still
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a way to boost societies’ desires to consume
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. I am impressed with
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who work in marketing since they have
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ability to always adapt
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any situation. They could predict
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that will come in the foreseeable future
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helps them to
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their strategies.
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trait will assist them to find ways
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desire to purchase
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, nowadays,
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population found that advertising has become too intense.
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would be overwhelmed as it is very easy for the advertising to
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them, not the other way around. Through
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and research, marketers have been able to find the target audience practically anywhere they go. The commercials could be found not only
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the road or
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also
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in the hand phone that
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information overload makes
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exhausted
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make
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them
ignoring
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any information from the commercials. In conclusion, despite
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put
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less attention to marketing materials, marketers will continue their
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to ensure their commercials
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society to buy
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. So advertising is still successful
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in encouraging
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us to buy
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Topic Vocabulary:
  • persuade
  • promote
  • attract
  • influence
  • impact
  • consumerism
  • commercialism
  • market
  • product
  • brand
  • endorsement
  • manipulative
  • saturated
  • overwhelmed
  • repetitive
  • distracting
  • irrelevant
  • exaggerated
  • misleading
  • desensitized
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