■ Direction Read the question below. You have 30 minutes to plan, write, and revise your essay. Typically, an effective response will contain a minimum of 300 words. ■ Question Do you agree or disagree with the following statement? Use specific reason and examples to support your answer |
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▶ Topic :
Do you agree or disagree with the following statement? Companies should be allowed to directly advertise to children under the age of five. Use specific reasons and examples to support your opinion. |
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▶ Your Answer :
Some people insists that companies should be allowed to directly advertise to children under the age of five. However, in my opinion, I disagree with the statement for two reasons. Because they don't have enough ability to fully understand advertisements, and some contents are not beneficial to the children.
To begin with, children would not be able to comprehend what advertisements say. This is because children lack linguistic ability to understand spoken language, and most of them do not have economic knowledge. Therefore, they could not discern whether the advertisement is helpful to them. Accroding to a research conducted by psychology laboratory in University of California, Los Angeles, researchers mentioned that most of the children were convinced by advertisement which the team had shown, while adults were not. In addition, most of the children could not express precisely why they were convinced.
Next, the advertisement sometimes contain explicit content. Since children's congnitive system is not completely developed, it is important to keep distance with what they experience in order to learn right things. For example, there are many reports on articles that children imitate what they saw on the media. They percieve violent actions no such a deal, and even they imitate sexual behavior. In the writing, experts on children behavior mentions that if child does not learn the appropriate behavior, he or she might be more prone to be criminal by behaving unlawfully without any conciousness.
To sum up, children does not have sufficient language skills to understand the advertisements, and there are inappropirate contents in them. For these reasons, companies advertising directly to children under the age of five should be restricted. |
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