Do you agree or disagree with the following sentence?:
Advertising can tell you a lot about a country.
Advertising indisputably plays an important role in modern societies. Advertisement covers all aspect of social life, and it can tell a lot about a country. I believe that we can learn a lot about country’s culture or customs, economy and beauty spots by advertising.
One of the primary causes is that advertising is always the reflection of a country’s culture and customs. Advertising varies from country to country, depending on the country’s particular conventions. Through advertisement, we can have a general consciousness of what people from other countries look like. What they wear during their daily lives, what they eat, what kind of transportation they use, and what they do during their spare time.
What is more, advertising conveys a great amount of economic information about a country. For example, commercial advertisement can reveal many useful economic messages: major commodities, service level, living conditions or life style, and so on. Therefore, advertisement as an economic paradigm will help politicians, businessmen and citizens.
Last but not least, advertisement helps people to learn more about the country’s beautiful scenery. The best example for this purpose is travel advertisement. Information about various resorts could be obtained just by looking at a photo advertisement which is posted on a wall by some travel agency. Advertisement on television, on the contrary, frequently provides us many opportunities to watch all kinds of unusual beautiful places we may never have thought of before.
All the above evidences support the undeniable fact that advertising can tell a lot about different aspects of a country and no one can ignore the abundant and useful information about a country afforded by advertising
Hi, your essay is not too bad, but I really think it would have been much more effective with some specific examples - Coca-cola ads always show American flags and cowboys, since they are trying to position themselves as an all-American beverage, showing that patriotism is a very important part of American culture. Car ads show cars driving through barren deserts or on twisty mountain roads, promising a chance for freedom and wide open spaces, two desires that have greatly shaped America’s history. Examples like that would go a long way in this type of essay. Your grammar is excellent in this one, although “advertisement” refers to one print ad or one commercial on television, not all of them as a whole - for that you can only use “advertising” Overall, I would rate this a 4 out of 5, but maybe the graders don’t care quite as much about specific examples as I do.
Thank you so much Luschen, you are right! it would be more effective if I add some examples.
yeah, I can say something about how advertisings of my country show our culture; for example you can see women in commercial ads on TV with scarfs that it can show our religion (Islam) or when an advertising shows our crowded streets, you cannot ignore the fact that most people in Iran use their own cars (transportation systems), also we have public transportations (such as subway or bus). some commercial ads on TV show local dressing in special area of Iran (Kordish or Torkish people, for example).
and yes, I have seen a lot of American advertising; for example a half naked woman near the sea and drink some wine shows American people are free and good-timer people. I know that fast food in America has many advocates, but in my country people spent a lot of time to preaper a food in their home, and I can see these kind of differences just from advertisments.
If you are interested in some aspects of our culture, just let me know and it is my honor to talk more with you.
Thank you again dear teacher. Sincerely.
Wow. Excellent ideas. For almost any topic, the more specific and personal the examples the better. Plus it is often easier to write more about examples whether real or made up, so it is a good way to boost your word count.