TV Commercials

Television commercials appear between shows however it also interrupts the shows at intervals. This method of screening commercials pretend captures the attention of the audience. It tries keeping the viewers focused on the television show. Consequently they won’t want to change the channel; instead they will watch the commercial while they are waiting for the next segment of the show. However the remote controls have changed it because people can turn off the TV, turn down the volume or even switch channels when the advertisement comes on.


Nowadays TV has an enormous influence on people choice. People are easily manipulated by commercials. Commercials employ techniques very powerful and efficient. Commercials took advantage from the proximity with the audience to apply the target audience to purchase a determinate product, to take part in an election and to promote bands, clubs, etc. However only people with much money can utilize TV to promote their interests.


I think that TV commercials can be very useful to promote good things; however it also can promote bad things. Personally I believe in good intentions and I think that TV is very important and useful; however it must be used with careful.

Consumerism

Consumerism is an attraction for a product or a service using a set of irresponsible and dangerous behaviours. Consumerism is also used to describe the tendency of people to identify strongly with products or services they consume, especially those with commercial brand names and perceived status-symbolism appeal. For example: luxury automobile, designer clothing or expensive jewellery. A culture that is permeated by consumerism can be referred to as a consumer culture or a market culture.


I think that many products are luxuries and superfluous. Amount of people consume these products in order to benefice as social indicator allowing people to recognize each other by the clothes and the things they use. I believe that this way of thinking is completely wrong. We should have our own personality because we are not what we buy. I suppose that this consumer society is connected with a decrease of the self-confidence. Today people are more insecure and they need to feel that they are important people or with expensive clothes to feel great with them. I am critiquing these market cultures because these cultures are damaging the environment and they contribute to climate change, global warming, air pollution, greenhouse effect and all these problems will causes another problems like toxic waste floods and tornados because this troubles is like an avalanche for the reason that every problems causes another problems and it becomes in a vicious cycle without end. However this violent movement takes many economical drawbacks, too. This movement can take many companies to bankrupt and another’s serious consequences.


I appeal to all people in the world to fight against this big trouble. That was the reason I choose this subject: I am intending to save the world from a big impact.

The Influence Of Celebrities On Teenagers

As we can see on this video, teenagers take examples from celebrities. When a famous people make advertisement, and show a product, teens is run to shop’s to buy that product, because they think that the celebrity who make this advertisement use the product too, and teens want to be a famous and beautiful person, and so, similar to the celebrities that make the commercial.

Because of the preferences of famous people, teens change their lives, for example: when one teen want to be a second version of Beyoncé, they change her body, become put their brass bigger, change their color of eyes, changes their color of skin, and another. In form change their body in the way to be equal to hers so that they could be famous and with an equal or similar body to her.

Extreme Makeover

Extreme makeover is a program to change person’s where they become a better looking people. That people can change people appearance, sometimes with cosmetics, they can range from something as simple as a new haircut, to the use of cosmetic surgery, to the extreme of the implantation of dental veneers, eye-color-changing contact lenses, and the use of appearance-altering gastric bypass surgeries, providing massive, permanent fat loss in obese persons, and the associated plastic surgeries.

This is used for teenagers too, to change their bodies. That is stupid, because teenagers are growing, and their bodies are change with time. In that age they don’t be worried about this things, their bodies are in transformation, and so, grow in up first, and before think about this things.

Migration

Migration refers to directed, regular, or systematic movement of a group of people.

Emigration is a movement of a person or persons out of a country or national region, for the purpose of permanent relocation of residence. For example: one people are in Canada and that people want to go out to Portugal, for Canada that people are emigrant.

Immigration refers to the movement of people among countries. For example: one people are in Australia, and that people want to go out to another country, and for this new country that people are immigrant.

In one hand migration is a good think, in case of emigration and immigration to develop the country which foreigners want to go, and the other and prejudices the country which the emigrants or immigrants come from.

In conclusion, migrants go to other countries because they need find better life’s conditions, to them and their families.

Xenophobia

Xenophobia is an unreasonable fear, distrust, or hatred of strangers, foreigners, or anything perceived as foreign or different.

In Portugal the most foreigners are Brazilian, Chinese, Ukrainian and Russian.

In my opinion, in one hand every people are the same, and they have all the right to look for a better life in another country in the other hand I think that this people take the jobs, which belong to Portuguese people. This happens because foreigners’ labours are chipper than Portuguese labour. This leads the possibility to employ more workers to finish the work faster and with less cost.

A consumer society

More and more we can see the society that we have, a society that love to be in the shopping centre and buying things that aren’t necessary. This is a typically consumer society.

As we can see there is a lot of consumerism in our society. Consumerism is when people buy things only for pleasure and not because they need it.

This will increase if we don’t stop to think what the consequences of this act are. People don’t see the consequences but the truth is that they exist. If we buy more we pollute more, if we buy more we spend more money and in some cases we overspend or we become to have debts.

I think that our problem is that we spend a lot of money on things that aren’t necessary in our lifes like expensive clothes and new technological devices. Sometimes we are influenced by the commercials and we want to buy that product because we think will bring happiness to our lives.

This consumer society has to stop as soon as possible or the future generations will pay for our mistakes.