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GMAT考试写作指导:Issue写作范文三二

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  32. In order to determine whether advertisements reflect a nations ideas, it is

  necessary to determine whether advertisements present real ideas at all, and, if so,

  whose ideas they actually reflect. On both counts, it appears that advertisements fail to

  accurately mirror a nations ideas.

  Indisputably, advertisements inform us as to a nations values, attitudes, and

  priorities―what activities are worthwhile, what the future holds, and what is

  fashionable and attractive. For instance, a proliferation of ads for sport-utility vehicles

  reflects a societal concern more for safety and machismo than for energy conservation

  and frugality, while a plethora of ads for inexpensive on-line brokerage services reflects

  an optimistic and perhaps irrationally exuberant economic outlook. However, a mere

  picture of a social more, outlook, or fashion is not an idea―it does not answer

  questions such as why and how?

  Admittedly, public-interest advertisements do present ideas held by particular

  segments of society―for example, those of environmental and other public-health

  interest groups. However, these ads constitute a negligible percentage of all

  advertisements, and they do not necessarily reflect the majoritys view. Consequently, to

  assert that advertisements reflect a nations ideas distorts reality. In truth, they mirror

  only the business and product ideas of companies whose goods and services are

  advertised and the creative ideas of advertising firms. Moreover, advertisements look

  very much the same in all countries. Western and Eastern alike. Does this suggest that

  all nations have essentially identical ideas? Certainly not.

  In sum, the few true ideas we might see in advertisements are those of only a few

  business concerns and interest groups; they tell us little about the ideas of a nation as a

  

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