Celebrities being bad influences - Persuade/argue coursework

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I am going to start this topic on “Celebrities being bad influences to children today”. This is basically about how kids, mainly in their teens or younger have been influenced by certain celebrities into doing things like drugs or carrying a gun just because they saw their favourite celebrity doing this/that. Most children when they are young usually sometimes say, “Oh! I want to be like [insert celebrity name here] when I grow up!” or maybe “I want to be an actor/actress when I grow up!” So these children will start being influenced by the celebrity that they have chosen. Some people might debate that celebrities aren’t the cause of such things, and it’s down to the environment they are in. But media is one of the biggest forms of getting out information to the public these days. And with some studies showing that kids spend twice as much time watching TV than school means that the obvious point is that children are looking up to certain celebrities as influences.

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 For example, when you’re walking down a street, you may see a group of hooded teenagers that are wearing hats underneath the hood. Some people may argue that it’s the latest fashion that might be going around but if you look at a certain celebrity called Eminem; he wears this exact same style when he goes on stage to perform in front of people.

 There is also the “Size 0” argument which is a possible influence of children, if you look at celebrities, there are a couple that have lost so much weight, when they wear  dress you can see ...

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